Interview with writer/co-director Jim Capobianco, co-director Pierrce-Luc Granjon and composer Alex Mandel of the movie “The Inventor” by Suzanne 8/10/23
This is a cute stop-motion animated movie about Leonardo da Vinci and his quest to find out the secret of life. It’s great for kids, families, or anyone. The music is very good, too.
The first interview was with the show’s directors, Jim Capobianco and Pierre-Luc Granjon; Capobianco was also the writer. The second interview was with Alex Mandel, who wrote the music. Both interviews were very enjoyable. I hope you can go see this film, which comes out September 15.
Directed and written by Jim Capobianco (the Academy AwardÂŽ-nominated screenwriter of âRatatouilleâ) and co-directed by Pierre-Luc Granjon, THE INVENTOR is a stop-motion adventure film about the life of Leonardo da Vinci featuring the voices of Stephen Fry, Daisy Ridley, Marion Cotillard, Gauthier Battoue, and Matt Berry.
The insatiably curious and headstrong inventor/artist Leonardo da Vinci (Fry) leaves Italy to join the French court where he can freely experiment, invent flying contraptions and incredible machines, and study the human body. Joined in his adventure by the audacious Princess Marguerite (Ridley), Leonardo attempts to uncover the answer to the ultimate question: âWhat is the meaning of life?â
Adult Swim returns to the Tender Endings Funeral Home when season two of the adult animated comedy Teenage Euthanasia debuts Wednesday, July 26 at Midnight ET/PT and streams the next day on Max. Set in near-future inland Florida, this series follows the latest undead adventures of the Fantasy family voiced by Maria Bamford (Lady Dynamite), EmmyŽ Award-winner Bebe Neuwirth (Cheers), Jo Firestone (Joe Pera Talks With You) and EmmyŽ Award-winner Tim Robinson (I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson).
Returning with ten all-new episodes, the second season of Teenage Euthanasia features a massive lineup of guest voices including:
Ann Dowd (Garden State, The Manchurian Candidate)
Chris Redd (Saturday Night Live)
H. Jon Benjamin (Archer, Bobâs Burgers)
J. Smith Cameron (Succession)
Janelle James (Abbott Elementary)
Jinkx Monsoon (RuPaulâs Drag Race)
Joe Pera (Joe Pera Talks With You)
Kieran Culkin (Succession)
Lori Tan Chinn (Awkwafina Is Nora from Queens, Orange is the New Black)
Sophia Bush (One Tree Hill)
Tim Heidecker (Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Office Hours, Killing It)
Ziwe Fumudoh (Ziwe)
and more.
Teenage Euthanasia centers on the Fantasy Family: Grandma Baba, her adult children Uncle Pete and Trophy, and Trophy’s teenage daughter, Euthanasia (âAnnieâ), a name accidentally given to her during the time of Trophyâs own unbearable suffering. The half-hour animated series is co-created by Nutting, a novelist and screenwriter/showrunner (Made for Love), and EmmyÂŽ Award-nominated producer Levy (The Shivering Truth, Xavier Renegade Angel). Teenage Euthanasia is produced by PFFR and animated by Atomic Cartoons. Executive producers include creators Nutting and Levy as well as Lisa M. Thomas, Vernon Chatman, and John Lee, with Scott Adsit as co-executive producer and Jo Firestone as producer.
Interview with Shila Ommi of the movie “Elemental” and “Tehran” on Apple TV+ by Suzanne 6/15/23
It was really fun to speak with Shila. The movie looks really good (and great for kids). I saw the trailer last week when I went to see “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse.” Shila plays Cinder, the mom of the main character, Ember (Leah Lewis).
CINDER LUMEN (Shila Ommi) is Firetownâs resident matchmaker, utilizing her natural gift that allows her to smell true love in a Fire personâs smoke, whether they know it or not. She boasts numerous matches throughout her tenureâsheâs proud of her track recordâbut this brusque, no-nonsense and traditional mom has yet to find a match for her daughter.  Elsewhere audiences can see Shila Ommi on the Apple TV+ espionage thriller, âTehran.â Shila Ommi is one of the returning co-stars of Apple TV+, espionage thriller, âTehran,â now streaming season two now on Apple TV+.  Ommi portrays the character of Nahid Kamali, the wife of Shaun Toubâs character Faraz Kamali (a skilled investigator with the Revolutionary Guards), and she also shared the screen with the iconic Glenn Close, and in season two. The heart pounding âTehran,â which has earned the comparison in the media already of â24â meets âThe Americans,â is must watch TV at itâs finest.
