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Khumba
''Khumba'' is a 2013 South African animated comedy film directed and co-produced by Anthony Silverston and written by Silverston and Raffaella Delle Donne. The film stars the voices of Jake T. Austin, Steve Buscemi, Loretta Devine, Laurence Fishburne, Richard E. Grant, AnnaSophia Robb, Anika Noni Rose, Catherine Tate, Ben Vereen, and Liam Neeson. It is the second movie made by Triggerfish Animation Studios and is distributed by Millennium Entertainment in the US. The international distribution rights are being licensed by Cinema Management Group. The film is about Khumba, a zebra who is half-striped like a quagga and is blamed for the lack of rain throughout the land by most of his herd. He embarks on a quest to earn his missing stripes. The film was dedicated in memory of The Quagga Breeding Project founder Reinhold Rau, who died on February 11, 2006. Rau was known for efforts to use selective-breeding to recreate the extinct quagga, a close relative of the plains zebra. T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Triggerfish Animation Studios
Triggerfish is a computer animation film studio based in Cape Town, South Africa and Galway, Ireland. The studio is best known for its animated feature films '' Adventures in Zambezia'' (2012), '' Khumba'' (2013), and '' Seal Team'' (2021), as well as the work they have done on television specials created for UK producers Magic Light Pictures. History Triggerfish was established in 1996 by Jacquie Trowell and Emma Kaye in Cape Town, South Africa. As a stop-motion animation studio, it produced multiple commercials for South African ad agencies. From 1998 through 2008, Triggerfish produced animation for Sesame Workshop for the South African version of ''Sesame Street'', ''Takalani Sesame'', as well as the US domestic and international versions of the pre-school kids' program. Stuart Forrest joined as a junior animator in 2002 to work on ''Takalani Sesame'' for seasons two and three. In 2004, Forrest and James Middleton became partners in Triggerfish and in 2005 became the sole pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cinema Management Group
Cinema Management Group was an American company based in Beverly Hills, California that acquires licenses and distributes feature films, animations, and documentaries. The company is noted for its catalog of internationally produced animated features that is sold to the world markets. History The company was founded in 2003 by Edward Noeltner. In 2004 the company acquired the rights for the CGI animated film '' Hoodwinked!: The True Story of Red Riding Hood''. CMG expanded its genre distribution with the indie film '' Reeker'' and the sequel '' No Man's Land: The Rise of Reeker''. CMG represents Moriah Films. Since 2004, CMG-licensed animated features have grossed over $400 million at the worldwide box office. CMG has distributed the animated films '' Adventures in Zambezia, Hoodwinked!, Khumba, The Legend of Sarila, Ratchet & Clank, Loving Vincent,'' and ''Saving Santa'' over the past two decades. CMG facilitated the joint production of the film '' Ainbo: Spirit of the A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catherine Tate
Catherine Tate (born Catherine Jane Ford, 5 December 1969) is an English actress, comedian and writer. She has won numerous awards for her work on the BBC Two, BBC sketch comedy series ''The Catherine Tate Show'' (2004–2007), as well as being nominated for an International Emmy Award for best actress, International Emmy Award and seven British Academy Television Awards, BAFTAs. Tate played Donna Noble in the 2006 The Runaway Bride (Doctor Who), Christmas special of the BBC science fiction series ''Doctor Who'', and reprised her role for the Doctor Who (series 4), fourth series in 2008,Tate to be Doctor's companion . BBC News, 3 July 2007. Retrieved 4 July 2007. and the 60th anniversary Doctor Who (2023 specials), episodes in 2023. Following the success of ''The Catherine Tate Show'', Tate starred as Joanie Ta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Plains Zebra
The plains zebra (''Equus quagga'', formerly ''Equus burchellii'') is the most common and geographically widespread species of zebra. Its range is fragmented, but spans much of southern and eastern Africa south of the Sahara. Six or seven subspecies have been recognised, including the quagga which was thought to be a separate species. More recent research supports variations in zebra populations being Cline (biology), clines rather than subspecies. Plains zebras are intermediate in size between the larger Grévy's zebra and the smaller mountain zebra and tend to have broader stripes than both. Great variation in coat patterns exists between clines and individuals. The plains zebra's habitat is generally, but not exclusively, treeless grasslands and savanna woodlands, both tropical and temperate. They generally avoid desert, dense rainforest and permanent wetlands. Zebras are preyed upon by lions and spotted hyenas, Nile crocodiles and, to a lesser extent, African leopard, leopards ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rock Hyrax
The rock hyrax (; ''Procavia capensis''), also called dassie, Cape hyrax, rock rabbit, and (from some interpretations of a word used in the King James Bible) coney, is a medium-sized terrestrial mammal native to Africa and the Middle East. Commonly referred to in South Africa as the dassie (; ), it is one of the five living species of the order Hyracoidea, and the only one in the genus ''Procavia''. Rock hyraxes weigh and have short ears. Rock hyraxes are found at elevations up to above sea level in habitats with rock crevices, allowing them to escape from predators. They are the only extant terrestrial afrotherians in the Middle East. Hyraxes typically live in groups of 10–80 animals, and forage as a group. They have been reported to use sentries to warn of the approach of predators. Having incomplete thermoregulation, they are most active in the morning and evening, although their activity pattern varies substantially with season and climate. Over most of its range, the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wildebeest
