"The Tiger's Apprentice" is a new animated fantasy feature, based on the 2003 novel by Laurence Yep, directed by Raman Hui, Paul Watling and Yong Duk Jhun, starring the voices of Henry Golding, Lucy Liu, Brandon Soo Hoo, Bowen Yang, Jo Koy, Sherry Cola, Leah Lewis, Sandra Oh and Michelle Yeoh, streaming February 2, 2024 on Paramount +:
"...the story follows young 'Tom' as he becomes the magical apprentice of the tiger 'Mr. Hu'.
"Together with a band of mythological misfits, their job is to protect the ancient 'phoenix' from 'Vatten' and the 'Clan of Nine'...
"...who wish to use its powers for evil, instead of kindness, loyalty, duty, and bravery..."
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"...the story follows young 'Tom' as he becomes the magical apprentice of the tiger 'Mr. Hu'.
"Together with a band of mythological misfits, their job is to protect the ancient 'phoenix' from 'Vatten' and the 'Clan of Nine'...
"...who wish to use its powers for evil, instead of kindness, loyalty, duty, and bravery..."
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- 2/1/2024
- by Unknown
- SneakPeek
"The Tiger's Apprentice" is a new animated fantasy feature, based on the 2003 novel by Laurence Yep, directed by Raman Hui, Paul Watling and Yong Duk Jhun, starring the voices of Henry Golding, Lucy Liu, Brandon Soo Hoo, Bowen Yang, Jo Koy, Sherry Cola, Leah Lewis, Sandra Oh and Michelle Yeoh, streaming February 2, 2024 on Paramount +:
"...the story follows the boy 'Tom' as he becomes the magical apprentice of the tiger 'Mr. Hu'.
"Together with a band of mythological misfits, their job is to protect the ancient 'phoenix' from 'Vatten' and the 'Clan of Nine'...
"...who wish to use its powers for evil, instead of kindness, loyalty, duty, and bravery..."
Click the images to enlarge...
"...the story follows the boy 'Tom' as he becomes the magical apprentice of the tiger 'Mr. Hu'.
"Together with a band of mythological misfits, their job is to protect the ancient 'phoenix' from 'Vatten' and the 'Clan of Nine'...
"...who wish to use its powers for evil, instead of kindness, loyalty, duty, and bravery..."
Click the images to enlarge...
- 1/17/2024
- by Unknown
- SneakPeek
With the film industry as a whole taking a significant hit during the early years of the pandemic, one progressive change that has been stifled for the past couple years is studios hiring more directors from underrepresented backgrounds.
There are all sorts of data points repeated over the years by annual studies, like USC’s Annenberg Inclusion Initiative, which has repeatedly revealed how increasing diversity within filmmaking helps, not harms, business prospects. For example, the latest USC study shared that films by underrepresented directors earned marginally higher Metacritic scores than movies from white directors, and yet 2022 had a 6.6 percent decline in the number of the directors from underrepresented racial/ethnic groups who helmed the top 100 films of the year.
Though the upcoming slate of studio films does not seem like it will move the needle even back to 2021 numbers, where the percentage of directors from underrepresented racial/ethnic groups reached a 15-year high,...
There are all sorts of data points repeated over the years by annual studies, like USC’s Annenberg Inclusion Initiative, which has repeatedly revealed how increasing diversity within filmmaking helps, not harms, business prospects. For example, the latest USC study shared that films by underrepresented directors earned marginally higher Metacritic scores than movies from white directors, and yet 2022 had a 6.6 percent decline in the number of the directors from underrepresented racial/ethnic groups who helmed the top 100 films of the year.
Though the upcoming slate of studio films does not seem like it will move the needle even back to 2021 numbers, where the percentage of directors from underrepresented racial/ethnic groups reached a 15-year high,...
- 1/4/2023
- by Marcus Jones
- Indiewire
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The upcoming A Quiet Place prequel is arriving a bit later than expected.
Paramount Pictures announced a number of dating decisions Tuesday, including that A Quiet Place: Day One, previously known as Untitled A Quiet Place before the new title was shared at this year’s CinemaCon, will go wide March 8, 2024. It had been scheduled to hit theaters on Sept. 22, 2023, and follows A Quiet Place Part II’s release in May 2021 after being delayed amid the Covid-19 pandemic.