Shila Ommi is an American/ actress, born in Tehran, and has lived in Los Angeles since onslaught of the 1979 Iranian Revolution.  Her mother was a poet and her father a philanthropist, real estate mogul, and the founder and CEO of Iranâs largest construction company, Vima Co. At an early age, Ommi witnessed the wrath of the Islamic regime. Ommiâs father was also on their hit list, but her family had the chance to flee the country, leaving behind their wealth and all their belongings to begin a new life in the United States.
Today, Shila Ommi is a prominent actress in the Iranian communities in diaspora. For over a decade, she toured the globe as the lead actress and co-artistic director of Workshop 79, a theatre company spearheaded by acclaimed Iranian playwright/director/actor Houshang Touzie (âA Simple Wedding,â âArgoâ). The founder of the LA based theater group, Turquoise Heart Productions,  Ommi uses theater art as a form of healing and activism, writes, directs, and acts in theatre pieces that share the Iranian experience with American audiences, and the exile experience with Iranians abroad. She is recently directed a play commissioned by the Los Angeles Department of Mental Health.
Ommi portrays the character Nahid, in the acclaimed espionage thriller, âTehran,â with seasons 1 & 2 streaming now on Apple TV+ . She portrayed the character of Yasmin in the Apple TV+ anthology series âLittle Americaâ co-starring with Shaun Toub (who is also her screen husband in âTehranâ).  Ommi is also a voice-over artist and performs regularly in animated films and web series.  She is the voice of all the characters, male and female in a cartoon series called âNOPM: Special Forcesâ which was commissioned by the Boromand Foundation, a human rights organization focused on Iranâs human rights violations. She is narrating a video about deforestation, and a film about Iran⌠both coming out by the end of this year.
Elemental
PG
June 16, 2023
Animation
Disney and Pixarâs âElementalâ is an all-new, original feature film set in Element City, where fire-, water-, land- and air residents live together. The story introduces Ember, a tough, quick-witted and fiery young woman, whose friendship with a fun, sappy, go-with-the-flow guy named Wade challenges her beliefs about the world they live in.
Interview with director Zhao Ji and producer Yu Zhou of the movie “New Gods: Yang Jian” by Suzanne 1/11/23
This is a really cool animated Chinese film that comes out January 20th. I don’t normally watch anime, but I really enjoyed it. It has beautiful animation and tells a great story with a lot of action. The story is based on Chinese folk lore. This movie was a big hit in China, so now it’s premiering here in the U.S. with an English-speaking cast. Everyone associated with the movie is Asian, including the American actors dubbing it. We had a really interesting interview. I’m sorry for any mistakes in the transcript below. Between the accents, the Chinese words used, and the fact that one of them was ill, it was a bit difficult.
Here is the audio interview, which we made into a slideshow video. Below is the transcript.
Yu:Â Â I’m the co-founder and president of Light Chaser Animation. Very nice to meet you.
Ji:Â Â I’m Ji Zhao, director of New Gods: Yang Jian.
Yu:Â Â Yeah, also, as you know, Ji is also the director of Whitesnake, New Gods, and Nezha Reborn. Very productive. Okay, back to you guys. Any question? Feel free to ask.
Suzanne:Â Â So, my first question is for Ji. How is directing an animated movie like this different from a live action feature?
Ji:Â Â Well, I do work both in animation production and live action production, but I haven’t got a chance to direct a live action movie yet. So, for my experience, I think animation is more creative, because you can create [things that donât] really happen in the real world. In my live action career, I was an editor, a film editor. From an editor perspective, most of the time, you have to choose the footage from what you already have, but from an animation perspective, you can create [it] when you don’t have that footage. âOh, I need something,â then we can [just] make it. So, from that I think it’s more creative and more fun. That’s why I changed my career from live action to animation.
Caroline:Â Ji, Iâve seen your films and I think you seem to be a big fan of Mad Max. I want to ask you, what are your cinematic inspirations, whether Chinese or in the West?
Ji:  Actually the animation filmmakers in China, I think, is quite young compared to the Hollywood or other countriesâ animatorsâŚSorry about my English. I haven’t used it â-
Yu:Â Â Since the premiere of Whitesnake.
