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The Emoji Movie (2017)

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The Emoji Movie unlocks the never-before-seen secret world inside your smartphone. Hidden within the messaging app is Textopolis, a bustling city where all your favorite emojis live, hoping to be selected by the phone's user. In this world, each emoji has only one facial expression - except for Gene, an exuberant emoji who was born without a filter and is bursting with multiple expressions. Determined to become "normal" like the other emojis, Gene enlists the help of his handy best friend Hi-5 and the notorious code breaker emoji Jailbreak. Together, they embark on an epic "app-venture" through the apps on the phone, each its own wild and fun world, to find the Code that will fix Gene. But when a greater danger threatens the phone, the fate of all emojis depends on these three unlikely friends who must save their world before it's deleted forever. Written by Sony Pictures Entertainment'

 

The movie was inspired by director Tony Leondis' love of Toy Story.[18] Wanting to make a new take on the concept, he began asking himself "What is the new toy out there that hasn't been explored?" At the same time, he received a text message with an emoji, which helped Leondis to realize that this was the world he wanted to explore.[18] In fleshing out the story, Leondis considered having the emojis visit the real world. However, his producer felt that it was a much more interesting concept to explore the world inside a phone, which inspired Leondis to create the story of where and how the emojis lived.[18] As Leondis is gay, he connected to Gene's plight of "being different in a world that expects you to be one thing" and in eventually realizing that the feeling held true for most people, Leondis has said the film "was very personal".[18]
In July 2015, it was announced that Sony Pictures Animation had won the bidding war against Warner Bros. and Paramount Pictures over production rights of an animated film centered on emoji.[19] With the official announcement occurring at the 2016 CinemaCon.[20]
On July 17, 2016 (on World Emoji Day), Miller was announced as the lead.[10] Leondis created the part with Miller in mind, although the actor was initially hesitant to play the role, only accepting after Leondis briefed him on the story.[21] Leondis chose Miller because "when you think of irrepressible, you think of TJ. But he also has this surprising ability to break your heart".[21] In October 2016, it was announced that Ilana Glazer and Corden will be joining the cast as well.[9] In December 2016, the film's title was changed from Emojimovie: Express Yourself to simply The Emoji Movie.[22] Glazer was later replaced by Anna Faris.[11]
For the movie, Ricky Reed recorded the song "Good Vibrations".[23]

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