The new film from director Michael Sarnoski (Pig) is produced by Michael Bay, Andrew Form, Brad Fuller and John Krasinski, who directed the first two titles in the horror franchise. The movie, which is based off an original idea from Krasinski, is produced by Platinum Dunes and Sunday Night Productions, with Allyson Seeger as executive producer.
Also announced was If — directed by Krasinski and starring...
The upcoming A Quiet Place prequel is arriving a bit later than expected.
Paramount Pictures announced a number of dating decisions Tuesday, including that A Quiet Place: Day One, previously known as Untitled A Quiet Place before the new title was shared at this year’s CinemaCon, will go wide March 8, 2024. It had been scheduled to hit theaters on Sept. 22, 2023, and follows A Quiet Place Part II’s release in May 2021 after being delayed amid the Covid-19 pandemic.
The new film from director Michael Sarnoski (Pig) is produced by Michael Bay, Andrew Form, Brad Fuller and John Krasinski, who directed the first two titles in the horror franchise. The movie, which is based off an original idea from Krasinski, is produced by Platinum Dunes and Sunday Night Productions, with Allyson Seeger as executive producer.
Also announced was If — directed by Krasinski and starring...
- 7/20/2022
- by Ryan Gajewski
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Paramount Sets ‘A Quiet Place: Day One’ and John Krasinski-Directed Ryan Reynolds Film ‘If’ for 2024
Paramount has announced a few updates to its release calendar, delaying upcoming projects like its “A Quiet Place” entry and the John Krasinski-directed “If” by a few months.
“A Quiet Place: Day One,” which had previously been untitled, will hit theaters on March 8, 2024. The Michael Sarnoski-directed horror film had been set to bow on Sept. 22, 2023.
Michael Bay, Andrew Form, Brad Fuller and John Krasinski serve as producers on the film, while Allyson Seeger serves as an executive producer. Plot details on the sequel remain under wraps, though the newly announced title suggests a prequel of sorts to the post-apocalyptic series.
The studio’s upcoming film “If,” directed by John Krasinski and starring Ryan Reynolds. The production has set a new release date of May 24, 2024, after previously being set for Nov. 17, 2023. Krasinski also stars in the film, while the supporting cast includes names such as Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Cailey Fleming,...
“A Quiet Place: Day One,” which had previously been untitled, will hit theaters on March 8, 2024. The Michael Sarnoski-directed horror film had been set to bow on Sept. 22, 2023.
Michael Bay, Andrew Form, Brad Fuller and John Krasinski serve as producers on the film, while Allyson Seeger serves as an executive producer. Plot details on the sequel remain under wraps, though the newly announced title suggests a prequel of sorts to the post-apocalyptic series.
The studio’s upcoming film “If,” directed by John Krasinski and starring Ryan Reynolds. The production has set a new release date of May 24, 2024, after previously being set for Nov. 17, 2023. Krasinski also stars in the film, while the supporting cast includes names such as Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Cailey Fleming,...
- 7/20/2022
- by J. Kim Murphy
- Variety Film + TV
What makes the animated “Vivo” refreshingly different is its use of actual locations — Havana, the Everglades, and Miami — to chart the colorful road trip of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s singer-musician kinkajou title character. He’s on a mission to deliver a secret love song to retiring Miami legend, Marta (Gloria Estefan).
Thus, production designer Carlos Zaragoza (“Pan’s Labyrinth”) and visual consultant Roger Deakins (the Oscar-winning cinematographer of “1917” and “Blade Runner 2049”) joined together with the rest of the Sony Imageworks team in constructing a heightened real world with contrasting color, light, and shadow to convey Vivo’s emotional arc. He goes from the grief of losing his best friend and musical partner, Andrés (Juan de Marcos), to the joy of fulfilling a last request.
“These were places I’d never been and so I was looking at Havana, the Everglades, and Miami with the same fresh eyes,” said Zaragoza, who...
Thus, production designer Carlos Zaragoza (“Pan’s Labyrinth”) and visual consultant Roger Deakins (the Oscar-winning cinematographer of “1917” and “Blade Runner 2049”) joined together with the rest of the Sony Imageworks team in constructing a heightened real world with contrasting color, light, and shadow to convey Vivo’s emotional arc. He goes from the grief of losing his best friend and musical partner, Andrés (Juan de Marcos), to the joy of fulfilling a last request.
“These were places I’d never been and so I was looking at Havana, the Everglades, and Miami with the same fresh eyes,” said Zaragoza, who...
