Prep and Landing, Mediometraggio Disney Opzioni

[GasGas]

Immagine tratta da un libro che ci mostra qual è lo stile a cui si sono ispirati per il cortometraggio (cliccate sulla foto per ingrandirla):





Il cortometraggio sarà trasmesso sulla ABC nel mese di dicembre (ovviamente 2009)...

molto accattivanti i disegni dei folletti

[Scissorhands]

Trama, immagini e doppiatori:
http://www.usatoday.com/life/television/ne...ng_N.htm?csp=34

Disney plays Santa for ABC with animated 'Prep and Landing'

By Gary Levin, USA TODAY
Santa's elves are making a pit stop at ABC on their way from the North Pole.

Walt Disney Animation, in its first special for its sibling TV network, is prepping Prep and Landing, due late this year. Based on characters created by Chris Williams (Bolt) and produced by Pixar whiz John Lasseter, Prep looks at the high-tech North Pole Christmas Eve Command Center, where coordinator Magee (Scrubs' Sarah Chalke) pairs disgruntled elf Wayne (Dave Foley) with eager young recruit Lanny (Derek Richardson) to prepare the world's homes for Santa's arrival.

ABC hopes to repeat the success it had with 2007's DreamWorks special Shrek the Halls, which drew more than 20 million viewers. Like that special, Prep "works on two levels," says ABC's Vicki Dummer. For kids: "High-tech tools they use," such as the gingerbread-man-shaped Naughty Detector. For parents: "A lot of inside jokes that are nods to classic Christmas specials."


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http://www.variety.com/article/VR111800408...yId=14&cs=1

Dave Foley voices elf in 2009 holiday special
By MICHAEL SCHNEIDER

'Prep and Landing'
ABC has picked up Disney Animation's holiday spec 'Prep and Landing,' about a team of elite elves who prepare houses for Santa's arrival.

ABC has picked up the holiday special "Prep and Landing," the net's first program from sister Walt Disney Animation Studios.

Half-hour animated event revolves around an elite elves unit -- known as Prep and Landing -- that makes sure homes are ready for Santa's visit. Story centers on an elf (Dave Foley) who thinks he's about to get a promotion -- but instead is paired with a new recruit (Derek Richardson). The duo then go on their Christmas Eve mission, where they encounter unexpected challenges.

Sarah Chalke also provides a voice.

"It's all the humor you're used to seeing from the Disney animation and has great story appeal for adults," said Vicki Dummer, co-head of alternative series, specials and latenight at ABC.

John Lasseter is the exec producer, while Dorothy McKim is producer and Kevin Deters and Stevie Wermers-Skelton are the directors.

"Prep and Landing" actually came out of an initiative Lasseter launched when he first took over Disney Animation Studios. Lasseter asked animators to come up with ideas for shorts.

Later, during a meet-and-greet, ABC development execs took a look at the shorts and liked what they saw in "Prep and Landing."

"We were charmed by it and thought it was adorable," Dummer said. "Probably about five or six months later, Lasseter came in and pitched it as a television Christmas special."

"Bolt" director Chris Williams originally came up with the concept for "Prep and Landing" but then was too busy on that feature to take part in the TV special.



ma quindi Chris Williams non è più il regista?

[-kekkomon-]

Traduzione please?

[Scissorhands]

Traduzione please?

Sfortunatamente non ho tempo per tradurre tutto quello che posto, mi dispiace
Però colgo l'occasione per dire a tutti (e ovviamente si tratta di un consiglio e non ti una critica), di cercare di tradurre da soli le news, primo perchè basta avere solo un pò di pazienza a cercare alcuni vocaboli (la costruzione delle frasi è semplice), poi perchè si tratta davvero di un ottimo esercizio per imparare l'inglese. Poi è questione di pratica, vi assicuro che in pochi mesi migliorerete moltissimo il vostro inglese, che oggi come oggi è fondamentale. Caso per iniziare potete avvalervi di google translator (ma solo all'inizio!!!) http://www.google.it/language_tools?hl=it

[Hiroe]

visto questo?


http://www.disneyanimation.com/projects/prep/index.html

[Teo]

visto questo?


http://www.disneyanimation.com/projects/prep/index.html

Devono averlo appena inserito...qualche giorno fa non c'era! Ma quando esce? a Natale?

[Hiroe]

sembra proprio di si! ma da tante parti c'è scritto "Special televisivo"... per TV... il fatto è che è una featurette, dura una 30ina di minuti... quindi, o fargli un DVD a parte, oppure TV... cinema no, credo sia impossibile

[veu]

Sì da cortometraggio è diventato uno special televisivo.

