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Disney Digital Forum _ Oltre Disney _ Non Disney Upcoming Animated Projects

Inviato da: Scissorhands il 29/4/2009, 15:46

Ho deciso di tenere aggiornata una lista di tutti i futuri film di animazione non Disney annunciati; ovviamente questo non significa che verranno fatti.
Se ritenete la cosa interessante, pregherei i moderatori di mettere la discussione in rilievo.
Ovviamente ne avrò dimenticati tanti... ogni suggerimento è ben accetto.
La distribuzione è quella americana.
I link riportati sono relativi alle notizie che annunciano il film.
Terrò cura di aggiornare la lista ogni volta che è necessario!


Dreamworks

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Paramount distributed

http://disneyvideo.altervista.org/forum//index.php?showtopic=9945 (3/27/09)
http://disneyvideo.altervista.org/forum//index.php?showtopic=9246 (3/26/10)
http://disneyvideo.altervista.org/forum//index.php?showtopic=9927 (aka Shrek Goes Fourth) (5/21/10)
http://disneyvideo.altervista.org/forum//index.php?showtopic=11453 (aka Oobermind aka Master Mind) (11/5/10)
http://disneyvideo.altervista.org/forum//index.php?showtopic=13063 (6/3/11) http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=49282
http://disneyvideo.altervista.org/forum//index.php?showtopic=12491 (11/4/11)
http://disneyvideo.altervista.org/forum//index.php?showtopic=12858 (6/8/12)http://www.slashfilm.com/2008/08/14/madagascar-3-and-kung-fu-panda-2/
http://disneyvideo.altervista.org/forum//index.php?showtopic=12860(aka Guardians of Childhood) (11/2/12) http://www.badtaste.it/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=7667&Itemid=37

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=55849
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Fox distributed

http://disneyvideo.altervista.org/forum//index.php?showtopic=12859 (aka Crood Awakening) (3/22/13) http://hollywood-animated-films.suite101.com/article.cfm/chris_sanders_crood_awakening
http://disneyvideo.altervista.org/forum//index.php?showtopic=13753 (7/19/13) http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=75031

http://disneyvideo.altervista.org/forum//index.php?showtopic=5948 (3/7/14)http://movies.about.com/od/moviesinproduction/a/peabody092006.htm
http://disneyvideo.altervista.org/forum//index.php?showtopic=15121 (6/13/14) http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=65516
http://disneyvideo.altervista.org/forum//index.php?showtopic=14750 (11/26/14) http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/dreamworks-developing-madagascar-penguins-spinoff-172353

http://disneyvideo.altervista.org/forum//index.php?showtopic=15489 (3/27/15) http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=91699

Kung Fu Panda 3 (1/29/2016) http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118030099
http://disneyvideo.altervista.org/forum//index.php?showtopic=14881 (11/4/2016) http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/news/e3if26e38ae1dcae05769c06e68102f72d2

Boss Baby (3/10/17)
Captain Underpants (6/12/17)

Universal Distributed

Larrikins (2/16/2018) http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=105178
How to Train Your Dragon 3 (6/29/2018)

Everest (9/27/19)

http://disneyvideo.altervista.org/forum//index.php?showtopic=14902&st=0&gopid=663402&#entry663402 (2015) probabilmente solo per il mercato cinese
Captain Underpants http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=83344

Announced (TBA)
Madagascar 4
Puss in Boots 2: Nine Lives & 40 Thieves
http://disneyvideo.altervista.org/forum//index.php?showtopic=15200 (12/22/2017) cancelled http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=108718
Mumbai Musical http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118030099
http://disneyvideo.altervista.org/forum//index.php?showtopic=15622
http://disneyvideo.altervista.org/forum//index.php?showtopic=12220
Truckers http://globalgrind.com/content/533886/Simon-Beaufoy-Writing-DreamWorks-Animations-Truck/
Fright Diner http://animatedviews.com/2009/new-upcoming-project-from-dreamworks-animation-fright-diner/
Interworld http://www.cinematical.com/2007/06/18/dreamworks-picks-up-neil-gaimans-interworld/
Pig Scrolls http://www.movieweb.com/news/NEzVgHCD2nxYDC
Imaginary Enemies http://riskybusiness.hollywoodreporter.com/2010/08/19/syracuse-addario-making-imaginary-enemies-at-dreamworks-animation-exclusive/
Alma http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=70975
Maintenance http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/blogs/heat-vision/dreamworks-animation-nabs-movie-rights-61365
Lidsville http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=73694
Rumblewick http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=74909
Flawed Dogs http://collider.com/flawed-dogs-berkley-breathed-dreamworks-animation/76119/
Hot Stuff the Little Devil http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=117240
http://disneyvideo.altervista.org/forum//index.php?showtopic=15847
Beekle http://collider.com/jason-reitman-to-direct-dreamworks-animation-film-beekle/
Shadow-Themed Animated Film http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/edgar-wright-direct-shadow-themed-842257


Fox Animation


http://disneyvideo.altervista.org/forum//index.php?showtopic=6147 (11/13/09)
Nimona http://www.cartoonbrew.com/feature-film/osborne-nimona-114404.html
The Eagle Huntress http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/fox-nabs-animated-remake-rights-882448

Blue Sky

http://disneyvideo.altervista.org/forum//index.php?showtopic=9519 (6/30/09)
http://disneyvideo.altervista.org/forum//index.php?showtopic=11850 (4/8/11) http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=55404
http://disneyvideo.altervista.org/forum//index.php?showtopic=14268(7/13/2012) http://www.deadline.com/2011/08/toldja-fox-and-blue-sky-cast-ice-age-4/
http://disneyvideo.altervista.org/forum//index.php?showtopic=14097 (5/17/2013) http://animatedfilms.suite101.com/article.cfm/fox_acquires_joyce_s_leaf_men
http://disneyvideo.altervista.org/forum//index.php?showtopic=14096 (4/11/2014) http://www.cinemablend.com/new/Rio-Sequel-Likely-Take-Flight-29054.html
http://disneyvideo.altervista.org/forum//index.php?showtopic=15592 (11/6/2015) http://www.deadline.com/2012/10/charles-schulzs-peanuts-in-feature-deal-with-fox-animation-and-blue-sky-studios/
http://disneyvideo.altervista.org/forum//index.php?showtopic=15472 (7/22/2016)
The Story of Ferdinand (12/22/17)http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=74367
The Anubis Tapestry (3/23/18)http://www.slashfilm.com/2008/04/10/rumor-after-the-ice-age-blue-sky-options-the-anubis-tapestry/
Spore http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=59709
Mr. Men http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/fox-sets-mr-men-animated-97252
King Kong http://www.deadline.com/2011/06/fox-animation-takes-on-king-kong-story/
Hero's Guide to Saving Your Kingdom http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/fox-animation-heros-guide-saving-your-kingdom-318041
Cardboard http://collider.com/tobey-maguire-cardboard/193956/


Sony Picture Animation
All Sony distributed
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (9/18/09)
Hotel Transilvania (9/21/2012) http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G1-149850638.html
http://disneyvideo.altervista.org/forum//index.php?showtopic=1806 (8/3/2011)
http://disneyvideo.altervista.org/forum//index.php?showtopic=13038 (8/2/2013)
http://disneyvideo.altervista.org/forum//index.php?showtopic=14095 (9/27/2013) http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=85092
Hotel Transylvania 2 (9/25/2015) http://www.deadline.com/2012/11/hotel-transylvania-sequel-release-date-september-25-2015/
Angry Birds (5/20/16) (Rovio Entertainment produced/Sony distributed) http://variety.com/2013/film/news/angry-birds-pic-makes-it-home-at-sony-sets-july-1-2016-bow-1200481536/
Sausage Party (8/12/16) (Nitrogen Studios Canada Inc, Sony distributed) http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=109361
http://disneyvideo.altervista.org/forum//index.php?showtopic=15828 (3/31/2017) http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=115329
The Lamb (12/8/2017)http://www.thewrap.com/sony-pictures-animation-developing-faith-based-movie-about-nativity-story-exclusive/
Hotel Transylvania 3 (9/21/2018) http://www.comingsoon.net/movies/news/628529-hotel-transylvania-3-2018#/slide/1
Animated Spiderman (12/21/2018) http://deadline.com/2015/12/sony-animated-feature-with-lego-filmmakers-1201414743/
Surf's Up 2 http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/sony-wwe-team-surfs-up-871874

http://disneyvideo.altervista.org/forum//index.php?showtopic=16015 http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=64471
Genndy Tartakovsky’s Can You Imagine? http://www.cartoonbrew.com/feature-film/sony-announces-genndy-tartakovskys-can-you-imagine-and-hotel-transylvania-2-97244.html
Neanderthals http://johnhawks.net/weblog/reviews/news/favreau_neanderthals_2005.html
The Familiars http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=56208
Pickles to Pittsburgh http://www.badtaste.it/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=12713&Itemid=37
Rollercoaster Tycoon http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE64C0GO20100513
The Familiars http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=70352
Untitled David Reynolds project http://www.deadline.com/2010/12/finding-nemo-scribe-writes-sony-pictures-animation-pic/
Muncle Trogg http://www.deadline.com/2011/03/sony-animation-acquires-muncle-trogg
Pooch Cafè http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=83011
Tonka http://www.deadline.com/2012/06/sony-to-make-tonka-trucks-animated-movie/
Kazorn & The Unicorn http://www.deadline.com/2012/06/sony-animation-in-talks-with-kelly-asbury-for-kazom-the-unicorn/
Medusa http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/medusa-comedy-works-at-sony-709539
Superbago http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=120351



Aardman

http://disneyvideo.altervista.org/forum//index.php?showtopic=12203 (CGI co-produced with Sony Pictures Imageworks. Sony distributed) (1/23/2011)1 http://www.animationmagazine.net/article/6994
http://disneyvideo.altervista.org/forum//index.php?showtopic=13813 (stop-motion Sony distributed) (3/30/2012)http://www.animationmagazine.net/article/6994
Shaun the Sheep http://www.deadline.com/2013/04/studiocanal-aardman-animations-team-for-shaun-the-sheep-feature/



Studio Ghibli

The Borrowers (Disney distributed) (2/17/2012)(Karigurashi no Arrietty)
From up on Poppy Hill (GKids distributed) (3/15/2013)
http://disneyvideo.altervista.org/forum//index.php?showtopic=15181 (Disney distributed) (2/21/2014)
The Tale of Princess Kaguya (GKids distributed)
When Marnie Was There http://www.moetron.com/2013/12/12/omoide-no-marnie-new-studio-ghibli-animated-film-announced/


Porco Rosso: The Last Sortie http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=68973


Laika

http://disneyvideo.altervista.org/forum//index.php?showtopic=10330 (2/6/09) (stop-motion Focus Distributed)
http://disneyvideo.altervista.org/forum//index.php?showtopic=13510 (8/17/12) (stop-motion Focus Distributed) http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=70252
http://disneyvideo.altervista.org/forum//index.php?showtopic=15050 (9/26/2014) (aka Here Be Monsters! http://www.allbusiness.com/services/motion-pictures/4899396-1.html)
http://disneyvideo.altervista.org/forum//index.php?showtopic=16197 (8/19/16) http://deadline.com/2014/12/laika-focus-three-picture-pact-kubo-and-the-two-strings-1201333450/
Goblins http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=89385
Jack and Ben (CGI)
The Wall and the Wing
Little White Lie
Wildwood http://www.badtaste.it/articoli/wildwood-i-produttori-di-coraline



Imagi

http://disneyvideo.altervista.org/forum//index.php?showtopic=12627 (10/23/09) (Summit distributed)
Gatchaman (2010)
- cancelled
Tusker http://www.animationmagazine.net/article/8728 - cancelled
Cat Tale http://www.fluge.com/cat-tale-movie.html - cancelled
Tetsujin 28 http://www.movietrailertalk.com/2009/01/imagi-studios-reveals-tetsujin-28-gigantor-teaser-trailer/ - cancelled


Illumination Entertainment
All Universal distributed
http://disneyvideo.altervista.org/forum//index.php?showtopic=11971(7/11/2010) http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117995751.html?categoryid=13&cs=1
http://disneyvideo.altervista.org/forum//index.php?showtopic=13262 (3/2/2012) http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=57571
http://disneyvideo.altervista.org/forum//index.php?showtopic=13158 (7/2/2013)
http://disneyvideo.altervista.org/forum//index.php?showtopic=16107 (7/10/2015) http://www.deadline.com/2012/08/untitled-minions-movied-slated-for-december-19-2014/
http://disneyvideo.altervista.org/forum//index.php?showtopic=16456(7/8/16) http://www.deadline.com/2014/01/chris-meledandris-illumination-sets-louis-c-k-eric-stonestreet-and-kevin-hart-for-3d-animated-pets-pic-at-universal/
http://disneyvideo.altervista.org/forum//index.php?showtopic=16986(12/21/2016) http://deadline.com/2015/11/sing-set-as-title-for-upcoming-universal-illumination-entertainment-pic-1201618048/
Despicable Me 3 (6/30/17) http://www.deadline.com/2014/01/chris-meledandris-illumination-sets-louis-c-k-eric-stonestreet-and-kevin-hart-for-3d-animated-pets-pic-at-universal/
http://disneyvideo.altervista.org/forum//index.php?showtopic=14711 (11/9/18)http://www.deadline.com/2013/02/illumination-entertainment-chris-meledandri-to-re-animate-how-the-grinch-stole-christmas-dr-seuss/
Pets 2 (7/3/19)
Minions 2 (7/3/20)
Sing 2 (12/25/20)

Flanimals http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=54957
Untitled Jack Black Cryptozoology Movie http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118012301.html?categoryId=1050&cs=1
http://disneyvideo.altervista.org/forum//index.php?showtopic=11416
Curious George Sequel http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/movies/2010/07/curious-george-illumination-movie-book-universal.html?_r=true
Ugly Doll Movie http://www.deadline.com/2011/05/chris-meledandris-illumination-to-turn-uglydoll-into-animated-film/
Woody Woodpecker http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/woody-woodpecker-movie-universal-illumination-262540
Dr. Seuss’ ‘The Cat In The Hat’ http://www.deadline.com/2012/03/dr-seuss-the-cat-in-the-hat-get-new-life-at-chris-meledandris-illumination/


Exodus

Bunyan & Babe (MGM distributed) http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=55228
Hero of Color City http://www.animated-news.com/2005/exodus-film-group-takes-on-hero-of-color-city-and-amarillo-armadillo/


Jim Henson Co.

Monster Safari http://www.animationmagazine.net/article/10131
Pinocchio (stop motion) http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=74326
Frog And Toad http://www.deadline.com/2012/06/jim-henson-company-frog-and-toad-animated-feature-film/
Which Witch http://variety.com/2014/film/news/billy-crystal-joins-henson-which-witch-1201326184/



Warner Animation


Storks (9/23/2016) http://www.cartoonbrew.com/feature-film/doug-sweetland-and-nick-stoller-will-co-direct-storks-for-warner-bros-112163.html


Animal Logic

http://disneyvideo.altervista.org/forum//index.php?showtopic=11851 (9/24/2010) (Animal Logic produced, Warner Bros distributed) http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=44075
http://disneyvideo.altervista.org/forum//index.php?showtopic=12887 (11/28/2011) (Animal Logic produced, Warner Bros distributed) http://www.slashfilm.com/2009/05/06/a-very-harold-kumar-christmas-and-happy-feet-2-announced/
http://disneyvideo.altervista.org/forum//index.php?showtopic=15206 (Animal Logic produced, Fox distributed) (12/20/2013) (http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/vfx-house-animal-logic-lead-93891
http://disneyvideo.altervista.org/forum//index.php?showtopic=15011 (Animal Logic produced, Warner Bros distributed) (2/7/2014) http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=87698
The LEGO Batman Movie (2/10/2017)http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/lego-batman-spinoff-movie-works-738631
Ninjago (9/22/2017) (Animal Logic produced, Warner Bros distributed) http://www.deadline.com/2014/05/ninjago-movie-release-date-lego-spinoff-warner-bros/
The Lego Movie 2 (5/18/2018) (Animal Logic produced, Warner Bros distributed) http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=114356
Betty Boop Movie http://collider.com/betty-boop-movie/


???
The Jetsons http://deadline.com/2015/01/the-jetsons-animated-feature-warner-brothers-1201356816/


Crest Animation (Lionsgated distributed)

Alpha and Omega (9/17/2010)
Norm of the North (1/15/2016) http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=62911


EuropaCorp

http://disneyvideo.altervista.org/forum//index.php?showtopic=11095 (Natale 2011)
http://disneyvideo.altervista.org/forum//index.php?showtopic=15109http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/news/e3ib30a7315dd82b7c9db07522ef55dd4ba


Vanguard Animation

Alien Band: The Battle of the Bands Just Got Ugly http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118007177.html?categoryId=1350&cs=1
Buzby http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118027013
City of Dragons http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118027013
Atomic Circus http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118027013
Oz Wars http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=72433


Starz Animation Toronto

9 (9/9/09)(Starz Animation produced, Focus distributed)
http://disneyvideo.altervista.org/forum//index.php?showtopic=5071 (Starz Animation and Touchstone produced, Disney distributed) (2/11/2011)
http://disneyvideo.altervista.org/forum//index.php?showtopic=12703 http://www.cartoonbrew.com/biz/starz-animation-toronto-mme-and-gigapix-partner-for-oz3d.html


Digital Domain Media Group's Tradition Studios

[s]http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/legend-tembo-be-tradition-studios-221461 shut down[/s] - cancelled


Weta Digital

http://disneyvideo.altervista.org/forum//index.php?showtopic=12413 (12-23-2011)
http://disneyvideo.altervista.org/forum//index.php?showtopic=14784


ILM

http://disneyvideo.altervista.org/forum//index.php?showtopic=11758 (3-18-2011)


Paramount Animation

http://disneyvideo.altervista.org/forum//index.php?showtopic=13789&st=0#entry595623 (2/6/2015)
http://disneyvideo.altervista.org/forum//index.php?showtopic=16180 (3/18/2016)
http://disneyvideo.altervista.org/forum//index.php?showtopic=13816 (1/12/2018)
SpongeBob SquarePants 3 (2/8/2019) http://deadline.com/2015/11/monster-trucks-spongebob-3-release-dates-paramount-animated-movies-1201617750/
Amusement Park (4/22/2019) http://deadline.com/2015/11/monster-trucks-spongebob-3-release-dates-paramount-animated-movies-1201617750/



Reel Fx

Free Birds (11/1/2013) (Relativity distributed) http://www.deadline.com/2012/10/relativity-reel-fx-team-up-for-animated-turkeys/
Book of Life (10/10/14)http://www.deadline.com/2012/02/guillermo-del-toro-comes-aboard-animated-day-of-the-dead/ (Fox distributed)
Beasts of Burden (Reel FX / Walden Media) http://www.badtaste.it/articoli/andrew-adamson-torna-allanimazione-con-beasts-burden
W.I.S.H. Police http://www.deadline.com/2013/09/reel-fx-sets-animated-film-w-i-s-h-police/
Rock Dog http://www.rotoscopers.com/2014/10/09/reel-fx-developing-rock-dog-for-2015/
Kung Fu Space Western http://www.cartoonbrew.com/feature-film/jorge-gutierrez-and-reel-fx-to-make-kung-fu-space-western-109402.html



Rainbow CGI

http://disneyvideo.altervista.org/forum//index.php?showtopic=14188


ToonBox Entertainment /Redrover Co, Ltd

The Nut Job (1/17/2014) (Open Road distributed) (17/1/2014)http://www.deadline.com/2012/11/katherine-heigl-will-arnett-brendan-fraser-lend-voices-to-animated-the-nut-job/
The Nut Job 2 (Open Road distributed) http://www.comingsoon.net/movies/news/113912-the-nut-job-2-is-coming-on-january-15-2016#/slide/1
Spark http://variety.com/2015/film/news/hilary-swank-susan-sarandon-spark-1201418662/


Others

Battle for Terra (5/1/09) (MeniThings LLC, Snoot Entertainment produced, Lionsgate distributed)
Planet 51 (11/20/2009) (Ilion Animation produced, Sony distributed)
The Illusionist (12/25/2010) (Ink Digital produced/Sony Pictures distributed)
http://disneyvideo.altervista.org/forum//index.php?showtopic=12682 (4-29-2011) (Kanbar produced, Weinstein distributed)
http://disneyvideo.altervista.org/forum//index.php?showtopic=14511 (Weinstein distributed) (2/13/2013) http://www.animationmagazine.net/article.php?article_id=5043
http://disneyvideo.altervista.org/forum//index.php?showtopic=11263&hl=Dorothy&st=25 (5/9/2014) http://www.cartoonbrew.com/feature-film/legends-of-oz-set-for-2014-release-79174.html
http://disneyvideo.altervista.org/forum//index.php?showtopic=14905 (4/29/2106)) (Focus Distributed/Rainmaker Entertainment and Blockade Entertainment) http://www.nerdist.com/2013/04/ratchet-clank-get-an-animated-movie-in-2015/
Blazing Samurai (Mass Animation/Open Road) (4/14/17) http://www.cartoonbrew.com/feature-film/chris-bailey-and-mark-koetsier-will-direct-blazing-samurai-feature-108751.html



Others TBD

Around the World in 50 Years (nWave's Brussels produced)
Foodfight! (Lionsgate distributed) (DVD only)
The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus (Toonz Entertainment produced, Hyde Park distributed) http://businessofcinema.com/news.php?newsid=10724
http://disneyvideo.altervista.org/forum//index.php?showtopic=7574 (Action Synthese produced) http://geektyrant.com/2008/11/john-boormans-cgi-the-wonderful-wizard-of-oz-concept-art-and-more/
High in the Clouds (Unique Features produced, Warner Bros distributed) http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=56347
Septimus Heap: Magyk (Warner distributed) http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118005994.html?categoryId=13&cs=1
Rats of NIMH (Paramount distributed) http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=57538
http://disneyvideo.altervista.org/forum//index.php?showtopic=11822
http://disneyvideo.altervista.org/forum//index.php?showtopic=16180 (Gallic S3D produced) http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118025690.html?categoryid=3599&cs=1
Nerds (Rocket Pictures)http://www.deadline.com/2012/01/elton-johns-rocket-pictures-turning-kidbook-nerds-into-animated-feature/
http://disneyvideo.altervista.org/forum//index.php?showtopic=15917 http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=87415
Bolivar (Warner distributed) http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/bolivar-graphic-novel-animation-movie-296886
Night of the Living http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=89002
Deep (Valve Corporation) http://screenrant.com/shane-acker-valve-deep-movie-sandy-178699/?_r=true
The Jungle Book (DQ Entertainment Ireland Ltd) http://www.deadline.com/2012/06/dq-entertainment-jungle-book-animated-3d-movie/
The Great Migration (CMI Entertainment) http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=95023
Ballerina (Gaumont/Quad) http://variety.com/2013/biz/news/ballerina-cartoon-benjamin-millepied-1200480729/
The Addams Family (MGM) http://variety.com/2013/film/news/addams-family-reborn-as-animated-movie-at-mgm-exclusive-1200781652/
Robodog (Marza Animation Planet Inc.) http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=114084
Santapprentice (Weinstein distributed) (url="http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=89551"]http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=89551[/url]
The Trick or Treaters (Weinstein distributed) http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=89551
Leo the Lion (Weinstein distributed) http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=89551
http://disneyvideo.altervista.org/forum//index.php?showtopic=15568 (Rainmaker Entertainment) http://collider.com/sly-cooper-movie-trailer/
Yellowbird (TeamTo) http://www.thewrap.com/seth-green-dakota-fanning-3d-animated-movie-yellowbird-acquired-wrekin-hill/
Kong (Aquamen Entertainment) http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/berlin-new-chinese-funded-film-678803
'Bremen Town Musicians (Luxor Entertainment) http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/alan-cumming-joins-animated-bremen-684034
HenchMen (Bron Studios) http://deadline.com/2014/08/gary-sanchez-prods-bron-studios-animated-film-henchmen-will-ferrell-818764/
Noah's Ark http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/kung-fu-panda-director-helm-726564
My Little Pony http://variety.com/2014/film/news/my-little-pony-movie-in-the-works-at-hasbro-studios-exclusive-1201334144/
Playmobil - The Movie http://www.badtaste.it/2014/11/13/in-arrivo-film-animato-dei-playmobil/105213/
Asterix:Land of the Gods (Mikros Image) http://www.movieweb.com/asterix-land-of-the-gods-featurette-bring-first-look-at-new-animated-movie
Underdogs (Prana Studios/Weinstein) (8/14/15) http://deadline.com/2015/02/twc-gives-animated-soccer-pic-underdogs-august-14-berth-1201367609/

Inviato da: Scissorhands il 29/4/2009, 15:57

accontentato leo
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Inviato da: winnie & pimpi il 29/4/2009, 17:59

quanti progetti Dreamworks! wacko.gif

Inviato da: Prince Philip il 29/4/2009, 18:05

Io voglio vedere THE SMURFS wub.gif wub.gif wub.gif con il malvagio Gargamella diavoletto.gif diavoletto.gif diavoletto.gif

Inviato da: Hiroe il 29/4/2009, 18:57

bellissima questa lista! grazie scissor!

comunque si sa niente, invece, dei prossimi progetti dello Studio Ghibli?? smile.gif

Inviato da: Scissorhands il 29/4/2009, 22:47

CITAZIONE (Hiroe @ 29/4/2009, 19:57) *
bellissima questa lista! grazie scissor!

comunque si sa niente, invece, dei prossimi progetti dello Studio Ghibli?? smile.gif

Purtroppo di animazione giapponese non ne so nulla... sfortunatamente i siti americano non riportano queste news...
Mi informerò in qualche modo!

Inviato da: Hiroe il 30/4/2009, 11:09

sisi capisco la difficoltà, non c'è problema! dopotutto vorrebbe dire che qualcuno sappia tradurre facilmente dal giapponese senza problemi.... un pò complicato...

Inviato da: Scissorhands il 8/5/2009, 14:12

Bunyan & Babe (Exodus Film Group Produced, MGM distributed)

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=55228

MGM to Distribute the Animated Bunyan & Babe
Source: MGM
May 7, 2009


Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures and Exodus Film Group announced today that Bunyan & Babe, Exodus' new animated feature film, will be distributed in North America by MGM. The announcement was made by Exodus CEO, John Eraklis and Erik Lomis, President, Worldwide Theatrical Distribution, Home Entertainment & Acquisitions for MGM.

Bunyan & Babe is a modern take on the folk story of legendary lumberjack Paul Bunyan (John Goodman) and his sidekick, Babe the Blue Ox, who work with two adventurous kids to rescue their town from the evil clutches of a demented property developer (Kelsey Grammer).

"What Exodus has with 'Bunyan & Babe' is a new spin on a classic story. It is always a pleasure working with a company that is making this type of accessible family entertainment and we look forward to distributing this film," commented Lomis.

"'Bunyan & Babe' will bring to life this classic American character and introduce him to a whole new generation of movie-goers in a unique and original way," added Eraklis. "MGM demonstrated themselves to be a good partner on our last feature release and we are happy to be working alongside them again on this film."

Bunyan & Babe was written by Michael A. Nickles & Julia A. Wall and co-directed by Tony Bancroft (Mulan) and three-time Academy Award® winner Jim Rygiel ("The Lord of the Rings" trilogy for Best Visual Effects). Eraklis and Exodus Film Group President Max Howard are producing.

Inviato da: Scissorhands il 9/5/2009, 21:53

The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus (Toonz Entertainment produced, Hyde Park distributed)
http://businessofcinema.com/news.php?newsid=10724

Hyde Park to distribute Toonz' Santa Clause animation film
Story By: Businessofcinema.com Team updated on: 12/11/08

Mumbai: Singapore based Toonz Entertainment, which owns the Indian animation studio Toonz Animation India, has entered into an agreement with Gang of 7 Animation USA and Hyde Park Entertainment USA to produce a CGI (computer graphic imagery) animated feature film The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus.

It may be recalled that Businessofcinema.com was the first to report about Toonz Animation beginning production on The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus in February this year.

Based on the classic book by L. Frank Baum, the creator of The Wizard of Oz, the movie chronicles the life of Santa Claus from an infant to an adult. Along the way, Santa embarks on a hero's journey through an enchanted realm and into a confrontation with the heart of evil, ultimately revealing the origin of the world's best-loved Christmas legend.

The film will be directed by Tom Tataranowicz, Rich Arons and Dick Sebast and has a supporting team of artists who have worked on pictures such as Finding Nemo, The Lion King, and Iron Giant.

The project is currently in pre-production, with production set to commence in November at the Toonz Animation Studio in India. The movie is expected to be released in time for Christmas, 2010. Hyde Park will distribute the picture internationally and share North American rights with G7 Animation.

"This is our first CGI theatrical feature and it's a great moment for us. We at Toonz look forward to this challenging opportunity which would test our creative talents, and anticipate an exciting and quality production," said Toonz Group CEO P.Jayakumar.

"I grew up watching The Wizard of Oz. It's wonderful to bring this classic origin story of Santa Claus to the screen, particularly this novel from such an amazing writer," Hyde Park CEO Ashok Amritraj said.

"Amazingly enough, this is the first time an origin story, explaining Santa Claus and all the Christmas traditions, has ever come to the screen. We are very pleased to bring this exciting fantasy to...

Inviato da: Scissorhands il 9/5/2009, 21:55

The Wizard of Oz (Action Synthese produced)
http://geektyrant.com/2008/11/john-boorman...t-art-and-more/

This is the first time I have heard about a new Wizard of OZ film. It was just announced yesterday that John Boorman is set as its director. But, it looks like he has been helping to develop it for some time now. Action Synthese is the studio that is going to do the CGI work on the film. So far things are looking pretty good. The designs are very friendly and have an interesting style.

The Wonderful ‘Wizard of OZ’ is not a remake of the first film but it sounds like it is going to be a very solid version of the novel by Franck L. Baum. John Boorman seems to have a very strong respect to both the book and the classic movie. Below the pic is a statement he put out on Action Synthese website.


Qualcuno potrebbe mettere in rielevo la discussione visto che la aggiorno spesso?
Grazie smile.gif

Inviato da: Prince Philip il 10/5/2009, 9:20

Un'altro Oz???? eheheh.gif eheheh.gif eheheh.gif

Inviato da: Scissorhands il 12/5/2009, 10:04

Annunciato nuovo progetto Bluesky
Rio

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=55404

20th Century Fox Animation has greenlit Blue Sky Studios' 3-D digital animated film Rio, which centers on a nerdy macaw who leaves the comforts of his cage in small-town Minnesota and heads to Rio de Janeiro.

Carlos Saldanha (Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs and Ice Age: The Meltdown) will direct.

Chris Jenkins (Surf's Up) and Bruce Anderson (Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who!) will produce the film, which will be released by 20th Century Fox on April 8, 2011.

Inviato da: GasGas il 13/5/2009, 19:07

io voglio vedere il mago di oz smile.gif ma quando esce?

Inviato da: Scissorhands il 14/5/2009, 9:58

CITAZIONE (GasGas @ 13/5/2009, 20:07) *
io voglio vedere il mago di oz smile.gif ma quando esce?

Anche io sono curiosissimo!
Non ho idea della data di uscita... credo che non abbia neanche una distribuzione americana... figuriamoci la data...Sarà acquistato a produzione terminata.

Inviato da: Scissorhands il 17/5/2009, 21:14

Around the World in 50 Years (nWave's Brussels produced)

StudioCanal and Universal Music Group (UMG) announced today a partnership for the upcoming 3D animated feature, Around the World in 50 Years.

As part of this agreement, UMG will handle all North American theatrical, DVD, television and non-theatrical rights to the movie. Moreover, UMG will also handle the soundtrack album on a global basis.

The film, "a buddy movie with turtles for the 21st century," is directed by Ben Stassen (Fly Me to the Moon) and is being produced at nWave's Brussels studio.

The announcement of the deal follows straight after the film's presentation to an exclusive, invitation-only audience at Cannes, as part of the international sales rollout. The presentation - which included almost 15 minutes of spectacular "immersion" 3D footage - was crafted and presented by former Dreamworks marketing executive, Peter Dunne who has signed on as an animation consultant for Studio Canal.



Olivier Courson, CEO of StudioCanal, said, "I am delighted about this partnership. We first approached our sister company Universal Music Group about the soundtrack which is so critical for an animated film, but Doug Morris (Chairman & CEO) was so enthusiastic that he decided not only to come on board for the music but also to become our partner for US distribution. We never even took the film to the market. This movie is another important step in our international production: 3D animation. We are happy to have partners within the Vivendi group who can bring together such a strong and diverse team of creative and marketing talent which this project deserves."

Doug Morris commented, "When Jolene Cherry (Senior Vice President of A&R, Universal Records) first brought the film to my attention, I realized what a true gem it is. It combines the most innovative technology available today with great story-telling to convey an important environmental message. We are thrilled to be working with Olivier and his team on this important project."

The soundtrack album to the movie will be created by Ms. Cherry and Vincent Herbert.

Rodolphe Buet, EVP International Distribution for StudioCanal, stated, "We are thrilled to have secured such a great home for 'Around the World in 50 Years.' We have long recognized that international success in family entertainment relies on a great US release, and this deal allows us to begin work right away with our partners in putting together a first-class marketing, licensing and promotional campaign for the film."

Harold Van Lier, StudioCanal's EVP, International Sales added, "With such a strong commitment from our US partner, and our own distribution in the major part of Europe, our sales campaign has got off to a really strong start, and I'm confident that we will secure our other distribution partners very quickly."

Around the World in 50 Years will be released in North America and internationally in Q4 2010.

Inviato da: Scissorhands il 29/5/2009, 13:50

La Dreamworks ha annunciato tutti i suoi film fino al 2012.
Da notare che ha aumentato la produzione per un totale di 5 film ogni 2 anni (un anno 3 film e uno 2, alternati).

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=55849

DreamWorks Animation's Slate Through 2012!
Source: Variety
May 28, 2009


Variety reports that DreamWorks Animation CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg will unveil the company's slate through late 2012 for the investment community in New York today, revealing five original projects and a handful of franchise follow-ups. All will be produced in 3-D.

How to Train Your Dragon is written and directed by Chris Sanders and Den DeBlois. It stars Jay Baruchel, Gerard Butler, America Ferrera and Johan Hill. Set in the world of Vikings and dragons, it centers on an awkward teen who befriends an injured dragon. Look for "Dragon" on March 26, 2010.

2010 will also bring a fourth installment in the "Shrek" series (now titled Shrek Forever After). The film, scheduled for a release on May 21, 2010, is directed by Mike Mitchell.

Among the highlights of today's presentation is the new title for "Master Mind"--Oobermind--for which Robert Downey Jr. will voice a supervillain who finds life a little dull after vanquishing good-guy rival Metro Man. The superhero-themed film, based on a spec script from Ben Stiller's Red Hour Films, will open Nov. 5, 2010. Tina Fey also voices a character.

The following year brings two projects. For the first, the company confirmed signing Jack Black and Dustin Hoffman for Kung Fu Panda: The Kaboom of Doom, due out June 3, 2011. Longtime story executive Jennifer Yuh Nelson makes her feature directorial debut.

In its Nov. 4 slot, DreamWorks Animation has The Guardians, turning to a not-yet-published book series from children's literature-to-animation titan William Joyce, whose work has previously inspired Disney's Meet the Robinsons and Rolie Polie Olie. Jeff Lynch is attached to direct the film, which unites characters every child knows — Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, the Tooth Fairy, Jack Frost and the Sandman — to defend the world from a Bogeyman-like villain.

2012 gets crowded once again, as Puss in Boots imagines events before the popular character's appearance in Shrek 2, while introducing all-new characters. Antonio Banderas returns, and Salma Hayek will lend her voice to love interest Kitty. Shrek the Third helmer Chris Miller is onboard to direct, with the film slated for March 30, 2012.

Just two months later, Madagascar helmer Eric Darnell offers up a third installment in the zoo-break series, which would relocate the critters from Africa to Europe via a traveling circus.

Katzenberg has staked out a third date that fall, Nov. 12, for an original feature, to be chosen from a trio of projects currently in development.

The first option, caveman comedy The Croods, from directors Chris Sanders and Kirk DeMicco, was once intended to be an Aardman collaboration. Another, Truckers, is derived from Terry Pratchett's "The Bromeliad Trilogy," with Simon Beaufoy adapting a story of miniature creatures stuck living in a department store.

Damaschke also cited a third option, tentatively titled "Super Secret Ghost Project," that asks what ghosts think about humans.


Trovate ulteriori notizie qui:
http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118004228.html?categoryId=18&cs=1
http://www.deadlinehollywooddaily.com/dreamworks-boosts-its-pic-production-plans-to-release-5-films-every-2-years/
http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/stories/2009/05/25/daily33.html

Inviato da: Scissorhands il 11/6/2009, 13:44

Monster Safari (Jim Henson Co. produced)

Writers go on Safari for Henson

Sunday, June 07, 2009
By: Thomas J. Mclean

The Jim Henson Co. has hired Craig Zobel and Matt Chapman to write the script for Monster Safari, a stop-motion animation film.

A trio of directors — Mark Caballero, Chris Finnegan and Seamus Walsh — also have been signed on for the project, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

The story is about monsters who come out of hiding and have to be saved from game hunters by bumbling crypto-zoologists. The project began as a short film from Screen Novelties that attracted the attention of execs at Henson.

Zobel and Chapman similarly earned the gig based on a spec script the pair was shoppiong around. The duo, along with Chapman’s brother Mike, started an animation website called Homestarrunner.com.


http://www.animationmagazine.net/article/10131

Inviato da: Scissorhands il 11/6/2009, 14:33

The Familiars (Sony Pictures Animation)

Sony Pictures Animation Picks Up The Familiars
Source: The Hollywood Reporter
June 11, 2009


Sony Pictures Animation has picked up the rights to "The Familiars," an upcoming children's fantasy book series written by Adam Jay Epstein and Andrew Jacobson, says The Hollywood Reporter.

Sam Raimi and Josh Donen are in negotiations to produce via their Stars Road Entertainment. Epstein and Jacobson also will write the script.

The series is said to offer a franchise set in a compelling world rich in detail. The first book follows three young wizard apprentices who, after being whisked away to an evil kingdom by a nefarious queen, must rely on their animal companions -- an alley cat, a blue jay and a tree frog -- to escape.


http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=56208

Inviato da: Scissorhands il 19/6/2009, 16:18

Il progetto DreamWorks che prima era noto come "Super Secret Ghost Project" ora ha un nome e si chiama "Boo U."
Ecco un abbozzo di trama.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/film/news/e3i04825332556ab23da313aec569f21a55

DreamWorks attending 'Boo U.'
Untitled ghost project aimed at a 2012 release

By Jay A. Fernandez and Borys Kit

June 18, 2009, 11:00 PM ET
DreamWorks Animation must be spooked.

The studio is pushing forward with a new untitled ghost project that is competing for a fourth-quarter 2012 release slot.

The project, referred to internally as "Boo U.," recently picked up writer Jon Vitti ("The Simpsons Movie"), who will pen the screenplay. The story line centers on a ghost who is bad at his job and must return to ghost school.

The project will be directed by Tony Leondis ("Igor") and executive produced by Gil Netter and Courtney Pledger.

Another ghost-centric film, referred to as "Freakers," was being written by Joe Syracuse & Lisa Addario ("Surf's Up") and centers on a ghost story told from the ghosts' point of view, in their world. That project is no longer active.

A third ghost-related story idea is in the pitch stage.

In late May, DWA CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg, whose contract recently was extended to 2013, said a "supersecret ghost project" was on the books for a potential late-2012 slot. "Boo U." is that project.

"Puss in Boots" (March 30) and a third "Madagascar" movie (May) also are slated for release in 2012. The ghost picture would hit theaters Nov. 12, unless the caveman comedy "The Croods" or the Terry Pratchett adaptation "Truckers" makes the cut instead.

Katzenberg has mandated that all future projects will be made in the 3D format. The studio's most recent 3D release, "Monsters vs. Aliens," has grossed $362 million worldwide.

Vitti has been a writer and producer on "Saturday Night Live," "The Larry Sanders Show," "The Simpsons" and "King of the Hill." He also worked as a story consultant and writer on "Ice Age," "Robots," "Ice Age: The Meltdown," "Alvin and the Chipmunks," "Horton Hears a Who!" and "Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel," which hits theaters Christmas Day.

Leondis, repped by WME and Anonymous Content, has worked on the animated films "The Prince of Egypt," "The Road to El Dorado" and "Home on the Range."

Inviato da: Scissorhands il 4/7/2009, 11:39

Ripesco questo articolo di un pò di tempo fa che annunciava i prossimi progetti della Laika (la società dietro Coraline).
Molti di questi progetti sono in fase di stallo per via di mancati finanziamenti.
Tuttavia il buon successo commerciale e di critica di Coraline fa ben sperare:

http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117987963.html?categoryid=13&cs=1


Laika unveils development slate
Phil Knight's animation studio readies 'Coraline'
By DAVID S. COHEN, PETER DEBRUGE
Jun. 23, 2008

Laika's first toon, 'Coraline,' centers on a girl who happens upon a dark alternative world.
'Here Be Monsters!' book

Phil Knight, whose Nike empire gives him an estimated worth of $7.9 billion, is bringing his muscle to showbiz, with ambitious plans for his Portland, Ore., animation studio to partner with a Hollywood major in a slate of toons.

Laika, which does both CG and stop-motion features, was created when Knight stepped in to buy the former Will Vinton Studios, famous for the California Raisins, after the company had fallen on hard times.

This fall the company is wrapping production on its first feature, the stop-motion "Coraline," helmed by Laika supervising director Henry Selick ("The Nightmare Before Christmas").

Laika is financing the film, based on the book by Neil Gaiman, with Focus Features to distribute. It is skedded for wide release beginning Feb. 6, 2009.

Lead animator on "Coraline" and head of animation for Laika is Travis Knight, son of the Nike founder. Travis Knight was already working as an animator at Vinton when his father bought the company and rebranded it.

Now, Laika is taking out three pitches, any one of which could be its next project. Ultimately, it may produce all three:

* "Here Be Monsters!" from the books by Alan Snow, is a steampunk-flavored story set in a fantasy version of 1850s London. The hero is a 12-year-old who's grown up in an underground world beneath the city that is full of monsters but must find his way in the world when he moves to the surface to live like a normal boy.

British writer Irena Brignell is penning the script; Antony Stacchi ("Open Season") would direct.

Stacchi calls the project "Dickensian" and "Python-esque." It could be either CG or stop-motion.

* "Jack and Ben," an original for CG animation, revolves around brother bluebirds who get into a dangerous road-rally-style race to Florida along the north-south migration route. Barry Cook ("Mulan") would direct, David Skelly is writing and Ric Sluiter ("Lilo & Stitch") is art director.

"What 'Finding Nemo' did under the water, we want to do in the air," said Fiona Kenshole, VP of development acquisitions for Laika.

Cook said the project features quirky characters inspired by the real-life Gumball Rally road race.

* "Paranorman," an original idea by "Coraline" story chief Chris Butler, concerns a small town under a secret curse. Only a 13-year-old boy can keep the town from being overrun by zombies, but no one will listen to him.

Pic could be stop-motion or CG. Butler is writer and co-director. The project is being developed under Selick's close supervision.

For "Coraline," Laika put up the entire production budget of $50 million-$70 million. For all three pitches, however, the company is seeking 50-50 partnerships.

Kenshole said Laika is looking for a niche that is edgier than that of most of its competish, while still being commercial.

"We're to the left of Pixar and to the right of 'Nightmare Before Christmas,' " Kenshole told Daily Variety.
More than one option


"There's a lot of people moving into animation, and what they do is copycat. The world isn't waiting for another Pixar and another DreamWorks. We want a slate that's uniquely ours, that hits the four quadrants and is commercial, but is really, really strong, based on good storytelling."

