Partnership
Entertainment One (eOne) has solidified its collaboration with U.K. independent production company Hardcash Productions through an exclusive first-look agreement. Under the deal, brokered by Kate Cundall, eOne’s VP of acquisitions, and Robin Barty-King, Hardcash’s business affairs consultant, the partnership aims to develop and produce investigative factual content for the global market. eOne will handle international rights for all projects resulting from this collaboration.
Previously, eOne and Hardcash worked together on the distribution of award-winning documentaries such as “Inside China,” “Fearless: The Women Fighting Putin” and “Outbreak: The Virus that Shook the World,” which have been sold to over 160 territories worldwide.
Cundall said: “Through this collaboration, we’ve secured a unique access to one of the most prestigious documentary makers in the world of factual and documentary programming, and we look forward to continuing to provide award-winning unscripted storytelling to audiences worldwide.”
Esella Hawkey, creative director at Hardcash Productions,...
Entertainment One (eOne) has solidified its collaboration with U.K. independent production company Hardcash Productions through an exclusive first-look agreement. Under the deal, brokered by Kate Cundall, eOne’s VP of acquisitions, and Robin Barty-King, Hardcash’s business affairs consultant, the partnership aims to develop and produce investigative factual content for the global market. eOne will handle international rights for all projects resulting from this collaboration.
Previously, eOne and Hardcash worked together on the distribution of award-winning documentaries such as “Inside China,” “Fearless: The Women Fighting Putin” and “Outbreak: The Virus that Shook the World,” which have been sold to over 160 territories worldwide.
Cundall said: “Through this collaboration, we’ve secured a unique access to one of the most prestigious documentary makers in the world of factual and documentary programming, and we look forward to continuing to provide award-winning unscripted storytelling to audiences worldwide.”
Esella Hawkey, creative director at Hardcash Productions,...
- 5/18/2023
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
Warren Coleman, who co-directed George Miller’s 2006 animated Oscar-winning smash hit Happy Feet, is set to direct live-action family adventure feature Stripey.
The film — currently in development — follows a single-parent family of refugees from Kashmir, a long-thought-extinct Tasmanian tiger and a colorful bunch of bush characters. It tells the story of what happens when they all collide.
Coleman, who co-wrote both Happy Feet and its sequel Happy Feet Two, wrote Stripey alongside Australian writer and comedian Steve Abbot (behind the popular radio and TV character The Sandman).
“What really got us into this story that we kept coming back to was this simple idea about what would happen if some of the newest people in Australia crossed paths with one of the very oldest creatures we have, which isn’t even supposed to exist anymore,” Coleman tells The Hollywood Reporter, adding that, while supposedly extinct (the last official one died...
The film — currently in development — follows a single-parent family of refugees from Kashmir, a long-thought-extinct Tasmanian tiger and a colorful bunch of bush characters. It tells the story of what happens when they all collide.
Coleman, who co-wrote both Happy Feet and its sequel Happy Feet Two, wrote Stripey alongside Australian writer and comedian Steve Abbot (behind the popular radio and TV character The Sandman).
“What really got us into this story that we kept coming back to was this simple idea about what would happen if some of the newest people in Australia crossed paths with one of the very oldest creatures we have, which isn’t even supposed to exist anymore,” Coleman tells The Hollywood Reporter, adding that, while supposedly extinct (the last official one died...
- 5/18/2023
- by Alex Ritman
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Kriv Stenders on a recce for Wake In Fright in Broken Hill.
The Nsw Government has invested over $2 million to secure four new feature films, four television drama series and four factual TV series, as well as several one-off documentaries, a web series and a multiplatform project. The productions are predicted to create 1080 new screen jobs and generate a direct production spend of almost $35 million in Nsw. Included among them is Ten.s recently announced mini-series Wake In Fright, the first local production to be supported under the Screen Nsw.s $20 million Made in Nsw Fund. The other 15 productions are being supported through the Film Production Finance Fund. According to Deputy Premier and Minister for the Arts Troy Grant the fund can now support many more local film and television productions because funds have been freed-up by the Made in Nsw Fund. The full list of funding recipients: Project: Ali's Wedding...
The Nsw Government has invested over $2 million to secure four new feature films, four television drama series and four factual TV series, as well as several one-off documentaries, a web series and a multiplatform project. The productions are predicted to create 1080 new screen jobs and generate a direct production spend of almost $35 million in Nsw. Included among them is Ten.s recently announced mini-series Wake In Fright, the first local production to be supported under the Screen Nsw.s $20 million Made in Nsw Fund. The other 15 productions are being supported through the Film Production Finance Fund. According to Deputy Premier and Minister for the Arts Troy Grant the fund can now support many more local film and television productions because funds have been freed-up by the Made in Nsw Fund. The full list of funding recipients: Project: Ali's Wedding...