Ecco qui due immagini dal sito, il logo e la scheda di presentazione:

[Pan]

Grazie Veu! Davvero intrigante la trama!

[Donald Duck]

Bella sia la trama che il logo!

[GasGas]

ma special televisivo cosa vuol dire? cioeè che differenza c'è fra un corto e uno special televisivo? quanto dura? non esce al cinema?come mai a sto punto mi viene da chiedere?

[Bristow]

Interessante questa nuova produzione sugli elfi...

[-kekkomon-]

ma special televisivo cosa vuol dire? cioeè che differenza c'è fra un corto e uno special televisivo? quanto dura? non esce al cinema?come mai a sto punto mi viene da chiedere?

Cioè esce in TV credo su disney channel e durerà 30 minuti.

[veu]

NEWS:

Da BlueSkyDisney:

I'm sure you've seen the news about the "Prep and Landing" short that Chris Williams came up with being turned into a half hour television special for the ABC Network this holiday. It originally started out as a short, but the potential for an expanded narrative was seen and it was handed off to a couple other animators once Williams became busy with "Bolt" a while ago.

[Hiroe]

avete visto le immagini aggiunte?



mi piace l'inquadratura a luna piena^^

[Scissorhands]

avete visto le immagini aggiunte?



mi piace l'inquadratura a luna piena^^

uh che belle, non le avevo viste!

[-kekkomon-]

Belle.
Speriamo che viene trasmesso anche qui.
Secono voi sarà incluso nei extra de la principessa e il ranocchio.

[veu]

Da Laughingplace:

è stato presentato il cortometraggio al Comic Con da John Lasseter:

Next up, John Lasseter discussed a new ABC TV Christmas special, Prep and Landing. It depicts the little known efforts of the elite group of elves who covertly prepare homes for the annual visit by the big man himself, Santa Claus. Prep and Landing was originated by Chris Williams, director of Bolt, as a possible short subject and deemed a suitable subject for a half hour television special. The crowd was then treated to a world premiere clip.

[Scissorhands]

Poster
http://www.comingsoon.net/imageGallery/D23...xpo_2009_37.jpg

[Scissorhands]

Articolo di Jim Hill:
http://jimhillmedia.com/blogs/jim_hill/arc...e-d23-expo.aspx

Pare sia piaciuto tantissimo al D23.

Jim Hill
Disney’s “Prep & Landing” wows animation fans at the D23 EXPO
Jim Hill reports in on how well this ABC holiday special was received when it was screened at the Anaheim Convention Center this past Saturday. He also talks about some of the high points of this new Walt Disney Animation Studios production
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CatastropheCanyonCat writes in to say:

Anaheim Convention Center
Photo by Jeff Lange

“I’ve been checking your site for days now, waiting for the D23 EXPO coverage to begin. When are you going to start telling us what this show was like, what your favorite parts were?”

Favorite parts? There’s a line out of Ben Brantley‘s May 2001 review for “The Producers” that comes to mind here. “How do you single out highlights in a bonfire?”

Let’s cut to the chase here, shall we? The Walt Disney Company – long noted for its ability to entertain & inform – put on the ultimate dog-and-pony show with its D23 EXPO this past weekend. Wherever you went in the Anaheim Convention Center, there were displays that dazzled. Exhibits loaded with dozens of pieces of concept art that no one outside of 1401 Flower Street had ever seen before.

There were panels & presentations that gave you the skinny on upcoming Disney films & ABC TV shows. There were booths on the show floor that were handing out free samples of all manner of Disney-related product. And everywhere you went, there were Cast Members standing about. Who – when you asked “what’s the story behind this new ride/ show / attraction” – would immediately spill their guts.

Prince of Persia Costume Display at the D23 Expo
Photo by Angela Ragno

I gotta tell you, folks. I’ve been writing about The Walt Disney Company for more than 25 years now. Which means that – previously – I’ve had to pull entire articles out of that single paragraph description and/or that one piece of concept art that the Mouse’s publicity department would typically, almost begrudgingly release to the press whenever Parks & Resorts was announcing a new project.

So to suddenly be faced with a situation like this, where all of this highly detailed information comes flooding out of The Walt Disney Company … Well, to quote a line from “A Christmas Carol” (which also got hyped big-time at the D23 EXPO), "I am as light as a feather, I am as happy as an angel, I am as merry as a school-boy. I am as giddy as a drunken man.”

