From women in animation to hot debuts, Screen previews the festival.
The Annecy International Animated Film Festival (June 12-17) opens today. Screen runs through five key things to look out for.
1. Key debuts
Annecy will host first-look footage of Pixar’s upcoming title Coco (pictured) and showcase the world premiere of Universal’s Despicable Me 3, two of the most anticipated animation movies of the year. The level of buzz will be telling.
The response to Animal Crackerz, the starry Spanish-us co-pro, will also be intriguing.
At the other end of the financial spectrum, the festival will host the premiere of Dorota Kobiela and Hugh Welchman’s Loving Vincent, which is billed as the world’s ‘first fully-painted feature film’. The biopic of Vincent Van Gogh was made by 125 painters producing more than 60,000 oil paintings. In advance of the Annecy premiere, the film’s trailer racked up 2.6m views on YouTube.
2. Women in animation...
The Annecy International Animated Film Festival (June 12-17) opens today. Screen runs through five key things to look out for.
1. Key debuts
Annecy will host first-look footage of Pixar’s upcoming title Coco (pictured) and showcase the world premiere of Universal’s Despicable Me 3, two of the most anticipated animation movies of the year. The level of buzz will be telling.
The response to Animal Crackerz, the starry Spanish-us co-pro, will also be intriguing.
At the other end of the financial spectrum, the festival will host the premiere of Dorota Kobiela and Hugh Welchman’s Loving Vincent, which is billed as the world’s ‘first fully-painted feature film’. The biopic of Vincent Van Gogh was made by 125 painters producing more than 60,000 oil paintings. In advance of the Annecy premiere, the film’s trailer racked up 2.6m views on YouTube.
2. Women in animation...
- 6/12/2017
- by geoffrey@macnab.demon.co.uk (Geoffrey Macnab)
- ScreenDaily
“The Simpsons” is about to d’oh where no animated series has d’oh-ed before.
Timed to the show’s landmark 600th episode, “The Simpsons” teamed with Google to create a couch gag that will be given the full virtual reality experience.
The couch gag, “Planet of the Couches,” will be seen on TV as a normal 45-second segment. But a full three minutes of material has been produced in Vr, and will be available to see via iOS and Android devices (via the Google Spotlight Stories app). Any Google Cardboard viewer can be used.
Read More: ‘The Simpsons’ Premiere Couch Gag: Watch the ‘Adventure Time’-Inspired Opening
As part of the event, Google is also sending out 25,000 limited-edition customized “Treehouse of Horror Xxvii” Google Cardboard viewers featuring either Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa and Maggie on the side.
Google approached executive producer James L. Brooks about producing the Vr experiment.
Timed to the show’s landmark 600th episode, “The Simpsons” teamed with Google to create a couch gag that will be given the full virtual reality experience.
The couch gag, “Planet of the Couches,” will be seen on TV as a normal 45-second segment. But a full three minutes of material has been produced in Vr, and will be available to see via iOS and Android devices (via the Google Spotlight Stories app). Any Google Cardboard viewer can be used.
Read More: ‘The Simpsons’ Premiere Couch Gag: Watch the ‘Adventure Time’-Inspired Opening
As part of the event, Google is also sending out 25,000 limited-edition customized “Treehouse of Horror Xxvii” Google Cardboard viewers featuring either Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa and Maggie on the side.
Google approached executive producer James L. Brooks about producing the Vr experiment.
- 10/6/2016
- by Michael Schneider
- Indiewire
David Reynolds, who was nominated for an Oscar for his screenplay for Finding Nemo, has been hired to write a film based on an original story by animation veteran Stephan Franck. Franck animated The Iron Giant and Despicable Me and will also direct.
Ellen Goldsmith-Vein, Peter McHugh and Eric Robinson of The Gotham Group and Academy Award winner Karen Dufilho-Rosen (Geri's Game, For the Birds) will executive produce. This film is part of a four picture, first-look deal that Gotham signed with Sony Pictures Animation in 2009.
Here is what Ellen Goldsmith-Vein had to say about the project,
"We are thrilled and excited to be making a movie at Sony Pictures Animation with Stephan Franck directing and David Reynolds, one of the funniest writers in the business."
Reynolds received Oscar and BAFTA nominations and won an Annie Award for his work on Finding Nemo. He also worked on such films as,...
Ellen Goldsmith-Vein, Peter McHugh and Eric Robinson of The Gotham Group and Academy Award winner Karen Dufilho-Rosen (Geri's Game, For the Birds) will executive produce. This film is part of a four picture, first-look deal that Gotham signed with Sony Pictures Animation in 2009.
Here is what Ellen Goldsmith-Vein had to say about the project,
"We are thrilled and excited to be making a movie at Sony Pictures Animation with Stephan Franck directing and David Reynolds, one of the funniest writers in the business."
Reynolds received Oscar and BAFTA nominations and won an Annie Award for his work on Finding Nemo. He also worked on such films as,...
- 12/16/2010
- by Tiberius
- GeekTyrant
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.
- 12/15/2010
- by MIKE FLEMING
- Deadline
Oscar-nominated screenwriter David Reynolds ( Finding Nemo ) has been hired to write an untitled animated feature film based on an original story by animation veteran Stephan Franck ( The Iron Giant , Despicable Me ) who will also direct. The Gotham Group.s Ellen Goldsmith-Vein, Peter McHugh and Eric Robinson, and Academy Award winner Karen Dufilho-Rosen ( Geri's Game , For the Birds ) will executive produce. The film is the first in a four picture, first-look deal that Gotham signed with Sony Pictures Animation in 2009. "We are thrilled and excited to be making a movie at Sony Pictures Animation with Stephan Franck directing and David Reynolds, one of the funniest writers in the business," said Ellen Goldsmith-Vein. Reynolds' Finding Nemo screenplay received Oscar...
- 12/15/2010
- Comingsoon.net
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