Ico (film)/Trivia

Trivia

 * Due to the source material's darker, serious and dramatic tone (which earned it a T for Teen rating by the ESRB), the film received a PG-13 rating (in the vein of the 2009 Tim Burton-produced animated film 9).
 * This is the second Sony Pictures Animation film to be based on a video game following The Angry Birds Movie 2.
 * The first animated film to be filmed completely in IMAX.
 * It is rumored that the film will be the darkest Sony animated film ever made.
 * The first Sony Pictures Animation film to be released on Wednesday.
 * Finn Wolfhard and Millie Bobby Brown both previously starred together in the Netflix series Stranger Things.
 * This is the first Sony Pictures Animation film to be rated PG-13.
 * The longest Sony Pictures Animation film, clocking in at two hours and forty-two minutes.
 * The film uses the words damn, bastard, b*tch, hell, dumbass and ass.
 * The film was originally supposed to receive an R rating due to the graphic nature of the film's violence until a scene was cut in order to gain the rating of PG-13.
 * The film experienced further cuts in the United Kingdom, with 5 seconds of the film being cut in order to receive a 15 rating instead of an 18.
 * The Columbia Pictures logo in the film also uses the same high tone fanfare used in Open Season (2006), Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (2009), The Chadina Islands (2010), and Hotel Transylvania (2012).