Annecy
Andy Serkis Brings ‘Lord of the Rings’ Anime Movie’s First Footage to Annecy
Andy Serkis led a panel for The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim as fans got to experience the first 20 minutes of the theatrical anime film at the Annecy Animation Festival. Hailing from New Line Cinema and Warner Bros. Animation, director Kenji Kamiyama’s feature is based on a short segment from […]
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Tommy Wirkola on Going From Nazi Zombies in ‘Dead Snow’ to Singing Semen in ‘Spermageddon’
What rhymes with sperm in Norwegian? “Quite a few, actually, we got lucky in that respect,” says Tommy Wirkola, whose new film, Spermageddon, is an animated musical about sex and conception, told from the perspective of the spermatozoa. “You’d be surprised how many words you can find that rhyme, and how many variations and puns […]
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Lupita Nyong’o, Pedro Pascal’s ‘Wild Robot’ Unveils Emotional Footage at Annecy
DreamWorks Animation’s presentation for The Wild Robot had the crowd experiencing a range of emotions at the Annecy Animation Festival on Tuesday. Starring a voice cast that includes Lupita Nyong’o, Pedro Pascal and Kit Connor, the animated movie from Chris Sanders hits theaters on Sept. 20. The three-time Oscar-nominated Sanders spoke to the audience, as […]
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Chris Hemsworth, Scarlett Johansson’s ‘Transformers One’ Draws Laughs, Cheers in Its Annecy Debut
Transformers One helped get things rolling Monday as the Annecy Animation Festival goes into full tilt. Director Josh Cooley and Paramount Animation president Ramsey Naito addressed the crowd before showing a not-quite-finished version of the film in Annecy, France. The animated project’s star-studded voice cast (who were not at the screening) includes Chris Hemsworth, Brian […]
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Porky and Daffy Pull Fast One in Looney Tunes Movie ‘The Day the Earth Blew Up’ Sneak Peek (Exclusive)
Porky Pig and Daffy Duck probably won’t be heading for a career in real estate, as seen in a new preview clip from the forthcoming theatrical release The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie. Director Pete Browngardt’s sci-fi comedy from Warner Bros. Animation is set to hit theaters domestically later this year […]
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‘Memoir of a Snail’ Review: Sarah Snook, Kodi Smit-McPhee and Jacki Weaver Give Voice to Gleefully Oddball Australian Animation
Oscar-winning stop-motion maverick Adam Elliot’s second feature tells the life story of a gastropod-obsessed misfit touched by grief, loneliness and longing for her lost twin brother.
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Adam Elliot Talks ‘Memoir of a Snail,’ Claymation as “A Form of Therapy”
You could call Adam Elliot the Australian Nick Park. But while the British Wallace and Gromit creator and his Aardman studio have gone from award-winning claymation shorts to big-budget animation features made with the likes of Dreamworks (Chicken Run, Flushed Away) and Netflix (Chicken Run: The Dawn of the Nugget, the upcoming Wallace and Gromit […]
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‘Lord of the Rings’ Anime Feature, DC’s ‘Creature Commandos’ Set for Warner Bros. Presentation at Annecy
The new Lord of the Rings anime movie and the first DC Universe title from James Gunn are among the Warner Bros. projects that will be highlighted during the Annecy International Animation Film Festival that takes place next month. Warner Bros. Animation, Cartoon Network Studios and Hanna-Barbera Studios Europe shared their plans Monday for the […]
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Michel Hazanavicius’ Animated Holocaust Tale ‘The Most Precious of Cargoes’ to Open Annecy Film Festival
The Most Precious of Cargoes, the first animated feature from Oscar-winning French director Michel Hazanavicius (The Artist), will open this year’s Annecy International Animation Film Festival. The feature is a 2D animated adaptation of the best-selling book by French author Jean-Claude Grumberg. Set during World War II, it tells the story of a French Jewish […]
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Netflix to Present Sneak Peek of New Wallace & Gromit, Zack Snyder’s ‘Twilight of the Gods’ at Annecy
Claymation legends Nick Park and Merlin Crossingham will offer stop-motion fans a sneak peek at their upcoming Wallace & Gromit film at this year’s Annecy animation festival. The still-untitled feature will see inveterate, cheese-loving inventor Wallace designing a “smart gnome” for the family garden who begins to develop a mind of its own. As events […]
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‘Chicken for Linda!’ Review: A Touching Coming-of-Age Cartoon Caper Made With the Finest Ingredients
Directors Chiara Malta and Sébastien Laudenbach’s film won the top prize at Annecy and the César award for Best Animated Feature.
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Annecy Audience Award Winner’s Director on Defying CGI and AI to Capture the Magic of Childhood
The 60th Annecy Animation Film Festival, which wrapped up this weekend, provided a quiet defiance of the technological trends — including CGI and A.I. — that seem to be irresistible in the animated industry today. Every one of the 2023 Anncey award winners was a traditional 2D feature, a celebration of the old-school craft of […]
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