- 9/12/2016
- by Staff Writer
- IF.com.au
Melbourne-based screenwriter, video artist and filmmaker Harry Aletras has won the 2015 Australian Writers Guild.s Insite award for unproduced screenplays.
Aletras will attend the Adelaide Film Festival (October 15-25) and meet industry directors and producers with a view to moving the project, crime thriller Martingale, onto the screen.
Martingale follows Finnigan Wallace, a 24-year-old gambling addict and philosophy major whose addictions have ruined his relationships with his girlfriend and his widowed mother. Owing a considerable debt to a gangland boss, he is ordered to go to a criminal club in Vietnam to collect a sizeable quantity of heroin, an ultimatum. which he sees as a symbolic suicide.
Awg president Jan Sardi hailed the screenplay as a .taut crime thriller showcasing a talented writer with a bright future..
Aff director Amanda Duthie joined the Awg panel to determine the winner. The judges gave a special runner up (highly recommended) commendation to...
Aletras will attend the Adelaide Film Festival (October 15-25) and meet industry directors and producers with a view to moving the project, crime thriller Martingale, onto the screen.
Martingale follows Finnigan Wallace, a 24-year-old gambling addict and philosophy major whose addictions have ruined his relationships with his girlfriend and his widowed mother. Owing a considerable debt to a gangland boss, he is ordered to go to a criminal club in Vietnam to collect a sizeable quantity of heroin, an ultimatum. which he sees as a symbolic suicide.
Awg president Jan Sardi hailed the screenplay as a .taut crime thriller showcasing a talented writer with a bright future..
Aff director Amanda Duthie joined the Awg panel to determine the winner. The judges gave a special runner up (highly recommended) commendation to...
- 10/15/2015
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
Chicago – Dancing animated penguins, a tradition dating back to Disney’s “Mary Poppins” and brought to further life in the first “Happy Feet” movie, finds more stepping pep in “Happy Feet Two.” Robin Williams and Elijah Wood return to lend their vocal talents in this enjoyable sequel.
Rating: 3.5/5.0
This is a film that never gets boring. It balances a couple of major stories, including a couple of tiny krills (shrimp-like amoeba in the sea) who are searching for their identities. The scenic elements are spectacular, again upping the ante for atmosphere in the new golden age of animation. Like the first film, there are messages which takes in environmentalism, the collective versus the free will and working together to accomplish a goal. All this and dancing, too!
The film begins with an extended penguin dance sequence, led by the vocal talents of Gloria (voice of Pink). Mumble (Elijah Wood) is back leading the way,...
Rating: 3.5/5.0
This is a film that never gets boring. It balances a couple of major stories, including a couple of tiny krills (shrimp-like amoeba in the sea) who are searching for their identities. The scenic elements are spectacular, again upping the ante for atmosphere in the new golden age of animation. Like the first film, there are messages which takes in environmentalism, the collective versus the free will and working together to accomplish a goal. All this and dancing, too!
The film begins with an extended penguin dance sequence, led by the vocal talents of Gloria (voice of Pink). Mumble (Elijah Wood) is back leading the way,...
- 11/18/2011
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
There is some precedence for being genuinely excited about "Happy Feet Two" (yes, the number is spelled out). For one, the original film, 2006's "Happy Feet," was more slyly subversive than a movie about tap-dancing penguins has any right to be, with a strong thematic undercurrent that championed not only individualism but, more boldly, atheism. Plus, director George Miller, who co-directed the original (with Warren Coleman and Judy Morris) assumes chief creative control this time around, has a history of whacked-out sequels, having not only crafted the glorious "Mad Max" flick "The Road Warrior," but also the darkly hued follow-up to the sunny Best Picture-nominated "Babe," the altogether unclassifiable "Babe: Pig in the City." Plus, the trailers for "Happy Feet Two" promised a subplot about a pair of shrimp-like crustaceans (voiced by Matt Damon and Brad Pitt) on a journey of their own, which is pretty fucking...
- 11/16/2011
- The Playlist
There is some precedence for being genuinely excited about "Happy Feet Two" (yes, the number is spelled out). For one, the original film, 2006's "Happy Feet," was more slyly subversive than a movie about tap-dancing penguins has any right to be, with a strong thematic undercurrent that championed not only individualism but, more boldly, atheism. Plus, director George Miller, who co-directed the original (with Warren Coleman and Judy Morris) assumes chief creative control this time around, has a history of whacked-out sequels, having not only crafted the glorious "Mad Max" flick "The Road Warrior," but also the darkly hued follow-up to the sunny Best Picture-nominated "Babe," the altogether unclassifiable "Babe: Pig in the City." Plus, the trailers for "Happy Feet Two" promised a subplot about a pair of shrimp-like crustaceans (voiced by Matt Damon and Brad Pitt) on a journey of their own, which is pretty fucking...