Now I know that you all want to hear about the big stuff. The Enchanted Forest project for WDW’s Magic Kingdom (which will effectively double the size of that theme park’s Fantasyland section), “The Princess and the Frog” (If you attended all of the panels & presentations that touched on Disney’s return to hand-drawn animation, you actually got to see about half of this film. Plus hear 5 out the 7 musical numbers that Randy Newman wrote for this new John Musker / Ron Clements production), “Cars 2”(Come back tomorrow for that story) and “Toy Story 3” (Look for a full write-up on that highly anticipated CG sequel next Monday).

Prep & Landing Christmas Special Logo
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But – for now – I’d like to start small. Talk about this 22-minute-long holiday special that got a huge reaction from audience members in The Walt Disney Studios Theater this past Saturday. A brand-new Walt Disney Animation Studios production that is sure to become a Christmas classic, “Prep & Landing.”

“Prep & Landing” has kind of an unusual pedigree. It was originally this story idea that “Bolt” director Chris Williams came up with for Walt Disney Animation Studios’ new shorts program. But John Lasseter …

Well, as it turns out, the chief creative officer of both Pixar Animation Studios & WDAS is kind of a nut when it comes to Christmas. He just loves the holiday season. In particular those animated Christmas specials from the 1960s. Shows like “How the Grinch Stole Christmas,” “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” and “A Charlie Brown Christmas.”

A Tin Toy Christmas storyboard
Copyright Disney / Pixar. All Rights Reserved

In fact, if John had had his way back in the early 1990s, Pixar’s first project of size wouldn’t have been “Toy Story.” But – rather – “A Tin Toy Christmas.” Back then, Lasseter thought that a half-hour-long holiday special would be the logical stepping stone between all of those shorts & TV commercials Pixar was churning out and that feature-length film that this Studio’s employees someday dreamed of doing.

Unfortunately for all you Christmas special fans out there, Jeffrey Katzenberg (i.e the then-head of production at Walt Disney Studios) disagreed with John’s plan. He didn’t want to wait for Pixar to finish that holiday special before they then got around to producing that Studio’s first-ever feature-length computer animation project. Jeffery wanted a full-length CG feature ASAP. Which is why the team at Pixar took the storyline that had already been mapped for “A Tin Toy Christmas” and used that as their jumping-off point for “Toy Story.”

But John never entirely gave up on the idea of someday producing a holiday special. So when “Prep & Landing” came along with all of these great characters that Chris Williams had cooked up (i.e. this previously unknown group of elite elves who sneak into your home ahead of Santa to make sure that all is in readiness for the Big Guy’s arrival) … Lasseter immediately saw the potential in this proposed production. More importantly, that – with a little additional development, some story extension – this short had the makings of a really fun holiday special.

The elves from the Christmas special Prep & Landing
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So John walked out of the Sorcerer Mickey building and went next door to ABC corporate headquarters. Where he then supposedly pitched Stephen McPherson’s staff on the idea of Walt Disney Animation Studios producing a brand-new holiday special for the network.

I’m told that this was a very short meeting. That ABC officials pretty much leaped at the chance to add a Lasseter-led Christmas show to that network’s already impressive line-up of holiday specials.

Unfortunately, Chris Williams was far too busy last year co-directing “Bolt” to also helm a new holiday special. Which is why John turned “Prep & Landing” over to Kevin Deters and Stevie Wermers-Skelton. And these two then spent the next several months expanding on the characters & situations that Chris had created. This covert group of Santa’s Helpers who use candy cane-shaped grappling hooks and wield snowflake-shaped cutting tools.

Kevin & Stevie wondered: What sort of character would be drawn to a job like this? Which is how they came up with Wayne. Who’s been part of Santa’s prep & landing team for 227 years now. Wayne’s really good at his job. But after all those years of setting up landing strips on snow-covered roofs and then waving the Big Guy in using Christmas tree-shaped flashlights, he’s now ready to tackle a new assignment.

An elf prepping the landing for Santa
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Which is why Wayne applies to become Director of Naughty List Intelligence. A job that this North Pole veteran thought that he had in the bag … Only to then learn that Wayne had been passed over. Worse yet, Santa has awarded this job to Wayne’s longtime prep & landing partner.

Wayne tries to put on a brave face. But losing out on that promotion really saps his holiday spirit. Which is why he isn’t exactly enthusiastic about showing the ropes to his newest partner, Lanny. Who’s fresh out of Kringle Academy and chock full of Christmas spirit.

That’s a promising premise, don’t you think? Well. Kevin, Stevie & the “Prep & Landing” production team deliver on that promise. In spades. This new 22-minute-long holiday special is loaded with humor & heart. It has something for every member of the family (Including all you film fans out there. Who are sure to appreciate that the Elves’ code name for Santa’s sleigh is Rosebud).

