Director Gary Rydstrom has a lengthy career in Hollywood, most famously as a sound designer at Lucasfilm and Skywalker Sound, working on films ranging from Saving Private Ryan to Wreck-It Ralph. Strange Magic represents his debut as a feature film director.
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For actor Elijah Kelley, playing an animated character was a new experience. “I’ve never done a voiceover, like, before in my life,” he says, explaining that his character, Sunny the Elf, was physically demanding. “I thought that it was gonna be so easy; I thought it was gonna be a piece of cake, but I would go in there and guarantee you, I would leave lightheaded and sweaty.”
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Strange Magic is a musical fairy tale; Marianne (Evan Rachel Wood) is a fairy princess who is engaged to be married to Roland, a preening, arrogant, self-absorbed creep of a knight. When Marianne discovers that he’s not particularly interested in giving up his other girlfriend, she breaks it off and gives up on love.
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Strange Magic, the new animated film from Lucasfilm and Touchstone, carries the credit “story by George Lucas.” Following a screening at Skywalker Ranch, Lucas fielded questions from a group of 24 bloggers.
Continue ReadingGeekDad Jim MacQuarrie heads over to Skywalker Ranch.
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After Star Wars became a box office giant, George Lucas decided he wanted to make movies outside the studio system. He found a perfect spot on the coincidentally-named Lucas Valley Road, 40 minutes north of San Francisco, and set about creating Skywalker Ranch.
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I have been invited to represent GeekDad on a press junket to meet the makers of some upcoming films from two branches of the Disney family of studios. On Monday, January 12, I and another couple dozen bloggers will pay a visit to Pixar for a reception and presentation about Inside Out, which opens June […]
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