Academy award-winning South Korean filmmaker Bong Joon-ho rightly said, "Once you overcome the 1-inch-tall barrier of subtitles, you will be introduced to so many more amazing films." In a perfect world, his suggestion would stand true for all movies, animated and live-action.
With foreign language films, there's always been the question of authenticity vs. ease of watching. Do you watch a film in its original language with subtitles, or do you watch a dub? For Japanese animation veterans, Studio Ghibli, who began a partnership with Disney in the late 1990s ahead of the release of "Princess Mononoke," the answer is simple. They choose to work with voice actors and screenwriters who can work towards translating Japanese to English in a genuine, conversational way that maintains the essence of the original.
The Biggest Challenge Is Getting The Dialogue To Sound Natural
Don and Cindy Hewitt wrote the English screenplay adaptations for...
With foreign language films, there's always been the question of authenticity vs. ease of watching. Do you watch a film in its original language with subtitles, or do you watch a dub? For Japanese animation veterans, Studio Ghibli, who began a partnership with Disney in the late 1990s ahead of the release of "Princess Mononoke," the answer is simple. They choose to work with voice actors and screenwriters who can work towards translating Japanese to English in a genuine, conversational way that maintains the essence of the original.
The Biggest Challenge Is Getting The Dialogue To Sound Natural
Don and Cindy Hewitt wrote the English screenplay adaptations for...
- 9/26/2022
- by Fatemeh Mirjalili
- Slash Film
"Comedy is different all over the world," says Robert Lopez, who shares an Oscar song nomination with wife Kristen Anderson-Lopez for "Let It Go" from Frozen. So he is grateful that the animated hit's 41 foreign-language versions are not his problem, but that of Disney Character Voices International senior vp creative Rick Dempsey, responsible for translating Disney's films. "We were floored when we heard the compilation of 'Let It Go' in all those different languages," says Lopez. "It sounded practically like Idina Menzel singing the whole thing," says Lopez, who notes that it's actually dozens of
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- 2/25/2014
- by Tim Appelo
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
His family tells me that Eddie Carroll, who touched countless people's lives as the voice of Jiminy Cricket for almost 40 years, died of a brain tumor on April 6th. He was 66. Jiminy Cricket is the longest recurring character voice actor in the Disney stable of characters, and Carroll took over from the late Cliff Edwards, the original voice, in 1973. "He absolutely loved performing the voice," Rick Dempsey, Svp of Disney Character Voices told the studio in-house newsletter. "He was so into the character and truly took to heart what Jiminy was all about." Also, Meinhardt Raabe, who played the Munchkin official [...]...
- 4/12/2010
- by Nikki Finke
- Deadline Hollywood
Columbia Pictures and Happy Madison have acquired an untitled comedic script by Johnathon Schaech, Josh Wolf and Richard Chizmar that explores an incident in the life of ex-Baltimore Orioles player Rick Dempsey, whose Little League coach turned out to be a bank robber. Dempsey's coach, John Jennings, steered the team to a Little League World Championship in 1963, did time for his crimes and died of cancer after his release from prison.According to Variety, the script was written with input from Dempsey, the scrappy ballplayer who was named Mvp of the 1983 World Series.Schaech, who starred in the Tom Hanks-directed "That Thing You Do," is a lifelong Orioles fan who got involved after meeting with Dempsey. Schaech and writing partner...
- 8/13/2009
- by Adnan Tezer
- Monsters and Critics
Adam Sandler's Happy Madison production company is going to tell a story about Orioles baseball player Rick Dempsey-- but it won't have anything to do with Dempsey's World Series experience, or his adult life, for that matter. The story pitched by Johnathon Schaech, Josh Wolf and Richard Chizmar comes from Dempsey's childhood, in which his Little League coach turned out to be a bank robber. Schaech, who you might remember as the egotistical frontman of The Wonders in That Thing You Do!, told Variety ""Our pitch was, it's Catch Me if You Can meets Bad News Bears with a touch of Bad Santa. " And there will be a World Series in the film after all! The coach, John Jennings, led Dempsey's team to the Little League World Championship in 1963, before doing jail time for his life of crime. There's so many random names attached to this project that...
- 8/13/2009
- cinemablend.com
Adam Sandler's Happy Madison and Columbia have brought the rights to one of those true stories that seems to have been made for the movies. Based on the life of former Baltimore Orioles baseball star Rick Dempsey, it's the tale of a Little League coach who turned out to be a bank robber.Little League is, of course, the none-more-American phenomenon whereby young kids get used to a competitive sports by playing in a children's baseball league. Many a star got his start there, including Dempsey, whose coach John Jennings was a star on the field - leading his team to a Little League World Championship in 1963 - but also a bank robber off it.The film got its start when Rick Dempsey sat down for a chat with lifelong Orioles fan and improbably handsome That Thing You Do! star Jonathan Schaech*, who then wrote this script with Richard Chizmar and Josh Wolf.
- 8/13/2009
- EmpireOnline
Columbia Pictures and Happy Madison have acquired a script by Johnathon Schaech, Josh Wolf and Richard Chizmar that comedically explores an incident in the life of ex-Baltimore Orioles player Rick Dempsey, whose Little League coach turned out to be a bank robber. Variety says the script was written with input from Dempsey, the scrappy ballplayer who was named Mvp of the 1983 World Series. "Our pitch was, it's 'Catch Me if You Can' meets 'Bad News Bears' with a touch of 'Bad Santa,'" Schaech said. Dempsey's coach, John Jennings, steered the team to a Little League World Championship in 1963, did time for his crimes and died of cancer after his release from prison.
- 8/12/2009
- Comingsoon.net
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