Trust me, if you saw that two-minute-long teaser that Lasseter screened at Comic-Con back in July, the full-length version of “Prep & Landing” more than delivers on the promise shown with that material. From the way the Elves rev up the “engines” for Santa’s sleigh, to Dasher’s tougher-than-tough brother, Thrasher to … Well, the dilemma that Magee (i.e. the North Pole Christmas Eve Command Center Coordinator . NPCECCC for short) faces this holiday season (“I’m supposed to be Santa’s Secret Santa? How exactly does that work?”) … “Prep & Landing” is laugh-out-loud funny.

A scene from Disney's Christmas Special Prep & Landing
Copyright ABC / Disney. All Rights Reserved

Mind you, this holiday special does have more than its share of thrills. As Codename Little Drummer Boy and Codename Tree Skirt (i.e. Wayne& Lanny) jury-rig a landing strip on top of Timmy Terwhelp’s house. Borrowing the next door neighbor’s Christmas decorations (which include one of those giant inflatable Santa snowglobes which have become so popular in the past few years) in an effort to safely bring the Big Guy and his sleigh-full of toys in for a safe landing during a blinding snowstorm.

Will Wayne & Lanny succeed? Or will Timmy’s “best Christmas ever” go all figgy pudding? To get an answer to those questions, you’re going to have to watch “Prep & landing” this holiday season. Which ABC executives think so highly of that they’re actually pairing this new Walt Disney Animation Studios production with the mother of all animated holiday specials, “A Charlie Brown Christmas.”

What’s that you say? You want to know more about “Prep & Landing” ? Sorry, but to reveal any more (The coal elves!) would spoil (Miss Holly!) this great (The fruitcake!) Christmas surprise.

So – borrowing one of Wayne’s better lines from this great holiday special – I’ll just say “Does the phrase ‘Silent Night’ mean anything to you?” … And then move on to my next D23 EXPO-related article.

Messaggio modificato da Scissorhands il 17/9/2009, 0:07

[veu]

Spot della ABC:

Click

E articolo:

all about Prep & Landing

Prep & Landing is ABC's first television special produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios. The half-hour holiday special reveals the never-before-told tale of an elite unit of Elves known as Prep & Landing. Every Christmas Eve, this high-tech organization ensures that homes around the world are properly prepared for a visit from the Big Guy (aka Santa Claus).

After working tirelessly on Prep & Landing for 227 years, an elf named Wayne (voice of Dave Foley) is upset when he doesn't receive an expected promotion to be the Director of Naughty List Intelligence. Instead, Magee (voice of Sarah Chalke), the North Pole Christmas Eve Command Center Coordinator (NPCECCC for short), partners Wayne with Lanny (voice of Derek Richardson), an idealistic rookie who has an undying enthusiasm for Christmas.

During their Christmas Eve mission, Wayne and Lanny encounter unexpected challenges that push them to their limits. Will the elves be able to guide Dasher, Dancer, and the rest of the reindeer pulling Santa's sleigh through a raging snowstorm to ensure a Merry Christmas for all?

[Scissorhands]

Spot della ABC:

Click

E articolo:

all about Prep & Landing

Prep & Landing is ABC's first television special produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios. The half-hour holiday special reveals the never-before-told tale of an elite unit of Elves known as Prep & Landing. Every Christmas Eve, this high-tech organization ensures that homes around the world are properly prepared for a visit from the Big Guy (aka Santa Claus).

After working tirelessly on Prep & Landing for 227 years, an elf named Wayne (voice of Dave Foley) is upset when he doesn't receive an expected promotion to be the Director of Naughty List Intelligence. Instead, Magee (voice of Sarah Chalke), the North Pole Christmas Eve Command Center Coordinator (NPCECCC for short), partners Wayne with Lanny (voice of Derek Richardson), an idealistic rookie who has an undying enthusiasm for Christmas.

During their Christmas Eve mission, Wayne and Lanny encounter unexpected challenges that push them to their limits. Will the elves be able to guide Dasher, Dancer, and the rest of the reindeer pulling Santa's sleigh through a raging snowstorm to ensure a Merry Christmas for all?

Ma è bellissimo!!!!!!!
Grazie veu!

[-kekkomon-]

Trailer
http://mynewanimatedlife.blogspot.com/2009...mo-trailer.html

[Teo]

Grazie kekko della notizia....ho visto il trailer e non mi entusiasma! Chissà mai se da noi si vedrà questo special?