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UPFRONTS 2013: The Overachievers 
Childhood hero-figures Santa (Alec Baldwin), the Easter Bunny (Hugh Jackman), the Tooth Fairy (Isla Fisher) and the Sandman (Tom Kenny) enlist the assistance of Jack Frost (Chris Pine) as they team to stop the evil spirit Pitch from taking over the world. Based on William Joyce’s Nicholas St. North And The Battle Of The Nightmare, DreamWorks Animation‘s Rise Of The Guardians is directed by Peter Ramsey and opens November 21st:
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Academy Award, here DreamWorks Animation comes…
Why the hell does Santa have a Russian accent?
Why not? The original idea of Santa came from Europe (the original Santa Claus was Dutch).
The character is from Russia in the book.
I don’t know maybe because St Nicholas was Russian. idiot
YES!!!!!!
So excited
Never thought I’d see this day, but… DreamWorks Animation is looking better than Pixar. Heck, it’s not just that Pixar’s recent films have received mixed reviews. Their stories don’t even sound as appealing as the competition these days.
Until Dreamworks hits that $1 billion mark as Pixar did with Toy Story, I think they’ll always be second. Pixar seems a bit more mature in their content selection even though its animated, so thats I why I think both adults and children enjoy it the most. I mean, who the hell thinks of having a grumpy old man fill thousands of balloons, attaches it to his house to float away from it all…its genius storytelling…but then you have Dreamworks whose films are more amusement park fun to me and kicks Pixars ass in that way…Kung Fu Panda 1 & 2 has some of the most jaw-dropping action sequences Ive ever seen…and personally, Over The Hedge is just one of the funniest movies Ive ever seen…it brought out the kid in me.
Pixar and Dreamworks to me is like Superman and Batman…I dont know who to love more because both have different styles that are equally effective
Yikes! This looks awful in spite of what all the DWA shills have posted above. Get real. It’s ugly, it’s confusing and frankly just looks dumb. I think DWA should have won for KFP2 last year, and possibly HTTYD the year before but this is definitely not something to be considered. Yuck…
Amen.
Let’s just say, your taste is horrible.
My kids saw the previews at BRAVE and didn’t know what to make of this, definitely not interested. Santa as an asskicker just seems odd even to me. They also didn’t like Hotel Transylvania preview. The only animated spot that made them interested was “Wreck It Ralph.”
Yeah. Wreck-it Ralph is bound to be awesome. I’m also anticipating it.
Anyway, i wonder how everyone already claims it to be Academy-award worthy. We sure can’t tell yet because there’s still no clue of how the film would work. Let’s wait for it in november.
DreamWorks has been eating Pixars lunch for a while now.
It doesn’t matter HOW good you can animate HAIR. If the story is weak the movie will be WEAK…
And what Dreamworks story do you think has eaten Pixar’s lunch? Madagscar 3? Puss In Boots? Shrek 4? Really, just because you work at DWA doesn’t mean you have to drink the free Kool-Aid.
When Jeffrey stops letting directors like Conrad Vernon, Eric Darnell, Tom McGrath and Chris Miller dictate the tone of his films, then maybe they will start to evolve as a studio. Jennifer Yu did a decent job on Kung Fu Panda 2 and Chris Sanders & Dead DuBlois did a great job on Dragon, but the overiding tone of all their films goes back to that original Shrek crew and frankly I think it’s old, boring and like Jeffrey’s tastes, shallow. Pixar at least tries to dig deeper and find something real in their characters and in their stories. They might not always succeed but the effort is always noticeable and always on the screen (well, except for ‘Cars 2′ — yuck).
“HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON” was one of the best male-driven emotionally satisfying animated pics since “IRON GIANT.” I hate to admit it, but I love that pic even hough it was made by DWA.
SB
Wait, this looks good to you guys? Academy Award-worthy? Sorry, but I don’t get it. I don’t see anything special here at all. The main character looks incredibly bland, the humor feels really forced…I think this will come and go without making much of an impact.
The best animated movies this year look to be the stop-motion ones.
The animation looks great, but I don’t see any of my kids wanting to see this. Looks too heavy and serious to do huge business to me.
Seriously? Now I have to explain to my kids why the Easter Bunny, Jack Frost and Santa are working together – and just who the heck the Sandman is. This is like the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen for kids.
Thought this was a sequel to LEGEND OF THE GUARDIANS. lol.
i thought it was the Owl Movie sequel too!
The permanent trend looks like/is building franchises where there are no underlying rights controlled. This looks like fun and would rather see it than a re-boot of something I feel like I just saw – even if it’s good – Emma Stone and Andrew Garfield notwithstanding both of whom are great.
Huh? You do know it’s based on a book series right? And that the ‘underlying rights’ had to be bought by the studio to make the film? Films like Kung Fu Panda, Brave, Cars, Toy Story, Monsters Inc., Up, Ice Age, Hotel Transylvania, Incredibles, Tangled, etc. are or were all films made from scratch with no underlying rights (except for pitches or spec script sales as their genesis). Meanwhile we have films like The Lorax, or Sherman & Peabody, or Wreck It Ralph to name a few that have underlying IP rights (book, TV show, video game), as their basis. So the ‘trend’ you’re suggesting isn’t so much a trend as a normal business practice except when it’s not.
Basically it sounds like you don’t have a clue about what you’re writing.
When will DWA create more complicated facial animation? Have they ever had a character model that had actual detail in the face, rather than smooth-like-plastic features?
Their method means less modeling, animation and rendering time, thus…they can pump them out quicker AND they will appeal mainly to the broadest (re: kids) audience as possible.
Just one reason why they are inferior to Pixar, Image Movers and the Universal animation unit that made the fantastic Despicable Me.
That looks incredibly bad. Juvenile beyond belief, and ugly as all f**k. What ever happened to good family films? Man oh man this look like a major bomb.
Tooner don’t you make my point for me with that list? My point – granted badly written – is that : isn’t it a matter of time before that ethos in children’s entertainment can conceivably subvert the franchise/superhero genre (movies that adults go to) which currently dominates everything? Pitches, development, spec scripts are not “underlying rights” as they originate with producers and studios. You’re right though – this particular movie is a bad example because it’s an underlying property (like “Shrek;” or a comic book series, etc.,) originated in another medium, which had to be optioned or partnered. (I am totally unfamiliar with the underlying material by the way.) But nobody owns the rights to the Tooth Fairy – giving the author of the originating book (series?) the carte blanche ability to use (him/her? I have no idea) as a character. I guess what I’m saying is : if you gotta re-make Spider-man after only about ten years or so, in addition to expensive partners, maybe the pickings for such worldwide massive hits…is getting a little thin? From what I remember the top ten from last year was all of this family/children/adult franchise/comic book/animation hybrid stuff designed to cash out globally the first weekend as self-fulfilling prophecy box office, a designed ka-ching tsunami that these days starts abroad…which is sort of depressing. That fact though (you can’t keep re-making Spider-man or Superman to avoid rolling the dice on a “known” quantity like “Jonah Hex”) may be good for screenwriters but probably only in the long run.
Congrats Peter, looks great. Wishing you the best…
I liked it better when it was called THE STUFF OF LEGEND. That is in development as well at Mandeville/Disney… and it’a better, darker story. Think Tim Burton’s “Alice in Wonderland” meets “Toy Story”.
More creepy character design–particularly the easter bunny. He looks scary. A creaky idea. Wait, what’s the idea? And most problematic of all, not a single joke in the trailer. But then again Mad 3 was a hit and that looked terrible.