The inaugural Children’s & Family Emmys got underway at the Wilshire Ebell Theatre in Los Angeles for a two-night gala to award the best in kid-friendly programming. JoJo Siwa hosted the Creative Arts ceremony on Night 1 and Jack McBrayer took over hosting duties on Night 2 with the rest of the categories.
On Night 1, it was Maya and the Three, Sneakerella and The Quest that took the most accolades with three trophies each.
Some of the first night’s highlights included a special performance by Xomg Pop!, the all-girl group created by Jess and Siwa. There was also an appearance from Martin P. Robinson, the legendary puppeteer who has been with Sesame Street since 1980, providing voices and puppeteering for Mr. Snuffleupagus, Telly Monster, Slimey the Worm, Martians and more. He also built, designed and performed the Audrey II puppets for Little Shop of Horrors.
Night 2 of the...
On Night 1, it was Maya and the Three, Sneakerella and The Quest that took the most accolades with three trophies each.
Some of the first night’s highlights included a special performance by Xomg Pop!, the all-girl group created by Jess and Siwa. There was also an appearance from Martin P. Robinson, the legendary puppeteer who has been with Sesame Street since 1980, providing voices and puppeteering for Mr. Snuffleupagus, Telly Monster, Slimey the Worm, Martians and more. He also built, designed and performed the Audrey II puppets for Little Shop of Horrors.
Night 2 of the...
- 12/12/2022
- by Armando Tinoco
- Deadline Film + TV
Update: The two Jungle Book movies in the works are shaping up to be quite different. Jon Favreau, the director behind movies like Iron Man, Elf and Zathura, is directing the Disney live-action version. Now, Alejandro Gonzales Inarritu is in talks to direct the other one from Warner Brothers - he's the guy behind really heavy, artsy movies like Babel. His next movie is called Birdman starring Emma Stone and Michael Keaton. It looks like these dueling live-action Jungle Books will be as similar as 2012's Mirror, Mirror and Snow White and the Huntsman.
June 20, 2012 - A second remake of The Jungle Book is now in the works, this one will be in 3D animation. Madagascar screenwriter Billy Frolick will adapt Rudyard Kipling's classic book about a boy adopted by jungle animals. Jun Falkenstein, director of The Tigger Movie, will co-direct with Kevin Johnson, whose credits include Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked...
June 20, 2012 - A second remake of The Jungle Book is now in the works, this one will be in 3D animation. Madagascar screenwriter Billy Frolick will adapt Rudyard Kipling's classic book about a boy adopted by jungle animals. Jun Falkenstein, director of The Tigger Movie, will co-direct with Kevin Johnson, whose credits include Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked...
- 12/5/2013
- by tara@kidspickflicks.com (Tara the Mom)
- kidspickflicks
Blu-ray: The Tigger Movie: Bounce-a-Rrrific Special Edition – A Successful Allegory on Family Values
The Tigger Movie may not have the riche cache of songs you would expect from a Disney movie, but it more than makes up for its lackluster music roster with a heartfelt allegory on the modern family. Now on Blu-ray, The Tigger Movie comes home with some additional “bounce.”
Labeled the “Bounce-a-RRRific” Special Edition, the new Blu-ray contains ten animated shorts, a “Tigger Tale” featurette with the production team and a few family tree stickers for offline family fun.
The Tigger Movie begins with a familiar opening. Tigger (voiced by Jim Cummings) bounces in on his friend Winnie The Pooh and lands squarely on Pooh’s stomach, much to the bear’s chagrin. Tigger is in the mood for some bouncing, but unfortunately none of his friends in the 100-Acre Mile have the time or interest in joining him. Well, nobody except for Roo (voiced by Nikita Hopkins), who looks...
Labeled the “Bounce-a-RRRific” Special Edition, the new Blu-ray contains ten animated shorts, a “Tigger Tale” featurette with the production team and a few family tree stickers for offline family fun.
