The Cupcakes Movie

The Cupcakes Movie is the upcoming 2018 American 3D adult animated comedy-adventure film based on the MTV television series, The Cupcakes, directed and co-written by Lee Eisenhower and Conrad Vernon and produced by the series' creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone. It is a New Zealand and American venture produced by Paramount Animation and Village Roadshow Pictures. The film features the regular television cast of Gary Cupcake (Trey Parker), Phil Cupcake (Matt Stone), Marcus (Sam Marin), Toby (Wallace Shawn), Eric Cartman (Trey Parker), among others reprise their roles from the series, along with guest stars including David Koechner, Bill Hader, Keegan Michael-Key, Alison Brie, T.J. Miller, Jeremy Clarkson, Rob Lowe, Andy Serkis, and Peter Dinklage.

The film was announced in September 2016, with further details being announced at the 2017 San Diego Comic-Con International.

The Cupcakes Movie was screened at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival on September 29, 2018. It was released in the United States on October 5, 2018, in 2D, 3D and IMAX 3D, by Paramount Pictures. The film has grossed over $1.150 billion worldwide, making it the second highest-grossing film of 2016, the 13th highest-grossing film of all time, the 3rd highest-grossing animated film, and the second highest-grossing non-Disney animated film.

A stand-alone sequel, The Cupcakes: Dawn of the Humans is currently in the works, set for a January 2020 release.

Synopsis
Gary Cupcake and his friends of Candywood try to avoid being bought and eaten by humans in a supermarket.

Plot
A supermarket for humans shopper called Shopwell's is filled with the town of candies Candywood with anthropomorphic candies are worshipped as gods who take groceries to the "Great Beyond" when they are purchased. Among the groceries in the store is Gary Cupcake (Tom Kenny) and Phil (Bobby Moynihan), who has dreams of living with his cupcake girlfriend, Brenda, in the Great Beyond, where they can finally consummate their relationship.

After Gary and Brenda's packages are chosen by a woman named Camille to leave Shopwell's, a returned jar of Bickle's honey mustard tries to warn the disbelieving groceries that the Great Beyond is a lie. Nobody listens except for Gary. Honey Mustard calls on Gary to seek out a bottle of liquor named Firewater, before committing suicide. This creates an accidental cart collision that causes Gary, Phil, Brenda, and several groceries to fall out, including Marcus and Toby, and plots revenge against Gary and Brenda.

Seeking to verify Honey Mustard's warning, Gary leads Brenda, a lavash named Kareem Abdul Lavash, and a bagel named Sammy Bagel Jr. to the store's liquor aisle under the guise of taking a shortcut to their proper aisles. There, he smokes weed and learns from Firewater that he and other non-perishable foods invented the story of the Great Beyond as a noble lie to assuage past foods' fears of being eaten by shoppers. Gary, vowing to reveal the truth to the groceries, is encouraged to travel beyond the store's freezer section to find proof. While waiting for Gary, Brenda and the others are led into the Mexican aisle, where they meet Teresa, a taco who falls in love with Brenda on sight.

Meanwhile, Gary's friend Phil, along with the rest of the purchased groceries, are horrified as they are being cooked and eaten by Camille, (in order: an Irish potato gets his skin peeled and boiled in a pot of water, an Italian tomato gets chopped in half, four bacon strips get fried in a pan, a lettuce gets his eyes gouged by Camille's thumbs and gets ripped in half, a loaf of bread gets sliced apart, cheese gets grated, nachos get microwaved, a Wine bottle gets lobotomised and two escaping Baby carrots get eaten). Shown from the foods' perspective as a brutal murder. Carl and Barry attempt to escape out a window, but Carl is killed when Camille slices him with a knife. Barry manages to escape and stumbles across a human druggie, who becomes able to communicate with his groceries after he injects himself with bath salts. After sobering up and attempting to cook Barry, the druggie is decapitated in a domestic accident.

