Netflix’s global non-English charts this summer and 17 Basque films of ever greater renown participating at the San Sebastian Festival, led by Mikel Gurrea’s feature debut “Suro” and Fernando Franco’s “The Rite of Spring,” the region’s film and TV industry has flashed signs of real growth and international recognition. Further advances are expected next year with the launch of up-to-70% tax credits in Bizkaia. Leading Basque production company Irusoin backed “Suro” and is producing Disney+’s most notable TV project in Spain, “Balenciaga.” “It makes perfect sense; Disney wanted to make it here because the character and the story originate from the region,” says Irusoin producer Xabi Berzosa who has observed an already crowded market with three to four shoots happening simultaneously, including The Mediapro Studio’s “Pelotaris.”
Gore Verbinski Animated Pic ‘Cattywumpus’ To Be Shopped After Being In Works At Netflix
02.09.2022 - 03:21 / deadline.com
EXCLUSIVE: We are hearing from sources that Cattywumpus, the Gore Verbinski-directed animated movie about outer space felines, will be getting shopped around town to other studios.
Verbinski, whose films have grossed $3.76 billion and who won an Oscar in 2012 for the Paramount animated movie Rango, had been working on his latest film at Netflix.
Such is the complex nature of animated film production, where quite often halfway through, stories and plans can pivot. There’s a history of that from movies such as Pixar’s Soul and Dinosaur and DreamWorks Animation’s How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World.
Cattywumpus repped Verbinski’s second animated movie after the Johnny Depp-voiced Western Rango, which grossed $246 million at the worldwide box office.
Netflix, we understand, gave the creative team the option to go shop the movie elsewhere.
Netflix has seen promotions and changeovers in its animation executive suite over the summer. Karen Toliver was promoted to lead the Animation Film team after serving as VP Animation Film. Melissa Cobb moved from her role as VP Animation Film and stayed aboard on the streamer as a producer, along with VP Gregg Taylor also becoming a producer. Bruce Daitch, who had been VP Animation Production Operations, exited, while Traci Balthazor (VP Animation Film Production) and Mike Karafilis (Director Animation Series Production) continue to lead their respective teams.
In May, Netflix cut 150 jobs, close to half of those in animation. Netflix said in a statement at the time of the cuts that “slowing revenue growth means we are also having to slow our cost growth as a company.”
Netflix has in a quick time made a mark in feature animation with movies such as The Sea Beast, The Mitchells vs. the
Wild Bunch International’s Vincent Maraval on Taking a Bet on Johnny Depp, the Need to Take Risks
Liza Foreman Backing a film in which Johnny Depp will play French King Louis XV is what Wild Bunch International head Vincent Maraval describes as part of the risk taking that is essential to this business. In a keynote interview with CAA Media Finance’s Roeg Sutherland at San Sebastian’s first Creative Investors Conference on Monday, Maraval discussed his 23 years in the business – failing to bet on “Black Swan,” but going for it with Depp’s first film since the Amber Heard trial. “The film [“Jeanne du Barry”] is that sometimes we need to take a risk, and this risk is much higher,” said Maraval. “We are doing Johnny Depp playing Louis XV. People said don’t do a movie with him, but we liked it. I remember the discussion we had with the producer behind it who said: ‘Do you think we are doing something stupid?’ I said: ‘Probably, but what’s left if not?”
‘Slylock Fox’ Animated Film Based On Comic Strip In Works From King Features; ‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles’ Evan Daugherty To Write & Produce
EXCLUSIVE: King Features Syndicate has launched development on a new animated feature inspired by the interactive children’s comic strip, Slylock Fox — having renewed its representation agreement for the property, previously known as Slylock Fox and Comics for Kids.
Netflix Lays Off 30 From Animation Team After Leadership Restructuring
restructuring to its leadership for that department. The team, led by Karen Toliver (VP Animation Film Content) and Traci Balthazor (VP Animation Film Production), aims for better collaboration closer to traditional animation film studios, resulting in 30 different roles that are no longer needed, an individual with knowledge of the decision said.
Kid Cudi’s ‘Entergalactic’ Netflix Animation Debuts Official Trailer And Key Art
Scott “Kid Cudi” Mescudi and EP Kenya Barris have released the official trailer and key art to Entergalactic, an original animated story about a young artist named Jabari — voiced by Mescudi — as he attempts to balance love and success.
‘On The Come Up’: Paramount Sets Theatrical Day & Date With Pic’s Streaming Debut After TIFF Premiere – Update
Updated: In the wake of Sanaa Lathan’s world premiere of On the Come Up here at TIFF, the pic is getting a limited theatrical release in the top 50 markets nationally in sync with its Friday, Sept. 23 Paramount+ drop date. Previews start on Thursday, Sept. 22.
Animated Series ‘Death For Hire’ In The Works From Ice-T, NWA’s Arabian Prince & Tommy The Animator, Based On Graphic Novel; Dr. Dre Behind Original Score
EXCLUSIVE: A murderer’s row of rap talent including Ice-T and NWA’s Arabian Prince is behind a new animated series that features an original score from Dr Dre.
Netflix’s ‘Arcane’ Becomes First Streaming Series To Win Animated Emmy
Call it third time lucky.
Anne Hathaway: Don’t Say ‘Armageddon Time’s James Gray Is Tough On His Actors. Instead, Say He’s A Dream Director If You’re A Tough Actor
EXCLUSIVE: Anne Hathaway praised James Gray for not being a “kid-glove” director. The filmmaker directed the Oscar-winning star in his autobiographical film Armageddon Time, which is receiving its North American premiere Friday at the Telluride Film Festival.
