Stephen King’s Doctor Sleep.
Warner Bros cast the usually reliable Ewan McGregor and Rebecca Ferguson as the leads in Stephen King’s Doctor Sleep and pitched the film to fans of Stephen King’s 1977 novel and Stanley Kubrick’s 1980 classic The Shining.
So what could go wrong? Almost everything, as Mike Flanagan’s $50 million horror movie adapted from King’s 2013 novel was D.O.A. in Australia, the Us and the rest of the world last weekend.
It was a blah weekend in Oz despite a lively launch for Chinese drama Better Days and solid starts by Bollywood comedy Bala and Pedro Almodóvar’s Cannes Film Festival hit Pain and Glory.
Martin Scorsese’s $150 million Netflix-financed The Irishman opened at about a dozen independent cinemas. There were reports of sold-out sessions at some locations but as exhibitors are obliged to sign NDAs, we will never know the grosses.
The top 20 titles generated $10.2 million,...
Warner Bros cast the usually reliable Ewan McGregor and Rebecca Ferguson as the leads in Stephen King’s Doctor Sleep and pitched the film to fans of Stephen King’s 1977 novel and Stanley Kubrick’s 1980 classic The Shining.
So what could go wrong? Almost everything, as Mike Flanagan’s $50 million horror movie adapted from King’s 2013 novel was D.O.A. in Australia, the Us and the rest of the world last weekend.
It was a blah weekend in Oz despite a lively launch for Chinese drama Better Days and solid starts by Bollywood comedy Bala and Pedro Almodóvar’s Cannes Film Festival hit Pain and Glory.
Martin Scorsese’s $150 million Netflix-financed The Irishman opened at about a dozen independent cinemas. There were reports of sold-out sessions at some locations but as exhibitors are obliged to sign NDAs, we will never know the grosses.
The top 20 titles generated $10.2 million,...
- 11/10/2019
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
Alec Baldwin, James Franco, John Cleese, Anjelica Huston, Heidi Klum and Omar Sy are set to voice characters in Arctic Justice: Thunder Squad, director Dimos Vrysellas’ CGI family pic from Ambi Pictures. The film follows an arctic fox named Swifty who longs to join a team of package delivery huskies working for the Arctic Blast Delivery Service. To prove himself, Swifty commandeers a sled of his own and, by himself, takes a package to an icy fortress owned by an evil…...
- 5/6/2015
- Deadline
It sounds like the sort of spoofy action drama he’d have commissioned as 30 Rock's Jack Donaghy, and Arctic Justice: Thunder Squad is indeed a project for which Alec Baldwin will be providing a voice. He’ll be joined in the recording booth by John Cleese, James Franco, Anjelica Huston, Heidi Klum and Omar Sy.Ambi Pictures is behind the 3D animated indie ‘toon, which has former DreamWorks Animation man Dimos Vrysellas directing from a story by Cal Brunker and Bob Barlen. The plot runs thusly: When the sinister Doc Walrus (Cleese) hatches a secret plot to accelerate global warming and melt the Arctic Circle, a ragtag group of inexperienced heroes including a polar bear, an albatross, two conspiracy-minded otters and a red fox (Baldwin, Franco, Huston, Klum and Sy, with more cast to come) must band together to foil his evil plans and save the arctic. “This will be...
- 5/6/2015
- EmpireOnline
The distribution and sales arm of Andrea Iervolino and Lady Monika Bacardi’s Ambi Group will commence sales in Cannes on the CGI family animation boasting the talents of Alec Baldwin and John Cleese.
Ambi Pictures’ Arctic Justice: Thunder Squad also features the voices of James Franco, Anjelica Huston, Heidi Klum and Omar Sy.
Veteran animator Dimos Vrysellas, who has worked on animation hits such as Shark Tale, The Prince Of Egypt and Spirit: Stallion Of The Cimarron, will direct.
Ambi Group principals Iervolino and produce through their Toronto based Aic Movie Inc, the holding company of a group of Canadian corporations specialising in production and post-production.
Cal Brunker and Bob Barlen co-wrote the screenplay about a scratch team of heroes who must thwart a plot to melt the Arctic Circle.
Ambi Pictures’ Arctic Justice: Thunder Squad also features the voices of James Franco, Anjelica Huston, Heidi Klum and Omar Sy.
Veteran animator Dimos Vrysellas, who has worked on animation hits such as Shark Tale, The Prince Of Egypt and Spirit: Stallion Of The Cimarron, will direct.
Ambi Group principals Iervolino and produce through their Toronto based Aic Movie Inc, the holding company of a group of Canadian corporations specialising in production and post-production.
Cal Brunker and Bob Barlen co-wrote the screenplay about a scratch team of heroes who must thwart a plot to melt the Arctic Circle.
- 5/5/2015
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
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