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Sony acquires
cartoon rightsSony Pictures Animation has acquired "Open Season" from cartoonist Steve Moore and producer John Carls to turn it into a computer-animated film. Moore created the comic panel "In the Bleachers" in 1985 while an editor at The Maui News. It's printed in more than 200 newspapers and an animated version was part of a recent ESPN promotional campaign.
"Open Season" speculates on what would happen in the wild if hunters became the hunted ...
"Quattro Noza," the latest film from Maui-based Reflection Films and Jazz Alley TV Productions, has been selected for dramatic competition in the 2003 Sundance Film Festival. The world premiere will be Friday in Park City, Utah, with five screenings planned through the week. The film was in production for more than four years, with Maui filmmaker Kenneth K. Martinez Burgmaier's production companies working with filmmaker-director Joey Curtis. "Quattro Noza" is a romantic tale of street racing and love.
The Maui Film Festival will also have a presence at Sundance, with the festival's creators -- directors Barry and Stella Rivers -- providing complimentary morning doses of Aloha, KavaJava and CoCoMacNut Biscotti at Cafe Terigo in Park City. They'll also be hosting a hula performance Friday at the eatery to celebrate the start of Sundance ...
"The Big Bounce" completes more than two months of Oahu filming tomorrow, just in time -- an untitled Adam Sandler project starts pre-production at Turtle Bay Resort. Five days of filming for the Sandler production start next month.
The "Bounce" wrap party is tomorrow at Haleiwa Joe's. The film opens in September.
It was quite a scene last Friday night at artist Christian Lassen's Sunset Point house, where three 8-by-8 foot picture windows were replaced by safety glass to be "shot out" for a "Big Bounce" scene. The scene had star Morgan Freeman confronting a baseball-bat-wielding Bebe Neuwirth in the living room, where she had just pounded one guy. Then the "gunshots" rang out ...
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