The Tigger Movie begins with a familiar opening. Tigger (voiced by Jim Cummings) bounces in on his friend Winnie The Pooh and lands squarely on Pooh’s stomach, much to the bear’s chagrin. Tigger is in the mood for some bouncing, but unfortunately none of his friends in the 100-Acre Mile have the time or interest in joining him. Well, nobody except for Roo (voiced by Nikita Hopkins), who looks...
- 8/28/2012
- by Bags Hooper
- BuzzFocus.com
The Jungle Book is to be adapted for cinema once again, this time as a CG animated feature. India-based animation house Dq Entertainment is developing a $$45 million stereoscopic 3D film based on Rudyard Kipling's classic stories. Animation veterans Jun Falkenstein and Kevin Johnson are co-directing the project based on a screenplay by Madagascar writer Billy Frolick, Deadline reports. Jungle Book was famously adapted for cinema by Disney in 1967, though the popular film deviated (more)...
- 6/20/2012
- by By Mark Langshaw
- Digital Spy
Update: A second remake of The Jungle Book is now in the works, this one will be in 3D animation. Madagascar screenwriter Billy Frolick will adapt Rudyard Kipling's classic book about a boy adopted by jungle animals. Jun Falkenstein, director of The Tigger Movie, will co-direct with Kevin Johnson, whose credits include Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked and Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. Dq Entertainment Ireland Limited is launching its feature film business with The Jungle Book, which it intends to put into theaters in 2014. Dq Entertainment plans to put out at least two more movies adapted from classic literature.
April 30, 2012 -- Rudyard Kipling's "The Jungle Book" is getting another go, this time as a live-action film. In the book, orphan Mowgli is brought up by the animals in the jungle who protect him from the murderous tiger Shere Khan. Harry Potter screenwriter Steve Kloves is in talk to write,...
April 30, 2012 -- Rudyard Kipling's "The Jungle Book" is getting another go, this time as a live-action film. In the book, orphan Mowgli is brought up by the animals in the jungle who protect him from the murderous tiger Shere Khan. Harry Potter screenwriter Steve Kloves is in talk to write,...
- 6/20/2012
- by tara@kidspickflicks.com (Tara the Mom)
- kidspickflicks
India-based animation house Dq Entertainment is launching a new theatrical feature division reports Deadline.
The first project being done is a $45 million stereoscopic 3D animated film based on the Rudyard Kipling classic "The Jungle Book".
Previous adaptations of the work include the 1967 animated classic and Stephen Sommers' 1994 live-action version starring Jason Scott Lee and Lena Headey. A new live-action version is also in development at Warner Bros. Pictures.
Jun Falkenstein and Kevin Johnson are co-directing from a script by Billy Frolick. Production is already underway with a 2014 release planned.
The first project being done is a $45 million stereoscopic 3D animated film based on the Rudyard Kipling classic "The Jungle Book".
Previous adaptations of the work include the 1967 animated classic and Stephen Sommers' 1994 live-action version starring Jason Scott Lee and Lena Headey. A new live-action version is also in development at Warner Bros. Pictures.
Jun Falkenstein and Kevin Johnson are co-directing from a script by Billy Frolick. Production is already underway with a 2014 release planned.
- 6/20/2012
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
You know how in prison movies, the new fish are sometimes taught that to establish their place in the pecking order, they should pick a fight with the biggest, baddest inmate to see if they can win some respect? That extremely stretched metaphor is our way of introducing the fact that someone has decided to make a new animated version of The Jungle Book.Of course, Rudyard Kipling’s stories have been adapted several times. It’s just that Disney’s 1967 effort is still considered a classic and is still being watched years later. None of that is putting a new India-based gaming and ‘toon company called Dq Entertainment off the idea, with a plan to craft a new version in shiny 3D.In rather more promising news, however, the company has recruited a former Disney staff member, Tigger Movie writer / director Jun Falkenstein, to direct the film, with Iron...