Laika is also well into development on three more projects to be pitched in future months:

* "The Wall and the Wing," adapted by "Lost" co-creator Jeffrey Lieber from the novel by Laura Ruby. Story is about a parallel contemporary Manhattan where everyone can fly except one girl -- but she can make herself invisible.

* An untitled comedy-adventure story based on a young-adult trilogy. Dick Clement and Ian La Franais ("The Commitments," "Flushed Away") are penning the script. Courtney Pledger and Sarah Radclyffe are attached as producers.

* An original story about the origins of Halloween by Selick and John Carls. Carls ("Open Season") is producing.

Phil Knight is "in this for the long run," said Nike vet and Laika CEO Dale Wahl. "One thing that points to his commitment is the fact that he went out and bought some land for a Laika campus."

The company expects to break ground later this year on that 30-acre campus in Tualitin, Ore. Designed by the same architects as the Nike campus, it will bring the CG and stop-motion operations together, though the company's commercials division, House, will likely remain closer to downtown Portland.

Laika now employs approximately 550 people, with some 100 in the House division.

Inviato da: Scissorhands il 4/7/2009, 15:50

High in the Clouds (Unique Features produced, Warner Bros distributed)

Animated feature "High in the Clouds" is an adaptation of a children's book written by McCartney, Geoff Dunbar and Philip Ardagh. The film will be directed by Rob Minkoff and adapted by Caroline Thompson. The book, about a squirrel's quest to find an animal sanctuary, marks McCartney's largest involvement in an animated pic since the Beatles frontman was part of 1968's "Yellow Submarine."

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=56347

Inviato da: Scissorhands il 4/7/2009, 15:54

Happy Feet 2 in 3D (28/11/2011) (Animal Logic produced, Warner Bros distributed)

The studio has also nailed a date down for George Miller’s sequel to Happy Feet which we first learned about in August of last year. The movie, tentatively titled Happy Feet 2 in 3D will hit theaters on November 18th 2011. Hopefully they leave the live-action human characters out of the next installment.


http://www.slashfilm.com/2009/05/06/a-very-harold-kumar-christmas-and-happy-feet-2-announced/

Inviato da: Scissorhands il 14/7/2009, 1:00

Guardians of Ga'Hoole

Zack Snyder to Direct Guardians
Source: Variety
April 14, 2008


Zack Snyder (300, upcoming Watchmen) is set to direct Guardians of Ga'Hoole, an animated feature film based on the series of children's books by Kathryn Lasky.

Village Roadshow is making the film and Warner Bros. will distribute.

The film is set in the Forest of Tyto, where Barn Owls live in peace until their kingdom is threatened by an evil that could destroy their home.

The script was written by John Orloff (A Mighty Heart) and John Collee (Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World). The pic will be produced by Zareh Nalbandian, with Donald DeLine, Deborah Snyder and Lionel Wigram executive producing.

The intention is to execute in Sydney, Australia, through Animal Logic, which worked with Village Roadshow and WB on Happy Feet. The film is on a fast track and is likely to be ready by 2009 or 2010.


http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=44075

Inviato da: Scissorhands il 15/7/2009, 14:36


Septimus Heap: Magyk (Warner distributed)

David Frankel to direct 'Septimus'
Rosenfelt set to produce animated fantasy project
By DAVE MCNARY
David Frankel

Frankel
David Frankel ("Marley & Me") will direct animated fantasy project "Septimus Heap: Magyk" in a development deal, with Rob Lieber adapting for Warner Bros.

Karen Rosenfelt, who worked with Frankel on "Marley" and "The Devil Wears Prada," is producing through her Sunswept Entertainment banner.

Warner acquired bigscreen rights to "Septimus," Angie Sage’s seven-book series, two years ago. "Septimus Heap: Magyk" revolves around two babies switched at birth, a boy who’s the seventh son of a seventh son and a girl destined to be a princess.

Brit author Sage, who wrote the series for HarperCollins, is exec producing. The first book, "Septimus Heap: Magyk," was published in 2005, and three others have since been published, with the fifth, "Syren," due out in September.

Frankel is repped by WME and Industry Entertainment; Lieber’s repped by UTA and Anonymous Content


http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118005994.html?categoryId=13&cs=1

Inviato da: Scissorhands il 12/8/2009, 15:43

Alien Band: The Battle of the Bands Just Got Ugly (Vanguard Animation produced)

Williams ramps up the live-action part of his business as Vanguard Animation goes into production with "Space Chimps 3D," a sequel to Vanguard's 2008 film. The sequel will go straight to DVD in the U.S. through Fox and be released theatrically overseas. Vanguard Animation is also ramping up its next animated feature with "Alien Band: The Battle of the Bands Just Got Ugly."

Scripted by Allan Piper and Chris Pearson ("The Enthusiasts"), "Alien Band" is a comedy about a garage band from a backwater planet that enters an intergalactic Battle of the Bands contest. Former Eurythmics co-founder Dave Stewart is putting together established rock bands that will provide the tunes for the bands in competition. Stewart will be executive producer and music producer, and Williams is finalizing the film's financing.

http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118007177.html?categoryId=1350&cs=1

Inviato da: Scissorhands il 18/8/2009, 12:41

Dr. Seuss' The Lorax
http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=57571

Universal Pictures and Illumination Entertainment are turning the Dr. Seuss book "The Lorax" into a 3-D CG animated feature, reports Variety.

Dr. Seuss' The Lorax will be co-directed by Chris Renaud and Cinco Paul & Ken Daurio, with Paul & Daurio writing the script.

"The Lorax" is narrated by a greedy entrepreneur who, despite warnings from the tree-loving Lorax, strips a forest of its stock of Truffula trees to manufacture clothing. The results are catastrophic as all the animals leave and nothing's left.

The picture is targeted for a March 2, 2012, release, which falls on the birthday of Theodor Geisel, who died in 1991.

Inviato da: Scissorhands il 18/8/2009, 12:42

Rats of NIMH
http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=57538

Paramount is developing a feature version of Robert C. O'Brien's award-winning children's tale "Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH," says The Hollywood Reporter.

Director Neil Burger (The Illusionist) is in talks to write the screenplay, and former Walden executive Cary Granat is on board to produce.

The film would be the second theatrical go-round for the book, which MGM brought to the screen in 1982 as the animated The Secret of NIMH, directed by Don Bluth.

The story centers on a mouse -- the titular Mrs. Frisby, re-named Mrs. Brisby in the MGM movie -- faced with a crisis when her son falls ill and she must move her family to escape a farmer's plow.

Mrs. Frisby enlists a group of former lab rats, whom she soon discovers run a highly evolved society, who possess advanced technologies and divide labor in the manner of a human community.


Inviato da: Scissorhands il 25/9/2009, 15:51

Leaf Men

Wedge turns over new 'Leaf' at Fox
Blue Sky Studios to produce feature toon
By MICHAEL FLEMING
Chris Wedge


The development comes after a fascinating tug-of-war over the project between Fox, Blue Sky Studios co-founder Wedge and Disney-based animation rival Pixar.

"Leaf Men," an adaptation of the William Joyce illustrated children's book "The Leaf Men and the Brave Good Bugs," was originally set at Fox Animation by Wedge, his "Robots" cohort Joyce and screenwriter Jim Hart.

Wedge at some point got the studio's blessing to find a new home for the picture. He turned to Pixar. Wedge has a close relationship with the label's topper, John Lasseter, dating back to their beginnings on "Tron."

Disney and Pixar jumped and got as far as thinking they had a deal with Wedge. But when they moved to close with Fox on the project's underlying rights, Pixar, Wedge and his UTA reps were surprised to discover that Fox wasn't letting go of "Leaf Men" after all.

A Fox spokesman would not comment on the back and forth with Pixar, saying only that Fox Animation has now greenlit the film and is glad that Wedge remains in the studio fold.

The "Leaf Men" book focuses on a troop of bugs that try to save a garden and need to battle an evil spider queen. The bugs turn to the mythical Leaf Men to help them.

Sources in the animation community who followed Wedge's near move to Pixar said it would have been unusual to see him spend the next several years making an animated film for a rival, since he's so closely identified with Blue Sky and its role in making Fox a family film powerhouse.

But Wedge -- who directed the original Oscar-winning "Ice Age" and then "Robots" -- has been focused on his own directing career for some time, developing such live-action projects as "The Invention of Hugo Cabret" at Warner Bros. Blue Sky has a strong bench of directors topped by Carlos Saldanha, who co-directed the second and third "Ice Age" films, and who is prepping Blue Sky's next major animated effort, "Rio."

http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118009092.html?categoryId=1050&cs=1

Inviato da: Scissorhands il 2/10/2009, 15:09

Spore

Fox and EA Adapting Spore Game
Source:Variety
October 2, 2009


20th Century Fox has teamed up with Electronic Arts to turn the publisher's popular "Spore" game into an animated creature feature, with Chris Wedge (Ice Age) attached to direct.

Greg Erb and Jason Oremland, who penned Disney's upcoming The Princess and the Frog and Ben Stiller pic The Return of King Doug at Paramount, will write the script for the movie. It will be produced as a CG-animated toon by EA and Blue Sky Studios.

In the game, which was released in September 2008, players create their own creatures and the worlds they live in and share them with other gamers to create an overall universe.

"I'm always looking for unique worlds to go to in animation," Wedge said. "From every perspective -- visually, thematically and comedically -- the world of 'Spore' provides the potential to put something truly original on the screen."

Last week, the Fox locked down the animated film Leaf Men for Wedge to direct and Blue Sky to produce.

Inviato da: Scissorhands il 3/11/2009, 16:19

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=60565

Lindsay-Abaire Writing The Guardians
Source:Variety
November 3, 2009


Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright David Lindsay-Abaire (upcoming Spider-Man 4) will adapt DreamWorks Animation's The Guardians, based on the upcoming series of children's books by William Joyce. The film will be directed by Peter Ramsay, and Joyce will co-direct.

Lindsay-Abaire was Tony-nominated for writing the book and lyrics to "Shrek the Musical."

The Guardians are a group of iconic figures sworn to protect children from the forces of evil. Their ranks include Santa Claus, Jack Frost, the Easter Bunny and the Man in the Moon.

DreamWorks Animation is targeting a November 2, 2012 release.


Inviato da: Scissorhands il 3/11/2009, 16:25

Interessante intervista a Selick che ha da poco lasciato la Laika.

http://www.collider.com/2009/11/02/henry-selick-exclusive-video-interview-talks-future-projects-coraline-unfixed-why-he-left-laika-studios-more/

Inviato da: Scissorhands il 9/11/2009, 19:29

http://blog.media-freaks.com/peter-ramsey-direct-dreamworks-animations-the-guardians/


Peter Ramsey to Direct DreamWorks Animation’s ‘The Guardians’

Wed, Nov 4, 2009

3D Animation Projects, Animated Movies, Animation Business, Animation News

DreamWorks Animation SKG, Inc. today announced that Peter Ramsey, director of the Company’s hit Halloween special, “Monsters vs. Aliens: Mutant Pumpkins from Outer Space,” is set to direct “The Guardians,” (working title) the previously announced film based on “The Guardians of Childhood,” a series of highly anticipated children’s books by William Joyce. Pulitzer Prize winning writer David Lindsay-Abaire has signed on to write the script.

In addition to directing “Monsters vs. Aliens: Mutant Pumpkins from Outer Space,” Ramsey served as Head of Story on DreamWorks Animation’s “Monsters vs. Aliens” and has served as a storyboard artist on a number of live action feature films. Lindsay-Abaire was most recently nominated for a Tony Award® for his Book and Lyrics for “Shrek The Musical.” His Pulitzer Prize winning play, “The Rabbit Hole” has been made into a feature film, for which he wrote the script.

The project will be produced by Christina Steinberg and Nancy Bernstein and executive produced by Michael Siegel, Joyce’s manager. DreamWorks Animation acquired the property from Reel FX where the characters and the world of “The Guardians of Childhood” were developed in a partnership with William Joyce. Joyce will also serve as co-director. DreamWorks Animation’s “The Guardians” (working title) is scheduled to be released on November 2, 2012.

“The Guardians of Childhood” is a multi-story saga detailing the adventures of the immortal Guardians, who are sworn to protect children from the forces of evil. The books will be published as a series that features Joyce’s distinctive illustrations and chronicles the origins of several childhood mythic figures, including Santa Claus, Jack Frost, The Easter Bunny and The Man in the Moon. Each book will highlight one character and will serve as back stories for characters that will be the subject of the full length feature film version.

DreamWorks Animation Co-President of Production, Bill Damaschke, commented, “We are thrilled that David Lindsay-Abaire is joining director Peter Ramsey and the rest of the all-star creative team at DreamWorks Animation to bring William Joyce’s spectacular stories to cinematic life when the film arrives in theaters on November 2, 2012.”
Publication of the book series is set to begin in 2011 and subsequent books will be published in yearly installments thereafter.


Inviato da: Scissorhands il 3/12/2009, 16:16

Cambio di titolo per Oobermind (Dreamworks). Ora si chiama Megamind.

Inviato da: winnie & pimpi il 9/12/2009, 12:57

a Genzano, in occasione del festival d'animazione dei Castelli Animati, i registi della Aardman, Peter Lord e Nick Park hanno svelato qualcosina sul loro prossimo film:
sarà in 3d, sarà un film natalizio, ci saranno scene ambientate al polo nord, nella storia sarà coinvolta anche la famiglia reale!

a questo punto deve trattarsi di ARTHUR CHRISTMAS

Inviato da: Scissorhands il 9/12/2009, 16:13

Untitled Jack Black Cryptozoology Movie (Illumination Entertainment produced)

Jack Black animates film pitch
Meledandri's Illumination draws in toon
By MICHAEL FLEMING

Jack Black, whose last foray into animation was the hit "Kung Fu Panda," is the centerpiece of an untitled animated film pitch that Illumination Entertainment, Chris Meledandri's Universal-based family film unit, is acquiring preemptively.

The untitled pitch is centered in the world of cryptozoology, which is the search for legendary creatures whose existence has never actually been confirmed, like the Loch Ness Monster or Bigfoot.

Pitch was made by scribe Jason Micallef, with Black in the room. Black will produce with partner Ben Cooley through their Electric Dynamite banner, along with Meledandri. Black is only aboard as producer and will not provide a voice in the film. It is Black's first animation project as producer, but he and Cooley are producers on the Black starrer "Gulliver's Travels" and the docu "Branson." Black's previous producing credits include "Nacho Libre" and "Tenacious D In the Pick of Destiny."

He is separately reprising for the "Kung Fu Panda" sequel and lent his voice to "Shark Tale" and the first installment of "Ice Age."

Micallef previously wrote "Butter," a script that made the Black List, and has Jennifer Garner attached with Michael De Luca producing. Micallef,and Underground Films' Josh McGuire, most recently rewrote "The King of Kong" for New Line.

Illumination's first major animation release is "Despicable Me," which Universal releases July 9. Steve Carell provides the lead voice, and Jason Segel, Danny McBride, Julie Andrews and Russell Brand also voice characters.


http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118012301.html?categoryId=1050&cs=1


Inviato da: Scissorhands il 23/12/2009, 17:09

Fright Diner (DreamWorks Animation)

New upcoming project from DreamWorks Animation: Fright Diner

DreamWorks Animation is planning on going into the world of horror comedy in their recently announced upcoming movie Fright Diner. The movie, based on a novel by A. Lee Martinez, will center around a werewolf and a vampire who battle zombies and other mayhem, all within a diner in the desert where supernatural creatures gather. Written by Kung Fu Panda story writers Ethan Reiff and Cyrus Voris, Fright Diner is currently without an official release date, but can probably be expected around 2012 or 2013.


http://animatedviews.com/2009/new-upcoming-project-from-dreamworks-animation-fright-diner/

Inviato da: Hiroe il 23/12/2009, 18:00

Mamma mia... O.o sembra una cosa orribile!!!


invece mi piace molto di più il progetto su The Guardians... smile.gif

Inviato da: Daydreamer il 25/12/2009, 20:02

QUOTE (Hiroe @ 23/12/2009, 18:00) *
invece mi piace molto di più il progetto su The Guardians... smile.gif


quoto...non vedo l'ora di vedere la resa finale dell'unica donna del gruppo (e unico elemento di curiosità del film dato il pochissimo sfruttamento del personaggio...ma arriverà presto Dwayne Johnson post-6-1111346575.gif ) ovvero LA FATA DENTINA

Inviato da: Hiroe il 15/2/2010, 22:00

la fata dentina biggrin.gif biggrin.gif biggrin.gif XD XD XD boh, di solito è molto piccola! spero che sia anche questa in formato mignon, anche se farebbe un pò "trilli"

Inviato da: Scissorhands il 24/2/2010, 13:48

Little White Lie (Laika Animation produced)
McCoy and Pinkava Writing Little White Lie
Source:The Hollywood Reporter
February 22, 2010


Chris McCoy and Jan Pinkava are writing the animated film Little White Lie for Laika Entertainment, the company behind the Oscar-nominated Coraline. Pinkava will direct as well.

The Hollywood Reporter says the project comes from an original idea by Pinkava, who won an Oscar for the animated short film "Geri's Game" and has also worked on the Pixar movies Ratatouille, Monsters, Inc., Toy Story 2 and A Bug's Life.

Laika has an adaptation of Alan Snow's Here Be Monsters! in development along with the original feature Paranorman.


http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=63518

Inviato da: Scissorhands il 24/2/2010, 13:50

Norm of the North (Crest Animation produced/Lionsgate distributed)
Lionsgate and Crest Animation Making Norm
Source:Lionsgate
February 1, 2010


Lionsgate announced today that it will partner with Crest Animation Studios to co-produce the stereoscopic 3D animated family feature Norm of the North as the second film in ther three-picture deal. Lionsgate will distribute in North America. The announcement was jointly made today by Joe Drake, Lionsgate Co-Chief Operating Officer and Motion Picture Group President; Mike Paseornek, Lionsgate President of Motion Picture Production; Ken Katsumoto, Lionsgate Executive Vice President of Family Entertainment; Noah Fogelson, CEO of Crest Animation Productions; and Seemha Ramanna, Managing Director Crest Animation Studios.

Norm of the North is written by Steven and Daniel Altiere. Delivery is anticipated for the first quarter of 2012. Katsumoto will oversee the production for Lionsgate; Crest Animation President of Production Richard Rich will oversee for Crest.

The first film in the Lionsgate/Crest partnership is the upcoming CGI animated family feature Alpha and Omega, featuring the voices of Justin Long, Hayden Panetierre, Christina Ricci, Danny Glover, Dennis Hopper and Larry Miller. Directed by Anthony Bell and Ben Gluck, Alpha and Omega is expected to premiere in October 2010.

Said Paseornek and Katsumoto, "Our partnership with Crest has gotten off to a terrific start with 'Alpha and Omega,' and 'Norm of the North' is an ideal follow-up. In its range of characters, locations and narrative, 'Norm of the North' offers a bounty of riches for family audiences."

"We are delighted to be producing 'Norm of the North' with our friends at Lionsgate," commented Fogelson. "This is a wonderful story, full of humor and heart, and stereoscopic 3D technology will bring it vividly to life."

In the film, Norm is a Polar Bear who finds shelter in an abandoned research station when his Arctic home begins cracking and collapsing beneath him. He is accompanied by three Arctic Lemmings, sidekicks who instinctively copy Norm's every move. Norm enjoys this immensely as he has a love of entertaining, and an aversion to the mundane work in his community. All in all, life is good for our heroes; plenty of food, warmth, and aerobic dancing DVDs, which also help Norm perfect his "moves." But as the polar ice caps continue mysteriously breaking apart, their temporary home is abruptly dislodged, setting Norm and the lemmings on a journey that ends in NYC. Here Norm is discovered by the head of a multinational company and becomes their mascot. Suddenly Norm is living his performing dream as a dancing star. Unfortunately, he also soon learns the polar ice caps are continuing to break apart, and the people that made his dream come true are responsible. Norm knows he must stop them before they destroy his home, a realization that forces him to choose between life in the spotlight and his entire Polar Bear community.


http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=62911

Inviato da: Scissorhands il 24/2/2010, 13:53

Alpha and Omega (Crest Animation produced/Lionsgate distributed)

The first film in the Lionsgate/Crest partnership is the upcoming CGI animated family feature Alpha and Omega, featuring the voices of Justin Long, Hayden Panetierre, Christina Ricci, Danny Glover, Dennis Hopper and Larry Miller. Directed by Anthony Bell and Ben Gluck, Alpha and Omega is expected to premiere in October 2010.

Said Paseornek and Katsumoto, "Our partnership with Crest has gotten off to a terrific start with 'Alpha and Omega,' and 'Norm of the North' is an ideal follow-up. In its range of characters, locations and narrative, 'Norm of the North' offers a bounty of riches for family audiences."
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http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=62911
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Inviato da: Beast il 24/2/2010, 16:53

Auguro buona fortuna a Jan Pinkava per il suo nuovo (e primo, se lo finisce) film.

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Quindi adesso anche Lionsgate si mette a fare animazione? Basta, non se ne può più, già adesso in certi periodi esce un film d'animazione a settimana! E questa Crest, mai sentita nominare; sono bravi?

Inviato da: Scissorhands il 22/3/2010, 2:09

The Addams Family (Universal Pictures and Illumination Entertainment)


Tim Burton's Next 3D Animated Film? Da Da Da Da, Snap Snap: 'The Addams Family'
By MIKE FLEMING | Thursday March 18, 2010 @ 11:13am EST
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addams-cartoonEXCLUSIVE: Alice in Wonderland director Tim Burton has found a new 3D project. He will direct a stop-motion animated film based on Charles Addams' original ghoulish cartoon drawings of The Addams Family. Illumination Entertainment, the Universal-based family film unit headed by Chris Meledandri, has acquired the underlying rights of the Addams drawings, once a staple of The New Yorker magazine.

Burton's intention is to go back to the litany of Addams illustrations that displayed a sharper wit than seen on the big or little screen before. Other than being inspired by the same source material, the animated feature is unrelated to previous incarnations of Addams’ work: the 1960s TV series, the two 1990s feature film comedies that Barry Sonnenfeld directed with Raul Julia and Anjelica Huston, or the Broadway musical opening this spring with Nathan Lane and Bebe Neuwirth in the starring roles.6a00d8345157d269e200e54f7038368833-

Meladandri will produce the film. Kevin Miserocchi of the Tee and Charles Addams Foundation will be executive producer. A writer will be hired shortly. Burton, whose visual creations are currently on display at a MOMA exhibit that opened last November, is expected to provide much of the visual look of the film himself.

Burton’s experience in animated film is extensive. He last directed Corpse Bride, and is making a feature version of Frankenweenie, the 1984 30-minute short film Burton made about a boy who reanimates his dead dog. That reportedly got him tossed off the Disney lot for making a film too terrifying for a family audience, but the film has since become a cult favorite. Burton recently produced 9, as well as the delightful stop-motion animated The Nightmare Before Christmas, for which he wrote the story.

tim-burton-the-nightmare-before-christmas-3d-world-premiere-khwujlWhile there are many post-Green Zone articles speculating how Universal will pull itself out of an extended feature slump, Illumination's upcoming animated slate should be a big help in giving Universal a foothold in the 3D CG family entertainment market. Meledandri left the top post at Fox Animation to form Illumination in 2007, and begins contributing to the Universal pipeline when the studio releases the Steve Carell-voiced Despicable Me on July 9. That’s followed by the April 1, 2011 release of I Hop, with Russell Brand voicing the Easter Bunny, with the Ricky Gervais creation Flanimals coming later 2011. Right behind that is Where’s Waldo and Dr.Seuss’ The Lorax.


http://www.deadline.com/2010/03/tim-burton-next-3d-animated-film-da-da-da-snap-snap-the-addams-family/

Inviato da: Scissorhands il 22/3/2010, 2:11

Turkeys (Bedrock Studios)

Wilson and Harrelson Voicing Turkeys
Source: Variety
March 18, 2010


Cary Granat and Ed Jones' new company Bedrock Studios announced on Wednesday that its first project will be the animated buddy film Turkeys, to be directed by Ash Brannon (Toy Story 2).

Owen Wilson and Woody Harrelson will voice the turkeys that discover a time machine and travel back to the first Thanksgiving to take themselves off the menu. Luke Wilson is also voicing a character.

Targeted for a 2011 release, the film is written and produced by John J. Strauss (There's Something About Mary) and David I. Stern (Open Season 2). Peter Farrelly will executive produce.

Bedrock is also developing Rats of NIMH, A Wrinkle in Time and Dinosaur Bob.

Rats of NIMH is based on Robert C. O'Brien's children's adventure book that tells the story of a field mouse who finds help in a group of former laboratory rats; Madeleine L'Engle's A Wrinkle in Time is a classic fantasy-adventure story following three kids who go on a journey to rescue their father and save the world; and Dinosaur Bob is based on the William Joyce novel which follows a dinosaur and his adventures with a family.

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=64358

Inviato da: Scissorhands il 23/3/2010, 21:30

Popeye (Sony Picture Animation)

Sony Making a CG Popeye Film in 3D
Source: Variety
March 23, 2010


Sony Pictures is developing a CG Popeye feature to be released in 3D. Avi Arad is producing and Mike Jones is in negotiations to write the script.

The storyline is being kept under wraps, but Popeye's love interest Olive Oyl, nemesis Bluto and adopted child Swee'Pea will be part of the adventure, says Variety.

Arad says the new version will cover the themes of friendship, love, greed and life, and focus on human strengths and human frailties.

Popeye will be made by Sony Pictures Animation, with Sony Pictures Imageworks handling the CG. The companies are currently working on The Smurfs, coming to theaters on August 3, 2011.

Created by E.C. Segar, Popeye first appeared in the already established "Thimble Theater" comic strip in 1929. Introduced as a walk-on character, Popeye eventually became the strip's star.

Popeye was last seen on the big screen in 1980 when Robin Williams starred in director Robert Altman's live-action version.


http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=64471

Inviato da: Scissorhands il 15/5/2010, 17:12

Pickles to Pittsburgh (Sony Picture Animation)

Arriva il sequel di Piovono Polpette: largo ai cetriolini!
Scritto da Andrea
martedì 13 aprile 2010
Un'ottima notizia per i fan di Piovono Polpette, uno dei film di animazione in 3D più apprezzati del 2009. La Sony Pictures Animation ha iniziato la produzione del sequel, tratto da... "Cetriolini per Pittsburgh"!



Fonte: io9

A confermarlo è io9: il sequel di Piovono Polpette si farà, anzi, la Sony Pictures Animation è già al lavoro sul film.

Il poster italiano di Piovono Polpette

La cattiva notizia è che a dirigerlo non saranno i registi Phil Lord e Chris Miller, che tuttavia seguiranno la produzione e collaboreranno alla stesura della sceneggiatura. I due, infatti, stanno adattando per il grande schermo la serie tv 21 Jump Street - I Quattro della Scuola di Polizia.

Il titolo del film sarà Pickles to Pittsburgh ("Cetriolini per Pittsburgh"), lo stesso del secondo romanzo per bambini di Ron e Judi Barrett, autori di Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs. Poco o nulla si sa sulla produzione: non ci sono ancora conferme per quanto riguarda eventuali ritorni nel cast di doppiatori.

Ecco la trama del romanzo, da Amazon (in italia non è stato pubblicato):

In Pickles to Pittsburgh, il sequel di Piovono Polpette, torniamo da Kate e Henry, che aspettano il ritorno del nonno da un viaggio poco probabile. Kate ha ricevuto una cartolina da lui, e dalla quale parte tutta la storia...


http://www.badtaste.it/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=12713&Itemid=37

Inviato da: Scissorhands il 15/5/2010, 17:14

Rollercoaster Tycoon (Sony Picture Animation)

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE64C0GO20100513

"Rollercoaster Tycoon" riding to the screen
Borys Kit
Thu May 13, 2010 1:10am EDT


LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Sony is getting into the roller-coaster theme park business ... sort of.

Film

Sony Pictures Animation has pre-emptively picked up rights to the Atari video game "Rollercoaster Tycoon," and is developing the project as a live-action/CGI hybrid.

The "Tycoon" franchise, created by Chris Sawyer, is a popular series of computer games that simulate a combination of designing roller coasters and amusement park management. Each game challenges players with open-ended amusement park management and development while allowing them to construct and customize their own unique roller coasters.

The games are popular in the PC world, generating more than $300 million in sales and giving Atari bragging rights for having the third-best-selling PC title of all time in the U.S.

Harald Zwart is spearheading the development of the big-screen adaptation as a possible directing project and will executive produce. He directed Sony's "The Karate Kid," the upcoming remake of the 1980s classic that is produced by Will Smith and stars his son Jaden Smith.

Inviato da: Scissorhands il 15/5/2010, 17:15

Pig Scrolls (Dreamworks Animation)

http://www.movieweb.com/news/NEzVgHCD2nxYDC

Dreamworks Animation Taps Barry Sonnenfeld to Develop Pig Scrolls
April 8th, 2010
Barry Sonnenfeld to develop Pig Scrolls
Barry Sonnenfeld to develop Pig Scrolls
Pajiba is reporting that Dreamworks Animation has picked Barry Sonnenfeld to develop Pig Scrolls as a possible directing vehicle.

Pig Scrolls is based on a novel by Paul Shipton. It follows a talking pig and his attempts to save the world. Taking place in Ancient Greece, the book makes a lot of references to Greek mythology and it "includes all of the major Greek gods, as well as some minor deities."

In Dreamwork's version, the fate of the world, and of the Gods, will center on that talking pig.

Kirk De Micco (Space Chimps) did the most recent pass at adapting the script. Should Pig Scrolls be a box office hit Dreamworks owns the option on a sequel.


Inviato da: Scissorhands il 15/5/2010, 17:18

How to Train Your Dragon Sequel (Dreamworks Animation)

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=65516

How to Train Your Dragon Sequel Coming in 2013
Source: DreamWorks Animation
April 27, 2010


DreamWorks Animation announced today as part of its First Quarter financial results that a sequel to How to Train Your Dragon will hit theaters in 2013.

"2010 is off to a strong start, thanks in large part to the performance of 'How to Train Your Dragon,' which – having grossed nearly $375 million to date in worldwide box office – has become DreamWorks Animation's next franchise. We plan to release the sequel theatrically in 2013," said Jeffrey Katzenberg, CEO of DreamWorks Animation. "3D continues to have a tremendous impact on the industry at large and we are now looking forward with great anticipation to bringing 'Shrek Forever After,' the final chapter in our beloved 'Shrek' series and the first in 3D, to audiences across the globe next month."

How to Train Your Dragon, which was released on March 26, 2010, contributed $59.7 million of revenue to the quarter for the company, driven primarily by merchandising and licensing activities. It has reached approximately $180 million in domestic box office and approximately $195 million in international box office to date.


Inviato da: Hiroe il 19/5/2010, 8:28

grazie per le news, scissor!:)

Inviato da: Scissorhands il 22/5/2010, 12:02

Un Monstre à Paris (EuropaCorp)

The project is the brainchild of French director and animator Eric (Bibo) Bergeron (The Road to El Dorado, Sharks tale,) who has returned to his native country after 8 years in Hollywood, to create his new work.

Better still (continuing it seems with his new fascination of animation) Luc Besson is tipped to produce the movie. The film will apparently employ the latest 3D CGI techniques to produce a “surrealist 3D effect.” Voice talents for the film will include Vanessa Paradise, Eric Judor, Ramzy Bedia and Kevin Kline.

Synopsis: ”Paris, 1910. A terrifying creature spreads fear upon the Capital. Emile - a shy projectionist in a movie theater - and Raoul - a colorful inventor - find themselves thrown into the Monster Hunt. On this wild ride, they meet a big-hearted cabaret singer, an eccentric scientist assisted by a monkey, a ruthless Prefect of Police. And a strange creature who might not be so frightening after all. What if, behind those deceiving appearances, the true Monster was not who you'd think it is?”

Inviato da: Scissorhands il 22/5/2010, 12:07

The Boy with the Cuckoo-Clock Heart" (EuropaCorp)

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/news/e3ib30a7315dd82b7c9db07522ef55dd4ba

'Cuckoo-Clock Heart' will get ani treatment
EuropaCorp., HP partner for film based on Malzieu novel

By Rebecca Leffler

May 15, 2010, 12:56 PM ET
CANNES -- French film studio EuropaCorp. has partnered with HP to make an animated feature film version of Mathias Malzieu's novel "The Boy with the Cuckoo-Clock Heart" for a fall 2011 release.

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EuropaCorp. snagged the film adaptation rights in January 2008 for the book, which has been translated into more than 15 languages. Malzieu will direct the €20 million ($25 million) project alongside Stephane Berla, with EuropaCorp. producer and Luc Besson's wife Virginie Besson-Silla set to produce in association with France's Duran Duboi, support from French TV group France 3 and a pre-buy from Canal Plus.

HP will provide its latest technology including HPZ800 workstations and HP DreamColor displays. The filmmakers will use a 2D storyboard to produce a non-relief 3D picture.

"It's not just 3D for 3D's sake. It's more old-style animation," Malzieu said Added Berla: "We like the idea that the film looks like it could have been made 50 years ago."

The film, which began production in October, is being shot in French with A-list Gallic voices including actor Jean Rochefort, actress Rossy de Palma and singers Arthur H. and Olivia Ruiz. International versions are in the works, but as for U.S. talent, "We're starting to fantasize about that, but nothing has been signed for the moment," Malzieu said.

Malzieu comes from the music world -- the artist and writer is the lead singer of rock group Dionysos, who boast three gold records. Malzieu and Dionysos will provide the soundtrack for "The Boy With the Cuckoo-Clock Heart."

"It's a real auteur film. Even we were surprised by how much freedom we had. We really took risks and pushed the boundaries of creation," Berla said of the directorial duo's collaboration with EuropaCorp. The story takes place in late 19th-century Edinburgh and follows a little boy born with a cuckoo-clock instead of a heart who chases after a girl across Europe to Andalusia.

"It's not a film dedicated just to children -- our target audience in 7-77 years old. It's transgenerational," Besson-Silla said, adding, "It's not a commercial product, but there's a real following already for both the book and the album."

After their "Arthur" franchise, EuropaCorp. is expanding into the animated realm with another 3D animated feature "A Monster in Paris," set to hit French theaters at Christmas.


Questo film prima era conosciuto come "The Mechanics of the Heart"

http://www.firstshowing.net/2008/02/05/luc-besson-adapting-the-mechanics-of-the-heart-into-animation/

Luc Besson Adapting The Mechanics of the Heart into Animation

February 5, 2008
Source: Variety
by Alex Billington
The Mechanics of the Heart

There used to be a time where I'd say that anything French filmmaker Luc Besson touched would be solid gold, but he has since then destroyed my impressions with that awful animated movie Arthur and the Invisibles. Oddly, it wasn't Luc Besson's fault at all, it was the studio's, who butchered it for an American release with terrible dubbing and editing. One of the most interesting bits of news to pop up the last few days was an announcement that EuropaCorp, Besson's production and distribution company, had bought the rights to Mathias Malzieu's novel The Mechanics of the Heart and would be turning it into a 3D animated movie. If things go a bit better this time, maybe this movie could actually turn out much better than Arthur and the Invisibles.

The novel was written by Mathias Malzieu and is originally titled La Mecanique du coeur (which means The Mechanics of the Heart) in French. You can pick up a copy on Amazon.fr. It later went on to inspire a music album by Dionysos. Set in 1874, the story is about a young man whose heart was replaced at birth with a clock. He should avoid strong emotions, and above all love, but can't keep his heart under control. What a wonderfully inspirational idea just right there and I'm sure the French novel has a lot more to it as well.

The novel's writer, Mathias Malzieu, will write the script and co-direct. Stephane Berla, who directed Dionysos' music videos, will co-direct and Joann Sfar, who contributed graphics for the book and album (as seen below), will collaborate in the novel-to-screen rendering. The photo below is from the Dionysos album, but is the exact same graphic used on the novel as well. It should give you an idea of the look and feeling of the animation. From that graphic alone and the description of the story above, this has quickly shot to top of my list for animated movies I'm looking forward to, which is very rare considering Pixar's dominance.

A release date hasn't been set, but considering the time frame required for animated movies, expect a release no earlier than 2010 or 2011. In the meantime, head to Amazon.fr to pick up a copy of the novel or just wait for us to bring you more updates during its development.

Inviato da: Scissorhands il 27/6/2010, 23:10

Good Luck Trolls movie (Dreamworks Animation)

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DreamWorks plans Good Luck Trolls movie
'Evergone' writers to pen animated feature

By Gregg Kilday
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The Good Luck Trolls, with their frizzy, pastel-colored hair, are coming to the big screen via DreamWorks Animation.

The Glendale-based animation house, which has already turned an ogre into the successful "Shrek" franchise, announced Tuesday that it has pacted with Denmark's Dam Things, which controls the toy line, to develop an animated feature.

The brother-sister writing team of Adam Wilson and Melanie Wilson LaBracio will pen the screenplay, and Dannie Festa of Festa Entertainment, who brought the package to DreamWorks, will executive produce.

The troll doll was created in 1959 by Danish fisherman and woodcutter Thomas Dam, when he carved a doll based on Scandinavian trolls for his daughter Lajla. The toy line gained popularity in Europe and the U.S. during the early '60s, becoming a fad embraced by kids and the counter-culture.

Because Dam Things, the Scandinavian company that produced the toys, lost control of its copyright after failing to comply with U.S. laws, imitators flooded the market in the '70s and '80s. However, as a result of a 1994 Congressional law that restored copyright protection to a number of foreign works, the Dam family regained authority.

In 2005, DIC Entertainment produced the animated series "Trollz," with an accompanying doll line aimed at girls, but the modernized version didn't have the same success as the classic versions.

In striking the deal with DWA, Niels Dam, the dollmaker's son who now owns the family business, said, "My father would have been very happy to know that his Troll has found its dream partner in DreamWorks Animation."

Calle Ostergaard, CEO of Dam Things, added, "We have been planning to bring the Good Luck Troll toy line back into homes around the world, and we are excited to see how the talented storytellers and artists at DreamWorks Animation will bring them to life."

DWA head of development Alex Schwartz said, "We look forward to working alongside Dam Things to build on the mythology of the Good Luck Trolls while delivering the sense of adventure, heart and comedy that DreamWorks Animation is known for."

Wilson and Wilson LaBracio, who have written the features "Evergone" and "The Impossible Adventures of Phineas Roone," are repped by Festa, Preferred Artists and attorney Eric Suddleson. Dam Things is repped by Festa and attorney Jay Handlin.

Inviato da: Scissorhands il 14/7/2010, 11:09

Updates dalla Illumination Entertainment fresca del successo di Despicable Me

http://www.deadline.com/2010/07/chris-meledandris-illumination-game-plan-includes-despicable-me-sequel-minion-spinoffs-dr-seuss-the-addams-family/


Chris Meledandri's Illumination Game Plan Includes 'Despicable Me' Sequel, 'Minion' Spinoffs, Dr. Seuss, The Addams Family
By MIKE FLEMING | Tuesday July 13, 2010 @ 10:22am EDT
Tags: Adam Fogelson, Animation, Chris Meledandri, David Linde, Despicable Me, Despicable Me 2, Despicable Me Box Office, Despicable Me Cross-Promotion, Flanimals, Hop, Illumination Entertainment, Jeff Zucker, Marc Shmuger, NBC Universal, Ron Meyer, The Minions, Universal Pictures, Universal Pictures Chris Meledandri
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EXCLUSIVE: Three years ago, Universal Pictures brass wooed Chris Meledandri away from his president post at Fox Animation to start its first family film unit. Over the weekend, Illumination’s first effort, Despicable Me, nearly doubled Universal’s gross predictions for a $56.4 million opening. Suddenly, the Meledandri decision looks like one of the better ones made by NBC Universal in a good long time. The studio has reinforced that by making a full commitment to the venture. Illumination’s original co-financing game plan made by former chairmen David Linde and Marc Shmuger called for Universal to fund only half the operation and film budgets, and Illumination's founder and CEO Meledandri raising the rest. But that plan was delayed by the credit crunch. Then Universal chiefs Ron Meyer, Rick Finkelstein and Adam Fogelson and Donna Langley told Meledandri, in a decision that went all the way up to NBC Universal’s Jeff Zucker, that they didn’t want to share and would fully fund him. Meledandri, who has autonomy but won’t make pictures that don’t excite the studio’s toppers, sparked to Uni’s financing plan because it incentivizes hustle to release and market the films. Despicable Me, for instance, was heavily cross-promoted in NBC-Universal platforms that included network, cable and theme parks.

The result is now a momentum changer for Universal on several fronts. Despicable Me ended a prolonged hit pic slump. It plugged the studio into a hot family film marketplace after a series of adult dramas failed to earn back their oversized budgets. Most importantly, Despicable Me is the first Universal film in a while where the studio doesn't have to defend the costs and first dollar gross outlays. The film was made for $69 million with little or no gross out the door. It is a fresh IP with a sequel already in the works: Despicable Me 2 talks are already underway among the studio, Meledandri, and writers Cinco Paul and Ken Daurio.

Illumination is also making two short films featuring The Minions, the adorable yellow thumb-shaped henchmen of larcenous Gru (Steve Carell). Whether the shorts precede the next Illumination film — which would be very Pixar-ish — or find some other way to reach the audience, Universal and Illumination have begun brand building in a remarkably short time.

“What’s particularly nice is that the making of Despicable Me was probably more fluid than any film I’ve ever worked on,” Meledandri told me. “There was a clarity and a unified vision behind this film. I started the company three years ago this spring, and I am confident that this was the fastest transition of any major studio CG movie from idea to release that has ever been done.”

Right behind Despicable Me is Hop--a live-action CG film with Russell Brand voicing the Easter Bunny—which Universal releases April 1, 2011. After that is Dr. Seuss’ The Lorax, most likely followed by the Ricky Gervais-created Flanimals. There is a Where’s Waldo film and Tim Burton is involved in a new version of The Addams Family, based on Charles Addams’ original drawings from The New Yorker. A bunch of original ideas are on the drawing board as well. Illumination will grow from one picture per year to two or three within the next several years.

How was Meledandri — a soft-spoken guy who can’t draw a lick but knows a good drawing when he sees one — able to mobilize so quickly? In a move Gru might admire, Meledandri appropriated the available top talent he worked with during his eight years at Fox Animation (a division involved in generating hits like Ice Age, Alvin and the Chipmunks, The Simpsons Movie, Robots and Horton Hears A Who!), put them under exclusive contract and turned them into a repertory company of artists, writers and directors who move from one family-friendly project to the next. The work is done in Illumination’s Santa Monica headquarters and a 35,000 square foot animation facility in Paris that is steps away from the Eiffel Tower, housed above an Aston Martin dealership.

Paul and Daurio, who wrote the Fox Animation hit Horton Hears A Who! before they scripted Despicable Me, wrote the script for The Lorax and will make their debuts as co-directors; Despicable Me co-director Chris Renaud, who began working with Meledandri as a storyboard artist at Ice Age producer Blue Sky, is directing The Lorax (animated films have multiple directors) and has committed to another Illumination film after that; Pierre Coffin, another Despicable Me director, is working on two Illumination projects, one of which will be Illumination’s next release after The Lorax. That'll either be Flanimals (scripted by Matt Selman, with whom Meledandri worked on The Simpsons Movie) or an original idea by Coffin; Hop writer Brian Lynch is under an exclusive writing deal; Hop director Tim Hill came from Alvin and the Chipmunks, as did that film’s exec producer Missy Imperato; Janet Healy, who produced Despicable Me with Meledandri, is producing The Lorax and another Despicable Me producer, John Cohen, is a producer on Hop; John Powell, who composed the scores for Meledandri on Robots and Ice Age 2, is composing the score for The Lorax. As for voice talent, Carell came from Horton Hears A Who!, and Brand took on Hop after providing a Despicable Me voice.

