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Echoes: How Laika Studios Beat Hollywood Giants

Echoes: How Laika Studios Beat Hollywood Giants

Allow me to take you into a bewitching world of animation styled by Laika. Laika is known for visually satisfying aesthetics with soft and comforting hues that haven’t been witnessed in any other animated films produced by several other studios. I am talking about the award-winning Laika Studios that gave us ParaNorman (2012), Coraline (2009), and Kubo and the Two Strings (2016). Its latest, Wildwood, is breaking records with trailer views reaching up to 85M views, even more than Dune 3 and The Odyssey trailer views combined! Wildwood is an adaptation of a children’s fantasy novel written by Colin Meloy of The Decemberists and illustrated by Carson Ellis, first published in 2011. Located in Portland, Oregon, U.S., Laika’s journey started 21 years ago and has…

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Sound And Vision: Gus van Sant

Sound And Vision: Gus van Sant

In the article series Sound and Vision we take a look at music videos from notable directors. This week we look at selected music videos by Gus van Sant. Gus van Sant is a weird director, but you wouldn’t necessarily know it from watching his feature work. It’s hard to pin-point a main style, as he has evolved through several eras of his work, going from New Queer Cinema-style films like Mala Noche, My Own Private Idaho and Even Cowgirls Get the Blues towards highly commercial melodrama fare like Good Will Hunting, before heading into James Benning-inspired Slow Cinema like Gerry, Elephant and Last Days. Detours like his oddball shot-for-shot Hitchcock-remake Psycho aside, he now is mostly churning out fairly rote (political) dramas which…

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Sam Raimi to Direct Remake of 1978 Horror Flick MAGIC

Sam Raimi to Direct Remake of 1978 Horror Flick MAGIC

The trades reported yesterday that Sam Raimi is set to direct an new adaptation of Magic, William Goldman’s 1976 novel by the same name, for Lionsgate. Magic was first turned into the 1978 psychological horror film that starred Anthony Hopkins.   He played a ventriloquist who finds himself controlled by his malicious puppet at a time when he has a chance to find happiness with a rekindled romance. Deadline   The new project is written by Mark Swift and Damian Shannon, reuniting with Raimi after this year’s Send Help which starred Rachel McAdams and Dylan O’Brien.    “Sam is the dream director for this project — in fact, his coming aboard represents one of the truly great matches of director and material,” said Adam Fogelson, chair of…

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