Carole Horst John Woo’s “Silent Night” recently wrapped principal photography in Mexico City. The film is the first U.S.
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Laika’s CEO and President Travis Knight (Kubo and the Two Strings) is gearing up to direct the stop-motion animated feature The Night Gardener, written by Ozark co-creator Bill Dubuque, for his storied Hillsboro, Oregon studio. (Check out a film still unveiled by Laika below.)
The film based on Dubuque’s original idea is billed as a gritty neo-noir folktale centered on a young man in rural Missouri, who’s fighting to keep his family together in the wake of a tragedy. Pic will paint an unflinching portrait of sacrifice, self-reliance and revenge. News of the new Laika film comes with the studio currently in production on Wildwood, the first film set in its hometown of Portland, Oregon. Knight is directing the animated film, based on the bestselling fantasy novel written by Colin Meloy—the multi-hyphenate best known as the lead singer and songwriter for the rock group The Decemberists.
“The Night Gardener is a beautiful and timeless story that quickens the pulse as often as it breaks the heart,” said Knight. “Bill is a masterful storyteller. He’s crafted a lyrical world layered with complex characters, provocative ideas, and keenly felt emotion. It’s gonna be one helluva movie.”
“I’m delighted that Travis Knight saw in The Night Gardener a story worthy of the time intensive process and collective talent of LAIKA’s in-house artisans,” added Dubuque. “LAIKA’s creativity and dedication to detail is, in my opinion, as close as one can come to conjuring storytelling magic.”
Knight founded Laika in 2005, seeing each of the studio’s five features to date—Coraline (2009), ParaNorman (2012), The Boxtrolls (2014), Kubo (2016) and Missing Link (2019)—land an Oscar nominations for Best Animated Feature. In addition to Kubo and Wildwood,
Carole Horst John Woo’s “Silent Night” recently wrapped principal photography in Mexico City. The film is the first U.S.
Tensions were high when Kourtney Kardashian learned her three kids weren’t included in Travis Barker’s proposal — but did Mason, Penelope and Reign miss the couple’s wedding too?
Emilio Mayorga Cesar Cabral’s “Bob Spit: We Do Not Like People,” Roy Ambriz and Arturo Ambriz’s “Frankelda’s Book of Spooks,” and “Beast” topped the 5th Ibero-American Animation Quirino Awards, which took place May 14 at San Cristóbal de La Laguna, on the Canary Island of Tenerife.It’s no coincidence that the three main prizes have gone to stop-motion works. The plaudits offer further proof of a growing mastery of this technique in Latin America, as well as then high level and extraordinary artistic diversity of animation titles coming to of Latin America, which is increasingly acknowledged on international markets.Produced by Coala Filmes and Cup Films in Brazil, “Bob Spit: We Do Not Like People” was also nominated for the recent Platino Awards and took the 2021 Contrechamp Award at the Annecy Int’l Film Festival.
Kourtney Kardashian and Travis Barker are enjoying their time together — and apparently moving quickly towards the wedding of their dreams!
left his post at the Disney-owned studio and set up shop at Skydance Animation, where he currently serves as Head of Animation.Directed by Peggy Holmes (“Secret of the Wings”) and written by Kiel Murray (“Cars 3”), “Luck” tells the story of Sam Greenfield, the unluckiest person in the world, who when she stumbles into the never-before-seen Land of Luck, sets out on a quest to bring some good luck home for her best friend. But with humans not allowed, her only chance is teaming up with the magical creatures who live there to do it. This teaser trailer is narrated by a black cat voiced by Simon Pegg, who introduces viewers to the world of the Land of Luck and how it operates.
Scott Disick's reaction towards his ex Kourtney Kardashian's engagement to Travis Barker takes centre stage in the latest instalment of The Kardashians. Kourtney and Scott started dating in 2006, just before the clan's reality show Keeping Up With The Kardashians aired, and after a tumultuous on/off relationship and the arrival of their three children, they officially called it quits in 2015.
increasingly murky and perplexing defamation trial between Johnny Depp and Amber Heard, questions around the couple’s age gap are repeatedly surfacing. The couple’s age gap was raised by the media well before Depp announced he was suing HeardReports describing their connection as occurring “despite their 22-year age difference” are commonplace in the frenzy of analysis about the Depp-Heard story. Everything from the gossip columns to the dailies are commenting on the pair’s age gap, seemingly insinuating that their 22-year difference is likely to have exacerbated, if not caused, the problems in their relationship.
