Disney has released a new trailer for their upcoming Disneynature documentary film Chimpanzee. Every year around Earth Day the studio releases one of these films, and the next doc they have coming out is African Cats. I've enjoyed these films, and my kids absolutely love them.
Official Plot Synopsis:
Alastair Fothergill and Mark Linfield co-direct this intimate look at the world of chimpanzees, with Christophe Boesch, head of the Wild Chimpanzee Foundation, serving as principal consultant and Alix Tidmarsh as producer. To be shot over three years in the tropical jungles of the Ivory Coast and Uganda, Chimpanzee will help us better understand this exceptionally intelligent species.
The movie hits theaters April 20th, 2012. Watch the trailer below and tell us what you think!
Source: Yahoo! (http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/1810017839/video/24970930)...
Official Plot Synopsis:
Alastair Fothergill and Mark Linfield co-direct this intimate look at the world of chimpanzees, with Christophe Boesch, head of the Wild Chimpanzee Foundation, serving as principal consultant and Alix Tidmarsh as producer. To be shot over three years in the tropical jungles of the Ivory Coast and Uganda, Chimpanzee will help us better understand this exceptionally intelligent species.
The movie hits theaters April 20th, 2012. Watch the trailer below and tell us what you think!
Source: Yahoo! (http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/1810017839/video/24970930)...
- 4/20/2011
- by Venkman
- GeekTyrant
Every year on (or around) Earth Day, Disneynature releases a new nature documentary. This Friday you can see African Cats, which will include the trailer for their next feature - Chimpanzee. Which begs the question: when are they going to do a documentary on some of the uglier wild creatures? Okay, maybe not -- cute animals equal box office dollars (ask those marching penguins...). Watch the trailer now embedded after the jump. Leave your thoughts in the comments below. Trailer embedded from Yahoo [1]: Official Plot Synopsis: Alastair Fothergill and Mark Linfield co-direct this intimate look at the world of chimpanzees, with Christophe Boesch, head of the Wild Chimpanzee Foundation, serving as principal consultant and Alix Tidmarsh as producer. To be shot over three years in the tropical jungles of the Ivory Coast and Uganda, Chimpanzee will help us better understand this exceptionally intelligent species. Chimpanzee hits theaters April 20th,...
- 4/20/2011
- by Peter Sciretta
- Slash Film
We have eleven great clips in from Disneynature's documentary "Earth," including with James Earl Jones, Alastair Fothergill. These are all included with the trailer in the same player below. See the images here! What's "Earth" all about? The first in the Disneynature line-up of films, “Earth,” narrated by James Earl Jones, tells the remarkable story of three animal families and their amazing journeys across the planet we all call home. “Earth” combines rare action, unimaginable scale and impossible locations while capturing the most intimate moments of our planet’s wildest and most elusive creatures. Directors Alastair Fothergill and Mark Linfield, the acclaimed creative team behind the Emmy Award®-winning “Planet Earth,” combine forces again to bring this epic adventure to the big screen, beginning Earth Day, April 22, 2009. Behind-the-scenes talent includes producers Alix Tidmarsh and Sophokles Tasioulis, award-winning composer George Fenton directing the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, and editor Martin Elsbury (“Deep...
- 4/9/2009
- Upcoming-Movies.com
San Sebastian, Spain -- Saturday's world premiere of natural-history documentary Earth was just the first salvo in a global marketing onslaught planned by co-producers BBC Films and Greenlight Media.
Starting Monday, ahead of the film's European theatrical rollout, BBC/Greenlight will launch a co-coordinated multiterritory online campaign based around its Earth-themed Web site. The site, loveearth.com, will allow Internet users from Europe to Asia to the U.S. and South America to have access, in their own language, to a wide array of information about the film and the environmental issues it raises.
It's an unusual move for an independent film with no studio backing. Earth has presold to most big international territories, but its distribution network is the typical patchwork model seen in the indie world. Regional independent distributors such as Wanda Vision in Spain, Universum Film in Germany or Lionsgate in the U.S. have rarely if ever cooperated on the promotion of a film.
"These guys don't usually talk to one another, but for 'Earth' we wanted to have a global campaign so we set up what, in effect, is a mini-studio for the international rollout," the film's co-producer Alix Tidmarsh said.
Starting Monday, ahead of the film's European theatrical rollout, BBC/Greenlight will launch a co-coordinated multiterritory online campaign based around its Earth-themed Web site. The site, loveearth.com, will allow Internet users from Europe to Asia to the U.S. and South America to have access, in their own language, to a wide array of information about the film and the environmental issues it raises.
It's an unusual move for an independent film with no studio backing. Earth has presold to most big international territories, but its distribution network is the typical patchwork model seen in the indie world. Regional independent distributors such as Wanda Vision in Spain, Universum Film in Germany or Lionsgate in the U.S. have rarely if ever cooperated on the promotion of a film.
"These guys don't usually talk to one another, but for 'Earth' we wanted to have a global campaign so we set up what, in effect, is a mini-studio for the international rollout," the film's co-producer Alix Tidmarsh said.
- 9/25/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
San Sebastian International Film Festival
SAN SEBASTIAN, Spain -- Alistair Fothergill and Mark Linfield, two veterans of the BBC school of natural history docus (Deep Blue, about life under the waves, and the BAFTA-nominated Life of Mammals), tell the story of global warming with state-of-the-art high def cameras and spell-binding photography yet spare us a storm of statistics. Earth does not relate anything not already known about how the globe is heating up, but the ingenuity of the filmmaking should connect with global audiences.