Ji:Â Â Yeah, three or four years since Iâve spoken English. Okay. I think we grew up with a lot of Western movies, and we’ve seen all kinds [from] Hollywood or like anime from Japan. We wonât say that. That’s part of our experience. So I never saw – like for film itâs an international language. There’s no quite age that you have to do something from the Eastern point of view or Western point of view. Most of them comes from your heart, comes from your own experience. I think – you mentioned Mad Max, but I think Mad Max, you only see that from the punk. I mean, the punk style, but punk does not belongs to any culture. Chinese can have [their] own punk because punk is a spirit not only a racial style. Just because you haven’t seen a lot of Chinese punk movies doesn’t means Chinese culture cannot be punk. Especially when we do the hero like the New Gods, [unintelligible]. That hero himself is a very punk hero in his heart. So, I think it’s fun to combine what we learn from the Western culture and mix with our own culture and create what from our generations point of view, to create a movie like what we saw is the new generation of Chinese heroes.
Matthew Swigonski:Â The art style is pretty incredible. Did you have a certain inspiration of what you drew for the entire world? You mentioned punk, it seems kind of like it was based off of steampunk a bit.
Ji:  I would call that silk punk instead of steampunk. Steampunk is part of the â
(Crosstalk)
Yu:Â Â industrialization.
Ji:Â Â Right, the 18th to 19th centuries, from the British culture. Thatâs [where] steampunk original artwork comes from, but for our film, I think we’re trying to create in Chinese Asian, because it’s a Chinese godsâ world. When you think about gods, theyâre always more advanced than the technology, culture, everything. They have to be more advanced than people, than human people. So, when Iâm trying to create the spirit world, I think they could be more modern. They could mix modern elements, combine something weâre familiar with, or modern life with what we saw, but weâre very familiar with Chinese original culture. So that’s more like we combine modern China or modern technology with traditional Chinese culture when we imagine the spirit world.
Ephney Tsai:Â Â You’ve mentioned that you hope these films can showcase the essence of traditional Chinese culture through a modern perspective. Why do you think that this is an important objective to have?
Ji:  When I was a kid, I watched like old TV shows of Chinese [unintelligible] mythology. Yeah, the Chinese mythology story from the TV shows. They always imagined people flying from one place to another, stand[ing] on a cloth. And just like the Superman, they just fly from here to there. Because I think during that time, airplanes in China are very few; people won’t see a lot of that. For Asian China, for Asian people, they can now imagine that there is an aircraft flying from one place to another. But every generation, the creator, the filmmaker, the artists should make things from their experience. I think for our generation, we grew up seeing that technology grows very fast. So, that’s actually just part of our life. So I think why the spirit cannot fly with a ship with the aircraft. I remember one time I was on an airplaneâŚtaking off. I was seated next to the window, and when the the plane [crossed] the clouds, I saw the beautiful cloud ocean. At that time, I thought maybe in ancient time, the gods, the spirits, they probably just see that. They want to [be] sailing among the cloud ocean. But I think that’s part of, more than life, part of the technology that makes me think that way. For the Asian artists, theyâd never really be up in the sky. So, they cannot imagine that way.
Yu:  Hopefully I can add a few commentsâŚI want to create some Chinese, Asian or Chinese culture combined with modern technology. Because I think it’s, as he said, flying through the clouds in the sky as a god is something we are as the Chinese people quite familiar [with] from our childhood. Our film, actually the main focus is for the first audience [who] are Chinese. So we’re trying to present what they’re familiar with, what they like. And also, we’re trying to give them some surprise. If you can only give them what they know, [itâs] kind of boring. So that’s the principle, the bottom line of our creativity, where we get our creativity, and also for ourselves, we also liked that kind of style. They call it, after the Muller report [used] that new word called Oriental punk. Other people that create it are calling it that word. Yeah.
Suzanne:Â Â I guess I’m next again. By the way, I loved when the little dragon went through the sky. I briefly lived in Chinatown in Honolulu, and I used to love whenever they had the big parades with the dragons. So, that was pretty cool, to see that. There’s certainly a lot to see in this movie; visually itâs fantastic. So, I have a two part question. Who came up with the names of the movies? And was there any concern that people might confuse it with the old DC Comic by Jack Kirby, New Gods?
Ji:Â Â Oh, okay. So, when we create this series, itâs a series movie, we were trying to make something different. In China, the Chinese name of the movie is Xin shen bang. Xin means new. So it’s new, but the original version of the story, the function that’s the original version of the story. So, we’re trying to tell our audience in China this is a totally new version. We use the same characters, same heroes, but itâs a different different point of view or a different timeline of the story. So we call this new Xin shen bang. When we translate to English, âXin shen bangâ is a rank. Itâs a list. Itâs a rank of the heroes in the Chinese Asian history, who is the number one, number two, number three. So, when we translate that, weâre trying to make it simple. We call it New Gods, and –
Yu:Â Â Actually we didn’t notice…
Ji:Â Â Yeah we didn’t notice that DC has a similar name.
