The CW has made a number of orders for the 2021-2022 season, including a pilot order for the live-action “Powerpuff Girls” series.
In total, The CW announced three pilot orders and one straight-to-series pickup, with the latter being a reboot of the USA Network series “The 4400.” The other two pilots are for the DC project “Naomi” from Ava DuVernay and Jill Blankenship and an untitled religious dramedy from Claire Rothrock and Ryann Weir. All of the projects are created by women.
The “Powerpuff Girls” live-action series was first announced as being in development back in August. Based on the Cartoon Network series created by Craig McCracken, the new series sees the pint-sized superheroes as disillusioned twentysomethings who resent having lost their childhood to crime fighting. Will they agree to reunite now that the world needs them more than ever?
The project hails from writers and executive producers Heather Regnier and Diablo Cody,...
In total, The CW announced three pilot orders and one straight-to-series pickup, with the latter being a reboot of the USA Network series “The 4400.” The other two pilots are for the DC project “Naomi” from Ava DuVernay and Jill Blankenship and an untitled religious dramedy from Claire Rothrock and Ryann Weir. All of the projects are created by women.
The “Powerpuff Girls” live-action series was first announced as being in development back in August. Based on the Cartoon Network series created by Craig McCracken, the new series sees the pint-sized superheroes as disillusioned twentysomethings who resent having lost their childhood to crime fighting. Will they agree to reunite now that the world needs them more than ever?
The project hails from writers and executive producers Heather Regnier and Diablo Cody,...
- 2/9/2021
- by Joe Otterson
- Variety Film + TV
“The Powerpuff Girls” could soon fly again. Variety has learned that a live-action version of the classic Cartoon Network series is in development at The CW.
In the updated version of the series, the titular superheroes are now disillusioned twentysomethings who resent having lost their childhood to crime fighting. Will they agree to reunite now that the world needs them more than ever?
The project hails from writers and executive producers Heather Regnier and Diablo Cody. Greg Berlanti, Sarah Schechter, and David Madden will executive produce via Berlanti Productions. Warner Bros. Television will produce.
The original “Powerpuff Girls” was created by Craig McCracken. In that series, Professor Utonium accidentally created the elementary school aged super team of Blossom, Bubbles, and Buttercup by combining sugar, spice, and everything nice with the mysterious Chemical X. The show ran for six seasons and 78 episodes between 1998 and 2005. “The Powerpuff Girls Movie” was released in...
In the updated version of the series, the titular superheroes are now disillusioned twentysomethings who resent having lost their childhood to crime fighting. Will they agree to reunite now that the world needs them more than ever?
The project hails from writers and executive producers Heather Regnier and Diablo Cody. Greg Berlanti, Sarah Schechter, and David Madden will executive produce via Berlanti Productions. Warner Bros. Television will produce.
The original “Powerpuff Girls” was created by Craig McCracken. In that series, Professor Utonium accidentally created the elementary school aged super team of Blossom, Bubbles, and Buttercup by combining sugar, spice, and everything nice with the mysterious Chemical X. The show ran for six seasons and 78 episodes between 1998 and 2005. “The Powerpuff Girls Movie” was released in...
- 8/24/2020
- by Joe Otterson
- Variety Film + TV
‘Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse’ And ‘The Incredibles 2’ Offer Animated Argument For Super-Heroes
It’s hard to think that any superhero film could qualify as a Hollywood rarity these days but Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse is just that. As an animated big-screen adaptation of a comic book superhero the Sony film is on a surprisingly short list.
On Thursday the film’s three directors — Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey and Rodney Rothman –were celebrating their shared nomination in the best animated feature film category for the 76th Golden Globe Awards. The competition in the category includes Brad Bird and his The Incredibles 2 from the Pixar superhero franchise that took its inspiration from comic books but not any of its characters.
The vast majority of superheroes adventures on the big-screen have been live-action films with signature successes imported from comic books, among them Superman (1978), Batman (1989), X-Men (2000), Spider-Man (2002), Iron-Man (2008), The Dark Knight (2008) and The Avengers (2012).
It’s not nearly as easy to rattle off animated adaptations...
On Thursday the film’s three directors — Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey and Rodney Rothman –were celebrating their shared nomination in the best animated feature film category for the 76th Golden Globe Awards. The competition in the category includes Brad Bird and his The Incredibles 2 from the Pixar superhero franchise that took its inspiration from comic books but not any of its characters.
The vast majority of superheroes adventures on the big-screen have been live-action films with signature successes imported from comic books, among them Superman (1978), Batman (1989), X-Men (2000), Spider-Man (2002), Iron-Man (2008), The Dark Knight (2008) and The Avengers (2012).