After Gary separates from his friends who disapprove of his skepticism of the Great Beyond, he discovers a cookbook behind the freezer section and reveals its contents to the rest of Shopwell's groceries and they begin to panic. However, they choose not to believe him, fearing they lose their sense of purpose, prompting Frank to lash out at them for their blind belief. Barry and other groceries from the druggie's home return to the store with the druggie's severed head, revealing that the humans can communicate with the foods when they are high on bath salts and can be killed. The groceries are able to drug the human shoppers and employees using toothpicks laced with bath salts. Frank asks everyone to listen to him once more and join the fight against the shoppers.

At first, the food items still do not believe him but when the drugged humans started attacking them, the other items come to their rescue and a store-wide battle ensues. Marcus absorbs the contents of liquor bottles to become a wild monster and teams up with a store manager named Creek, where he inserts himself into Creek's anus and controls his actions like a puppet by yanking on his scrotum. Once he and Toby catch Phil, Marcus gets revenge on Gary by throwing the pie at his face. Meanwhile, Gary and all the foods have hooked up a couple of propane tanks to a garbage bin which Darren uses to throw out expired foods. Brenda helps Gary escape from Marcus and Toby just as the bin catches them, sending them through the store's ceiling and killing both of them in an explosion. With the battle over, the foods celebrate their victory in a wild orgy.

Afterwards, Gary, Phil, Ben, Tiffany, Henry, George, Kyla, Eric Cartman and Teresa meet with Firewater and Gum, who had a psychedelic experience and discovered that their world is not real, and they are merely cartoons voiced by famous actors in another dimension. Gum has constructed a portal to this dimension, and the groceries decide to travel there to meet their creators. Gary Cupcake and Brenda begins their relationship. Ben's candy car suddenly explodes due to the damage it has sustained, ejecting Ben in the process, but he safely falls through the porch roof of the Cupcakes' house, and Gary and Phil proceeds to introduce him to Brenda.

Cast

 * Trey Parker as Gary Cupcake, Eric Cartman
 * Jodi Benson as Brenda
 * Matt Stone as Phil Cupcake
 * Sam Marin as Marcus
 * Wallace Shawn as Toby
 * David Koechner as Darren

Production
In July 8, 2017 they came up with an idea to make a movie for the Cupcakes and all the anthromorphic candies of Nerbville, but Chris Pratt switched to work and was scheduled to release on January 22, 2016. It was early then on June 3, 2016. Not good enough then July 29, 2016. But it wasn't ready in time. Next Idea Was September 30, 2016 But It Couldn't Go Then Gone To October 28, 2016. But Moved To March 24, 2017 But Was Removed From The Date & Then Went to August 4, 2017, but was delayed Again to November 10, 2017. Once Again Deleted From The Release & Then February 23, 2018 & Then Changed To April 6, 2018, but Was Plan To Release May 11, 2018. But Now Completely Complete To Release November 2, 2018 to make room for the sequel to The Regular Show Movie & For The Adventure Time Movie & For The Amazing World of Gumball movie And An Five Nights At Freddy's Sequel.

Release
On May 12, 2018, IMAX Corporation and Warner Bros. announced that The Cupcakes Movie would be digitally re-mastered into the IMAX 3D format and released into IMAX theatres domestically. The film was released in 2D, RealD 3D, IMAX 3D and large-format screens in the United States on November 2, 2018, by Paramount Pictures.

Marketing
The film's first teaser trailer debuted in front of A Cartoon Vacation on July 7, 2017.

In September 2017, the studio responsible for the Cupcakes franchise's creation, made a deal with The Lego Group to make a series of Lego sets or Lego Dimensions packs, scheduled for a spring 2016 release.

A balloon-themed after Gary and Phil debuted at the 2015 Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade to promote the film.

A second trailer debuted on December 15, 2017, and was shown in front of screenings of Ferdinand. An extended version of that trailer was shown during March 2018 in front of screenings of Peter Rabbit and Pacific Rim: Uprising.

A TV spot was shown during Super Bowl 50, on February 5, 2018.

Product placement partners on the film include McDonald's, 7-Eleven, AT&T, Walmart, and M&M's, as well as Premier League football club Arsenal F.C., satellite television network Sky, and train operating company Virgin Trains, in the United Kingdom.