- 11/16/2011
- Indiewire
Merchandise Sweepstakes! "Have Fun. Explore. Earn Amazing Rewards" Click on the banner Latino Review is giving away some cool merchandise to celebrate the release of the upcoming sequel "Happy Feet Two" starring the voice talents of Elijah Wood, Robin Williams, Hank Azaria, Alecia Moore (P!nk), Sofia Vergara, Common, Hugo Weaving, Richard Carter, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Magda Szubanski, Anthony Lapaglia and Benjamin “Lil P-Nut” Flores, Jr. "Happy Feet Two” opens wide on Friday, November 18, 2011. Click Here to visit the official site or hit the poster to visit the Facebook page for the film. The sequel to “Happy Feet,” the Academy Award®-winning animated smash hit, “Happy Feet Two” returns audiences to the magnificent landscape of Antarctica in superb 3D.Mumble, The Master of Tap, has a problem because his tiny son, Erik, is choreo-phobic. Reluctant to dance, Erik runs away and encounters The Mighty Sven—a penguin who can fly!
- 11/16/2011
- LRMonline.com
IMAX® 3D Release of Highly Anticipated Sequel to Happy Feet
Opens in More Than 377 IMAX Theatres
IMAX Corporation and Warner Bros. Pictures today announced that Happy Feet Two, the sequel to the animated hit Happy Feet, will be released in the immersive IMAX® 3D format this Friday, November 18. The film will open in 293 IMAX® theatres domestically, simultaneously with the film’s wide North American release. The movie will also open in 84 IMAX theatres internationally, 6 of which will open this Friday, with the additional runs debuting over the following weeks. More international theatres will be added as pending bookings are confirmed.
Happy Feet Two: An IMAX 3D Experience has been digitally re-mastered into the unparalleled image and sound quality of The IMAX Experience® through proprietary IMAX Dmr® technology. With crystal clear images, laser-aligned digital sound and theatre geometry that maximizes field of view, IMAX provides the world’s most immersive movie experience.
Opens in More Than 377 IMAX Theatres
IMAX Corporation and Warner Bros. Pictures today announced that Happy Feet Two, the sequel to the animated hit Happy Feet, will be released in the immersive IMAX® 3D format this Friday, November 18. The film will open in 293 IMAX® theatres domestically, simultaneously with the film’s wide North American release. The movie will also open in 84 IMAX theatres internationally, 6 of which will open this Friday, with the additional runs debuting over the following weeks. More international theatres will be added as pending bookings are confirmed.
Happy Feet Two: An IMAX 3D Experience has been digitally re-mastered into the unparalleled image and sound quality of The IMAX Experience® through proprietary IMAX Dmr® technology. With crystal clear images, laser-aligned digital sound and theatre geometry that maximizes field of view, IMAX provides the world’s most immersive movie experience.
- 11/14/2011
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
In the sequel to the adorable Happy Feet, the Academy Award®-winning animated smash hit, Happy Feet Two returns audiences to the magnificent landscape of Antarctica in superb 3D. Warner Bros. Pictures. and Village Roadshow Pictures. animated family comedy adventure will be in RealD 3D, IMAX 3D and 2D in select theaters on Friday, November 18, but you can catch the movie early! Wamg has a family four pack to giveaway so you can see Happy Feet Two this weekend – Saturday morning (11/12) at 10:00am at Chesterfield Galaxy 14 Cine.
Official Rules:
1. You Must Be In The St. Louis Area The Day Of The Screening.
2. Fill Out Your Name And E-mail Address Below. Real First Name Required.
3. Answer The Following Question: What famous tap dancer provided the dance sequences for Mumble in 2006′s Happy Feet ?
Winners Will Be Chosen Through A Random Drawing Of Qualifying Contestants. No Purchase Necessary. Passes Will Not Be Substituted Or Exchanged.
Official Rules:
1. You Must Be In The St. Louis Area The Day Of The Screening.
2. Fill Out Your Name And E-mail Address Below. Real First Name Required.
3. Answer The Following Question: What famous tap dancer provided the dance sequences for Mumble in 2006′s Happy Feet ?
Winners Will Be Chosen Through A Random Drawing Of Qualifying Contestants. No Purchase Necessary. Passes Will Not Be Substituted Or Exchanged.
