El Americano: The Movie

El Americano: The Movie (simply known as El Americano) is an upcoming 3D Mexican American computer animated film, which is set to be released in March 2014. The film will feature an ensemble voice cast of Hispanic American actors. It is the first CG animated co-production between Mexico and the United States. The film was produced in English and will soon be dubbed in Spanish.

It is produced by Animex, Olmos Productions, and Phil Roman Entertainment. There is yet to be a distributor.

Synopsis
The story will follow Cuco (voiced by Rico Rodriguez), a young Mexican parrot, whose epic quest to enlist the aid of an American crime-fighting TV celebrity, to defend his family in Mexico from Martin Kingfisher and his henchmen, teaches the young parrot to be a hero himself.

Cast
Note: Ash the Vulture does not have a voice.
 * Rico Rodriguez as Cuco
 * Edward James Olmos as Gayo
 * Argelia Atilano as Lori
 * Cheech Marin as Martin
 * Kate del Castillo as Rayito
 * Paul Rodriguez as Divino
 * Grecia Villar as Paquito
 * Ricardo El Mandril Sanchez as Vovo
 * K. C. Porter as Karl
 * Erik Estrada as Punch
 * Adal Ramones as Trueno
 * Gabriel Iglesias as Garcia
 * Don Cheto as Dovo
 * Hector Suarez as Eddie Navarro
 * Lisa Kudrow as Lucille
 * Pierre Angelo as El Mexicano

Production
On May 18, 2012, Animex and Olmos Productions announced a partnership to create a new animated film, El Americano. Ricardo Arnaiz, the film's director and founder of Animex initially stated that: “We’re delighted to be working with Edward James Olmos and his production company here in the US. It’s a story we have been working on for the last three years and we feel we have a really strong team in place to execute this film scheduled in 2013.” On September 26, 2013, the film was presented at Ibero Puebla.

During production, many cast members are required to act out their roles before recording their voices.

The visual effects were done by Boxel Studio in Tijuana.

Release
The film premiered at the Morelia International Film Festival on October 22, 2013.

Music
La Arrolladora Banda El Limón will compose the film's music, alongside with Leoncio Lara The film's theme was performed by Aleks Syntek.