History Trivia / PenguinsOfMadagascar

** It also ended the long run of chief creative officer Bill Damaschke, who had been with the studio since 1995, and the short run of COO Mark Zoradi, who had been with the company since earlier that summer (Zoradi would take over the Cinemark theater chain months later.)

* CreatorKiller:

** It also ended the long run of Bill Damaschke, who had been with the studio since 1995, and the short run of COO Mark Zoradi, who had been with the company since earlier that summer (Zoradi would take over the Cinemark theater chain months later.)
** And finally, it was the beginning of the end for founder Jeffrey Katzenberg himself. The next two films were financial successes, but not on high enough of a level to please shareholders. This eventually led to Katzenberg agreeing to sell the studio to Comcast within 18 months and divest his involvement with DWA on a heavy basis, though he stands to get a giant payout for the sale.

** And finally, it was the beginning of the end for founder Jeffrey Katzenberg himself. The next two films were financial successes, but not on high enough of a level to please shareholders. This eventually led to Katzenberg agreeing to sell the studio to Comcast within 18 months and divest his involvement with DWA on a heavy basis.

* ReleaseDateChange: Swapped its release date with ''WesternAnimaton/{{Home}}'', as [=DreamWorks=] felt the Madagascar franchise would be strong enough to do okay in a competitive season and the unproven Home would be better suited for the DumpMonths slot.

* CreatorKiller: The film was such a disaster at the domestic box office that Creator/DreamWorksAnimation lost an enormous amount of money (though the failed merger with Creator/{{Hasbro}} deserves credit, too), resulting in studio Pacific Data Images shutting down as part of a restructuring of the company.

* HeyItsThatVoice:
** Creator/WernerHerzog provides the opening narration.
** Creator/BenedictCumberbatch is Classified the wolf.
** Creator/JohnMalkovich is Dr. Octavius Brine.
** [[Film/TheHangover Leslie Chow]] is Short Fuse.
** The German dub has well known actor and presenter Ilja Richter as Dave.

* BoxOfficeBomb: Budget, $132 million. Box office, $59,684,051 (domestic), $175,684,051 (worldwide). And that's not even counting the advertising budget. [=DreamWorks=] Animation had already been suffering from previous box office stings, but this film delivered the biggest blow to the studio. After the studio predicted it would make a $49 million loss at theaters[[note]]which was bigger than their previous $15 million loss prediction[[/note]], studio shares tumbled ''six percent'' the following month, and forced the company to [[http://www.cartoonbrew.com/business/breaking-dreamworks-animation-will-shut-down-pdidreamworks-studio-over-500-jobs-will-be-eliminated-108161.html terminate five hundred employees and shut down PDI]].

* BoxOfficeBomb: Budget, $132 million. Box office, $59,684,051 (domestic), $175,684,051 (worldwide). [=DreamWorks=] Animation had already been suffering from previous box office stings, but this film delivered the biggest blow to the studio. After the studio predicted it would make a $49 million loss at theaters[[note]]which was bigger than their previous $15 million loss prediction[[/note]], studio shares tumbled ''six percent'' the following month, and forced the company to [[http://www.cartoonbrew.com/business/breaking-dreamworks-animation-will-shut-down-pdidreamworks-studio-over-500-jobs-will-be-eliminated-108161.html terminate five hundred employees and shut down PDI]].

* BoxOfficeBomb: Budget, $132 million. Box office, $59,684,051 (domestic), $175,684,051 (worldwide). [=DreamWorks=] Animation had already been suffering from previous box office stings, but this film delivered the biggest blow to the studio. After the studio predicted it would make a $49 million loss at theaters[[note]]which was bigger than their previous $15 million loss prediction[[/note]], studio shares tumbled ''six percent'' the following month, and forced the company to [[http://www.cartoonbrew.com/business/breaking-dreamworks-animation-will-shut-down-pdidreamworks-studio-over-500-jobs-will-be-eliminated-108161.html terminate five hundred employees and shut down one of its main studios]].

* BoxOfficeBomb: Budget, $132 million. Box office, $59,684,051 (domestic), $175,684,051 (worldwide). [=DreamWorks=] Animation had already been suffering from previous box office stings, but this film delivered the biggest blow to the studio. After the studio predicted it would make a $49 million loss at theaters[[note]]which was bigger than their previous $15 million loss prediction[[/note]], studio shares tumbled ''six percent'' the following month, and forced the company to [[http://www.cartoonbrew.com/business/dreamworks-animation-plans-major-layoffs-108111.html plan for hundreds of lay-offs]].

* BoxOfficeBomb: Budget, $132 million. Box office, $59,684,051 (domestic), $175,684,051 (worldwide). [=DreamWorks=] Animation had already been suffering from previous box office stings, but this film delivered the biggest blow to the studio. After the studio predicted it would make a $49 million loss at theaters[[note]]which was bigger than their previous $15 million loss prediction[[/note]], studio shares tumbled ''six percent'' the following month.

* RecursiveAdaptation: [[Film/{{Madagascar}} Movie]] -> [[WesternAnimation/ThePenguinsOfMadagascar TV series]] -> movie (sort of).

*** Creator/WernerHerzog provides the opening narration.

* TheOtherDarrin: The film reverts Kowalski and Private to their original voice actors in the first three WesternAnimation/{{Madagascar}} movies (Chris Miller and Christopher Knights, instead of Creator/JeffBennett and James Patrick Stuart, respectively, on [[WesternAnimation/ThePenguinsOfMadagascar the TV series]]). Oddly, Rico, who kept his original voice actor Creator/JohnDiMaggio for the TV series, is now voiced by Conrad Vernon, who voiced Mason the chimp in the movies and TV series. The only penguin who has had the same voice actor through every adaptation is Skipper (Tom [=McGrath=]).

* TheOtherDarrin: The film reverts Kowalski and Private to their original voice actors in the first three movies (Chris Miller and Christopher Knights, instead of Creator/JeffBennett and James Patrick Stuart, respectively, on the TV series). Oddly, Rico, who kept his original voice actor Creator/JohnDiMaggio for the TV series, is now voiced by Conrad Vernon, who voiced Mason the chimp in the movies and TV series. The only penguin who has had the same voice actor through every adaptation is Skipper (Tom [=McGrath=]).

* RecursiveAdaptation: Movie -> TV series -> movie (sort of).

** The German dub has well known actor and presenter Ilja Richter'' as Dave.

* TheOtherDarrin: The film reverts Kowalski and Private to their original voice actors in the first three movies (Chris Miller and Christopher Knights, respectively). Oddly, Rico, who was not recast for the TV series, is now voiced by Conrad Vernon, who voiced Mason the chimp in the movies and TV series.

* TheOtherDarrin: The film reverts Kowalski and Private to their original voice actors in the first three movies (Chris Miller and Christopher Knights, respectively). Oddly, Rico, who was not recast for the TV series, is now voiced by Conrad Vernon, who voiced Mason the chimp in the movies and TV series.