It’s not nearly as easy to rattle off animated adaptations...
- 12/7/2018
- by Geoff Boucher
- Deadline Film + TV
Author: Zehra Phelan
The Cartoon Network’s Teen Titans Go! are heading to the big screen with their first animated feature and Warner Bros have released the first teaser trailer and poster.
The first theatrical film with a wide release to be based on a Cartoon Network series since The Powerpuff Girls Movie (2002), sees Aaron Horvath and Peter Rida Michail direct with the TV show cast returning to voice the characters including Greg Cipes as Beast Boy, Scott Menville as Robin, Khary Payton as Cyborg, Tara Strong as Raven, and Hynden Walch as Starfire as well as Will Arnett and Kristen Bell also joining the cast.
The film is released July 27th.
Teen Titans Go! to the Movies Trailer
Synopsis
It seems to the Teens that all the major superheroes out there are starring in their own movies—everyone but the Teen Titans, that is! But de facto leader Robin...
The Cartoon Network’s Teen Titans Go! are heading to the big screen with their first animated feature and Warner Bros have released the first teaser trailer and poster.
The first theatrical film with a wide release to be based on a Cartoon Network series since The Powerpuff Girls Movie (2002), sees Aaron Horvath and Peter Rida Michail direct with the TV show cast returning to voice the characters including Greg Cipes as Beast Boy, Scott Menville as Robin, Khary Payton as Cyborg, Tara Strong as Raven, and Hynden Walch as Starfire as well as Will Arnett and Kristen Bell also joining the cast.
The film is released July 27th.
Teen Titans Go! to the Movies Trailer
Synopsis
It seems to the Teens that all the major superheroes out there are starring in their own movies—everyone but the Teen Titans, that is! But de facto leader Robin...
- 1/11/2018
- by Zehra Phelan
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
With the upcoming release of Sony Pictures’ Hotel Transylvania it’s a perfect time to look at some behind-the-scenes surprises that lie behind this colourful series.
It’s Co-written by the man behind a famously offensive canine
Fans of late-night comedy have certainly heard the voice of the film’s co-writer Robert Smigel as he puppeteered the delightfully inappropriate Triumph the Insult Comic dog. A long time writer for Saturday Night Live, smigel’s “TV Funhouse” animated interstitials were for many years a highlight from the show. He joins fellow SNL alum Adam Sandler in the decidedly more kid friendly story.
The film is directed by one of the talents behind The Powerpuff Girls Movie
Along with credits that run from Dexter’s Labrotory to the Star Wars: Clone Wars show, one of Genndy Tatakovsky’s first big credits was as animation director on The Powerpuff Girls Movie, the cult...
It’s Co-written by the man behind a famously offensive canine
Fans of late-night comedy have certainly heard the voice of the film’s co-writer Robert Smigel as he puppeteered the delightfully inappropriate Triumph the Insult Comic dog. A long time writer for Saturday Night Live, smigel’s “TV Funhouse” animated interstitials were for many years a highlight from the show. He joins fellow SNL alum Adam Sandler in the decidedly more kid friendly story.
The film is directed by one of the talents behind The Powerpuff Girls Movie
Along with credits that run from Dexter’s Labrotory to the Star Wars: Clone Wars show, one of Genndy Tatakovsky’s first big credits was as animation director on The Powerpuff Girls Movie, the cult...
- 9/22/2015
- by Jason Gorber
- Cineplex
The Powerpuff Girls will return to Cartoon Network in 2016 with brand new episodes featuring Bubbles, Buttercup and Blossom once again kicking butts, Variety reports.
61 Reasons to Love 2014
The hit cartoon, which initially debuted in 1998, followed the adventures of the three kindergarten superheroes who battled crime with "sugar, spice and everything nice," and continually foiled their arch-nemesis, a demented monkey named Mojo Jojo. The show wrapped up in 2005 after 78 episodes and a feature film, The Powerpuff Girls Movie, which hit theaters in 2002.
"The original Powerpuff Girls was a franchise phenomenon for Cartoon Network,...
61 Reasons to Love 2014
The hit cartoon, which initially debuted in 1998, followed the adventures of the three kindergarten superheroes who battled crime with "sugar, spice and everything nice," and continually foiled their arch-nemesis, a demented monkey named Mojo Jojo. The show wrapped up in 2005 after 78 episodes and a feature film, The Powerpuff Girls Movie, which hit theaters in 2002.
"The original Powerpuff Girls was a franchise phenomenon for Cartoon Network,...