- 6/19/2012
- EmpireOnline
Jim Whitaker has been promoted to president of production at Universal-based Imagine Films. Whitaker is an 11-year Imagine veteran, having started as a summer intern in 1993. He rose through the ranks as a production assistant, assistant, creative executive, director of development, vp production, senior vp production and exec vp production. He also executive-produced 8 Mile and co-produced Intolerable Cruelty and Nutty Professor II: The Klumps. Whitaker is serving as executive producer on the Peter Berg-helmed pigskin pic Friday Night Lights, which recently wrapped production, and on the Ron Howard-directed pugilist pic Cinderella Man, with Russell Crowe and Renee Zellweger, which is currently filming. Whitaker also is overseeing the production of Curious George, starring Will Ferrell and directed by Jun Falkenstein; Tru Blu, starring Denzel Washington to be directed by Antoine Fuqua; and Flight Plan, starring Jodie Foster, to be directed by Robert Schwentke.
- 5/23/2004
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
After spending the past couple of decades relegated to uninspired TV and direct-to-video adventures, Winnie the Pooh and his Hundred Acre Wood cohorts make a delightful return to the big screen in "The Tigger Movie".
Ranking right up there with the 1968 Oscar-winning featurette, "Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day," this first
feature-length format for the beloved A. A. Milne characters is, in a word, tiggerific, charmingly evoking the best elements of Disney's classic animation.
Unapologetically retro in look and storytelling style -- computer-generated techniques are used sparingly for things like falling snow and leaves -- the picture should nevertheless pack a surprising bounce at the boxoffice.
While it certainly won't be hitting the lofty heights of Disney's animated holiday fare, this production of the studio's television animation division should demonstrate some impressive legs as the "onliest" new all-ages feature on the block, while serving as a worthy addition to the Pooh oeuvre.
When his incessant bouncing begins to get on the nerves of the others, Tigger (voiced by Jim Cummings, who also provides Pooh's foggy tones) decides that perhaps the only creatures who would truly appreciate what Tiggers do best are other Tiggers.
After heeding some wisdom from Owl (Andre Stojka), he embarks on a fruitless quest to find his family tree. In a misguided effort to cheer him up, his old pals, including the dour Eeyore (Peter Cullen), don Tigger costumes and pretend they're his long-lost kin, but when he clues in on the masquerade, he sets off in the middle of a winter storm and resumes his search for the "biggest and most gigantical" family tree around.
Of course, in the end Tigger is made to realize that his true family -- those who love and care for him -- have always been there all along.
Director Jun Falkenstein, who also wrote the inventive, character-rich script, makes an impressive feature debut here after previously getting to know the characters in the 1998 primetime special "A Winnie the Pooh Thanksgiving". Her writing remains very true to the Milne spirit, while art director Toby Bluth has lovingly retained illustrator E. H. Shepard's stylized watercolors.
Their efforts are complemented by a talented group of voice actors, also including "Rugrats" regular Kath Soucie (Kanga), Nikita Hopkins (Roo), Ken Sansom (Rabbit) and John Fiedler (Piglet), who first lent his distinctive voice to the character in "Blustery Day". John Hurt, meanwhile, provides the warm narration.
To further boost the preservation aspect of the entire production, Disney veterans Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman were brought on board to contribute six new tunes, including the appropriately bouncy "The Wonderful Thing About Tiggers" and the showstopper "Round My Family Tree", and, while maybe not up there with their "Jungle Book" and "Mary Poppins" song books, they handily capture the very specific Pooh brand of whimsy.
And who else but that "House at Pooh Corner" guy Kenny Loggins, in collaboration with the Sherman brothers, croons the end title song, "Your Heart Will Lead You Home".
THE TIGGER MOVIE
Buena Vista Pictures Distribution
Walt Disney Pictures
Producer: Cheryl Abood
Director-screenwriter: Jun Falkenstein
Story: Eddie Guzelian
Based on characters by: A.A. Milne
Art director: Toby Bluth
Editor: Robert Fisher Jr.
