As French and multitalented director, Sylvain Chomet is once again under this week’s limelight with his latest animated feature’s release in France: L’illusionniste. After the successful Triplettes de Belleville, the famous cartoonist chose to animate this time an unknown story from the French famous film director Jacques Tati. Based on a private letter that Tati wrote to his long time abandoned daughter, the scenario mostly focuses on father and daughter relationships. Supposed to be postponed from 2007 to 2008, the animation wasn’t actually presented until last February during Dublin’s festival. So let’s hope it could finally one day cross the Atlantic Ocean!
In the late 50s, the world of musical is turned upside down by the emergence of rock& roll and all its young stars. Traditional shows such as jugglers, acrobats and ventriloquists are out of date. Being a magician, the hero knows his artistic profession is in danger as job offers become more and more seldom. Taking all his doves and rabbits with him, he therefore decides to leave Paris and its great halls of fame to settle to London. However, the situation in the UK is as bad as everywhere else and he finally resigns to playing in local pubs, garden parties and little theatres, until the day when in a Scottish village he meets Alice, a young and innocent girl who is about to change his life…
It is now Fox’s turn to pull out from its hat a brand new trailer revealing the very first pictures from its next animation: Rio! Developed by the American animation Blue Sky studio (also known for the Ice Age trilogy), this long animated feature in 3D directed by Carlos Saldanha is due in April 2011! The story tells the adventures of an annoying blue parrot who is convinced he is the last one of his species… until he finds out another female exists! He will then decide to escape from his pet shop in Minnesota to meet her in Brazil, the land of his ancestors!
There was a time, not so long ago, when each coming out movie was first preceded by a short animated feature. Back then, Chuck Jones’ Looney Tunes were the kings of animation and the fight against Disney was tense. However this time is over now the Disney bulldozer has wiped it all… and set Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck to become no less than childhood memories. To solve this general loss of interest for its favourite characters, Warner Bros has decided to produce 6 new short animated features in 3D to be presented prior to the next studio’s features! Hence, some of us will rediscover with teary eyes on July 30th the first one, staring Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner as an introduction to the movie Cats and Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Gallore! Find out beneath the very first picture of the 2010 Coyote in 3D…
Formerly entitled « Master Mind » and « Obermind », the animated feature Megamind is still unveiling little by little on the internet. Directed by Tom McGrath and produced by Ben Stiller on the behalf of Dreamworks Animation studios, the 3D satirical comedy focuses on Megamind, a super bad guy totally depressed by the fact he has incidentally killed one of his greatest enemies, Metro Man… The promising and original scenario is completed by great voices: Will Ferrell, Brad Pitt, Jonah Hill and Tina Fey. Regarding the latest news, a trailer has finally been posted on Yahoo!Movie, proudly standing next to a new teaser poster! Such additional info have been more than welcomed though the feature still isn’t coming out till November 2010…
