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Jonathan Aibel And Glenn Berger
Jonathan Robert Aibel (born August 6, 1969 in Demarest, New Jersey) and Glenn Todd Berger (born August 26, 1969 in Smithtown, New York) are American screenwriters and producers, who are best known for writing the ''Kung Fu Panda'' movies, '' The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water'', ''Trolls A troll is a being in Nordic folklore, including Norse mythology. In Old Norse sources, beings described as trolls dwell in isolated areas of rocks, mountains, or caves, live together in small family units, and are rarely helpful to human be ...'', and its sequel '' Trolls World Tour''. Filmography Television Film Other credits References External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Aibel, Jonathan and Berger, Glenn 1969 births Living people 20th-century American male writers 20th-century American screenwriters 21st-century American male writers 21st-century American screenwriters American male screenwriters American male television writers American television writers Anni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Conrad Vernon
Conrad Vernon (born July 11, 1968) is an American director, producer, writer, storyboard artist and voice actor, best known for his work on the DreamWorks Animation, DreamWorks animated film series ''Shrek (franchise), Shrek'' as well as other films such as ''Monsters vs. Aliens'' and ''Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted''. He also co-directed non-DreamWorks animated films such as Sony Pictures' ''Sausage Party'' and MGM's ''The Addams Family (2019 film), The Addams Family''. Life and career Conrad Vernon was born on July 11, 1968, a native of Lubbock, Texas, studied at California Institute of the Arts, CalArts and worked as a storyboard artist for animated productions (including Ralph Bakshi's ''Cool World''); he also directed ''Morto the Magician'' (a four-minute animated film written by Steve Martin). Vernon began his career in 1991. In 1996, he joined DreamWorks, where he worked as a storyboard artist on ''Antz''. After ''Antz'' proved a success as the first animated feature f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walt Dohrn
Walter Dohrn (born December 5, 1970) is an American writer, director, animator, musician, and actor. He performed the voice of Rumpelstiltskin in ''Shrek Forever After'' (2010), as well as various characters in ''Shrek the Third'' (2007). He co-directed the film ''Trolls'' (2016) and directed its sequels, and voiced various characters in the franchise. With Conrad Vernon, he is co-directing '' Shrek 5'', set for release in 2026. Dohrn has worked as writer, director, and storyboard director in Season 2 of ''SpongeBob SquarePants'', and he also worked on 2 episodes from Season 3. In 2020, Dohrn signed a deal with 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 Stud .... Filmography Film Television Video games References External links * Living peopl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chris Wedge
John Christian Wedge (born March 20, 1957) is an American filmmaker, animator, and voice actor. He is best known for being the lead animator of the sci-fi action film ''Tron'' (1982), co-founding the now defunct animation studio Blue Sky Studios, and directing the short film ''Bunny (1998 film), Bunny'' (1998) and the feature films ''Ice Age (2002 film), Ice Age'' (2002), ''Robots (2005 film), Robots'' (2005) and ''Epic (2013 film), Epic'' (2013). Wedge has received two Academy Awards nominations: one for ''Bunny'', for which he won Best Animated Short; and ''Ice Age'', nominated for Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, Best Animated Feature. He also created and voiced the character Scrat in the ''Ice Age (franchise), Ice Age'' franchise (2002–2022). Early life Wedge was born in Binghamton, New York. During his teenage years, Wedge lived in Watertown (city), New York, Watertown, New York which was rumored to be the inspiration for the town where his film ''Robots (2005 film ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monster Trucks (film)
''Monster Trucks'' is a 2016 American live action/animated monster comedy film produced by Paramount Animation, Nickelodeon Movies and Disruption Entertainment for Paramount Pictures. It was directed by Chris Wedge, in both his live-action directorial debut and first directorial effort outside of his own company Blue Sky Studios, and written by Derek Connolly, from a story by Matthew Robinson, Jonathan Aibel and Glenn Berger. The film stars Lucas Till, Jane Levy, Amy Ryan, Rob Lowe, Danny Glover, Barry Pepper, Thomas Lennon, and Holt McCallany, and follows Tripp Coley, a young junkyard employee who finds a subterranean creature living in his truck. The film was first released on December 21, 2016 in France, then on January 13, 2017 in the United States. It received mixed reviews from critics and was considered by analysts to be a box-office bomb, grossing $64.5 million worldwide against a $125 million budget. Plot Terravex Oil is in the midst of a fracking operation in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alessandro Carloni
Alessandro Carloni is an Italian film director, writer, animator, and art director, best known for his work with DreamWorks Animation in general, particularly the first three ''Kung Fu Panda'' films. He co-directed '' Kung Fu Panda 3'', alongside Jennifer Yuh Nelson. Biography Born in Bologna, Carloni spent his childhood in Urbino, a walled city and World Heritage site southwest of Pesaro, known for its remarkable legacy of independent Renaissance culture and for being the birthplace of Renaissance master Raphael Santi. But Carloni was not a young artist, at least not officially. Not even though his father worked as an illustrator for magazines, book covers and advertisements. "I was exposed to his work, but he never pushed me to be part of his studio," Carloni says. "He taught me many things. He wanted me to explore on my own." He became an artist almost despite himself. Carloni entered the University of Milan as a literature major, but to earn money, he began selling drawings ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kung Fu Panda 3
