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Filmmakers Behind Animated Features ‘Spellbound,’ ‘That Christmas,’ ‘The Imaginary,’ ‘Ultraman: Rising’ and ‘Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl’ Share Their ‘Great Creative Journey’
“Spellbound,” “That Christmas,” “The Imaginary,” “Ultraman: Rising” and “Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl” filmmakers talk about the creative process for animated films at the Annecy panel.
Perhaps best known for Oscar-winner “Shrek,” director Vicky Jensen shared a sneak peek at Skydance Animation’s computer-animated “Spellbound,” in which a tenacious young protagonist, Ellian, voiced by Rachel Zegler, must save her family and kingdom after a spell transforms her parents, the rulers of the magical land, into monsters. Based on a trio of children’s books by Richard Curtis (“Four Weddings and a Funeral,” “Love Actually”) “That Christmas” follows a series of entwined tales about family and friends set in a snowy seaside town during the holidays. During the panel, two-time Academy Award nominee and Studio Ponoc founder Yoshiaki Nishimura, the film’s producer who also wrote the screenplay based on the novel of the same name, discussed adapting the book for the screen.
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