The Captured Bird, the short film written and directed by ex - Rue Morgue editor-in-chief Jovanka Vuckovic and produced by Guillermo del Toro, will have its world market premiere in the Cannes Film Festival this week, and its North American premiere the following month in Toronto.
The Captured Bird will participate at Cannes as part of the festival's Short Film Corner. Press and industry participants will get the first look at this eleven-minute movie, described by its creators as a dark fable, in which "a little girl is drawn to a mysterious mansion where she witnesses the birth of five horrifying apparitions."
Then on Saturday, June 9th, at 11:30 PM, The Captured Bird will have its North American premiere at the CFC (Canadian Film Center) Worldwide Short Film Festival.
Illumination Entertainment has only produced two animated movies so far, but they were both big hits at the box office. Despicable Me started things off in 2010 (Despicable Me 2 opens the coming year), and earlier this year they won big with The Lorax. The studio not long ago put a Cat in the Hat animated feature in creation, and now they’re including a non-Seuss feature to their creation record. Illumination and Universal will bring an adaptation of Clifford the Big Red Dog to the big screen.
Matt Lopez (The Sorcerer’s Apprentice) has been tapped to write the screenplay, and Chris Meledandri will produce for Illumination alongside Deborah Forte from Scholastic Media. For those lacking of a childhood, Clifford follows a young girl called Emily Elizabeth and her 25-foot-tall dog. Norman Bridwell published the first Clifford book in 1963 and the character has been a staple of childrens books ever since, extending in a television series in 2000.
Disney/Pixar has just offered news on several projects at CinemaCon presentation:
• Initial reported last August, the future Bob Peterson dinosaur movie now has the title The Good Dinosaur and will be launched on May 30, 2014. The movie is detailed as follows:
What if the cataclysmic asteroid that permanently modified life on Earth in fact missed the planet entirely and giant dinosaurs never became vanished? This humorous, genuine and original story is directed by Bob Peterson (co-director/writer, “Up;” writer, “Finding Nemo”) and produced by John Walker (“The Incredibles,” “The Iron Giant”).
• Oscar-winning Toy Story 3 director Lee Unkrich\'s forthcoming project with producer Darla Anderson will cover the holiday of Dia de los Muertos.
From director Lee Unkrich and producer Darla K. Anderson, the film making team at the rear of the Academy Award®-winning \"Toy Story 3,\" comes a completely original Pixar Animation Studios movie that goes into the vivid holiday of Día de los Muertos.
• The still-untitled Pete Docter movie that takes you inside the mind has been sent from May 30, 2014 to June 19, 2015, and they\'re still attempting to decide a title for that one. It\'s describes as follows:
Pixar takes audiences on amazing journeys into extraordinary worlds: from the darkest depths of the ocean to the top of the tepui mountains in South America; from the fictional metropolis of Monstropolis to a futuristic fantasy of outer space. From director Pete Docter (“Up,” “Monsters, Inc.”) and producer Jonas Rivera (“Up”), the inventive new movie will take you to a place that everyone knows, but no one has ever seen: the world inside the human mind.
Here’s a look at some new release dates of cartoon features:
Escape from Planet Earth, featuring the voices of Sarah Jessica Parker, Jessica Alba, Brendan Fraser, James Gandolfini, Craig Robinson and Rob Corddry opens February 14th, 2013. Leo the Lion arrives at August 20th, 2013. The Trick of Treaters debuts in time for Halloween on October 25th, 2013. In another animated holiday feature, Santapprentice will follow up with a December 6th, 2013 release date.
Here’s the summary for the animated movie:
Leo the Lion stars a vegetarian lion who is throw out by his fellow felines.
The Trick or Treaters follows a gang of villains stealing from country folks until they’re charmed by an orphan girl.
Santapprentice shows of the tale of orphan chosen to replace a retiring Santa Claus.
Escape from Planet Earth: Gary, a friendly alien and failed inventor from Planet Baab travels to earth to find his wife and daughter who crashed while on the way to an intergalactic gymnastics meet. Upon his arrival, Gary is captured by humans and sent to the secret alien prison known as “Area 51.” Gary makes friends with a rag tag hilarious group of fellow alien inmates and plots the greatest jailbreak in the history of the universe, all the while, distracting his human captors with wild and crazy inventions and resisting oddball brainwashing. Will Gary and the other aliens escape Area 51? Will he find his family again and return safely to planet Baab? Only time and one amazing adventure will tell!
Disney has feature movie plans for Mr. Toad’s Wild Ride, one of its longest-running theme park rides. The studio has set legendary commercials and video director Pete Candeland to create a live-action/CGI mix feature that will get alive a theme park ride that started in Disneyland on its opening in 1955.
The twisting, turning ride was also popular at Walt Disney World in
Florida, but the geniuses at the park closed the ride in 1998 and
substituted it with The Many Adventures Of Winnie The Pooh. Mr. Toad’s
Wild Ride is depending on Disney’s adaptation of The Wind In The
Willows. Tron: Legacy producer Justin Springer will produce Mr. Toad’s
Wild Ride, and the studio is searching for a writer to set up the story
into a movie.
Disney, which transformed its Pirates Of The Caribbean
attraction into a billion-dollar feature franchise, has a version of
20,000 Leagues Under The Sea with David Fincher among various
percolating initiatives influenced by theme park attractions.
The Verve-repped Candeland is best known for his work with animation and
for creating and directing the music videos for The Gorillaz.