- 8/12/2021
- by Bill Desowitz
- Indiewire
Cannes, Out of Competition
Martial arts movies have always had a certain cartoonish element, so DreamWorks' martial-arts cartoon "Kung Fu Panda" makes perfect sense. Taking full advantage of Cinemascope's wide screen to splash quicker-than-the-eye action across striking Chinese landscapes, animators led by directors John Stevenson and Mark Osborne deliver a movie that is as funny as it is frantic. Though aimed primarily at youngsters, "KF Panda" embraces humor that plays well across age groups and nationalities. Certainly the sustained applause at its Palais debut here in Cannes bodes well for international boxoffice success.
The stroke of genius is, of course, the film's hero -- the big, lovable bear that is the Chinese panda. Sweet looking, perhaps a bit clumsy, seemingly unflappable, what could be an odder hero for a kung fu movie? Transforming a panda named Po -- voiced by big, lovable Jack Black -- into a kung fu fighter to save a threatened village in ancient times is essentially the entire movie.
He does not start with a lot of promise, only a boundless enthusiasm for the discipline and a seeming inability to perform its simplest tasks. His dad, a goose named Mr. Ping (James Hong) -- that discrepancy is never clarified -- runs a noodle shop and expects his son to follow in his web steps.
But Po longs to train under Master Shifu (Dustin Hoffman) and alongside his heroes, the Furious Five: Tigress (Angelina Jolie), Viper (Lucy Liu), Mantis (Seth Rogen), Crane (David Cross) and Monkey (is that Jackie Chan). He miraculously fulfills this impossible dream when the inventor of kung fu, Oogway the turtle Randall Duk Kim), anoints him the long-prophesied Dragon Warrior.
Comic calamities pile on top of one another until Shifu recognizes Po's true driving force -- his insatiable appetite.
A bun or a cookie snatched from his grasp has Po performing feats of remarkable agility and no little ferocity. He is soon ready to face the villainous Tai Lung (Ian McShane), a snow leopard who descends on the fearful village to exact revenge his own rejection as the Dragon Warrior.
Like most chop-socky movies, "KF Panda" strays not at all from its twin goals of action and comedy. Whatever points the script by Jonathan Aibel & Glenn Berger want to make to children about pursuing goals, it does so quickly and gets back to the fights. A battle along a rope bridge between the Furious Five and Tai Lung and Po's showdown with his adversary dominate the final third of the film after the mostly comic run-up to those battles.
The animation is clean and vivid: Backgrounds and sets are appreciative tributes to Chinese landscape art and architecture; the fighting style of each animal, whether a snake, a tiger or a monkey, is subtly rendered; and the filmmakers have clearly studied the best Asian martial arts films to spark inspiration for those gravity-defying stunts.
Cast: Angelina Jolie, Jack Black, Dustin Hoffman, Jackie Chan, Lucy Liu, Seth Rogen, Ian McShane, David Cross. Directors: John Stevenson, Mark Osborne. Screenwriters: Jonathan Aibel & Glenn Berger. Story by: Ethan Reiff & Cyrus Voris. Producer: Melissa Cobb. Executive producer: Bill Damaschke Director of photography: Yong Duk Jhun. Production designer: Raymond Zibach. Music: Hans Zimmer, John Powell. Editor: C.K. Norness.
production companies: Paramount Pictures, DreamWorks Animation
Rated PG, 90 minutes.
Martial arts movies have always had a certain cartoonish element, so DreamWorks' martial-arts cartoon "Kung Fu Panda" makes perfect sense. Taking full advantage of Cinemascope's wide screen to splash quicker-than-the-eye action across striking Chinese landscapes, animators led by directors John Stevenson and Mark Osborne deliver a movie that is as funny as it is frantic. Though aimed primarily at youngsters, "KF Panda" embraces humor that plays well across age groups and nationalities. Certainly the sustained applause at its Palais debut here in Cannes bodes well for international boxoffice success.
The stroke of genius is, of course, the film's hero -- the big, lovable bear that is the Chinese panda. Sweet looking, perhaps a bit clumsy, seemingly unflappable, what could be an odder hero for a kung fu movie? Transforming a panda named Po -- voiced by big, lovable Jack Black -- into a kung fu fighter to save a threatened village in ancient times is essentially the entire movie.
He does not start with a lot of promise, only a boundless enthusiasm for the discipline and a seeming inability to perform its simplest tasks. His dad, a goose named Mr. Ping (James Hong) -- that discrepancy is never clarified -- runs a noodle shop and expects his son to follow in his web steps.