- 6/17/2014
- Rollingstone.com
Considering its massive box office take and favorable reviews, there's no doubt that there are plenty of The Avengers fans out there — to say nothing of the comic book property's legion of fans, some of whom have been reading the comic since its inception in the 1960s. In fact, the movie's popularity has inspired fans, with some creating a mash-up trailer that combined The Avengers with The Breakfast Club, while others made a chronological video of everything that was "wrong" about the movie.
While extreme Avengers fandom is fairly established, its nonetheless rare to find a fan of both The Avengers and The Powerpuff Girls. It was an immensely popular cartoon in its time to be sure, but one that ended its broadcast run in 2005 with only one 2002 movie made during the height of the cartoon's popularity. Enter Iros Yan, a Chinese Animation student whose Tumblr (via Comics Alliance) is...
While extreme Avengers fandom is fairly established, its nonetheless rare to find a fan of both The Avengers and The Powerpuff Girls. It was an immensely popular cartoon in its time to be sure, but one that ended its broadcast run in 2005 with only one 2002 movie made during the height of the cartoon's popularity. Enter Iros Yan, a Chinese Animation student whose Tumblr (via Comics Alliance) is...
- 2/22/2013
- by Ryan Gowland
- Reelzchannel.com
Sony Pictures Animation continues to expand its stable of talented filmmakers with the signing of three-time Emmy Award winner Genndy Tartakovsky (Dexter’s Laboratory, Samurai Jack, Star Wars: Clone Wars) to an overall agreement that extends beyond his current directorial film debut of Hotel Transylvania to include development and direction of his own projects, as well as an all-new take on Popeye. The deal was announced today by Bob Osher, President of Sony Pictures Digital Productions, and Michelle Raimo-Kouyate, President of Production, Sony Pictures Animation.
“Sony Pictures Animation is committed to attracting - and keeping - industry visionaries with the creative instincts to craft the style of vibrant storytelling that has been our trademark for 10 memorable years,” says Osher. “I have known Genndy since his Hanna-Barbera days and am thrilled we are continuing the relationship with him. This is a very exciting collaboration, one that should yield wonderful animated...
“Sony Pictures Animation is committed to attracting - and keeping - industry visionaries with the creative instincts to craft the style of vibrant storytelling that has been our trademark for 10 memorable years,” says Osher. “I have known Genndy since his Hanna-Barbera days and am thrilled we are continuing the relationship with him. This is a very exciting collaboration, one that should yield wonderful animated...
- 7/11/2012
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Photo Courtesy of Sony Pictures Animation. © 2012 Sony Pictures Animation, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Acclaimed animation director Genndy Tartakovsky (Dexter’s Laboratory, Samurai Jack, Star Wars: Clone Wars) and producer Michelle Murdocca (Open Season) will unveil never-before-seen footage from the highly-anticipated animated comedy, Hotel Transylvania, during a panel at Comic-Con in San Diego, CA on Thursday, July 12 at 3:00 p.m. in the Indigo Ballroom of the Hilton San Diego Bayfront Hotel.
Hotel Transylvania, which arrives in theatres on September 28, 2012, marks Tartakovsky’s theatrical directorial debut. Tartakovsky and Murdocca will discuss the animated film, take questions from the audience, and screen never-before-seen footage from the film.
Following the panel, Tartakovsky will be signing a limited edition Hotel Transylvania poster created exclusively for Comic-Con fans at the Sony booth #4229 at 4:00Pm.
Welcome to Hotel Transylvania, Dracula’s lavish five-stake resort, where monsters and their families can live it up, free to...
Acclaimed animation director Genndy Tartakovsky (Dexter’s Laboratory, Samurai Jack, Star Wars: Clone Wars) and producer Michelle Murdocca (Open Season) will unveil never-before-seen footage from the highly-anticipated animated comedy, Hotel Transylvania, during a panel at Comic-Con in San Diego, CA on Thursday, July 12 at 3:00 p.m. in the Indigo Ballroom of the Hilton San Diego Bayfront Hotel.
Hotel Transylvania, which arrives in theatres on September 28, 2012, marks Tartakovsky’s theatrical directorial debut. Tartakovsky and Murdocca will discuss the animated film, take questions from the audience, and screen never-before-seen footage from the film.
Following the panel, Tartakovsky will be signing a limited edition Hotel Transylvania poster created exclusively for Comic-Con fans at the Sony booth #4229 at 4:00Pm.
Welcome to Hotel Transylvania, Dracula’s lavish five-stake resort, where monsters and their families can live it up, free to...