‘Armageddon Time’ Director James Gray Reveals Real-Life Tragic Circumstances Of A Key Character In His Autobiographical Film – Telluride Q&A
EXCLUSIVE: Director James Gray has revealed to Deadline that Johnny, a pivotal character portrayed by Jaylin Webb (The Wonder Years) in Gray’s autobiographical film Armageddon Time, was killed during a drug deal in the mid-1980s, some six years after we last see him in the movie.
Andy Garcia, Catherine O’Hara, Jay Duplass Join Emily Blunt and Chris Evans in ‘The Pain Hustlers’ for Netflix
Andy Garcia, Catherine O’Hara, Jay Duplass, Brian d’Arcy James and Chloe Coleman are attached to join Emily Blunt and Chris Evans in the cast of “The Pain Hustlers,” director David Yates’ feature film for Netflix.Production on “The Pain Hustlers” kicked off this month. The project is described as a “hilarious, dramatic and wild journey to the corrupt heart of the American dream” in the vein of Adam McKay’s “The Big Short.” The film follows Blunt as a blue-collar woman who, upon losing her job struggling to raise her daughter, takes a position at a failing pharmaceutical start-up, only to get involved in a dangerous racketeering scheme.Yates, best known for the final “Harry Potter” and all of the “Fantastic Beasts” films, is directing “The Pain Hustlers” from a script by Wells Tower (“Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned”).
Catherine O’Hara, Jay Duplass, Andy Garcia Join Emily Blunt and Chris Evans in Netflix’s ‘The Pain Hustlers’
Rebecca Rubin Film and Media Reporter Catherine O’Hara, Jay Duplass and Andy Garcia will join the cast of “The Pain Hustlers,” teaming up with Emily Blunt and Chris Evans in the Netflix movie. Brian d’Arcy James (“Spotlight,” “West Side Story”) and Chloe Coleman (“My Spy,” “Marry Me”) are rounding out the ensemble. David Yates, best known for directing several “Harry Potter” movies, is helming “The Pain Hustlers,” which is said to be tonally similar to American Dream-esque crime dramas like “The Big Short,” “American Hustle” and “The Wolf of Wall Street.” According to the official logline, the film follows an unemployed “blue-collar woman struggling to raise her daughter [who] takes a job at a failing pharmaceutical start-up, only to get involved in a dangerous racketeering scheme.”
‘BioShock’: Netflix Enlists Director Francis Lawrence & ‘Logan’ Screenwriter Michael Green To Adapt Sci-Fi Horror Video Game
Netflix is developing a live-action film based on the “BioShock” video game franchise. A previous incarnation had been a passion project for filmmaker Gore Verbinski (“Pirates of The Caribbean“) but eventually dissolved before this latest version of the film surfaced.
‘Virgin River’, ‘Stranger Things’ And ‘The Gray Man’ Log Another Week At Top Of All-Netflix Nielsen Streaming Chart
Virgin River logged a second week as the most-streamed title in the U.S., according to Nielsen, and Stranger Things and The Gray Man also repeated in second and third place, respectively.
Yeon Sang-ho to Direct ‘Parasyte: The Grey’ Series for Netflix
Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief “Train to Busan” director Yeon Sang-ho is to direct a Korean, live action series adaptation of hit Japanese manga “Parasyte: The Grey.” Netflix is the exclusive distributor worldwide. The story is about unidentified parasitic life-forms that live off human hosts and strive to grow their power. As they start to disrupt society, a group of humans wage war against the rising evil. Korean stars Jeon So-nee, Koo Kyo-hwan, Lee Jung-hyun have been confirmed to head the cast. The series is being produced on behalf of Netflix by Climax Studio and Wow Point. The series is adapted from a hit manga series created by Iwaaki Hitoshi about invasive life-forms that seize and control human bodies. Published by the Kodansha company in its Morning Open Zkan and its Monthly Afternoon magazine from 1988 to 1995, it sold over 25 million copies in over 20 territories and countries.
Netflix Sets ‘Parasyte: The Grey’, Korean Adaptation Of Horror Manga From ‘Hellbound’ & ‘Train To Busan’s Yeon Sang-ho
Netflix today has confirmed production of Korean horror series Parasyte: The Grey. The live-action adaptation of Hitoshi Iwaaki’s sci-fi manga comic book series which has sold more than 25 million copies in over 20 markets, will be directed and co-written by Hellbound creator and Train To Busan and Peninsula filmmaker Yeon Sang-ho. Climax Studio (Hellbound, D.P.) and Wow Point are producing.
Inside the Three-Year Secret of Netflix’s ‘Sandman’ Bonus Episode — and How Neil Gaiman Almost Spoiled the Surprise of Its A-List Cast
Jennifer Maas TV Business WriterSPOILER ALERT: Do not read if you have not yet watched “A Dream of a Thousand Cats”/”Calliope,” the surprise 11th episode of “The Sandman” Season 1.Netflix’s “The Sandman” was always meant to have 11 episodes in its first season — you just didn’t know it until the special final installment, a two-part animated and live-action story titled “A Dream of a Thousand Cats”/”Calliope,” dropped Friday.Or, if you’re a diehard fan who has been following every piece of “Sandman” news since the TV adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s beloved graphic novels was first ordered to series in July 2019, you might have been slightly gaslit into not remembering that there were 11 episodes when the 10-episode season launched two weeks ago. “There may have been hints earlier.