Yu:Â Â Thank you for pointing that out. That will probably create some discussion, dispute. It might be a good thing to to know.
Suzanne:Â Â I think they were gonna do a New Gods movie, and they decided not to, so I guess you lucked out there.
Ji:Â Â I didnât know that.
Yu:Â Â But the function of the story in China is like a proud mother and on top of her years. Everybody knows the story and is familiar with it. And what we did is we based it on that legend. We put on the same serial but in a new era, like modern China. Because they’re gods, they will not die. They will live through all ages. So, even around us, that’s the way we are telling our stories. So, since this [wonât] be the last series – actually we are probably very soon – not very soon. In at least three years, we’ll create another sequel. Yeah.
Suzanne:Â Â Great. Thank you.
Caroline:Â So to Ji, I wanted to ask, so from Whitesnake to New Gods., how would you say your animation direction has evolved over the years?
Ji:Â Â I think for me, itâs a quite fast learning experience. Whitesnake I remember it released on
Yu:Â Â Actually yesterday it was a four year anniversary.
Ji:Â Â Yeah, right. Right. Right. Right.
Yu:Â Â January 11.
Ji:Â Â Yeah, So, during these four years I released three animation movies. That’s probably a very –
Yu:Â Â A record. Three years. Three films.
Ji:  Yeah, so, for me it’s a very fast learning experience during those four years. During Whitesnake, I think I was trying to adapt, trying to learn how to be a director, so at that time there will be like some director points of view or directors style, itâs more like all of the team. We were trying to learn the new way of how to make animation so fast. And for the next two movies – because Whitesnake, I co-directed with another director, so the next two movies for me, every time I tried to take a step to try something new I never tried before, that’s always when I create a new movie. For New Gods, obviously that’s a different style, combining modern and Asian story and I never – lucky for us in China we don’t have that censorship rating for animation. I know in Hollywood you guys have like PG, G, whatever the rating, but in China we don’t have that. So, I think animation can tell any kind of story. Even if we wanted we could do a horror story. So, I think it’s cool, because animation, more like media, not only [unintelligible] because when you think animation is [unintelligible] is more like a family film or kids film but then you think we could try to make something more for like a young audience and especially when like in Light Chaser all of our members probably under 30 years oldâŚSo, I think itâs cool is for old energy. So, most of our members, most of our colleagues, they don’t even have a kid. How we can make a movie for kids is pretty hard. We don’t even understand how kids react or why kids laugh, so I think is cool like for New Gods and Nezha we find something very â
(Crosstalk)
Yu:Â Â More adventures. we take more of a risk. Big risk
Ji:Â Â Try something like very new and totally new style more than to tell Asian story, and for Yang Jian, for me, the latest one, I think is combines Asian style, Chinese â
(Crosstalk)
Ji:  âŚink style kind of Chinese paintings style combined with some CGI technology combined with some punk style. So, for me, like racial wise is a totally different race. Totally different adventure. At the same time, I think, Iâm always trying to make the story. This storyâs never been told in the original story, I mean, the original Asian fairy tales.
Yu:Â Â Exactly. So, the audience can always expect something new from Light Chaser. Not a retelling, not to repeat it. Something new has been made.
Ji:Â Â So, I think for me, after these three movies, I’m quite confident with what I already know, but I also found I have a lot of things I don’t know. I think it’s very lucky I’ve gotten a change to [unintelligible]. I grew up at the same time when I [was making the] movie.
Yu:Â Â Yeah, you also become a philosopher. The more you know you know, the more you don’t know. Thatâs very good
Ji:Â Â Yeah, so I’m pretty confident with the next movie, Light Chaser Animation and myself, we all will be better.
Yu:Â Â [unintelligible] it’s a little bit diplomatic but we always believe that will be the next one.
Matthew Swigonski:Â What’s one thing you wish viewers would take away after watching this film? Is there one thing you wish that they would think about or learn something they didn’t realize?
Ji:Â Â Yeah, I think – it’s a good question; itâs good question. I think itâs different, because most of [the audience] I think is the Chinese audience and what they will think. I never [think about] what the audience from the world, what they will think, because the difference is the Chinese audience is familiar with the original story. So, what they will see is the different version of the hero, because [from] their point of view they thought that the hero should be like a hero up in sky. He will be very strong and never lose, and heâll be like a god, a war god. But what we create, that person is more like a human. He really had a lot of –
Yu:Â Â A lot of downtime.