But Po longs to train under Master Shifu (Dustin Hoffman) and alongside his heroes, the Furious Five: Tigress (Angelina Jolie), Viper (Lucy Liu), Mantis (Seth Rogen), Crane (David Cross) and Monkey (is that Jackie Chan). He miraculously fulfills this impossible dream when the inventor of kung fu, Oogway the turtle Randall Duk Kim), anoints him the long-prophesied Dragon Warrior.
Comic calamities pile on top of one another until Shifu recognizes Po's true driving force -- his insatiable appetite.
A bun or a cookie snatched from his grasp has Po performing feats of remarkable agility and no little ferocity. He is soon ready to face the villainous Tai Lung (Ian McShane), a snow leopard who descends on the fearful village to exact revenge his own rejection as the Dragon Warrior.
Like most chop-socky movies, "KF Panda" strays not at all from its twin goals of action and comedy. Whatever points the script by Jonathan Aibel & Glenn Berger want to make to children about pursuing goals, it does so quickly and gets back to the fights. A battle along a rope bridge between the Furious Five and Tai Lung and Po's showdown with his adversary dominate the final third of the film after the mostly comic run-up to those battles.
The animation is clean and vivid: Backgrounds and sets are appreciative tributes to Chinese landscape art and architecture; the fighting style of each animal, whether a snake, a tiger or a monkey, is subtly rendered; and the filmmakers have clearly studied the best Asian martial arts films to spark inspiration for those gravity-defying stunts.
Cast: Angelina Jolie, Jack Black, Dustin Hoffman, Jackie Chan, Lucy Liu, Seth Rogen, Ian McShane, David Cross. Directors: John Stevenson, Mark Osborne. Screenwriters: Jonathan Aibel & Glenn Berger. Story by: Ethan Reiff & Cyrus Voris. Producer: Melissa Cobb. Executive producer: Bill Damaschke Director of photography: Yong Duk Jhun. Production designer: Raymond Zibach. Music: Hans Zimmer, John Powell. Editor: C.K. Norness.
production companies: Paramount Pictures, DreamWorks Animation
Rated PG, 90 minutes.
- 5/28/2008
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Cannes film review, Out of Competition
Martial arts movies have always had a certain cartoonish element, so DreamWorks' martial-arts cartoon "Kung Fu Panda" makes perfect sense. Taking full advantage of Cinemascope's wide screen to splash quicker-than-the-eye action across striking Chinese landscapes, animators led by directors John Stevenson and Mark Osborne deliver a movie that is as funny as it is frantic. Though aimed primarily at youngsters, "KF Panda" embraces humor that plays well across age groups and nationalities. Certainly the sustained applause at its Palais debut here in Cannes bodes well for international boxoffice success.
The stroke of genius is, of course, the film's hero -- the big, lovable bear that is the Chinese panda. Sweet looking, perhaps a bit clumsy, seemingly unflappable, what could be an odder hero for a kung fu movie? Transforming a panda named Po -- voiced by big, lovable Jack Black -- into a kung fu fighter to save a threatened village in ancient times is essentially the entire movie.
He does not start with a lot of promise, only a boundless enthusiasm for the discipline and a seeming inability to perform its simplest tasks. His dad, a goose named Mr. Ping (James Hong) -- that discrepancy is never clarified -- runs a noodle shop and expects his son to follow in his web steps.
But Po longs to train under Master Shifu (Dustin Hoffman) and alongside his heroes, the Furious Five: Tigress (Angelina Jolie), Viper (Lucy Liu), Mantis (Seth Rogen), Crane (David Cross) and Monkey (is that Jackie Chan). He miraculously fulfills this impossible dream when the inventor of kung fu, Oogway the turtle Randall Duk Kim), anoints him the long-prophesied Dragon Warrior.
Comic calamities pile on top of one another until Shifu recognizes Po's true driving force -- his insatiable appetite.
A bun or a cookie snatched from his grasp has Po performing feats of remarkable agility and no little ferocity. He is soon ready to face the villainous Tai Lung (Ian McShane), a snow leopard who descends on the fearful village to exact revenge his own rejection as the Dragon Warrior.
Like most chop-socky movies, "KF Panda" strays not at all from its twin goals of action and comedy. Whatever points the script by Jonathan Aibel & Glenn Berger want to make to children about pursuing goals, it does so quickly and gets back to the fights. A battle along a rope bridge between the Furious Five and Tai Lung and Po's showdown with his adversary dominate the final third of the film after the mostly comic run-up to those battles.