A third trailer debuted in front of Hotel Transylvania 3, on July 13, 2018, before a fourth and final trailer debuted on September 21, 2018, shown in front of Goosebumps: Horrorland.

Home media
The film was released to digital on platforms such as iTunes and Google Play Movies & TV on January 29, 2019. The movie was later released to Blu-Ray and DVD by Warner Home Video on February 5, 2019. The movie has grossed $85,395 in domestic DVD sales.

Music
These are the songs that were heard in The Cupcakes Movie. The film will be released in December 21, 2018, The soundtrack was created by WaterTower Music, and it features original score by Mark Mothersbaugh. It also features original songs made for the movie by George Gendi.


 * 1) "The Cupcakes Movie Opening Theme Song"
 * 2) "Back to the Future Main Theme Song" - Alan Slivestri
 * 3) "Back to the Future Part II Main Theme Song" - Alan Slivestri
 * 4) "The Great Beyond" - Gary, Phil and Brenda
 * 5) "Bow To Your New Leader" - Marcus
 * 6) "Tonight We Destroy the Cupcakes" - Marcus and Toby
 * 7) "Hey Driver" - Lucky Boys Confusion
 * 8) "Eye to Eye" - Ben Cupcake
 * 9) "Let's Go Get the Cupcakes" - Marcus
 * 10) "Who Let the Dogs Out" - Baha Men
 * 11) "Joy to the World" - Gary, Phil, Ben, Tiffany, Henry, George, Kyla, Peppermint Butler, Teresa and Chorus
 * 12) "So Long & Thanks for All the Fish" (End Credits) - Neil Hannon
 * 13) "All Star" (End Credits) - Smash Mouth
 * 14) "The Cupcakes Movie Closing Theme Song"

Sequel
During an interview with MTV News in mid-November 2015, Trey Parker, the voice of Gary, talked about possible sequels: "It might be two films, three films, It could be four. It could be five. Who knows? The story will continue."

On March 21, 2017, it was reported that a sequel is already in the works with Jared Bush writing the screenplay and Eisenhower and Vernon returning to produce. On July 14, one day before the first film's US debut, it was announced that a sequel was officially going ahead based upon strong financial results internationally, with a January 26, 2018 release date. On August 2, it was reported that Daniel Brühl was in talks to voice the main villain. On September 15, the official title for the sequel was announced as The Cupcakes 2, which was eventually later changed to The Cupcakes: Dawn of the Humans in March 2017.

More cast members were announced on October 21, including Nick Offerman, Rosie Huntington-Whitley, Charlie Day, and Nick Frost. The main series' cast will also reprise their respective roles, whilst Bill Hader and Keegan Michael-Key will return for the sequel, playing different roles. On December 29, New Zealand film editor Jabez Olssen was confirmed to be making his directional debut with this film.

Trivia

 * This film was one of the successful films of 2018.
 * This was the first Paramount Feature Animation film based on a TV series not to be distributed by Nickelodeon Movies.
 * This was the first film to collaborate with 10 different cartoon series.
 * The film also collaborated with the original cartoon series of MTV except for the realistic shows they shown & mentioned in the Hall of History scene.
 * The Film Was In Normal 3D Real D 3D IMAX 3D Digital 3D & XD 3D.
 * This Movie Has Received A 95% Rating From Rotten Tomatoes & IMDb Gave It 8.6/10.
 * The original cast reprised their roles in the movie.
 * Although Marcus is the main antagonist of the movie, he has bigger plans than Darren and Toby.
 * According to Lee Eisenhower and Conrad Vernon, they started production on the movie when they finished writing the Season Seven and finished it when they began writing Season Eight.
 * The movie was on the short-list for becoming nominated for an Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, although it did not get nominated. This also marks the second Cartoon Network Feature to come into the Academy Award.
 * The animation of the movie is the same as the show, although CGI was used for the chocolate rivers, boats, the ice mountains, as well as the candy cane trees.
 * This is the third film to be produced by Paramount Animation.