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Mattel Films, ShadowMachine, Jennifer Lopez’s Nuyorican Productions and Anthony Ramos Break New Ground with Bob the Builder Animated Film

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Thursday, January 25, 2024
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Mattel, Inc. (NASDAQ: MAT), ShadowMachine, Nuyorican Productions, and Anthony Ramos today announced plans to develop an animated, feature-length film based on Bob the Builder, the long-running and beloved animated children’s series.

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  • Mattel, Inc. (NASDAQ: MAT), ShadowMachine, Nuyorican Productions, and Anthony Ramos today announced plans to develop an animated, feature-length film based on Bob the Builder, the long-running and beloved animated children’s series.
  • Jennifer Lopez, Elaine Goldsmith-Thomas, and Benny Medina for Nuyorican Productions (The Mother, Shotgun Wedding, Hustlers, Marry Me) have also joined to co-produce.
  • Bob the Builder is overseen by Kevin McKeon, Ivan Sanchez, and Arturo Thur De Koós for Mattel and Natalie Haack Flores for Nuyorican.
  • Robbie Brenner, President of Mattel Films, said: “We are thrilled to collaborate with our brilliant partners Anthony Ramos, Jennifer Lopez, Elaine Goldsmith-Thomas, Benny Medina, Alex Bulkley, Corey Campodonico, and Felipe Vargas on Bob the Builder, our first animated theatrical film.

Irwin P. Altschuler Rejoins Greenberg Traurig's International Trade Practice in Washington, D.C.

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Thursday, January 18, 2024
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WASHINGTON, Jan. 18, 2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Irwin P. Altschuler returned to global law firm Greenberg Traurig, LLP as a shareholder in its International Trade Practice based in the Washington, D.C., office.

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  • Irwin P. Altschuler returned to global law firm Greenberg Traurig, LLP as a shareholder in its International Trade Practice based in the Washington, D.C., office.
  • WASHINGTON, Jan. 18, 2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Irwin P. Altschuler returned to global law firm Greenberg Traurig, LLP as a shareholder in its International Trade Practice based in the Washington, D.C., office .
  • Prior to joining DEACERO as senior advisor for international affairs, Altschuler had been with Greenberg Traurig for 16 years and served as chair of the International Trade Practice, with a significant portion of that time focused on the trade and policy issues related to the United States and Mexico.
  • Altschuler arrives at the firm just one week after Guillermo Sánchez Chao joined Greenberg Traurig's Mexico City office as an international trade shareholder.

Are the Oscars going to take animated films more seriously?

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Wednesday, June 21, 2023
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Animation is not a genre.

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  • Animation is not a genre.
  • As one of the most acclaimed modern auteurs – and one who has announced his intention to stick with animation as his preferred medium – his acceptance speech reads like a plea directly to the academy.

Animated films at the Oscars

    • By including animated films as a standalone category, the Oscars ended up segregating them: animation was treated as its own thing.
    • Beauty and the Beast broke ground as the first-ever animated nominee for the Best Picture Oscar in 1992, but only two films have achieved such a feat since.
    • If animated films have had difficulty breaking into the Oscars’ vision of a Best Picture, then voice talent has been outright bypassed for consideration in acting categories.
    • Yet without the physical body to observe, the Oscars have ignored voice work in animated films.

Are things changing?

    • This then hopefully attracts more audience eyeballs to an Oscars telecast where they are likely to have actually seen some of the nominees.
    • Thematically, it reflects on the artistic value of the superhero genre, unpacking the Spider-Man lore across its many iterations.
    • Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse is the kind of popular cinema that the academy is currently primed to take more seriously.
    • But it is still well-positioned to break through the confines of the Best Animated Feature category.

Technicolor Creative Studios Q1 Business Update

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Monday, May 15, 2023
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Technicolor Creative Studios revenues amounted to €168 million in the first quarter of 2023, down -15% at current rate (down -14% at constant rate) compared to the same period in 2022.

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  • Technicolor Creative Studios revenues amounted to €168 million in the first quarter of 2023, down -15% at current rate (down -14% at constant rate) compared to the same period in 2022.
  • This significant growth was driven by a low Q1 2022 with major feature animation projects ramping up in H2/2022 for deliveries in H1/2023.
  • Based in Montreal, this industry veteran will be building on the Development service offering for Technicolor Games as the business continues its global expansion and service lines.
  • A contract termination due to the decision by producers to rewrite a show’s script, is expected to have a negative impact on Technicolor Creative Studios revenue growth over the next quarters.

