Here’s a fun first teaser trailer for family animation movie Playmobil: The Movie, featuring the voices of Anya Taylor-Joy, Jim Gaffigan, Gabriel Bateman, Adam Lambert, Kenan Thompson, Meghan Trainor and Daniel Radcliffe. Trainor and Lambert are also singing original songs for the film.
The animation-live action hybrid movie, based on the popular kids toy line, is due out next year. The film will follow the adventures of siblings Charlie (Bateman) and Marla (Taylor-Joy). When the former unexpectedly disappears into the animated universe of Playmobil, Marla must go on a quest to bring him home. During her adventures she teams up with some unlikely new friends, including smooth-talking food truck driver Del (Gaffigan), dashing and charismatic secret agent Rex Dasher (Radcliffe), a wholehearted misfit robot and an extravagant fairy-godmother (Trainor). Lambert will voice the character of villain Emperor Maximus.
Director and story creator is Disney veteran Lino Disalvo, who served...
The animation-live action hybrid movie, based on the popular kids toy line, is due out next year. The film will follow the adventures of siblings Charlie (Bateman) and Marla (Taylor-Joy). When the former unexpectedly disappears into the animated universe of Playmobil, Marla must go on a quest to bring him home. During her adventures she teams up with some unlikely new friends, including smooth-talking food truck driver Del (Gaffigan), dashing and charismatic secret agent Rex Dasher (Radcliffe), a wholehearted misfit robot and an extravagant fairy-godmother (Trainor). Lambert will voice the character of villain Emperor Maximus.
Director and story creator is Disney veteran Lino Disalvo, who served...
- 12/13/2018
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Anya Taylor-Joy (The Witch), Gabriel Bateman (Lights Out), Daniel Radcliffe, comic-turned-actor Jim Gaffigan (Chappaquiddick) and singers Meghan Trainor and Adam Lambert lead the voice cast for family pic Playmobil: The Movie.
Trainor and Lambert will also sing original songs for the film.
The animation-live action hybrid movie, based on the popular kids toy line, is due out next year. The film will follow the adventures of siblings Charlie (Bateman) and Marla (Taylor-Joy). When the former unexpectedly disappears into the animated universe of Playmobil, Marla must go on a quest to bring him home. During her adventures she teams up with some unlikely new friends, including smooth-talking food truck driver Del (Gaffigan), dashing and charismatic secret agent Rex Dasher (Radcliffe), a wholehearted misfit robot and an extravagant fairy-godmother (Trainor). Lambert will voice the character of villain Emperor Maximus.
Director and story creator is Disney veteran Lino Disalvo, who served as...
Trainor and Lambert will also sing original songs for the film.
The animation-live action hybrid movie, based on the popular kids toy line, is due out next year. The film will follow the adventures of siblings Charlie (Bateman) and Marla (Taylor-Joy). When the former unexpectedly disappears into the animated universe of Playmobil, Marla must go on a quest to bring him home. During her adventures she teams up with some unlikely new friends, including smooth-talking food truck driver Del (Gaffigan), dashing and charismatic secret agent Rex Dasher (Radcliffe), a wholehearted misfit robot and an extravagant fairy-godmother (Trainor). Lambert will voice the character of villain Emperor Maximus.
Director and story creator is Disney veteran Lino Disalvo, who served as...
- 10/10/2018
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
On Animation Studios unveiled new details and some footage of Lino Di Salvo’s anticipated “Playmobil: The Movie” during a work-in-progress session at Annecy Animation International Film Festival.
Di Salvo, a Disney veteran who served as head of animation on “Frozen” and was animation supervisor on “Tangled” and “Bolt,” presented “Playmobil” via a recorded video and said the film will be character-driven, trigger emotions and imagination, while the designs will “embrace the virginity and simplicity of ‘Playmobil.'”
Unveiled during the session, the plot revolves around twenty-year old Marla who is forced to abandon her carefully structured life to embark on an epic journey to find her young brother Charlie who has disappeared into the vast and wondrous animated world of Playmobil. Blaise Hemingway, Greg Erb and Jason Oremland wrote the script. A portion of the film is in live-action.
“The film is an emotional, adventure-filled journey in the veins of ‘Finding Nemo,...
Di Salvo, a Disney veteran who served as head of animation on “Frozen” and was animation supervisor on “Tangled” and “Bolt,” presented “Playmobil” via a recorded video and said the film will be character-driven, trigger emotions and imagination, while the designs will “embrace the virginity and simplicity of ‘Playmobil.'”
Unveiled during the session, the plot revolves around twenty-year old Marla who is forced to abandon her carefully structured life to embark on an epic journey to find her young brother Charlie who has disappeared into the vast and wondrous animated world of Playmobil. Blaise Hemingway, Greg Erb and Jason Oremland wrote the script. A portion of the film is in live-action.
“The film is an emotional, adventure-filled journey in the veins of ‘Finding Nemo,...
- 6/14/2018
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Film Lineup Set For Inaugural Palo Alto International Film Festival
Palo Alto, CA . The Palo Alto International Film Festival (Paiff) has announced its film program for the 2011 festival. The lineup includes 20 features and 74 short films curated from award-winning films and film festival favorites that exemplify Paiff.s theme of innovation in art, film and technology.
