Dream Productions is a movie studio located inside Riley Andersen's mind in the 2015 Disney/Pixar animated feature film Inside Out. It is where Riley's dreams are made. It only works at night, and/or when Riley sleeps.
Background[]
Official Description[]
- Built and staffed like a full-fledged Hollywood studio, Dream Productions is where Riley's dreams (and nightmares) are created. The writers here are not afraid to take risks and often dance on the edge of logic when it comes to Riley's dreams.
Production crew and team members[]
- Jean Dewberry: The head of Dream Productions.
- Paula Persimmon: A dream director.
- Janelle Johnson: An assistant visionary director.
- Zak: A comedy director for Riley’s dreams that are fun, happy, hilarious and jolly. But has a prob, on the "Hilarious" part.
- Marco: A sports director for Riley’s dreams that are athletic around sports. Specifically her favorite: hockey.
- Sheng: An action director for Riley's dreams that are action-packed, thrilling and daring.
- Gigi: A nightmare director for Riley’s bad dreams and nightmares that are scary, horrifying and intense.
- Xeni: A daydream director who makes daydreams for Riley whenever she is awake in thoughts.
Roles[]
Inside Out[]
Riley has a dream on her first night after moving to San Francisco. The dream begins with her parents' car landing at San Francisco, where it suddenly turns into a nightmare as all the negative events of the day are recalled. Riley's new house appears as a haunted house, two ghosts flew out of the house then an anthropomorphic rat appears on screen, offering to live with her, and dies instantly, followed by an anthropomorphic bear, who delivers pieces of anthropomorphic broccoli pizza. Joy, who is on dream duty, hates this so much that she cuts the projector off, even though doing so is against the rules.
Later in the film, Joy, Sadness, and Bing Bong are aboard the Train of Thought heading to Headquarters when the train stops because of Riley falling asleep. Joy figures out a plan to wake Riley up, by giving her an exciting dream. Although Sadness realizes would not work, they set out to Dream Productions, where Joy meets Rainbow Unicorn. The trio enters a film set and hide away.
Meanwhile, the studio is shooting a film in which Riley is at school without pants on, and her teeth start to fall out. Joy puts on half of a dog costume, and gives the other half to Sadness. They come into the dream as a cute dog. Bing Bong plans a party in the classroom with balloons and confetti.
He dances around and wounds up accidentally knocking over the spotlight. At the same moment, the dog costume rips in half, and Joy chases Sadness around, causing the dream to be half a dog chasing the other half. At the same time, Bing Bong starts talking to the camera, for Riley to remember him. As the scene gets scarier, Riley nearly wakes up, but a couple of security guards take Bing Bong and shove him into the Subconscious.
Joy and Sadness pretend to be trying to escape, and get shoved in as well. They follow Bing Bong's candy tears and find him trapped in a cage made of balloons. They free him and they find Jangles, the birthday clown, asleep on the floor. They decide to use Jangles to give Riley a terrifying dream and wake her up. They tell him that there's a birthday party in Dream Productions, and he takes over the dream, causing mayhem and destroying the set, which startles Riley awake.
It can be fairly assumed that Jangles destroyed the remainder of the studio (unless he was arrested and placed back in the Subconscious).
Dream Productions (TV series)[]
The studio plays a much more major role in its eponymous miniseries. It tackles around making a perfect dream for Riley as she turned 12 years old, in which its protagonist Paula has a hard time in managing such goal because of creative differences between euphoria and maturity.
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Trivia[]
- The rat resembles Remy from Ratatouille.
- The bear looks like the same one from Brave.
- The slices of anthropomorphic pizza have Mr. Potato Head arms.
- Dream Productions is obviously a referencing phrase in which movie studios are "the stuff that dreams are made of".
- The logo for Dream Productions as well as the backlot itself is based on the Paramount lot in Hollywood.
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