Annecy: UTA Independent Group to Handle Animortal’s ‘Chuck Steel’ Rights for North America
UTA Independent Film Group is handling North American sales to Animortal Studios’ “Chuck Steel: Night of the Trampires,” a stop-motion action-horror-comedy movie directed by Mike Mort.
World premiering June 12 in Annecy’s Official Selection, “Chuck Steel” pays tribute to the look and feel of 1980s’ live-action movies.
Set in 1986, the film follows a cop-on-the-edge who doesn’t play by the rules and finds his work cut out for him when the L.A. Governor reduces the licensing hours for clubs and bars, triggering a sudden spate of high profile assaults in the city.
“Chuck Steel” marks the first feature project entirely developed and produced at Animortal’s stop-motion toon studio and VFX facility in South Wales’ Bridgend, which has also hosted some of the sets for Wes Anderson’s Berlinale winner “Isle of Dogs.”
British thesps Jennifer Saunders (“Absolutely Fabulous”) and Paul Whitehouse (“Ruddy Hell! It’s Harry and Paul...
World premiering June 12 in Annecy’s Official Selection, “Chuck Steel” pays tribute to the look and feel of 1980s’ live-action movies.
Set in 1986, the film follows a cop-on-the-edge who doesn’t play by the rules and finds his work cut out for him when the L.A. Governor reduces the licensing hours for clubs and bars, triggering a sudden spate of high profile assaults in the city.
“Chuck Steel” marks the first feature project entirely developed and produced at Animortal’s stop-motion toon studio and VFX facility in South Wales’ Bridgend, which has also hosted some of the sets for Wes Anderson’s Berlinale winner “Isle of Dogs.”
British thesps Jennifer Saunders (“Absolutely Fabulous”) and Paul Whitehouse (“Ruddy Hell! It’s Harry and Paul...
- 6/13/2018
- by Emiliano De Pablos
- Variety Film + TV
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