3D Animated Feature News, May 2004


© Nicholas Moreau

Martin's Clouseau to be introduced by a CG Pink Panther
In the upcoming Steve Martin revival of The Pink Panther, the title cat will appear in the title sequence as a 3D animated character. The people who brought you the entrancing main titles to Tom Hanks pic Catch Me If You Can, London's Nexus Productions, will do the honour of transferring the pink feline into the third dimension.

The animated Pink Panther's co-creator and co-copyright owner, David DePatie, recently told AWN how he felt the early CGI test made the character "look too round and chubby."

There's no talk at all of such a move, but I'd love to see this movie spark a new television show of the Pink Panther, similar to the short-lived efforts in the mid-1990s.

Nexus Animation (www.nexusanimation.com) is an award-winning animation studio, producing television, commercials and music videos. Established in 1997, founded by producers Chris O'Reilly and Charlotte Bavasso.

Upcoming DreamWorks animation to be penned by writer of Kangaroo Jack, Con Air
The writer of Things To Do In Denver When You're Dead, Con Air, Gone in Sixty Seconds, High Fidelity, and Kangaroo Jack is set to screenwrite the upcoming movie Rex Havoc. Scott Rosenberg will write for this so far ambiguous movie; the animated feature hasn't even been officially announced yet by its studio, DreamWorks.
DreamWorks SKG (www.dreamworks.com)

I mighty recon this movie might get a little confusin', pard'ner
Everytime I see the name of the upcoming 3D animated feature, The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread, and yes, that's its real name, even living in a relatively bilingual area of Canada, I read it as "Desperado". I wonder how many people are going to demand refunds, since the movie didn't include gunslinging cowboys.

Tale of Despereaux name poll
After Curious George, Universal Pictures and director Gary Ross (Seabiscuit) will release a movie based on Kate DiCamillo's Newberry Medal-winner The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread. Should the movie go under a different name, and what should that be?

The options are (a) The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread, (b) The Tale of Despereaux, (c) Despereaux,

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