Thursday, April 23, 2015

Meanwhile at Cinemacon

Universal, last in the Cinemacon studio lineup, unveiled its upcoming product. And in the animation sector ...

... [Seth] MacFarland, who said he is not used to public speaking (yeah , right) promoted June 26th’s Ted 2 as “a movie to take the whole family to , if your whole family is over 18 and addicted to drugs.” As it did the first time he came to CinemaCon with Ted, this new trailer got the most audible and clearly delighted reaction of the afternoon. ...

Illumination Entertainment head Chris Meledandri was next up introducing genuinely knock-out funny scenes from the screwball toon The Minions. and based on the reaction U might as well start miMinions Hydrantnionting money right now. I was particularly impressed as well with July 8 2016’s Illumination entry, The Secret Life Of Pets, a movie about what happens when you leave your pets alone during the day. Although still in rough form, the beginning sequence shown was terrific. ...

There was a time, back when I was a tot, that it took an act of Congress for an animation person to make the jump into live-action. There was Frank Tashlin, and that was about it. But now it happens with regularity. Bird, Minkoff, MacFarland, the list steadily grows larger.

I doubt, however,t that any of them will be able to get a Western greenlit.

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