With a voice cast made up of some of the finest English comedian of today, including Jack Whitehall, Nick Frost, Matt Berry, and Harry Enfield, everyone’s favourite magic potion swigging, Roman bothering Gaul, Asterix, is on his way back to the big screen with Asterix: Mansions of the Gods. Based on the seventeenth book in Rene Goscinny and Albert Uderzo’s long running series of French comic books, the story sees Asterix’s village threatened with being absorbed into Roman culture when a massive estate is built beside it. The first Asterix movie in CG animation, it skews very close to the art style of the original books, while keeping much of the humour intact. For anybody who grew up with Asterix books, myself included, this seems to promise an entertaining hit of nostalgia. Asterix: The Mansions of the Gods hits our shores on August 19th.
- 7/25/2016
- by noreply@blogger.com (Tom White)
- www.themoviebit.com
Annual event set to showcase 90 French productions, 48 of them market premieres.
Unifrance’s annual Rendez-vous with French Cinema in Paris will kick-off as planned on Thursday (Jan 15), a week after a series of terrorist attacks, in which 17 people were killed, rocked the capital.
France remains on high alert after the shooting of 12 people at the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, by two radicalised brothers offended by its cartoon depictions of the Islamic prophet Mohammed; the shooting of a police woman and the slaughter of four people at a kosher supermarket in the east of the city.
The French government announced on Monday that it was deploying 10,000 troops to protect vulnerable sites across the country — including Jewish schools and neighbourhoods – amid news that security forces believed at least six members of the terrorist cell that plotted the attacks may still be at large.
Charlie Hebdo’s surviving staff have responded to the attack with a new edition of the...
Unifrance’s annual Rendez-vous with French Cinema in Paris will kick-off as planned on Thursday (Jan 15), a week after a series of terrorist attacks, in which 17 people were killed, rocked the capital.
France remains on high alert after the shooting of 12 people at the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, by two radicalised brothers offended by its cartoon depictions of the Islamic prophet Mohammed; the shooting of a police woman and the slaughter of four people at a kosher supermarket in the east of the city.
The French government announced on Monday that it was deploying 10,000 troops to protect vulnerable sites across the country — including Jewish schools and neighbourhoods – amid news that security forces believed at least six members of the terrorist cell that plotted the attacks may still be at large.
Charlie Hebdo’s surviving staff have responded to the attack with a new edition of the...
- 1/13/2015
- ScreenDaily
Annual event set to showcase 90 French productions, 48 of them market premieres.
Unifrance’s annual Rendez-vous with French Cinema in Paris will kick-off as planned on Thursday (Jan 15), a week after a series of terrorist attacks, in which 17 people were killed, rocked the capital.
France remains on high alert after the shooting of 12 people at the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, by two radicalised brothers offended by its cartoon depictions of the Islamic prophet Mohammed; the shooting of a police woman and the slaughter of four people at a kosher supermarket in the east of the city.
The French government announced on Monday that it was deploying 10,000 troops to protect vulnerable sites across the country — including Jewish schools and neighbourhoods – amid news that security forces believed at least six members of the terrorist cell that plotted the attacks may still be at large.
Charlie Hebdo’s surviving staff have responded to the attack with a new edition of the...
Unifrance’s annual Rendez-vous with French Cinema in Paris will kick-off as planned on Thursday (Jan 15), a week after a series of terrorist attacks, in which 17 people were killed, rocked the capital.
France remains on high alert after the shooting of 12 people at the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, by two radicalised brothers offended by its cartoon depictions of the Islamic prophet Mohammed; the shooting of a police woman and the slaughter of four people at a kosher supermarket in the east of the city.
The French government announced on Monday that it was deploying 10,000 troops to protect vulnerable sites across the country — including Jewish schools and neighbourhoods – amid news that security forces believed at least six members of the terrorist cell that plotted the attacks may still be at large.
Charlie Hebdo’s surviving staff have responded to the attack with a new edition of the...
- 1/13/2015
- ScreenDaily
Asterix films are traditionally big winners at the French box office, although the most recent ones have been live-action and seen some decrease in traction. The latest, Asterix: The Mansions Of The Gods, is a 3D animated adaptation of the comic books created by René Goscinny and Albert Uderzo. Snd released the picture on November 26 on 696 screens with first-week grosses today coming in at a huge 6.2M euros ($7.64M) from nearly 780K admissions. The opening bests previous local performances of such animated hits as Frozen, Tangled, Monsters, Inc, and Cars. It was No. 1 at the weekend, topping the second frame of The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 and the fourth session for Interstellar. The first week puts it just behind Guardians Of The Galaxy and above Captain America: The Winter Soldier on the 2014 chart and makes it the 3rd biggest opening for a French animated film ever. The last Asterix movie,...
- 12/3/2014
- by Nancy Tartaglione
- Deadline
Europe's popular comic character Asterix and his well-rounded sidekick Obelix is getting the CG/3D animated treatment for the first time in Asterix: The Land of the Gods (aka Astérix: Le Domaine des Dieux) from the directing team Louis Clichy and Alexandre Astier and Mikros Image's animation studio. The film is based on the 17th volume of the comic series by writer René Goscinny and artist Albert Uderzo.Julius Caesar unveils his latest plan to get rid of those indomitable Gauls once and for all. As his army has not been able to crush "the last pocket of resistance", he decides to try a stealth invasion: civilization delivered to the village gates! He builds a new Rome - The Land of the Gods - around Asterix's village,...
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- 7/3/2014
- Screen Anarchy
The lucky few who had the opportunity to visit the International Festival of Annecy Animation Film during this past week was able to catch a preview of the upcoming Asterix: The Land of the Gods (aka Astérix: Le Domaine des Dieux). While a trailer hasn't been revealed for the Belgium comic adaptation of the same name just yet, a news clip was broadcast on M6 that features footage of Julius Caesar unveiling his plans to get rid of these indominable Gauls and a short interview with the two directors, Louis Clichy and Alexandre Astier. Vidéo : Astérix : Ave la 3D Also on the children show, Kid & Toi, there is a 4-minute making-of video with co-director Louis Clichy providing a tour of the studio and discussing the animation process. The animation and VFX was produced by Mikros Image, Grid Animation and Dreamwall. Asterix et le domaine des dieux : making...
- 6/22/2014
- ComicBookMovie.com
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