- 11/7/2011
- by Movie Geeks
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
(L-r) Atticus, voiced by Benjamin “Lil P-nut” Flores Jr.; Erik, voiced by Ava Acres; Bo, voiced by Meibh Campbell; and in front, Ramon, voiced by Robin Williams, in Warner Bros. Pictures’ and Village Roadshow Pictures’ animated family comedy adventure “Happy Feet Two,” a Warner Bros. Pictures release. Photo courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures
Check out all the latest photos and featurette from Warner Bros. Pictures’ and Village Roadshow Pictures’ animated family comedy adventure Happy Feet Two. You can catch it in RealD 3D, IMAX 3D and 2D in select theaters on Friday, November 18
The sequel to Happy Feet, the Academy Award®-winning animated smash hit, Happy Feet Two returns audiences to the magnificent landscape of Antarctica in superb 3D.
Mumble, The Master of Tap, has a problem because his tiny son, Erik, is choreo-phobic. Reluctant to dance, Erik runs away and encounters The Mighty Sven – a penguin who can fly!
Check out all the latest photos and featurette from Warner Bros. Pictures’ and Village Roadshow Pictures’ animated family comedy adventure Happy Feet Two. You can catch it in RealD 3D, IMAX 3D and 2D in select theaters on Friday, November 18
The sequel to Happy Feet, the Academy Award®-winning animated smash hit, Happy Feet Two returns audiences to the magnificent landscape of Antarctica in superb 3D.
Mumble, The Master of Tap, has a problem because his tiny son, Erik, is choreo-phobic. Reluctant to dance, Erik runs away and encounters The Mighty Sven – a penguin who can fly!
- 11/5/2011
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
See a new poster for Happy Feet Two in 3D, starring Elijah Wood, Robin Williams, Hank Azaria, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Alecia Moore (Pink), Sofia Vergara and Common These also just keep on coming and there may end up being over 10 posters at the end. George Miller directs the animated family adventure comedy as well as scripting alongside Gary Eck, Warren Coleman and Paul Livingston. Warner Bros. Pictures releases the pic on November 18th, ready to dance to big box office numbers, after the first film dropped Pixar's Cars for an Academy Award. In Happy Feet Two, Mumble, The Master of Tap (voiced by Elijah Wood) has a problem because his tiny son, Erik, is choreophobic. Reluctant to dance, Erik runs away and encounters The Mighty Sven - a penguin who can fly! Mumble...
- 10/14/2011
- Upcoming-Movies.com
See a new poster for Happy Feet Two in 3D, starring Elijah Wood, Robin Williams, Hank Azaria, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Alecia Moore (Pink), Sofia Vergara and Common These also just keep on coming and there may end up being over 10 posters at the end. George Miller directs the animated family adventure comedy as well as scripting alongside Gary Eck, Warren Coleman and Paul Livingston. Warner Bros. Pictures releases the pic on November 18th, ready to dance to big box office numbers, after the first film dropped Pixar's Cars for an Academy Award. In Happy Feet Two, Mumble, The Master of Tap (voiced by Elijah Wood) has a problem because his tiny son, Erik, is choreophobic. Reluctant to dance, Erik runs away and encounters The Mighty Sven - a penguin who can fly! Mumble...
- 10/14/2011
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Erik in Warner Bros. Pictures and Village Roadshow Pictures animated family comedy adventure Happy Feet Two, a Warner Bros. Pictures release. Photo courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures
Say hello to the newest penguin on the ice block and Mumble’s son, Erik, in the new Happy Feet Two trailer – There’s lots to dance about!
In Happy Feet Two, Mumble, The Master of Tap, has a problem because his tiny son, Erik, is choreo-phobic. Reluctant to dance, Erik runs away and encounters The Mighty Sven – a penguin who can fly! Mumble has no hope of competing with this charismatic new role model. But things get worse when the world is shaken by powerful forces. Erik learns of his father’s “guts and grit” as Mumble brings together the penguin nations and all manner of fabulous creatures “from tiny Krill to giant Elephant Seals” to put things right.
Cast: Elijah Wood,...
Say hello to the newest penguin on the ice block and Mumble’s son, Erik, in the new Happy Feet Two trailer – There’s lots to dance about!
In Happy Feet Two, Mumble, The Master of Tap, has a problem because his tiny son, Erik, is choreo-phobic. Reluctant to dance, Erik runs away and encounters The Mighty Sven – a penguin who can fly! Mumble has no hope of competing with this charismatic new role model. But things get worse when the world is shaken by powerful forces. Erik learns of his father’s “guts and grit” as Mumble brings together the penguin nations and all manner of fabulous creatures “from tiny Krill to giant Elephant Seals” to put things right.
Cast: Elijah Wood,...
