Gnosis Moving Pictures and Vinton Entertainment have signed a co-production deal on a slate of CG animated features for Oscar winner Will Vinton to direct.
The slate includes The Quest, a Monty Python-esque comedy set in outer space that Vinton (pictured) co-wrote with Andrew Wiese and Peter Crabbe. The film will feature the voice of John Cleese.
Jack Hightower, based on the Dark Horse graphic novel, is a comedic action adventure about a macho secret agent who shrinks to the size of a hotdog.
Moby & Dick, inspired by the Herman Melville novel and tells of the bond between fathers and sons.
Nicholas, a mix of 3D stop-animation and CGI, is an action–adventure story based on L Frank Baum’s novel, The Life And Adventures Of Santa Claus.
“Our partnership with animation icon Will Vinton is poised to produce engaging and thought-provoking animated content for children and families from one of the best in the business,” said...
The slate includes The Quest, a Monty Python-esque comedy set in outer space that Vinton (pictured) co-wrote with Andrew Wiese and Peter Crabbe. The film will feature the voice of John Cleese.
Jack Hightower, based on the Dark Horse graphic novel, is a comedic action adventure about a macho secret agent who shrinks to the size of a hotdog.
Moby & Dick, inspired by the Herman Melville novel and tells of the bond between fathers and sons.
Nicholas, a mix of 3D stop-animation and CGI, is an action–adventure story based on L Frank Baum’s novel, The Life And Adventures Of Santa Claus.
“Our partnership with animation icon Will Vinton is poised to produce engaging and thought-provoking animated content for children and families from one of the best in the business,” said...
- 7/23/2014
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
CEO Darius A Kamali has announced the formation of Gnosis Moving Pictures, a global studio with a focus on uplifting feature content to promote communal understanding.
The company has one to two projects set to go into production each year in the animated and live action genres and plans to makes aggressive moves into social and mobile gaming with partner company IPFranchise.
Gnosis is producing its first animated feature, The Quest, in creative partnership with Portland, Oregon-based Vinton Entertainment.
Will Vinton will direct from a script he co-wrote with Andrew Weise and Peter Crabbe. The film is an absurdist look at outer space aimed at all ages in the vein of Monty Python and will feature the voice talent of John Cleese.
Through its alliance with IPFranchise in San Francisco, Gnosis will develop original IPs, branded studio titles and digital extensions of its film slate.
IPFranchise, headed by Kandice Cota, is currently...
The company has one to two projects set to go into production each year in the animated and live action genres and plans to makes aggressive moves into social and mobile gaming with partner company IPFranchise.
Gnosis is producing its first animated feature, The Quest, in creative partnership with Portland, Oregon-based Vinton Entertainment.
Will Vinton will direct from a script he co-wrote with Andrew Weise and Peter Crabbe. The film is an absurdist look at outer space aimed at all ages in the vein of Monty Python and will feature the voice talent of John Cleese.
Through its alliance with IPFranchise in San Francisco, Gnosis will develop original IPs, branded studio titles and digital extensions of its film slate.
IPFranchise, headed by Kandice Cota, is currently...
- 8/27/2013
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Film review: 'McHale's Navy'
Taking its cue, but virtually nothing else, from the '60s TV series of the same name, "Mc-Hale's Navy" is one botch of a movie.
An ill-fitting blend of action and comedy, this poorly written and assembled Tom Arnold vehicle goes so wrong so quickly that it's a wonder Universal bothered with the expense of a theatrical launch when a direct-to-video send-off would have made more sense.
Playing the part originally as-signed to Ernest Borgnine (who makes a few brief appearances here), Arnold is Lt. Cmdr. Quinton McHale, a retired Navy man turned entrepreneur who returns to his post in San Ysidro, Calif., when the maniacal East German Maj. Vladakov (Tim Curry) invades a neighboring island.
Back in action, McHale and his motley crew are determined to take Vladakov down while having to answer to the newly assigned Capt. Wallace Binghampton (Dean Stockwell) and the icy Lt. Penelope Carpenter (Debra Messing).
