Milt Kahl: The Animation Michelangelo, A Centennial Celebration
"Milt Kahl: The Animation Michelangelo, A Centennial Celebration," an homage to Disney animator Milt Kahl (right), will be presented on Monday, April 27, at 7:30 p.m. at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences‘ Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills. Animator Andreas Deja (creator of characters such as Gaston in Beauty and the Beast, Scar in The Lion King, and Lilo in Lilo & Stitch) will host the evening, which will include a panel discussion moderated by animation critic Charles Solomon.
Among the scheduled panelists are Kathryn Beaumont (the voice artist for Alice in Alice in Wonderland and Wendy in Peter Pan), Academy Award-winner Brad Bird (for The Incredibles and Ratatouille), [...]
by Andre Soares | March 28, 2009
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FINDING NEVERLAND: J. M. Barrie and PETER PAN
Initially, Miramax wouldn’t even consider German-born director Marc Forster for Finding Neverland. "My agent called and said, ‘They don’t see the relationship between this and your dead-baby movie,’" Forster later recalled, referring to his first feature film, Everything Put Together, a 2000 drama about a mother whose baby dies of sudden infant death syndrome. (Radha Mitchell, who plays Mary Barrie in Finding Neverland, has the lead in Everything Put Together.) Source: Newsweek.
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Finding Neverland was originally scheduled to be released in the fall of 2003. However, Columbia Pictures had the rights to James M. Barrie’s play for their film version of Peter Pan (directed by P. J. Hogan), which was to be released in December 2003.
Columbia refused to allow Miramax [...]
by Andre Soares | January 13, 2005
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