The animation is clean and vivid: Backgrounds and sets are appreciative tributes to Chinese landscape art and architecture; the fighting style of each animal, whether a snake, a tiger or a monkey, is subtly rendered; and the filmmakers have clearly studied the best Asian martial arts films to spark inspiration for those gravity-defying stunts.
Cast: Angelina Jolie, Jack Black, Dustin Hoffman, Jackie Chan, Lucy Liu, Seth Rogen, Ian McShane, David Cross. Directors: John Stevenson, Mark Osborne. Screenwriters: Jonathan Aibel & Glenn Berger. Story by: Ethan Reiff & Cyrus Voris. Producer: Melissa Cobb. Executive producer: Bill Damaschke Director of photography: Yong Duk Jhun. Production designer: Raymond Zibach. Music: Hans Zimmer, John Powell. Editor: C.K. Norness.
production companies: Paramount Pictures, DreamWorks Animation
Rated PG, 90 minutes.
Martial arts movies have always had a certain cartoonish element, so DreamWorks' martial-arts cartoon "Kung Fu Panda" makes perfect sense. Taking full advantage of Cinemascope's wide screen to splash quicker-than-the-eye action across striking Chinese landscapes, animators led by directors John Stevenson and Mark Osborne deliver a movie that is as funny as it is frantic. Though aimed primarily at youngsters, "KF Panda" embraces humor that plays well across age groups and nationalities. Certainly the sustained applause at its Palais debut here in Cannes bodes well for international boxoffice success.
The stroke of genius is, of course, the film's hero -- the big, lovable bear that is the Chinese panda. Sweet looking, perhaps a bit clumsy, seemingly unflappable, what could be an odder hero for a kung fu movie? Transforming a panda named Po -- voiced by big, lovable Jack Black -- into a kung fu fighter to save a threatened village in ancient times is essentially the entire movie.
He does not start with a lot of promise, only a boundless enthusiasm for the discipline and a seeming inability to perform its simplest tasks. His dad, a goose named Mr. Ping (James Hong) -- that discrepancy is never clarified -- runs a noodle shop and expects his son to follow in his web steps.
But Po longs to train under Master Shifu (Dustin Hoffman) and alongside his heroes, the Furious Five: Tigress (Angelina Jolie), Viper (Lucy Liu), Mantis (Seth Rogen), Crane (David Cross) and Monkey (is that Jackie Chan). He miraculously fulfills this impossible dream when the inventor of kung fu, Oogway the turtle Randall Duk Kim), anoints him the long-prophesied Dragon Warrior.
Comic calamities pile on top of one another until Shifu recognizes Po's true driving force -- his insatiable appetite.
A bun or a cookie snatched from his grasp has Po performing feats of remarkable agility and no little ferocity. He is soon ready to face the villainous Tai Lung (Ian McShane), a snow leopard who descends on the fearful village to exact revenge his own rejection as the Dragon Warrior.
Like most chop-socky movies, "KF Panda" strays not at all from its twin goals of action and comedy. Whatever points the script by Jonathan Aibel & Glenn Berger want to make to children about pursuing goals, it does so quickly and gets back to the fights. A battle along a rope bridge between the Furious Five and Tai Lung and Po's showdown with his adversary dominate the final third of the film after the mostly comic run-up to those battles.
The animation is clean and vivid: Backgrounds and sets are appreciative tributes to Chinese landscape art and architecture; the fighting style of each animal, whether a snake, a tiger or a monkey, is subtly rendered; and the filmmakers have clearly studied the best Asian martial arts films to spark inspiration for those gravity-defying stunts.
Cast: Angelina Jolie, Jack Black, Dustin Hoffman, Jackie Chan, Lucy Liu, Seth Rogen, Ian McShane, David Cross. Directors: John Stevenson, Mark Osborne. Screenwriters: Jonathan Aibel & Glenn Berger. Story by: Ethan Reiff & Cyrus Voris. Producer: Melissa Cobb. Executive producer: Bill Damaschke Director of photography: Yong Duk Jhun. Production designer: Raymond Zibach. Music: Hans Zimmer, John Powell. Editor: C.K. Norness.
production companies: Paramount Pictures, DreamWorks Animation
Rated PG, 90 minutes.
- 5/15/2008
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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