TOP STORIES: Annecy: Chris Meledandri on Matthew McConaughey as a Koala Legit Theater Owner, ‘Th...

Annecy eSHOW DAILY NUMBER THREE 12.03.23

TOP STORIES Annecy: Chris Meledandri on Matthew McConaughey as a Koala Legit Theater Owner, ‘The Grinch’ By John Hopewell ANNECY, France – Matthew McConaughey will voice Buster, a showman entrepreneur koala running a legit theater in Illumination Entertainment’s upcoming music-driven event comedy, Illumination CEO Chris Meledandri revealed Wednesday... Read Full Story at Variety.com → Annecy: How Big-Budget 'The Peanuts Movie' Stayed True to the Strips By Peter Debruge Yesterday, the trailer for Fox’s “The Peanuts Movie” debuted online, winning over skeptics who’d wondered whether Blue Sky was worthy of bringing Charlie Brown, Snoopy and the rest of cartoonist Charles M. Schulz&rsqu... Read Full Story at Variety.com → Annecy: Chris Meledandri Receives MIFA, Variety’s First Animation Personality of the Year Award By John Hopewell ANNECY – One day before one of Universal’s biggest bets of 2015, “Minions,” premieres at France’s Annecy Festival, Chris Meledandri, founder and CEO of Illumination Entertainment and its producer, accepted MIFA ... Read Full Story at Variety.com → Annecy: Sergio Pablos Preps Directorial Debut 'Klaus' By John Hopewell ANNECY – “Despicable Me” co-creator Sergio Pablos, one of the key figures in Spain0s potential animation renaissance, is teaming with Gustavo Ferrada, a senior Spanish industry figure and producer on Juan Jose Campanella&rs... Read Full Story at Variety.com → Annecy: 'Ballerina' Producers Prep Second Period Toonpic 'The Bravest' By Elsa Keslassy Following "Ballerina," the team behind "Intouchables" - Laurent Zeitoun, Yann Zenou and Nicolas Duval -- are poised to explore further the animation world with their second toonpic, "The Bravest." "The Bravest" marks the producers' second an... Read Full Story at Variety.com → Annecy: Canada's Tangent Teams With Arcadia, Araña and Pachacamac On 'Ozzy' EXCLUSIVE By Emiliano De Pablos Canadian toon house Tangent Animation is joining forces with Spain's Arcadia Motion Pictures, Capitan Araña and Pachacamac to co-produce 3D animated feature “Run Ozzy Run.” Atresmedia, the DeAPlaneta-controlled Spanish med... Read Full Story at Variety.com → 'Snow Queen 2' Secures Widest Ever Release for a Russian Movie in China By Leo Barraclough Alexei Tcitcilin’s 3D animated movie “The Snow Queen 2,” which screens out of competition at the Annecy Film Festival this week, has secured the widest ever release for a Russian film in China. It'll open there on July 31 o... Read Full Story at Variety.com → Shibuya, Caribara, Frame Team For ‘Lily’ By John Hopewell ANNECY – Underscoring the build in animation worldwide, Monaco’s Shibuya Productions is teaming with Bulgaria’s Frame Productions and France’s Caribara Animation to produce animated feature “Lily and the Magic P... Read Full Story at Variety.com → REVIEWS Film Review: 'The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water' By Andrew Barker As far as nautical nonsense goes, it’s hard to top the climax of 2004’s “The SpongeBob Squarepants Movie,” in which the fate of our heroes hinged on the density of David Hasselhoff’s leg hair. This year’s ... Read Full Story at Variety.com → 'Shaun the Sheep Movie' By Guy Lodge Conventional wisdom may have it that sheep are dumbest of all livestock, but the woolly ones' wits get a collective sharpening in "Shaun the Sheep Movie." Read Full Story at Variety.com → Annecy: Women in Animation Present Gender Disparity Data By Emilio Mayorga ANNECY—According to a survey of several L.A.-based animation schools 60% of animation students are women. But only 20% of all animation creative’s are women. The telling data, from Women in Animation (WIA) board member surveys an... Read Full Story at Variety.com → Annecy: 14 Spanish Projects Pitched at MIFA Market By Emilio Mayorga ANNECY--BRB ‘s "Bubble Bip," "Animal Crackers," "Pumpkin Reports" and "Dino Games" were some of the fourteen Spanish toon projects pitched at Focus on Spain, a standout Territory Focus at this year’s Annecy MIFA market, coincidin... Read Full Story at Variety.com → Annecy: Chile's Nino Viejo, Pinata, Punkrobot Set 'Legend’ (EXCLUSIVE) By Emiliano De Pablos Chilean toon houses Nino Viejo Animation, Pinata Corp and Punkrobot Studio have partnered to co-produce animated TV series “The Legend of Zeta & Ozz,” a project selected to form part of Annecy 2015's Mifa market pitches. Targ... Read Full Story at Variety.com → Annecy: Estudio Teremim Unveils TV Series 'Lulina' (EXCLUSIVE) By Emiliano De Pablos Sao Paulo-based Estudio Teremim is boarding pre-school animated TV series “Lulina and the Moon,” one of the 25 projects chosen to be pitched at Annecy Festival's Mifa market. Produced by Luiza Favale and helmed by Estudio Teremim... Read Full Story at Variety.com → Tweet this Forward this