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Anthony Stacchi
Anthony Francis Stacchi (born August 21, 1961) is an American effects animator, storyboard artist, screenwriter, and film director. Stacchi graduated from California Institute of the Arts with a BFA in Film then went on to be an Animator and Commercial Director at San Francisco's Colossal Pictures and an effects animator at Industrial Light and Magic on '' Back to the Future'', ''Hook'', '' The Rocketeer'' and ''Ghost'', and '' James and the Giant Peach''. He was a storyboard artist for '' Antz'', '' Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron'' and ''Curious George'' and was the head of story for ILM's aborted computer animated feature ''Frankenstien'', and a short film, ''Work in Progress''. He made his directorial debut as co-director of Sony Pictures Animation's first film '' Open Season''. He co-directed the 3D stop-motion animated feature film ''The Boxtrolls'', at Laika. It was released in 2014. Stacchi currently serves as director for ''The Monkey King'', a Netflix Netfli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
San Diego Comic-Con International
San Diego Comic-Con International is a comic book convention and nonprofit multi-genre entertainment event held annually in San Diego, California since 1970. The name, as given on its website, is Comic-Con International: San Diego; but it is commonly known simply as Comic-Con or the San Diego Comic-Con or SDCC. The convention was founded as the Golden State Comic Book Convention in 1970 by a group of San Diegans that included Shel Dorf, Richard Alf, Ken Krueger, Ron Graf, and Mike Towry; later, it was called the "San Diego Comic Book Convention", Dorf said during an interview that he hoped the first Con would bring in 500 attendees. It is a four-day event (Thursday–Sunday) held during the summer (in July since 2003) at the San Diego Convention Center in San Diego. On the Wednesday evening prior to the official opening, professionals, exhibitors, and pre-registered guests for all four days can attend a pre-event "Preview Night" to give attendees the opportunity to walk the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Netflix
Netflix, Inc. is an American subscription video on-demand over-the-top streaming service and production company based in Los Gatos, California. Founded in 1997 by Reed Hastings and Marc Randolph in Scotts Valley, California, it offers a film and television series library through distribution deals as well as its own productions, known as Netflix Originals. As of September 2022, Netflix had 222 million subscribers worldwide, including 73.3 million in the United States and Canada; 73.0 million in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, 39.6 million in Latin America and 34.8 million in the Asia-Pacific region. It is available worldwide aside from Mainland China, Syria, North Korea, and Russia. Netflix has played a prominent role in independent film distribution, and it is a member of the Motion Picture Association (MPA). Netflix can be accessed via web browsers or via application software installed on smart TVs, set-top boxes connected to televisions, tablet computers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dallas & Robo
''Dallas & Robo'' is an American adult animation comedy streaming television series created by Mike Roberts and starring John Cena and Kat Dennings that premiered on May 30, 2018 on YouTube Premium. The series began airing on Syfy's late-night programming block TZGZ on August 8, 2020. Premise ''Dallas & Robo'' follows "sassy space-trucker Dallas and self-proclaimed warrior-poet robot Robo who must navigate their way around cannibal bikers, rival space truckers, and vending machine burritos as they try to make a buck in the seedy world of interplanetary big-rigging." Cast and characters Main * John Cena as Robo * Kat Dennings as Dallas Moonshiner * Stephen Root as Uncle Danny Moonshiner * Tim Blake Nelson as The Woodsman * Milana Vayntrub as Ellie Moonshiner * Dana Snyder as Fat Paul Recurring * Julie Nathanson as Computer * Giancarlo Esposito as Victor Goldsmith * Clancy Brown as The Stranger * Taran Killam as Bright Eyes * Jane Lynch as Carol * Steve Little as Freddy Calhoun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Astro Boy (film)