Meledandri found his way into family film by accident while a creative exec at Fox, where he spent 13 years. Working with Dawn Steel as exec producer of Cool Runnings made Meledandri the de facto family guy in the eyes of ex-Fox chief Bill Mechanic. He assigned Meledandri to spearhead the studio's Phoenix-based animation studio venture with Don Bluth, which led to the films Anastasia and Titan A.E. Meledandri had begun developing the Ice Age script by then, and when he met Chris Wedge and his team while they were generating animation for commercials, he married them to the project. Even as Titan A.E. bombed and the Bluth venture cratered, incoming studio chiefs Tom Rothman and Jim Gianopulos told Meledandri to keep going. They acquired Blue Sky Studios and Meledandri oversaw its transition from a visual effects to a CG animation studio that continues to be a catalyst for Fox’s animation success and underscores the importance of a family film unit to a major studio. The last film, Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs, grossed a staggering $886 million.

Inviato da: Scissorhands il 9/8/2010, 17:50

Tarzan CGI 3D (Constantin Films)
http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=68639

Animated Tarzan Planned for 3D
Source: Variety
August 9, 2010


Tarzan will be making a return to the world of animation thanks to Constantin Films, reports Variety. Robert Kulzer and Reinhard Klooss will produce the CGI film for release in 3D.

Constantin, best known for films in the Resident Evil and Fantastic Four franchises, is also developing a live-action 3D adaptation of a classic literature in the form of The Three Musketeers, to be directed by Paul W.S. Anderson.

Tarzan himself has been the focus of dozens of adaptations in both film and television since his first appearance in Edgar Rice Burrough's Tarzan of the Apes in 1912. In 1999, Disney released a theatrical animated version (later spawning a cartoon series) as is currently at work adapting another Burroughs property for live action, John Carter of Mars, set for release in 2012.

Inviato da: Scissorhands il 23/8/2010, 19:01

Imaginary Enemies (Dreamworks Animation)

http://riskybusiness.hollywoodreporter.com/2010/08/19/syracuse-addario-making-imaginary-enemies-at-dreamworks-animation-exclusive/

Syracuse & Addario making ‘Imaginary Enemies’ at DreamWorks Animation (exclusive)
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Screenwriters Joe Syracuse and Lisa Addario are busy making “Enemies.”

The married scribes are writing a new film for DreamWorks Animation with the working title “Imaginary Enemies” from an idea that originated at an internal DWA retreat a few years ago. “Shrek Forever After” director Mike Mitchell is developing the project with the writers, but he is not on board to direct at the moment.
syracuse addario 341 Syracuse & Addario making Imaginary Enemies at DreamWorks Animation (exclusive)

The germ of the concept was that the imaginary friend trope had been played out in so many ways already that the truly original approach would be the concept of the imaginary enemy. So the new project will be told from the point of view of the imaginary friends who had long been used as scapegoats by unscrupulous children looking for someone else to blame for their misdeeds. Eventually fed up, those imaginary people come looking for some payback when the kids are grown up.

In a coincidental parallel to this, DreamWorks co-founder Steven Spielberg had at one point been developing a more earnest take on this same subject, and then he was set earlier this year to direct a remake of the 1950 Jimmy Stewart imaginary-rabbit film “Harvey” for Fox with Tom Hanks a potential star. (He eventually moved on to helming an adaptation of “War Horse” for DreamWorks.)

Enthusiasm for the creative possibilities in the split worlds of the imaginary and the real has led to discussions about a possible live-action/animation hybrid, a format DWA topper Jeffrey Katzenberg has yet to try.

The UTA-repped Syracuse and Addario had been working for DWA on a ghost-related animated project called “Freakers,” and they developed the script for “Surf’s Up” at Sony Pictures Animation. The scribes additionally have the live-action comedies “Us & Them” set up at Fox with Andy Fickman (“The Game Plan”) directing and Billy Crystal starring, and “Coup d’Etat” with producer Anthony Bregman (“Please Give”).

Mitchell worked on several other DWA releases, including “Kung Fu Panda,” “Monster vs. Aliens” and “Shrek the Third.”

Inviato da: Scissorhands il 23/8/2010, 19:03

Porco Rosso: The Last Sortie (Studio Ghibli)

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=68973

Acclaimed animation director Hayao Miyazaki is developing a sequel to his 1992 film Porco Rosso entitled Porco Rosso: The Last Sortie, says a report from Cut Magazine (via Nausicaa.net and AICN).

The original film told the story of an Italian World War I fighter pilot who was transformed into a pig by a magical curse. The English language release featured Michael Keaton in the titular role.

Miyazaki is quoted as saying that The Last Sortie will be set during the Spanish Civil War and that it will represent a sort of artistic escape for him at the moment, focusing on a male character after so many films with female protagonists.

A sequel to Porco Rosso would represent the first direct sequel on the part of Miyazaki's Studio Ghibli. Previously, characters have crossed over between films (as was the case with Whisper of the Heart and The Cat Returns as well as the Susuwatari creatures in both My Neighbor Totoro and Spirited Away.

Inviato da: Scissorhands il 27/9/2010, 23:00

Trollhunters (Dreamworks Animation)

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/film/news/e3id8b4313a40c3bc112259652937b378e1

Guillermo del Toro, DreamWorks Ani strike deal
EXCLUSIVE: Director to consult on films; 'Trollhunters' set up

By Borys Kit
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Guillermo del Toro has fallen under the spell of animation and is setting up "Trollhunters," a feature project he will write and direct at DreamWorks Animation.

After visiting DWA's campus in Glendale, Calif., on a weekly basis for most of the summer, del Toro also has decided to make DWA his animation home: He will serve as a consultant and exec producer on several projects already in development, including "Kung Fu Panda 2," "Puss in Boots" and one yet-to-be-revealed project. His fingerprints will even be on DWA's next feature, "Megamind," which hits theaters Nov. 5.

In an exclusive interview with The Hollywood Reporter, del Toro said animation has caught his eye because he believes that during the next 10 years, the entertainment landscape will shift into a transmedia world -- a confluence of movies, TV, books, video and online -- and artists will need to be educated in all aspects of media.

"Transmedia," he said, "will not just be a buzz word."

The filmmaker also is convinced that animation has evolved into a medium that can attract moviegoers of all ages, including older audiences. "And I want to know it from the inside," he said. He views his role as an adviser on animated features as part of his education.

"Trollhunters," a working title, is based on a young-adult book del Toro submitted to publisher Hyperion about two weeks ago. He originally came up with the idea around the time he sold "The Strain," the vampire book trilogy he is writing with Chuck Hogan, and he has been working on it since.

"I wanted very much to develop a story that could be written for kids but dealt with a genre that was scary," he said. "It essentially combines fairy tales with modern times and is about how difficult it is to be kid. Normally, kids are idealized in animated films. But the growing pains, married with the notion that there is a world right next to us that is completely plagued by creatures of ancient lore, it's thematically fitting with the rest of my stuff."

Due to the evolutionary process of animated filmmaking, the script will be written and rewritten over a period of time, including during production. Del Toro has already started writing "Trollhunters" and plans on finishing it before he shoots "At the Mountains of Madness."

In the meantime, though, del Toro will be busy at DWA.

Guillermo Navarro, del Toro's frequent director of photography, pushed the director toward the animation house, where Navarro served as a cinematography consultant on the "Madagascar" movies. (Del Toro and Navarro aren't the only live-action filmmakers spending time at DWA; the studio also enlisted Oscar-winning cinematographer Roger Deakins to advise on the lighting in "How to Train Your Dragon.")

Del Toro said he was especially struck by what the studio accomplished with "Dragon." "They took risks with that movie with pathos and imagination and structure. It made me pay attention," he said.

Del Toro said he met with DWA CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg six months ago and they immediately clicked, so much so that del Toro agreed to work on "Megamind" before any dealmaking began. He has been helping DWA with the editing and structure of the movie, hoping to give it a brisker rhythm.

"What is fun to see is that the editing process in live action is not useful in animation," he said, laughing.

This summer, he often brought along his 14-year-old daughter to DWA in order to get a sense of how the company works. He just secured his own office there.

Del Toro believes he is joining DWA just as the company's "cultural footprint is growing," especially with movies such as "Kung Fu Panda" and "Dragon."

"Those movies went in interesting directions, and I think we will try to steer the projects that I'm involved in into those kinds of directions without making the company lose its identity," he said.

Already, he's come to realize that aspects such as layout and staging are different in animation, and so is screenplay development. "Sometimes in the live-action world, it takes weeks to get a response," del Toro said. "With (DWA), it takes a maximum a day."

The biggest difference he's seen is that in animation, "each of the steps you refine and refine and refine until its final form. It's much more malleable than a live-action movie."

Del Toro isn't abandoning live action, of course. He is beginning his fourth week of design work with Lightstorm Entertainment on his directorial project "At the Mountains of Madness." He is having a summit with Universal in three weeks at which he and his team will present a budget, art and maquettes to the studio's execs, and "cross your fingers, we hope to get a greenlight."

Meanwhile, he is in development on the "Haunted Mansion" movie at Disney and plans to produce a Universal project titled "Midnight Delivery" (most of his slate is set up at Universal). Is he starting to spread himself too thin?

"People say, 'How does he do it?' Well, I don't work on them at the same time," del Toro said. " 'Midnight Delivery,' I wrote 11 years ago. The fact that they are happening now is flattering and great, but it doesn't mean I'm writing seven screenplays at one time."

Del Toro is repped by WME and Exile Entertainment.

Inviato da: Beast il 5/10/2010, 9:58

Doug Sweetland, da 16 anni alla Pixar e regista di 'Presto', si trasferisce alla Sony Animation per il suo primo film da regista, The Familiars.

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/doug-sweetland-joins-sony-pictures-animation-to-direct-the-familiars-104290038.html

Doug Sweetland, the Academy Award®-nominated director of the 2008 Pixar short "Presto," is set to direct THE FAMILIARS for Sony Pictures Animation. Sam Raimi & Josh Donen are executive producers. Adam J. Epstein and Andrew Jacobson are writing the screenplay for THE FAMILIARS, based on their just published novel.

Sweetland joins Sony Pictures Animation after sixteen years at Pixar Animation, a run that began right out of California Institute of the Arts as an animator on TOY STORY (1995) and continued with A BUGS LIFE, TOY STORY 2, MONSTERS, INC, and FINDING NEMO. Sweetland's trajectory at Pixar elevated him to animator and storyboard artist on the Academy Award-winning THE INCREDIBLES and supervising animator on John Lasseter's CARS. He is the winner of two Annie Awards for Individual Achievement in Character Animation for his work on MONSTERS, INC and FINDING NEMO. He was also nominated for an Annie Award for his character animation on TOY STORY 2.

After CARS, Sweetland pitched to Pixar the idea of a magician who forgets to feed his rabbit and suffers the consequences when his neglected co-star exacts some clever revenge. The idea evolved into Sweetland's directorial debut and the animated short, PRESTO, which was released theatrically with Pixar's 2008 hit, WALL-E. The short earned nominations for both an Academy Award and an Annie Award.

"It was clear from our first conversation with Doug that we'd found our director," said Hannah Minghella, president of production for Sony Pictures Animation. "Not only does he possess a keen story sense and a wonderful sense of humor but his passion for animation and for this project are unrivaled."

"We are very excited about THE FAMILIARS and the production team we've assembled," says Sony Pictures Digital Production President Bob Osher. "Doug Sweetland is an extraordinary animation talent who has developed his own style under the tutelage of remarkable mentors. We are delighted that our project affords him the opportunity to make his feature animation debut."

THE FAMILIARS, the first volume in the series published this month by HarperCollins, is a magical adventure and an unforgettable celebration of fantasy and friendship between wizards in training and their animal companions.

Publisher's Weekly wrote, "Screenwriters Epstein and Jacobson's children's book debut is a grand adventure with entertaining characters and magic-induced fun, written in an appropriately cinematic style." And School Library Journal said, "The consistently suspenseful narrative moves quickly and is full of twists and turns. This winning combination of action and humor will keep readers turning pages right up to the ending."

Sony Pictures Animation acquired THE FAMILIARS in June 2009. Alexa Amin, Sony Pictures Animation's vice president of development, brought the project into the studio after Russell Hollander, an executive at Raimi and Donen's production company introduced her to the property. Sweetland and author/screenwriters Epstein and Jacobson are all represented by UTA.

Inviato da: Claudio il 5/10/2010, 10:39

CITAZIONE (Beast @ 5/10/2010, 10:58) *
Doug Sweetland, da 16 anni alla Pixar e regista di 'Presto', si trasferisce alla Sony Animation per il suo primo film da regista, The Familiars.


speriamo che almeno questo passaggio porti alla direzione di un bel film... e non come i soliti , ma con una bella storia... rolleyes.gif

Inviato da: Claudio il 5/10/2010, 10:42

Sono curioso dei 2 film Aardmann citati in questo articolo: Arthur Christmas e Pirates... ne sapete qualcosa in più?

Inviato da: Scissorhands il 9/10/2010, 19:26

The Familiars (Sony Pictures Animation)
http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=70352

Doug Sweetland, the animation director best known for Pixar's 2008 animated short, "Presto," has signed on to direct The Familiars for Sony, says Heat Vision.

The animated film, to be based on the children's fantasy book series written by Adam Jay Epstein and Andrew Jacobson, follows three young wizard apprentices who, after being whisked away to an evil kingdom by a nefarious queen, must rely on their animal companions -- an alley cat, a blue jay and a tree frog -- to escape.




Inviato da: Beast il 12/10/2010, 10:38

How to Train Your Dragon 2 (Dreamworks Animation)
http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/dreamworks-animation-fires-up-the-big-screen-in-3d-with-sequel-to-critically-acclaimed-how-to-train-your-dragon-in-2013-104698499.html

DreamWorks Animation Fires Up the Big Screen in 3D With Sequel to Critically Acclaimed 'How to Train Your Dragon' in 2013

All-Star Cast & Original Filmmakers Return for Sequel
GLENDALE, Calif., Oct. 11 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- DreamWorks Animation SKG, Inc. (Nasdaq: DWA) today announced plans to bring the epic action-adventure of Hiccup and his courageous Viking tribe as well as Toothless and the other beloved dragon characters on the Island of Berk back to the big screen in 3D with the sequel to How to Train Your Dragon in 2013.

The second chapter to the critically acclaimed 2010 blockbuster, How to Train Your Dragon – which has grossed nearly $500 million at the worldwide box office – will again feature the all-star voice talents of Jay Baruchel, Craig Ferguson, America Ferrera, Jonah Hill, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, TJ Miller and Kristen Wiig.

The sequel is being made under the creative guidance of Dean DeBlois, Chris Sanders, and Bonnie Arnold. It is written and directed by DeBlois and produced by Arnold. Once again based on the book series by Cressida Cowell, the sequel is executive produced by Sanders and DeBlois.

"Nothing could be more exciting for me than being charged with carrying this story forward, into the unknown reaches of Hiccup and Toothless' ever-expanding world," commented DeBlois. "Ambitions are high with this epic next chapter, and together with an incredible team of filmmakers, we plan to build upon How to Train Your Dragon's originality, boldness and heart, in hopes of once again touching audiences around the world."

"Dean, Chris and Bonnie each has a fiery passion for How to Train Your Dragon that combined is serving as the driving force behind the very bright future of DreamWorks Animation's newest franchise," said Bill Damaschke, Co-President of Production for DreamWorks Animation. "Having them on-board to lead the creative team and having our cast return to tell the next exciting chapter is a dream come true for the studio... and the first big revelation of our feature film line-up for 2013."



Inviato da: Scissorhands il 16/10/2010, 14:22

The Little Prince (Gallic S3D)

http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118025690.html?categoryid=3599&cs=1

'Little Prince' toon gets a helmer
Osborne will lead $63 mil production
By ELSA KESLASSY

PARIS -- Top U.S. toon helmer Mark Osborne, who co-directed "Kung Fu Panda," has been tapped to direct Gallic S3D animated feature "The Little Prince."

One of the biggest movie projects to launch from Europe this year, with a budget of E45 million ($63.4 million), "Little Prince" is produced by Aton Soumache ("Renaissance") and Dimitri Rassam ("The Children of Timpelbach").

Pic is an adaptation of Antoine de Saint-Exupery's 1943 novella, which has been translated into more than 180 languages and sold more than 80 million copies.

Osborne's involvement underscores the producers' ambition to "make 'The Little Prince' for worldwide audiences on a similar scale as Miyazaki's and Hollywood studios' films," as they previously claimed.

"Having Mark Osborne on board gives the project an international label of quality: He brings in his storytelling talent and level of experience," Rassam said.

The producers are in the process of securing an international voice cast.

Production will start in 2012 for delivery in 2014.

Soumache also is producing a $25.3 million toon skein based on "The Little Prince" via his TV shingle Method Animation.

The Gallic producers have two high-bracket pics in post-production: "Upside Down" a $57 million sci-fi romance, starring Kirsten Dunst and Jim Sturgess; and "Prodigies" a $54 million S3D motion-capture thriller.


Inviato da: Scissorhands il 22/10/2010, 23:28

Alma (Dreamworks Animation)

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=70975

DreamWorks Animation to Adapt Short Alma
Source: Heat Vision
October 21, 2010


Rodrigo Blaas is in negotiations to adapt his award-winning short Alma into a full feature for DreamWorks Animation. The project, which will be executive produced by Guillermo del Toro, will mark his directorial debut.

Heat Vision says Blaas is also coming on board to co-direct DreamWorks Animation's Trollhunters with del Toro.

Blaas has worked on many Pixar movies like Finding Nemo and Up, as well as Fox's Ice Age.


Read more: DreamWorks Animation to Adapt Short Alma - ComingSoon.net http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=70975#ixzz13858U6Jf

Inviato da: GasGas il 23/10/2010, 12:41

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Tarzan CGI 3D (Constantin Films)
http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=68639

Animated Tarzan Planned for 3D
Source: Variety
August 9, 2010


Tarzan will be making a return to the world of animation thanks to Constantin Films, reports Variety. Robert Kulzer and Reinhard Klooss will produce the CGI film for release in 3D.

Constantin, best known for films in the Resident Evil and Fantastic Four franchises, is also developing a live-action 3D adaptation of a classic literature in the form of The Three Musketeers, to be directed by Paul W.S. Anderson.

Tarzan himself has been the focus of dozens of adaptations in both film and television since his first appearance in Edgar Rice Burrough's Tarzan of the Apes in 1912. In 1999, Disney released a theatrical animated version (later spawning a cartoon series) as is currently at work adapting another Burroughs property for live action, John Carter of Mars, set for release in 2012.

un altro film animato su tarzan smile.gif mi piace , ma credo che tarzan disney rimanga e rimarrà l'unico wink.gif

Inviato da: GasGas il 23/10/2010, 12:42

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Porco Rosso: The Last Sortie (Studio Ghibli)

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=68973

Acclaimed animation director Hayao Miyazaki is developing a sequel to his 1992 film Porco Rosso entitled Porco Rosso: The Last Sortie, says a report from Cut Magazine (via Nausicaa.net and AICN).

The original film told the story of an Italian World War I fighter pilot who was transformed into a pig by a magical curse. The English language release featured Michael Keaton in the titular role.

Miyazaki is quoted as saying that The Last Sortie will be set during the Spanish Civil War and that it will represent a sort of artistic escape for him at the moment, focusing on a male character after so many films with female protagonists.

A sequel to Porco Rosso would represent the first direct sequel on the part of Miyazaki's Studio Ghibli. Previously, characters have crossed over between films (as was the case with Whisper of the Heart and The Cat Returns as well as the Susuwatari creatures in both My Neighbor Totoro and Spirited Away.

mmmm....prima pixar, adesso anche studio ghibli si mette a fare sequel....speriamo bene

Inviato da: GasGas il 23/10/2010, 12:45

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How to Train Your Dragon 2 (Dreamworks Animation)
http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/dreamworks-animation-fires-up-the-big-screen-in-3d-with-sequel-to-critically-acclaimed-how-to-train-your-dragon-in-2013-104698499.html

DreamWorks Animation Fires Up the Big Screen in 3D With Sequel to Critically Acclaimed 'How to Train Your Dragon' in 2013

All-Star Cast & Original Filmmakers Return for Sequel
GLENDALE, Calif., Oct. 11 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- DreamWorks Animation SKG, Inc. (Nasdaq: DWA) today announced plans to bring the epic action-adventure of Hiccup and his courageous Viking tribe as well as Toothless and the other beloved dragon characters on the Island of Berk back to the big screen in 3D with the sequel to How to Train Your Dragon in 2013.

The second chapter to the critically acclaimed 2010 blockbuster, How to Train Your Dragon – which has grossed nearly $500 million at the worldwide box office – will again feature the all-star voice talents of Jay Baruchel, Craig Ferguson, America Ferrera, Jonah Hill, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, TJ Miller and Kristen Wiig.

The sequel is being made under the creative guidance of Dean DeBlois, Chris Sanders, and Bonnie Arnold. It is written and directed by DeBlois and produced by Arnold. Once again based on the book series by Cressida Cowell, the sequel is executive produced by Sanders and DeBlois.

"Nothing could be more exciting for me than being charged with carrying this story forward, into the unknown reaches of Hiccup and Toothless' ever-expanding world," commented DeBlois. "Ambitions are high with this epic next chapter, and together with an incredible team of filmmakers, we plan to build upon How to Train Your Dragon's originality, boldness and heart, in hopes of once again touching audiences around the world."

"Dean, Chris and Bonnie each has a fiery passion for How to Train Your Dragon that combined is serving as the driving force behind the very bright future of DreamWorks Animation's newest franchise," said Bill Damaschke, Co-President of Production for DreamWorks Animation. "Having them on-board to lead the creative team and having our cast return to tell the next exciting chapter is a dream come true for the studio... and the first big revelation of our feature film line-up for 2013."


ovvio.....proprio non ci riescono a capire che il fatto che un film sia un successo e che addirittura sia bello non vuol dire che debbeno per forza sequelizzarlo!!!! sad.gif che imbecilli, non ho più parole....

Inviato da: GasGas il 23/10/2010, 12:46

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The Little Prince (Gallic S3D)

http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118025690.html?categoryid=3599&cs=1

'Little Prince' toon gets a helmer
Osborne will lead $63 mil production
By ELSA KESLASSY

PARIS -- Top U.S. toon helmer Mark Osborne, who co-directed "Kung Fu Panda," has been tapped to direct Gallic S3D animated feature "The Little Prince."

One of the biggest movie projects to launch from Europe this year, with a budget of E45 million ($63.4 million), "Little Prince" is produced by Aton Soumache ("Renaissance") and Dimitri Rassam ("The Children of Timpelbach").

Pic is an adaptation of Antoine de Saint-Exupery's 1943 novella, which has been translated into more than 180 languages and sold more than 80 million copies.

Osborne's involvement underscores the producers' ambition to "make 'The Little Prince' for worldwide audiences on a similar scale as Miyazaki's and Hollywood studios' films," as they previously claimed.

"Having Mark Osborne on board gives the project an international label of quality: He brings in his storytelling talent and level of experience," Rassam said.

The producers are in the process of securing an international voice cast.

Production will start in 2012 for delivery in 2014.

Soumache also is producing a $25.3 million toon skein based on "The Little Prince" via his TV shingle Method Animation.

The Gallic producers have two high-bracket pics in post-production: "Upside Down" a $57 million sci-fi romance, starring Kirsten Dunst and Jim Sturgess; and "Prodigies" a $54 million S3D motion-capture thriller.


questa è una notizia meravigliosa!!!! smile.gif il piccolo principe è un libro bellissimo!!!! era ora che si decidessero a realizzarne una versione animata smile.gif non vedo l'ora smile.gif !!!!!

Inviato da: Hiroe il 23/10/2010, 19:09

anch'io sono felice per il Piccolo Principe... è semplicemente meraviglioso!

però io avevo sempre e da sempre sperato di vederne una versione Disney.... cry.gif cry.gif

Inviato da: Scissorhands il 7/11/2010, 17:31

John Stevenson dirigerà Alien Band: The Battle of the Bands Just Got Ugly (Vanguard Animation produced)
In più vengono annunciati i nuovi progetti Vanguard:

Buzby (Vanguard Animation produced)

City of Dragons (Vanguard Animation produced)
Atomic Circus (Vanguard Animation produced)


http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118027013

Vanguard inks deal with 'Panda' director
John Stevenson signs producing/directing pact with company
By Dave McNary


Vanguard Films has formed an overall producing/directing deal with "Kung Fu Panda" co-director John Stevenson.

Vanguard topper John Williams made the announcement Friday at the American Film Market.

The company also unveiled a strategic alliance with former Lakeshore International President Peter Rogers? new company, Moviemill, to arrange financing and distribution for Vanguard projects.

Stevenson's first directing project for Vanguard will be the live action/CGI hybrid "Alien Rock Band" with Dave Stewart of the Eurythmics attached as a producer. Story revolves around a garage band from Earth which journeys across the Universe to qualify for a shot at superstardom in an Intergalactic Battle of the Bands.

Stevenson worked with William on "Shrek" and his credits include "Madagascar" and "James and the Giant Peach." He will also direct Vanguard's CG-animated film "Rotten Island," based on the book by Shrek author William Steig about an island where monsters reign free until a beautiful flower changes everything.

Williams and Stevenson will produce several other Vanguard titles including "Buzby," described as the world's first high speed animated romantic comedy starring fruit flies, written by Jason Mayland with Phil Robinson ("Hubert's Brain") attached to direct; "City of Dragons," a live-action martial arts movie with supernatural elements set in modern day Shanghai, written by Rob Moreland ("Space Chimps"); and "Atomic Circus," a live-action fantasy adventure story featuring a fast-talking con-man in a post-apocalyptic world, written by Athena Gam.

Rogers worked at Lakeshore Intl. for seven years, during which the company produced, financed and distributed over 40 films including "Million Dollar Baby," "Runaway Bride" and "The Exorcism of Emily Rose." Before forming Moviemill, Rogers was most recently President of Omega Entertainment, which produced "Conviction."

"Vanguard is particularly adept at painting a bull's-eye on entertainment properties that resonate with global audiences," said Rogers.

Vanguard titles include "Space Chimps," "Happily N'ever After," "Seven Years in Tibet" and "The Tuxedo." Vanguard's "On the Road," a collaboration with American Zoetrope directed by Walter Salles, has just wrapped principal photography and its rock comedy "Vinyl," directed by Sara Sugarman, is in post-production.

The deal was repped by CA
A.

Inviato da: Claudio il 7/11/2010, 19:39

interessante shifty.gif

Inviato da: Beast il 4/12/2010, 23:39

Da Badtaste ed Empire:

Katzenberg si sbilancia non poco e annuncia Madagascar 4, Kung Fu Panda 3,4,5,6 e Dragon Trainer 2,3 e forse anche 4,5,6,7 & 8!
Guai se sento ancora qualcuno del forum lamentarsi che la Pixar fa troppi sequel! Roftl.gif

Una valanga di sequel per la DreamWorks Animation
Il produttore Jeffrey Katzenberg aggiorna sui futuri progetti della DreamWorks Animation: ci aspettano il quarto capitolo di Madagascar e ben cinque sequel di Kung Fu Panda…

In un’intervista rilasciata a Empire Jeffrey Katzenberg, co-fondatore e produttore della DreamWorks Animation, ha parlato del futuro della compagnia rilasciando alcune dichiarazioni sui futuri sequel di alcuni prodotti animati della sua casa di produzione.

La release in Home Video di Shrek Forever After, attesa per il 6 dicembre negli U.S.A., è l'occasione per chiedere a Katzenberg se sia definitivamente calato il sipario sulla saga dell’orco verde:

I nostri film e i nostri franchise hanno in comune con Shrek il fatto di avere un inizio, uno svolgimento e una fine; non hanno un finale aperto. Ognuno dei film è il capitolo di una storia e in ogni caso noi sapevamo cos’era o poteva essere quel viaggio ancora prima di partire. Quindi già oggi posso dirvi con precisione il percorso di Madagascar. Alla fine loro ritorneranno a New York, e dovranno confrontarsi con quello, ed è ciò che faranno nel prossimo capitolo. In ogni caso, per il modo in cui quel film si concluderà, ce ne sarà probabilmente un altro…

Dunque la serie di Madagascar arriverà almeno fino al quarto capitolo. Ma Katzenberg non si ferma e aggiorna su altri progetti:

Si probabilmente ci sarà un quarto film. Invece per Kung fu Panda sono previsti sei capitoli, come abbiamo programmato nel corso degli anni. Per Dragon Trainer sono almeno tre: forse di più, ma per adesso sappiamo che la storia avrà tre capitoli. I libri in tutto sono otto...

E quando gli si fa notare che i libri sono diversi dal film risponde:

Si, ma ci sono anche elementi comuni ad entrambi …come voi sapete, ci sono molte isole nel mondo di Berk, e molte cose diverse, quindi vedremo. Ma proprio ora, oggi, sappiamo di sicuro che vogliamo raccontare tre storie, e che potremmo volerne fare anche altri. Quello che non sappiamo è come continuare oltre a quello.




Katzenberg Talks DreamWorks Sequels
Two more Dragons, five Pandas...

We sat down with DreamWorks Animation chief Jeffrey Katzenberg this week in London, and asked him about the future of the company. You can read the full interview over here, but we thought we'd particularly draw your attention to what he had to say about planned animation sequels to Kung-Fu Panda and How To Train Your Dragon and more. Namely, that we're looking at a total of four Madagascar films, six Pandas (which was already rumoured) and at least three Dragons.

We asked Katzenberg about his comments that Shrek Forever After (out on DVD Monday, and the reason he was in town) would be the last in that franchise. He replied, "What our movies and our franchises also share in common with Shrek is that they have a beginning, a middle and an end; they’re not open-ended. Each of the films is a chapter of a story and in every instance we knew what that journey was or could be before we even started.

"So today I can tell you pretty succinctly where Madagascar goes. Ultimately they will come back to New York, and they will come to terms with that, which they will do in this next chapter. Because of the way that movie concludes there’s probably one more for them…"

So a fourth?

Katzenberg: "Yeah, there’s probably a fourth there. Kung Fu Panda actually has 6 chapters to it, and we’ve mapped that out over the years. How To Train Your Dragon is at least three: maybe more, but we know there are a least three chapters to that story. There are actually 8 books."

But they’re very different from the film.

Katzenberg: "Yes. But there are elements of them that actually… as you know, there are many islands in the world of Berk, and different things there, so we’ll see. But right now, today, we know that there are three for sure that we want to tell and there may be more. We haven’t thought, you know, how do we continue beyond that."

So, is this good news or bad? Those of you who have been combing Cressida Cowell's book series - can you guess what he's hinting at on those other islands in the Dragon world? And do you want to see six Kung-Fu Panda movies? The first was gorgeously animated and rather likeable, so it might about have the pudgy legs to sustain a few sequels - right?

Inviato da: Scissorhands il 5/12/2010, 2:02

CITAZIONE (Beast @ 4/12/2010, 23:39) *
Da Badtaste ed Empire:

Katzenberg si sbilancia non poco e annuncia Madagascar 4, Kung Fu Panda 3,4,5,6 e Dragon Trainer 2,3 e forse anche 4,5,6,7 & 8!
Guai se sento ancora qualcuno del forum lamentarsi che la Pixar fa troppi sequel! Roftl.gif

Senza parole... ci starebbe una denuncia per prostituzione...

Inviato da: Scissorhands il 10/12/2010, 20:42

Me and My Shadow (Dreamworks Animation)

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=72292

DreamWorks Animation Announces Me and My Shadow
Source: DreamWorks Animation
December 10, 2010


DreamWorks Animation SKG, Inc. today announced that it will bring Me and My Shadow, an original project, to the big screen in March of 2013. The studio will pioneer a groundbreaking combination of both CG and traditional animation techniques, which will be used seamlessly together throughout this 3D feature film.

Mark Dindal (Chicken Little, The Emperor's New Groove) is the film's director and Melissa Cobb (Kung Fu Panda, Kung Fu Panda 2) and Teresa Cheng (Shrek Forever After, Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron) are serving as producers. Shane Prigmore (Coraline, "The Lord of the Rings") is head of story and Scott Wills (Monsters vs. Aliens, "Ren & Stimpy") and Raymond Zibach (Kung Fu Panda, The Road to El Dorado) are production designers. Nick Fletcher (Shrek Forever After, The Prince of Egypt) is serving as editor. The screenplay for Me and My Shadow, which was originally penned by both Steve Bencich and Ron Friedman (Chicken Little, Open Season), is currently being revised by writing team Tom Astle and Matt Ember (Get Smart).

"We are proud to have assembled a world-class creative team of filmmakers and artists – all of whom have vast experience on both computer generated and traditionally animated films – who is already well along in the production of 'Me and My Shadow,'" said Bill Damaschke, co-president of production for DreamWorks Animation. "Together, we are embarking on an exciting goal to break new creative ground at DreamWorks Animation by combining the time-honored tradition of hand drawn animation with the magical sophistication of CG characters and worlds in ways that have never been experienced by audiences before."

Me and My Shadow tells the story of Shadow Stan, an extremely frustrated shadow who yearns for a dynamic life but happens to be stuck with Stanley Grubb, the world's most boring human. Finally pushed to the brink, Shadow Stan breaks the singular rule of the Shadow World ("They lead, we follow"), and takes control of Stanley!


Read more: DreamWorks Animation Announces Me and My Shadow - ComingSoon.net http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=72292#ixzz17jrZekGk

[/quote]

http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118028802

DreamWorks Animation enters 'Shadow' world
Feature to combine CG, hand-drawn animation
By PAMELA MCCLINTOCK, PETER DEBRUGE

DreamWorks Animation has set a March 2013 release date for "Me and My Shadow." The original 3D toon will seamlessly combine CG and traditional animation, marking a first for the company.
"The way 'Who Framed Roger Rabbit' combined hand-drawn and live-action, this does the same, but with CG and hand-drawn," said Bill Damaschke, DWA co-prexy of production.

"Shadow" tells the story of Shadow Stan, an incredibly frustrated shadow that yearns for a more dynamic life but happens to be stuck with Stanley Grubb, the world's most boring human.Eventually pushed to the brink, Shadow Stan breaks the singular rule of the Shadow World -- "they lead, we follow" -- and takes control of Stanley.

Steve Bencich and Ron Friedman's original screenplay is being revised by the writing team of Tom Astle and Matt Ember ("Get Smart").

According to Damaschke, the creative team behind the film "are all ambidextrous, in a way. Everybody has a significant 2D movie and a significant 3D movie under their belt."

Helmer Mark Dindal previously co-directed CG feature "Chicken Little" and hand-drawn pic "The Emperor's New Groove."

Producers are Teresa Cheng ("Shrek Forever After," "Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron") and Melissa Cobb, who hails from Fox Animation and produced the "Kung Fu Panda" franchise for DWA.

Other members of the team include head of story Shane Prigmore.

It's an ambitious effort for the studio, which also blended traditional toon elements with CG for one sequence in "Kung Fu Panda."

Although DreamWorks Animation's previous hand-drawn toon was "Spirit" in 2002, Damaschke estimated that half the studio's animators have 2D experience.

"Shadow" will combine "the time-honored tradition of hand-drawn animation with the magical sophistication of CG characters and worlds in ways that have never been experienced by audiences before," Damaschke said.

He said the team is already well along in production.

In the toon, the Shadow and everything in the Shadow World will be hand-drawn, while the human character and human world will be CG. The movie will alternate between the two worlds.

"It will be super-challenging but very cool," Damaschke said.

Production designers are Scott Wills and Raymond Zibach. Nick Fletcher is editor.


Inviato da: kuzco il 10/12/2010, 21:21

QUOTE (Beast @ 4/12/2010, 23:39) *
Da Badtaste ed Empire:

Katzenberg si sbilancia non poco e annuncia Madagascar 4, Kung Fu Panda 3,4,5,6 e Dragon Trainer 2,3 e forse anche 4,5,6,7 & 8!
Guai se sento ancora qualcuno del forum lamentarsi che la Pixar fa troppi sequel! Roftl.gif

Una valanga di sequel per la DreamWorks Animation
Il produttore Jeffrey Katzenberg aggiorna sui futuri progetti della DreamWorks Animation: ci aspettano il quarto capitolo di Madagascar e ben cinque sequel di Kung Fu Panda…

In un’intervista rilasciata a Empire Jeffrey Katzenberg, co-fondatore e produttore della DreamWorks Animation, ha parlato del futuro della compagnia rilasciando alcune dichiarazioni sui futuri sequel di alcuni prodotti animati della sua casa di produzione.

La release in Home Video di Shrek Forever After, attesa per il 6 dicembre negli U.S.A., è l'occasione per chiedere a Katzenberg se sia definitivamente calato il sipario sulla saga dell’orco verde:

I nostri film e i nostri franchise hanno in comune con Shrek il fatto di avere un inizio, uno svolgimento e una fine; non hanno un finale aperto. Ognuno dei film è il capitolo di una storia e in ogni caso noi sapevamo cos’era o poteva essere quel viaggio ancora prima di partire. Quindi già oggi posso dirvi con precisione il percorso di Madagascar. Alla fine loro ritorneranno a New York, e dovranno confrontarsi con quello, ed è ciò che faranno nel prossimo capitolo. In ogni caso, per il modo in cui quel film si concluderà, ce ne sarà probabilmente un altro…

Dunque la serie di Madagascar arriverà almeno fino al quarto capitolo. Ma Katzenberg non si ferma e aggiorna su altri progetti:

Si probabilmente ci sarà un quarto film. Invece per Kung fu Panda sono previsti sei capitoli, come abbiamo programmato nel corso degli anni. Per Dragon Trainer sono almeno tre: forse di più, ma per adesso sappiamo che la storia avrà tre capitoli. I libri in tutto sono otto...

E quando gli si fa notare che i libri sono diversi dal film risponde:

Si, ma ci sono anche elementi comuni ad entrambi …come voi sapete, ci sono molte isole nel mondo di Berk, e molte cose diverse, quindi vedremo. Ma proprio ora, oggi, sappiamo di sicuro che vogliamo raccontare tre storie, e che potremmo volerne fare anche altri. Quello che non sappiamo è come continuare oltre a quello.




Katzenberg Talks DreamWorks Sequels
Two more Dragons, five Pandas...

We sat down with DreamWorks Animation chief Jeffrey Katzenberg this week in London, and asked him about the future of the company. You can read the full interview over here, but we thought we'd particularly draw your attention to what he had to say about planned animation sequels to Kung-Fu Panda and How To Train Your Dragon and more. Namely, that we're looking at a total of four Madagascar films, six Pandas (which was already rumoured) and at least three Dragons.

We asked Katzenberg about his comments that Shrek Forever After (out on DVD Monday, and the reason he was in town) would be the last in that franchise. He replied, "What our movies and our franchises also share in common with Shrek is that they have a beginning, a middle and an end; they’re not open-ended. Each of the films is a chapter of a story and in every instance we knew what that journey was or could be before we even started.

"So today I can tell you pretty succinctly where Madagascar goes. Ultimately they will come back to New York, and they will come to terms with that, which they will do in this next chapter. Because of the way that movie concludes there’s probably one more for them…"

So a fourth?

Katzenberg: "Yeah, there’s probably a fourth there. Kung Fu Panda actually has 6 chapters to it, and we’ve mapped that out over the years. How To Train Your Dragon is at least three: maybe more, but we know there are a least three chapters to that story. There are actually 8 books."

But they’re very different from the film.

Katzenberg: "Yes. But there are elements of them that actually… as you know, there are many islands in the world of Berk, and different things there, so we’ll see. But right now, today, we know that there are three for sure that we want to tell and there may be more. We haven’t thought, you know, how do we continue beyond that."

So, is this good news or bad? Those of you who have been combing Cressida Cowell's book series - can you guess what he's hinting at on those other islands in the Dragon world? And do you want to see six Kung-Fu Panda movies? The first was gorgeously animated and rather likeable, so it might about have the pudgy legs to sustain a few sequels - right?



Per me ne possono fare pure 100 di quei film....basta che non rompono e non FREGANO progetti altrui....se si fossilizzano sui sequel a me va bene......

Inviato da: Claudio il 12/12/2010, 17:07

CITAZIONE (Scissorhands @ 5/12/2010, 2:02) *
Senza parole... ci starebbe una denuncia per prostituzione...


... eheheh.gif eheheh.gif vero, anche per abuso... sono ridicoli!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! post-6-1111346575.gif post-6-1111346575.gif
ma come si fa a pensare di potere fare kung fu panda 3,4,5,6? o dragon trainer 2,3,4,5,6,7, e 8 ????? ma sono fuori di senno????

Inviato da: WALY DISNEY il 12/12/2010, 17:08

A dir poco sconcertato post-6-1111346575.gif post-6-1111346575.gif post-6-1111346575.gif ma pensano di andare avanti così?? Ma a questo punto preferivo altri 10 Shrek piuttosto che 6 Kung Fu Panda mellow.gif (rido da solo x questa battuta ahahahaha sto morendo!)

Inviato da: Arancina22 il 12/12/2010, 17:10

Oddio, non so se ridere o piangere, o tutti e due Roftl.gif

Inviato da: WALY DISNEY il 12/12/2010, 17:12

Ci aspetta un decennio di soli sequels.... Saluto.gif ciao Dreamworks

Inviato da: Arancina22 il 12/12/2010, 17:16

CITAZIONE
ciao Dreamworks


LOL Roftl.gif

Mi sembra proprio che siano a corto di idee (o forse lo sono sempre stati). Rubano le idee altrui e floppano, e poi quando vedono che qualcosa incassa lo ripropongono fino all'infinito e oltre eheheh.gif

Inviato da: Claudio il 12/12/2010, 17:17

CITAZIONE (WALY DISNEY @ 12/12/2010, 17:12) *
Ci aspetta un decennio di soli sequels.... Saluto.gif ciao Dreamworks



CITAZIONE (Arancina22 @ 12/12/2010, 17:16) *
LOL Roftl.gif

Mi sembra proprio che siano a corto di idee (o forse lo sono sempre stati). Rubano le idee altrui e floppano, e poi quando vedono che qualcosa incassa lo ripropongono fino all'infinito e oltre eheheh.gif


eheheh.gif eheheh.gif quoto!

Inviato da: Scissorhands il 30/12/2010, 17:52

Untitled David Reynolds project (Sony Picture Animation produced)

'Finding Nemo' Scribe Writes Sony Pictures Animation Pic
By MIKE FLEMING | Wednesday December 15, 2010 @ 4:51pm ESTTags: David Reynolds, David Reynolds Sony Animation Project, Gotham Group, Movie Deals, Movies, Sony Pictures Animation, Stephan Franck
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Mike Fleming

Sony Pictures Animation, which made a four-picture first look deal with the Gotham Group last year, has gotten the first project up and running. It's untitled, and will be scripted by Finding Nemo scribe David Reynolds. The film's based on an original story by Stephan Franck, who is attached to direct. Franck's credits as an animator include Iron Giant, Space Jam and How to Train Your Dragon. Gotham Group's Ellen Goldsmith-Vein, Peter McHugh and Eric Robinson will produce. Karen Dufilho-Rosen will be exec producer. Reynolds got an Oscar nomination for Finding Nemo and his other credits include Chicken Little, A Bug's Life and Toy Story 3.


http://www.deadline.com/2010/12/finding-nemo-scribe-writes-sony-pictures-animation-pic/

Inviato da: Scissorhands il 30/12/2010, 17:55

Maintenance (Dreamworks Animation)
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/blogs/heat-vision/dreamworks-animation-nabs-movie-rights-61365

EXCLUSIVE: DreamWorks Animation Nabs Movie Rights to 'Maintenance' Comic
December
17


Sneaking in one last deal before Hollywood shuts down for the holidays, DreamWorks Animation has picked up the movie rights to Maintenance, an Oni Press comic book, nabbing it out of turnaround from Warner Bros.

The comic, published by Oni in December, 2006, followed the exploits of two janitors who work for TerroMax, Inc., the world's biggest and best evil science think tank. When they're not dealing with toxic spill monsters and menial time machine repairs, they have to contend with their boss, a multitude of mad scientists, jetpack-equipped cavemen, alien repomen, and the cute girl who works at reception

The comic was written by Jim Massey and illustrated by Robbi Rodriguez.

