Emmy-winner Robin Budd (“Beetlejuice” animated series, 2002’s “Return to Never Land”) is the director of a new animated short film called “Jelly”. He dives into his latest creation in this Animation Scoop Q&A. —————————– Lights Camera Jackson (a.k.a. Jackson Murphy) began his career as a film critic/entertainment reporter in 2006 at the age of 7. […]
Filmmaker Benh Zeitlin released his indie drama “Beasts of the Southern Wild”, through Fox Searchlight, in Summer 2012. It made some noise at the box office and drew acclaim for Zeitlin’s vision and the breakthrough performance of young Quvenzhane Wallis. Six months later, Wallis became the youngest Best Actress nominee in Oscars history. But that […]
From director Joe Wright (Atonement, Pride & Prejudice) comes Pan, a live-action feature presenting a wholly original adventure about the beginnings of the beloved characters created by J.M. Barrie. Peter (Levi Miller) is a mischievous 12-year-old boy with an irrepressible rebellious streak, but in the bleak London orphanage where he has lived his whole life those qualities […]
We’ve seen a Disney animated classic, a Cathy Rigby musical, an NBC live TV musical and a Johnny Depp drama that all involve the story of Peter Pan. What else can possibly be done with this character we know too well? “Pan” dares to answer that by going the prequel route with the tale of […]