''Astro Boy'' is a 2009 computer-animated superhero film loosely based on the manga series of the same name by the Japanese writer and illustrator Osamu Tezuka. Produced by the Hong Kong-based company Imagi Animation Studios, it was directed by David Bowers, who co-wrote the screenplay with Timothy Hyde Harris. The film stars Freddie Highmore, Kristen Bell, Nathan Lane, Eugene Levy, Matt Lucas, Bill Nighy, Samuel L. Jackson, Donald Sutherland, Charlize Theron, and Nicolas Cage. The film was first released in Hong Kong on October 8, 2009, and in the United States on October 23, 2009. It received generally mixed reviews from film critics and was a financial failure, earning worldwide against its budget. As a result of the film's poor performance, Imagi absorbed into Blockade Entertainment on February 5, 2010, and ''Astro Boy'' became the final film produced by the studio. Plot In the 22nd century, Toby Tenma is a teenager who lives in the futuristic city-state of Metro Ci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boog And Elliot's Midnight Bun Run
''Open Season'' is a 2006 American computer-animated adventure comedy film, directed by Jill Culton and Roger Allers from a screenplay by Steve Bencich, Ron J. Friedman, and Nat Mauldin with a screen story by Culton and co-director Anthony Stacchi from an original story by Steve Moore and John B. Carls. The film stars the voices of Martin Lawrence, Ashton Kutcher, Gary Sinise, Debra Messing, Billy Connolly, Jon Favreau, Georgia Engel, Jane Krakowski, Gordon Tootoosis, and Patrick Warburton. Its plot follows Boog, a domesticated grizzly bear who teams up with an amnesiac one-antlered mule deer named Elliot and other woodland animals to defeat human hunters. ''Open Season'' was produced by Sony Pictures Animation as its debut film, and was released to theaters by Columbia Pictures under Sony Pictures Releasing on September 29, 2006. It has also been released in the IMAX 3D format. A video game for the film was released on multiple platforms. Despite receiving mixed reviews fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hubert's Brain
Hubert's Brain, made in 2001, is the first and only computer-generated film made by San Francisco digital media company Wild Brain. The movie is 17 minutes long, took one year and $3,000,000 to produce, and the movie won the 2001 Annie Award for Outstanding Achievement in an Animated Short Subject. It tells the story of a science geek who befriends a talking brain-in-a-jar. ''Hubert's Brain'' was produced by Nina Rappaport, directed by Phil Robinson and Gordon Clark, and written by Brian Narelle and Robin Steele, with music by Michael A. Levine. Credited voices include: Jonathan Harris, Peter Falk, Bruce Campbell, J. D. Daniels, Charles Howerton, and Gerri Lawlor Gerri Lee Lawlor (May 16, 1969 – January 28, 2019) was an American actress, voice actress and homeless advocate. She was the co-creator, along with Marc Gimbel and Stephen Kearin, of the fictitious Simlish language used in ''The Sims''. Law .... References External links * 2001 computer-animated f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KaBlam!
''KaBlam!'' (stylized as ''KaBLaM!'') is an American animated sketch comedy television series that ran on Nickelodeon from 1996 to 2000. The series was created by Robert Mittenthal, Will McRobb, and Chris Viscardi. The show was developed as a fully animated showcase for alternative forms of animation that were more common in indie films and commercials. Each episode thus features a collection of short films in different innovative styles of animation, bridged by the characters Henry and June, who introduce the short animations and have adventures of their own in between. Although SNICK aired many Nicktoons not part of its block, ''KaBlam!'' was the only Nicktoon created for SNICK. The show became TV-Y in 1997 (when the U.S. content ratings were put to use), until later that year when the rating was changed to TV-Y7 due to the U.S. content ratings having accidentally rated the show TV-Y by mistake. The show was a critical and commercial success. The show was last aired as a part ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Meteor Man (film)
''The Meteor Man'' is a 1993 American superhero comedy film written, directed, co-produced and starring Robert Townsend with supporting roles by Marla Gibbs, Eddie Griffin, Robert Guillaume, James Earl Jones, Bill Cosby, and Another Bad Creation. The film also features special appearances by Luther Vandross, Sinbad, Naughty by Nature, Cypress Hill, and Big Daddy Kane. Townsend stars as a mild-mannered schoolteacher, who becomes a superhero after his neighborhood in Washington, D.C. is terrorized by street gangs. It is one of the earliest superhero films to feature an African-American in a starring role. Plot Jefferson Reed ( Robert Townsend) is a mild-mannered school teacher in Washington, D.C. His neighborhood is terrorized by a local gang called ''The Golden Lords'', led by Simon Caine (Roy Fegan) and allied with drug lord Anthony Byers (Frank Gorshin). One night, Jeff steps in to rescue a woman from the gang only to end up running from them himself. Hiding in a garbage dum ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Æon Flux