- 10/7/2011
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Erik in Warner Bros. Pictures. and Village Roadshow Pictures. animated family comedy adventure .Happy Feet Two,. a Warner Bros. Pictures release. Photo courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures
“Time to Rock With The Flock” in these new TV spots for the comedy adventure - Happy Feet Two - the sequel to Happy Feet, the Academy Award®-winning animated smash hit.
In Happy Feet Two, Mumble, The Master of Tap, has a problem because his tiny son, Erik, is choreo-phobic. Reluctant to dance, Erik runs away and encounters The Mighty Sven . a penguin who can fly! Mumble has no hope of competing with this charismatic new role model. But things get worse when the world is shaken by powerful forces. Erik learns of his father.s .guts and grit. as Mumble brings together the penguin nations and all manner of fabulous creatures .from tiny Krill to giant Elephant Seals. to put things right.
“Time to Rock With The Flock” in these new TV spots for the comedy adventure - Happy Feet Two - the sequel to Happy Feet, the Academy Award®-winning animated smash hit.
In Happy Feet Two, Mumble, The Master of Tap, has a problem because his tiny son, Erik, is choreo-phobic. Reluctant to dance, Erik runs away and encounters The Mighty Sven . a penguin who can fly! Mumble has no hope of competing with this charismatic new role model. But things get worse when the world is shaken by powerful forces. Erik learns of his father.s .guts and grit. as Mumble brings together the penguin nations and all manner of fabulous creatures .from tiny Krill to giant Elephant Seals. to put things right.
- 9/22/2011
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Leonardo DiCaprio as J. Edgar Hoover in Warner Bros. Pictures’ drama “J. Edgar,” a Warner Bros. Pictures release. Photo by Keith Bernstein
In the latest photos from Warner Bros. Pictures 2011 Fall/Holiday lineup, we finally get a look at the big-to-do over DiCaprio as ‘Hoover’. Will this be the role that finally bestows on Leo that elusive Academy Award for Best Actor? We’ll be sure to bring you the first trailer of Eastwood’s biopic in the upcoming months.
Also released were the new images from Happy Feet Two and New Year’S Eve. Click Here to see the earlier set from Warner Bros. slate of films.
J. Edgar
In theaters on November 9 (Limited) / November 11 (Wide)
(L-r) Leonardo DiCaprio as J. Edgar Hoover and Naomi Watts as Helen Gandy in Warner Bros. Pictures’ drama “J. Edgar,” a Warner Bros. Pictures release. Photo by Keith Bernstein
(Warner Bros. Pictures)
Drama.
In the latest photos from Warner Bros. Pictures 2011 Fall/Holiday lineup, we finally get a look at the big-to-do over DiCaprio as ‘Hoover’. Will this be the role that finally bestows on Leo that elusive Academy Award for Best Actor? We’ll be sure to bring you the first trailer of Eastwood’s biopic in the upcoming months.
Also released were the new images from Happy Feet Two and New Year’S Eve. Click Here to see the earlier set from Warner Bros. slate of films.
J. Edgar
In theaters on November 9 (Limited) / November 11 (Wide)
(L-r) Leonardo DiCaprio as J. Edgar Hoover and Naomi Watts as Helen Gandy in Warner Bros. Pictures’ drama “J. Edgar,” a Warner Bros. Pictures release. Photo by Keith Bernstein
(Warner Bros. Pictures)
Drama.
- 8/17/2011
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Gwyneth Paltrow as Beth Emhoff in Warner Bros. Pictures’ thriller “Contagion,” a Warner Bros. Pictures release. Photo by Claudette Barius
Warner Bros. Pictures has sent us a preview, along with new photos, of their 2011 Fall / Holiday movies – along with a first look at some new images. Most noticable among the list are award season potentials Contagion from Steven Soderbergh, Clint Eastwood’s J. Edgar, Guy Ritchie’s Sherlock Holmes: A Game Of Shadows, and Stephen Daldry’s Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close.
Matt Damon as Mitch Emhoff in Warner Bros. Pictures’ thriller “Contagion,” a Warner Bros. Pictures release. Photo by Claudette Barius
Contagion
In theaters and IMAX on September 9
(Warner Bros. Pictures/Participant Media/Imagenation Abu Dhabi)
Jude Law as Alan Krumwlede in Warner Bros. Pictures’ thriller “Contagion,” a Warner Bros. Pictures release. Photo by Claudette Barius
Director: Steven Soderbergh
Writer: Scott Z. Burns
Producers: Michael Shamberg, Stacey Sher, Gregory Jacobs
Executive Producers: Jeff Skoll,...
Warner Bros. Pictures has sent us a preview, along with new photos, of their 2011 Fall / Holiday movies – along with a first look at some new images. Most noticable among the list are award season potentials Contagion from Steven Soderbergh, Clint Eastwood’s J. Edgar, Guy Ritchie’s Sherlock Holmes: A Game Of Shadows, and Stephen Daldry’s Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close.
