Chris Meledandri’s Illumination Entertainment is continuing to ramp up its infrastructure by bringing two crucial hires onto its leadership team. The four-year-old company made several additions earlier this year, and now, Meledandri has announced the hirings of Brooke Breton as a senior production executive and Kit Giordano as Director of Development. Simultaneously, Kristin Wong-Ward has been promoted into the creative executive role. Breton is currently producing the Despicable Me theme park attraction for Illumination, which is slated to open in 2012 at Universal Studios Orlando, and also has a long history as a producer of prominent live-action and animated motion pictures. She spent several years at Lightstorm Entertainment, where she served as co-producer on James Cameron’s Avatar, among other projects. Prior to that Breton co-produced Sky Captain And The World Of Tomorrow for Paramount Pictures, and was also involved in the establishment of DreamWorks Animation where she produced The Road To El Dorado.
- 9/27/2011
- by MIKE FLEMING
- Deadline
The Toy Box Alt' PosterSome recent news on Michael Colburn's The Toy Box has surfaced, with a 2011 release date now certain. The addition of Horrorphiles Entertainment as the production company ensures that his reality based horror film will begin shooting shortly. If you are unfamiliar with the film, The Toy Box covers a serial killer operating in the New Mexico area who is alleged to have killed over sixty people. This statistic is frightening and definitely worthy of coverage. For fans of true stories, the second movie poster for the film is seen left; the teaser trailer is below.
The synopsis for The Toy Box here:
"Based on a True Story : An American serial killer suspected by police to have murdered as many as 60 people; David tortured and presumably killed his victims in a $100,000 homemade torture chamber he called 'The Toy Box'" (The Toy).
Release Date: Second Quarter 2011.
Director: Michael Colburn.
The synopsis for The Toy Box here:
"Based on a True Story : An American serial killer suspected by police to have murdered as many as 60 people; David tortured and presumably killed his victims in a $100,000 homemade torture chamber he called 'The Toy Box'" (The Toy).
Release Date: Second Quarter 2011.
Director: Michael Colburn.
- 7/17/2010
- by 28DaysLaterAnalysis@gmail.com (Michael Ross Allen)
- 28 Days Later Analysis
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