Whilst at Warners, Maintenance was being developed as a directing vehicle for McG, who was also producing via his Wonderland Sound and Vision banner. Joe Ballarini worked on the script.

While it’s unclear why exactly Warners let it go, the humorous and pop cultural-referencing tone combined with a large scope described in Maintenance may be best suited for the animated world. And it seems like a project perfectly matched for DWA, which has had great success with similarly themed movies such as 2009’s Monsters vs. Aliens and the recent Superman-infused Megamind.

Maintenance is coming into DWA free and clear, with no writer, director or producers attached.


Inviato da: Scissorhands il 30/12/2010, 17:56

Kokuriko-Zaka Kara (Studio Ghibli)

http://www.badtaste.it/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=17201&Itemid=37

E' stato annunciato ufficialmente il prossimo film dello Studio Ghibli: si tratta dell'adattamento cinematografico del manga degli anni ottanta Kokuriko-Zaka Kara, diretto da Goro Moyazaki!



Fonte: Anime News Network via Animeita

Sarà Goro Miyazaki, figlio del leggendario regista Hayao Miyazaki, ad adattare e dirigere il manga degli anni ottanta Kokuriko-Zaka Kara: si tratta del nuovo, atteso progetto dello Studio Ghibli, annunciato proprio oggi e in arrivo in Giappone nell'estate 2011. Il film precedente di Goro, I Racconti di Terramare (2006), è considerata una delle opere minori dello Studio, e non è stato accolto con il consueto entusiasmo dai fan.

Ecco la sinossi di Kokuriko-Zaka Kara:

La storia è ambientata nel 1963, un anno prima delle olimpiadi di Tokyo, e segue la vita di una ordinaria studentessa del liceo di nome Komatsuzaki a Yokohama, una città portuale nei pressi di Tokyo. Suo padre marinaio è scomparso dopo un incidente in mare, e sua madre - una fotografa - è spesso via per lavoro. Il manga racconta la vita di tutti i giorni di Komatsuzaki, giorate fatte di risa e lacrime condivisa con i suoi amici del giornalino della scuola.

Inviato da: Scissorhands il 30/12/2010, 18:01

Oz Wars (Vanguard Animation produced )

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=72433

Mike Johnson to Helm Animated Oz Wars
Source: Vanguard
December 15, 2010


John Williams, President and CEO of Vanguard Films, announced today the company has signed Oscar and Annie Award-nominee Mike Johnson, co-director of Corpse Bride, to direct its CG/stop-motion hybrid feature film, Oz Wars.

"Mike Johnson is a spectacular director and one of the masters of stop-motion," says Williams. "We all think 'Oz Wars' is a wildly original and commercial project that will thrill and astonish audiences. Additionally, due to revolutionary new stop-motion software, Mike will be making this world-class quality film at an unprecedentedly economical cost point."

Oz Wars, written by Rob Moreland (Space Chimps 1 & 2 and Vanguard's upcoming live action City of Dragons) and Athena Gam (Vanguard's recently announced Alien Rock Band), transforms the Oz narrative into a contemporary, freaky action-packed PG-13 audience pleaser, with Dorothy caught up in a whirlwind of warrior witches, black magic, martial arts and monsters.

"'Oz Wars' is an animated action-adventure story, but unlike most animated films, it's not just for kids," Johnson says. "The Land of Oz will be re-imagined using stop-motion to create a world that's dark, slick, sexy, and dangerous. It's long been a goal of mine to create a hard-hitting, grown-up action film using stop-motion animation. 'Oz Wars' is my opportunity to do that."

The announcement comes on the heels of an ambitious Vanguard production slate released at AFM which includes CG, live action and CG/live action hybrids. Vanguard recently announced an overall producing/directing deal with Kung Fu Panda co-director John Stevenson, whose first Vanguard directorial project will be Alien Rock Band, a live action/CGI hybrid, with musician Dave Stewart (Eurythmics) attached as a producer.

A veteran animator and director, Texas-native Mike Johnson won the British Animation Award and earned Oscar and Annie Award nominations (with co-director Tim Burton) for his feature film Corpse Bride. As an animator his credits include The Nightmare Before Christmas, James and the Giant Peach and the Emmy Award-wining children's series "Bump in the Night." Johnson's directing credits also include episodes of the Emmy Award-winning television series "The P.J.'s," and the award-winning short The Devil Went Down To Georgia, which he also produced.


Read more: Mike Johnson to Helm Animated Oz Wars - ComingSoon.net http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=72433#ixzz19cDAe78I

Inviato da: Scissorhands il 13/1/2011, 20:49

Monkeys of Bollywood (Dreamworks Animation produced)

DreamWorks swings with 'Monkeys of Bollywood'
Animation studio readies first feature musical
By Rachel Abrams

Paul Berges, left, Gurinder Chadha, Stephen Schwartz and A.R. Rahman will team on DWA’s 'Monkeys of Bollywood.'
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DreamWorks Animation has gone ape for "Monkeys of Bollywood," roping in composer A.R. Rahman, Broadway lyricist Stephen Schwartz and husband-and-wife producing team Gurinder Chadha and Paul Berges to fast-track the studio's first animated feature musical.
Hindu epic poem "The Ramayana" inspired the Bollywood-style animated musical. Mumbai-set project revolves around two monkeys who try to stop an ancient demon from conquering the world.

"As soon as I heard that DreamWorks Animation envisioned making an animated Bollywood movie, I knew I wanted to be a part of it," said Schwartz in a statement. "The fact that A.R. Rahman got involved made it an even more exciting project."

DreamWorks chief creative officer Bill Damaschke and development exec Chris Kuser will oversee "Monkeys of Bollywood."

Chadha and Berges have teamed for films including "Bend It Like Beckham" and "Bride and Prejudice." Rahman scored Danny Boyle's "127 Hours" and "Slumdog Millionaire." Broadway vet and "Wicked" lyricist Schwartz scored DreamWorks' "Prince of Egypt" in 1998 and has worked on TV series including "Glee" and "Army Wives."


http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118030099?categoryid=4076&cs=1&nid=2562&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+variety/headlines+%28Variety+-+Latest+News%29

Inviato da: Beast il 3/2/2011, 11:42

Lidsville (Dreamworks animation)

La DreamWorks Animation ha annunciato di voler portare sullo schermo i personaggi creati da Sid & Marty Krofft tratti dalla serie televisiva Lidsville in onda negli States negli anni '70.
Conrad Vernon (Mostri contro Alieni, Shrek 2), fan di lunga data dei lavori dei Krofft, ha presentato il progetto alla DreamWorks Animation. I fratelli Krofft saranno i produttori esecutivi mentre il capo dello sviluppo Alex Schwartz e dello sviluppo esecutivo Chris Kuser stanno supervisionando il progetto.

Lidsville si ispirerà alla serie televisiva originale, in cui un giovane ribelle si ritrova in una realtà alternativa abitata da cappelli parlanti.

Marty Krofft ha dichiarato:

Sid e io siamo in contatto da molto tempo con Jeffrey Katzenberg e siamo eccitati di portare Lidsville alla DreamWorks Animation. E' incredibile vedere un film animato in 3d di alta qualità che viene fuori da uno dei nostri show preferiti.


http://www.badtaste.it/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=18020&Itemid=37

Update by Scissorhands
http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=73694

DreamWorks Animation to Adapt Sid & Marty Krofft's Lidsville
Source: DreamWorks Animation
February 1, 2011


DreamWorks Animation SKG, Inc. today announced that it will bring the Sid & Marty Krofft characters from the 1970's television series "Lidsville" to the big screen in a feature film by the same name.

Conrad Vernon (Monsters vs. Aliens, Shrek 2)--animation veteran and lifelong fan of the Krofft's work--brought the project to DreamWorks Animation. Brothers Sid & Marty Krofft will serve as executive producers. Vernon, DreamWorks Animation's head of development Alex Schwartz and development executive Chris Kuser are overseeing the project at the studio.

"Sid and I have had a longstanding relationship with Jeffrey Katzenberg and we're excited to bring 'Lidsville' to DreamWorks Animation," said Marty Krofft. "It's incredible to envision a high-quality 3D animated movie being made out of one of our favorite shows."

"The Krofft brothers helped define a generation with the wildly imaginative characters and worlds they created," said Alex Schwartz, head of development for DreamWorks Animation. "I am thrilled that Conrad is joining forces with them on the first animated feature film adaptation of their work."

"Over the past year I've had the privilege of working with and getting to know Sid and Marty and I thought their brand of crazy kookiness would work well at DreamWorks Animation," added Vernon.

Lidsville will take inspiration from the premise of the original television series, in which a young rebellious kid falls into an alternate reality world of living hats and talking caps. The Los Angeles public TV station KCET Kids & Family Channel recently announced that it will feature the "Lidsville" television series in an all-new "The Sid & Marty Krofft Hour" together with H.R. Pufnstuf during its weekend programming block on Saturday and Sunday mornings from 9:30-10:30 a.m.

Read more: DreamWorks Animation to Adapt Sid & Marty Krofft's Lidsville - ComingSoon.net http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=73694#ixzz1DCah1pHG

Inviato da: Scissorhands il 14/2/2011, 1:36

Mr Men (Blue Sky)

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/fox-sets-mr-men-animated-97252

Fox Sets 'Mr. Men' Animated Feature With Producer Shawn Levy (EXCLUSIVE)
8:56 PM 2/7/2011 by Pamela McClintock
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UPDATED: Roger Hargreaves' children's books will receive big-screen treatment.

Twentieth Century Fox Animation is teaming with producer Shawn Levy on a big-screen adaptation of British author Roger Hargreaves’ beloved Mr. Men illustrated children's books.

Levy produces through his Fox-based 21 Laps Entertainment. There’s no writer or director yet attached to the project.

Hargreaves wrote 48 Mr. Men books, each of which featured a new character with a dominant trait -- such as Mr. Tickle, Mr. Happy, Mr. Greedy and Mr. Nosey.

The first six titles were published in 1971. Hargreaves’ colorfully drawn characters made the stories famous, with more than 100 million copies sold worldwide in 28 countries.

Hargreaves’ Mr. Men books have been adapted into four animated television series, including Renegade Animation’s The Mr. Men Show, which aired in the U.S. on the Cartoon Network and in the U.K. on Channel Five in 2008 and 2009.

Fox Animation, headed by Vanessa Morrison, is next in theaters with the Jesse Eisenberg-Anne Hathaway voiced Rio, which bows April 15.

Levy is repped by WME.

Correction: An early version of this story said that David Heyman will also produce Mr. Men, but Heyman will not produce.

Inviato da: kekkomon il 9/3/2011, 21:45

Ecco i prossimi film DreamWorks:
Kung Fu Panda 2 - 26 maggio 2011
Diretto da Jennifer Yuh, questo sequel sarà doppiato da Jack Black, Angelina Jolie, Seth Rogen, Lucy Liu, David Cross e Dustin Hoffman, assieme a Gary Oldman, Jean Claude Van Damme, Michelle Yeoh e Victor Garber.
Po sta vivendo il suo sogno come Guerriero Dragone, proteggendo la Valle della Pace assieme ai suoi amici e maestri di kung fu, i Cinque Cicloni - Tigre, Gru, Mantide, Vipera e Scimmia. Ma la nuova vita di Po viene minacciata dall'emergenza di un formidabile villain, che progetta di utilizzare un'arma segreta e inarrestabile per conquistare la Cina e distruggere il Kung Fu.

Il Gatto con gli Stivali - 4 novembre 2011
Il film di Chris Miller, "spinoff" della saga di Shrek, sarà doppiato da Antonio Banderas, Salma Hayek, Zach Galifianakis, Billy Bob Thornton e Amy Sedaris.
Le spade si incroceranno e i cuori si spezzeranno in questa avventura con protagonista uno dei personaggi più amati dell'universo di Shrek: il gatto con gli stivali. Si tratta di una corsa spericolata attraverso le origini del personaggio, quando si allea con Humpty Dumpty e con Kitty (Salma Hayek) per rubare la famosa Oca dalle Uova d'Oro.

Madagascar 3 - 8 giugno 2012
Diretto da Eric Darnell (Madagascar, Madagascar 2) e scritto da Noah Baumbach (Fantastic Mr. Fox), questo sequel vede il ritorno di Ben Stiller (Alex), Chris Rock (Marty), David Schwimmer (Gloria), Jada Pinkett Smith (Melman), Sacha Baron Cohen, Cedric The Entertainer e Andy Richter, ancora in lotta per riuscire a tornare nel loro amato zoo della Grande Mela. Ma il loro viaggio li porterà attraverso l'Europa dove troveranno una copertura ideale: un circo ambluante, che loro reinventeranno in stile Madagacar.

Rise of the Guardians - 21 novembre 2012

Basata sul libro di prossima uscita scritto da William Joyce, questa avventura intrigante sarà diretta da Peter Ramsey (Monsters vs. Aliens: Mutant Pumpkins from Outer Space) e da Joyce stesso. Chris Pine, Alec Baldwin, Hugh Jackman, Isla Fisher e Jude Law saranno le voci di una collezione di noti personaggi leggendari per ragazzi, riunite in un avventura epica che racconta la storia di un gruppo di eroi - ognuno con delle capacità straordinarie. Quando uno spirito malvagio, conosciuto come Pitch, tenta di conquistare il mondo, gli immortali Guardiani devono unire le forze per la prima volta, per difendere le speranze, le credenze e l'immaginazione dei bambini di tutto il mondo.

The Croods - 1 marzo 2013
Scritta e diretta dal due volte nominato agli Oscar Chris Sanders (Dragon Trainer, Lilo & Stitch) e Kirk DeMicco (Space Chimps), questa commedia ci riporta indietro in un'era mai esplorata nella storia del nostro pianeta, il "Croodaceous", quando la natura si stava ancora formando ed era piena di creature e paesaggi mai visti prima. The Croods, una famiglia introversa, si ritrova guidata, fuori dalla propria caverna nel mondo dinamico, da un nuovo arrivato pieno di risorse, che potrebbe portare più stress che sollievo al patriarca della famiglia. Nicolas Cage, Ryan Reynolds, Emma Stone, Catherine Keener, Clark Duke e Cloris Leachman saranno i doppiatori.

Turbo - 7 giugno 2013
Diretto da David Soren (Merry Madagascar), Turbo racconta la storia di una lumaca da giardino con un sogno impossibile: diventare la lumaca più veloce al mondo. Quando uno strano incidente gli da la straordinaria velocità, Turbo ha intenzione di realizzare il suo sogno. Non sono stati ancora annunciati doppiatori.

Me and My Shadow - 8 novembre 2013
Mescolando CGi e animazione classica, Mark Dindal (Chicken Little, Le Follie dell'Imperatore) dirige un film che racconta la storia di Shadow Stan, un'ombra estremamente frustrata che desidera ardentemente una vita più dinamica, ma che è bloccata con Stanley Grubb, l'uomo più noioso del mondo. E finalmente Shadow Stan riuscirà a infrangere la singolare regola del mondo delle ombre – "loro conducono, noi seguiamo" – e prende il controllo di Stanley! Non sono stati ancora annunciati doppiatori.

Mr. Peabody & Sherman - 21 marzo 2014
Diretto da Rob Minkoff (Stuart Little, Il Re Leone) e basato sui corti animati della serie "The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show", il film segue le vicende di Mr. Peabody (doppiato da Robert Downey, Jr.), la persona più alla moda del mondo. Lui e il suo coccolatissimo figlio, Sherman, scoprono che qualcuno ha rubato la loro macchina del tempo WABAC, cambiando i momenti della storia con risultati comici e disastrosi. Spetterà a questa incredibile coppia tentare in qualche modo di fermare il cattivo, prima che le sue azioni distruggano il continuum spazio-temporale.

Dragon Trainer 2 - 20 giugno 2014
Diretto e scritto da Dean DeBlois (Dragon Trainer) il sequel vede il ritorno al doppiaggio di Jay Baruchel, Gerard Butler, Craig Ferguson, America Ferrera, Jonah Hill, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, TJ Miller e Kristen Wiig. La storia di questo attesissimo sequel non è stata ancora svelata.

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Inviato da: Beast il 10/3/2011, 10:57

2011 e 2012 da vomito con sequel a iosa sick.gif, mentre il 2013 sembra molto interessante (purtroppo diavoletto.gif) con il ritorno di Sanders e My and My Shadow. A proposito, non vi scende una lacrimuccia a leggere questo estratto della descrizione del film (lo metto in inglese perché mi sembra più d'effetto):

CITAZIONE
In Me and My Shadow, which will be released on November 8, 2013, the studio will pioneer a groundbreaking combination of both CG and traditional animation techniques seamlessly together throughout the film.


A me ricorda tanto quello che si diceva di Rapunzel, invece ora saranno loro a farlo. not.gif

Qualche altra considerazione:
- è impressionante vedere quanti nomi provienienti dalla Disney ci siano a capo di questi film;
- sembrano voler curare di più i sequel, visto che per lasceranno a DeBlois più 4 anni per lavorare a Dragon Trainer 2;
- sono molto curioso di sapere cosa presenterà la Pixar contro Sanders e Me and My Shadow nel 2013.

Inviato da: Claudio il 10/3/2011, 17:25

quanti film!!! a parte i sequel, sono curiosissimo di guardians ,the croods e me and my shadows

Inviato da: Beast il 30/3/2011, 14:23

Untitled Madagascar Penguins spinoff (Dreamworks Animation)

DreamWorks Developing 'Madagascar' Penguins Spinoff Movie (Exclusive)

DreamWorks Animation"Megamind" scribes Alan J. Schoolcraft and Brent Simons tapped to pen the project.
The penguins of DreamWorks Animation's Madagascar movie fame are graduating to their own feature film.

Alan J. Schoolcraft and Brent Simons, the writers behind DWA's Will Ferrell-voiced Megamind, have been tapped to tackle the project, which will feature the paramilitary parables of plucky penguins Skipper, Kowalski, Private and Rico.

The four paramilitary avians from Antarctica are secondary but scene-stealing characters in the Madagascar movies, the third of which is scheduled to hit theaters in 2012. In a sign of the foursome's fanning fashionability, when the first movie hit Blu-ray, "The Madagascar Penguins in a Christmas Caper," an animated short featuring the penguins,was one of the extras.

The characters were also spun off in a CGI-animated TV show titled The Penguins of Madagascar that aired on Nickelodeon; it finished 2010 as the second most-watched animated show behind SpongeBob SquarePants amongst ages 2-11. The show is now in its second season.

No release date has been set for the feature, which at this stage has no director (or, in the case of many animated films, co-directors). Schoolcraft and Simons will develop the story and write the script.

Megamind, which was Schoolcraft and Simon's first produced script, grossed over $319 million worldwide. It began life as a spec titled Mastermind intended to be a live-action film but was later reconfigured when DWA bought it as the company's first spec script.


http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/dreamworks-developing-madagascar-penguins-spinoff-172353

Uno spin-off per i Pinguini di Madagascar
Gli sceneggiatori di Megamind, Alan J. Schoolcraft e Brent Simons, scriveranno per la Dreamworks Animation la sceneggiatura dello spin-off dedicato ai Pinguini di Madagascar...

I celebri pinguini della fortunata serie Madagascar torneranno in un film tutto loro: la Dreamworks Animation ha affidato ad Alan J. Schoolcraft e Brent Simons, sceneggiatori di Megamind, il compito di sviluppare e scrivere la sceneggiatura dello spin-off, in cui i paramilitari e impavidi pinguini Skipper, Kowalski, Soldato e Rico saranno protagonisti assoluti.

I quattro pinguini sono già apparsi nei primi due film di Madagascar, torneranno anche nel terzo capitolo in arrivo nel 2012 e sono stati protagonisti di un corto animato "Pinguini di Madagascar in Missione Natale" e della serie animata in CGI trasmessa su Nickelodeon, rivelatasi la serie più vista, dopo Spongebob, dai bambini tra i 2 e gli 11 anni.

Al momento non è stata fissata una data di uscita e non ci sono registi legati al progetto.


http://www.badtaste.it/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=19028&Itemid=37

Inviato da: Claudio il 30/3/2011, 14:32

ma quanti titoli in lavorazione o in futuro hanno questi della Dreamworks??
come per il gatto con gli stivali anche il sequel dei pinguini ..speriamo sia bello...
gatto e pinguini sono personaggi ben riusciti, e loro li stanno sfruttando al massimo... speriamo vengano fuori bene ...

Inviato da: Mario il 30/3/2011, 14:38

Cioè, no, scusate... la Dreamworks sta facendo uscire quasi 3 film d'animazione all'anno e la Disney che fa???? Fa uscire il suasso nella manica... WINNIE THE POOH??!!? Lo sterminatore dei boxoffice!!??!! Qui c'è da mettersi le mani ai capelli!!! Ma a questo punto sapete che vi dico?? Spero che la Disney chiuda gli studios, visto che non hanno più voglia di fare le cose sul serio!!!!! ranting.gif CHE VERGOGNA!!!!!!

Inviato da: Teo il 30/3/2011, 14:38

Certo che quelli della Drimuorcs vogliono proprio raschiare il fondo del barile quando si tratta di un film di successo:
Shrek: 4 film più spin-off del Gatto più vari special
Madagascar: 3 film più serie tv più spin-off dei pinguini
...meno male che Bee Movie è stato un flop!

Inviato da: Beast il 30/3/2011, 14:51

CITAZIONE (Teo @ 30/3/2011, 15:38) *
...meno male che Bee Movie è stato un flop!

No, dai, uno spinoff su Sting versione animata ci stava! Roftl.gif

Inviato da: Scissorhands il 4/4/2011, 11:27

The Story of Ferdinand (Blue Sky)

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=74367

Fox Animation to Tell The Story of Ferdinand
Source: Vulture
February 18, 2011


The classic children's book, The Story of Ferdinand has been slated for development at 20th Century Fox Animation, Vulture is reporting.

The book, published in 1936 from author Munro Leaf and illustrator Robert Lawson, tells the story of a bull whose only desire in life is to smell flowers and refuses to fight when placed in a bullfighting arena.

The story (which was actually banned in several countries for its allegedly pacfifist undertones) was adapted by Walt Disney in 1938 as a short animation. In charge of developing the film for a full-length (presumably CGI) feature is said to be director Carlos Saldanha, the man behind all three of the studio's Ice Age films as well as the upcoming Rio.

Read more: Fox Animation to Tell The Story of Ferdinand - ComingSoon.net http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=74367#ixzz1IY5xBkrd


Inviato da: Scissorhands il 4/4/2011, 11:30

Pinocchio (stop motion) (Jim Henson Co.)

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=74326
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First Images From Pinocchio
Source: The Jim Henson Company
February 17, 2011


It's been some time since it was first announced that Guillermo del Doro would be developing a stop-motion version of Pinocchio alongside the Jim Henson company. Today, as the studio announced its partnership with the European company, Pathe, the first pre-production images have been released as well. Check them out, along with the official press release, below:

Guillermo Del Toro and The Jim Henson Company have joined forces with Pathe to develop and produce a 3D stop motion animated version of PINOCCHIO based on the edition of Carlo Collodi's classic tale illustrated by Gris Grimly. Grimly will co-direct with Mark Gustafson (Animation Director on THE FANTASTIC MR. FOX). The team plans to move forward with production of the film later in 2011.


In this new version of one of the world's best-loved tales, the puppet Pinocchio embarks on a series of extraordinary and thrilling adventures, proving himself to be as indestructible as his love for his father.

Del Toro and his frequent collaborator Matthew Robbins have been developing the screen story over the past year, and Robbins wrote the screenplay. Del Toro will produce with Lisa Henson and Jason Lust of The Jim Henson Company and Allison Abbate (THE FANTASTIC MR. FOX, TIM BURTON'S CORPSE BRIDE, FRANKENWEENIE). Gary Ungar will serve as executive producer, as will Francois Ivernel and Cameron McCracken for Pathe. Veteran rock musician and film composer Nick Cave will serve as music consultant for the production.

The team will develop the puppets and other 3D elements with UK-based MacKinnon and Saunders, which has performed the same duties on THE FANTASTIC MR. FOX and TIM BURTON'S CORPSE BRIDE and FRANKENWEENIE.


"I believe that our tale of PINOCCHIO recaptures the darker, more daunting aspects of the book that have been missing from previous film incarnations and takes advantage of all the allegorical aspects of the tale. Gris and Mark have a clear vision of this world. Matthew, the directors and I have constructed an adaptation that I feel enormously proud of," said Guillermo Del Toro.

"Stop motion animation will be a new style of telling this well-known tale, a hand-crafted style with which we were eager to work since it requires a high level of artistry and craftsmanship that is similar to the work of The Jim Henson Company," said Lisa Henson, CEO of The Jim Henson Company.

"There is a perfect match between the visionary world of Guillermo, the story of Pinocchio and Gris' wonderful illustrations. The talent and experience of the Henson team will ensure that Gris, Mark and Guillermo's vision comes to life in the most thrilling way," said Francois Ivernel, Executive Vice-President, Pathe.

Read more: First Images From Pinocchio - ComingSoon.net http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=74326#ixzz1IY6UKsDy


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Guillermo del Toro and Jim Henson Company Developing 3D Stop-Motion Animated PINOCCHIO
by Matt Goldberg Posted:February 17th, 2011 at 10:31 am

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Guillermo del Toro, The Jim Henson Company, and Pathe are set to produce a 3D stop-motion animated adaptation of Pinocchio. Deadline reports that Gris Grimly and Mark Gustafson (animation director for Fantastic Mr. Fox) will direct the new version which will be “edgier” than the 1940 Disney adaptation. Grimly illustrated a 2002 book based on the character that will serve as the basis for the project. Del Toro and collaborator Matthew Robbins (Mimic, Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark) crafted the story with Robbins penning the script.

Hit the jump for more exciting details on this project, including the participation of writer/composer Nick Cave (The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford).

pinocchio-stop-motion-concept-art-01According to Deadline, the new version is “aimed at an audience 10 years and up, and a bit scarier than the Disney film.” (although as a kid, I remember the Disney version being slightly terrifying). Del Toro tells Deadline:

“There has to be darkness in any fairy tale or children’s narrative work, something the Brothers Grimm, Hans Christian Anderson and Walt Disney understood. We tend to call something Disney-fied, but a lot of people forget how powerfully disturbing the best animated Disney movies are, including those kids being turned into donkeys in Pinocchio. What we’re trying to do is present a Pinocchio that is more faithful to the take that [original author Carlo Colodi] wrote. That is more surreal and slightly darker than what we’ve seen before.”

Although can anything really be more terrifying than Roberto Benigni’s attempt to play the character in 2002?

Del Toro explained what he means when he says this new Pinocchio will be “more surreal and slightly darker” than the Disney version:

“The Blue Fairy is really a dead girl’s spirit. Pinocchio has strange moments of lucid dreaming bordering on hallucinations, with black rabbits. The sperm whale that swallows Pinocchio was actually a giant dogfish, which allows for more classical scale and design. The many mishaps Pinocchio goes through include several near-death close calls, a lot more harrowing moments. The key with this is not making any of it feel gratuitous, because the story is integrated with moments of comedy and beauty. He’s one of the great characters, whose purity and innocence allows him to survive in this bleak landscape of robbers and thugs, emerging from the darkness with his soul intact.”

Guillermo del Toro image Hellboy 2 (1)If all of this emerging from the mind of del Toro doesn’t sound amazing enough, then how’s this: Nick Cave will be the music consultant and “the puppets and 3D elements will be developed with McKinnon and Saunders, the UK-based facility that worked on Fantastic Mr. Fox, Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride, and the upcoming Frankenweenie.

The project was originally developed in 2006 with del Toro intending to direct. Instead, he decided to do Pan’s Labyrinth and has since been unable to find time to handle it personally. However, the brilliant writer-producer-director says,

“We’ve designed key frames and characters, we know the mood and the feel, we’ve created a bible. Shooting stop motion animation takes a lot time, but we’ve got the right team and I will be there for daily or weekly updates on how it’s going.”

Del Toro is currently set to direct an R-rated big-budget 3D adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft’s At the Mountains of Madness with James Cameron producing and Tom Cruise attached to star. They hope to receive a green light from Universal Pictures in two weeks and start production by May.


http://www.deadline.com/2011/02/guillermo-del-toro-starting-stop-motion-pinocchio-feature-with-henson-and-pathe/



Guillermo Del Toro Starting Stop-Motion 'Pinocchio' Feature With Henson And Pathe
By MIKE FLEMING | Thursday February 17, 2011 @ 12:47pm ESTTags: Allison Abbate, Cameron McCracken, Carlo Colodi, Francois Ivernel, Gary Ungar, Gris Grimly, Guillermo Del Toro,


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Though he’s an accomplished multi-tasker, how does del Toro have time to get involved in an animated feature getting underway at the same time? He told me that when he and Robbins originally did the screenplay nearly four years ago, he intended to direct. Del Toro has long been a stop motion fan. “I’ve had a special effects house for a decade in Mexico, and we were one of the first stop motion animated houses where a lot of influential animators trained,” he said. ”I put that down to do Pan’s Labyrinth and when Matthew and I came back to it in 2008, we added some great ideas that made it funnier and livelier, and we enlisted the aid of Nick Cave. For me, it was most important to find that voice and a big part of that is the music of the movie. But I could not make the time to direct it myself.”

His choice was Grimly ( whose original book animation was the project’s catalyst) and Gustafson, who was animation director of The Fantastic Mr. Fox, the Wes Anderson-directed stop motion adaptation of the Roald Dahl tale.

“We’ve designed key frames and characters, we know the mood and the feel, we’ve created a bible,” del Toro said. “ Shooting stop motion animation takes a lot time, but we’ve got the right team and I will be there for daily or weekly updates on how it’s going,” the tireless del Toro said.

Inviato da: Teo il 4/4/2011, 11:38

Nooooooo...fanno un film in CGI su uno delle mie Silly preferite?
Ma la Disney non ha più i diritti? Che schifezza!

Su Pinocchio non commento...dopo Pinocchio 3000 è difficile che facciano peggio!

Inviato da: Claudio il 4/4/2011, 12:42

pinocchio in stop motion? huh.gif

Inviato da: Scissorhands il 4/4/2011, 12:58

Turbo (Dreamworks Animation)
http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=75031

Turbo will be released on June 7, 2013. It is being directed by David Soren (Merry Madagascar), who first brought the project to the studio, and produced by Lisa Stewart (Monsters vs. Aliens). It is being written by Darren Lemke (Shrek Forever After) together with Soren. Turbo tells the story of an ordinary garden snail with an impossible dream: to become the fastest snail in the world. When a freak accident gives him extraordinary speed, Turbo sets out to try to make this dream come true.

Read more: DreamWorks Animation Announces Slate Through 2014 - ComingSoon.net http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=75031#ixzz1IYSdIc6L


Inviato da: Scissorhands il 4/4/2011, 12:59

Aggiornate le date di uscita dei prossimi film Dreamworks fino al 2014:

Madagascar 3 (6/8/12)
The Guadians (aka Guardians of Childhood) (11/2/12)
The Croods (aka Crood Awakening) (3/1/13)
Turbo (6/7/13)
Me and My Shadow (11/8/13)
Mr Peebody & Shermann (3-20-14)
How to Train Your Dragon Sequel (6/20/14)

Inviato da: Scissorhands il 4/4/2011, 13:13

Rumblewick (Dreamworks Animation)
http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=74909

DreamWorks Animation Conjures Up Rumblewick
Source: DreamWorks Animation
March 3, 2011


DreamWorks Animation SKG, Inc. today announced that it will bring Rumblewick to the big screen. Director Tim Johnson (Over the Hedge, Antz) and writer Jim Herzfeld (Meet the Fockers, Meet the Parents) are collaborating on the feature project, which is inspired by the children's book, "My Unwilling Witch (The Rumblewick Letters)" by Hiawyn Oram and Sarah Warburton. DreamWorks Animation development executives Chris Kuser and Gregg Taylor are overseeing the project at the studio.

"The fascinating world of witches and witches' familiars is perfectly suited for the medium of animation, where anything goes," said DreamWorks Animation's Chief Creative Officer, Bill Damaschke. "Combined with the magically creative and comedic sensibilities of Tim Johnson and Jim Herzfeld, we look forward to bringing the world of 'Rumblewick' to life."

"The odds are stacked against our main character, a hard-working rabbit. Telling the story of his struggle and triumph is a fantastic journey. I know audiences are going to fall in love with 'Rumblewick,'" added Tim Johnson.

Rumblewick will follow the adventures of a magician's rabbit for whom the invitation to learn real magic and train as a witch's familiar seems like a dream come true! But the dream becomes a nightmare when he discovers he's really a pawn in a game between rival witches. Having learned the hard way that when something seems too good to be true it probably is, he must outsmart them both to save his fuzzy little hide.

Read more: DreamWorks Animation Conjures Up Rumblewick - ComingSoon.net http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=74909#ixzz1IYWgXOJN


Inviato da: Scissorhands il 4/4/2011, 13:17

Flawed Dogs (Dreamworks Animation)
Precisiamo che prima era un progetto Disney

http://collider.com/flawed-dogs-berkley-breathed-dreamworks-animation/76119/

DreamWorks Animation to Adapt FLAWED DOGS from BLOOM COUNTY Cartoonist Berkeley Breathed
by Matt Goldberg Posted:February 14th, 2011 at 8:27 am

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DreamWorks Animation knows where their bread is buttered and it’s buttered on the side of talking animals with snarky faces. The company plans to adapt the illustrated novel Flawed Dogs, which was written and illustrated by Bloom County cartoonist Berkeley Breathed. Per Variety, “Story centers around a dachshund who must reclaim his place in the family after being wrongly exiled by a jealous show dog.” I hope there’s mention that that the show dog has fucking papers and can’t be boarded.

Breathed will serve as an executive producer on the film. He said in a statement, “All my stories are sparked by a nugget of truth hiding in plain sight. In this case, it’s that all animals dream… but only dogs dream of us.” Awwwww. Hit the jump for a synopsis of Breathed’s novel.

Here’s a synopsis of Berkley Breathed’s Flawed Dogs:

Pulitzer Prize-winning Berkeley Breathed’s first illustrated novel!

Sam the Lion is actually a priceless dachshund, bred to be a show dog. More important, he is Heidy’s best friend—and she needs one like never before. Living with her reclusive uncle is hard, but Sam has a way of making her feel soft and whole. Until the day Sam is framed by the jealous poodle Cassius, and is cast out by Heidy’s uncle, alone on the wild streets, where he is roughed up by a world he was not bred for. Sporting a soup ladle for a leg, Sam befriends other abandoned dogs and journeys all the way to the Westminster Dog Show, where his plan for revenge on Cassius takes an unexpected turn when he and Heidy spot each other after years of being apart.

Pulitzer Prize winner and New York Times bestselling author Berkeley Breathed’s first illustrated novel is a heartwarming and humorous ode to the unconditional and lasting love we and our pets share. [Amazon]

—flawed-dogs-book-cover-01


Inviato da: Claudio il 4/4/2011, 18:02

quanti film sfornano!
ma nel 2012 si parte sono da agosto? prima non c'è niente?
sono curiosissimo di the guardians e the croods

Inviato da: Scissorhands il 4/4/2011, 18:07

Muncle Trogg (Sony Animation)
http://www.deadline.com/2011/03/sony-animation-acquires-muncle-trogg/

Sony Animation Acquires 'Muncle Trogg'

By MIKE FLEMING | Thursday March 31, 2011 @ 12:15pm EDT
Tags: Michelle Raimo-Kouyate, Muncle Trogg, Sony Pictures Animation
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Sony Pictures Animation has bought screen rights to the Janet Foxley children's novel Muncle Trogg. It is the first acquisition made by Michelle Raimo-Kouyate since she joined as president of production. She made the deal with Sony Pictures Digital Productions president Bob Osher. The book is about a fairytale community based inside a volcano, and hidden away from humans. Jane Startz will be exec producer and Kane Lee will be co-producer.

"There are strong characters, relatable themes, a unique world and tons of inherent comedy," said Raimo-Kouyate. "As soon as I read Muncle Trogg, I knew this would speak to the kinds of animated movies I want to make at Sony Pictures Animation."

The division most recently released Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs and has The Smurfs coming up with Sony Pictures.

Inviato da: Scissorhands il 4/4/2011, 18:10

CITAZIONE (Claudio @ 4/4/2011, 19:02) *
quanti film sfornano!
ma nel 2012 si parte sono da agosto? prima non c'è niente?
sono curiosissimo di the guardians e the croods

le date sono all'americana, quindi è giugno e novembre... cmq si, quell'anno solo 2 film

Inviato da: Beast il 4/4/2011, 19:35

CITAZIONE (Scissorhands @ 4/4/2011, 19:10) *
le date sono all'americana, quindi è giugno e novembre... cmq si, quell'anno solo 2 film

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Sono incredibili, hanno appena annunciato la scaletta per un bel po' di anni e già sviluppano decine di altri progetti! post-6-1111346575.gif

Inviato da: Claudio il 4/4/2011, 21:02

CITAZIONE (Scissorhands @ 4/4/2011, 19:10) *
le date sono all'americana, quindi è giugno e novembre... cmq si, quell'anno solo 2 film


grazie wink.gif hanno comunque tantissimi film in programma w00t.gif

Inviato da: Scissorhands il 5/7/2011, 0:31

Ugly Doll Movie (Illumination Entertainment)

http://www.deadline.com/2011/05/chris-meledandris-illumination-to-turn-uglydoll-into-animated-film/

Chris Meledandri's Illumination To Turn Uglydoll Into Animated Film
By MIKE FLEMING | Thursday May 26, 2011 @ 10:04am EDTTags: Chris Meledandri, David Horvath, Larry Stuckey, Sun-Min Kim, Uglydoll
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Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Illumination Entertainment chief Chris Meledandri has acquired rights to turn the Uglydoll franchise into an animated feature film. Universal Pictures and Illumination will develop the film based on the global line of Uglydoll characters launched by husband-wife artist team David Horvath and Sun-Min Kim. Meet the Fockers scribe Larry Stuckey will write the script, inspired by the dolls and stories created by Horvath and Kim. Meledandri will produce, and Horvath and Kim will be executive producers through their Pretty Ugly LLC banner. The plan is to start with the feature and then branch into a wider range of media opportunities.

Meledandri told me he first started seeing the designs at the Giant Robot store near his home over a decade ago, and "I remember the immediate appeal and connection that the characters had for me. They are simple in design, expressive in personality, and once I got to know David and Sun-Min, I learned there was a mythology and a world behind this," he said. "The personality and level of wit reminded me of the illustrated work I saw from Matt Groening before he did The Simpsons. The characters have a cult following, and they've been very restrictive in where and how they've sold them. It has been a small cottage industry, but it seems just right for us in terms of the potential for a growth curve. Most importantly, the strength cuts to the heart of our strategy, which is, to start from the perspective of characters we feel have unique appeal to audiences, regardless of age."

Illumination, whose first release Despicable Me is being turned into a Universal theme park attraction, followed with Hop and is also developing a stop-motion film based on the original Addams Family characters created by Charles Addams, with Tim Burton directing. Illumination recently cast Taylor Swift, Danny DeVito, Ed Helms, Zac Efron, Rob Riggle and Betty White to provide the principal voices for The Lorax, the film based on the Dr. Seuss book. Meledandri's also got a CG-animated feature in the works, based on Ricky Gervais' book series Flanimals. On the personnel front, Illumination yesterday hired Universal Pictures marketing president Eddie Egan to head its marketing.

Inviato da: Scissorhands il 5/7/2011, 0:33

Beasts of Burden (Reel FX / Walden Media)

http://www.badtaste.it/articoli/andrew-adamson-torna-allanimazione-con-beasts-burden

Andrew Adamson torna all'animazione con Beasts of Burden
Inserito da Andrea Francesco Berni
14 giugno 2011 - 18:00
Fonte: THR
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Beasts of Burden, fumetto della Dark Horse, sta per diventare un film per mano di Andrew Adamson, che guiderà il progetto anche in veste di produttore.

Ne dà notizia l'Hollywood Reporter, che fa notare come questo film sancisca per Adamson un ritorno all'animazione in computer grafica dai tempi di Shrek 2 (2004), dopo aver diretto e prodotto i primi due episodi delle Cronache di Narnia.

L'adattamento di Beasts of Burden verrà prodotto da Adamson insieme ad Aaron Warner della Strange Weather Films e a Mike Richardson della Dark Horse Entertainment. Nel progetto verranno coinvolte anche la Reel FX e Walden Media, specializzate in CG.

Evan Dorkin (Milk & Cheese) e Jill Thompson (Scary Godmother) hanno creato i personaggi, comparsi la prima volta nel volume intitolato The Dark Horse Book of Witchcraft, che si aggiudicò due Eisner Awards per la miglior storia breve e per il miglior disegnatore.

Beasts of Burden è ambientato in una comunità chiamata Burden Hill, dove si verificano una serie di eventi soprannaturali, costringendo un gruppo di cani – e un gatto – a collaborare per proteggere i loro proprietari e gli altri residenti della città.

Andrew Adamson, prima di realizzare questo progetto, deve però prima terminare quello sul Cirque du Soleil e dirigere Mister Pip con Hugh Laurie.

Tra gli adattamenti Dark Horse è invece in lavorazione anche il film di R.I.P.D. con Ryan Reynolds e Jeff Bridges per la Universal.


Inviato da: Scissorhands il 5/7/2011, 0:37

King Kong (Blue Sky)

http://www.deadline.com/2011/06/fox-animation-takes-on-king-kong-story/

Fox Animation Takes On King Kong Story
By MIKE FLEMING | Tuesday June 7, 2011 @ 12:52pm EDTTags: Bob Snow, Christian Magalhaes, Fox Animation, King Kong, Shawn Levy, Ted Field
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Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Rise of the Planet of the Apes isn't the only case where a film division at 20th Century Fox is monkeying around with a primate picture. Fox Animation has set the team of Christian Magalhaes & Bob Snow to write a modern day twist on the King Kong story. It will be animated, and will tell the story from the vantage point of the ape. It's an interesting take on the material, because let's face it, Kong got a bum deal and had no way to verbally complain about it. It is based on a story by Mike Weber, who'll also produce.

Shawn Levy's 21 Laps will produce with Ted Field's Radar Pictures. Magalhaes & Snow's recent spec script Murder of a Cat made the Black List and is in the process of being set up. Gersh and Madhouse rep the scribes.

Inviato da: Beast il 8/7/2011, 16:15

La Paramount aprirà un suo studio d'animazione, la Paramount Animation, il cui primo film uscirà nel 2014. Sembra quindi che Paramount si prepari a scaricare la Dreamworks Animation, il cui contratto scade a fine 2012. Katzenberg sembra essere disperatamente alla ricerca di un nuovo partner, ma tutte le major hanno già i loro studi: Disney, Fox, Sony e Universal hanno rifiutato categoricamente qualsiasi trattativa e ora Jeffrey sta supplicando la Warner, che gli aveva detto no già un anno fa. E dire che l'anno scorso con gran faccia tosta aveva proposto alla Universal di vendergli la Dreamworks e in cambio diventare loro presidente. Ora il suo stato di difficoltà è reso ancora peggiore dal calo delle vendite dei biglietti 3D, dopo che era stato proprio lui a promuovere apertamente la nuova tecnologia e a invitare i cinema ad alzare i prezzi. Tanto per dare un'idea, le azioni della Dreamworks Animation sono scese del 20% negli ultimi 12 mesi. Katzencoso ci rimetterà parecchio... diavoletto.gif

Fonte: Deadline

Paramount Expects DreamWorks Toon Exit; Studio Starts Paramount Animation Unit; Jeff Katzenberg Zeroing In Time Warner

EXCLUSIVE: The studio's new unit called Paramount Animation will start producing one toon a year in 2014 and beyond. The studio will launch immediately a search for the top executive who will report to Paramount Motion Picture Group President Adam Goodman. There's no word yet if Gore Verbinski's recent Rango will have a sequel, but if it does it would be produced under this new banner. But what does this mean for Paramount's distribution relationship with DreamWorks Animation which ends on December 31st of 2012? "We did offer them a one-year extension on the same terms of what we have," a Paramount exec tells me.

