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SXSW: Yellow Veil Pictures Lands Global Sales Rights for Joe Manganiello, Lucy Lawless Animated Fantasy The Spine of Night (EXCLUSIVE)
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Feb. 11, 2021
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In one of the first big deals of the upcoming SXSW Film Festival, emerging genre sales company Yellow Veil Pictures has acquired the global sales rights for the animated fantasy “The Spine of Night.”
Directed by Philip Gelatt and Morgan Galen King, the film is set to have its world premiere in the SXSW Midnighters section of the festival, which runs virtually from March 16–20. The cast includes Richard E. Grant (“Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker”), Lucy Lawless (“Ash Vs. Evil Dead”), Patton Oswalt (“A.P. Bio”), Betty Gabriel (“Get Out”), and Joe Manganiello (“Magic Mike XXL”), and featuring Abby Savage (“Orange Is the New Black”), Larry Fessenden (“The Dead Don’t Die”), and Rob McClure (Broadway’s “Beetl
Top 10 Pieces of Animation that Would Never Be Made Today
It takes a special kind of something to make animation very wacky. But this might never be allowed again in our present day. From racism to offensive stereotypes to violent endings, we have forms of media that may never be repeated. Hi I m Pnut, and today I ll be telling you the Top 10 Pieces of Animation That Would Never Be Made Today.
The Top Ten
The Censored Eleven
Even though they are children s cartoons, there are a total of 11 censored cartoons from the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies. Originally being produced by Warner Brothers, these eleven shorts were withheld from syndication, and they were pulled because of racial stereotypes presented in these shorts. One of these shorts is Coal Black and de Sebben Dwarfs . All of the characters are black, and they all speak in rhyme. The short also takes place during World War II, the music is replaced with hot jazz, and not surprisingly, it s a parody of Snow White and th
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Now at Netflix, ‘Powerpuff Girls’ creator savors freedom: ‘Wait. We can do this now?’ [Los Angeles Times :: BC-TV-KID-COSMIC:LA]
Animator Craig McCracken, who gave the world “The Powerpuff Girls,” “Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends” and “Wander Over Yonder,” has an exhilarating new cartoon series, “Kid Cosmic,” which premiered Tuesday on Netflix. Set on a thinly populated stretch of American desert there’s a diner, a motel, a junkyard it concerns a kid, called only the Kid (Jack Fisher), who comes across some powerful stones dropped by an alien on the lam. While they confer powers on the bearer, they also bring in their wake a host of unfriendly ETs trying to get their hands, claws, etc. on them.
Lord of the Rings trilogy would make its 4k IMax debut this month. Now, I’m not going to risk my safety or my family’s to watch my favorite trilogy on a really big screen, but the announcement did get Middle Earth on my mind as I walked the barren February landscape in my neighborhood. And I ended up with a very specific song stuck in my head.
Long before Elijah Wood and Sean Astin fought Shelob and scaled the side of Mount Doom, there was another version of JRR Tolkien’s
The Return of the King, one that occasionally popped up on cable in the 90s and still haunts me to this day thanks to a distinct style and, most weirdly, one very catchy tune about forced marches and going off to war to die. Yes, friends, I’m talking about “Where There’s A Whip, There’s a Way,” the supremely strange orc marching song from the Rankin/Bass
Craig McCracken discusses his new Netflix series "Kid Cosmic" and the streamer's long leash: "They're giving you a lot of money to make your student film."