''Æon Flux'' is an American avant-garde science fiction adventure animated television series that aired on MTV from November 30, 1991, until October 10, 1995, with film, comic book, and video game adaptations following thereafter. It premiered on MTV's '' Liquid Television'' experimental animation show, as a six-part serial of short films, followed in 1992 by five individual short episodes. In 1995, a season of ten half-hour episodes aired as a stand-alone series. ''Æon Flux'' was created by American animator Peter Chung. Each episode's plot has elements of social science fiction, biopunk, allegory, dystopian fiction, spy fiction, psychological drama, postmodern visual, psychedelic imagery and Gnostic symbolism. The live-action movie '' Æon Flux'', loosely based upon the series and starring Charlize Theron, was released in theaters on December 2, 2005, preceded in November of that year by a tie-in video game of the same name based mostly on the movie but containing some ele ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Story Of Holly And Ivy
''The Story of Holly and Ivy'' is a 1958 children's book written by Rumer Godden. On first publication it was illustrated by Adrienne Adams, but later editions were illustrated by Barbara Cooney; the British Puffin edition is illustrated by Sheila Bewley. The story treats the simultaneous events of wishing for love, in Ivy, a young orphaned girl, and Holly, a Christmas doll. The story has been adapted into a stage production by the same name and a 1991 animated Christmas television program entitled ''The Wish That Changed Christmas''. Synopsis St. Agnes orphanage has closed for Christmas, and all the children except Ivy have been dispatched to various homes for the holiday. Miss Shepherd, the head of the home, cannot take Ivy home with her, so she decides to send her to an infants' orphanage, a train ride away. Ivy suggests that she could instead go to her grandmother in Aylesbury, a surprising inspiration, since she has no grandmother. This inspiration is a primary theme of the s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ABC Weekend Special
''ABC Weekend Special'' is a weekly 30-minute American television anthology series for children that aired Saturday mornings on ABC from 1977 to 1997, which featured a wide variety of stories that were both live-action and animated. Similar to both ''ABC Afterschool Special'' and ''The ABC Saturday Superstar Movie'', the ''ABC Weekend Special'' differed in that it was primarily aimed at younger viewers following ABC's Saturday-morning cartoon lineup, whereas the ''ABC Afterschool Special'' was known for its somewhat more serious, and often dramatic, storylines dealing with issues concerning a slightly older teen and pre-teen audience. The main focus of ''ABC Weekend Special'' was to encourage children to read. With the debut of the ''ABC Weekend Special'', some of the early ''ABC Afterschool Special''s that had been targeted towards younger viewers were subsequently repackaged and re-run instead as ''ABC Weekend Special''s. Presenters/Hosts 1979–1981: Michael Young served a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Visual Effects
Visual effects (sometimes abbreviated VFX) is the process by which imagery is created or manipulated outside the context of a live-action shot in filmmaking and video production. The integration of live-action footage and other live-action footage or CGI elements to create realistic imagery is called VFX. VFX involves the integration of live-action footage (which may include in-camera special effects) and generated-imagery (digital or optics, animals or creatures) which look realistic, but would be dangerous, expensive, impractical, time-consuming or impossible to capture on film. Visual effects using computer-generated imagery (CGI) have more recently become accessible to the independent filmmaker with the introduction of affordable and relatively easy-to-use animation and compositing software. History Early developments In 1857, Oscar Rejlander created the world's first "special effects" image by combining different sections of 32 negatives into a single image, making a m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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