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Arthur Christmas
''Arthur Christmas'' is a 2011 animated Christmas comedy film directed by Sarah Smith who co-wrote the screenplay with Peter Baynham, and starring the voices of James McAvoy, Hugh Laurie, Bill Nighy, Jim Broadbent, Imelda Staunton, and Ashley Jensen. Produced by Columbia Pictures, Sony Pictures Animation, and Aardman Features and distributed by Sony Pictures Releasing, the film is Aardman's second computer-animated feature film after 2006's ''Flushed Away''. The film tells the story of Santa Claus' family as one of his sons works to deliver an overlooked bicycle to a little girl in Trelew, Cornwall, England before Christmas morning. Following the under-performance of ''Flushed Away'', DreamWorks Animation did not renew its partnership with Aardman. In April 2007, Aardman signed a three-year deal with Sony Pictures. Originally titled ''Operation Rudolph'', the project was first announced in 2007. Aardman spent 18 months on pre-production on the story and design in the UK bef ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sarah Smith (director)
Sarah Christine Smith (born January 1966) is an English film director, broadcast producer and screenwriter. She is the co-founder and former CEO of Locksmith Animation. She is the writer and director of the animated feature films ''Arthur Christmas'' (2011) and ''Ron's Gone Wrong'' (2021). Smith began her career in radio before serving as a television producer for live action British comedy, including as writer for the ''The Saturday Night Armistice, Armistice'' news review shows. She later served various other assisting production roles in television, and as writer for the adult animated miniseries ''I Am Not an Animal''. She then joined Aardman Animations as a creative director, going on to write and direct her first animated feature film ''Arthur Christmas''. She left Aardman and set up Locksmith to work on ''Ron's Gone Wrong''. Career Smith studied at the University of Oxford. Smith met the comedy duo Lee and Herring and offered to produce a radio series. Their submission, '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Los Angeles Times
The ''Los Angeles Times'' is an American Newspaper#Daily, daily newspaper that began publishing in Los Angeles, California, in 1881. Based in the Greater Los Angeles city of El Segundo, California, El Segundo since 2018, it is the List of newspapers in the United States, sixth-largest newspaper in the U.S. and the largest in the Western United States with a print circulation of 118,760. It has 500,000 online subscribers, the fifth-largest among U.S. newspapers. Owned by Patrick Soon-Shiong and published by California Times, the paper has won over 40 Pulitzer Prizes since its founding. In the 19th century, the paper developed a reputation for civic boosterism and opposition to Trade union, labor unions, the latter of which led to the Los Angeles Times bombing, bombing of its headquarters in 1910. The paper's profile grew substantially in the 1960s under publisher Otis Chandler, who adopted a more national focus. As with other regional newspapers in California and the United Sta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Santa Claus
Santa Claus (also known as Saint Nicholas, Saint Nick, Father Christmas, Kris Kringle or Santa) is a legendary figure originating in Western Christian culture who is said to bring gifts during the late evening and overnight hours on Christmas Eve. Christmas elves are said to make the gifts in Santa's workshop, while flying reindeer pull his sleigh through the air. The popular conception of Santa Claus originates from folklore traditions surrounding the 4th-century Christian bishop Saint Nicholas, the patron saint of children. Saint Nicholas became renowned for his reported generosity and secret gift-giving. The image of Santa Claus shares similarities with the English figure of Father Christmas, and they are both now popularly regarded as the same person. Santa is generally depicted as a portly, jolly, white- bearded man, often with spectacles, wearing a red coat with white fur collar and cuffs, white-fur-cuffed red trousers, a red hat trimmed with white fur, a b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sleeper Hit
In the entertainment industry, a sleeper hit refers to a film, television series, music release, video game or other entertainment product that was initially unsuccessful on release, but eventually became a surprise success. A sleeper hit may have had little to no promotion or lack a successful launch, but gradually develops a fandom and spreads via word of mouth, media coverage or unexpected internet virality. As ''Variety'' puts it, “A ‘sleeper hit’ can be defined as the kind of show that catches us by surprise—programs whose popularity grows over time and can ultimately outshine the preordained hits.” A sleeper hit often lacks star performers or high production values, but prevails, at times against its makers’ expectations, on the strength of such qualities as narrative, approach or novelty, as well as market accidents. Sleeper hit films benefit theater owners because they keep a larger percentage of the money from ticket sales. In film Some sleeper hits in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sony Pictures Imageworks
Sony Pictures Imageworks Inc. (simply known as Imageworks) is a visual effects and computer animation studio headquartered in Vancouver, British Columbia and Montreal, Quebec, with an additional office on the Sony Pictures Studios lot in Culver City, California. SPI is a unit of Sony Pictures Entertainment's Motion Picture Group. The company has been recognized by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences winning the Best Visual Effects Oscar for their work on ''Spider-Man 2,'' as well as the Oscars for Best Animated Film for '' Into the Spider-Verse'' and Best Animated Short Film for '' The ChubbChubbs!'', having also received many other nominations for their work. SPI has provided visual effects for many films; most recent include ''The Meg'', '' Men in Black: International'', and '' Spider-Man: Far From Home''. They also provided services for several of director Robert Zemeckis' films, including '' Contact'', ''Cast Away'', '' The Polar Express'', and ''Beowulf''. S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sony Pictures
Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc. is an American diversified multinational mass media and entertainment studio conglomerate that produces, acquires, and distributes filmed entertainment (theatrical motion pictures, television programs, and recorded videos) through multiple platforms. Through an intermediate holding company called Sony Film Holding Inc., it is operated as a subsidiary of Sony Entertainment Inc., which is itself a subsidiary of the Japanese holding conglomerate Sony Group Corporation.Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc. is a wholly owned fifth-tier subsidiary of Sony Corporation. It is directly owned by Sony Film Holding Inc., a subsidiary of Sony Entertainment Inc., a subsidiary of Sony Group Corporation.FY2015 Securities Report(in Japanese), Sony Corporation) Based at the Sony Pictures Studios lot in Culver City, California, as one of the "Big Five" major American film studios, it encompasses Sony's motion picture, television production and distribution units. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
DreamWorks Animation
DreamWorks Animation LLC (DWA, also known as DreamWorks Animation Studios or simply DreamWorks) is an American animation studio, owned by Comcast's NBCUniversal as part of Universal Pictures, a division of Universal Studios, Inc, Universal Studios. The studio has produced List of DreamWorks Animation productions#Feature films, 51 feature films. Its first film, ''Antz'', was released on October 2, 1998, and its latest film, How to Train Your Dragon (2025 film), the live-action remake of ''How to Train Your Dragon'', was released on June 13, 2025. Their upcoming slate of films includes ''The Bad Guys 2'' on August 1, 2025, ''Gabby's Dollhouse: The Movie'' on September 26, 2025, ''Forgotten Island'' on September 25, 2026, ''Shrek 5'' on December 23, 2026, the How to Train Your Dragon (2025 film)#Sequel, live-action remake of ''How to Train Your Dragon 2'' on June 11, 2027, ''Cocomelon: The Movie'' in 2027, and an untitled film on September 22, 2028. Formed as a division of DreamWor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Box-office Bomb
A box-office bomb is a film that is unprofitable or considered highly unsuccessful during its theatrical run. Although any film for which the combined production budget, marketing, and distribution costs exceed the revenue after release has technically "bombed", the term is more frequently used for major studio releases that were highly anticipated, extensively marketed, and expensive to produce, but nevertheless failed commercially. Originally, a "bomb" had the opposite meaning, referring instead to a successful film that "exploded" at the box office. The term continued to be used this way in the United Kingdom into the 1970s. Causes Negative word of mouth With the advent of social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter in the 2000s, word of mouth regarding new films is easily spread and has had a marked effect on box office performance. A film's ability or failure to attract positive or negative commentary can strongly impact its performance at the box office, espe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trelew, Cornwall
Trelew is a hamlet in the civil parish of Mylor, in south west Cornwall in England, United Kingdom. The settlement is between the villages of Mylor Bridge and Mylor Churchtown north of Falmouth and two miles east of Penryn at . The hamlet is situated on the south shore of the tidal Mylor Creek, an inlet on the west side of Carrick Roads. Trelew lies within the Cornwall Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB). A fictionalised version of Trelew appears in the animated film ''Arthur Christmas ''Arthur Christmas'' is a 2011 animated Christmas comedy film directed by Sarah Smith who co-wrote the screenplay with Peter Baynham, and starring the voices of James McAvoy, Hugh Laurie, Bill Nighy, Jim Broadbent, Imelda Staunton, and Ashley ...'' (2011) as the hometown of the character Gwen. References Hamlets in Cornwall {{Carrick-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Flushed Away
''Flushed Away'' is a 2006 animated adventure comedy film produced by DreamWorks Animation and Aardman Features. The film was directed by Sam Fell and David Bowers, from a screenplay by Dick Clement, Ian La Frenais, Chris Lloyd, Joe Keenan and Will Davies and a story by Fell, Clement, Frenais and producer Peter Lord. The film stars the voices of Hugh Jackman, Kate Winslet, Ian McKellen, Shane Richie, Bill Nighy, Andy Serkis and Jean Reno. In the film, a pampered fancy rat named Roddy St. James (Jackman) is flushed down the toilet in his Kensington apartment by a sewer rat named Sid (Richie), and befriends a scavenger named Rita Malone (Winslet) in order to get back home while evading a sinister toad (McKellen) and his hench-rats (Nighy and Serkis). The idea of rats falling in love in the sewers was created by animator Fell during the production of ''Chicken Run''. In 2001, Fell developed the concept into a story before pitching it to DreamWorks. The project was fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aardman Animations
Aardman Animations Limited, known simply as Aardman, is a British animation studio based in Bristol, England, United Kingdom. It is known for films and television series made using stop motion and clay animation techniques, particularly those featuring its plasticine characters from '' Wallace & Gromit'', '' Chicken Run'', '' Shaun the Sheep'', and '' Morph''. After some experimental computer-animated short films during the late 1990s, beginning with '' Owzat'' (1997), Aardman entered the computer animation market with '' Flushed Away'' (2006). As of February 2020, it had earned $1.1 billion worldwide, with an average $135.6 million per film. Between 2000 and 2006, Aardman partnered with DreamWorks Animation. Aardman's films have been consistently well received, and their stop-motion films are among the highest-grossing produced, with their 2000 debut, '' Chicken Run'', being their top-grossing film, as well as the highest-grossing stop-motion film of all time. A sequel, '' Chi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Comedy Film
The comedy film is a film genre that emphasizes humor. These films are designed to amuse audiences and make them laugh. Films in this genre typically have a happy ending, with dark comedy being an exception to this rule. Comedy is one of the oldest genres in film, and it is derived from classical comedy in theatre. Some of the earliest silent films were slapstick comedies, which often relied on visual depictions, such as sight gags and pratfalls, so they could be enjoyed without requiring sound. To provide drama and excitement to silent movies, live music was played in sync with the action on the screen, on pianos, organs, and other instruments. When sound films became more prevalent during the 1920s, comedy films grew in popularity, as laughter could result from both burlesque situations but also from humorous dialogue. Comedy, compared with other film genres, places more focus on individual star actors, with many former stand-up comics transitioning to the film industry ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