"But Jeffrey has indicated his desire to get a better deal. And so for us long term, it only makes sense if it's improved beyond that. Given everything else that we have going on, it's the only thing that makes sense for us." Word is from folks whom Katzenberg has approached that he's interested in a sale as part of a new distribution deal. And I've learned that his current energies are focused on Time Warner after being turned down by Comcast (DWA & Comcast: Who's Pursuing Whom?), Disney, Universal, Fox, and Sony which all have their own animation units.

Exactly a year ago at 2010's Camp Allen investment conference, Comcast quashed rumors spread by Katzenberg that the new owners of NBCUniversal supposedly wanted to buy DreamWorks Animation and make him head of NBCU. Comcast's Brian Roberts and Steve Burke mentioned to several power players that Katzenberg has been pursuing them to buy DreamWorks Animation and lobbying them to make him head of NBCU. (Burke, the son of former Capital Cities/ABC president and icon Dan Burke, spent a dozen years in key Walt Disney Co positions but never got along with Katzenberg. Besides, NBCU has Illumination Entertainment.) At that time, Jeffrey already had offered up DWA to every Hollywood studio, but they and their parent companies had passed. Before Comcast, the most recent "no" had come from Time Warner's Jeff Bewkes. But now it sounds as if Katzenberg is trying there again.
Lackluster sales of 3D tickets for DreamWorks Animation's Kung Fu Panda 2 seemed to confirm that audiences are fed up with the higher ticket prices. Then again, it was Katzenberg who went around convincing those exhibitors to raise their prices before DWA got into the 3D biz. Now investors appear to be disenchanted with DreamWorks Animation, which is making all of its films in 3D. Its shares have been down nearly 20% vs this time last year.

UPDATE: Here's the Paramount Animation release:

(Los Angeles, CA – July 6, 2011) -- Paramount Pictures, a unit of Viacom Inc., will launch an in-house animation division, with its first title slated for release in 2014. In making the announcement, Paramount Chairman & CEO Brad Grey said the initiative was part of the studio’s long-term strategy for growth and that the new division, Paramount Animation, will focus on high quality animation with budgets per picture of up to $100 million.

Paramount Animation’s mandate will be the development of the broadest range of family CGI animated films, with a key piece being titles under the label of Viacom’s Nickelodeon, the number one entertainment brand for kids worldwide. Paramount will also look to build on Viacom’s already thriving global consumer products business by seeking to capitalize on merchandising opportunities tied to all Paramount Animation releases.

The division will be part of the Paramount Motion Picture Group, reporting to the group’s president, Adam Goodman, and will initially target one release per year. Vice Chair Rob Moore, COO Frederick Huntsberry and Goodman are now conducting a search for the leader of the division.

“We’ve come a long way over the last six years," said Grey. "Our team has worked hard to build best in class production, marketing and distribution divisions which have proven they consistently execute at the highest level across all genres and price points. Establishing an in-house animation division was the logical next step for us.”

“The marketplace has never offered as many opportunities to create wonderfully imaginative pictures at very appealing budget levels, so we feel this is a perfect moment to launch this effort. We are now eager to expand in animation with appropriate and prudent overhead and production budgets in a way that will allow us to be nimble, creative and innovative,” added Grey. “Paramount also has the distinct advantage of being part of the Viacom family, giving us the ability to leverage its portfolio of powerful and youthful brands to create and market great films and consumer products.”

While Paramount has released an array of successful animated films in its history, the company’s first fully owned CGI animated property was Rango, released to great acclaim in March 2011. The Western, directed by Gore Verbinski and featuring the voice of Johnny Depp in the title role, has grossed over $240 million worldwide and is the best reviewed animated movie so far this year.

Inviato da: Teo il 8/7/2011, 16:37

Sciagura a Katzencoso, sciagura a Katzencoso! diavoletto.gif cool.gif cool.gif

Inviato da: Claudio il 8/7/2011, 22:56

CITAZIONE (Scissorhands @ 5/7/2011, 1:37) *
King Kong (Blue Sky)


interessante ! sono curioso

Inviato da: Claudio il 8/7/2011, 22:56

CITAZIONE (Beast @ 8/7/2011, 17:15) *
La Paramount aprirà un suo studio d'animazione, la Paramount Animation, il cui primo film uscirà nel 2014. Sembra quindi che Paramount si prepari a scaricare la Dreamworks Animation, il cui contratto scade a fine 2012. Katzenberg sembra essere disperatamente alla ricerca di un nuovo partner, ma tutte le major hanno già i loro studi: Disney, Fox, Sony e Universal hanno rifiutato categoricamente qualsiasi trattativa e ora Jeffrey sta supplicando la Warner, che gli aveva detto no già un anno fa. E dire che l'anno scorso con gran faccia tosta aveva proposto alla Universal di vendergli la Dreamworks e in cambio diventare loro presidente. Ora il suo stato di difficoltà è reso ancora peggiore dal calo delle vendite dei biglietti 3D, dopo che era stato proprio lui a promuovere apertamente la nuova tecnologia e a invitare i cinema ad alzare i prezzi. Tanto per dare un'idea, le azioni della Dreamworks Animation sono scese del 20% negli ultimi 12 mesi. Katzencoso ci rimetterà parecchio... diavoletto.gif

Fonte: Deadline


chissà come andrà a finire allora!

Inviato da: Scissorhands il 24/7/2011, 11:50

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=80012

Kevin Lima Directing DreamWorks Animation's Monkeys of Mumbai
Source: Heat Vision
July 20, 2011


Kevin Lima (Tarzan, Enchanted) will direct DreamWorks Animation's Monkeys of Mumbai, reports Heat Vision. Also aboard the project as producers are Lisa Stewart (Monsters vs. Aliens) and Chris Chase (Enchanted).

Based on a Hindu poem called "The Ramayana," the film will detail the musical adventures of a pair of monkeys up against a supernatural demon. The original poem involves Rama (the reincarnation of Vishnu) and his quest to rescue his wife, Sita, from Ravana, the multi-armed demon king of Lanka. Monkeys play a role in the poem when Rama visits the city of Kishkindha Kanda and teams with Hanuman, a heroic monkey warrior.

Gurinder Chada and Paul Berges (Bend It Like Beckham, Bride and Prejudice) are writing the script. Stephen Schwartz (Broadway's "Wicked") is working on lyrics while A.R. Rahman (Slumdog Millionaire) is the film's composer.

Read more: Kevin Lima Directing DreamWorks Animation's Monkeys of Mumbai - ComingSoon.net http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=80012#ixzz1T1DwXC4i

Inviato da: Claudio il 25/7/2011, 9:05

sono curioso di vedere come sarà

Inviato da: Scissorhands il 6/8/2011, 21:54

Riparte la produzione di Escape from planet Earth

http://www.deadline.com/2011/08/animated-film-escape-from-planet-earth-gets-voice-cast/

Animated Film 'Escape From Planet Earth' Gets Voice Cast
By MIKE FLEMING | Tuesday August 2, 2011 @ 11:35am EDTTags: Brendan Fraser, Craig Robinson, Escape From Planet Earth, Film Castings, James Gandolfini, Jessica Alba, Rob Corddry, Sarah Jessica Parker, Weinstein Co.
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Mike Fleming

NEW YORK, NY August 2, 2011 – The Weinstein Company (TWC) and Rainmaker Entertainment announced today the all-star voice cast for ESCAPE FROM PLANET EARTH which includes Brendan Fraser, Sarah Jessica Parker, Jessica Alba, Rob Corddry, James Gandolfini and Craig Robinson. The 3D animated family comedy is currently in full production.

The announcement was made today by Donna Gigliotti, TWC’s President of Production, and Catherine Winder, President and Executive Producer, Rainmaker Entertainment. Both Gigliotti and Winder serve as producers on the animated feature film.

ESCAPE FROM PLANET EARTH is directed by Cal Brunker, best known for his work on the animated feature films DESPICABLE ME, 9 and HORTON HEARS A WHO! Producers Gigliotti and Winder are joined by Rainmaker’s Luke Carroll as a producer on the film. TWC Co-Chairmen Bob and Harvey Weinstein are executive producers. The film was written by Cal Brunker and Bob Barlen based on an original screenplay by Tony Leech and Cory Edwards.

The 3D animated family comedy ESCAPE FROM PLANET EARTH catapults movie goers to planet Baab where admired astronaut Scorch Supernova (Brendan Fraser) is a national hero to the blue alien population. A master of daring rescues, Scorch pulls off astonishing feats with the quiet aid of his nerdy, by-the-rules brother, Gary (Rob Corddry), head of mission control at BASA. When BASA’s no-nonsense chief Lena (Jessica Alba) informs the brothers of an SOS from a notoriously dangerous planet, Scorch rejects Gary’s warnings and bounds off for yet another exciting mission. But when Scorch finds himself caught in a fiendish trap set by the evil Shanker (James Gandolfini), it’s up to scrawny, risk-adverse Gary to do the real rescuing. As the interplanetary stakes rise to new heights, Gary is left to save his brother, his planet, his beloved wife Kira (Sarah Jessica Parker) and their adventure hungry son Kip!

A film from The Weinstein Company, ESCAPE FROM PLANET EARTH is produced in association with Rainmaker Entertainment and will be released in the U.S. in 2012.

Inviato da: Claudio il 7/8/2011, 10:23

interessante questo film!

Inviato da: Scissorhands il 21/9/2011, 17:25

Wildwood (Laika)
http://www.badtaste.it/articoli/wildwood-i-produttori-di-coraline


Wildwood per i produttori di Coraline?
Inserito da Simone Rovellini
11 settembre 2011 - 19:30
Fonte: Variety
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Dopo il successo di Coraline, la Laika, casa di animazione americana, ha iniziato la lavorazione di un nuovo intrigante film intitolato ParaNorman, di cui vi abbiamo parlato alcuni mesi fa.

I progetti per il futuro però non si fermano qui, e i produttori stanno già pensando ad altre ambiziose storie da portare sul grande schermo. Ecco quindi che lo studio si è assicurato i diritti su un romanzo fantasy per ragazzi intitolato Wildwood, pubblicato dal cantante dei Decemberists Colin Meloy e da sua moglie Carson Ellis.

Il libro, splendidamente illustrato, è ambientato in una versione alternativa di Portland e racconta la storia di una ragazza che, dopo il rapimento del fratello, deve affrontare un mondo pieno di magia e pericoli, costretta ad entrare nelle lande proibite.

Wildwood è stato pensato come il primo di tre romanzi, e allo stesso modo la Laika ha comprato i diritti avendo già in mente una trilogia di film.

Gli autori del romanzo avevano acconsentito a venderne i diritti solo nel caso in cui il film fosse stato realizzato in animazione tradizionale o stop-motion, e lo studio che ha prodotto Coraline appare subito come la scelta perfetta per portare a compimento l'impresa.

A parlarcene è il CEO della Laika Travis Knight:

E’ una storia nella grande tradizione di Tolkien, vasta quanto Il signore degli anelli, con anche un grande respiro contemporaneo. Niente del genere è mai stato tentato nel nostro settore. Ci sono questi grandi scenari epici insieme a momenti e personaggi ricchi di sfumature, che sono le due cose più difficili da rendere in stop motion. Sono eccitato all’idea di come tutto ciò possa prendere forma.



Inviato da: Claudio il 21/9/2011, 18:15

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Inviato da: Scissorhands il 9/10/2011, 15:29

Pooch Cafè (Sony Pictures Animation)

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=83011

Sony Pictures Animation Opens Pooch Café
Source: Sony Pictures Animation October 6, 2011

Sony Pictures Animation has just announced plans for Pooch Café, to be written and directed by Kelly Asbury and based on the comic strip by Paul Gilligan. Asbury directed this year's Gnomeo and Juliet and was the co-director of Shrek 2.

Planned for CG-animation, Pooch Café stars Poncho, a cheese-loving, squirrel-fearing, toilet-drinking mutt who joins his canine friends at the Pooch Café, a neighborhood hangout where dogs can be dogs – comparing notes on such weighty issues as avoiding baths, zebra-flavored kibble, and the construction of a giant catapult with which to hurl all the Earth’s cats into the Sun.

“Kelly’s wit and cinematic sensibility pairs wonderfully with the irreverent characters and wry comedy in the “Pooch Café” comic strip,” says SPA's president of production, Michelle Raimo-Kouyate. “We’ve been looking for something to do with Kelly, and this was a perfect match.”


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Inviato da: Claudio il 9/10/2011, 15:33

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Pooch Cafè (Sony Pictures Animation)

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=83011

Sony Pictures Animation Opens Pooch Café
Source: Sony Pictures Animation October 6, 2011

Sony Pictures Animation has just announced plans for Pooch Café, to be written and directed by Kelly Asbury and based on the comic strip by Paul Gilligan. Asbury directed this year's Gnomeo and Juliet and was the co-director of Shrek 2.

Planned for CG-animation, Pooch Café stars Poncho, a cheese-loving, squirrel-fearing, toilet-drinking mutt who joins his canine friends at the Pooch Café, a neighborhood hangout where dogs can be dogs – comparing notes on such weighty issues as avoiding baths, zebra-flavored kibble, and the construction of a giant catapult with which to hurl all the Earth’s cats into the Sun.

“Kelly’s wit and cinematic sensibility pairs wonderfully with the irreverent characters and wry comedy in the “Pooch Café” comic strip,” says SPA's president of production, Michelle Raimo-Kouyate. “We’ve been looking for something to do with Kelly, and this was a perfect match.”


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sembra bello!

Inviato da: Scissorhands il 17/10/2011, 12:08

Toh ... una vecchia conoscenza...

http://www.cartoonbrew.com/feature-film/david-stainton-in-as-president-of-paramount-animation.html

David Stainton in as President of Paramount Animation
October 10, 2011 11:30 am

Paramount has named David Stainton president of its new animation division. Stainton, the controversial former president of Walt Disney Feature Animation, will now report to Adam Goodman, President of the Paramount Motion Picture Group and will begin setting up shop this week. According to the Paramount press release:
“Paramount Animation aims to focus on high-quality animation with budgets per picture of up to $100 million, with an initial target of one release per year. The division’s mandate will be the development of the broadest range of family CGI animated films, with a key piece being titles under the label of Viacom’s Nickelodeon, the No. 1 entertainment brand for kids worldwide. Paramount will also build on Viacom’s already thriving global consumer products business by seeking to capitalize on merchandising opportunities tied to all Paramount Animation releases. “David’s accomplishments speak for themselves, and I am glad to welcome him to the lot as we start this exciting new chapter,” Adam Goodman added. “With David’s leadership, we will look to build on what has been a very strong year for our studio in animation, with Rango and the upcoming Adventures of Tintin pointing to the kind of artist-driven, broad-appeal films we intend to make at Paramount Animation.”
Paramount announced last July that it was launching an in-house animation division. It expects to release its first feature under Stainton in 2014.



Inviato da: Scissorhands il 26/12/2011, 18:10

Aggiuto
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatball 2 (Sony)
Captain Underpants (DW)

Inviato da: Scissorhands il 4/1/2012, 19:23

Concept di Dracula in Hotel Transylvania

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=83723

Inviato da: Scissorhands il 4/1/2012, 19:27

Popeye (Sony Pictures Animation)

http://www.deadline.com/2011/11/sony-pictures-animation-set-jay-scherick-david-ronn-to-script-animated-popeye/

Sony Pictures Animation Sets ‘Smurfs’ Scribes Jay Scherick & David Ronn To Script ‘Popeye’

By MIKE FLEMING | Thursday November 3, 2011 @ 3:01pm EDT
Tags: Avi Arad, David Ronn, Jay Scherick, Popeye, The Smufs

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BREAKING: Sony Pictures Animation has turned to its The Smurfs scribes, Jay Scherick & David Ronn, to script Popeye, the animated adaptation of the comic book. SPA and Avi Arad are producing Popeye, which will be a 3D stereoscopic effort. ”Scherick & Ronn have a remarkable talent in re-energizing beloved characters,” said Sony Pictures Digital Productions president Bob Osher. “As they demonstrated with The Smurfs, they embrace the iconic characteristics of these timeless characters and craft a story that really engages moviegoers today.” The scribes are already working on a Smurfs sequel, and they also wrote the original script for Baywatch. They are repped by ICM.

Inviato da: Scissorhands il 4/1/2012, 19:29

Woody Woodpecker (Illumination Entertainment)

Woody Woodpecker Movie in Development at Universal, Illumination (Exclusive)
7:15 PM PST 11/16/2011 by Borys Kit
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Woody Woodpecker could be heading to the big screen for the first time in decades.
Illumination Entertainment, the Universal-based animation house behind Despicable Me and next year’s Dr. Seuss’ The Lorax, is working on a feature project centering on the crimson-coifed cartoon character. John Altschuler and Dave Krinsky, who co-wrote the Will Ferrell comedy Blades of Glory, are in talks to develop a story.
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Woody Woodpecker first appeared in a short in 1940. It was co-created by cartoonist Walter Lantz and voiced, in his initial outings, by Mel Blanc, the future voice of Bugs Bunny. The character was initially rambunctious and brash, a huge hit during World War II-era America, but he mellowed into the '50s, even developing a love interest and a recurring nemesis Ben Buzzard.
A theme song was introduced in 1947 and was nominated for an Oscar for best song, the only song from a short film ever to be nominated in the category. [Listen to the song below.]
What locked Woodpecker’s place in pop culture was a move into television in the late '50s, first with the syndication of his shorts and then with the production of cartoons. His widespread appearance lasted decades, imprinting on several generations' worth of children.
Universal bought the library of shorts and the rights to the character from Lantz in 1985. The move to capitalize on the asset mirrors an effort throughout Hollywood to mine value from properties that studios already own.
Illumination and the writers will seek to create a story that modernizes the character, hopefully launching a franchise in the process.
Altschuler and Krinsky, repped by WME and 3 Arts Entertainment, were exec producers and writers on Fox's King of Hill and worked on the long-gestating feature version of The Jetsons.

Inviato da: Scissorhands il 4/1/2012, 19:30

http://animationguildblog.blogspot.com/2011/10/asbury-at-spa.html

Asbury at the SPA
Kelly Asbury, director, of Gnomeo and Juliet, has moved over to Sony Pictures Animation ...

Kelly Asbury, the director and co-writer of Gnomeo and Juliet, has been hired to write the adaptation of Pooch Café for Sony Pictures Animation. ...
Mr. Asbury has been in the biz a long time, directing two features at DreamWorks Animation and story supervising two others. Like a number of other animation directors (Rob Minkoff, Chris Sanders and Lorna Cooke come to mind) he goes where the directing gigs are.

(As animated features get produced by more and more studios, directors of animated features behave like their live-action counterparts, moving from studio to studio. The days of cartoon directors staying with one producer for their entire creative lives is, I think, drawing to a close.)

Inviato da: Scissorhands il 5/1/2012, 10:56

http://www.awn.com/news/visual-effects/universal-buys-mac-guff-illumination
Universal Buys Mac Guff for Illumination
By Rick DeMott | Tuesday, November 15, 2011 at 12:15 pm | AWN News
Posted In | News Categories: Business, CG, Films, Visual Effects | Geographic Region: All | Site Categories: 3D, Business, CG, Films, Visual Effects
Universal Pictures has bought French animation house Mac Guff Ligne for Illumination Ent., reports Deadline.com. Illumination and Mac Guff Ligne produced DESPICABLE ME and DR. SEUSS’ THE LORAX together. Now Mac Guff Ligne will work exclusively on Illumination projects whether they are fully animated or a live-action/animation hybrid. The Paris-based studio will be renamed Illumination Mac Guff.

Jacques Bled, one of the founders of Mac Guff, and Janet Healy, France-based producer of DESPICABLE ME, will serve as co-presidents of Illumination Mac Guffe. The duo will report to Illumination head Chris Meledandri. Robert Taylor and Barbara Zipperman will serve as top execs as well.

Mac Guff Ligne's vfx business remains separate.

Illumination's upcoming projects include the DESPICABLE ME sequel, Ricky Gervais' FLANIMALS, UGLYDOLL and Tim Burton's stop-motion ADDAMS FAMILY.

Inviato da: Claudio il 5/1/2012, 12:02

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Popeye (Sony Pictures Animation)

http://www.deadline.com/2011/11/sony-pictures-animation-set-jay-scherick-david-ronn-to-script-animated-popeye/

[i]Sony Pictures Animation Sets ‘Smurfs’ Scribes Jay Scherick & David Ronn To Script ‘Popeye’



un film su Popeye? blink.gif
spero non in cgi!!

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and Tim Burton's stop-motion ADDAMS FAMILY.



su questo si sa qualcosa in più?

Inviato da: Scissorhands il 28/1/2012, 1:31

Nerds (Rocket Pictures)
http://www.deadline.com/2012/01/elton-johns-rocket-pictures-turning-kidbook-nerds-into-animated-feature/

Elton John’s Rocket Pictures Turning Kidbook ‘Nerds’ Into Animated Feature

By MIKE FLEMING | Friday January 20, 2012 @ 3:03pm EST
Tags: Elton John, Michael Buckley, Nerds, Rocket Pictures

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EXCLUSIVE: Elton John’s Rocket Pictures has acquired film rights to Michael Buckley’s bestselling series Nerds, and will develop them as an animated family feature that Buckley will script. Rocket Pictures principals Steve Hamilton Shaw and David Furnish will produce. John is exec producer.

The Nerds series follows a group of unpopular and socially inept geeks who run a spy network from inside their elementary school. They battle the Hyena, a former junior beauty pageant contestant-turned-assassin, and an array of James Bond-style villains, each with an evil plan more diabolical and more ridiculous than the last. Three books have been released in the past two years by the Abrams imprint Amulet Books, and the next one comes in the fall.

“Nerds is an action-filled comedic property with a great inclusive message at its heart,” Shaw said. “We think it has huge potential as a dynamic and modern family movie.” Rocket Pictures most recently produced the 3D animated Disney movie Gnomeo & Juliet and is developing Will Gallows And The Snake Bellied Troll, written and to be directed by Shrek 2’s Kelly Asbury. The company’s also developing Rocketman, a biographical musical-fantasy feature film about the life of Elton John that’s being written by Lee Hall. UTA reps Rocket Pictures and also brokered the book deal with publishing agent Alison Fargis of Stonesong.



Inviato da: Scissorhands il 5/3/2012, 20:46

Is the CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF MEATBALLS Sequel Called CLOUDY 2: REVENGE OF THE LEFTOVERS? Plus a First Look at Promo Poster
by Matt Goldberg Posted:February 29th, 2012 at 1:49 pm

I love the animated adaptation of Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs. It is delightfully strange, witty, and at times, downright darkly comic (it still blows my mind that directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller got away with the scene where Flynn charges into a house, and basically uses snowballs to murder a family). I was a little bummed that the duo wouldn’t be returning for the sequel, but I’m encouraged that Horrible Bosses writers John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein are handling the script, and new directors Cody Cameron and Kris Pearn worked on the first movie. We still don’t know what the sequel will be about, but we might know what it’s called. We were sent a promo poster for the movie and the title reads: Cloudy 2: Revenge of the Leftovers. As you may recall, the leftovers created a crazy avalanche that forced out the poor citizens of Swallow Falls, so haven’t the leftovers already had their revenge?

Again, this could just be a working title, and to be honest, I don’t really care what the movie is called. I’m just hoping the flick is as funny and memorable as Cloud with a Chance of Meatballs. Hit the jump to check out the promo poster.


http://collider.com/cloudy-2-revenge-of-the-leftovers-poster/149087/

Inviato da: Scissorhands il 5/3/2012, 21:23

Day of the Dead (Reel FX)

HydGuillermo Del Toro Comes Aboard Animated ‘Day Of The Dead’

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Tuesday February 21, 2012 @ 10:50am PST
Tags: Day Of The Dead, Guillermo Del Toro, Reel FX

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The CG-animated The Day Of The Dead will be produced by Guillermo del Toro and Reel FX, the animation and live-action development and production studio run by former ILM exec Ed Jones Ed Jones and ex-Walden Media CEO Cary Granat. Del Toro will also present the film, which is being directed and co-written by Jorge R. Gutierrez (El Tigre) and is being eyed for a fall 2014 release. Aaron Berger and Carina Schulze of Chatrone also are producing. The story centers on a Romeo and Juliet-style love story set against a Mexican “Day of the Dead” backdrop. It’s the first time since 1993′s Cronos that del Toro has collaborated on a feature in Mexico. “I have admired Jorge’s work for a long time. He has a unique aesthetic and sense of humor. Day Of The Dead offers a perfect opportunity for his sensibilities to shine,” del Toro said. “This is a colorful, vibrant, vital fable that utilizes the animation medium in an incredible way.”

Reel FX is currently working on an animated feature adaptation of the Dark Horse graphic novel Beasts Of Burden, produced by Andrew Adamson (Shrek) and Aron Warner; and Turkeys, a CG-animated comedy directed by Jimmy Hayward (Horton Hears a Who!). The studio also recently collaborated on the production of the 3D film Cirque du Soleil’s Worlds Away, written and directed by Adamson and executive produced by James Cameron. That film is in post-production and set to debut late this year via Paramount.

Inviato da: Scissorhands il 5/3/2012, 21:25

The Prophet

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=87415

Hayek Producing Animated Adaptation of Gibran's The Prophet
Source: ComingSoon.net February 24, 2012

Khalil Gibran's best known fictional work "The Prophet" is being adapted for the big screen in a new production that will involve collaborations across many borders. In this adaptation, each of the 89-year old classic's chapters will be directed by a different award-winning filmmaker, with Roger Allers (The Lion King) responsible for the connective through-line narrative.

Pre-production is scheduled to begin this month, with Salma Hayek producing along with Clark Peterson and Ron Senkowski. Doha Film Insititute (DFI) is co-financing along with Participant Media, MyGroup Lebanon, FFA Private Bank, JRW Entertainment and Code Red Productions.

"'The Prophet' has been an incredible source of wisdom and inspiration for millions of people all over the world. Being of Lebanese descent, I'm particularly proud to be part of a project that will present this masterpiece to new generations, in a way never seen before," said Hayek.

Among the distinguished directors committed to the project are Marjane Satrapi (Oscar nominated for Persepolis), Chris Landreth (Oscar-winner for short "Ryan"), Tomm Moore (Oscar nominated for The Secret of Kells), Nina Paley (Berlin Film Festival winner for Sita Sings the Blues), Mohammed Saeed Harib (creator of hit series "Freej"), Michal Socha, Francesco Testa, Joan Gratz (Oscar winner for Mona Lisa Descending a Staircase) and Bill Plympton (Oscar-nominated for Guard Dog and Your Face).

"I am very excited to be bringing to the screen this inspirational book and eager to begin working with this incredible group of international artists," Allers said.

Mohammed Saeed Harib commented, “It's an immense honor to be able to translate the works of one of the Arab world’s most cherished writers into the visual realm. I am thrilled to be amongst such esteemed animation directors assigned to bring The Prophet to the big screen and to the 21st century”

DFI’s Executive Director Amanda Palmer commented, “Through cinema, we have a unique opportunity to also introduce a new generation to the profound works of Gibran in a way never experienced before. It’s a passion project for everyone involved, led by Salma's determination to create a truly collaborative artistic approach to this universally loved novel."

Moore added, "This is the sort of very special and important project that comes along rarely but which has the potential to make a big impact on the cultural consciousness of very many people."

Jonathan King, Executive Vice President of Production for Participant Media said, "The filmmaking team represents such an impressive line-up of international talent. We're thrilled to be working with them to bridge cultures through entertainment and bring Gibran's classic with its inspirational themes to a new medium for audiences worldwide.”

"'The Prophet' delivers a message of faith in life itself transcending all cultures and all religions. In addition to supporting Gibran’s heritage and legacy, we are very proud to contribute to what might well become the most inspiring animated picture of all times," said Jean Riachi, CEO of FFA Private Bank in Beirut.

Nael and Haytham Nasr, Managing Partners of MyGroup, said that they are “extremely proud to be participating in the production of the animated movie, 'The Prophet.' 'The Prophet’s' enduring wisdom and enlightenment have comforted and inspired for nearly one hundred years. Now the movie of Khalil Gibran’s most celebrated work will enrich his timeless words and uplift our hearts and minds, today and forever.”

"The Prophet" is one of the best-selling books of all time, having sold over 100 million copies since its original publication in 1923. The Lebanese-born Gibran is the third most-read poet in history, after Shakespeare and Lao-Tzu, and has been translated in to more than 40 languages.


Read more: Hayek Producing Animated Adaptation of Gibran's The Prophet - ComingSoon.net http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=87415#ixzz1oHB7vQEV

Inviato da: Scissorhands il 7/3/2012, 1:33

Bolivar (Warner distributed)

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/bolivar-graphic-novel-animation-movie-296886

Warner Bros. Picks Up Graphic Novel 'Bolivar' for Animated Movie (Exclusive)
Bolivar comes with Irish filmmaker Kealan O’Rourke attached to write and direct the project, which is intended to be an animated feature from production outfit Weed Road.
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Warner Bros. has picked up Bolivar, an upcoming graphic novel from publisher Archaia Entertainment, for Akiva Goldsman and Kerry Foster to produce via their Weed Road banner. Archaia editor-in-chief Stephen Christy will also produce.
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Archaia’s P.J. Bickett will exec produce.
Bolivar comes with Irish filmmaker Kealan O’Rourke attached to write and direct the project, which is intended to be an animated feature.
Written and illustrated by Sean Rubin, the graphic novel centres on a young girl named Sybil who moves to New York and finds out her neighbor is Bolivar, the last living dinosaur. Despite Sybil's persistent efforts, Bolivar refuses to befriend her.
The dinosaur is somewhat of a recluse, tucked away from the world Sybil so desperately wants him to explore with her. He soon realizes how much she means to him and that he would risk everything for her.
The graphic novel is due out in May 2013.
O’Rourke won a best animation prize for The Boy in the Bubble at last year’s Irish Film and Television Awards. He is repped by Paradigm and 3 Arts Entertainment.
Archaia, repped by CAA, is an LA-based and Eisner-winning publisher slowly making in-roads into movies. An adaptation of its graphic novel Rust is set up at Fox with Simon Kinberg producing and Aline Brosh McKenna writing while Lucid is being developed by Zachary Quinto's Before the Door production company.
Weed Road is developing the adaptation of Lone Survivor, which just received financing from Emmett/Furla, and is in the casting stage for A Winter’s Tale, a supernatural romantic story that is serving as Goldsman’s directorial debut.


Inviato da: Scissorhands il 13/3/2012, 0:46

Cloudy 2: Revenge of the Leftovers – The sequel to Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs is due out December 20th, 2013.

Inviato da: Scissorhands il 13/3/2012, 0:51

Lo davo talmente per scontato che non ne ho riportato l'annuncio:

http://www.deadline.com/2011/08/toldja-fox-and-blue-sky-cast-ice-age-4/


TOLDJA! Fox And Blue Sky Cast ‘Ice Age 4′

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Thursday August 4, 2011 @ 4:31pm PDT
Tags: Ice Age: Continental Drift

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Jennifer Lopez, Jeremy Renner, Wanda Sykes, & Drake Join ’Ice Age 4′

LOS ANGELES, (August 4, 2011) – Twentieth Century Fox Animation and Blue Sky Studios today announced the voice cast for ICE AGE: CONTINENTAL DRIFT, the fourth entry in Blue Sky’s blockbuster franchise, which has grossed over $4 billion in all media. Joining the ever-growing Ice Age family for Continental Drift is JEREMY RENNER, an Academy Award nominee for The Hurt Locker and The Town (and whose upcoming films include Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol and The Bourne Legacy), who portrays Gutt, a self-styled master of the high seas who’s determined to make Manny, Sid and Diego part of his crew; WANDA SYKES as Sid’s stowaway Granny, who causes all sorts of problems for our heroes; AZIZ ANSARI as Squint, a prehistoric rabbit who fancies himself a tough guy; actress-pop music star KEKE PALMER as Peaches, Manny and Ellie’s headstrong teenage daughter; hip hop sensation DRAKE as Ethan, a handsome young woolly mammoth who has his eye on Peaches – and JENNIFER LOPEZ as Shira, a sabre-toothed tigeress who melts Diego’s heart.

RAY ROMANO is back as Manny, the woolly mammoth and the herd’s “Big Daddy”; QUEEN LATIFAH returns as Ellie — Manny’s significant other; DENIS LEARY rejoins the herd as the saber-toothed tiger Diego; JOHN LEGUIZAMO is at it again as the terminally goofy sloth, Sid; and SEANN WILLIAM SCOTT and JOSH PECK reprise possums Crash & Eddie. Also returning is Scrat (again voiced by CHRIS WEDGE), who in the first Ice Age emerged as a movie icon. In ICE AGE: CONTINENTAL DRIFT, Scrat’s nutty pursuit of the cursed acorn, which he’s been after since the dawn of time, has world-changing consequences — a continental cataclysm that triggers the greatest adventure of all for Manny, Diego and Sid. Also taking on starring roles are HEATHER MORRIS, JOY BEHAR, NICKI MINAJ, JOSH GAD, ALAN TUDYK, NICK FROST, KUNAL NAYYAR, ALAIN CHABAT and JB SMOOVE.

ICE AGE: CONTINENTAL DRIFT is directed by Steve Martino and Michael Thurmeier, and produced by Lori Forte and John Donkin. Twentieth Century Fox releases the animated comedy event, in 3D, on July 13, 2012.

Inviato da: Scissorhands il 19/4/2012, 12:20

Goblins (Laika)

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=89385

Goblins Next Up for Laika Studios
Source: Variety April 18, 2012

Laika Studios, the stop-motion animated production house based in Portland, Oregon, are remaining in the fantasy-horror genre they've established with their previous two outings, an adaptation of Neil Gaiman's Coraline and the upcoming Paranorman, announcing that their next project will be an adaptation of Philip Reeve's Goblins with The Fantastic Mr. Fox animation director Marc Gustafson at the helm.

The book, released in the UK earlier this month and released in the United States later this year, tells the tale of a young goblin named Skarper who lives in a castle with his fellow goblins and who discovers an ancient evil is rising that he feels the need to stop.

Laika President and CEO (and a stop motion animator in his own right) Travis Knight gave this statement about the project:

"Goblins is a fantasy with bite. In the hands of Laika's freakishly talented artists and guided by the ineffably gifted Mark Gustafson, it will make a strange, stirring, and altogether beautiful film."

Look for ComingSoon.net's report on our own visit to Laika Studios sometime next month.

Inviato da: Scissorhands il 21/4/2012, 12:45

Tim Burton's Night of the Living

Tim Burton Plans Stop-Motion Monster Movie Night of the Living
Source: The Hollywood Reporter April 9, 2012

Seth Grahame-Smith and Tim Burton look as though they're prepared to keep working together for the foreseeable future as the writer today tells The Hollywood Reporter that he's got another script in the works with Burton planning to direct. This one's called Night of the Living and will be another stop-motion animation effort.

"Night of the Living is an idea I have had around for years that I'm doing with Tim Burton," he tells the outlet. "When we were shooting 'Dark Shadows' last year I worked up the nerve to tell Tim about it because I always thought it would make a good movie. When I saw what he had done with 'Frankenweenie' and 'Corpse Bride', it always struck me as a great idea for that form. I'm writing it at Warner's Bros. for him (as a stop-motion monster movie)."

After he turns in the script for that project, Grahame-Smith will adapt his new novel, Unholy Night (hitting stores tomorrow) into a feature. No director is currently attached.

Grahame-Smith is both the original author and screenwriter of the upcoming Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (produced by Burton) and drafted the Burton-directed Dark Shadows. He's also attached to write the upcoming sequel to Burton's original comedy, Beetlejuice.


http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=89002

Inviato da: Scissorhands il 21/4/2012, 13:09

Dr. Seuss’ ‘The Cat In The Hat’ (Illumination Entertainment)

Dr. Seuss’ ‘The Cat In The Hat’ Get Another Life At Chris Meledandri’s Illumination

By MIKE FLEMING | Thursday March 15, 2012 @ 6:25pm EDT
Tags: Audrey Geisel, Chris Meledandri, Dr. Seuss, Dr. Seuss' The Lorax, The Cat In The Hat, Universal Pictures

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EXCLUSIVE: After topping the box office the past two weeks with Dr. Seuss’ The Lorax, Universal Pictures, Illumination Entertainment’s Chris Meledandri, and Audrey Geisel will tap the Dr. Seuss library for another classic title, and this one is a surprise. They will begin developing a 3D CG-animated feature based on The Cat in the Hat. Rob Lieber has just been set to write the script. Meledandri will produce and Geisel will be executive producer.

Aside from Green Eggs And Ham and How The Grinch Stole Christmas!, The Cat In the Hat is arguably the most famous story generated by Theodor Dr. Seuss Geisel. The surprise comes from the fact that Universal turned it into a live action film in 2003. That film grossed $101 million domestic and $133 million worldwide, it cost about $109 million to make and was considered a big disappointment. While a live action Grinch was a big hit for Universal, Meledandri and Mrs. Geisel believe that the Cat has more than one life on the big screen. It is a very popular ride in Universal’s Islands of Adventure theme park, a ride that was always based on Dr. Seuss’s original drawings. The feeling among Meledranadi, Mrs. Geisel, and Universal Films chairman Adam Fogelson and co-chairman Donna Langley is that Seuss’s works connect better in animation, prompting Universal’s decision to make this the next project.

Meledandri started the relationship with Mrs. Geisel and the estate of her husband when he ran Fox Animation and made Horton Hears A Who there. He brought over the relationship when he agreed to start a family film division for Universal. It took a couple of years to set up a studio and stable of animators, but Illumination has been a boon for Universal’s turnaround. The division has generated three films so far, none of which cost more than $70 million. Between Despicable Me, Hop and by the time Dr. Seuss’ The Lorax has completed its revenue run, the three films will likely surpass $1 billion in global box office receipts. Despicable Me has a sequel in the works, with Al Pacino voicing the villain.

Illumination is separately working on a film about the life of Dr. Seuss, with Johnny Depp attached to play him. It’s contemplated as a live action film interspersed with animation, and it will be produced by Meledandri, David Kennedy and Infinitum Nihil’s Depp and Christi Dembrowski. Mrs. Geisel will be executive producer. Keith Bunin is writing the script.

Lieber just adapted the Judith Viorst children’s book Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day for Fox and 21 Laps. He’s repped by UTA and Anonymous Content.


http://www.deadline.com/2012/03/dr-seuss-the-cat-in-the-hat-get-new-life-at-chris-meledandris-illumination/

Inviato da: Scissorhands il 30/4/2012, 20:11

The Hero’s Guide to Saving Your Kingdom (Blue Sky)

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/fox-animation-heros-guide-saving-your-kingdom-318041

Fox Animation Picks Up Children's Book 'Hero's Guide to Saving Your Kingdom' (Exclusive)
Chernin Entertainment, which was behind "Rise of the Planet of the Apes," is producing.
11:49 AM PDT 4/30/2012 by Borys Kit
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"The Hero’s Guide to Saving Your Kingdom"
Fox Animation has acquired the movie rights to children’s book The Hero’s Guide to Saving Your Kingdom by first-time author Christopher Healy.
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The book, which hits shelves May 1, tells the story of the four princes from the classic fairy tales who saved Cinderella, Snow White, Rapunzel and Sleeping Beauty.
In the tome, the princes’ due is glossed over by various minstrels but the four young men, cast out of their respective castles, get a shot at redemption and glory when they uncover a plot that will destroy the kingdoms.
The 432-page book from Walden Pond Press/HarperCollins Children’s Books, is the first novel from Healy, who was a children’s entertainment reviewer as well as a haunted house zombie actor before writing the book.
Healy is repped by Hotchkiss and Associates.

Inviato da: Scissorhands il 1/5/2012, 0:36

Santapprentice (Weinstein distributed)
The Trick or Treaters (Weinstein distributed)
Leo the Lion (Weinstein distributed)

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=89551

The Weinstein Co. Dates Three Animated Films for 2013
Source: The Weinstein Company April 24, 2012

The Weinstein Company announced today the studio has set three more animated titles for theatrical distribution in 2013. You can read the full press release below:

The Weinstein Company is gearing up for its biggest year of family friendly entertainment yet with multiple animated films coming to theaters in 2013. Buoyed by the heat that ESCAPE FROM PLANET EARTH is generating and the inside buzz that is building on the project, TWC Co-Chairman Harvey Weinstein announced the slate and release dates for TWC's upcoming animated films. In addition to ESCAPE FROM PLANET EARTH, upcoming releases include: SANTAPPRENTICE, THE TRICK OR TREATERS and LEO THE LION.

Said TWC Co-Chairman Harvey Weinstein, "Following the success of THE LORAX, RANGO and the continued achievements of some of the industry's most successful animated filmmakers, we are producing animation with comedic stories that the entire family can enjoy. ESCAPE FROM PLANET EARTH already boasts a great cast including Sarah Jessica Parker, Jessica Alba, Brendan Fraser, James Gandolfini, Craig Robinson and Rob Corddry. We will be utilizing all of our relationships with top talent across the board to deliver the appropriate comedic tone and entertainment."

ESCAPE FROM PLANET EARTH, a CG-animated comedy, will be in theaters on February 14, 2013. In ESCAPE FROM PLANET EARTH, made in association with GRF, astronaut Scorch Supernova finds himself caught in a trap when he responds to an SOS from a notoriously dangerous alien planet. LEO THE LION, the story of a young vegetarian lion who is seen as an outcast among his fellow lions, will be released on August 30, 2013. THE TRICK OR TREATERS, a tale of villains pilfering from the countryside until they are charmed by a young orphan girl, will be in theaters on October 25, 2013. SANTAPPRENTICE, which tells the story of a young orphan who is chosen to replace Santa when he retires, will be out on December 6, 2013. A-list voice talent will be announced closer to release. In development is franchise project CRICKET IN TIMES SQUARE, written by Evan Spiliotopoulos whose credits include THE LION KING 1 1/2, THE JUNGLE BOOK 2; and MICKEY, DONALD, GOOFY: THE THREE MUSKETEERS.


Inviato da: Scissorhands il 13/6/2012, 19:49

Rio Sequel (BlueSky)

http://www.cinemablend.com/new/Rio-Sequel-Likely-Take-Flight-29054.html
Rio Sequel Likely To Take Flight
5 Comments published: 2012-01-26 05:50:06 Author: Sean O'Connell

The animated Rio crossed the $140-million mark at the domestic box office. It scored positive reviews (more than 70% Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes). And on Tuesday morning, it earned an Oscar nomination. All of those suggest the potential for a sequel, which we now hear is on the horizon.

OK, so the Oscar nomination was for Sergio Mendes’ original song “Real In Rio,” and not quite for the film’s vibrant animation. Yet it was Mendes who revealed to HitFix that Rio director Carlos Saldanha is moving forward on a sequel, and he might have come up with a natural tie-in to an actual, global event.
"I think the plan is for the movie to come three or four months before the World Cup," Mendes said. The 2014 World Cup takes place in Brazil, where the original Rio was set. "Fox has been talking about (it) and it looks like it's going to happen. We're going to have a meeting I think next week and Carlos is coming to town to tell us the story, and it looks like it's a go."

Fox studio reps did say that no script deals have been set, but it sounds like the ball is rolling. Far worse animated sequels have received sequels. Many go right to DVD, so this is a step up for Saldanha’s colorful creation. He’s also extremely versed in the franchise game, having co-directed the Ice Age films. I’m actually surprised at how those films have held steady – and even improved – with each new film, so let’s hope Rio 2 expands on the bird-centric universe … and offers up another kick-ass soundtrack of Brazilian dance tunes.