- 7/10/2012
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
For over a decade now, animator Genndy Tartakovsky has been perpetually poised to break into feature films, and yet somehow up until now, the stars have not aligned to make it happen. He did serve as animation director on The Powerpuff Girls Movie, but neither the Samurai Jack movie nor The Dark Crystal sequel that he was attached to ended up coming to fruition. Now he is set to make his directorial debut with a CG-animated film featuring the voices of Adam Sandler and Kevin James... probably not his first choice, but I guess sometimes you take what you can get! At first glance, Hotel Transylvania appears to be a knock-off of both Monsters vs. Aliens and Tim Burton's various stop-motion animated films. The story revolves around a high-end resort run by Dracula where various monsters go to get away from the human world. When a young boy stumbles...
- 3/27/2012
- by Sean
- FilmJunk
2009 107 minutes Rated PG-13 X-Men Origins: Wolverine is a film that has no particular reason for existing. It tells the background story behind a major character from the X-Men film franchise. But Wolverine was the lead character of said films, and we've already learned everything we need to know from the films in said franchise (like The Powerpuff Girls Movie, it is a feature length variation of an origin story that we already knew). And the extra information given here actually serves to make the character of Logan/Wolverine less interesting. It's not necessarily that a character like Wolverine is better when his past is left a mystery, so much of that past that is revealed here is so astoundingly conventional, uncompelling, and completely clich...
- 5/1/2009
- by Scott Mendelson
- Huffington Post
Ain't It Cool News has an in depth interview with Jon Favreau about all sorts of stuff, ranging from his upcoming Couple's Retreat to the revolutionary effect James Cameron's Avatar will have on the movie industry. One of the greatest tidbits dropped by Favreau involves, unsurprisingly, Iron Man 2. According to the helmer, cartoon genius Genndy Tartakovsky has come aboard the flick as a storyboarder.
"I've always liked [Tartakovsky's] Samurai Jack and I loved his Clone Wars vignettes," Favreau tells AICN. "We're storyboarding and designing sequences, he and his team have come in, and I'm working with them and they're working on collaborating with us on the project and that's a new wrinkle ... I feel like I'm really learning a lot."
Favreau acknowledges that Tartakovsky is a newcomer to live action, but his extensive Marvel knowledge and skill set as a fight choreographer bring an interesting viewpoint to the super-hero sequel.
"I've always liked [Tartakovsky's] Samurai Jack and I loved his Clone Wars vignettes," Favreau tells AICN. "We're storyboarding and designing sequences, he and his team have come in, and I'm working with them and they're working on collaborating with us on the project and that's a new wrinkle ... I feel like I'm really learning a lot."
Favreau acknowledges that Tartakovsky is a newcomer to live action, but his extensive Marvel knowledge and skill set as a fight choreographer bring an interesting viewpoint to the super-hero sequel.
- 10/30/2008
- by Josh Wigler
- Comicmix.com
Where else could Adam Sandler go up against the Powerpuff Girls? The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has released the names of the films that qualify for this year's Best Animation Feature Film Oscar . and the number is almost double that of last year. Nine films were selected as eligible last year, with Shrek taking home the inaugural award, and for 2002 the Academy has named seventeen eclectic candidates, including Adam Sandler's 8 Crazy Nights, The Powerpuff Girls Movie, and Jonah: A VeggieTales Movie. Disney's two high-profile animated offerings this year . the hit Lilo & Stitch and the flop Treasure Planet . also qualified, as well as Hayao Miyazaki's Spirited Away, which the Mouse distributed in what was considered a badly mismanaged marketing campaign. Two films' eligibility . Eden and The Wild Thornberrys Movie . is predicated on their opening prior to December 31 in Los Angeles. Under the rules governing the award, a maximum of five films may be nominated; nominees will be announced February 11, along with all the other Oscar noms.
Films eligible for the 2002 Best Animated Feature Film award: Adam Sandler's Eight Crazy Nights; Alibaba & the Forty Thieves; Eden; El Bosque Animado (The Living Forest); Hey Arnold! The Movie; Ice Age; Jonah: A VeggieTales Movie; Lilo & Stitch; Mutant Aliens; The Powerpuff Girls Movie; The Princess and the Pea; Return to Never Land; Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron; Spirited Away; Stuart Little 2; Treasure Planet; The Wild Thornberrys Movie.
Films eligible for the 2002 Best Animated Feature Film award: Adam Sandler's Eight Crazy Nights; Alibaba & the Forty Thieves; Eden; El Bosque Animado (The Living Forest); Hey Arnold! The Movie; Ice Age; Jonah: A VeggieTales Movie; Lilo & Stitch; Mutant Aliens; The Powerpuff Girls Movie; The Princess and the Pea; Return to Never Land; Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron; Spirited Away; Stuart Little 2; Treasure Planet; The Wild Thornberrys Movie.
- 12/11/2002
- IMDbPro News
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