ZariusTwo
03-02-2006, 09:41 AM
works, including both originals and features based on existing series.
The most ambitious is a two-hour original live action-animated hybrid film called Re-Animated, created by Adam Pava and Tim Mckeon (both most recently of the Weighty Decisions shorts that aired on Sunday Pants). In it, a 12-year-old boy named Jimmy Roberts requires a brain transplant after an amusement park accident. The only brain available is that of a famous Golden Age animator named Milt Appleday, and when Jimmy wakes up, he sees cartoon characters all around him that no one else can see. In his new life with his new brain, Jimmy must juggle school while being surrounded by toons that want him to restart the studio and theme park.
Casting is now underway and the production will begin shooting in Los Angeles this spring. Though presented as part of the feature project, the studio noted that Re-Animated could still turn out to be a series pilot rather than a film.
In a press release, Jim Samples, executive vice president and general manager of Cartoon Network, was quoted as saying, "We think when it's done in the Cartoon Network way, kids will enjoy seeing animation and the real world collide."
Cartoon Network has recently experimented with showing live action films, and the network announced they would air the Spider-Man film this year. However, (after presenting a screenshot of Toon Zone's own editorial on the subject) they did say that live action would form a fairly small component of the network's overall programming, and that most of it would be live action-animated hybrids. Though they did not rule out the possibility of all-live action projects, they did say these would be very different from current offerings on Nickelodeon and the Disney Channel. Re-Animated was the only new live action production discussed at the morning upfront.
A Kids Next Door movie called Operation Zero will premiere in August. In the 90-minute feature, a villain threatens to turn both kids and adults into "tapioca-eating hideously wrinkly senior citizombies," and the Kids Next Door must call their greatest operative back to active duty to save the world. The film will be in continuity, according to director Thomas Warburton, and could lead to a series of Kids Next Door specials. The regular Kids Next Door series will continue production up to 78 episodes.
In late fall, CN will roll out a Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends feature titled Good Wilt Hunter. The film will run at 60 minutes and will depict a picnic where the imaginary friends meet their creators. The girl who created Eduardo returns, and the scientist who studied Coco also makes an appearance. But Wilt is crestfallen when his creator doesn't show up.
The Teen Titans Tokyo direct-to-DVD feature will also be part of the new initiative. In it, the Teen Titans track to Tokyo a mysterious ninja boss called Bershogun.
A 90-minute Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy is planned for 2007 and a Camp Lazlo movie is in the works as well. Additionally, Cartoon Network will be airing the Dreamworks' movie Road to El Dorado.
[On-site reporting by William C. Maune]
Full length Foster...christ...thats' all I need...
Titans Tokyo sounds like a bad filler episode
About time Billy and Mandy got a feature, too bad it aint' theatrical.
Codename: Kids Next Door movie wont' be theatrical either after all...dang, but that and the Grim movie should be worth watching, a good sigh that the shows' been renewed for more episodes and that other films may spin out of it
The most ambitious is a two-hour original live action-animated hybrid film called Re-Animated, created by Adam Pava and Tim Mckeon (both most recently of the Weighty Decisions shorts that aired on Sunday Pants). In it, a 12-year-old boy named Jimmy Roberts requires a brain transplant after an amusement park accident. The only brain available is that of a famous Golden Age animator named Milt Appleday, and when Jimmy wakes up, he sees cartoon characters all around him that no one else can see. In his new life with his new brain, Jimmy must juggle school while being surrounded by toons that want him to restart the studio and theme park.
Casting is now underway and the production will begin shooting in Los Angeles this spring. Though presented as part of the feature project, the studio noted that Re-Animated could still turn out to be a series pilot rather than a film.
In a press release, Jim Samples, executive vice president and general manager of Cartoon Network, was quoted as saying, "We think when it's done in the Cartoon Network way, kids will enjoy seeing animation and the real world collide."
Cartoon Network has recently experimented with showing live action films, and the network announced they would air the Spider-Man film this year. However, (after presenting a screenshot of Toon Zone's own editorial on the subject) they did say that live action would form a fairly small component of the network's overall programming, and that most of it would be live action-animated hybrids. Though they did not rule out the possibility of all-live action projects, they did say these would be very different from current offerings on Nickelodeon and the Disney Channel. Re-Animated was the only new live action production discussed at the morning upfront.
A Kids Next Door movie called Operation Zero will premiere in August. In the 90-minute feature, a villain threatens to turn both kids and adults into "tapioca-eating hideously wrinkly senior citizombies," and the Kids Next Door must call their greatest operative back to active duty to save the world. The film will be in continuity, according to director Thomas Warburton, and could lead to a series of Kids Next Door specials. The regular Kids Next Door series will continue production up to 78 episodes.
In late fall, CN will roll out a Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends feature titled Good Wilt Hunter. The film will run at 60 minutes and will depict a picnic where the imaginary friends meet their creators. The girl who created Eduardo returns, and the scientist who studied Coco also makes an appearance. But Wilt is crestfallen when his creator doesn't show up.
The Teen Titans Tokyo direct-to-DVD feature will also be part of the new initiative. In it, the Teen Titans track to Tokyo a mysterious ninja boss called Bershogun.
A 90-minute Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy is planned for 2007 and a Camp Lazlo movie is in the works as well. Additionally, Cartoon Network will be airing the Dreamworks' movie Road to El Dorado.
[On-site reporting by William C. Maune]
Full length Foster...christ...thats' all I need...
Titans Tokyo sounds like a bad filler episode
About time Billy and Mandy got a feature, too bad it aint' theatrical.
Codename: Kids Next Door movie wont' be theatrical either after all...dang, but that and the Grim movie should be worth watching, a good sigh that the shows' been renewed for more episodes and that other films may spin out of it