Carson Burton The Women in Motion program from Kering will return to Cannes for its seventh year to once again celebrate the lives and accomplishments of powerful women in cinema. The program aims to further the cause of recognizing women in the film industry at a time that seems to be a turning point for female representation in the sector.Women in Motion launched in 2015, aims to shine a light on women’s contribution to the motion picture arts both in front of and behind the camera.
The Smile have shared the video for their new single ‘Thin Thing’ – watch below.The band – comprising Thom Yorke, his Radiohead bandmate Jonny Greenwood and Sons of Kemet drummer Tom Skinner – formed last year and announced their debut album, ‘A Light For Attracting Attention’ last month.‘Thin Thing’ follows ‘You Will Never Work In Television Again’, ‘The Smoke’, ‘Skrting On The Surface’ and ‘Pana-vision’, a track taken from the Peaky Blinders soundtrack.It arrives with a stop-motion animated video directed by Cristóbal León and Joaquín Cociña, which took the pair six months to make.Speaking about the video, they said: “Hearing the song for the first time, we imagined a frenetic fluid that carries machines, pieces of human bodies and carnivorous plants.“When presenting the idea to the band, Thom told us about a dream that made him write the song. We believe the video is the conjunction of these two things.”‘A Light For Attracting Attention’ arrives this Friday (May 13) digitally, and June 17 physically, via XL Recordings.Produced and mixed by Nigel Godrich and mastered by Bob Ludwig, the 13-track album will feature strings by the London Contemporary Orchestra and a full brass section of contemporary UK jazz players including Byron Wallen, Theon and Nathaniel Cross, Chelsea Carmichael, Robert Stillman and Jason Yarde.
A serial abuser who strangled his girlfriend, leaving her fearing for her life, is among the criminals jailed in Manchester this week. Prison terms were also handed to a 'dangerous' pervert who attempted to meet up with young children for sex, but was caught out by an undercover profile.
Kylie Jenner and Travis Scott have set engagement rumours alight after photos of them embracing on the beach were posted on Instagram. The pictures came as a pleasant surprise to fans as the couple rarely showcase their relationship publicly and many were led to think that the romantic duo might be getting hitched.
Beauty mogul Kylie Jenner is no stranger to showing off her life on Instagram with her 334 million followers.This includes the many properties she and beau Travis Scott own in California, New York and Texas, where Travis, 31, is from.The youngest of the Kardashian-Jenner clan, 24, recently welcomed her second child into the world, giving four year old Stormi a sibling.Though the pair are often outspoken on social media about their love and life, they pair revealed that their baby son is no longer called Wolf but have yet to announce his name. Kylie, Travis, Stormi and their son mainly reside in the family’s LA pad which is in the Hidden Hills neighbourhood. Reportedly, the Kylie Cosmetics mogul bought the property when she was just 17 years old and conveniently it is close to where her mum Kris Jenner lives.
Kourtney Kardashian and Travis Barker are flaunting some PDA at the 2022 Met Gala!
Blake Lively has lined up her directorial debut!
Catherine Springer “Ozark” cinematographer Shawn Kim came aboard the show at the start of Season 4 with a good idea of what creators Bill Dubuque and Mark Williams wanted for the look of the dark thriller about a mob accountant and his family who relocate from Chicago to the Missouri Ozarks: A “sense of danger in the shadows,” Kim says.“Ozark” fans have been waiting three months for the second half of the season to find out what happens to the Byrdes — Jason Bateman’s Marty, wife Wendy (Laura Linney) and their two children — as they try to wriggle free from the clutches of the drug cartel that employs him and the FBI that wants to imprison him. But Kim says the final seven installments, which drops April 29 and close out the Netflix series, are built around the ambitious Ruth (Julia Garner), who had worked for Marty and saw her world collapse around her at the end of the first half of the season.
Fans of Harry Potter can now live out their dream by purchasing a home on one of the original film sets - that is if they have a spare couple of million lying around. Some lavish apartments have now gone up for sale at an ex-public school which was used as the setting for Hogwarts' Great Hall, where some of Harry Potter's most renowned scenes were filmed.