Sony Animation just showed its new slate. There are going to be a lot of projects.
>In an expansive mode after the huge critical, commercial and Academy Award validation for “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse,” Sony Pictures Animation announced at Annecy on Wednesday that China’s Tencent has boarded Jackie Chan’s “Wish Dragon,” plus a reimagining of “The Boondocks,” horror series “Hungry Ghosts,” comedy series “Superbago” and two new Genndy Tartakovsky movies.
Is it Mushu spin-off?
>Belson also unveiled unseen scenes from the “The Angry Birds Movie 2” directed by Thurman Van Orman, opening later this year, and SPA’s 2020 releases “The Mitchells vs. The Machines,” produced by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, and “Vivo,” Sony Animation’s first-ever musical featuring original songs from Lin-Manuel Miranda, with Belson announcing in Annecy that “Zootopia” director Rich Moore has joined the filmmaking team as a producer.
>Belson shared an exclusive sequence from “Angry Birds Movie 2” in which the birds and the pigs use an eight-foot tall eagle costume to penetrate a top-secret fort, with a memorable scene in a men’s restroom. “We love that we’re following up a moody ultra sophisticated “Spider-Verse” with “Angry Birds” because we’re never going to make one type of film,” Belson said.
>Produced by Phil Lords and Chris Miller, “The Mitchells vs. The Machines,” scheduled for release on Sept. 2020, and “Vivo” are SPA family-skewed movies.
>”The Mitchells vs. The Machines,” about a family and their grotesque pug dog caught in a tech uprising, pictures two universes. There’s the human, portraying a chaotic mundane family world which the film celebrates in a painterly handmade way not so far from French 2D animated movies. Then there’s a hugely stylized robot world, filled with fabricated tones of a high-tech universe. These two worlds will collide in visual and dramatic terms.
>A faux trailer of “The Mitchells” shown at Annecy showed an emergency broadcast from a cinema theater in which two robots announce there has been no robot apocalypse. That scene drew huge applause at Annecy.
>Teased via development artwork shown by Belson,”Vivo,” set in Havana and modern Miami, channels “really unique and distinct styles,” said Belson, These include ‘50s glamor and hip-hop,. Every one of the 10 songs by Lin-Manuel Miranda are different. Roger Deakins will serve as cinematographer on “Vivo,” Belson announced.
>Signaling the beginnings of a potentially valuable strategic partnership, Chinese multinational Tencent is now on board “Wish Dragon” as a producer. It will also release the animated feature in China in 2020.
>Now set up as a co-production between Sony Pictures Animation, Jackie Chan’s label Beijing Sparkle Roll Media, Tencent and Base Media, which originated the project, “Wish Dragon” was first unveiled by director Chris Appelhans (“Coraline”) at Annecy as a work in progress in 2019.
>Warner, an Academy Award winning producer (“Shrek,” “The Book of Life”), sneak peeked art and scenes at Annecy of what SPA bill as an “imaginative and touching tale about the power of friendship set in modern-day Shanghai.”
>Focusing on “the hopes and dreams of contemporary China,” Base principal Chris Bremble, dramatic comedy “Wish Dragon” turns on the moral challenges that emerge from the encounter between a boy, Din, and an invisible dragon (for everybody else) who is able to make wishes come true. What Din wants, more than anything else, is to be reunited with his childhood friend Li Na, who was taken away from their humble Shanghai hood by her nouveau rich father, and now models luxury goods, Rodex watches, for example, her image spread-eagled over billboards in Shanghai.
>Sony has some success
>LETS MILK THIS COW UNTIL IT DIES
the China movie and the new Phil Lord/Chris Miller movie sound good
>Boondocks
what are they planning? A show revival?
>Presented at Annecy by Sony Pictures Animation vice presidents Katie Baron and Kevin Noel, who will head up SPA’s alternative animation drive, TV series “Hungry Ghosts” is based on a Dark Horse Graphic Novel by the late Anthony Bourdain and Joel Rose. The series will showcase an anthology of frightening, hilarious, twisted, and culinary-inspired ghost stories, said Noel. It has a circle of chefs trying to think up eerie encounters and unnatural events, set in different cultures across the world, to scare each other.
>Once aired on Adult Swim, “The Boondocks” chronicles the battles of the Freeman family against the evil local government tyrant Uncle Ruckus, who rules fictional Woodcrest County Maryland, with an iron fist, said Baron. She and Noel showed comic strips which are both topical and radical,” Noel said.
>Made in collaboration with Stoopid Buddy Stoodios, “Superbago” is a quirky half-hour comedy that blends claymation and live-action. It turns on two dimwitted animated heroes traveling in a very real Winnebago around the actual U. S. of America, hoping to become real super heroes. The title was previously developed as a feature film at Sony Animation, but was more appropriate as a series, said Noel.
>Tencent
Why do I keep seeing this everywhere
Because it's Chinese Google/Amazon/etc.
China is buying your media. First video games, now movies. Soon your news and politics and food and technology
>Tartakovsky made a surprise personal appearance top introduce personally “Black Night,” “If you take any action movie you’ve ever loved and you add ninjas,” you get ‘Black Night,’” he said.to be directed by Tartakovsky (“Hotel Transylvania,” “Samurai Jack,” “Primal”) is an action-adventure epic about a highly skilled and loyal knight who, after failing to protect his king, must transform himself into the Black Knight to save the kingdom.
>SPA’s first R-rated comedy, with Tartakovsky once once more on board to direct, dark comedy “Fixed” is the story of an average dog who learns that he is going to get neutered the next morning.It’s really funny and heartwarming, it’s not all about balls, we’re trying to make it a character comedy,” Tartakovsky said.
FINISHED.
What do you think?
Stop. This entire slate sounds like a mess. Don't squander Disney talent on Angry Birds.
Is Tartakovsky fucking retarded? So many probing questions in my head. Did nobody at Sony learn from Sausage Party?
is sony the next dreamworks?
It's Chinese Amazon if Amazon were also Alphabet.
Sony has given him work, and if they let him do projects he wants to (maybe Popeye one day?), then he’ll keep giving them what they want in exchange for money.
Reminder that every time Tartakovsky has gotten a project at Sony unrelated to Hotel Transylvania, Sony inevitably cancels it to force him into working on another Hotel Transylvania.
>Dreamworks' yeti film is made almost entirely for China
>next WDAS film after Frozen 2 is some Chinese pandering
>now this
It's all so tiresome
no hope in sight.
"I Hope You Can Speak Chinese"
Revenge for the years of Americans shoving Hollywood degeneracy down everyone's throats.
If tencent has it's hand on the boondocks, does this mean Ming has a chance to appear again?
>maybe Popeye one day?
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