Ji:  Right, Yeah, so probably from a Chinese point of view, they will think every person in their life they have their their high point and also have their down point. But for the people [of the world] I think this movieâŚwe’re trying to make people think our family is always around us [whether] they really are here or they are already in a spirit world. So, they will always be your energy whether theyâre physically next to you or not.
Yu:Â Â Yeah, Thereâs some similarity. You remind me of Coco. When your family member, your grandparents have passed away, actually they didn’t die. They’re still a young man. But here like it was Yang Jian – I’m sure you have all seen the movie – if your mom passed away, she is always around you. Sheâs protecting you; she still carries you, also the world, but it in a bigger sense. Itâs a big love. You love the family; you love the world. Peace, happiness. So, I think that is a universal theme. We hope people no matter where they are they can understand. They can be touched by these feelings, this story.
Ji:Â Â I know we don’t put much [in] talking about that. In the movie you couldn’t see that very obviously. But I think like the like the main character Yang Jian, like the hero, most of his thoughts he never speaks out. That’s just in his mind. When he looked up to the sky in the stars, [heâs] thinking something; he remembers something. I think that’s part of the Asian or oriental people’s experience. We won’t say everything out [loud]. Most of the things probably you just keep in your heart.
Yu:Â Â Yeah that’s more like Asian China. Weâre more kind of introverts. He looks in silence but it’s the feeling, a very strong feeling, expressed by the the very subtle [movements]. Where youâre looking at even very very gentle very small move[ments]. I think these can – I’m sure our audience in China they have got the heavy touch and the love very much. I mean, here with Yang Jian we created a very unique god, different from Monkey King from [unintelligible]. Heâs very human. People, particularly the female audience, they fell in love with Yang Jian. They saw that sheâs a perfect partner, not virtual. So, if a god is lovable or reliable and very real, I think it’s as if we recall what we what we got so far. I think it’s something we can we can draw.
Ephney Tsai:Â Â With the movies being based off of the classical Chinese mythical characters and folklore, how do you choose which god you want to create the story about?
Ji:  Well, very obviously we tried to choose the one [that is] more famous, because we get [a bigger] audience. Probably Nezha, the first one, was the most famous one, and Yang Jian is probably the second. Yeah, that’s probably the number one reason why we chose him. I think this character, Yang Jian, has never been really told as a main character in the media before, and for me I always imagined – because in all the works before Yang Jian is more like two two characters. I don’t know what two characters.
Question:Â Â Like a supporting character?
Ji:Â Â Yeah. supporting character Yes. He’s more like a guy people will have a certain character up there. they’re just like, âOh, we mentioned him. He always like a war god and just always [has the] same face, one poker face.â But I don’t think he’s like that. I think that character has more to tell. Heâs half human, half god. His father is human and his mother is a god. He has to have some part of him human and have the human experience and human heart. We’ve just created the first human Yang Jian in the Chinese hero history.
Suzanne:Â Â Can you tell us about auditioning the English dub cast?
Yu:  We have not – I’m sorry. Actually, probably [our] colleague is more familiar with a casting crewâŚWe haven’t seen –
Ji:Â Â We cannot fly right now [and havenât] for a couple years. That’s why our English sucks right now. We haven’t used it for a long time. So, we actually would really like to be involved in that part. But yeah,
Yu:Â Â Yeah, but we have been working together remotely. I have to say our colleagues did a great job assemble all the dub crew, all the voice actors, and we have seen their work, and we have a high level of confidence that they did a great job. Also like two years ago, we worked together on Whitesnake, and they also [did] a fantastic job. We haven’t seen the whole film yet. But I also look forward to seeing it as well. By the way, have you guys seen the film? We haven’t seen the English dubbed version yet. Have you guys you have seen it? No.
Suzanne:Â Â I saw the subtitled version; they sent me the other one later, and I haven’t gotten around to watching it.
Yu:Â Â Yeah, yeah, I have to say, I’m sure to see the subtitle version is kind of painful, because to read it and understand it is very quite difficult. Very easily you lose track.
Ji:Â Â I think it’s a really hard job to put like Chinese language into an English version; it is a difficult job. Itâs a very difficult job, because a lot of the lines they’re like kind of you know, like points.
Yu:Â Â Yes. Yeah.
Ji:Â Â And it’s hard. It’s easy for the Chinese audience to get, but yeah, I don’t even know how to translate it. And you have to match the
Yu:Â Â Mouth movements.
