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Relativity & Reel FX Move ‘Turkeys’ Earlier

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Friday February 22, 2013 @ 3:31pm PSTTags: Reel FX, Relativity Media, Turkeys

Relativity Media and Reel FX have moved the release date for the animated comedy Turkeys just over a year earlier to November 1, 2013 from November 14, 2014. Turkeys for the moment shares its new date with Lionsgate-Summit’s Ender’s Game based on the classic sci-fi novel and CBS Films’ Last Vegas. Directed by Jimmy Hayward, Turkeys is voiced by Owen Wilson, Woody Harrelson, Amy Poehler, Dan Fogler, Lesley Nicol, George Takei, Colm Meaney, and Keith David. The screenplay was written by David I. Stern and John Strauss, with a rewrite by Craig Mazin.

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Shane Acker To Helm CG Animated ‘Beasts Of Burden’ Adaptation

By JEN YAMATO | Wednesday February 20, 2013 @ 10:23am PSTTags: Beasts Of Burden, Reel FX, Shane Acker

Beasts Of Burden MovieOscar-nominated Shane Acker (9) will direct Reel FX‘s currently untitled CG animation, based on the Dark Horse Comics series by Evan Dorkin and Jill Thompson. Darren Lemke (Turbo, Shrek Forever … Read More »

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Lifeline After Bankruptcy: Ex-Rhythm & Hues Artists Recruited By VFX House

By JEN YAMATO | Monday February 11, 2013 @ 9:23pm PSTTags: Reel FX, Rhythm & Hues

Reel FX Aron WarnerRhythm & Hues BankruptcyNothing sucks worse in Hollywood than being out of work. Even worse when you just won a BAFTA Award and an … Read More »

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‘Shrek’ Producer Aron Warner Named President Of Animation At Reel FX

By JEN YAMATO | Thursday January 31, 2013 @ 2:21pm PSTTags: Andrew Adamson, Reel FX

Reel FX Aron WarnerEXCLUSIVE: Oscar-winning Shrek, Shrek 2, and Shrek The Third producer Aron Warner will head a growing slate of original animated features as newly anointed President of Animation at Reel FX. Warner first segued into animation in 1998 as a producer on Antz after overseeing films like Independence Day, True Lies, and Titanic as VP Production at Fox. He’ll hit the ground running as the design, VFX, animation, and live-action studio aims to ramp up its original animation slate, which includes a lineup of features already in the works.
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Brad Peyton To Write, Direct ‘Monument 14′ For Reel FX And Strange Weather

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday December 12, 2012 @ 3:49pm PSTTags: Big Deals Film, Reel FX
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EXCLUSIVE: Reel FX and Andrew Adamson’s Strange Weather have acquired screen rights to Monument 14, the first installment of a young adult novel trilogy by Emmy Laybourne that Brad Peyton will adapt to direct. Reel FX, which has a partnership with Strange Weather, will produce alongside Adamson and Aron Warner, with Jeff Fierson exec producing and overseeing.

The first novel is an unlikely jumping off point for a post-apocalyptic young adult trilogy. It’s best described as The Breakfast Club set after the apocalypse. A group of teens are trapped together in a chain superstore and face the prospect of life, death and love and hate while the world as they know it ends right outside. That book was published in June, and the followup, Monument 14: Sky On Fire, will be published next June by the Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group imprint Feiwell & Friends. Read More »

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Relativity & Reel FX Team Up For Animated ‘Turkeys’

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Wednesday October 24, 2012 @ 5:49pm PDTTags: Reel FX, Relativity Media, Turkeys

Relativity Media and Reel FX will jointly finance and produce the animated comedy for a 2014 release. Turkeys features two birds from opposite sides of the tracks that join forces and travel through time to get their species … Read More »

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