Odin’s Eye Animation has picked up sales rights to “Shimmy: The First Monkey King,” an animated family entertainment film that is rare official China-u.S. coproduction. Sales activity will begin at the European Film Market starting next week alongside the Berlin Film Festival.
The story involves Shimmy, a cheeky monkey with newly discovered superhero-like powers who must learn how to control his extraordinary transformative abilities and prevent powerful demonic forces from sending the universe into chaos.
The film is completed and previously envisaged a mid-2022 release, but those plans were derailed by China’s tough anti-covid measures. Delivery is now scheduled for April 2023 with a major Imax and conventional theatrical release pencilled in for June.
It was jointly directed by Ralph Zondag and Dick Zondag.
While co-ventures and co-productions between the world’s two largest film industries have dwindled in recent years, they have continued quietly in the animation sector...
The story involves Shimmy, a cheeky monkey with newly discovered superhero-like powers who must learn how to control his extraordinary transformative abilities and prevent powerful demonic forces from sending the universe into chaos.
The film is completed and previously envisaged a mid-2022 release, but those plans were derailed by China’s tough anti-covid measures. Delivery is now scheduled for April 2023 with a major Imax and conventional theatrical release pencilled in for June.
It was jointly directed by Ralph Zondag and Dick Zondag.
While co-ventures and co-productions between the world’s two largest film industries have dwindled in recent years, they have continued quietly in the animation sector...
- 2/9/2023
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
At last count, Disney Animation Studios has canonized 61 of their features. The central "Disney Canon" refers to an ill-defined section of the studio's animated feature output that, as far as one might surmise, serves as examples of the studio's preferred "house style." The Disney Animated Canon includes several animation styles and media, of course, but the 61 films in question are considered to be "official." Canonized Disney films cannot be co-productions, they must be pointedly toyetic, and are typically not auteur-driven. One might not be able to, for instance, recall the directors of "Cinderella" (1950) off the top of their head. Their names, incidentally, are Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson, and Hamilton Luske. The trio also directed Disney's animated films "Lady and the Tramp," "Peter Pan," and "Alice in Wonderland."
For Disney, though, the company is the auteur, and weird, smaller projects tend to be excluded from the Disney Canon. "A Goofy Movie,...
For Disney, though, the company is the auteur, and weird, smaller projects tend to be excluded from the Disney Canon. "A Goofy Movie,...
- 1/13/2023
- by Witney Seibold
- Slash Film
Thanks to VancouverFilm.Net, here is the Vancouver Film Production Update for June 2016, including "Death Note", "Juggernaut", "Prison Break" and a whole lot more:
Feature Film:
Boundaries
Boundaries Pictures Inc.
Exec. Producer(s): Chris Ferguson, Kenneth Burke
May 02/16 - Jun 02/16
Death Note
Dn (Canada) Productions Inc
Exec. Producer(s): Brendan Ferguson
Jun 30/16 - Aug 30/16
Further Adventures Of Max & Banks 2 & 3
Gramercy Film Productions
Producer: Michael Deluca, Erika Mitchell, Dana Brunetti, Marcus Viscidi
Feb 16/16 - Jul 06/16
Hot Street
Hot Street Productions Ltd
Exec. Producer(s): Alex Tkach
Producer: Chris Brough
Co-Producer: Ralph Zondag
May 23/16 - Jun 10/16
Juggernaut
Forlorn Hope Productions Inc.
Exec. Producer(s): Ben Silverman
Producer: Matthew Cervi
May 16/16 - Jun 08/16
Max 2: White House Hero
Max 2 Productions Canada
Producer: Karen Rosefelt, Ken Blancato, Matt Bierman
Line Producer: Kelley Sims
Jun 13/16 - Jul 13/16
Status Update
Status Productions Inc.
Exec. Producer(s): Shawn Williamson, Arielle Boisvert
Jun...
Feature Film:
Boundaries
Boundaries Pictures Inc.
Exec. Producer(s): Chris Ferguson, Kenneth Burke
May 02/16 - Jun 02/16
Death Note
Dn (Canada) Productions Inc
Exec. Producer(s): Brendan Ferguson
Jun 30/16 - Aug 30/16
Further Adventures Of Max & Banks 2 & 3
Gramercy Film Productions
Producer: Michael Deluca, Erika Mitchell, Dana Brunetti, Marcus Viscidi
Feb 16/16 - Jul 06/16
Hot Street
Hot Street Productions Ltd
Exec. Producer(s): Alex Tkach
Producer: Chris Brough
Co-Producer: Ralph Zondag
May 23/16 - Jun 10/16
Juggernaut
Forlorn Hope Productions Inc.
Exec. Producer(s): Ben Silverman
Producer: Matthew Cervi
May 16/16 - Jun 08/16
Max 2: White House Hero
Max 2 Productions Canada
Producer: Karen Rosefelt, Ken Blancato, Matt Bierman
Line Producer: Kelley Sims
Jun 13/16 - Jul 13/16
Status Update
Status Productions Inc.
Exec. Producer(s): Shawn Williamson, Arielle Boisvert
Jun...
- 5/28/2016
- by Michael Stevens
- SneakPeek
Anyone who remembers Walt Disney Feature Animation’s 2000 film “Dinosaur” also likely remembers how directors Ralph Zondag and Eric Leighton squandered a promising idea by pairing breathtakingly lifelike imagery with embarrassingly phony dialogue. Despite trumping that film in 1999, and on the small screen even, with the documentary miniseries “Walking With Dinosaurs,” BBC Earth decided to follow in Disney’s footsteps – including the missteps – with “Walking With Dinosaurs 3D,” an insufferable family adventure whose impressive animation is consistently undercut by cartoonish self-awareness. Bookended by the contemporary story of a teenager named Ricky (Charlie Rowe), who thinks science is for losers,...
- 12/20/2013
- by Todd Gilchrist
- The Wrap
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