Ji:Â Â Yeah, the mouths. So, I think they did a very good job, a very beautiful job translating that into English.
Yu:Â Â Yeah. So next week, let’s do some promotion. You guys are more than welcome to join the premiere on January 20.
NEW GODS: YANGÂ JIANÂ will open on January 20 at the following venues and markets
Phoenix (Prescott), AZ
Chandler Fashion Ctr 20
AMC Ahwatukee 24
Touchstar Luxury Cinemas-Sonora Village 9
Arizona Mills 25 with IMAX
Tuscon, AZ
Tucson Spectrum 18
Bakersfield, CA
Valley Plaza 16
Los Angeles, CA
Foothill Center 10
Cerritos 16
Laemmle Glendale
Landmark Westwood
Academy 6
San Francisco, CA
Rohnert Park with Titan XC
CGV San Francisco 14
Denver, CO
AMC Westminster 24 with IMAX, Dolby, Prime
Jacksonville, FL
AMC Regency 24 with IMAX, Dolby
Miami, Florida
AMC Sunset Place 24 with IMAX, Dolby
Orlando, FL
AMC Altamonte Mall 18 with IMAX, Dolby
CW Theaters â Cinemaworld
Tampa, FL
AMC Veterans 24 with IMAX, Dolby
Atlanta, GA
AMC Southlake Pavilion 24 with IMAX, Dolby
Savannah, GA
Royal Cinemas Pooler IMAX
Honolulu, HI
Consolidated Pearlridge West 16
Cons Victoria Ward Stadium 16
Cons Mililani 14 with TITAN LUXE
Chicago, IL
Marcus Addison Cinema 21 with UltraScreen
AMC Niles 12 with IMAX
Kansas City, KS
AMC DINE-IN Studio 28 KC with IMAX,Dolby
Baltimore, MD
AMC White Marsh 16 with IMAX, Dolby
Detroit, MI
Emagine Canton 19 + Super EMAX
Emagine Novi 17 + Super EMAX
Emagine Rochester Hills 13 + EMAX
AMC Forum 30 with IMAX, Dolby
Grand Rapids, MI
Celebration – Grand Rapids North 17 + IMAX
Celebration – Crossroads 15 + IMAX
Lansing, MI
Celebration – Lansing 20 + IMAX
Minneapolis-St.Paul, MN
Emagine Eagan 15 + EMAX
Marcus Oakdale Cinema 17 with UltraScreen
St. Louis, MO
Marcus Ronnie’s 20 Cine + IMAX
Concord, NC
AMC Concord Mills 24 with IMAX, Dolby
Omaha, NE
Marcus Majestic Cinema of Omaha 19
Cherry Hill, NJ
AMC Cherry Hill 24 with IMAX, Dolby
Elizabeth, NJ
AMC Jersey Gardens 20 with IMAX, Dolby
New York, NY
IFC Center
Columbus, OH
Gateway Film Center
Eugene, OR
Broadway Metro
Bensalem, PA
AMC Neshaminy 24 with IMAX, Dolby
Providence, RI
Lincoln Mall 16
Columbia, SC
BTM Dutch Square Cinema 14
Nashville, TN
AMC CLASSIC Murfreesboro 16
Dallas-Ft. Worth, TX
AMC DINE-IN Grapevine 30 w/IMAX, Dolby
AMC DINE-IN Mesquite 30 with IMAX, Dolby
Houston, TX
AMC Gulf Pointe 30 with IMAX, Dolby
AMC Fountains 18 with IMAX
San Antonio, TX
Palladium 19 IMAX + AVX
Salt Lake City, UT
Megaplex Theatres Jordan Commons + IMAX
Megaplex Theatres @ Geneva + IMAX
Megaplex Theatres at Valley Fair Mall + IMAX
Alexandria, VA
AMC Hoffman 22 with IMAX, Dolby
Richmond, VA
BTC Movieland at Blvd Sq 17
Seattle, WA
AMC Southcenter 16 with IMAX, Dolby
Milwaukee, WI
Marcus Majestic Cinema of Brookfield 16 with UltraScreen
Running time: 126 minutes
Thirteen years after Yang Jian (known to some as Erlang Shen) imprisoned his sister beneath a mountain, the once powerful god now scrapes by as a penniless bounty hunter. When a mysterious woman hires him for a new job, Yang Jian soon finds himself chasing down a familiar figure. He must stop Chenxiang, his long-lost nephew, who is in search of the magical lotus lantern that will free his mother, even if it will bring catastrophe. As Yang Jian confronts the actions of his past, he must face a host of dangerous vigilantes seeking the same treasure with the power to alter the balance of their worlds.