Arnold is miscast as the lovable, devil-may-care McHale, while the rest of the cast all appear to be off doing their own thing (not that they've been given much to work with) -- from Curry's incessant eye-rolling to Stockwell's curious Maxwell Smart impression.
Elsewhere, there's David Alan Grier as groveling Ensign Charles Parker (the part played by Tim Conway on the old series) and Tommy Chong, who generates a few of the picture's rare laughs as a Cuban black marketeer.
Working from a shell of a script, director Bryan Spicer ("Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie") applies a haphazard approach to the comedy and the constant barrage of pyrotechnics that seems to belong in another picture. On the other hand, if the explosions are intended to distract attention from the waterlogged state of this enterprise, they are indeed a most welcome diversion.
McHALE'S NAVY
Universal Pictures
Universal Pictures
and the Bubble Factory present
A Sheinberg production
A Bryan Spicer Film
Director Bryan Spicer
Screenwriter Peter Crabbe
Story Peter Crabbe and Andy Rose
Producers Sid, Bill and Jon Sheinberg
Executive producers Lance Hool, Perry Katz
Director of photography Buzz Feitshans IV
Production designer Gene Rudolf
Editor Russell Denove
Costume designer Michael T. Boyd
Music Dennis McCarthy
Color/stereo
Cast:
Lt. Cmdr. McHale Tom Arnold
Maj. Vladakov Tim Curry
Capt. Binghampton Dean Stockwell
Ensign Charles T. Parker David Alan Grier
Lt. Penelope Carpenter Debra Messing
Happy French Stewart
Virgil Bruce Campbell
Cobra Ernest Borgnine
Armando/Ernesto Tommy Chong
Running time -- 109 minutes
MPAA rating: PG...
An ill-fitting blend of action and comedy, this poorly written and assembled Tom Arnold vehicle goes so wrong so quickly that it's a wonder Universal bothered with the expense of a theatrical launch when a direct-to-video send-off would have made more sense.
Playing the part originally as-signed to Ernest Borgnine (who makes a few brief appearances here), Arnold is Lt. Cmdr. Quinton McHale, a retired Navy man turned entrepreneur who returns to his post in San Ysidro, Calif., when the maniacal East German Maj. Vladakov (Tim Curry) invades a neighboring island.
Back in action, McHale and his motley crew are determined to take Vladakov down while having to answer to the newly assigned Capt. Wallace Binghampton (Dean Stockwell) and the icy Lt. Penelope Carpenter (Debra Messing).
Arnold is miscast as the lovable, devil-may-care McHale, while the rest of the cast all appear to be off doing their own thing (not that they've been given much to work with) -- from Curry's incessant eye-rolling to Stockwell's curious Maxwell Smart impression.
Elsewhere, there's David Alan Grier as groveling Ensign Charles Parker (the part played by Tim Conway on the old series) and Tommy Chong, who generates a few of the picture's rare laughs as a Cuban black marketeer.
Working from a shell of a script, director Bryan Spicer ("Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie") applies a haphazard approach to the comedy and the constant barrage of pyrotechnics that seems to belong in another picture. On the other hand, if the explosions are intended to distract attention from the waterlogged state of this enterprise, they are indeed a most welcome diversion.
McHALE'S NAVY
Universal Pictures
Universal Pictures
and the Bubble Factory present
A Sheinberg production
A Bryan Spicer Film
Director Bryan Spicer
Screenwriter Peter Crabbe
Story Peter Crabbe and Andy Rose
Producers Sid, Bill and Jon Sheinberg
Executive producers Lance Hool, Perry Katz
Director of photography Buzz Feitshans IV
Production designer Gene Rudolf
Editor Russell Denove
Costume designer Michael T. Boyd
Music Dennis McCarthy
Color/stereo
Cast:
Lt. Cmdr. McHale Tom Arnold
Maj. Vladakov Tim Curry
Capt. Binghampton Dean Stockwell
Ensign Charles T. Parker David Alan Grier
Lt. Penelope Carpenter Debra Messing
Happy French Stewart
Virgil Bruce Campbell
Cobra Ernest Borgnine
Armando/Ernesto Tommy Chong
Running time -- 109 minutes
MPAA rating: PG...
- 4/21/1997
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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