Inviato da: Scissorhands il 13/6/2012, 19:51

Frog and Toad (Jim Henson Company)

Jim Henson Company To Develop ‘Frog And Toad’ Animated Feature Film

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Friday June 8, 2012 @ 11:35am PDT
Tags: Frog and Toad, Jim Henson Company

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The Jim Henson Company has acquired rights to the Frog And Toad children’s books and is developing an animated feature. Written and illustrated by Arnold Lobel in the 1970s, each of the four books include five short stories chronicling the exploits of a frog and his friend, a toad. Lisa Henson will produce for the Jim Henson Company, and Adam and Adrianne Lobel will executive produce. Craig Bartlett (Dinosaur Train, Hey Arnold!) will write the screenplay and Cory Edwards (Hoodwinked) is attached to direct. The deal is tied to a licensing and merchandising program signed with HarperCollins Children’s Books. The company is presenting Frog And Toad at the upcoming Licensing Expo in Las Vegas.

http://www.deadline.com/2012/06/jim-henson-company-frog-and-toad-animated-feature-film/

Inviato da: Scissorhands il 13/6/2012, 19:52

LEGO (Animal Logic produced/Warner distributed)
http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=87698


Exclusive: Miller & Lord Give LEGO & Cloudy 2 Updates
Source: Edward Douglas March 4, 2012

In 2009, filmmakers Christopher Miller and Phil Lord made their mark with the Sony Animation hit Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs and while their live action directorial debut, the Jonah Hill-Channing Tatum action-comedy 21 Jump Street, comes out on March 16, they still have their hands in animation as they move forward on development with the planned LEGO movie for Warner Bros. and are involved with the "Cloudy" sequel, currently (and tentatively) called Cloudy 2: Revenge of the Leftovers.

ComingSoon.net had a chance to talk with Miller and Lord and get some updates on those other projects, especially their LEGO movie since there were and are still a lot of questions about what this movie is going to be since the project was first announced.

They're still working on developing the story with Animal Logic in Australia and co-director Chris McKay working with a unit in Los Angeles and Lord explained the approach they're taking with the film as "CGI with a stop motion feel to it and it's really weird in a great way."

"We're really building stuff with real LEGOs for the character design phase and the vehicle designs," Miller said. "We have LEGO experts and people literally building stuff and a room filled with LEGOs and the storyboard artist making things and shooting them on their phones, it's pretty nuts."

Since "Cloudy" took a long time to get made, we wondered whether this would be the same case with the LEGO movie and we might not see it for another three years.

"We want to release it sooner than that and we have a great team and we're moving really quickly, the animatics are turning around really fast," Lord said. "One of the things that's lucky about McKay is that his background is as an editor so we've introduced editing into the process a lot sooner than we probably otherwise would."

The filmmakers also addressed some of the skepticism people have had about the movie being an extended advertising for the LEGO brand.

"The thing about it is obviously it's not a big LEGO commercial for products," Miller told us. "LEGOs are the medium that we're using to tell a story. If you've seen any of those brick films online people make in their basement, it's sort of one of those but with a much bigger budget, as if somebody had a really big basement and a lot of time."

"One of the ways we like to think about it is that it's a medium, not a brand," Lord chimed in.

"It's not like they're selling clay when they do a claymation movie, so it's sort of like that," Miller finished the thought. "We're telling an interesting story and the medium we're using to tell it is these little LEGO bricks and these little characters."

Since the duo have been busy finishing up and promoting 21 Jump Street, we were curious how involved they've been in developing Sony Animation's planned sequel to their hit animated movie.

"We worked on the treatment for the story and we chose the guys who are directing it, who was our head of story (Kris Pearn) and one of the lead storyboard artists (Cody Cameron) from the first one," Miller said. "They're great, very talented and funny guys and we knew they would really do a great job with it."

"We have the same design team of the movie with some amazing additions, and the character designs are even crazier. The movie's going to look even better. It's really insane," Lord continued.

We were most curious whether the subversive humor from the first movie, which Miller and Lord developed for many years, would carry over into the sequel.

"That's the best thing about the animatics we've already seen and the early work that's been done, is that it's already really funny," Lord said, and Miller agrees that they're doing a great job capturing that distinctive tone.

Look for the rest of our interview with the directors of 21 Jump Street sometime before the movie opens on March 16.

NOTE: There was some confusion in the original story about the status of Animal Logic and its relation to Happy Feet 2, since it was the animation house who did the original movie but we've since been corrected in our misunderstanding of the situation and the article has been updated accordingly.


Inviato da: Scissorhands il 13/6/2012, 19:55

Tonka (Sony Pictures Animation)
http://www.deadline.com/2012/06/sony-to-make-tonka-trucks-animated-movie/

Sony To Make Tonka Trucks Animated Pic

By MIKE FLEMING | Monday June 11, 2012 @ 2:51pm EDT
Tags: Hasbro, Sony Pictures, Tonka

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Sony Pictures has jumped aboard the Hasbro bandwagon that Universal jumped off of. Sony is developing the animated film Tonka, based on the 65-year-old kiddie car brand. The studio announced the arrangement in a press release, with Sony Pictures Animation and Happy Madison Productions producing the movie with Hasbro. Adam Sandler and Jack Giarraputo’s Happy Madison is also producing a movie version of Hasbro’s Candy Land for Sony, and the studio is separately developing Hasbro’s Risk.

Conspicuously absent from the press release is Hasbro’s most recent credit, Battleship, the Universal Pictures summer tentpole wannabe that bore little resemblance to the board game and sank loudly at the box office. Universal has put the majority of Hasbro properties into turnaround — including the priority project Stretch Armstrong as well as Clue; Monopoly; and Magic, The Gathering – a disappointing result for a strategic alliance between the studio and the toymaker’s film production arm made when brands were considered big for studios. It has been hit or miss for Hasbro in Hollywood. While Battleship was a failure, the Hasbro toy line Transformers turned into a billion-dollar franchise by sticking close to the core appeal of the toy and then creating something very watchable onscreen.

Can Sony succeed in the Hasbro brand game where Universal failed? The studio must be getting a better deal than the rich first dollar gross pact that Hasbro got paid by Universal (the film Ouija was dropped by Universal over its $100 million budget, and then was brought back at the studio when it was reconfigured at a $5 million budget). Paramount is going through some turmoil on the other major Hasbro property, G.I. Joe, which had its release date pushed as the studio tries to solve problems on the film. All this means that playing the branding game is perilous for studios, unless there is a definite loyalty to that brand, and a filmmaker like Michael Bay who really knows how to make the movie equivalent of a theme-park ride with the spectacle and the humor. Peter Berg is just not that director. Here’s Sony’s release:

CULVER CITY, Calif., June 11, 2012 – TONKA, the Hasbro brand that for 65 years has stood for its line of toy trucks for children, will bring its TONKA toughness to the big screen in a fully animated motion picture to be produced by Sony Pictures Animation, Hasbro and Happy Madison Productions. The announcement was made today by Bob Osher, president, Sony Pictures Digital Productions, Michelle Raimo-Kouyate, president of Production for Sony Pictures Animation and Brian Goldner, president and CEO of Hasbro. The film will also be produced and developed by Goldner and Hasbro’s senior vice president and managing director of motion pictures, Bennett Schneir and will be written by Fred Wolf.

The new TONKA project strengthens the growing ties between Sony Pictures and Hasbro, following the announcements that Sony Pictures is developing motion pictures based on Hasbro’s RISK and CANDY LAND brands. CANDY LAND is also a Happy Madison project.

Commenting on the announcement, Osher said, “In its 65 years, TONKA has become more than a toy or a brand – TONKA trucks are a rite of passage for kids all around the world. Time spent with these toys creates memories that last a lifetime as kids are inspired to play using the boundaries of their imagination. We look forward to creating a family friendly motion picture that brings the TONKA experience to life.”

Raimo-Kouyate added, “Fred and our friends at Happy Madison and Hasbro have a truly inventive take on what it means to be ‘TONKA tough’ that will translate the multi-generational appeal of this world-renowned brand into a fun animated adventure for the whole family.”

“We’re thrilled to be working with Bob, Michelle, and the amazing team of artists and storytellers at Sony Pictures Animation,” said Schneir. “Together with Happy Madison, we’re excited to bring TONKA trucks to life in a terrific story for audiences around the world.”

One of the most recognized brands in Hasbro’s portfolio, TONKA has been the bestselling toy truck globally since 1947. Giving children real-life, relatable experiences, TONKA trucks help kids learn the confidence to get the job done.

Inviato da: Scissorhands il 13/6/2012, 19:57

Deep (Valve Corporation produced)

http://screenrant.com/shane-acker-valve-deep-movie-sandy-178699/?_r=true

’9′ Director Teaming With Valve for Post-Apocalyptic Animated Film, ‘Deep’
Jun 11, 2012 by Sandy Schaefer



Three years ago, animator Shane Acker made his feature-length directorial debut with 9 - a big screen treatment of his Oscar-nominated short. It was a moderate financial success, grossing $48 million worldwide on a $30 million budget, and received mixed-to-positive marks from critics for its expanded version of the simple story featured in Acker’s original work (read out review, for additional insight).

However, what the 9 feature managed to do unequivocally is establish Acker as someone capable of creating mesmerizing CGI imagery – and constructing an alternate/sci-fi world that is unmistakably HIS, rather than the handiwork of producers Tim Burton and Timur Bekmambetov.


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That’s all context for today’s announcement that Acker is teaming up with the Valve Corporation video game development and digital distribution company on a new computer-animated feature, titled Deep. According to the Chicago Tribune, Deep will employ Valve’s game production technology – used for series like Half-Life and Team Fortress - which will, in turn, allow for “real-time rendering, and editing, simplified character animation and economical lighting.”
Part of the logic behind said move is to prevent expenditures on Deep from rising above the relatively small $18.7 million target budget. As additional financial incentive: creating Deep with Valve’s tech also lends itself naturally to a video game tie-in – and if there’s any one trend which is all the rage in the movie biz nowadays (besides remaking/rebooting old properties), it’s releasing products with built-in multi-platform potential.


A screenshot from the 'Half-Life' series

Deep is an original story being scripted by Jack Barton Mitchell. Similar to 9, it is set in a “post-apocalyptic world, devastated by World War III”, though probably not an alternate-reality Earth, like in 9. The storyline follows the adventures of Sullivan, a nuclear submarine captain who discovers that a race of “super scientific intelligence” (called the Wayfarers) can save the planet from complete destruction – but at what cost, is the question.

As mentioned before: Acker’s involvement with Deep will ensure that it looks incredible, beyond the context of a digitally-animated film with a budget under $20 million. It’s also hard to knock any project that aspires to be genuinely creative from a storytelling perspective (see: our similar reaction to the Wachowskis’ Jupiter Ascending), and Deep tweaks familiar dystopian/sci-fi tropes just enough to warrant attention. In other words: we’ll be keeping an eye on this one.

Since Deep is only in the early stages of pre-production, it’s best to not expect any updates on the film in the near future. All the same, Screen Rant will keep you posted on any information concerning its release date – including, whether or not Valve uses its online network, Steam, as an alternative means to distribute the movie.



Inviato da: Scissorhands il 25/6/2012, 11:55

Kazorn & The Unicorn (Sony Picture Animation)

http://www.deadline.com/2012/06/sony-animation-in-talks-with-kelly-asbury-for-kazom-the-unicorn/


Sony Animation In Talks With Kelly Asbury For ‘Kazorn & The Unicorn’

By DOMINIC PATTEN | Friday June 22, 2012 @ 4:58pm PDT
Tags: Kazom & The Unicorn, Kelly Asbury, Sony Pictures Animation

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EXCLUSIVE: Kelly Asbury is in negotiations to direct Kazorn & The Unicorn for Sony Pictures Animation. Asbury co-wrote and directed 2011 Gnomeo and Juliet for Disney and co-directed Shrek 2 in 2004. Kazorn & the Unicorn follows the adventures of a young man and a unicorn as he seeks to locate a powerful weapon and prove his worth to his true love. Lloyd Taylor is writing the Unicorn screenplay. Sam Raimi, Josh Donen and Russell Hollander are producing. Asbury is already scheduled to work with Sony Animation on Pooch Café, which he is writing. Asbury is also scheduled to direct Will Gallows and the Snake Bellied Troll, a live-action/CGI-animated feature for Elton John and David Furnish’s Rocket Pictures. Asbury is repped by UTA and attorney Nancy Newhouse-Porter

Inviato da: Scissorhands il 25/6/2012, 13:05

The Jungle Book (DQ Entertainment Ireland Ltd)

http://www.deadline.com/2012/06/dq-entertainment-jungle-book-animated-3d-movie/

DQ Entertainment Ireland Launches Feature Film Unit, Greenlights Animated ‘Jungle Book’ As First Project

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Tuesday June 19, 2012 @ 9:52am PDT
Tags: DQ Entertainment Ireland, Tapaas Chakravarti, The Jungle Book

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The Jungle Book is the first of three classic titles set to be developed and produce by India-based animation house DQ Entertainment Ireland Ltd, which kicked off its theatrical features business last year with The Prodigies for Warner Bros, Onyx Films and Fidélité Films in France. Its first film under its new feature division, which it announced today, will be based on the Rudyard Kipling tale, a $45 million stereoscopic 3D animated film already in production and targeted for a 2014 release. Animation vets Jun Falkenstein and Kevin Johnson are co-directing a script by Madagascar writer Billy Frolick. Pre- and post-production will be based in LA, with animation to be handled at DQE’s Hyderabad, India, headquarters. DQE chairman and founder Tapaas Chakravarti is producing. Rollman Entertainment CEO Eric Rollman, a former president of Marvel Animation and Saban/Fox Family Productions, and DQE’S VP Intellectual Property Rouhini Jaswal are executive producing. “By leading off our slate with a 3D stereoscopic version of The Jungle Book, a classic and universally beloved story based in India, our home country, we’re making a bold statement to the industry — that DQE is committed to put the creative, technical and financial resources together to produce compelling, high-quality animation for all distribution channels,” Chakravarti said in a release.



Inviato da: Scissorhands il 25/6/2012, 18:01

Happy Smekday! (Dreamworks)
http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=91699


Jim Parsons and Rihanna to Voice DreamWorks Animation's Happy Smekday!
Source: DreamWorks Animation June 20, 2012

DreamWorks Animation today announced that Emmy and Golden Globe winner Jim Parsons ("Harvey on Broadway" and "The Big Bang Theory") and international superstar Rihanna (Battleship) will star in the leading roles in Happy Smekday!, a feature film based on the critically acclaimed book "The True Meaning of Smekday" by Adam Rex. The studio plans to release Happy Smekday! during the fourth quarter of 2014.

Tim Johnson (Over the Hedge, Antz) will serve as the film's director. Chris Jenkins (Rio, Surf's Up) and Suzanne Buirgy (Kung Fu Panda 2) are serving as producers and DreamWorks Animation's Head of Development Gregg Taylor is overseeing the project. Tom J. Astle and Matt Ember (Get Smart) are currently writing the screenplay.

"Adam's hilarious book is the perfect recipe for a compelling animated feature and we are ecstatic that Jim Parsons and Rihanna will contribute their immense talents to the production," said Bill Damaschke, DreamWorks Animation's Chief Creative Officer. "We're also thrilled that Tim Johnson is back to direct another DreamWorks Animation feature film and show the world just how fun an alien invasion can be!"

"When I read Adam Rex's remarkable book, I knew it would make an amazing film. I can't wait to introduce audiences to the unique world and characters of 'Happy Smekday!'" added Tim Johnson.

In Happy Smekday! an alien race invades Earth and uses it as a hideout from their mortal enemy. When one lowly alien accidentally notifies the enemies of his whereabouts, he is forced to go on the run with a teenage girl. The two become unlikely buddies and embark on a comical globe-trotting adventure to right his wrongs, in which our alien hero learns what it really means to be human.

Inviato da: Beast il 21/8/2012, 10:13

La Dreamworks Animation ha scelto la Fox per la distribuzione dei suoi film a partire da marzo 2013.

Da Badtaste:

20th Century Fox distribuirà i film DreamWorks Animation

La DreamWorks Animation ha annunciato di essere entrata in un accordo di distribuzione e marketing quinquennale con la Twentieth Century Fox. L'ultimo film a essere distribuito da Paramount Pictures (e in Italia da Universal Pictures International Italy) sarà Le 5 Leggende.

Il nuovo accordo prevede che dal 2013 al 2017 (con eventuale rinnovo) la Fox si occupi di promuovere e distribuire i titoli della DWA nel territorio nordamericano e in quelli internazionali. La FOX già produce e distribuisce film di animazione, attraverso la Blue Sky: il più recente è stato L'Era Glaciale 4. Secondo l'accordo, Fox otterrà lo stesso compenso che prendeva la Paramount (8%) sulla distribuzione cinematografica e home video mondiale in base agli incassi, oltre che per la distribuzione televisiva internazionale e per alcuni business digitali come video-on-demand e noleggi. DreamWorks Animation potrà distirbuire i propri prodotti nelle televisioni nordamericane senza pagare un compenso a Fox.

Inviato da: Claudio il 21/8/2012, 13:57

Un affare per la Fox!!

Inviato da: Scissorhands il 29/8/2012, 0:39

“Despicable Me’ Minions Spinoff (Illumination Entertainment)

“Despicable Me’ Minions Spinoff Dated 2014

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Tuesday August 21, 2012 @ 8:35pm PDT
Tags: Illumination Entertainment, Universal Pictures, Untitled Minions Project

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The Minions will next be seen in Despicable Me 2, which opens July 3, 2013. Today Universal Pictures scheduled Illumination Entertainment‘s Untitled Minions Project In 3D for Friday, December 19, 2014. The spinoff features the Minions characters from the 2010 hit Despicable Me and marks the 5th movie in Illumination’s partnership with Universal. With an all new storyline, Universal says the movie will take full advantage of the oddball Minions in settings with human characters. The 3D-CG comedy adventure will be produced by Illumination’s Chris Meledandri and Janet Healy and will be directed by Pierre Coffin who with Chris Renaud also helmed the original movie and its upcoming sequel. The Minions Project is to be co-directed by Kyle Balda. Brian Lynch has written the screenplay and Renaud will serve as executive producer.


http://www.deadline.com/2012/08/untitled-minions-movied-slated-for-december-19-2014/

Inviato da: Beast il 10/9/2012, 9:24

Ecco i film Dreamworks dal 2013 al 2016 (saranno ben 4 nel 2015!):

The Croods - 22 marzo 2013
Scritto e diretto da Chris Sanders e Kirk DeMicco. Quando la loro caverna viene distrutta, i membri della famiglia Crood sono costretti a intraprendere una avventura epica nel mondo preistorico in cerca di una nuova casa. Con l'aiuto di un nomade di nome Guy, i Crood imparano a vincere le loro paure e scoprire cosa è necessario fare per sopravvivere... uno all'altro.

Turbo - 19 luglio 2013
Basato su un'idea originale di David Soren, regista del film e sceneggiatore assieme a Robert Siegel e Darren Lemke. La storia di una lumaca con un sogno impossibile: vincere la Indy 500. Quando uno strano incidente le fornisce una velocità straordinaria, Turbo cerca di realizzare questo sogno.

Mr. Peabody & Sherman - 1 novembre 2013
Diretto da Rob Minkoff e scritto da Craig Wright. Basato sul classico cartoon di Jay Ward, Mr. Peabody è la persona più intelligente del mondo, ma è... un cane. Quando il suo "cucciolo" Sherman utilizza la sua macchina del tempo WABAC senza il suo permesso, gli eventi nella Storia iniziano a confondersi con risultati comici.

Me and my Shadow - 14 marzo 2014
Diretto da Alessandro Carloni, scritto da Tom J. Astle e Matt Ember. Il film mescolerà animazione CG e animazione tradizionale. Dan, l'ombra del protagonista, decide di scappare per vivere la sua vita ma finisce per legarsi a Daniel Grubb, un timido ragazzo che non vorrebbe mai vivere una avventura. Quando le vite di entrambi vengono messe in pericolo Dan deve prendere controllo di Daniel, dando il via a una folle avventura nella quale entrambi impareranno il significato della vera amicizia.

Dragon Trainer 2 - 20 giugno 2014
Scritto e diretto da Dean DeBlois. Ispirato ai libri di Cressida Cowell.

Happy Smeakday! - 26 novembre 2014
Basato sul romanzo "The True Meaning of Smeakday", diretto da Tim Johnson e scritto da Tom J. Astle e Matt Ember. Quando l'alieno più fastidiosamente ottimista della galassia si ritrova in fuga dalla sua stessa razza aliena, l'unica cosa che può fare è unire le forze con quelle di una testarda ragazzina. Insieme diventeranno i due fuggitivi più improbabili in grado di salvare il pianeta.

I Pinguini di Madagascar - 27 marzo 2015
Diretto da Simon J. Smith, scritto da Michael Colton e John Aboud.

Trolls - 5 giugno 2015
Ispirato alle figure mitologiche. Diretto da Anand Tucker e scritto da Wallace Wollodarsky e Maya Forbes.

B.O.O.: Bureau of Otherworldly Operations - 6 novembre 2015
Basato su un'idea di Tony Leondis, qui regista. Scritto da Tom Wheeler. I fantasmi come non li avete mai visti prima.

Mumbai Musical - 19 dicembre 2015
Diretto da Kevin Lima, scritto da David Sussman, con testi di Stephen Schwartz e musiche da A.R. Rahman. Il primo musical di Bollywood animato della DreamWorks, ispirato alla storia epica Ramayana ma vista dal punto di vista delle scimmie.

Kung Fu Panda 3 - 18 marzo 2016
Diretto da Jennifer Yuh Nelson, scritto da Jonathan Aibel e Glenn Berger.

Dragon Trainer 3 - 18 giugno 2016
Scritto e diretto da Dean DeBlois. Ispirato ai libri di Cressida Cowell.


Fonte: Badtaste

Inviato da: Claudio il 10/9/2012, 14:40

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Ecco i film Dreamworks dal 2013 al 2016 (saranno ben 4 nel 2015!):


Fonte: Badtaste


Davvero complimenti alla DreamWorks, tantissimi film originali clapclap.gif clapclap.gif , a parte Dragon Trainer 2-3 che sono curioso di capire come continuerà e Kung fu panda 3 , visto il 2, necessita del sequel per capire come va a finire con i panda ancora "vivi". I pinguni era normale che lo sfruttassero.
Per il resto attendo The Croods da tantissimo tempo, su per giù risale ai tempi dell'annuncio di The Rise of the Guardian, entrambi mi hanno sempre incuriosito tantissimo.
Curiosissimo anche per Mr.Peabody, Me and my shadows (per vedere l'utilizzo di cgi e 2D) , Troll (!!!) di cui non si sapeva nulla e che potrebbe essere davvero interessante, e Mumbay (diritti che la Disney si è lasciata scappare)... tranne per il fatto che abbiano deciso di utilizzare delle scimmie , per il resto mi sembra che abbiano puntato su dei nomi di tutto rispetto, basti vedere il regista e chi c'è dietro ai testi rolleyes.gif

Inviato da: Scissorhands il 8/10/2012, 14:46

The Great Migration CMI Entertainment

Vanessa Hudgens and Ashley Tisdale Get Animated For The Great Migration
Source: The Hollywood Reporter September 20, 2012

CMI Entertainment has announced, via The Hollywood Reporter, plans for their first animated feature, The Great Migration. The voice talents include High School Musical stars Vanessa Hudgens and Ashley Tisdale, Logan Henderson and Kendall Schmidt of "Big Time Rush" fame, Ashley Benson ("Pretty Little Liars") and Kevin G. Schmidt (Cheaper By the Dozen). The entire cast will also perform songs for the films' soundtrack.

The film follows a group of characters (no word on whether or not they're human) who run afoul of a predator that threatens their environment.

Michael Cammarata, Rob Minkoff and the elder Schmidt brother will produce with production beginning in November.



http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=95023

Inviato da: Scissorhands il 8/10/2012, 14:47

Tobey Maguire to Produce and Possibly Star in CARDBOARD
by Dave Trumbore Posted: September 7th, 2012 at 1:10 pm

Cardboard Fox Animation

http://collider.com/tobey-maguire-cardboard/193956/

Actor Tobey Maguire is flexing his child-like imagination with Cardboard, an adaptation of Doug TenNapel’s graphic novel that sees cardboard creations come to life. Maguire is set to executive produce the project through his banner, Material Pictures, alongside TenNapel and the Gotham Group. The Fox Animation acquisition would be animated by WedgeWorks, with Chris Wedge (Ice Age) eyeing the director’s chair. Cardboard follows a down-on-his-luck father who gives his young son a crappy birthday present (a cardboard box), which comes to life once they shape it into a man. Hit the jump for more.

Variety reports that Maguire, who voiced a character in Cats & Dogs, may also star in Cardboard if the project moves forward. The actor, unfortunately, won’t be seen in the upcoming Ang Lee film, Life of Pi, since the director recently cut him from the picture. There’s a much better chance of spotting Maguire in Baz Luhrman’s The Great Gatsby when it debuts next summer.

TenNapel also has two other projects in the works based off of his previous novels: Ghostopolis at Disney and Monster Zoo with Paramount.

Here’s the book description for Cardboard (via Amazon):

When cardboard creatures come magically to life, a boy must save his town from disaster.

Cam’s down-and-out father gives him a cardboard box for his birthday and he knows it’s the worst present ever. So to make the best of a bad situation, they bend the cardboard into a man-and to their astonishment, it comes magically to life. But the neighborhood bully, Marcus, warps the powerful cardboard into his own evil creations that threaten to destroy them all!



Inviato da: Scissorhands il 9/10/2012, 20:31

E potevano mancare i Peanuts al cinema?

The Peanuts (Fox Animation/Blue Sky Studios)


Charles Schulz’s ‘Peanuts’ In Feature Deal With Fox Animation And Blue Sky Studios

By MIKE FLEMING | Tuesday October 9, 2012 @ 10:46am EDT
Tags: Blue Sky Studios, Fox Animation, Peanuts

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BREAKING: 20th Century Fox Animation and Ice Age makers Blue Sky Studios will turn Charlie Brown, Snoopy, Woodstock and the whole Peanuts gang into an animated feature film franchise. Fox has closed a deal for rights to turn the strip by the late Charles Schulz into a film that has already been set for release on November 25, 2015. That date commemorates the 65th anniversary of the comic strip and the 50th anniversary of the TV special A Charlie Brown Christmas.

Fox Animation has set director Steve Martino, who co-directed the Fox/Blue Sky hit Dr. Seuss’ Horton Hears A Who! and Fox Animation’s latest blockbuster, Ice Age: Continental Drift. The screenplay is by Craig Schulz and the writing team of Bryan Schulz & Cornelius Uliano. Craig Schulz and Bryan Schulz, who are Schulz’s son and grandson, will produce with Uliano.

Deal came after two years of rights negotiations with the Schulz family, culminating in a agreement announced by Fox Animation president Vanessa Morrison. So much of the family film game is built around branded properties, and few family brands are as well known globally as Peanuts.

The Schulz strip was read daily by 355 million people in 75 countries and spawned such Emmy-winning specials as It’s The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown.

Also playing a key role in the deal was Neil Cole, CEO and president of Iconix Brand Group which, in a joint venture with Charles M. Schulz Creative Associates, formed Peanuts Worldwide in 2010, the home to the global Peanuts property. Fox Animation director of development Ralph Millero worked closely with Morrison and with the Schulz estate in securing the rights to the property.

Said Fox Animation’s Morrison: “We are thrilled to partner with the Schulz family and Iconix and honored to bring the Peanuts characters to the big screen. This all started with our love and respect for the work of Charles Schulz. We thank the Schulz family and Iconix for letting Fox and Blue Sky bring his vision to new generations of film goers.”

Craig Schulz, President, Charles M. Schulz Creative Associates, said, “We have been working on this project for years. We finally felt the time was right and the technology is where we need it to be to create this film. I am thrilled we will be partnering with Blue Sky/Fox to create a Peanuts movie that is true to the strip and will continue the legacy in honor of my father.”

Said Iconix Brand Group CEO Cole: “This is a momentous step for the Peanuts brand. The beloved characters, Snoopy, Charlie Brown and the whole gang resonate with multiple generations all over the world. This film will give us a new medium in which to engage consumers globally and showcase the power of the Peanuts brand.

CAA brokered the deal along with the Ziffren law firm.


http://www.deadline.com/2012/10/charles-schulzs-peanuts-in-feature-deal-with-fox-animation-and-blue-sky-studios/

Inviato da: Claudio il 10/10/2012, 13:05

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E potevano mancare i Peanuts al cinema?


certo che no Roftl.gif Roftl.gif Immagino sia in CGI huh.gif ...

Inviato da: Scissorhands il 17/10/2012, 15:04

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certo che no Roftl.gif Roftl.gif Immagino sia in CGI huh.gif ...

essì miseriaccia... già tremo!

Inviato da: Scissorhands il 26/11/2012, 19:13

Hotel Transylvania 2 (Sony Animation)

Sony Books Date For ‘Hotel Transylvania 2′

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Friday November 9, 2012 @ 4:20pm PST
Tags: Hotel Transylvania, Sony Pictures

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Sony Animation’s Hotel Transylvania launched huge at the end of last month and finished its opening frame No. 1 with $43 million, breaking the all-time September opening-weekend record and becoming the unit’s top-grossing debut ever. Its domestic cume has reached $137.5 million so far and it’s on the shortlist for the animated feature Oscar. It’s no surprise that the studio wants another one and has set a September 25, 2015 release date for it. So far the competition that week is Fox’s animated ghost pic B.O.O.: Bureau Of Otherworldly Operations, starring Seth Rogen.


http://www.deadline.com/2012/11/hotel-transylvania-sequel-release-date-september-25-2015/

Inviato da: Scissorhands il 26/11/2012, 19:15

The Nut Job (ToonBox Entertainment / Redrover Co, Ltd)

Katherine Heigl, Will Arnett, Brendan Fraser Lend Voices To Animated ‘The Nut Job’

By MIKE FLEMING JR. | Thursday November 15, 2012 @ 4:04pm EST
Tags: Brendan Fraser, Katherine Heigl, Peter Lepeniotis, The Nut Job, Will Arnett

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EXCLUSIVE: The animated feature The Nut Job has drawn a voice cast that will be led by Katherine Heigl, Will Arnett, Brendan Fraser, Stephen Lang, Sarah Gadon, and Jeff Dunham. The feature, which Peter Lepeniotis will direct based on his 2005 short film Surly Squirrel, is a co-production between Canada-based ToonBox Entertainment and Korea-based Redrover Co, Ltd. Redrover is financing with plans to release next year.

Written by veteran Disney animation scribe Lorne Cameron (Brother Bear, Over The Hedge), The Nut Job is an action-packed comedy set in the late 1950s in fictional Oakton. Pic follows the travails of the mischievous squirrel Surly and his rat pal Buddy as they plan a nut store heist that gets out of hand.

Thom Chapman and Graham Moloy are producing and Daniel Woo, Hong Kim, Mike Karz, and Tom Yoon are executive producers, in association with Gulfstream, headed by Karz and Bill Bindley. Gulfstream will make the distribution deal.

“We couldn’t be more pleased with the cast that’s being assembled for our first feature,” said Chapman, ToonBox vice president. “They have brought the film to a whole new level. Each voice is perfect for their respective roles, and they truly make the characters come alive.”

Lepeniotis has worked with Pixar Animation Studios and ILM and as an animator on such films as Fantasia 2000 and Toy Story 2. His first project with ToonBox was the animated TV series Bolt’s & Blip. Heigl, Fraser and Dunham are represented by CAA, Arnett and Gadon by WME and Lang by Innovative. Gadon’s also repped by Creative Drive Artists in Canada.


http://www.deadline.com/2012/11/katherine-heigl-will-arnett-brendan-fraser-lend-voices-to-animated-the-nut-job/

Inviato da: Scissorhands il 26/11/2012, 19:17

Turkeys (ReelFx produced/ Relativity distributed)

Relativity & Reel FX Team Up For Animated ‘Turkeys’

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Wednesday October 24, 2012 @ 5:49pm PDT
Tags: Reel FX, Relativity Media, Turkeys

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Relativity Media and Reel FX will jointly finance and produce the animated comedy for a 2014 release. Turkeys features two birds from opposite sides of the tracks that join forces and travel through time to get their species off people’s plates. Woody Harrelson and Owen Wilson will provide the voices of the two lead turkeys. Turkeys will be directed by Horton Hears A Who!’s Jimmy Hayward. David I. Stern and John Strauss wrote the screenplay with a rewrite by Craig Mazin. Scott Mosier, Mazin, Strauss and Stern will produce. Relativity will distribute the film worldwide. Reel FX is a Dallas and Santa Monica-based fully integrated movie studio that develops and produces both animated films and live action movies.


http://www.deadline.com/2012/10/relativity-reel-fx-team-up-for-animated-turkeys/

Inviato da: Claudio il 26/11/2012, 20:39

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Hotel Transylvania 2 (Sony Animation)

[i]Sony Books Date For ‘Hotel Transylvania 2′


http://www.deadline.com/2012/11/hotel-transylvania-sequel-release-date-september-25-2015/


era inevitabile laugh.gif Potevano non sfruttare questo inaspettato successo?

Inviato da: Scissorhands il 21/1/2013, 17:03

Day of the Dead diventa Book of life e verrà distribuito dalla Fox

http://collider.com/book-of-life-guillermo-del-toro-fox-animation/217573/
Fox Animation Picks Up Guillermo del Toro’s Day of the Dead Movie BOOK OF LIFE for Release in October 2014
by Brendan Bettinger Posted: December 12th, 2012 at 7:28 pm





We learned in February that Guillermo del Toro signed on to produce an animated movie about the Mexican holiday Day of the Dead directed by Jorge R. Guiterrez. THR reports that Fox Animation has acquired the picture, now titled Book of Life, and plans to release it on October 10, 2014. Fox and the filmmakers aren’t ready to release the full logline just yet, but we heard back in February that Book of Life tells “a Romeo and Juliet-style love story set against a Mexican Day of the Dead backdrop.”

Fox Animation has a decade-long partnership with Blue Sky Studios (the guys behind the Ice Age series) that will continue with Epic, Rio 2, and the Peanuts movie everyone wants. But their upcoming slate adds a few more in-house productions like Book of Life, Walking with Dinosaurs, and Welcome to the Jungle. Del Toro has his own partnership with Dreamworks Animation, so I’m surprised they didn’t grab Book of Life. I am happy to see the project find any studio home, since a quick search on Google images pretty much guarantees an animated Day of the Dead film will pop on screen.

Inviato da: Beast il 6/2/2013, 9:55

In casa Dreamworks Animation arrivano le ripercussioni per il flop delle 5 Leggende.
Il numero di film in uscita nel 2013 è ridotto a due, con il rinvio di Mr. Peabody and Sherman a marzo 2014; evidentemente non si fidano più del periodo novembre-dicembre (anche il Gatto non aveva brillato).
Contemporaneamente, Me & My Shadow, previsto proprio per inizio 2014, è stato rimosso dal calendario uscite ed è tornato in fase di sviluppo.
L'aspetto più triste è che questo cambio di scaletta comporterà molto presto vari licenziamenti.

http://www.deadline.com/2013/02/dreamworks-animation-layoffs/#more-422660

Inviato da: Claudio il 6/2/2013, 13:56

CITAZIONE (Beast @ 6/2/2013, 9:55) *
In casa Dreamworks Animation arrivano le ripercussioni per il flop delle 5 Leggende.
Il numero di film in uscita nel 2013 è ridotto a due, con il rinvio di Mr. Peabody and Sherman a marzo 2014; evidentemente non si fidano più del periodo novembre-dicembre (anche il Gatto non aveva brillato).
Contemporaneamente, Me & My Shadow, previsto proprio per inizio 2014, è stato rimosso dal calendario uscite ed è tornato in fase di sviluppo.
L'aspetto più triste è che questo cambio di scaletta comporterà molto presto vari licenziamenti.

http://www.deadline.com/2013/02/dreamworks-animation-layoffs/#more-422660


Per me è evidente che la causa sia il flop di Rise of the Guardian sad.gif E immaggino che Me & My Shadow sia stato annullato perchè o troppo maturo, o giusto per trovare il tempo di renderlo più commedia e mettere più battute per renderlo tutto risate ... sad.gif

Inviato da: Scissorhands il 6/2/2013, 21:41

Postecipato
Mr Peebody & Sherman (3/7/14)
Sospeso
Me and My Shadow

Inviato da: Scissorhands il 11/2/2013, 14:43

Annunciato il prossimo film LAIKA: The Boxtrolls aka Here be Monsters (10/17/2014)

http://www.deadline.com/2013/02/focus-features-seals-pact-for-laika-pic-the-boxtrolls/

Focus Features Seals Pact For LAIKA Pic ‘The Boxtrolls’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday February 7, 2013 @ 12:17pm EST
Tags: Big Deals Film, Focus Features, LAIKA, The Boxtrolls

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BREAKING: Moments after setting a deal with Random House Studio for Longbourne, Focus Features has locked its third animated movie project with ParaNorman and Coraline partner LAIKA. This one is called The Boxtrolls, which is in production, and Focus will release it October 17th, 2014. Focus has worldwide distribution rights and Universal Pictures International will release the movie overseas (with eOne Distribution handling Canada).

The Boxtrollsis a 3D stop-motion and CG hybrid animated feature based on Alan Snow’s bestselling fantasy adventure novel Here Be Monsters. It’s directed by Anthony Stacchi (co-director of Open Season) and Graham Annable (story artist on Coraline and ParaNorman), and produced by David Ichioka and Mr. Knight. The voice cast includes Oscar winner Ben Kingsley, Toni Collette, Elle Fanning, Isaac Hempstead-Wright, Jared Harris, Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Richard Ayoade, and Tracy Morgan.

The Here Be Monsters deal was brokered by Hotchkiss And Associates.

The Boxtrolls is a comedic fable that unfolds in Cheesebridge, a posh Victorian-era town obsessed with wealth, class, and the stinkiest of fine cheeses. Beneath its charming cobblestone streets dwell the Boxtrolls, foul monsters who crawl out of the sewers at night and steal what the townspeople hold most dear: their children and their cheeses. At least, that’s the legend residents have always believed. In truth, the Boxtrolls are an underground cavern-dwelling community of quirky and lovable oddballs who wear recycled cardboard boxes the way turtles wear their shells. The Boxtrolls have raised an orphaned human boy, Eggs, since infancy as one of their dumpster-diving and mechanical junk-collecting own. When the Boxtrolls are targeted by villainous pest exterminator Archibald Snatcher (Kingsley), who is bent on eradicating them as his ticket to Cheesebridge society, the kindhearted band of tinkerers must turn to their adopted charge and adventurous rich girl Winnie (Fanning) to bridge two worlds amidst the winds of change — and cheese.

Inviato da: Scissorhands il 11/2/2013, 14:44

Alla Illumination confermano il remake CGI de Il Grinch
http://www.deadline.com/2013/02/illumination-entertainment-chris-meledandri-to-re-animate-how-the-grinch-stole-christmas-dr-seuss/

Illumination’s Chris Meledandri To Re-Animate ‘How The Grinch Stole Christmas’

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Thursday February 7, 2013 @ 5:51pm PST
Tags: Chris Meledandri, Dr. Seuss, How The Grinch Stole Christmas, Illumination

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Chris Meledandri‘s Illumination Entertainment is working on a new animated version of Dr. Seuss’ How The Grinch Stole Christmas for Universal Pictures. Pete Candeland is set to direct with Meledandri producing. A writer has not yet been named. The Grinch‘s most recent screen appearance was Universal’s 2000 live-action version with Jim Carrey but Chuck Jones’ animated version from 1966 remains one of the most popular Seuss adaptations. The new version of The Grinch is Meledandri’s third Dr. Seuss project, and Illumination has developed a good relationship with Dr. Seuss author Theodor Geisel’s widow Audrey Geisel who will again serve as executive producer. Meledandri previously made Horton Hears A Who through Fox and Blue Sky Studios and The Lorax via Illumination for Universal.

Inviato da: Scissorhands il 11/2/2013, 14:52

Aggiunto
The Boxtrolls (LAIKA) (10/17/2014)
How the Grinch Stole the Christmas (Illumination)

Inviato da: Scissorhands il 13/3/2013, 12:23

Aggiunto
Legends of Oz: Dorothy's Return aka Dorothy of Oz

Inviato da: Zio Paperone il 8/4/2013, 12:20

Visto che è stato segnalato Hotel Transylvania 2, Scissboard in passato ti avevo segnatlato dello spin-off dei Pinguini di Madagascar che uscirà il 27 Marzo 2015

http://www.movieplayer.it/film/penguins-of-madagascar_30853/

Inviato da: Scissorhands il 10/4/2013, 15:54

Aggiornate le date
Dist New Date Old Date
Mumbai Musical (Working Title) Fox 3/18/16 12/18/15
Kung Fu Panda 3 Fox 12/23/15 3/18/16

Inviato da: Scissorhands il 16/4/2013, 20:51

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=102055
Relativity's Turkeys is Now Free Birds
Source: Relativity Media
March 27, 2013


Relativity Media's animated, Thanksgiving-themed family comedy Turkeys has undergone a title change and will now be released as Free Birds. It is still being targeted to hit theaters on November 1.

Directed by Jimmy Hayward, Free Birds is an animated comedy that follows two turkeys from opposite sides of the tracks must put aside their differences and team up to travel back in time to change the course of history - and get turkey off the menu for good.

Owen Wilson, Woody Harrelson, Amy Poehler, Dan Fogler, Lesley Nicol, George Takei, Colm Meaney and Keith David provide voices.

Read more at http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=102055#VWf3G8SVz5R4flvF.99


Inviato da: Scissorhands il 16/4/2013, 20:53

http://variety.com/2013/film/news/open-road-acquires-u-s-on-the-nut-job-1200348350/

Open Road Acquires U.S. Rights On ‘The Nut Job’

04.11.13 | 09:00AM PT
Animated comedy set for Jan. 17 release

Dave McNary
Film Reporter
@Variety_DMcNary

Open Road Films has acquired all U.S. distribution rights to the 3D animated comedy “The Nut Job” and set a Jan. 17, 2014 as the release date.

The project is a collaboration between ToonBox Entertainment, Redrover Co., Ltd. and Gulfstream Pictures. Producers are Graham Moloy and WK Jung; exec producers are Mike Karz and Bill Bindley of Gulfstream Pictures, Jay Ahn, Daniel Woo, Hong Kim and Tom Yoon.

Characters in the toon are voiced by Liam Neeson, Katherine Heigl, Will Arnett, Brendan Fraser, Stephen Lang, Sarah Gadon and Jeff Dunham. Peter Lepeniotis directed from a screenplay he co-wrote with Lorne Cameron.

Story centers on a mischievous squirrel (voiced by Arnett) and his rat friend who plan a nut store heist and unwittingly find themselves embroiled in a much more complicated adventure.

The film is based on Lepeniotis’ 2005 short film “Surly Squirrel.”

Inviato da: Scissorhands il 24/4/2013, 19:22

Aggiunto Tibet Code (Oriental Dreamworks)

Inviato da: Scissorhands il 25/4/2013, 17:04

http://www.deadline.com/2013/04/studiocanal-aardman-animations-team-for-shaun-the-sheep-feature/
Shaun The Sheep Aardman

Studiocanal, Aardman Animations Team For ‘Shaun The Sheep’ Feature
By NANCY TARTAGLIONE, International Editor | Thursday, 25 April 2013 11:42 UKTags: Aardman Animations, Shaun The Sheep, StudioCanal
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The stop-motion animated TV series Shaun The Sheep first aired on the BBC’s CBBC in 2007 and has been sold in over 170 countries. France’s Studiocanal will finance the feature version of the popular kids show from Aardman Animations. Studiocanal will also distribute in the UK, France, Germany, Australia and New Zealand and handle international sales.

The family film, written and directed by Richard Starzak and Mark Burton, will see the titular character and his flock venture into the big city to rescue their farmer.

This is the first collaboration between Studiocanal and Aardman and will be one of Studiocanal’s lead pre-sales titles in Cannes where I understand the company will dedicate a day to Shaun.

Inviato da: Claudio il 26/4/2013, 9:09

Già sapevo di Shaun e non vedo l'ora che esca smile.gif !