Babylon, Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio, Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, and Everything Everywhere All at Once Motion Picture Winners at the 27th Annual Art Directors Guild 'Excellence in Production Design' Awards

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Tuesday, February 21, 2023
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HOLLYWOOD, Calif., Feb. 21, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The Art Directors Guild (ADG, IATSE Local 800) announced winners of its 27thAnnual Excellence in Production Design Awards in 14 categories of film, television, commercials, music videos and animation features, during a black-tie dinner gala at the InterContinental Los Angeles Downtown on Saturday night, February 18, 2023. Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio (Guy Davis, Curt Enderle), Babylon (Florencia Martin), Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (Rick Heinrichs), and Everything Everywhere All at Once (Jason Kisvarday) won Best Production Design for Feature Film. Television winners included "Pachinko: Chapter One" (Mara LePere-Schloop), "How I Met Your Father: Pilot" (Glenda Rovello), "Our Flag Means Death: Pilot" (Ra Vincent), "Severance: Good News About Hell" (Jeremy Hindle, Nick Francone), "Saturday Night Live: Jack Harlow Hosts Season 48 Episode 4, Jack Harlow Musical Guest" (Keith Raywood, Eugene Lee, Akira Yoshimura, N. Joseph De Tullio), "The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power: Adar" (Ramsey Avery) and "Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities" (Tamara Deverell) respectively. Additional winners include Adele "I Drink Wine" (Liam Moore), The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power "Title Announcement" (Brian Branstetter), and 94th Annual Oscars (David Korins).

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  • Additional winners include Adele "I Drink Wine" (Liam Moore), The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power "Title Announcement" (Brian Branstetter), and 94th Annual Oscars (David Korins).
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    "We are so proud to honor the production designers and artists who create a vision to transport the audience into different worlds.
  • ADG President Nelson Coates, ADG, and Art Directors Council Chair Evan Rohde, ADG, presided over the awards ceremony with actress/comedian Yvette Nicole Brown serving as host.
  • Winners of the 27th Annual Art Directors Guild Awards:

Biden and Trudeau “called out” by Drag Queens in Los Angeles: “Keep your climate promises or lose your pride!”

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Thursday, June 9, 2022
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LOS ANGELES, June 09, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- During Pride month, a group of drag-queens welcomed the arrival of many of the most prominent heads of state at the Summit of the Americas, calling on presidents from the US to Canada to Argentina to become environmental leaders the world could be proud of. The queens paid particular attention to President Joe Biden and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau whose countries are behind in paying financial assistance to other nations in the hemisphere to tackle the climate crisis, land degradation and biodiversity loss.

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  • Mischa Kinx, Los Angeles-based drag-queen, said: We are literally lip syncing for our lives!
  • Oscar Soria, Avaaz Campaign Director, said: "This Summit of the Americas can't be another summit of nice words and empty promises.
  • Ecuador: President Lasso was urged to stop annihilating the Amazon by drilling for oil, primarily to feed demand from California.
  • Brazil: Brazils Bolsonaro faced a Marilyn furious about the destruction of the Amazon and his contempt for the rights of Indigenous peoples.

Amazon Publishing Acquires Academy Award-Winner Guillermo del Toro’s First Short Story Collection

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Tuesday, September 24, 2019
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Amazon Original Stories (NASDAQ: AMZN), an imprint of Amazon Publishing, announced today it has signed with Guillermo del Toro for a new short story collection to publish in 2021.

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  • Amazon Original Stories (NASDAQ: AMZN), an imprint of Amazon Publishing, announced today it has signed with Guillermo del Toro for a new short story collection to publish in 2021.
  • Del Toro is represented by his manager Gary Unger, literary agent Richard Abate, and attorney George Hayum.
  • View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20190924005141/en/
    A collection of dark and twisted stories from the Academy Award-winning director Guillermo del Toro will publish from Amazon Original Stories in 2021 (Photo: Business Wire)
    Throughout the years, Ive been inspired by reading short stories, from ghost stories to fairy tales, said Guillermo del Toro.
  • Guillermo del Toro is unmatched as an architect of creativity and horror, says Mikyla Bruder, Publisher of Amazon Publishing.