Score: Harry Gregson-Williams
Songs: Richard M. Sherman & Robert B. Sherman
Color/stereo
Voices:
Tigger, Winnie the Pooh: Jim Cummings
Roo: Nikita Hopkins
Rabbit: Ken Sansom
Piglet: John Fiedler
Eeyore: Peter Cullen
Owl: Andre Stojka
Kanga: Kath Soucie
Christopher Robin: Tom Attenborough
Narrator: John Hurt
Running time -- 76 minutes
MPAA Rating: G...
Ranking right up there with the 1968 Oscar-winning featurette, "Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day," this first
feature-length format for the beloved A. A. Milne characters is, in a word, tiggerific, charmingly evoking the best elements of Disney's classic animation.
Unapologetically retro in look and storytelling style -- computer-generated techniques are used sparingly for things like falling snow and leaves -- the picture should nevertheless pack a surprising bounce at the boxoffice.
While it certainly won't be hitting the lofty heights of Disney's animated holiday fare, this production of the studio's television animation division should demonstrate some impressive legs as the "onliest" new all-ages feature on the block, while serving as a worthy addition to the Pooh oeuvre.
When his incessant bouncing begins to get on the nerves of the others, Tigger (voiced by Jim Cummings, who also provides Pooh's foggy tones) decides that perhaps the only creatures who would truly appreciate what Tiggers do best are other Tiggers.
After heeding some wisdom from Owl (Andre Stojka), he embarks on a fruitless quest to find his family tree. In a misguided effort to cheer him up, his old pals, including the dour Eeyore (Peter Cullen), don Tigger costumes and pretend they're his long-lost kin, but when he clues in on the masquerade, he sets off in the middle of a winter storm and resumes his search for the "biggest and most gigantical" family tree around.
Of course, in the end Tigger is made to realize that his true family -- those who love and care for him -- have always been there all along.
Director Jun Falkenstein, who also wrote the inventive, character-rich script, makes an impressive feature debut here after previously getting to know the characters in the 1998 primetime special "A Winnie the Pooh Thanksgiving". Her writing remains very true to the Milne spirit, while art director Toby Bluth has lovingly retained illustrator E. H. Shepard's stylized watercolors.
Their efforts are complemented by a talented group of voice actors, also including "Rugrats" regular Kath Soucie (Kanga), Nikita Hopkins (Roo), Ken Sansom (Rabbit) and John Fiedler (Piglet), who first lent his distinctive voice to the character in "Blustery Day". John Hurt, meanwhile, provides the warm narration.
To further boost the preservation aspect of the entire production, Disney veterans Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman were brought on board to contribute six new tunes, including the appropriately bouncy "The Wonderful Thing About Tiggers" and the showstopper "Round My Family Tree", and, while maybe not up there with their "Jungle Book" and "Mary Poppins" song books, they handily capture the very specific Pooh brand of whimsy.
And who else but that "House at Pooh Corner" guy Kenny Loggins, in collaboration with the Sherman brothers, croons the end title song, "Your Heart Will Lead You Home".
THE TIGGER MOVIE
Buena Vista Pictures Distribution
Walt Disney Pictures
Producer: Cheryl Abood
Director-screenwriter: Jun Falkenstein
Story: Eddie Guzelian
Based on characters by: A.A. Milne
Art director: Toby Bluth
Editor: Robert Fisher Jr.
Score: Harry Gregson-Williams
Songs: Richard M. Sherman & Robert B. Sherman
Color/stereo
Voices:
Tigger, Winnie the Pooh: Jim Cummings
Roo: Nikita Hopkins
Rabbit: Ken Sansom
Piglet: John Fiedler
Eeyore: Peter Cullen
Owl: Andre Stojka
Kanga: Kath Soucie
Christopher Robin: Tom Attenborough
Narrator: John Hurt
Running time -- 76 minutes
MPAA Rating: G...
- 2/11/2000
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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