This latest entry in the New Gods universe from Light Chaser Animation (White Snake, New Gods: Nezha Reborn) features awe-inspiring action sequences set against breathtaking and wildly imaginative environments. Combining ancient lore with dazzling animation, New Gods: Yang Jian is a timeless adventure of epic proportions featuring one of Chinaâs legendary mythic figures.
DIRECTED BY: ZHAO Ji
SCREENPLAY BY:Â MU Chuan
ENGLISH CAST:Â Nicholas Andrew Louie, Christine Lin, Parry Shen, Luke Naphat Sath & James Sie
GKIDS handles North American distribution for the famed Studio Ghibli library of films, one of the world’s most coveted animation collections with titles Spirited Away, My Neighbor Totoro, Princess Mononoke and others; as well as the critically acclaimed television series, Neon Genesis Evangelion.
GKIDS is also the founder and host of ANIMATION IS FILM, the annual LA-based film festival which embraces the highest aspirations of animation as a cinematic art form, and is a vocal advocate for filmmakers who push the boundaries of the medium to its fullest range of artistic expressions. www.gkids.com
DIRECTOR ZHAO LI
ZHAO Ji studied at the Communication University of China and UCLA. He has nine years of working experience in the field of filmmaking and has participated in the editing of a number of films home and abroad, such as The Karate Kid: The Grandmaster, Swordsmen and Snow Flower and the Secret Fan. Zhao worked as the editor and post-production supervisor of Little Door Gods, Tea Pets, Cats and Peachtopia. Zhao made his directorial debut with co-director Amp Wong on Light Chaser Animationâs 2019 film White Snake, a breakout success in China and an official selection of Animation Is Film. In 2021, Zhao directed New Gods: Nezha Reborn, the first film in Light Chaser Animationâs New Gods universe, which re-imagines classic Chinese mythology. Zhaoâs latest film, New Gods: Yang Jian, is the follow-up to New Gods: Nezha Reborn and the second entrant in Light Chaser Animationâs exciting new world.
Interview with Candace Cameron Bure, Adam Reed and Lino DiSalvo of “Reindeer In Here” on CBS by Suzanne 11/3/22
This is a really good animated Christmas special on CBS. I hope you watch it! This panel was fun but a little confusing at first because they didn’t tell us who would be there, and they put up a photo of the cast right beforehand, which made me think that the cast would all be on the panel. However, most of them weren’t, so that was also disappointing. I was the one asking the first question here, and I was using my tablet, which sometimes only shows part of the panel on the screen if it’s a large group, so that’s why I asked if there were more. Also, one of the panel members has said some controversial remarks since this panel occurred. I hope that no one foregoes watching the special because of her. She plays a very minor role, and the special is very good. It’s based on a book, or series of books, and a new one is coming out, so it has that product tie-in, along with the toys they mentioned.
Here’s the transcript of the panel!
CBSÂ 2022 HOLIDAY PROGRAMMING PANELS
REINDEER IN HERE
Candace Cameron Bure
 Adam Reed, Executive Producer/Creator
 Lino DiSalvo, Executive Producer/Director
 Virtual via Zoom
November 03, 2022
Š 2022 CBS.  All rights reserved.
TRACEY RAAB: Hi, there. I’m Tracey Raab from the CBS communications team. And on behalf of our entire group, we want to thank you for joining us for our holiday collection press day. We’re excited to be adding even more content into our already robust annual slate of animated specials, movies, concerts, and more. Today we have some first looks and great panels on deck and, at the end of our presentation, a sneak peek at a special oneâhour holiday episode of our hit comedy âGhosts.â
Hopefully you all saw the announcements this morning for the cast of our newest animated Christmas special, âReindeer in Here,â and information on a few of our annual traditions: âA Home for the Holidays,â âThe Thanksgiving Day Parade,â and the âNational Christmas Tree Lighting.â Also, we have two special episodes of âThe Greatest At-Home Videosâ for Thanksgiving and the holidays, hosted by Cedric the Entertainer, airing November 11th and December 16th.
Throughout the day, please check your inboxes for a link to video content we hope you will share on your social platforms. And finally, a reminder to use the raise hand function to ask a question during our sessions. We will now begin with our first panel, âReindeer in Here.â Enjoy.
(Clip played.)