Inviato da: Scissorhands il 11/5/2013, 20:50

Ratchet & Clank (2015) (Rainmaker Entertainment and Blockade Entertainment)

http://www.nerdist.com/2013/04/ratchet-clank-get-an-animated-movie-in-2015/

“Ratchet & Clank” Get an Animated Movie in 2015
by Dan Casey on APRIL 23, 2013

Anyone who’s had the pleasure of playing Insomniac Games and Sony Computer Entertainment’s Ratchet & Clank series has probably thought to themselves, “Hey, this kind of feels like a movie! Why isn’t this a movie yet?” Well, today your inner monologues were answered, as Variety revealed that Rainmaker Entertainment and Blockade Entertainment are teaming up to bring the delightful dynamic duo to the big screen, with a target release of 2015.

First introduced in 2002, the games themselves play out like an alternate reality Pixar film. Ratchet, the last of the lombax (the Mohican equivalent of marmoset-lemur-chimera creatures), and his trusty stainless steel sidekick Clank, a dapper but diminuitive robot, attempt to defend the Solana Galaxy from nefarious alien villains like Chairman Drek, fallen superhero Ace Hardlight, and Ultron-by-way-of-Kang equivalent Professor Nefarious. Can’t you just picture it coming together already?
Given that the film is based on a script by Insomniac Games senior writer TJ Fixman, fans worried about maintaining the game’s signature style and off-kilter humor should rest easy, especially after watching the official announcement trailer. Directed by Jericca Cleland, the film also promises to keep much of the original voice talent intact with James A. Taylor (Ratchet), David Kaye (Clank), and Jim Ward (Qwark) already attached to the project. Your move, Wreck-It-Ralph 2.
Are you looking forward to a Ratchet & Clank film? Let us know in the comments below!

Inviato da: Scissorhands il 15/5/2013, 21:12

Angry Birds (7/1/2016) (Rovio Entertainment produced/Sony distributed)

http://variety.com/2013/film/news/angry-birds-pic-makes-it-home-at-sony-sets-july-1-2016-bow-1200481536/

Angry Birds’ Pic Makes It Home at Sony; sets July 1, 2016 Bow


MAY 15, 2013 | 10:26AM PT
Rovio Entertainment will develop, produce and finance the movie
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Sony Pictures has won the worldwide distribution rights on the upcoming “Angry Birds” animated movie and has set a July 1, 2016 release.

The 3D film is being developed, produced, and financed by Rovio Entertainment, the creator of the original app. “Despicable Me” producer John Cohen will produce with David Maisel exec producing.

First appearing as a mobile app in 2009, “Angry Birds” has since expanded its business to entertainment, publishing, and licensing and is still the number one most downloaded app of all time.

“Every studio in town would love to add Angry Birds to their slate,” Sony’s Chairman and CEO Michael Lynton and Sony’s Co-Chairman Amy Pascal said in a joint statement. ” There are few titles out there that bring this kind of excitement, brand awareness and built-in audience to the table.”

As for Rovio, the pic will mark the companies first feature though they have helped produce the weekly animated series, which premiered in March. The series was launched through its Angry Birds apps as well as on select video-on-demand channel providers, Smart TVs, connected devices, and on select TV networks around the world.



Ballerina (Gaumont/Quad)

http://variety.com/2013/biz/news/ballerina-cartoon-benjamin-millepied-1200480729/

‘Ballerina’: Quad, Gaumont Dance Pas de Deux (EXCLUSIVE)

Gaumont is set to reteam with Quad, the shingle behind “The Intouchables,” on “Ballerina,” a $30 million English-language 3D family toon.

SEE MORE: Cannes Film Festival

Now in pre-production, the 1884-set animated fare, helmed by Canadian duo Eric Warin and Eric Summer, tells the tale of Felice, an 11-year-old orphan girl from Brittany who dreams of becoming a ballerina at the Paris Opera. Together with Corentin, a little boy she meets at the orphanage, Felice flees to Paris to chase her dream.

Ballet dancer Benjamin Millepied (“Black Swan”) has been tapped to supervise the choreography. Motion capture will be used to record Millepied’s performance. Bruno Coulais (“Farewell My Queen”) wrote the original score.

Nicolas Duval, Laurent Zeitoun and Yann Zenou are producing. Gaumont is co-producing, and reps “Ballerina” for international markets and will distribute in Gaul. Meanwhile, eOne has nabbed all distribution rights for Canada.

Gaumont is in talks to close the U.K., all of Eastern Europe, South Korea and Benelux.

Although Gaumont has been involved in animated films before, “Ballerina” is the first bigger-budget mainstream animated feature that the shingle has boarded. The French company is positioning it as a family movie that targets the same demo as Hollywood animated tentpoles — a premise that’s highly attractive to indie distributors looking to tap into the audiences’ appetite for event toon features.

“The script, the settings and the main characters deliver inspirational Disney values, such as never abandoning your dream, finding your destiny, the importance of friendship and family,” said Cecile Gaget, head of Gaumont Intl. Gaget added that Paris plays a key part in “Ballerina.”

Toon will be delivered in mid-2016 for an expected release in December 2016.





Inviato da: Scissorhands il 7/6/2013, 11:06

Larrikins (Dreamworks Animation)

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=105178

DreamWorks Animation Goes to The Outback with Larrikins
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Award-winning composer, comedian, actor and writer Tim Minchin is joining DreamWorks Animation, lending his signature creative energy to a new musical project set in the Australian outback. Currently titled Larrikins, which is Australian slang for mischievous youth, this all-animal comedy is an original idea written by Harry Cripps ("Supernova") and produced by Christina Steinberg (Rise of the Guardians, National Treasure).

"Our whole team is incredibly excited about this project," said Chief Creative Officer, Bill Damaschke. "We've been looking to work with the immensely talented Tim Minchin on something for a while, and there is no doubt that this project is a perfect fit. He and Harry Cripps will be a fantastic team."

Minchin, who will likely take on a larger creative role in addition to writing the music/lyrics for the film, co-wrote "Matilda the Musical" which was awarded a 2012 Olivier Award for Best New Musical and is currently nominated for 12 Tony Awards including Best Musical Score.

Says Minchin, "I was lucky enough to grow-up in Western Australia and know that the Australian outback is vast and spell-binding and heart-stoppingly beautiful, and the characters that inhabit it are unique and hilarious and tough and cheeky. I am hugely excited to be working with Harry and the DreamWorks Animation team in their mission to capture some of this unique aesthetic and quirky, iconoclastic culture on film. It's going to be bloody good fun."

Larrikins tells the story of an uptight bilby (a desert-dwelling marsupial), who has lived a sheltered life in the safety of his family burrow. When he ventures out and becomes privy to a dangerous secret, he finds himself launched on a musical adventure across the mystical and untamed Australian outback. The film will be managed by DreamWorks Animation Head of Development Gregg Taylor and Development Executive Amie Karp.


Inviato da: GasGas il 8/6/2013, 12:36

È la dreamworks si butta sui musical smile.gif che soddisfazione... Erano anni che aspettavo questo momento... A causa di shrek per un decennio la Disney ha cercato di emulare maldestramente lo stile dreamworksiano , senza riscuotere molto successo ( tengo a specificare che nell'ultimo decennio i film Disney sono stati sempre una o due o anche tre spanne sopra qualunque drimuorcs qualitativamente, ma purtroppo al botteghino non hanno riscosso) ... Ora grazie a rapunzel e la drimuorcs che finalmente cerca di imitare lo stile Disney ... Di nuovo!! Corso e ricorsi storici... Spero che la Disney abbia imparato a non sottovalutarsi più in futuro e che la drimuorcs sta sempre sotto XD XD

Inviato da: Scissorhands il 23/9/2013, 0:46

http://collider.com/noah-baumbach-flawed-dogs-dreamworks-animation/

Noah Baumbach Has Been Secretly Directing DreamWorks Animation’s FLAWED DOGS
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While filmmaker Noah Baumbach first rose to prominence with 2005’s The Squid and the Whale, the director has been taking a rather stealthy approach to his projects as of late. He filmed this year’s excellent Frances Ha on the cheap and in secret, only confirming its existence when it had completed production, and we know next to nothing about his currently in-production effort While We’re Young. Well now you can add yet another secret project to Baumbach’s resume, as he has apparently been covertly directing DreamWorks Animation’s Flawed Dogs in his spare time. Hit the jump for more.

An adaptation of Berkeley Breathed’s illustrated novel Flawed Dogs has been in development at DreamWorks Animation for nearly three years now, but it appears that movement on the project is further along than we previously thought. Bleeding Cool reports that Baumbach is directing the pic and has been working in secret on the project for some time. The story centers around a dachshund who must reclaim his place in the family after being wrongly exiled by a jealous show dog. It’ll be interesting to see how well Breathed’s distinctive imagery is translated to the screen, but I’m eager to see an animated film completely from the mind of Baumbach.

The release of Flawed Dogs is likely still some time away, as DWA has its schedule pretty much set through 2016; that gives Baumbach ample time to juggle his live-action projects with his duties on the animated feature. This isn’t the Greenberg director’s first time working with DreamWorks Animation, as he previously co-wrote Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted. Of course he also co-wrote Wes Anderson’s brilliant stop-motion animated feature The Fantastic Mr. Fox.

Inviato da: Scissorhands il 10/10/2013, 0:24

W.I.S.H. Police (Reel Fx)

http://www.deadline.com/2013/09/reel-fx-sets-animated-film-w-i-s-h-police/
Reel FX Sets Animated Film ‘W.I.S.H. Police’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday September 30, 2013 @ 11:19am PDT
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EXCLUSIVE: Reel FX Animation Studios has set Kung Fu Panda scribes Cyrus Voris and Ethan Reiff to script W.I.S.H. Police, an animated film that is based on an original short story by Daniel Nayeri. The film will be directed by Headless Productions’ Victor Maldonado, Adrian Garcia and Alfredo Torres. It’s a police procedural revolving around the Imaginary Crimes Unit, a worldwide creature force tasked with monitoring and apprehending Wicked Ideas Suddenly Human (W.I.S.H.). Those are the malevolent wishes that people utter in moments of anger, and evil criminals work to make reality. When a young boy gets jealous of his sister and wishes her out of his life, the W.I.S.H. Police are called in for a tough one. After all, the brat made his wish on a star, while he blew out his birthday cake and held a four-leaf clover in his hand. Yikes. Reel FX hatched Free Birds with Relativity, which releases the film November 1, followed by The Book Of Life with Fox, which will be released October 3, 2014. An adaptation of the Beasts Of Burden comic series is next. The scribes are repped by UTA and Field Entertainment. The directors are repped by UTA and Anonymous.

Inviato da: Scissorhands il 10/10/2013, 0:26

Walking With Dinosaurs 3D (Animal Logic produced, Fox distributed)

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/vfx-house-animal-logic-lead-93891

VFX House Animal Logic Will Lead Animation on BBC's 'Walking With Dinosaurs 3D'
12:35 AM PST 1/28/2011 by Pip Bulbeck
Following up last year's 'Legends of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'hoole,' Animal Logic will also work on 'Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2.'

SYDNEY -- After making Australia’s first 3D animated feature last year, Legends Of The Guardians: The Owls of Ga’hoole, vfx and production house Animal Logic is to lead the animation and visual effects work on BBC Worldwide’s AUS$65 million ($64 million) 3D feature Walking With Dinosaurs.


Inviato da: Scissorhands il 10/10/2013, 0:28

Sausage Party (Nitrogen Studios Canada Inc, Sony distributed)
http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=109361


Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg to Throw a Sausage Party
Source: Sony Pictures, Annapurna Pictures
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Sony Pictures Entertainment and Annapurna Pictures will partner on what is expected to be an R-rated animated film titled Sausage Party, written by Seth Rogen & Evan Goldberg & Kyle Hunter & Ariel Shaffir, from a story by Seth Rogen & Evan Goldberg & Jonah Hill, to be directed by Conrad Vernon (Shrek 2, Monsters vs. Aliens, Madagascar 3) & Greg Tiernan, it was announced today by Doug Belgrad, president of Columbia Pictures, and Hannah Minghella, president of Production for the studio, and by Megan Ellison. Annapurna Pictures and Point Grey Pictures are producing.

After Point Grey and Annapurna packaged the film and presented it to the studio, Sony agreed to co-finance it with Annapurna. The film will be produced by Megan Ellison, Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg, and Conrad Vernon. The executive producers are Jonah Hill, James Weaver, Kyle Hunter, and Ariel Shaffir. Nitrogen Studios Canada Inc., in Vancouver, will handle all CG animation, design, production and post-production. Sony Pictures will release the film worldwide and the studio is eyeing a release date in 2015.

Sausage Party is a raunchy animated movie about one sausage's quest to discover the truth about his existence. After falling out of a shopping cart, our hero sausage and his new friends embark on a perilous journey through the supermarket to get back to their aisles before the 4th of July sale.

Commenting on the announcement, Minghella said, "We're thrilled to be back in business with Seth and Evan. This project has all the irreverent, insightful and risqué R-rated humor we have come to expect from them. Matching their unique comic sensibility with an animated film is a fun and inspired idea. We are confident Seth, Evan, Conrad and Greg will deliver one of the most memorable animated movies of all time."

Rogen and Goldberg most recently wrote and directed the $100 million hit Sony Pictures comedy This is the End and are currently working on upcoming films The Interview (also for Sony Pictures) and The Neighbors.

Andrea Giannetti will oversee the project for the studio along with Minghella. David Distenfeld will oversee the project for Annapurna.


Inviato da: Scissorhands il 10/10/2013, 0:33

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/minions-movie-pushed-back-christmas-633373

'Minions' Movie Pushed Back From Christmas 2014 to Summer 2015
10:52 AM PDT 9/20/2013 by Pamela McClintock
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The move leaves Universal without an animation tentpole next year but allows the studio to open the movie in the same corridor that "Despicable Me 2" debuted.

Universal is pushing back the release of Illumination Entertainment's untitled Minions spinoff movie from Dec. 19, 2014, to July 10, 2015.
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The delay means the studio won't have an animated film next year, and comes only days after Disney and Pixar announced they were pushing The Good Dinosaur from 2014 to 2015, likewise leaving Pixar without a film release during a calendar year for the first time since 2005.
Considering this summer's animation glut, it's no surprise that Hollywood studios are shuffling their release schedules, even if it means longer periods between films.
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Studio insiders say Universal was so happy with the July 2013 release date for Illumination's Despicable Me 2 that it decided to open Minions in roughly the same corridor. Despicable 2, debuting on July 2, has grossed a staggering $840.5 million to date.
Universal had already staked out July 3, 2015, for an untitled Illumination movie; that project is being pushed back to Feb. 12, 2016.
Universal is likely relinquishing the July 3, 2015, date -- opting instead to open Minions on July 10 -- because of the crowded playing field, including the Terminator reboot and Independence Day 2. Both of those tentpoles are likely to get some amount of family traffic.

Inviato da: Scissorhands il 3/11/2013, 1:36

The Addams Family (MGM)
http://variety.com/2013/film/news/addams-family-reborn-as-animated-movie-at-mgm-exclusive-1200781652/
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Just in time for Halloween — the durable Addams Family is heading for another incarnation, this time as an MGM animated movie.

MGM is in final negotiations with BermanBraun’s Gail Berman and Lloyd Braun to produce an animated film based on the comedically macabre clan, based on the cartoons created by Charles Addams.

Pamela Pettler, whose credits include “Corpse Bride” and “Monster House,” has been signed to write the screenplay. The film will be exec produced by Andrew Mittman and Kevin Miserocchi.

The Addams Family originated in 150 single panel cartoons by Addams, about half of which were published in The New Yorker between 1938 and Addams’ death in 1988. The characters became famous through ABC’s sitcom, which ran for two seasons between 1964 and 1966 and led to several other TV series, two Paramount live-action films and most recently a Broadway musical.

Chris Meledandri’s Illumination had been developing a Tim Burton-helmed, stop-motion “The Addams Family” movie, but disclosed earlier this year that it had ditched the project.

MGM and BermanBraun announced in June that they had signed a first-look film deal as part of an overall pact to develop content across broadcast and cable.

BermanBraun’s roster of shows include NBC’s series “Camp,” HGTV’s “Garage Sale Wars” and Showtime’s “Polyamory.” The banner is also developing Ben Stiller’s “Rentaghost” at Fox and an adaptation of “Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus.”

BermanBraun also announced last week that it was teaming with AOL to overhaul the Moviefone service as a broader destination for entertainment news and content.



Inviato da: Claudio il 3/11/2013, 9:23

Ottimo!! Un altro film da aggiungere alla lista di film da guardare per Halloween smile.gif

Inviato da: Scissorhands il 16/2/2014, 13:38

Robodog (Marza Animation Planet Inc.)
http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=114084

Chris Colfer and Ron Perlman Will Lend Their Voices to RoboDog
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Golden Globe winners Chris Colfer ("Glee") and Ron Perlman (Hellboy) will lend their voices to Marza Animation Planet Inc.'s first original 3D CG animated film, RoboDog, to be directed by the Oscar-nominated Henry F. Anderson III (Gnomeo & Juliet), it was announced today by Marza's CEO, Masanao Maeda. Also revealed was a first look at the film's animated canine heroes, which you can check out at the bottom of this page.

Written by Robert Reece (The Little Mermaid: Ariel's Beginning) and William Schneider, RoboDog is produced by Paul Wang (Astro Boy) and will be edited by studio veteran Tom Finan (Mr. Peabody & Sherman).

RoboDog is said to be a classic, heart-warming adventure story about an unlikely duo who couldn't be more different. KC (Kinetic Canine) (Colfer) is a bright, energetic but overzealous robotic dog, while Marshall (Perlman) is an old, curmudgeonly "real" dog, set in his ways and has little patience for anything new. This canine odd couple embarks on the adventure of a lifetime where each will learn the true nature of friendship, and not to judge a book by its cover.

"We are absolutely ecstatic that Chris has chosen 'RoboDog' as his first foray into animation. Coupled with Ron's extraordinary voiceover work, the duo's talent will make for great chemistry onscreen. Timeless Films is by far the perfect fit for the project due to their expertise in both producing and selling animated films overseas," said Maeda.

"We are thrilled to be working with Marza and the production team on this wonderfully original film and look forward to presenting it to all of our international distribution partners in Berlin," said Ralph Kamp, Chairman and CEO of Timeless Films.

"Chris and Ron are the perfect actors to play KC and Marshall as their voices exemplify the qualities of each character. Chris has an appealing, youthful voice which fits right in with our lead character, KC, who is above all a charismatic entertainer. Ron's voice demands authority, but also has a soft, vulnerable side which works very well for Marshall who comes across as a grouch, but is really a sensitive dog dealing with his past," said Anderson.

"The kid in me is barely being contained right now. I'm so happy to get the chance to work on my first animated film with this wonderful team," said Colfer.

Currently in pre-production with voiceover work set to start on February 1st, UK-based Timeless Films is handling international rights to the project, and will present it to buyers at next month’s European Film Market in Berlin.


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Inviato da: Scissorhands il 16/2/2014, 13:46

Sly Cooper (Rainmaker Entertainment)

http://collider.com/sly-cooper-movie-trailer/

First Trailer for Animated SLY COOPER Film
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The latest entry into the world of video game adaptations for the big screen may come as a bit of a surprise. Animation studio Rainmaker Entertainment and indie production company Blockade Entertainment are teaming up to create a 3D CG-animated feature based on PlayStation’s popular franchise, Sly Cooper. Written and directed by Kevin Munroe (TMNT), the film follows the title character – a raccoon descended from a long line of thieves – along with his friends Bentley Turtle and Murray Hippo as they race to assemble pieces of a Cooper family heirloom. The first teaser trailer gives a great look at the new interpretations of the main characters as well as establishing the tone of the film, but fans will be left wondering if Inspector Carmelita Fox is going to make an apeparance. The film is expected to arrive on screens in 2016.
Hit the jump for the Sly Cooper trailer and synopsis.

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Inviato da: Scissorhands il 16/2/2014, 13:47

Yellowbird (TeamTo)

http://www.thewrap.com/seth-green-dakota-fanning-3d-animated-movie-yellowbird-acquired-wrekin-hill/

Seth Green, Dakota Fanning 3D Animated Movie ‘Yellowbird’ Acquired by Wrekin Hill
MOVIES | By Jeff Sneider on February 10, 2014 @ 1:31 pm Follow @theinsneider
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Christian De Vita directed from a script that Antoine Barraud and Guilhem Lesaffre wrote with Cory Edwards (“Hoodwinked”)

In a seven-figure deal, Wrekin Hill Entertainment has acquired all North American rights to Christian De Vita’s 3D animated feature “Yellowbird” from TeamTO and Haut & Court, the company announced Monday.

Based on fantastic artwork by Benjamin Renner (“Ernest and Celestine”), “Yellowbird” features the voices of Seth Green, Dakota Fanning, Danny Glover, Elliott Gould, Jim Rash and Christine Baranski.

Antoine Barraud and Guilhem Lesaffre wrote the currently-in-production movie with Cory Edwards (“Hoodwinked”), and Wrekin Hill will release the film in theaters this fall.

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Charting a path from Europe to Africa, “Yellowbird” is the epic story of a young teenage bird so scared to venture out into the world that he nearly misses the fun of discovering who he really is.

“We believe that ‘Yellowbird’ will capture the imagination of children, teens and adults alike. It is a beautifully written story about the power of self-discovery and community that will surely take audiences on anincredible emotional journey with its characters,” said Wrekin Hill president/CEO Chris Ball. “With films like ‘Frozen’ and ‘The Nut Job’ showing strength at the U.S. box office, it is clear that there is a real hunger for satisfying family entertainment.”

”’Yellowbird’ is both a fable and a touching human comedy about self-realization. We are thrilled to work with Wrekin Hill as our American distributor,” added TeamTO producer Corinne Kouper.

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The deal for “Yellowbird” was negotiated by Rene Cogan and Alex Mandell for Wrekin Hill with Simon Crowe for UK-based SC Films International on behalf of the filmmakers.

Wrekin Hill has a multi-year U.S. home entertainment distribution deal with Lionsgate, and a three-year multi-platform output deal with Canadian distributor eOne. The company’s most recent acquisitions include Bille August’s “Night Train to Lisbon” starring Jeremy Irons, Melanie Laurent and Charlotte Rampling; and Gabriele Salvatores’ upcoming “Deadly Code” starring John Malkovich.

Inviato da: Scissorhands il 18/4/2014, 16:27

Hot Stuff the Little Devil (DreamWorks Animation )

[i]DreamWorks Animation Targets Harvey Comics' Hot Stuff the Little Devil
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DreamWorks Animation has plans to bring the Harvey Comics character Hot Stuff the Little Devil to the big screen with The Hollywood Reporter suggesting that the project may mark the first-ever live-action/CGI hybrid film from the studio. "Bob's Burgers" scribes (and siblings) Lizzie and Wendy Molyneux are attached to provide the screenplay.

Hot Stuff was created by Warren Kremer (who also created vintage funnybook characters like Richie Rich, Little Audrey and Casper the Friendly Ghost) and made his first appearance in 1957's "Hot Stuff" #1. A young, pitch-fork-wielding devil, Hot Stuff often uses his demonic powers to perform good deeds, much to the chagrin of the older devils.

There's no timeframe yet on when to expect a Hot Stuff film in theaters, but check back for details on the project as they become available.


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Inviato da: Scissorhands il 18/4/2014, 16:28

The Smurfs 3 (Sony Pictures Animation)
http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=115329

Third Smurfs Movies to be Entirely Animated
Source: Variety
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It sounds like The Smurfs will be on their own for the third movie and won't be able to rely on humans. In an article at Variety on Sony Pictures, the trade says that the studio is fast-tracking The Smurfs 3 and that it will be entirely animated, compared to its predecessors which were live-action/animated hybrids.

The first film, which was released on July 29, 2011, cost about $110 million to make and earned $563.7 million worldwide. The $105 million second installment, released on July 31, 2013, took quite a dip in earnings, making $347.5 million worldwide.

The third film is scheduled for a August 14, 2015 release.


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Inviato da: Scissorhands il 18/4/2014, 16:29

Can You Imagine? (Sony Pictures Animation)
http://www.cartoonbrew.com/feature-film/sony-announces-genndy-tartakovskys-can-you-imagine-and-hotel-transylvania-2-97244.html

Sony Announces Genndy Tartakovsky’s ‘Can You Imagine?’ and ‘Hotel Transylvania 2′
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Sony Pictures Animation announced today that Genndy Tartakovsky will direct Hotel Transylvania 2, scheduled for September 2015. Tartakovsky will co-write the pic with Robert Smigel (TV Funhouse, Saturday Night Live).

Sony also says that while Genndy is “busy working an all-new CG take on the comic strip hero, Popeye,” he is developing an original idea, which currently has the working title Genndy Tartakovsky’s Can You Imagine? (Click on artwork above for bigger version.) It is being described as “a fantastic journey through one boy’s imagination.”

Says Tartakovsky, “It’s good to be back at the Hotel Transylvania, and I’m very excited to work on Popeye, a character that I’ve loved since I was a kid. I’m also looking forward to developing an entirely new and original animated feature here at Sony Pictures Animation. This is an exciting time for me and for the studio.”

Inviato da: Scissorhands il 18/4/2014, 16:30

The Lego Movie 2 (Animal Logic)
http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=114356

Warner Bros. Hires Writer for Sequel to The LEGO Movie
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Warner Bros. Taps Writer for Sequel to The LEGO Movie

Though it doesn't open in wide release for a few more days, TheWrap is reporting that Warner Bros. has already decided on pushing forward with a sequel to The LEGO Movie and they've hired Jared Stern to write it. Stern's screenplay credits include The Internship, The Watch, and Mr. Popper's Penguins, and he's also credited with adding story materials for the animated films Wreck-It Ralph, The Princess and The Frog and Bolt.

The original 3D computer animated story follows Emmet, an ordinary, rules-following, perfectly average LEGO minifigure who is mistakenly identified as the most extraordinary person and the key to saving the world. He is drafted into a fellowship of strangers on an epic quest to stop an evil tyrant, a journey for which Emmet is hopelessly and hilariously underprepared.

Opening in theaters the evening of February 6, The LEGO Movie is written and directed by Phil Lord and Chris Miller and features the voices of Chris Pratt, Will Ferrell, Elizabeth Banks, Will Arnett, Nick Offerman, Alison Brie, Liam Neeson and Morgan Freeman.


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Inviato da: Scissorhands il 18/4/2014, 16:31

Bremen Town Musicians (Luxor Entertainment)
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/alan-cumming-joins-animated-bremen-684034

Alan Cumming Joins Animated 'Bremen Town Musicians' (Exclusive)
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Alan Cumming has joined the voice cast of Bremen Town Musicians, the animated reimagining of the Russian folk tale and Brothers Grimm story from Cats & Dogs director Lawrence Guterman.
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D. Matt Geller (Night Witches) and Igor Dobrovoslky of Luxor Entertainment are producing the feature, which already has Jeffrey Wright on board as the piece’s villain.
Guterman’s take on the folk tale begins in 1713 with the King of Bremen demanding his incompetent wizard search across space and time for the greatest musical troupe ever to perform at his daughter's wedding.
Cumming will voice Gevork, the intelligent yet bumbling assistant to Wizard Cregg, who aids his master as they attempt to complete the seemingly impossible time-travel task.
Cumming currently co-stars on TV's The Good Wife (for which he has garnered two Emmy nominations) and has done voice work in the recent Smurfs movies.
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He, along with Geller, recently acquired the spec Dunes of Overveen, the true life story of Willem Arondeus and the bloody underground uprising of artists in Amsterdam during WWII against occupying Nazi forces. It was written by Rich Burns and David Mixner, a civil rights activist and best-selling author.
Cumming, repped by CAA and Untitled Entertainment, will be reprising his Tony Award-winning role as the Emcee opposite Michelle Williams in Sam Mendes and Rob Marshall’s new Broadway production of Cabaret.
Guterman is repped by APA and Kaplan/Perrone.

Inviato da: Scissorhands il 18/4/2014, 16:32

Kong (Aquamen Entertainment)
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/berlin-new-chinese-funded-film-678803


Berlin: New Chinese-Funded Film Venture Making Animated Pic 'Kong' (Exclusive)
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UPDATED: The movie -- based on the Monkey King legend -- is the first title from Aquamen Entertainment, which will be based in L.A.

BERLIN – A collective run by Internet mogul Robin Li -- China's richest man -- is financing a new film production venture that will be run by Korean filmmaker Jeongjung Kim and Chinese producer Gary Zhang.
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The first title from Aquamen Entertainment is the 3D CGI tentpole Kong, based on the famous Chinese Monkey King Legend and intended to be one of the largest Asian animated projects ever mounted. Kong will be developed in association with a Korean animation studio, although Kim and Zhang intend to hire a Hollywood director.
Aquamen is based in Los Los Angeles.
Kong, sporting a $40 million budget, is the latest movie or television property to be adapted from the classical Chinese novel Journey to the West. The film will tell the origin story of the titular character, who was born from molten rock in the Earth's core, but will also feature sci-fi elements, including aliens and robots.
Li is president of the Chinese Cultural Chamber of Commerce of the Private Sector, a collective of hundreds of Asian companies with total assets of more than $1 trillion dollars. It is the first national organization in the cultural sector approved by China's State Council, and was formed last year. Zhang serves as the collective's vice chairman.
Li is first and foremost known as the chairman of Baidu, China's largest Internet search engine. Late last year, he surpassed Wang Jianlin, chairman of the Dalian Wanda Group, to become China's richest man, with a reported net worth of $12.2 billion.
With Kong, the new production venture is looking to energize the Asian animation sector.
Animation has been the poor relation in the Chinese film business for a long time, and previous attempts to make a big animation feature, such as Through the Moebius Strip in 2005, have floundered. But growing technical sophistication has seen some breakout animated features do well at the box office.
Recent successes include the Pleasant Goat, the Big Big Wolf franchise and Boonie Bears: To the Rescue, which has taken in $35.8 million so far at the box office (as a way of comparison, Despicable Me 2 has earned north of $52 million).
Aquamen intends to announce a director for Kong during the Cannes Film Festival in May.

Inviato da: CapitanSparrow89 il 13/6/2014, 10:29

Ecco le Relase Dreamworks Animation

I Pinguini di Madagascar Novembre 2014
Home 25 Marzo 2015
Kung fu Panda 3 2015
Boss Baby 18 Marzo 2016
Captain Underpants 13 Gennaio 2017
Mumbai Musical 10 Marzo 2017
I Croods 2 3 Novembre 2017
Larrikins 16 Febbraio 2018
Madagascar 4 18 Maggio 2018
Il Gatto con gli Stivali 2 novembre 2018.

Inviato da: Claudio il 13/6/2014, 22:25

sembra interessante Larrikins , ho letto che si tratta di una "commedia musicale animata ambientata nell'entroterra australiano"...
Boss baby invece cosa sarebbe? Sembra non esserci più BOO
e arriva pure il Gatto 2!

Inviato da: CapitanSparrow89 il 13/6/2014, 22:50

CITAZIONE (Claudio @ 13/6/2014, 23:25) *
sembra interessante Larrikins , ho letto che si tratta di una "commedia musicale animata ambientata nell'entroterra australiano"...
Boss baby invece cosa sarebbe? Sembra non esserci più BOO
e arriva pure il Gatto 2!


be claudio sicuramente nel 2016 ce qualcos'altro non ancora confermato perchè vedendo la lista sono sempre 2 /3 film l'anno
e nel 2016 ne riporta 1 magari ce proprio il film che dici tu

Inviato da: Claudio il 14/6/2014, 10:09

CITAZIONE (CapitanSparrow89 @ 13/6/2014, 23:50) *
be claudio sicuramente nel 2016 ce qualcos'altro non ancora confermato perchè vedendo la lista sono sempre 2 /3 film l'anno
e nel 2016 ne riporta 1 magari ce proprio il film che dici tu


probabile che sia così, mi ricordo che c'era pure il logo

Inviato da: Scissorhands il 30/7/2014, 14:33

Aggiunte/Modificate le seguenti date:

Penguins of Madagascar 11/26/14
Home 3/27/15
Boss Baby (3/18/2016)

Captain Underpants (1/13/2017)
Mumbai Musical (3/10/2017)
The Croods 2 (11/3/2017)

Larrikins (2/16/2018)
Madagascar 4 (5/18/2018)
Puss in Boots 2: Nine Lives & 40 Thieves (11/2/2018)

Felix The Cat

The Smurfs 3 (8/5/2016)

Inviato da: Scissorhands il 30/7/2014, 14:34

Il progetto è diventato una serie tv, non un film

Dinotrux (Dreamworks Animation Television)
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/netflix-preps-dinotrux-kids-series-711723

Netflix Preps 'Dinotrux' Kids Series from DreamWorks Animation
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Netflix is bulking up on its kids offerings.

The streaming service is set to launch a new original series, Dinotrux, in the spring of 2015. The kids entry, based on Chris Gall's award-winning book series, will feature hybrid dinosaur-construction characters who are set to build and battle over three seasons. It marks the latest from DreamWorks Animation, which inked a landmark deal with Netflix for 300 hours of programming inspired by DWA characters in early 2013.
Dinotrux will follow the adventures of two unlikely best friends as they navigate the mechanical domain ruled by creatures including Tyrannosaurus Trux, Scraptors and Tow-a-constrictors. The series will join DreamWorks' Turbo Fast, which launched in 2013, as well as forthcoming efforts King Julien, Puss in Boots, Veggie Tales in the House and DreamWorks Dragons.
"This is a property that creates a new world with stunning visuals and fantastic action combined with great characters and comedy. In Dinotrux, the biggest guy and the smallest creature become best friends and through their unique partnership evolve their primitive world—a theme that we think will resonate with kids," said Margie Cohn, TV head at DreamWorks Animation in a statement announcing the news Friday.
Added Netflix originals vp Cindy Holland: "DreamWorks has a proven track record of creating beloved characters, and we're excited to be able to bring the Dinotrux friends to our members. We know kids and families love discovering new series to watch together and we're pleased to continue to expand our show line-up from DreamWorks."

Inviato da: Scissorhands il 30/7/2014, 14:51

Superbago (Sony Picture Animation)
http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=120351

Sony Pictures Animation Announces Stop Motion/Live Action Hybrid Feature Superbago
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July 9, 2014


Sony Pictures Animation announced today that they're developing a new stop motion/live action hybrid feature project titled Superbago. It will be directed by John Harvatine and Eric Towner ("Robot Chicken") and produced by Jared Hess (Napoleon Dynamite) along with Ellen Goldsmith-Vein and Eric Robinson. The film is being written by Hess, Ricky Blitt, Hubbel Palmer, and Chris Bowman.

"'Superbago' is a unique new project for Sony Pictures Animation," says Michelle Raimo Kouyate, president of production at Sony Pictures Animation. "I love that our studio has the luxury of not being tied down to one specific type of movie. 'Superbago' will skew older than our last features but I immediately fell in love with the smart comedy idea behind it which features two irreverent stop motion characters dropped in a live action world. The incredibly talented creative team of directors John Harvatine and Eric Towner along with the unique perspective of producer Jared Hess will make this project like nothing you've seen before."

"This project started with a couple of buddies buying a '73 Winnebago off craigslist and making a short film near and dear to our hearts," said Eric Towner. "We found a super supportive home in Sony Pictures Animation and couldn't be more thrilled with the talented team surrounding the project."

Check back for more details on Superbago as soon as they become available.


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Inviato da: Scissorhands il 30/7/2014, 14:52

Medusa (Sony Picture Animation)

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/medusa-comedy-works-at-sony-709539

'Medusa' Comedy in the Works at Sony Animation
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"My Little Pony" director Lauren Faust will direct the animated film.

Medusa, the infamous snake-headed lady of Greek mythology, will be slithering onto the big screen in a new animated comedy at Sony.

Sony Pictures Animation bought a pitch from Todd Alcott and Holly Golden entitled Medusa, and My Little Pony director Lauren Faust is attached to direct.
Michelle Raimo Kouyate, Sony Pictures Animation president of production, will supervise production, along with Jenny Marchick and Daniel Inkeles.
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Faust, repped by Metropolis Talent, developed the Hub Network cartoon My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, which spawned the pop culture phenomena and their accompanying terms, "bronies" and "pegasisters."
Alcott was a co-writer on the animated film Antz, and most recently worked on The Weinstein Co.’s live-action The Giver, starring Jeff Bridges. He's repped by The Radmin Company. Golden has worked mostly in reality television production, including on The Bachelor.


Inviato da: Scissorhands il 20/8/2014, 16:18

HenchMen (Bron Studios produced)

Gary Sanchez Prods Now ‘Henchmen’ With Bron Studios On Animated Feature

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Gary Sanchez Prods’ Adam McKay, Will Ferrell and Chris Henchy will become creative collaborators and exec producers on Henchmen, a feature-length adaptation of the SIGGRAPH 2014 short Henchmen: Ill Suited, from Bron Studios. The production is targeting a 2016 debut.

Screen Shot 2014-08-13 at 10.21.42 AMThe story line starts with a variant of the Sorceror’s Apprentice story line. In this case, a dreamy janitor working in the bad guy museum of Supervillain City ends up inside a somewhat out-of-control super-powered space suit, and causes all kinds of mayhem. The synopsis for the feature-length adaptation suggests there will still be a hapless young twerp in a super suit, but will also focus on a “fallen henchman” named Hank overseeing a “motley crew of blue-collar workers in the Union of Evil.” The “risk-nothing” sentiments of Hank are challenged when he must become a hero and rescue the kid in the suit and the missing woman he loves. Ill Suited is premiering this week at the big computer graphics and animation convention, SIGGRAPH 2014, being held in Vancouver.

Henchmen reteams the Sanchez crew with British Columbia-based Bron, which previously worked with Sanchez on Welcome To Me, starring Kristen Wiig and set to premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival in a few weeks.

Jason Cloth of Creative Wealth Media Finance, one of the film’s main backers, will also exec produce. Bron’s Aaron L. Gilbert and Luke Carroll are producing. Adam Wood, who wrote and directed Ill Suited, is directing. Dennis McNicholas (Saturday Night Live, Garfunkel and Oates, Go On) is completing a script re-write.


http://deadline.com/2014/08/gary-sanchez-prods-bron-studios-animated-film-henchmen-will-ferrell-818764/

Inviato da: Scissorhands il 20/8/2014, 16:19

Betty Boop Movie (Animal Logic Produced)

Simon Cowell Putting Together a BETTY BOOP Movie
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For some reason, I’d never think to associate Simon Cowell with Betty Boop, but it looks like he’s a fan of the animated character because he’s developing and producing a feature film for her. Apparently, Cowell’s been busy developing this idea with the company that owns the character, Fleischer Studios, for several months now via his own shingle, Syco Entertainment, and alongside Animal Logic Entertainment, the company that worked on the animation in The Lego Movie.
Betty Boop first popped up in 1930 and quickly became known for her playful, flirtatious and feisty behavior, and is also widely recognized as the first sex symbol in the animated film realm. Hit the jump for more on the Betty Boop movie.
betty-boopAs reported by Variety, there’s no writer or director attached to the project just yet, but Cowell will produce alongside Adam Milano from Syco, and Zareh Nalbandian and Jason Lust from Animal Logic. Cowell stated:
“Betty is an icon, and one of the biggest stars in the world – I’m thrilled to be working with her. Betty, I’ve worked with some serious divas but I think you could be the biggest of them all!”
Just a couple of months ago, Syco and Animal Logic announced plans to team up and make some music-based animated and live-action/animation hybrid films with their first to be released in 2016. There’s no confirmation in the article on whether or not the Betty Boop movie is that 2016 film, but considering the companies have yet to announce any other ideas, it seems likely that this is it.

Read more at http://collider.com/betty-boop-movie/#mgkEEqUSJ6yqHKO5.99

Inviato da: Scissorhands il 21/8/2014, 12:01

Noah's Ark

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/kung...tor-helm-726564

'Kung Fu Panda' Director to Helm Animated 'Noah's Ark' Comedy
10:30 AM PST 08/20/2014 by Austin Siegemund-Broka
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The film tells the biblical tale from the animals' point of view

John Stevenson has boarded Noah's Ark.

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Stevenson, who was nominated for an Oscar for directing Kung Fu Panda, will helm Unified Pictures' animated adventure comedy. The film is described as a reworking of the biblical tale from the animals' point of view, following an outcast aardvark named Gilbert who must leads a ragtag group of creatures to the ark in time to escape the flood.

Philip LaZebnik and Glen Dolman wrote the script. The film is currently in pre-production and is set for completion in 2016. It is being overseen by executive producers Cecil Kramer and Stevenson with Unified co-founders Kurt Rauer and Keith Kjarval.

Noah's Ark is the first animated feature for Unified Pictures. The company's production credits include the thriller A Single Shot, Clark Gregg's dark comedy Trust Me, and William H. Macy's directorial debut Rudderless, which premiered at Sundance in 2014.

The animated comedy is one of a raft of Bible-themed titles recently. It follows Darren Aronofsky's Noah, an epic take on the Bible story earlier this year. Other similarly themed material is the gospel-based Exodus: Gods and Kings from Ridley Scott and the Jesus bio Son of God.

Stevenson has previously served as story artist on Shrek, its sequel and Madagascar.

"As soon as Kurt and Keith approached me with the idea of taking the classic tale of Noah’s Ark and telling a more personal story within the story, I jumped at the chance," he said in a statement.

He is repped by CAA.

Inviato da: Scissorhands il 22/8/2014, 15:52

Modificate le date di due film DW

The Croods 2 11/3/2017 --> 12/22/2017

Puss in Boots 2: Nine Lives & 40 Thieves 11/2/2018 --> 12/21/2018

Inviato da: Scissorhands il 11/10/2014, 13:18

The Lamb (Sony Pictures Animation)

http://www.thewrap.com/sony-pictures-animation-developing-faith-based-movie-about-nativity-story-exclusive/

Sony Pictures Animation Developing Faith-Based Movie About Nativity Story (Exclusive)
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DeVon Franklin will produce the animated film “The Lamb” under his new company Franklin Entertainment

BAFTA LA Outreach ProjectSony Pictures Animation is developing “The Lamb,” an animated movie inspired by the Nativity story that DeVon Franklin will produce under his newly-minted company Franklin Entertainment.

Based on an original pitch by Tom Sheridan, the film will feature both laughs and heart, as well as an all-animal cast.

Sony Animation intends to produce an inspiring, respectful and entertaining take on the famous Nativity story while remaining accessible to a broad audiences.

Also read: Hollywood's Come-to-Jesus Moment: Inside the Latest Rise of Faith-Driven Movies

Sony Pictures Animation's Michelle Raimo Kouyate, Jenny Marchick and Daniel Inkeles will oversee the project for the studio.

Franklin previously told TheWrap he believes that “entertainment absolutely has the power to heal,” and cited the increasing success of faith-based films and growing need for such content. ”There is a desire for more uplifting content, and content that can inspire and challenge people in a way that makes us think more about our purpose, more about our destiny, and more about our history,” said Franklin, who is also a well-respected motivational speaker and Christian preacher.

The market for faith-based entertainment has been as big as ever this year, as evidenced by Darren Aronofsky‘s “Noah” ($359 million worldwide), Sony's “Heaven Is For Real” ($100 million worldwide), Mark Burnett and Roma Downey‘s “Son of God” (nearly $60 million in the U.S.), the Kevin Sorbo movie “God's Not Dead” ($60 million in the U.S. on a $2 million production budget”) and the Christian-themed football film “When the Game Stands Tall,” which is also expected to turn a profit.

Also read: 11 Top Grossing Christian-Themed Movies Since 2004 (Photos)

With renewed interest in family-friendly, faith-based stories, it was only a matter of time before a major animation studio would take advantage of the trend and target younger audiences.

DreamWorks Animation tried its hand at a Biblical animated movie in 1998 with “The Prince of Egypt,” which grossed $218 million worldwide. So far, that has been the only faith-based film from a major animation studio, though it should be noted that ”Jonah: A VeggieTales Movie” grossed $25 million in the U.S. on a reported production budget of $14 million.

