Exclusive: Canadian animation firm Tangent, whose project Next Gen was snapped up by Netflix for big money in Cannes, is teaming up with sales firm Ddi and Eum Entertainment to launch family film Jill & Evan at the Afm this week.
Pic follows twin ten year-old adventurers Jill and Evan who, after their famous archaeologist Dad goes missing in search of the mysterious Crown of Loxocronos – a mythical artifact that allows the wearer to speak to animals – decide to pick up the trail hoping to find out what happened. In the process, they discover a plot by poachers who are also after the Crown. The project is currently in pre-production at Tangent’s studios in Toronto, Canada.
Screenplay comes from Michael Schwartz and Peter Lepeniotis (The Nut Job) and is based on an original script by Lorne Cameron (Over The Hedge) with Lepeniotis also set to direct.
Producers are Ken Zorniak,...
Pic follows twin ten year-old adventurers Jill and Evan who, after their famous archaeologist Dad goes missing in search of the mysterious Crown of Loxocronos – a mythical artifact that allows the wearer to speak to animals – decide to pick up the trail hoping to find out what happened. In the process, they discover a plot by poachers who are also after the Crown. The project is currently in pre-production at Tangent’s studios in Toronto, Canada.
Screenplay comes from Michael Schwartz and Peter Lepeniotis (The Nut Job) and is based on an original script by Lorne Cameron (Over The Hedge) with Lepeniotis also set to direct.
Producers are Ken Zorniak,...
- 11/1/2018
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: After making a splash in Cannes with animation Next Gen, which was snapped up by Netflix in a big-dollar deal, Canadian firm Tangent Animation is teaming up with Sc Films to produce family pic War Of Their Worlds, which the latter will launch sales on at the Afm.
Described as a classic cat and mouse story of sworn enemies, the film will follow Nipsy the mouse and her family who have a happy life in an abandoned house that just won’t sell. That is until a ruthless property developer sees potential in their run-down space and sends in two eager cats to chase the mice out of their home. Cast has yet to be set.
The animation is the first developed from Sc Films’ original intellectual property. Jeff Bell, Ken Zorniak and Phyllis Laing of Tangent Animation will co-produce and handle the animation at their emerging Canadian studio,...
Described as a classic cat and mouse story of sworn enemies, the film will follow Nipsy the mouse and her family who have a happy life in an abandoned house that just won’t sell. That is until a ruthless property developer sees potential in their run-down space and sends in two eager cats to chase the mice out of their home. Cast has yet to be set.
The animation is the first developed from Sc Films’ original intellectual property. Jeff Bell, Ken Zorniak and Phyllis Laing of Tangent Animation will co-produce and handle the animation at their emerging Canadian studio,...
- 10/25/2018
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
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