Earth goes through a year on the planet, examining how global warming affects the migration patterns of humpback whales, the hunting abilities of polar bears, the migration of cranes over the Himalayas and the long march the elephants across a parched Africa to reach a seasonal flood in the south.
Fothergill and Linfield follow the stories of a family of polar bears, a mother humpback whale and her offspring and an elephant and her calf. If the krill that feed the humpback die off, so will the whales. If the Polar Bear has no ice to hunt upon, it will die too. Even the great white shark is important at the top of the feeding chain yet, according to the filmmakers, merciless hunting has their numbers in "freefall".
Fothergill and Linfield make an unabashed appeal to audience weakness for cute animals. They delight at watching duck chicks launch their maiden flights in slow motion or baboons churlishly crossing a marsh in Africa. The birds of paradise in New Guinea preen better than any Hollywood star on the red carpet.
Patrick Stewart in an informative but friendly tone provides the narration. The statistics involved in the filmmaking are mind-boggling: 4,500 days of shooting with 30 camera teams in more than 200 locations around the world at a budget of $47 million.
EARTH
Lionsgate
Greenlight Media AG, BBC Worldwide
Credits:
Director: Alistair Fothergill, Mark Linfield
Writers: Lelsie Megahey, Alastair Fothergill, Mark Linfield
Producers: Alix Tidmarsh, Sophokles Tasiouslis
Directors of photography: Andrew Anderson, Doug Anderson, Doug Allan, Paul Atkins, Barrie Britton, Richard Burton, Simon Carroll, Rod Clarke, Martyn Colbeck, Justin Evans, Wade Fairley, Ted Giffords, Mike Holding, Mike Kelem, Simon King, Toshihiro Muta, Justin Maguire, Didier Noiret, Andrew Penniket, Rick Rosenthal, Adam Ravetch, Tim Shepherd, Andrew Shillabeer, Peter Scoones, Warwick Sloss, Paul Stewart, Gavin Thurston, Jeff Turner, Nick Turner, Jon Waters
Voiceover: Patrick Stewart
Music: George Fenton
Editing: Mark Elsbury
Running time -- 99 minutes
No MPAA rating...
SAN SEBASTIAN, Spain -- Alistair Fothergill and Mark Linfield, two veterans of the BBC school of natural history docus (Deep Blue, about life under the waves, and the BAFTA-nominated Life of Mammals), tell the story of global warming with state-of-the-art high def cameras and spell-binding photography yet spare us a storm of statistics. Earth does not relate anything not already known about how the globe is heating up, but the ingenuity of the filmmaking should connect with global audiences.
Earth goes through a year on the planet, examining how global warming affects the migration patterns of humpback whales, the hunting abilities of polar bears, the migration of cranes over the Himalayas and the long march the elephants across a parched Africa to reach a seasonal flood in the south.
Fothergill and Linfield follow the stories of a family of polar bears, a mother humpback whale and her offspring and an elephant and her calf. If the krill that feed the humpback die off, so will the whales. If the Polar Bear has no ice to hunt upon, it will die too. Even the great white shark is important at the top of the feeding chain yet, according to the filmmakers, merciless hunting has their numbers in "freefall".
Fothergill and Linfield make an unabashed appeal to audience weakness for cute animals. They delight at watching duck chicks launch their maiden flights in slow motion or baboons churlishly crossing a marsh in Africa. The birds of paradise in New Guinea preen better than any Hollywood star on the red carpet.
Patrick Stewart in an informative but friendly tone provides the narration. The statistics involved in the filmmaking are mind-boggling: 4,500 days of shooting with 30 camera teams in more than 200 locations around the world at a budget of $47 million.
EARTH
Lionsgate
Greenlight Media AG, BBC Worldwide
Credits:
Director: Alistair Fothergill, Mark Linfield
Writers: Lelsie Megahey, Alastair Fothergill, Mark Linfield
Producers: Alix Tidmarsh, Sophokles Tasiouslis
Directors of photography: Andrew Anderson, Doug Anderson, Doug Allan, Paul Atkins, Barrie Britton, Richard Burton, Simon Carroll, Rod Clarke, Martyn Colbeck, Justin Evans, Wade Fairley, Ted Giffords, Mike Holding, Mike Kelem, Simon King, Toshihiro Muta, Justin Maguire, Didier Noiret, Andrew Penniket, Rick Rosenthal, Adam Ravetch, Tim Shepherd, Andrew Shillabeer, Peter Scoones, Warwick Sloss, Paul Stewart, Gavin Thurston, Jeff Turner, Nick Turner, Jon Waters
Voiceover: Patrick Stewart
Music: George Fenton
Editing: Mark Elsbury
Running time -- 99 minutes
No MPAA rating...
- 9/24/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
NEW YORK -- Miramax Films has acquired North American distribution rights to the feature-length documentary Deep Blue, from BBC Worldwide and Germany's Greenlight Media. The film is narrated by U.K. thespian Michael Gambon. Inspired by the BBC and Discovery Channel's series The Blue Planet, Deep sets out to explore life "above, below and far beneath the ocean's surface," according to the filmmakers. The project was co-directed by Alastair Fothergill and Andy Byatt and produced by Alix Tidmarsh and Sophokles Tasioulis. Nikolaus Weil, Stefan Beiten, Andre Sikojev and Mike Phillips executive produced. Miramax director of acquisitions Chiara Trento brought Deep into the mini-major.
- 12/12/2003
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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