Also read: Sony's DeVon Franklin on Making the Jump to Producer and the Healing Power of Entertainment (Exclusive)

Since graduating from UCLA's MFA screenwriting program, Sheridan has written ”The Honey Bees” for Nickelodeon TV Movies. He also sold an original feature pitch to Paramount Animation and has been hired to rewrite ”Chilly Willy” for Universal.

Franklin is represented by CAA, while Sheridan is represented by APA, manager Jonathan Hung, and attorney Mike Castrillo.

Inviato da: Scissorhands il 12/10/2014, 20:18

Rock Dog (Reel FX)

Reel FX Developing ‘Rock Dog’ for 2015
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Reel FX is a studio that has a lot to prove. Their first film Free Birds wasn’t exactly a critical darling. That being said, everything we’ve seen so far for their next film The Book of Life is solid proof that the studio still has potential. As The Book of Life looms closer to its theatrical release, the studio is understandably busy at work on their next film. And judging by a number of sources, we now have an idea as to what the next film is.

According to these aforementioned sources, their next film is titled Rock Dog. While there has been no official cast announcement, the film’s IMDB page revealed that the cast will consist of Luke Wilson (Bodi), Matt Dillon (Trey), Mae Whitman (Darma), Sam Elliot (Fleetwood Yak), J.K. Simmons (Khampa), Jorge Garcia (Germur), and Grey DeLisle (Mom). Rounding out the cast is Eddie Izzard (Angus) and Lewis Black (Linnux). The page also revealed that Ash Brannon (Toy Story 2, Surf’s Up) will direct the film from a script by Brannon and Kurt Voelker, while Matthew Parker and David Miller will produce.

Here is the premise as given by IMDB:

When a radio falls from the sky into the hands of a wide-eyed Tibetan Mastiff, he leaves home to fulfill his dream of becoming a musician, setting into motion a series of completely unexpected events.

So now we know what it’s called, who’s behind it, what it’s about, and what the character’s names are. Anything else we know? Well, that’s where it gets interesting.

If this source is to be believed, the film appears to be a co-production between China (Mandoo Pictures) and the US (Reel FX), with its Chinese title being Tibetan Rockdog. The source also reveals that the film is based on Chinese rock star Zheng Jun’s comic book of the same name. Zheng Jun serves as the film’s executive producer and art director. When asked by CCTV about what may have attracted Hollywood talent to the film, Jun replied that it was due to the concept being a unique mixture of Tibetan Buddhism and rock music.

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In the same article, producer David Miller also credited the combination of pop music, Tibet’s culture and landscape, and the use of the Tibetan mastiff as a main character (he also remarked that he’s been to Tibet himself).

Ash Brannon also commented on what attracted him to the project: “I loved the story when I read the book for the first time,” Brannon said. “It will be an extraordinary work in the animation industry.”

According to this source, the film has been in development for quite some time (as far back a 2009). It was originally slated for release in 2011, 2013, and even this year. Nevertheless, the proof of the project’s current development can be found in one of their job applications. And in an article for Backstage.com, Luke Wilson, Matt Dillon, and Lewis Black have recorded their voices for the film back in July. Thus, it would appear that the film has now been set for a 2015 release window (as reported here). Considering how densely packed 2015 is in terms of animation (and of film in general), it’s currently anyone’s guess as to where the film will bow, but it would appear that the project is that much closer to completion that a 2015 release seems possible.

It’s quite an interesting project, judging by the wealth of information collected here, in addition to the concept art from Danish animator Rune Brandt Bennicke (see gallery below). Also, it wouldn’t be the first animated co-production between China and the US (Kung Fu Panda 3, anyone?).

Like I said in the beginning, Reel FX still has boat loads of potential. Part of that potential is developing unique ideas and concepts for films like The Book of Life and now this.


http://www.rotoscopers.com/2014/10/09/reel-fx-developing-rock-dog-for-2015/

Inviato da: Scissorhands il 12/10/2014, 20:19

Which Witch (Jim Henson Co)

http://variety.com/2014/film/news/billy-crystal-joins-henson-which-witch-1201326184/

Billy Crystal Joins Henson Co.’s ‘Which Witch’ (EXCLUSIVE)

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Billy Crystal has come on board The Jim Henson Co.’s animated movie project “Which Witch” as a writer, producer and star.

The company, as part of an expansion of its feature film slate, is aiming to start production early next year with Brian Henson directing and producing. Samantha Sprecher and Lisa Henson are also producing.

The move comes with Henson Co.’s live-action family comedy “Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day” opening Friday through Disney in the U.S. “Alexander” is expected to take in about $20 million in its opening weekend and contend for the top spot against the second weekend of “Gone Girl.”

CEO Lisa Henson told Variety that casting on “Which Witch” is underway with the company finalizing negotiations with a digital animation studio and a foreign financier for the project. The project is based on Eva Ibbotson’s 1979 book in which a wizard holds a contest among the seven witches of Todcaster to determine which witch he will marry.

Crystal has logged extensive work in the animated world as the one-eyed Mike character in Disney-Pixar’s “Monsters Inc.” and “Monsters University.”

“When Brian Henson called me about it, I didn’t know the book,” Crystal said. “But it’s a fantastic story, and I brought in a wonderful writer, Michael Feldman, and we’ve written a terrific and inventive script. I’ll play a character as well, which will be great fun because he actually has two eyes.”

The studio is run by the late Jim Henson’s grown children, Lisa and Brian, with a staff of about 80 employees. Lisa Henson, who’s been CEO for the past decade, previously served as president of Columbia Pictures.

Lisa Henson said that Crystal would be heavily involved with production, expected to last for about two years. “We’re focusing heavily on getting the tone right,” she added.

Henson explained that her initial efforts at the company were focused on developing its proprietary animation technology and guiding the TV business, which led to the PBS Kids series “Sid the Science Kid” and “Dinosaur Train.”

Those shows were followed by the productions of “Doozers,” “Hi Opie!” and “Pajanimals” with the newest projects “Chatter Zoo” and “Splash,” currently in development.

On the feature side, the company optioned “Frog and Toad,” based on the four “Frog and Toad” books by Arnold Lobel, two years ago. (Rights to The Muppets were sold to Disney in 2004).

It’s also working on a quartet of legacy titles in the Henson library — a “Fraggle Rock” movie that’s been in development at New Regency; a sequel to 1982’s “The Dark Crystal”; a sequel to 1986’s “Labyrinth”; and a movie based on the Emmet Otter character.

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Inviato da: Scissorhands il 12/10/2014, 20:20

Lego Batman' Spinoff Movie (Animal Logic)

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/lego-batman-spinoff-movie-works-738631

'Lego Batman' Spinoff Movie in the Works at Warner Bros. (Exclusive)
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The Lego incarnation of Batman proved to be so popular in the Warner Bros. hit The Lego Movie that he is getting his own big-screen spinoff.
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Chris McKay, the animation supervisor on Lego Movie, was initially set to direct that project's sequel. However, the movie is being pushed back and McKay is now helming the Lego Batman movie, which is being written by author-screenwriter Seth Grahame-Smith.
Warners is eyeing a 2017 release for the spinoff, possibly even on the original date for Lego Movie 2. The next Lego movie to be released is Ninjago, due to open Sept. 23, 2016. The Lego Movie sequel will now presumably be released after 2017.
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Will Arnett will reprise the voice of the Caped Crusader. Roy Lee, Dan Lin, Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, the custodians of the Lego screen brand, are producing.
Batman was one of the highlights of The Lego Movie, stealing every scene he was in. With Arnett taking Christian Bale's gravely voice to an extreme degree, the character was arrogant, dark, sarcastic and just too-cool-for-this-adventure.
Lego Batman already heads a very popular franchise. There have been at least three video games as well as a straight-to-video Lego Batman: The Movie — DC Super Heroes Unite, where Troy Baker provided the voice for the Dark Knight.
Warners had no comment.

Inviato da: Scissorhands il 9/11/2014, 19:52

My Little Pony (Hasbro Studios)

http://variety.com/2014/film/news/my-little-pony-movie-in-the-works-at-hasbro-studios-exclusive-1201334144/

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Hasbro Studios has given the greenlight to a “My Little Pony” movie, with plans to release the animated film in 2017.

The film will join “Jem and the Holograms” as the first to be produced through Allspark Pictures, a new label through which the company will self-finance or pair up with other companies to co-finance a slate of film projects.

Jason Blum’s Blumhouse Prods. already is co-producing the live action “Jem,” with Universal Pictures co-financing the movie’s budget. The studio has dated the film for release on Oct. 23, 2015.

Hasbro Studios will take the reins of “My Little Pony,” producing and financing it inhouse. It is in discussion with studios to release the film “on the broadest possible number of screens,” said Stephen Davis, president of Hasbro Studios and global entertainment and licensing for Hasbro Inc. “We’re very excited about the potential of that movie.”

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Joe Ballarini, who previously wrote “Atlantis 7″ for Walden Media, 21 Laps and Gotham Group; “Lockdown at Franklin High” for Sony; and was recently tapped to adapt the graphic novel “Cardboard” for Fox Animation; will pen the script for the “Pony” pic, while Megan McCarthy, who produces and has written for the series “My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic” and straight-to-homevideo “My Little Pony: Equestria Girls” films, will serve as co-executive producer on the theatrical movie. Ballarini is repped by Paradigm and Apostle.

Introduced in 1983 and developed by Bonnie Zacherle, Charles Muenchinger and Steve D’Aguanno, the “My Little Pony” characters have colorful bodies, manes and distinguishing “cutie marks” on their flanks. The property has launched four animated series and been revamped over the years, enjoying strong sales in the 1980s and then again in 2010, with its popularity driven by well-received shows.

“Jem” is a musical fantasy that reimagines Jem amid the current hyperlinked social media era in a story of a small-town girl going from underground video sensation to global superstar with her three sisters.

Jon M. Chu directed from Ryan Landels’ script with Aubrey Peeples as the lead. Stefanie Scott, Aurora Perrineau, Hayley Kiyoko, Ryan Guzman, Molly Ringwald and Juliette Lewis also star.

Hasbro also is partners with Blumhouse on its next film, “Ouija,” out in theaters Oct. 24 through Universal. Stiles White directed the thriller that’s based on Hasbro’s game.

SEE MORE:Snapchat Scares Up Advertising Business with ‘Ouija’

Hasbro has no plans to turn its back on big-budget franchises.

“We will continue to make big tentpole movies with our studio partners,” Davis said of franchises like “Transformers” and “G.I. Joe,” at Paramount, and “Monopoly” and “Candy Land” at Sony, “but there is another set of movies where we feel we have an opportunity to have a bit more control over the budgeting, financing, calendarization, marketing and creative of our films. There are new economic models that fit certain films.”

With “My Little Pony,” Hasbro already has produced direct-to-homevideo animated movies and is producing the 100th episode of the franchise’s current TV series that plays on kids cable channel Discovery Family, formerly the Hub, in the U.S., and in over 180 countries worldwide. The Hub switched to Discovery Family on Oct. 13.



“We have a lot of experience working on this particular brand,” and when it comes to producing the animation, technology has brought down costs to a level where it doesn’t need to spend $100 million or more to make the film. Hasbro declined to disclose the budget on the “Pony” pic.

“Film and TV is a key driver and very important part of the building blocks for a company like Hasbro,” Davis said. “It’s where we want to use great stories to activate our brands.”

Hasbro’s girls segment, which includes “My Little Pony,” “Nerf Rebelle” and other toy lines, saw sales increase 5% to $407.7 million during the company’s third quarter, whose results were announced Monday, during which overall revenue increased 7% to $1.47 billion.

For more on Hasbro’s film strategy, please see Tuesday’s edition of Variety.

Inviato da: Scissorhands il 16/11/2014, 14:22

Playmobil - The Movie

http://www.badtaste.it/2014/11/13/in-arrivo-film-animato-dei-playmobil/105213/

E’ in arrivo il film animato dei Playmobil
13 novembre 2014 19:00 • Matteo Tosini
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Playmobil

Seguendo le orme dei rivali danesi (LEGO), l’azienda tedesca Playmobil, secondo Variety, porterà presto sul grande schermo una versione animata dei celebri playset per bambini, i Playmobil appunto. Tutto questo sarà possibile grazie alla collaborazione tra Wild Bunch e Pathe e anche grazie a 80 milioni di dollari che saranno investiti per l’animazione.

Creati da Hans Beck nel 1974, i playset Playmobil sono da sempre uno dei giochi preferiti dai bambini grazie alle iconiche figure antecedenti alle minifigure LEGO. Con oltre 2,7 milioni di personaggi e 30 set giocabili Playmobil offrirà ai realizzatori del film infinite idee per sviluppare il lungometraggio.

Il film verrà prodotto da Dimitri Rassam, Aton Soumache, Alexis Vonarb e Moritz Borman. La produzione inizierà a Montreal. Il film sarà nelle sale nel 2017.


Inviato da: Scissorhands il 16/11/2014, 14:26

Avevo dimenticato di riportare lo spostamento di un anno di How to Train Your Dragon 3

How to Train Your Dragon 3 (6/9/2017)

Inviato da: Scissorhands il 19/1/2015, 1:28

Aggiunto
Kubo And The Two Strings (Laika) (8/19/16)

Cambio data:
Angry Birds Sony / Columbia New 5/20/16 Old 7/1/16

Inviato da: Scissorhands il 24/1/2015, 17:13

In vista della ristrutturazione interna dei DWA le seguenti vecchie date:

Home 25 Marzo 2015
Kung fu Panda 3 18 marzo 2016 (già spostato dal 23 dicembre 2015)
Boss Baby 18 Marzo 2016
Trolls 4 novembre 2016
Captain Underpants 13 Gennaio 2017
Mumbai Musical 10 Marzo 2017
How to Train Your Dragon 3 9 giugno 2017 (già spostato dal 17 giugno 2016)
I Croods 2 22 dicembre 2017 (già sposato dal 3 Novembre 2017)
Larrikins 16 Febbraio 2018
Madagascar 4 18 Maggio 2018
Il Gatto con gli Stivali 21 dicembre 2018 (già spostato dal 2 novembre 2018)

Sono State cambiate in (in nero quelle variate)
Home: 27 marzo 2015
Kung Fu Panda 3: 18 marzo 2016
Trolls: 4 novembre 2016
Boss Baby: 13 gennaio 2017
Captain Underpants 10 Marzo 2017
The Croods 2: 22 dicembre 2017
The Larrikins: 16 febbraio 2018
Dragon Trainer 3: 29 giugno 2018 (in totale quindi è stato spostato di ben due anni dall'uscita fissata al suo annuncio)

Sono ritornati in pre-produzione (tra parentesi la vecchia data)
B.O.O.: Bureau of Otherworldly Operations (5 giugno 2015)
Mumbai Musical (10 Marzo 2017)
Madagascar 4 (18 maggio 2018)
Il gatto con gli stivali 2 (21 dicembre 2018)

Inviato da: Scissorhands il 26/1/2015, 23:23

The Jetsons (WB)

http://deadline.com/2015/01/the-jetsons-animated-feature-warner-brothers-1201356816/

EXCLUSIVE: Warners Bros is looking to turn the Hanna-Barbera series The Jetsons into an animated theatrical feature. The studio has hired Matt Lieberman to write the script. There was a flurry of rumors sometime back about a live-action version that might somehow involve Kanye West. Not sure what happened there, but I’m told that Lieberman is working from scratch on a fully animated version.

Warner Bros owns that library, which was acquired by Ted Turner before he sold his company to Warner Bros. Lieberman got the job after his script work on the animated Scooby-Doo movie for Warner Bros and Atlas that the studio has put on a fast track.

The Jetsons is based on the Hanna Barbera cartoon series that originated in 1962 and was that production company’s space-age answer to the stone-age The Flintstones.

Lieberman, who started in the Disney Writers Program, has set scripts all over town including the spec 12/24 with 1492 based on a David Guggenheim idea that amounts to a found-footage Santa Claus film. He also scripted Giant Monsters Attack Japan for Paramount Animation, and Short Circuit which Tim Hill will direct. His spec The Pet sold to Disney with Jared Hess attached to direct, and he scripted Mr. Toad’s Wild Ride for Peter Candeland to direct and Evil Genius for Disney.

Lieberman is repped by WME, Madhouse Entertainment and attorney Melissa Rogal.

Inviato da: Scissorhands il 10/2/2015, 12:28

The Nut Job 2 (ToonBox Entertainment /Redrover Co, Ltd/Open Road) (1/15/2016)

http://www.comingsoon.net/movies/news/113912-the-nut-job-2-is-coming-on-january-15-2016#/slide/1

The Nut Job 2 is Coming on January 15, 2016

BY CS ON JANUARY 23, 2014

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Open Road Films, Redrover Co., Ltd., ToonBox Entertainment Ltd., and Gulfstream Pictures have announced that The Nut Job 2, a sequel to the hit film The Nut Job – which opened on January 17, 2014, taking in over $25.7 million at the holiday weekend box-office as the biggest independent animated film opening of all time – will hit theaters January 15, 2016. The announcement was made today by Tom Ortenberg, CEO of Open Road Films and Hoe-jin Ha, CEO and President of Redrover Co., Ltd.

In animated 3D, The Nut Job is an action-packed comedy that follows Surly (voiced by Will Arnett), a mischievous squirrel, who must plan a heist to get into his town’s biggest nut shop in order to help his pals in the park gather food to survive the winter. Together with his sidekick, Buddy, Surly assembles a ragtag crew to help him get inside – and takes them on a fun-filled adventure that they’ll never forget. In addition to Will Arnett as Surly, THE NUT JOB also features the voices of Brendan Fraser, Liam Neeson, Katherine Heigl, Maya Rudolph, Stephen Lang, Jeff Dunham, Gabriel Iglesias and Sarah Gadon.

Directed by Peter Lepeniotis from a screenplay by Lorne Cameron and Lepeniotis, The Nut Job was produced by Wookyung Jung and Graham Moloy. Executive producers are Daniel Woo, Hong Kim, and Jay Ahn as well as Bill Bindley and Mike Karz of Gulfstream Pictures. The Nut Job was a collaboration of Redrover Co., Ltd., ToonBox Entertainment Ltd. and Gulfstream Pictures.

“We couldn’t be more thrilled about ‘The Nut Job,'” stated Ortenberg. “It has been a pleasure working with the teams at Redrover, ToonBox and Gulfstream and we are delighted to re-team with them for ‘The Nut Job 2.'”

“We are very proud of what we have accomplished in Hollywood as an independent production company,” commented Ha. “Our compliments go out to ToonBox and Gulfstream for their endeavor in the co-production and to Open Road for their successful campaign and teamwork. We are looking forward to working with them on ‘The Nut Job 2.'”

“We’re thrilled that audiences have embraced these characters and it is exciting to anticipate their return for another adventure in ‘The Nut Job 2,'” said Karz. “The entire team behind this movie did a fantastic job and we’re looking forward to working with them again.”

Inviato da: Scissorhands il 10/2/2015, 12:31

Blazing Samurai (Mass Animation/Open Road)

Chris Bailey and Mark Koetsier Will Direct ‘Blazing Samurai’ Feature
BY AMID AMIDI ON MONDAY FEBRUARY 9, 2015 4:31 PM

Open Road Films, the distributor of The Nut Job, has acquired U.S. distribution rights to the CG animated feature Blazing Samurai, which will be “loosely based” on Mel Brooks’s 1974 comedy Blazing Saddles. The film is slated for April 14, 2017 launch.

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In this version, a dog named Hank travels to a small town in ancient Japan to fulfill his dream of becoming a samurai. He discovers the town is populated entirely by cats, and must overcome prejudice while learning how to be a great warrior from a once-great samurai cat named Jimbo. Chris Bailey, who directed the Disney short Runaway Brain and animation directed Alvin And The Chipmunks, and veteran animator/story artist Mark Koetsier will co-direct from a screenplay by Ed Stone and Nate Hopper.

Blazing Samurai will be the first feature produced through Yair Landau’s Mass Animation, a company that uses a crowdsourcing model to produce its projects. Landau, a former Sony Pictures exec, will produce the film with Mass Animation’s Susan Purcell and The Lion King director Rob Minkoff.


http://www.cartoonbrew.com/feature-film/chris-bailey-and-mark-koetsier-will-direct-blazing-samurai-feature-108751.html

Inviato da: Scissorhands il 10/2/2015, 12:33

Spark (ToonBox Entertainment /Redrover Co, Ltd) (1/15/2016)

Hilary Swank, Susan Sarandon Join Animated ‘Spark’

Hilary Swank and Susan Sarandon have taken voice roles in the 3D animated comedy “Spark,” joining Jessica Biel and Jace Norman.

“Spark” is directed by Aaron Woodley for ToonBox Entertainment, Redrover Co. and Gulfstream Pictures, which teamed on “The Nut Job.”

It’s the first time Swank has been cast for her voice in an animated feature. She’ll voice a noble queen, and Sarandon will voice a nanny robot.

The story follows a teenage monkey, Spark; a battle-ready fox; and a tech-savvy warthog as they embark on a mission to take back their planet from a power-mad general. The film is currently in production with plans for a 2016 release.

The film is produced by ToonBox and Redrover, in association with Gulfstream Pictures, which is handling U.S. sales. Executive producers are Hong Kim, Jay HJ Ahn and Daniel Woo and Gulfstream Pictures’ Mike Karz and Bill Bindley.

Inviato da: Scissorhands il 10/2/2015, 12:42

Asterix:Land of the Gods (Mikros Image)

http://www.movieweb.com/asterix-land-of-the-gods-featurette-bring-first-look-at-new-animated-movie

'Asterix: Land of the Gods' Featurette Bring First Look at New Animated Movie
The immensely popular comic book series 'Asterix' gets its first CG animated feature film with 'The Land of the Gods'. Go behind-the-scenes to see how it came together, in theaters 2015.
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Asterix is a unique property in that its one of the most successful box office franchises based on a comic book worldwide, yet the first four live-action films have never gotten a proper release in the states. That is about to change with Asterix: The Land of The Gods, which will bring the iconic Gaul and his colorful cast of friends and enemies to this country in a new CG animated adventure. Two featurettes give us a first look at all the action and excitement as Asterix and Obelix set out to stop Julius Caesar from destroying their village once and for all.
The first video actually offers a scene from this Belgium comic adaptation, which finds Julius Caesar revealing his plans to squash the indomitable Gauls, who's magic elixir gives everyone in the village super human strength. The second clip features directors Louis Clichy and Alexandre Astier taking fans behind-the-scenes for a look at how this all-new animated adventure is coming together in time for its November 26, 2014 release in France before it hits the rest of the world sometime in 2015.

Inviato da: Scissorhands il 22/2/2015, 0:47

Kung Fu Space Western (Reel FX)

Jorge Gutierrez and Reel FX To Make Kung Fu Space Western
BY AMID AMIDI ON THURSDAY FEBRUARY 19, 2015 10:41 AM
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Jorge Gutierrez and Reel FX Animation Studios have teamed up again, this time to produce the ultimate genre mashup film: a kung fu space western (currently untitled). The film will mark the sophomore film of Gutierrez, whose 2014 debut The Book of Life was also produced by Reel FX.

bookoflife_still_bSEE ALSO: Jorge Gutierrez on ‘The Book of Life’ and Bringing Mexico to Hollywood

The announcement was made yesterday by Reel FX, who has signed Gutierrez to a long-term deal to create projects for their studio. The “kung fu space western” creative team will include some of the same people who worked on Book of Life, including Doug Langdale who will co-write the script with Gutierrez, and Sandra Equihua who will oversee the film’s character design.

Gutierrez’s new film will revolve around “one of the galaxy’s most charming outlaws” and his “ragtag crew of rebel bandits” who have to fight a villain to save the universe. Says Gutierrez about the new project: “Our heartfelt film will be a funny mash-up of some of my favorite influences: ’90s Kung Fu films, Spaghetti Westerns of the ’60s, and the epic Space Adventures of the ’70s, ’80s and today.”


http://www.cartoonbrew.com/feature-film/jorge-gutierrez-and-reel-fx-to-make-kung-fu-space-western-109402.html

Inviato da: Scissorhands il 10/1/2016, 20:03

Storks (Warner Animation)

Doug Sweetland and Nick Stoller Will Co-Direct ‘Storks’ for Warner Bros.
By Darryn King | 04/21/2015 2:36 pm | 30

Warner Bros. has given the animated feature Storks, “a fresh and funny look at the fable behind storks,” a release date of September 23, 2016.

In a rare case of animation and live-action directing talent coming together, the film will be co-directed by Pixar alum Doug Sweetland and Apatow Productions regular Nicholas Stoller, from an original script by Stoller.

Stoller has previously directed such live-action fare as Neighbors, Get Him to the Greek, and Forgetting Sarah Marshall. He also co-wrote and executive produced the two recent Muppets movies, provided additional screenplay content for DreamWorks’s Turbo, and is attached to write the screenplay for Fox’s as-yet-untitled Tinker Bell live-action adventure/comedy film.

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Sweetland wrote and directed the classic Warner Bros.-evoking Pixar short Presto, before which he worked as supervising animator at the studio. Sweetland was a key figure in the studio’s animation department, having worked as an animator or supervising animator on Pixar’s first seven features. More recently, Sweetland supervised the animation for Google’s interactive short Windy Day.

Storks will feature the voices of Andy Samberg and Kelsey Grammer. Stoller will co-produce with Cars 2 co-director and Ratatouille producer Brad Lewis. Glenn Ficarra, Phil Lord, Christopher Miller, John Requa, and Jared Stern are on board as executive producers.

Like The LEGO Movie, Storks is a project developed within Warners’ in-house feature animation creative consortium. In 2013, the film was first announced as being in development.

Photo: Nicholas Stoller (left) and Doug Sweetland will co-direct “Storks.” (Stoller photo: S. Bukley/Shutterstock.com)

Inviato da: Scissorhands il 10/1/2016, 20:09

Voltron e TrollHunters (Dreamworks Television)

http://www.comingsoon.net/tv/news/644473-voltron-and-guillermo-del-toros-trollhunters-series-head-to-netflix

Voltron and Guillermo del Toro’s Trollhunters Series Head to Netflix

GUILLERMO DEL TORO NETFLIX NETFLIX ORIGINAL SERIES STREAMING TROLLHUNTERS TV NEWS TV PREMIERE DATES VOLTRON
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Voltron and Guillermo del Toro’s Trollhunters series head to Netflix

Netflix and DreamWorks Animation today announced the expansion of their current multi-year deal, making Netflix the global home, outside of China, to a number of new original series for the whole family from the studio. The deal also covers streaming rights to the DreamWorks Animation feature film library.

In addition, the deal extends the rights of current original series for kids from the studio available on the service throughout operating Netflix markets as well as expanding to include second window rights for the series everywhere around the world, outside of China. The series include “The Adventures of Puss in Boots,” “Dinotrux” and “Dragons: Race to the Edge,” among others.

Starting in 2016, Netflix will launch several new series from DWA, including a reimagining of Voltron, and the new series, Trollhunters, from master storyteller Guillermo del Toro, who will unleash a new, fantastical world wrapped around two best friends who make a startling discovery beneath their hometown.

Over the term of the new agreement, a number of new original series will be developed and produced by DreamWorks Animation for Netflix, based not only on recent and upcoming feature films from the studio, but also on other classic IP.

“DreamWorks Animation is synonymous with great storytelling that families around the world enjoy,” said Cindy Holland, Vice President of Original Series for Netflix. “It’s with great pleasure that we expand on an already successful relationship with DreamWorks Animation to bring more premium kids and family television to Netflix members globally.”

“This agreement adds to the incredible foundation we’ve built together with Netflix over a number of years across both film and television,” said Ann Daly, President of DreamWorks Animation. “We are proud to work closely with Netflix to continue delivering high-quality programming to audiences around the world.”

Read more at http://www.comingsoon.net/tv/news/644473-voltron-and-guillermo-del-toros-trollhunters-series-head-to-netflix#KzLKvVBzimbI4k1O.99

Inviato da: Scissorhands il 10/1/2016, 20:11

Beekle (Dreamworks Animation)

Jason Reitman to Write and Direct BEEKLE for DreamWorks Animation
BY ADAM CHITWOOD MAY 27, 2015
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Fresh off the massively disappointing box office of his underrated ensemble drama Men, Women & Children (I liked it!), filmmaker Jason Reitman is poised to make his first foray into the world of animation. Variety reports that the Oscar-nominated Juno and Thank You For Smoking director has signed on to write and direct Beekle for DreamWorks Animation. The movie is an adaptation of the children’s book The Adventures of Beekle: The Unimaginary Friend, which revolves around an imaginary friend who, after becoming tired of waiting around to be chosen by a real child, takes off on a magical journey on his own.

This is a curious move for both Reitman and DreamWorks Animation. The studio has been suffering as of late with box office disappointments like Mr. Peabody & Sherman and Penguins of Madagascar. It’s recently gone through a significant behind-the-scenes change, as the studio will restructure its focus to one movie a year rather than churning out two or three.

This new focus on quality over quantity might be where Reitman comes in, but the filmmaker himself has been in a rut lately too. Despite the fact that they’re good movies (really, I promise), the dramas Labor Day and Men, Women & Children failed to make any sort of splash, with the latter only grossing around $700,000 domestically—and it had Adam Sandler in its cast!

Beekle is the first project put into development under the newly appointed Co-Presidents of Feature Animation Bonnie Arnold and Mireille Soria, and it certainly provides an interesting look at the kind of direction they hope to take the studio in. But all is not lost in the meantime, as Dean DeBlois is still writing and directing the third and final How to Train Your Dragon movie for release in 2018, and next March’s Kung Fu Panda 3 is sure to be a box office hit.


http://collider.com/jason-reitman-to-direct-dreamworks-animation-film-beekle/

Inviato da: Scissorhands il 10/1/2016, 20:16

Nimona (Fox Animation)

http://www.cartoonbrew.com/feature-film/osborne-nimona-114404.html

Feast’ Director Patrick Osborne To Direct Sci-Fi/Fantasy ‘Nimona’
By Scott Thill | 06/12/2015 4:27 pm | 25

Director Patrick Osborne. (Photo:Ricky Middlesworth/©2014 Disney)
Director Patrick Osborne. (Photo:Ricky Middlesworth/©2014 Disney)
Armed with an Oscar for best animated short, Patrick Osborne will bring Noelle Stevenson’s Eisner- and Harvey-award nominated comic to the screen for Fox Animation. The news was first reported by the Hollywood Reporter.

Nimona’s sci-fi/fantasy mashup will mark the Feast director’s feature film debut. Stevenson’s tale of a female shapeshifter battling a mad scientist and a corrupt regime of hoverboarding knights is a refreshing and unconventional choice for a mainstream Hollywood animation production, and with Osborne attached, it’s definitely one to keep an eye on. Fox’s last non-Blue Sky animated feature was Reel FX’s The Book of Life, released last fall.

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As reported previously, Osborne, no longer with Disney, is also creating the short film Pearl for Google. Like his Paperman colleague John Kahrs, Osborne is parlaying short-film plaudits into a feature career outside of the Disney umbrella.

Former DreamWorks executive Marc Haimes, who wrote Laika’s next release Kubo and the Two Strings, is attached as screenwriter of the Vertigo Entertainment production. Vertigo is also co-producing the The Lego Movie Sequel and The Lego Batman Movie, and involved in the development of feature film adaptations of Adventure Time and the popular horror anime Death Note.

Nimona began life as Stevenson’s webcomic thesis while a student at the Maryland Institute College of Art. Her other Eisner-nominated comic, Lumberjanes, created with Shannon Watters and Brooke A. Allen, is also in development for Fox.

Inviato da: Scissorhands il 10/1/2016, 20:23

Animated Spiderman Movie (Sony)

http://deadline.com/2015/12/sony-animated-feature-with-lego-filmmakers-1201414743/

Sony’s Animated Spider-Man Movie Shifts Release Date To December 2018
by Mike Fleming Jr
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December 23, 2015 10:49am

UPDATE with release date change: The release date for Sony’s animated Spider-Man movie being directed by The Lego Movie‘s Phil Lord and Christopher Miller has been shifted from July 20, 2018 to December 21, 2018. The push comes after the studio earlier this year unveiled its Spider-Man reboot plan with Kevin Feige and Amy Pascal steering the ship of its $4 billion live-action franchise.

Related'Spider-Man' Scoop: Marvel's Kevin Feige, Amy Pascal To Steer Spidey As Producers
Under that deal, Spider-Man will appear in his Disney/Marvel’s Captain America: Civil War that is part of Marvel’s Cinematic Universe, and then Sony Pictures will release the next stand-alone installment on July 28, 2017, with Jon Watts directing and Tom Holland as the young Peter Parker.

PREVIOUS, APRIL 22 PM: Tom Rothman came out swinging at CinemaCon. He announced in Vegas that Lego Movie helmers Phil Lord & Christopher Miller will make an animated feature of Spider-Man. They’ll conceive with an eye to direct it. We knew that the animated film was in the works, and that Denzel Washington and Antoine Fuqua planned to do a sequel to their 2014 film The Equalizer. Rothman formalized that, too. It doesn’t impede the progress of a new line of Spidey live-action films in the works, these with Marvel chief Kevin Feige in a producing capacity. The animated film will be released July 20, 2018. The live-action sequel will be released July 28, 2017.

Inviato da: Scissorhands il 10/1/2016, 20:29

Sing (Illumination McGuff)
http://deadline.com/2015/11/sing-set-as-title-for-upcoming-universal-illumination-entertainment-pic-1201618048/

‘Sing’ Set As Title For Universal’s Animated Musical Starring Matthew McConaughey
by Ross A. Lincoln
November 10, 2015 6:45pm

The previously untitled film from Universal’s Illumination Entertainment set for release December 21, 2016, now has a name. Titled Sing, the animated pic stars Matthew McConaughey as Buster Moon, a dapper koala who runs a once-great theater that has fallen on hard times. Seeing the thing he loves most in his life coming to ruin, Buster connives to restore the theater’s fortunes by producing the world’s greatest singing competition.

RelatedIllumination Entertainment Dates Three Untitled Franchise Pics
Joining McConaughey as is Seth MacFarlane as a crooning, con artist mouse; Tori Kelly as a timid teenage elephant suffering from stage fright; Reese Witherspoon as the overtaxed mother of a litter of 25 piglets; Taron Egerton as a young gorilla from a crime family eager to break out of the family business; and Scarlett Johansson as a punk rock porcupine looking to ditch her arrogant boyfriend and embark on a solo career. The film will feature more than 85 hit songs on its soundtrack.

Garth Jennings (Son Of Rambow, Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy) writes and directs Sing, with Chris Meledandri and Janet Healy producing.

Inviato da: Scissorhands il 10/1/2016, 20:37

Hotel Transylvania 3 (Sony Pictures Animations)

http://www.comingsoon.net/movies/news/628529-hotel-transylvania-3-2018#/slide/1

Hotel Transylvania 3 Opens Its Doors in 2018!

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Hotel Transylvania 3 is coming in 2018!

Hotel Transylvania 3 will hit the big screen September 21, 2018

Sony Pictures Animation announced today that Hotel Transylvania 3 is officially on the way! The third film in the animated franchise will arrive on the big screen September 22, 2018.

Released in 2012, the original Hotel Transylvania was helmed by Genndy Tartakovsky, the creator of hit animated series like “Dexter’s Laboratory” and “Samurai Jack,” and grossed more than $350 million at the worldwide box office. The sequel, the recently-released Hotel Transylvania 2, performed even better than its predecessor and has already passed $373.6 million worldwide. In fact, Hotel Transylvania 2 was number four at the domestic box office this week, despite being in its sixth week of release.

It has not yet been revealed who among the voice cast will be returning for Hotel Transylvania 3. The second film featured the voice talents of Adam Sandler, David Spade, Steve Buscemi, Kevin James, Keegan-Michael Key, Molly Shannon, Jon Lovitz, Andy Samberg, Selena Gomez, Fran Drescher and Mel Brooks. Tartakovsky, however, has stated that he doesn’t think he’ll be back in the director’s chair for a third film.

Hotel Transylvania 2, which opened September 25, saw Mavis (Gomez) and Jonathan (Samberg) married having just had their first baby. Although a home video release date has not yet been revealed, you can preorder Hotel Transylvania 2 at Amazon.

Hotel Transylvania 3 will face some monstrous competition at the box office. September 21, 2018 is the same date Warner Bros. Pictures has scheduled for their still-untitled Scooby Doo animated movie.

If you missed it, be sure to check out our video interviews with Tartakovsky and Hotel Transylvania 2 producer Michelle Murdocca. There was also a recent announcement that the Hotel Transylvania franchise will be heading to the small screen. You can read all about the plans for television series right here.

Are you excited to hear that Hotel Transylvania 3 is on the way? What would you like to see happen to Drac and his growing family? Let us know in the comments below!

Read more at http://www.comingsoon.net/movies/news/628529-hotel-transylvania-3-2018#cGLB3ItjECwqGdD7.99

Inviato da: Scissorhands il 10/1/2016, 20:43

SpongeBob SquarePants 3 e Amusement Park (Paramount Animation)

http://deadline.com/2015/11/monster-trucks-spongebob-3-release-dates-paramount-animated-movies-1201617750/

Paramount Dates ‘Monster Trucks’ & More Animated Pics
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November 10, 2015 4:12pm

Paramount Animation unveiled release dates for several of the studio’s films including a new release date for its long-in-the-works Monster Trucks, The Little Prince and SpongeBob SquarePants 3. The dates carry studio’s slate through March 2019.

Related'Monster Trucks' From Paramount Pushed For The Second Time, Now Out Of 2015
Monster Trucks, the live-action/CG hybrid that is hauling a $125M price tag, will now premiere on January 13, 2017. Its’s the third release date for the pic which began production in May 2013 as the studio is making sure its marketing ducks are in a row. It originally had a summer 2015 release date, was moved to Christmas 2015, then March 2016.

Other dates: The Little Prince, March 18. 2016; the just announced Sherlock Gnomes, January 12, 2018; SpongeBob SquarePants 3, February 8, 2019; and Amusement Park, March 22, 2019.

Inviato da: Scissorhands il 10/1/2016, 20:59

Edgar Wright Shadow-Themed Animated Film (Dreamworks Animation)

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/edgar-wright-direct-shadow-themed-842257

Edgar Wright to Direct Shadow-Themed Animated Film
He will co-write the DreamWorks Animation project with David Walliams.
Edgar Wright

He will co-write the DreamWorks Animation project with David Walliams.
Edgar Wright has signed on to direct an animated film for DreamWorks Animation. The film, which he'll co-write with David Walliams, is centered on the concept of shadows.

"Edgar will spearhead a new approach to this fascinating concept and we’re ecstatic to have him on board as director along with David as co-writer,” said a statement from DreamWorks Animation’s co-presidents of feature animation Bonnie Arnold and Mireille Soria. “We’ve always been intrigued by a film concept involving shadows, and now with Edgar’s signature comedic style and abilities as a natural storyteller, audiences will be treated to a truly captivating and energetic tale.”

The project is a new take on a previously developed concept about shadows. DreamWorks Animation had previously been working on a film called Me and My Shadow, that had Bill Hader and Josh Gad attached as voice cast. But it was taken off the calendar in 2013. Wright's new film will replace Me and My Shadow.

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DreamWorks Animation’s head of development Gregg Taylor and development executive Damon Ross are overseeing the project for the studio.

Wright, known for The World’s End and Shaun of the Dead, will next helm Baby Driver with Ansel Elgort and Lily James. He's also attached to a project with Johnny Depp based on Fortunately, the Milk, a Neil Gaiman story. The DreamWorks Animation project will be his first animated film. He’s repped by CAA, Anonymous Content, Independent Talent Group in the U.K. and Nelson Davis.

Walliams is known for working with Matt Lucas on the BBC One sketch show Little Britain, and also is a children’s author, with more 10 million copies sold to date.

Inviato da: Scissorhands il 6/3/2016, 19:35

Surf's Up 2 (Sony Pictures Animation)

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Sony and WWE Team for 'Surf's Up' Sequel
12:32 PM PST 3/1/2016 by Mia Galuppo
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The film will feature the voices of WWE stars like John Cena, The Undertaker and Triple H.

Surf's Up, the animated film about surfing penguins, is getting a sequel.

Sony Pictures Animation and WWE Studios are planning Surf’s Up 2: WaveMania, which they will co-finance and produce.

The movie will be distributed by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment with WWE Studios providing marketing support, including having its roster of wrestling talent to voice the film's characters.

In the follow-up to the 2007 feature, adventure-inclined penguin Cody Maverick convinces an infamous big wave riding crew known as The Hang 5 — voiced by WWE superstars John Cena, The Undertaker, Triple H, WWE Diva Paige and Mr. McMahon — to journey with him to a mysterious surf spot known as The Trenches, where the crew will supposedly find the biggest waves in the world.

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Henry Yu, whose credits include Hotel Transylvania, will make his directorial debut with the animated pic, which was written by Abdul Williams and will be produced by Michelle Wong.

“We are thrilled to be working with Sony Pictures Animation to bring Cody Maverick back to audiences for more adventures, paired with our WWE Superstars in what promises to be a fun animated film for the entire family,” WWE Studios president Michael Luisi said Tuesday in a statement.

Character art for The Hang 5 crew is below.

Inviato da: Scrooge McDuck il 12/3/2016, 14:18

CITAZIONE (Scissorhands @ 6/3/2016, 19:35) *
Surf's Up 2 (Sony Pictures Animation)

Bah... il primo è stato un super flop ed è uscito quasi 10 anni fa. C'è davvero chi se lo ricorda?

Inviato da: Scissorhands il 10/5/2016, 22:44

The Eagle Huntress (Fox Animation)

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Fox Nabs Animated Remake Rights to Daisy Ridley-Backed Film 'Eagle Huntress' (Exclusive)
The move is unusual given that a rival studio — Sony — already acquired North American rights to the girl-empowerment film via its Sony Pictures Classics label.
'The Eagle Huntress' Courtesy of Sundance Institute

The move is unusual given that a rival studio — Sony — already acquired North American rights to the girl-empowerment film via its Sony Pictures Classics label.
20th Century Fox Animation is in final negotiations to acquire remake rights to the YA-friendly adventure documentary The Eagle Huntress.

The film, which is executive produced by Daisy Ridley, made a splash at Sundance, where it premiered in the festival's new Sundance Kids section.

The move is unusual given that a rival studio — Sony — already acquired North American rights to the documentary via its Sony Pictures Classics label. That deal is pegged at around $2 million and also includes distribution rights for Latin America, Germany, Australia/New Zealand, Scandinavia and Asia. But Fox saw the animation remake potential for the girl-empowerment tale and began negotiating separately.

Directed by Otto Bell, the film centers on a teenage girl named Ashol-Pan (Aisholpan Nurgaiv) living in the mountains of northwestern Mongolia who learns all aspects of falconry, from taming her very own eagle to training for an annual competition, where she competes against 70 eagle hunters on her quest to gain acceptance in a male-dominated field.

Fox Animation president Vanessa Morrison will oversee the project for the studio. Fox Animation's most recent release was last year's The Peanuts Movie. Next up is the fifth installment of the Ice Age mega-franchise, Ice Age: Collision Course, which will open July 22.

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Eagle Huntress made its world premiere Jan. 24 and received a rousing response from buyers who were clamoring for dibs on the film, despite the fact that the film is in Kazakh with English subtitles. Ridley will narrate for English audiences.

Stacey Reiss and Sharon Chang produced, while Morgan Spurlock, Jeremy Chilnick, Susan MacLaury, Barbara Dobkin, Dan Cogan, Regina K. Scully and Marc H. Simon executive produced.

Nurgaiv, together with her father and mother, made the 6,000-mile journey from Mongolia to Park City to present the film and participate in deal-making, which moved quickly with Sony. The animation remake rights proved trickier and still are not finalized.

CAA repped the filmmakers.

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