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It’s Treat and Treat from Hotel Transylvania Director Genndy Tartakovsky
New animated short Goodnight, Mr. Foot airing in US cinemas alongside the main feature…
Hotel Transylvania is adding a new animated short at some of its US screenings as a special Halloween treat for fans.
Beginning 26 October, 2012, all digital showings of Hotel Transylvania in Regal Entertainment Group Cinemas around the country will be preceded with a new traditionally animated short also directed by Genndy Tartakovsky.
Tartakovsky, 13-time Emmy nominee (and three-time Emmy winner) is well known by animation fans for his work on shows such as Samurai Jack, Star Wars: Clone Wars and Dexter’s Laboratory. The Hotel Transylvania director also animated every key frame of the new short.
“After we finished Hotel Transylvania I got an itch to animate!” Tartakovsky revealed. “Taking inspiration from my favourite directors Bob Clampett, Tex Avery and Chuck Jones, I animated a short cartoon in the traditional 2D style. It was difficult and exhilarating all at once.”
Entitled Goodnight, Mr. Foot, the short stars none other than the legendary monster Bigfoot, and follows his adventure as he, too, checks into Dracula’s five-stake resort in search of a little R-and-R, only to find himself faced with an enthusiastic witch-maid, eager to make Mr. Foot’s stay a memorable one.
As a second treat – no tricks here – an exclusive new collectible one-sheet poster (also designed by Tartakovsk) will also be given away at all showings of Hotel Transylvania in Carmike Cinemas, while supplies last.
Tartakovsky’s feature film debut has proved to be a huge success, becoming the biggest September opening for any film in US history and the best opening ever for the Sony Pictures Animation studio.
Hotel Transylvania also opened at number one in many other territories around the world, including Argentina, Brazil, Bulgaria, Colombia, Ecuador, Malaysia, Mexico, Peru, Philippines, Romania, Russia, Slovenia, South Africa and Sweden.
Beasts Of The Southern Wild Adds UK Poster and Trailer
“Waters gonna rise up, wild animals gonna re-run from the grave, and everything south of the levee is goin’ under, in this tale of a six-year-old named Hushpuppy, who lives with her daddy at the edge of the world.” Now that’s a film synopsis.
Beasts Of The Southern Wild has been a festival favourite in 2012 and now gets an official UK poster and trailer. The film’s eight-year-old star Quvenzhane Wallis has enchanted audiences and critics worldwide.
The story follows Hushpuppy’s life in a forgotten but defiant bayou community cut off from the world by a sprawling levee. With her mother long gone and her father Wink a wildman on a perpetual spree, the six-year-old exists on the brink of orphanhood as she is left to her own devices on an isolated compound filled with semi-feral animals.
She perceives the natural world to be a fragile web of living, breathing, squirting things, in which the entire universe depends on everything fitting together just right. So when a hundred year storm raises the waters around her town, her daddy is suddenly stricken with illness and fierce pre-historic creatures awaken from their frozen graves to come charging across the planet, Hushpuppy sees the natural order of everything she holds dear collapsing around her.
Desperate to repair the structure of her world in order to save her ailing father and sinking home, this tiny hero must learn to survive an unstoppable catastrophe of epic proportions.
Sounds just like our upbringing in Stoke-on-Trent.
Beasts Of The Southern Wild is rated 12A, runs for 93 minutes and is released in the UK on 19 October 2012.
Check out the trailer below:
Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry reteam for Oscar Wilde’s The Canterville Ghost
Fancy A Bit (more) Of Fry And Laurie? Then you’re in luck, because the comedy duo will be reteaming on a film version of Oscar Wilde’s The Canterville Ghost.
The film is currently in pre-production and sorting out its financing and is scheduled for release Christmas 2014.
The Canterville Ghost will be an animated movie, with Fry and Laurie providing voices (rather than sitting down with pencils to sketch the thing but you’d probably worked that out yourself).
“M’coll Hugh & I will be working together to voice the new animated feature of Oscar Wilde’s THE CANTERVILLE GHOST,” Fry said on his Twitter feed before he retired for a few days to do some writing.
As well as headlining their own late ’80s sketch show, the pair also appeared together on Blackadder and Jeeves And Wooster.
Melmoth Films, which is behind the project, created the poster you see above and it was added to Fry’s Twitter announcement.
Co-writers Giles New and Keiron Self (That Mitchell And Webb Look) will turn Wilde’s classic ghost story into a full script.
That’s the story finished. “Please Mr Music, will you play?”