EXCLUSIVE: Tippett Studio and Ultra 8 Pictures today announced that Phil Tippett’s directing feature debut Mad God has sold to a host of key international territories following a theatrical run in the US.
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The Beatles Yellow Submarine and the director of Heavy Metal has died. He was 91 years old.The death was confirmed by the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) in a statement to Pitchfork.In a statement, Claude Joli-Coeur, NFB chair and government film commissioner, said: “Gerald came to Canada and the NFB to be part of a new wave of storytelling, one that was fresh and irreverent, and he brought great wit and creativity to every project.
He was also a builder, helping to lay the foundation for today’s independent Canadian animation industry with Potterton Productions.”Potterton was born in London and later moved to Canada in the 1950s to work with NFB animation.He directed two Oscar-nomainted short films, My Financial Career and Christmas Cracker, plus two live-action comedies, The Ride and The Railrodder.He famously worked on the animated Beatles film Yellow Submarine in London in the 1960s before returning to Canada to found Potterton Productions.He also directed the cult Heavy Metal in 1981, which featured music from bands including Black Sabbath, Devo and more.Paying tribute, The Beatles Story in Liverpool wrote: “We’re saddened to hear of the passing of animator, writer, director and producer Gerald Potterton.“He worked on The Beatles animation ‘Yellow Submarine’ and is credited with the layout of the ‘Liverpool sequence’ on ‘Eleanor Rigby’. Rest in peace Gerald.”You can see some more tributes to Potterton here:Sad news: British-Canadian movie director and producer (and painter) Gerald Potterton died yesterday, age 91.
He was nominated 3x for an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film (with 2 made for the National Film Board). Here is a nice 1982 painting he did for my grandfather: pic.twitter.com/eWuX3Pwp2o—
.EXCLUSIVE: Tippett Studio and Ultra 8 Pictures today announced that Phil Tippett’s directing feature debut Mad God has sold to a host of key international territories following a theatrical run in the US.
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Amal Clooney knows how to light up the night, looking elegant and ready to party in a sparkling, sequin yellow minidress.The 44-year-old barrister was photographed getting ready for a fun night in London, stepping out hand in hand with her husband George Clooney.The celebrity couple were heading to the ‘Trouble in Paradise’ afterparty, following the highly anticipated premiere of the film, in which George acts along his fellow actor and friend Julia Roberts.Amal completed her stunning look with silver high heels and a gold clutch, as the dazzling gown caught all the attention, featuring a mock turtleneck and billowy sleeves. While George was looking casual with a black shirt and jacket, paired with jeans and suede shoes.The pair attended the red carpet of the premiere, posing for the cameras and showing why they are among the most fan-favorite couples in Hollywood.Amal wore a mint green slip dress, paired with minimal jewelry from Cartier.
and Prince Harry’s in 2018—one of the most famous looks to date. Now, the British designer has supplied Amal with yet another head-turning yellow look. Amal has proven her penchant for party dresses in recent months, by wearing dance floor-ready from Ermanno Scervino and 16Arlington.
George Clooney walks ahead of wife Amal while leaving their hotel in London, England on Wednesday night (September 7).
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More than 50 years ago Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr won the Oscar for Original Song, for “Let It Be.” Tonight, they added Emmys to their extraordinary careers, for producing the Disney+ documentary series The Beatles: Get Back.
The Edinburgh Fringe is facing calls to introduce “guidelines” for next year’s festival after a yellow face row in which Asians claimed to have been subjected to “publicly licensed racism on stage”. The campaign group British East and South East Asians working in the Theatre and Screen industry (BEATS) took issue with Tea Ceremony, a play in which a white male actor, Marios Ioannou, appears as a geisha, a Japanese hostess trained to entertain men. The group claimed that the show, which sees Ioannou wear white face paint, deployed “unashamed yellow face” which it described as “extremely triggering and traumatic” to those who “bear historical weight” of historical abuses.
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EJ Panaligan editor Gerald Potterton, an animator and filmmaker whose most notable works include “Heavy Metal” and the Beatles’ “Yellow Submarine” film, died on Aug. 23, the National Film Board of Canada announced on Wednesday. He was 91. He died at the Brome-Missisquoi-Perkins Hospital in Cowansville, Quebec, where he lived for most of his life. His most prominent work was directing the 1981 animated cult classic “Heavy Metal,” an anthology film of different science fiction and fantasy stories surrounding a force that is described as “the sum of all evils.” He also worked as an animator on the Beatles’ 1968 musical comedy “Yellow Submarine,” which became lauded as a work that broadened the general population’s interest in animation.
Gerald Potterton, the London-born filmmaker and animator who directed the 1981 animated cult favorite Heavy Metal and contributed to the memorable “Liverpool” sequence in the 1968 Beatles film Yellow Submarine, died today at a Quebec hospital. He was 91.
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