Annecy this year is all about innovation, in animation style – seen in the villain of “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse,” unveiled on Monday – in Europe’s push into adult animation, and even in new ways of connecting with audiences, as DreamWorks Animation has demonstrated in a joyous and packed open air screening of “The Bad Guys.”
A tradition at Annecy, the lakeside outdoor events usually serve to introduce new generations of Annecy kids and families to modern animation classics. Under Marcel Jean’s artistic direction, these are becoming ever more recent. This year’s program takes in Illumination’s Sing 2” and Disney’s “Encanto,” which both bowed in November 2021.
“The Bad Guys” is even more pristine, opening in France on April 6 to robust box office of 6.9 million through June 13, its fifth best box office result anywhere in international, behind China, the U.K. and Ireland (16.4 million), Australia ( 11.1 million) and Spain ( 7.2 million...
A tradition at Annecy, the lakeside outdoor events usually serve to introduce new generations of Annecy kids and families to modern animation classics. Under Marcel Jean’s artistic direction, these are becoming ever more recent. This year’s program takes in Illumination’s Sing 2” and Disney’s “Encanto,” which both bowed in November 2021.
“The Bad Guys” is even more pristine, opening in France on April 6 to robust box office of 6.9 million through June 13, its fifth best box office result anywhere in international, behind China, the U.K. and Ireland (16.4 million), Australia ( 11.1 million) and Spain ( 7.2 million...
- 6/15/2022
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
Los Angeles’ ubiquitous smog, freeways, beaches and palm trees — as well as its place in moviedom — were all influential elements as filmmaker Pierre Perifel and production designer Luc Desmarchelier huddled over where to set DreamWorks’ latest animation, “The Bad Guys,” in theaters April 22.
Based on the children’s book series by Aaron Blabey about a group of animals — a wolf, a snake, a shark, a tarantula and a piranha — that are always portrayed as criminal types but are trying hard to reform here, Desmarchelier says the script didn’t define where the action would be taking place. So when conceiving ideas, he looked at Chicago and New York as potential settings for the gang’s last heist.
But the production designer says he and Perifel ultimately landed on a reimagined version of the City of Angels because inspirations from cop and heist movies and TV shows had a gravitational pull.
Based on the children’s book series by Aaron Blabey about a group of animals — a wolf, a snake, a shark, a tarantula and a piranha — that are always portrayed as criminal types but are trying hard to reform here, Desmarchelier says the script didn’t define where the action would be taking place. So when conceiving ideas, he looked at Chicago and New York as potential settings for the gang’s last heist.
But the production designer says he and Perifel ultimately landed on a reimagined version of the City of Angels because inspirations from cop and heist movies and TV shows had a gravitational pull.
- 4/22/2022
- by Jazz Tangcay
- Variety Film + TV
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