Paiff proudly presents a lineup that challenges the art form, taking creative risks with technology in films like Braden King.s cross-platform feature .Here,. to the artistically inventive .Bombay Beach. by music video director Alma Har.el to documentaries like .Something Ventured. which delves into the world of Venture Capital firms.
.We.re seeing a new movement emerging . films are trying to live outside the cinema. They.re breaking out of traditional storytelling structures,. said Paiff.s Director Programming Alf Seccombe. .This festival spotlights the creative risk-taking that is inherent in innovation..
The 2011 festival kicks...
Palo Alto, CA . The Palo Alto International Film Festival (Paiff) has announced its film program for the 2011 festival. The lineup includes 20 features and 74 short films curated from award-winning films and film festival favorites that exemplify Paiff.s theme of innovation in art, film and technology.
Paiff proudly presents a lineup that challenges the art form, taking creative risks with technology in films like Braden King.s cross-platform feature .Here,. to the artistically inventive .Bombay Beach. by music video director Alma Har.el to documentaries like .Something Ventured. which delves into the world of Venture Capital firms.
.We.re seeing a new movement emerging . films are trying to live outside the cinema. They.re breaking out of traditional storytelling structures,. said Paiff.s Director Programming Alf Seccombe. .This festival spotlights the creative risk-taking that is inherent in innovation..
The 2011 festival kicks...
- 8/15/2011
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Back in September, for no other reason than we found it to be very cool, we showed you the short film Oktapodi. It's from the French arts college, Gobelins, as the graduate project for Julien Bocabeille. He's already been working in Hollywood, most recently on the second Madagascar movie.
We bring Oktapodi back up again because it has been nominated for the Best Animated Short Film Academy Award. The animated short is what I call a tiebreaker category, because usually if you have an Oscar pool or ballot, they only have the main awards plus one that most people wouldn't have a clue about. Sometimes, that's the animated short.
Now this year, if you've seen Wall-e, you've already checked out Presto, the short film that preceded it in theaters, which is another nominee, and if you click play, you will have seen two-fifths of this category, which might give you...
We bring Oktapodi back up again because it has been nominated for the Best Animated Short Film Academy Award. The animated short is what I call a tiebreaker category, because usually if you have an Oscar pool or ballot, they only have the main awards plus one that most people wouldn't have a clue about. Sometimes, that's the animated short.
Now this year, if you've seen Wall-e, you've already checked out Presto, the short film that preceded it in theaters, which is another nominee, and if you click play, you will have seen two-fifths of this category, which might give you...
- 1/25/2009
- by Colin Boyd
- GetTheBigPicture.net
Man, I love animated short films. You see an awful lot of visual imagination at work, and very often, perfect examples of efficient storytelling. The Pixar shorts are pretty well-known and beloved, but they don't have a corner on the market.
A couple of months ago, we shared with you Oktapodi, a remarkably entertaining two minutes a then-student named Julien Bocabeille. He now does some work for Dreamworks. Here's another French short, although it runs about six minutes long. Dans la Tête (In the Head) comes to us from Grégory Damour, Maxime Entringer, Anthony Gilles, and Alan Sellier.
That's really good. Maybe not a big ball of sunshine, but a very good visual style that really needs to be seen. Find out more about the production - and practice your romance languages - by visiting the official Dans la Tête site.
A couple of months ago, we shared with you Oktapodi, a remarkably entertaining two minutes a then-student named Julien Bocabeille. He now does some work for Dreamworks. Here's another French short, although it runs about six minutes long. Dans la Tête (In the Head) comes to us from Grégory Damour, Maxime Entringer, Anthony Gilles, and Alan Sellier.
That's really good. Maybe not a big ball of sunshine, but a very good visual style that really needs to be seen. Find out more about the production - and practice your romance languages - by visiting the official Dans la Tête site.
- 12/9/2008
- by Colin Boyd
- GetTheBigPicture.net
Wanna see something cool? Take two minutes out of your day to watch Oktapodi, made last year by Julien Bocabeille as his graduation project from Gobelins, a French arts college. He now works for DreamWorks, and he's an animator on Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa.
This film has a lot in common with those animated shorts that accompany Pixar movies, although those tend to be a little longer. Bocabeille clearly understands the importance of keeping a story simple, and as you'll see, despite only being two minutes long, this has a hero and a villain, and a beginning, middle, and end. It's a complete story, and I think the animation style fits beautifully.
Get caught up with what Bocabeille is working on now at his blog, or check out the official website of the short to get a little more information on the filmmakers and Oktapodi's road through the festival circuit.
This film has a lot in common with those animated shorts that accompany Pixar movies, although those tend to be a little longer. Bocabeille clearly understands the importance of keeping a story simple, and as you'll see, despite only being two minutes long, this has a hero and a villain, and a beginning, middle, and end. It's a complete story, and I think the animation style fits beautifully.
Get caught up with what Bocabeille is working on now at his blog, or check out the official website of the short to get a little more information on the filmmakers and Oktapodi's road through the festival circuit.
- 9/21/2008
- by Colin Boyd
- GetTheBigPicture.net
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