''Kung Fu Panda 3 '' is a 2016 animated martial arts comedy film produced by DreamWorks Animation, China Film Group Corporation, Oriental DreamWorks and Zhong Ming You Ying Film, and formerly distributed by 20th Century Fox. It is the third installment in the ''Kung Fu Panda'' franchise and the sequel to ''Kung Fu Panda 2'' (2011). The film was directed by Jennifer Yuh Nelson and Alessandro Carloni and written by the writing team of Jonathan Aibel and Glenn Berger. Jack Black, Angelina Jolie, Lucy Liu, Seth Rogen, David Cross, Jackie Chan, James Hong, Dustin Hoffman and Jean-Claude Van Damme all reprise their roles from the previous films, and Randall Duk Kim reprising his role of Oogway from the first film with Liam Knight returning in a different role. They are joined by Bryan Cranston (replacing Fred Tatasciore, who went on to voice Master Bear), J. K. Simmons and Kate Hudson as new characters. In the film, Po is reunited with his birth father, and discovers the ex ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Tibbitt
Paul Harrison Tibbitt IV (born May 13, 1968) is an American animator, writer, and voice actor, best known for his work on the animated series ''SpongeBob SquarePants''. After its creator Stephen Hillenburg resigned in 2004, Tibbitt took his position of showrunner for the show's remaining seasons. He also took over as the voice of Potty the Parrot, whom Hillenburg had voiced until his resignation. Tibbitt made his feature film directorial debut directing '' The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water''. He studied in the Character Animation program at the California Institute of the Arts The California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) is a Private university, private art school in Santa Clarita, California. It was incorporated in 1961 as the first degree-granting institution of higher learning in the US created specifically for .... In 2015, Vincent Waller (a creative director) and Marc Ceccarelli (a writer and storyboard director) took Tibbitt's place as supervising produc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mike Mitchell (director)
Mike Mitchell is an American film director, writer, producer, actor and animator. He is known for directing ''Sky High (2005 film), Sky High'' (2005), ''Shrek Forever After'' (2010), ''Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked'' (2011), ''Trolls (film), Trolls'' (2016), ''The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part'' (2019), and ''Kung Fu Panda 4'' (2024). Early life and education Mike Mitchell was born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. He graduated from Putnam City North High School, then subsequently moved to Los Angeles to attend the California Institute of the Arts. Career He started his career as director for Matthew O'Callaghan, Matt O'Callaghan's ''The Itsy Bitsy Spider''. He first gained critical attention when he co-wrote, produced and directed the short film ''Herd'', which won several film festival awards, including the Spirit of Slamdance Award at the 1999 Slamdance Festival. The same year, he made his feature film directorial debut with the comedy ''Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo'', star ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chipwrecked
''Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked'' is a 2011 American live-action animated jukebox musical adventure comedy film directed by Mike Mitchell and written by the writing team of Jonathan Aibel and Glenn Berger, based on the characters Alvin and the Chipmunks created by Ross Bagdasarian Sr. and the Chipettes created by Janice Karman. It is the third installment in the live-action ''Alvin and the Chipmunks'' film series following the 2009 film Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel, and the first. The film stars Jason Lee, David Cross and Jenny Slate. Justin Long, Matthew Gray Gubler, Jesse McCartney, Amy Poehler, Anna Faris and Christina Applegate return to voice the Chipmunks and the Chipettes, respectively. In the film, playing around while aboard a cruise ship, the Chipmunks and the Chipettes go overboard and end up marooned in a tropical island, where they discover their new turf is not as deserted as it seems. ''Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked'' was released in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jennifer Yuh Nelson
Jennifer Yuh Nelson ( Yuh; born May 7, 1972) is an American story artist, character designer, illustrator, and film and television director. She is best known for directing the films '' Kung Fu Panda 2'', '' Kung Fu Panda 3'', and '' The Darkest Minds''. Yuh is the first woman to solely direct and the first Asian American to direct a major American animated film, and has been recognized as a commercially successful Asian American director. She won an Annie Award for Best Storyboarding in an Animated Feature Production for directing the opening for ''Kung Fu Panda'' and was the second woman nominated for an Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, for her work on ''Kung Fu Panda 2''. The film proved to be one of the most financially successful films directed by a woman. As a supervisor director for her work on '' Love, Death & Robots'', she won Emmy Awards two consecutive times. Biography Yuh was born in 1972 in South Korea and immigrated to the United States with her parents ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kung Fu Panda 2
''Kung Fu Panda 2'' is a 2011 American animated martial arts comedy film produced by DreamWorks Animation and distributed by Paramount Pictures. Directed by Jennifer Yuh Nelson and written by the writing team of Jonathan Aibel and Glenn Berger, the film is the sequel to '' Kung Fu Panda'' (2008), and the second installment in the ''Kung Fu Panda'' franchise. It features Jack Black, Angelina Jolie, Seth Rogen, Lucy Liu, David Cross, Jackie Chan, James Hong and Dustin Hoffman reprising their roles from the first film. In the film, Po and the Furious Five travel to Gongmen City to stop the peacock Lord Shen from conquering China while Po rediscovers his forgotten past. The film was released in theaters on May 26, 2011, to positive reviews. It grossed $665 million worldwide against its $150 million budget, becoming the highest-grossing film directed by a female director until '' Frozen'', as well as being the highest-grossing film solely directed by a female director until ''Wo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