Wildebeest ( , ,), also called gnu ( or ), are antelopes of the genus ''Connochaetes'' and native to Eastern and Southern Africa. They belong to the family Bovidae, which includes true antelopes, cattle, goats, sheep, and other even-toed horned ungulates. There are two species of wildebeest: the black wildebeest or white-tailed gnu (''C. gnou''), and the blue wildebeest or brindled gnu (''C. taurinus''). Fossil records suggest these two species diverged about one million years ago, resulting in a northern and a southern species. The blue wildebeest remained in its original range and changed very little from the ancestral species, while the black wildebeest changed more as adaptation to its open grassland habitat in the south. The most obvious ways of telling the two species apart are the differences in their colouring and in the way their horns are oriented. In East Africa, the blue wildebeest is the most abundant big-game species; some populations perform an annual mi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Plains Zebra
The plains zebra (''Equus quagga'', formerly ''Equus burchellii'') is the most common and geographically widespread species of zebra. Its range is fragmented, but spans much of southern and eastern Africa south of the Sahara. Six or seven subspecies have been recognised, including the quagga which was thought to be a separate species. More recent research supports variations in zebra populations being Cline (biology), clines rather than subspecies. Plains zebras are intermediate in size between the larger Grévy's zebra and the smaller mountain zebra and tend to have broader stripes than both. Great variation in coat patterns exists between clines and individuals. The plains zebra's habitat is generally, but not exclusively, treeless grasslands and savanna woodlands, both tropical and temperate. They generally avoid desert, dense rainforest and permanent wetlands. Zebras are preyed upon by lions and spotted hyenas, Nile crocodiles and, to a lesser extent, African leopard, leopards ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reinhold Rau
Reinhold Eugen Rau (7 February 1932 – 11 February 2006) was a German natural historian who initiated the Quagga Project in South Africa, which aims to re-breed the extinct quagga, a sub-species of zebra. Rau was born in Friedrichsdorf, Germany, and trained as a taxidermist at the Senckenberg Museum in Frankfurt, joining the South African Museum in Cape Town in 1959. Rau was initially part of a team of seven taxidermists working at the museum. Although principally known for his work on quaggas, Rau also rediscovered a species of tortoise which had been thought extinct. Rau continued to work at the South African Museum following his retirement; he died on February 11, 2006, at his home in Cape Town. Quaggas Rau's interest in quaggas began in 1969, when he re-mounted a quagga foal at the South African Museum. In 1971, Rau visited museums across Europe, and ultimately examined 22 of the world's 23 quagga specimens. Dried tissue samples from the skin of the South Africa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Millennium Entertainment
Alchemy (formerly Millennium Entertainment) was an American independent global film distributor based in Los Angeles, California. The company acquired and distributed feature films, television series and specialty programming. History Millennium Entertainment was 60% owned by production company Nu Image. Exclusive Media Group owned 20% and Prentice Capital owned the remaining stock.Millennium On The Block; Salem Partners To Handle Sale Of Distribution Unit. ''Deadline Hollywood'' (April 22, 2013). Following its formation in 2010, the company marked its first noteworthy theatrical release in 2011 with ''Trust (2010 film), Trust'', starring Academy Award nominees Clive Owen, Catherine Keener, and Viola Davis. Alchemy o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ben Vereen
Benjamin Augustus Vereen (né Middleton; October 10, 1946) is an American actor, dancer and singer. He gained prominence for his performances in the original Broadway productions of the musicals ''Jesus Christ Superstar'', for which he received a Tony Award nomination, and ''Pippin (musical), Pippin,'' for which he won the 1973 Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical. Early life Vereen was born October 10, 1946, in Laurinburg, North Carolina. While still an infant, Vereen and his family relocated to the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York City. He was adopted by James Vereen, a paint-factory worker, and his wife, Pauline Vereen, who worked as a maid and theatre wardrobe mistress. He discovered he was adopted when he applied for a passport to join Sammy Davis Jr. on a tour of ''Golden Boy (musical), Golden Boy'' to London when he was 25. He was raised Pentecostalism, Pentecostal. During his pre-teen years, he exhibited an innate talent for drama and dance and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Quagga Project
The Quagga Project is an attempt by a group in South Africa to use selective breeding to achieve a breeding lineage of Burchell's zebra (''Equus quagga burchellii'') which visually resemble the extinct quagga (''Equus quagga quagga''). History In 1955, Lutz Heck suggested in his book ' that careful selective breeding with the plains zebra could produce an animal resembling the extinct quagga: a zebra with reduced striping and a brownish basic colour. In 1971, Reinhold Rau visited various museums in Europe to examine the quagga specimens in their collections and decided to attempt to re-breed the quagga. Rau later contacted several zoologists and park authorities, but they were on the whole negative because the quagga has left no living descendants, and thus the genetic composition of this animal is not present in living zebras. Rau did not abandon his re-breeding proposal, as he considered the quagga to be a subspecies of the plains zebra. In 1984, molecular studies of mitoch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anika Noni Rose
Anika Noni Rose (born September 6, 1972) is an American actress. She is best known for voicing Tiana (The Princess and the Frog), Tiana in ''The Princess and the Frog'' (2009). She was named a Disney Legends, Disney Legend in 2011. Rose starred as Lorrell Robinson in the Academy Award-winning film ''Dreamgirls (film), Dreamgirls'' (2006). Her contribution to the film's soundtrack earned her a nomination for a Grammy Awards, Grammy Award. She is also known for her performances in theatre, particularly for starring as Emmie Thibodeaux in the Broadway production of ''Caroline, or Change'' (2004), for which she won the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical, and Beneatha Younger in the Broadway revival of ''A Raisin in the Sun'' (2014), for which she was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play. Early life and education Rose was born in Bloomfield, Connecticut, to Claudia and John Rose, a corporate counsel. She attended Bloomfield High School, app ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