Matt Damon as Mitch Emhoff in Warner Bros. Pictures’ thriller “Contagion,” a Warner Bros. Pictures release. Photo by Claudette Barius
Contagion
In theaters and IMAX on September 9
(Warner Bros. Pictures/Participant Media/Imagenation Abu Dhabi)
Jude Law as Alan Krumwlede in Warner Bros. Pictures’ thriller “Contagion,” a Warner Bros. Pictures release. Photo by Claudette Barius
Director: Steven Soderbergh
Writer: Scott Z. Burns
Producers: Michael Shamberg, Stacey Sher, Gregory Jacobs
Executive Producers: Jeff Skoll,...
- 8/10/2011
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Check out a new poster for Happy Feet Two! Happy Feet 2 opens via Warner Bros. Pictures on November 18th, under the direction of George Miller, who writes alongside Warren Coleman, Gary Eck and Paul Livingston. The animated film which follows the Academy Award-winning first movie of 2006, features the voice talents of Elijah Wood, Robin Williams, Sofía Vergara, Matt Damon, Brad Pitt and Hank Azaria. In Happy Feet 2, Mumble the penguin's son Erik, encounters The Mighty Sven, a penguin who can fly. When the world is shaken by powerful forces,Mumble must bring together the penguin nations and their allies in order to set things right.
- 7/28/2011
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Check out a new poster for Happy Feet Two! Happy Feet 2 opens via Warner Bros. Pictures on November 18th, under the direction of George Miller, who writes alongside Warren Coleman, Gary Eck and Paul Livingston. The animated film which follows the Academy Award-winning first movie of 2006, features the voice talents of Elijah Wood, Robin Williams, Sofía Vergara, Matt Damon, Brad Pitt and Hank Azaria. In Happy Feet 2, Mumble the penguin's son Erik, encounters The Mighty Sven, a penguin who can fly. When the world is shaken by powerful forces,Mumble must bring together the penguin nations and their allies in order to set things right.
- 7/28/2011
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Check out a new poster for Happy Feet Two! Happy Feet 2 opens via Warner Bros. Pictures on November 18th, under the direction of George Miller, who writes alongside Warren Coleman, Gary Eck and Paul Livingston. The animated film which follows the Academy Award-winning first movie of 2006, features the voice talents of Elijah Wood, Robin Williams, Sofía Vergara, Matt Damon, Brad Pitt and Hank Azaria. In Happy Feet 2, Mumble the penguin's son Erik, encounters The Mighty Sven, a penguin who can fly. When the world is shaken by powerful forces,Mumble must bring together the penguin nations and their allies in order to set things right.
- 7/28/2011
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Warner Brothers Pictures and Village Roadshow Pictures released the theatrical trailer for the upcoming animation “Happy Feet 2” on Yahoo! Movies. The film stars Elijah Wood, Pink, Robin Williams, Sofia Vergara and Hank Azaria. Here is the synopsis provided on Yahoo! Movies: Mumble, The Master of Tap, has a problem because his tiny son, Erik, is choreophobic. Reluctant to dance, Erik runs away and encounters The Mighty Sven—a penguin who can fly! Mumble has no hope of competing with this charismatic new role model. But things get worse when the world is shaken by powerful forces. Erik learns of his father’s “guts and grit” as Mumble brings together the penguin nations and all manner of fabulous creatures—from tiny Krill to giant Elephant Seals—to put things right. The animation is directed by George Miller (“Happy Feet,” “Mad Max”). The screenplay is written by Miller, Warren Coleman (“Happy Feet”), Gary Eck (“The Nation,...
- 7/27/2011
- LRMonline.com
"Happy Feet" is an odd bird. It's a CG-animated film with a "Dumbo"-esque story about an emperor penguin that unlike other penguins can't sing worth a lick but, boy, can he tap dance. Right from the start, though, you are aware that the Australian director George Miller and his talented artists are aiming for something more than a charming children's cartoon.
In the barren, hostile Antarctic wilderness where these hardy yet somewhat comical birds make their home, Miller is unafraid to go for what can only be described as a neo-biblical epic. In his depiction of a plague and a pilgrimage, a God-like penguin appearing in the sky, the portrayal of the story's hero as a prophet rejected by his own kind and even the gospel orientation of several songs, Miller boldly reaches for spiritual themes.
