Recent Oscar winner Sarah Polley has revealed her huge shock on Saturday morning at receiving a letter saying she had won her award in error, and she needed to mail it back to the Academy.
15.03.2023 - 19:39 / deadline.com
EXCLUSIVE: Animation studio ShadowMachine and director Mark Gustafason picled up the Oscar for Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio on Sunday night and they’ve wasted no time setting up their next project.
The company, which was co-founded by Alex Bulkley and Corey Campodonico, and Gustafason are now developing Milepost 88, an animated mystery series.
Based on an original idea from Gustafason, the series follows two brothers, who run an old gas station deep in the Great Basin desert of Nevada, when their lives are upended by a passing stranger who unlocks a mystery involving their family history. The puzzle further unfolds in 1969 with the exploits of a reluctant cosmonaut as he tries to be the first man to reach the moon. As these parallel stories cross time and space, they reveal truths about love, ambition, and brake fluid.
Gustafson, Bulkley, and Campodonico will exec produce.
After Netflix’s Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio won the Oscar for Best Animated Feature at the 95th Academy Awards, del Toro made a plea for the future of animation. “Animation is not a genre and animation is ready to be taken to the next step. We are all ready for it. Please help us keep animation in the conversation.”
The stop-motion feature film also picked up a slew of other awards during the season including a BAFTA, a Golden Globe as well as wins at the Annie Awards Producers Guild, and Critics Choice Awards.
Gustafson co-directed the film with del Toro. He is also behind projects including The PJs, Mr. Resistor and several California Raisin and Claymation specials after being animation director for Wes Anderson’s Oscar-nominated Fantastic Mr. Fox.
Meanwhile, ShadowMachine is currently developing del Toro’s next animated feature film, The
Recent Oscar winner Sarah Polley has revealed her huge shock on Saturday morning at receiving a letter saying she had won her award in error, and she needed to mail it back to the Academy.
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