Tag "David Ronn"

Dates Announced for ‘Popeye,’ ‘Hotel Transylvania 2'

November 16, 2012 by Ramin Zahed No Comments divider image

Sony Animation has announced the release date for two eagerly anticipated projects. First up, Genndy Tartakovksy will be helming a new 3-D, CG-animated version of Popeye. The new pic about the spinach-chomping sailor is slated to arrive in theaters on September 26, 2014. The script for the 21st century version [...]

Sony Launches 10th Anniversary Screening Series

August 27, 2012 by Ramin Zahed 1 Comment divider image

The 10th anniversary celebration of Sony Pictures Animation (SPA) continues with a five-week series of special screenings featuring SPA’s collection of animated and hybrid films, as well as reunions with filmmakers participating in Q & As following each screening, rare footage/materials from the SPA archives and giveaways. The series, which [...]

Tartakovsky to Direct Sony’s 3D ‘Popeye’ Movie

June 26, 2012 by Ramin Zahed No Comments divider image

Hotel Transylvania director Genndy Tartakovsky won’t be slowing down any time soon. The much-respected animation veteran (Dexter’s Laboratory, Samurai Jack, Clone Wars) will be developing and directing Sony’s 3-D Popeye feature next, reports Variety. Avi and Ari Arad are producing the movie, which had David Ronn and Jay Scherick attached [...]

Plot and Cast Announced for ‘Smurfs’ Sequel

April 26, 2012 by Ramin Zahed 1 Comment divider image

Sony Animation began production on the sequel to its 2011 hit The Smurfs today. Most of the cast and crew from the original movie, which made over $560 million at the global box office, are coming back for the second outing, which will be released on July 13, 2013. The [...]

‘Smurfs’ Writers Tackle Sony’s Animated ‘Popeye’ Movie

November 3, 2011 by Thomas J. McLean 1 Comment divider image

Sony Pictures Animation has set screenwriters Jay Scherick and David Ronn to write the screenplay for a new animated feature version of Popeye. Scherick and Ronn previously worked with the studios on The Smurfs. They also have written an upcoming Baywatch feature for Paramount and have a comedy pilot in [...]

Smurfs and the City – ‘The Smurfs’ in 3D

July 29, 2011 by Ramin Zahed 2 Comments divider image

Peyo’s beloved little blue creatures come to CG life in Sony’s Smurfalicious 3-D hybrid extravaganza. It’s been 53 years since Belgian artist Pierre “Peyo” Culliford came up with the idea of a pastoral village inhabited by The Smurfs (or Les Schtroumpfs as they are called in French) who were only three [...]