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| Academy's animation branch disqualifies 'The Smurfs' Posted: 16 Dec 2011 07:23 PM PST LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Sorry, ''Smurfs.'' No Oscar for you this year. When the Academy announced on Nov. 4 that 18 animated features had been submitted for consideration in the Best Animated Feature category, several of the films had not officially qualified for the award. And while the Short Films and Feature Animation Branch eventually approved the three motion-capture movies under review (''The Adventures of Tintin,'' ''Mars Needs Moms'' and ''Happy Feet Two''), and okayed the live action/animation hybrid ''Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked,'' it turned out that they did not approve ''The Smurfs.'' AMPAS rules governing hybrid films say that ''a significant number of the major characters must be animated, and animation must figure in no less than 75 percent of the picture's running time.'' The Academy has not made any announcement - but according to an official in the branch, ''The Smurfs'' did not meet the requirements and is the one film on the original list of 18 to be disqualified. c Still, the 17 films that did make the cut are more than enough to guarantee that the category can have a full slate of five nominees, rather than the four it would have if the field fell below 16. So while the Smurfs are going down, at least they didn't take anybody with them. Full content generated by Get Full RSS. |
| Jones works his magic on made-in-Malaysia Mantera Posted: 16 Dec 2011 06:10 PM PST IPOH: Film editor Sherwood Jones, known for his creative touch in flicks like Hellraiser III, Warlock: The Armageddon and A Kid in King Arthur's Court is now working on a local movie that will be released early next year. Jones said the locally-produced film Mantera, an acronym for "Man Transformable Exo-Robotic Armor", would be released in two versions. "There will be a local version and another for international screening," he told reporters after sharing his film editing expertise with students and industry players at the Perak Techno Trade Centre here. Jones said he was currently working on the international version of Mantera. "I need to look at the movie from a Northern American perspective," he said, adding that the film was tailored according to the international audience. "There will be some difference between the local and the international version," he added. Spacetoon Media Hub Sdn Bhd chief executive officer Sharifah Hendon Al Yahya said details of the film was currently kept under wraps and declined to reveal more. "All we can say that it is a locally-animated science fiction film. "We want it to be a surprise when it is released next year," she said, adding that production of the film started two years ago. She said the film was supposed to be shown earlier but the production team experienced some technical delays. "The local version is 99% completed and the international version will be completed in a month. "The international version will be released after the local one," she said, adding that the film editing for the local version was done in Kuala Lumpur while the international version was done at its hub in Jelapang. Full content generated by Get Full RSS. |
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