Happily, it all works. Miller and his co-writers Judy Morris and Warren Coleman plug in enough action sequences -- where penguins tumble down towers of ice and frantically escape predators and flee avalanches -- to entertain younger viewers. The many musical numbers are brilliantly choreographed and orchestrated through some of the best motion capture ever employed in a cartoon. And the film often astonishes you with the three-dimensionality of its frozen landscapes. With smart marketing, Warner Bros. Pictures has a solid entertainment that should sweep across many demographics. Nor does it hurt that last year's "March of the Penguins" educated so many moviegoers to the extraordinary world of empire penguins.
Mumble (Elijah Wood) is a cheerful penguin despite his "handicap." But his dad, Memphis (Hugh Jackman), worries, even as he hides the secret of his son's strangeness from his mom, Norma Jean (Nicole Kidman): Memphis accidentally dropped the egg from its nest within the folds of his feathery flesh during a winter storm. So when Mumble is hatched, he cannot perform his "heartsong," the identifying croon peculiar to every penguin to attract a mate. Instead, his webbed feet break out into tap dancing. Mom is delighted, but Dad insists, "It just ain't penguin."
Singing lessons end in failure, but Mumble's "hippity-hoppity" ways still attract his childhood friend, Gloria (Brittany Murphy). Then, in his rambling adventures, Mumble runs into a group of Latino penguins, the Adelie Amigos, who convince him that his dancing is actually cool.
A drought in the fish supply causes Noah (Hugo Weaving) to interpret this as divine retribution for Mumble's un-penguin ways. When Mumble refuses to change those ways -- he has an unshakable sense of who he is -- he is forced from the flock and goes on a pilgrimage with the Amigos, led by Ramon and Lovelace the Guru (both characters voiced by Robin Williams, who also narrates the movie) to find the "aliens" (i.e. humans) whose overfishing has interrupted the food supply.
Miller has made a number of wise choices in how to convey his biblical/penguin tale. The animals' heartsong might sound like noise to human ears, but to a penguin it's music. So why not turn "Happy Feet" into a quasi-musical featuring classic pop songs from disco and Queen to Sinatra, Prince and the Beatles?
For the tap dancing, why not go to a virtuoso, Savion Glover, to "play" Mumble to dazzling effect through motion capture? Choreographer Kelley Abbey works with other dancers in groups so that the screen fills up with thousands of dancing penguins, seemingly with their own distinctive styles.
Research expeditions by camera crews to Antarctica result in a highly realistic landscape with enough texture, light and shadows that you can feel the cold. Miller moves his camera all the time and "setups" go from close-ups to extreme long shots, giving "Happy Feet" a greater "movie" sense than animated films usually have.
There also is a wonderful jokiness to much of the film, from the various ethnic and national accents of the animals to the way the musical numbers reflect the film's moods. It's not a riotous joke-athon like "Flushed Away", but for all its serious themes "Happy Feet" never forgets that, after all, the movie is about dancing penguins.
HAPPY FEET
Warner Bros. Pictures
Warner Bros. Pictures presents in association with
Village Roadshow Pictures
a Kennedy Miller Prods. production in association with Animal Logic Film
Credits:
Director: George Miller
Screenwriters: George Miller, John Coll ee, Judy Morris, Warren Coleman
Producers: Doug Mitchell, George Miller, Bill Miller, Zach Nalbandian
Executive producers: Graham Burke, Edward Jones, Dana Goldberg, Bruce Berman
Co-directors: Judy Morris, Wrren Coleman
Production designer: Mark Sexton
Music: John Powell
Choreographer: Savion Glover, Kelley Abbey
Supervising sound editor: Wayne Pashley
Supervising art director: David Nelson
Layout/camera director: David Peers
Editors: Margaret Sixel, Christian Gazal
Voices:
Mumble: Elijah Wood
Ramon/Lovelace: Robin Williams
Gloria: Brittany Murphy
Memphis: Hugh Jackman
Norma Jean: Nicole Kidman
Noah: Hugo Weaving
Boss Skua: Anthony LaPaglia
Running time -- 108 minutes
MPAA rating: PG...
In the barren, hostile Antarctic wilderness where these hardy yet somewhat comical birds make their home, Miller is unafraid to go for what can only be described as a neo-biblical epic. In his depiction of a plague and a pilgrimage, a God-like penguin appearing in the sky, the portrayal of the story's hero as a prophet rejected by his own kind and even the gospel orientation of several songs, Miller boldly reaches for spiritual themes.
Happily, it all works. Miller and his co-writers Judy Morris and Warren Coleman plug in enough action sequences -- where penguins tumble down towers of ice and frantically escape predators and flee avalanches -- to entertain younger viewers. The many musical numbers are brilliantly choreographed and orchestrated through some of the best motion capture ever employed in a cartoon. And the film often astonishes you with the three-dimensionality of its frozen landscapes. With smart marketing, Warner Bros. Pictures has a solid entertainment that should sweep across many demographics. Nor does it hurt that last year's "March of the Penguins" educated so many moviegoers to the extraordinary world of empire penguins.
