AnimationFix: Your regular round-up of the latest animation news, from HitFix reporter Emily Rome Red and his fellow irate pals will fly again (or get slingshot again). “We have started planning the sequel to The Angry Birds Movie,” said Kati Levoranta, Chief Executive at Rovio, the Finnish company that made the popular Angry Birds game and also produced The Angry Birds Movie that Sony’s Columbia Pictures released this May. The Wall Street Journal reported Levoranta’s announcement of work on a sequel. A source with knowledge of Sony’s development slate tells HitFix that “this is premature.” There has been no official word from Sony about an Angry Birds Movie sequel yet. In a year when animation is dominating the box office — three of the ten highest-grossing animated films of all time came out this year — The Angry Birds Movie hasn’t had the most impressive haul. It’s...
- 8/26/2016
- by Emily Rome
- Hitfix
It seems like there’s no shortage of stories about abandoned superhero movies, but this one’s a little different in that it’s an animated short rather than a live-action feature. Back around 2013, Genndy Tartakovsky was planning an animated Superman short. His plans were scrapped, but not before back artist Scott Willis had put together a couple of gorgeous […]
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- 8/24/2016
- by Angie Han
- Slash Film
Artist Scott Willis posted some awesome concept art that was created for a cancelled Superman project that was being developed by Genndy Tartakovsky for Warner Bros. The art was accompanied by the following note:
Genndy Tartakovsky, Justin Thompson and I were very excited to do our take on an animated Superman but unfortunately it was pulled from us just as we were starting.
That’s a damn shame. I’m a big fan of Tartakovsky’s work, and it would have been awesome to see an animated Superman short film from him.
Genndy Tartakovsky, Justin Thompson and I were very excited to do our take on an animated Superman but unfortunately it was pulled from us just as we were starting.
That’s a damn shame. I’m a big fan of Tartakovsky’s work, and it would have been awesome to see an animated Superman short film from him.
- 8/24/2016
- by Joey Paur
- GeekTyrant
The August 4, 2016 show of Broadway in Bryant Park included a performance by the Broadway cast of An American in Paris. Cast members for the event included Dimitri Kleioris, Leanne Cope, Jill Paice, Brandon Uranowitz, Derek Hanson, Attila Joey Csiki, Kyle Brown, Megan Dickinson, Kurt Froman, Derek Hanson, Marina Lazzaretto, Cory Lingner, Nathan Madden, Charlotte O'Dowd, Candy Olsen, Kristin Piro, Sam Rogers, Shannon Rugani, Bradley Schlagheck, Jeffrey C. Sousa, Tory Trowbridge and Scott Willis performing the numbers 'Shall We Dance,' 'For You, For Me, For Evermore,' 'I'll Build a Stairway to Paradise,' and 'S Wonderful.'...
- 8/7/2016
- by BroadwayWorld TV
- BroadwayWorld.com
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