Mumble (Elijah Wood) is a cheerful penguin despite his "handicap." But his dad, Memphis (Hugh Jackman), worries, even as he hides the secret of his son's strangeness from his mom, Norma Jean (Nicole Kidman): Memphis accidentally dropped the egg from its nest within the folds of his feathery flesh during a winter storm. So when Mumble is hatched, he cannot perform his "heartsong," the identifying croon peculiar to every penguin to attract a mate. Instead, his webbed feet break out into tap dancing. Mom is delighted, but Dad insists, "It just ain't penguin."
Singing lessons end in failure, but Mumble's "hippity-hoppity" ways still attract his childhood friend, Gloria (Brittany Murphy). Then, in his rambling adventures, Mumble runs into a group of Latino penguins, the Adelie Amigos, who convince him that his dancing is actually cool.
A drought in the fish supply causes Noah (Hugo Weaving) to interpret this as divine retribution for Mumble's un-penguin ways. When Mumble refuses to change those ways -- he has an unshakable sense of who he is -- he is forced from the flock and goes on a pilgrimage with the Amigos, led by Ramon and Lovelace the Guru (both characters voiced by Robin Williams, who also narrates the movie) to find the "aliens" (i.e. humans) whose overfishing has interrupted the food supply.
Miller has made a number of wise choices in how to convey his biblical/penguin tale. The animals' heartsong might sound like noise to human ears, but to a penguin it's music. So why not turn "Happy Feet" into a quasi-musical featuring classic pop songs from disco and Queen to Sinatra, Prince and the Beatles?
For the tap dancing, why not go to a virtuoso, Savion Glover, to "play" Mumble to dazzling effect through motion capture? Choreographer Kelley Abbey works with other dancers in groups so that the screen fills up with thousands of dancing penguins, seemingly with their own distinctive styles.
Research expeditions by camera crews to Antarctica result in a highly realistic landscape with enough texture, light and shadows that you can feel the cold. Miller moves his camera all the time and "setups" go from close-ups to extreme long shots, giving "Happy Feet" a greater "movie" sense than animated films usually have.
There also is a wonderful jokiness to much of the film, from the various ethnic and national accents of the animals to the way the musical numbers reflect the film's moods. It's not a riotous joke-athon like "Flushed Away", but for all its serious themes "Happy Feet" never forgets that, after all, the movie is about dancing penguins.
HAPPY FEET
Warner Bros. Pictures
Warner Bros. Pictures presents in association with
Village Roadshow Pictures
a Kennedy Miller Prods. production in association with Animal Logic Film
Credits:
Director: George Miller
Screenwriters: George Miller, John Coll ee, Judy Morris, Warren Coleman
Producers: Doug Mitchell, George Miller, Bill Miller, Zach Nalbandian
Executive producers: Graham Burke, Edward Jones, Dana Goldberg, Bruce Berman
Co-directors: Judy Morris, Wrren Coleman
Production designer: Mark Sexton
Music: John Powell
Choreographer: Savion Glover, Kelley Abbey
Supervising sound editor: Wayne Pashley
Supervising art director: David Nelson
Layout/camera director: David Peers
Editors: Margaret Sixel, Christian Gazal
Voices:
Mumble: Elijah Wood
Ramon/Lovelace: Robin Williams
Gloria: Brittany Murphy
Memphis: Hugh Jackman
Norma Jean: Nicole Kidman
Noah: Hugo Weaving
Boss Skua: Anthony LaPaglia
Running time -- 108 minutes
MPAA rating: PG...
- 11/13/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Helmer George Miller is embarking on an animated feature film for Warner Bros. Pictures/Village Roadshow Pictures titled Happy Feet. The lead character will be voiced by Elijah Wood. The CGI-animated project will be done in Australia, with a print expected to be delivered in late 2005. A release date will be set after that time. Kennedy/Miller is producing the project, which is a children's fable about a young penguin's adventure in Antarctica. Wood will voice Mumble, the young penguin. The screenplay was written by Miller, John Collee, Warren Coleman and Judy Morris. Miller and Doug Mitchell are producing. Warners senior vp Courtenay Valenti and creative executive David Beaubaire are overseeing the project with Village Roadshow exec Dana Goldberg. Wood, repped by WMA, is best known as Frodo Baggins in New Line Cinema's The Lord of the Rings trilogy. The actor recently completed filming Focus Features' Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind opposite Jim Carrey and Kate Winslet and will next star in the mob drama Ash Wednesday for writer-director-actor Ed Burns.
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