KATE FISHER: Hi, everybody. I’m Kate Fisher. On behalf of myself and my counterpart, Victoria Saavedra, we’d like to welcome you to the âReindeer in Hereâ panel. We’re so excited to share a sneak peek today of our new animated holiday entry, a heartwarming tale featuring Blizzard or Blizz, a young reindeer living at the North Pole who bands together with his unique group of friends to save the future of Christmas.
The animation and story line are truly unique, and the special is a wonderful addition to our holiday slate. The special premieres Tuesday, November 29th, on CBS and will stream live and on demand on Paramount+.
Now, please welcome our panelists, star Candace Cameron Bure, executive producer and creator Adam Reed, and executive producer and director Lino DiSalvo. I’ll turn it over to Adam first for some opening remarks and a sneak peek at a scene from the special before taking your questions. Over to you, Adam.
ADAM REED: Hey, everybody. Thanks for having us. We’re super thrilled to be here. You know, just a little quick back story. When I sat down six years ago to write this book, it was out of a need for my own family that I couldn’t find a positive Christmas tradition that also didn’t stress me out as a parent. And so I really kind of sat down and tried to write a story that I felt would be unique and different and you would fall in love with the characters at the most magical time of year and hopefully someday become a Christmas classic.
And when I sat down with my illustrator and we were looking at different reindeers, because, of course, reindeer are the most magical thing outside of Santa, there was one reindeer that we focused on specifically, and that one reindeer had one antler smaller than the other. And that is the hero of our story, Blizzard or Blizz. And the reason is because he’s a different reindeer. Right? And every child at some point in their life feels different, because being different is normal, and our film celebrates the uniqueness of every child and of course shows that Christmas wishes really do come true.
And I will tell you my Christmas wish has come true because I know we announced our amazing ââ our amazing cast this morning. I’m so thrilled to have Adam Devine, Henry Winkler, Candace Cameron Bure, Jo Koy, Donald Faison, Melissa VillaseĂąor, and of course Jim Gaffigan as Santa. So we are so thrilled to be here.
And just to toss to the clip, you’re going to see a little moment here that has almost all of our main characters in it. It has a little bit of funny, a little bit of emotion, and a lot of heart. And we hope you enjoy.
(Clip played.)
KATE FISHER: We’re so thrilled to start taking your questions. As a reminder, if you have a question, please raise your hand in the chat feature and unmute yourself.
QUESTION: Hey. Thanks for talking to us today. Is ââ I can only see four of you on the screen. Is everybody else there? Or is it just the four of you?
KATE FISHER:Â Just the four of us for this panel.
QUESTION: Oh, okay. I was confused. Sorry.
So how long did it take to make this special? I really enjoyed it, by the way. I thought it was very cute and clever. How long did it take to make? And how long did it take for the actors to work on their voices?
LINO DISALVO:Â Adam, you’re muted.
KATE FISHER: Adam, you’re still muted. I should remind the panelists ââ
ADAM REED: Apologies. Sorry, guys.  You know, how long did it take us to make and how long should we have had to make, two different things. Lino, over to you on this one.
LINO DISALVO: Yeah. So we did this in about 13 months. And, you know, you always wish you had a little bit more time, but 13 months. And we had actors ââ well, the thing is, is that going back and forth in total, from casting and finding just the right actors, I would say three ââ three weeks, four weeks.
ADAM REED: And by the way ââ and Candace can speak to this. You know, typically, before COVID times, we would be in the VO booth with all of our actors working with them. And of course, you know, during COVID times, we can’t do that.  So everything was recorded remotely. Candace, do you want to talk about that a second?
CANDACE CAMERON BURE: Oh, sure. Well, we did, I mean, lots of work on the computer over Zoom first, but then went into the recording booth solo. And you guys were all on monitors in the booth with me. And it was really only a day, day and a half, maybe, of working on that. So much fun.
QUESTION:Â And does that include all the animation as well?
LINO DISALVO: Yeah, the animation was about ââ was about eight months.
QUESTION: Cool. Thank you.
LINO DISALVO:Â You’re welcome.
QUESTION: For Adam, I can’t help noticing that this is the exact opposite of Archer in so many ways. I mean, Archer just ripples with cynicism, and this is the precise opposite. So what was it like to go from one to the other? And which one of those two is really you?
ADAM REED: Well, here’s what I’ll tell you. I’m actually not the Adam Reed that created Archer. That is a different Adam Reed, and that Adam Reed and I always get confused. He gets my eâmails; he gets ââ and I get his eâmails. So very, very different. So luckily, to answer your question, this is my only baby.
QUESTION: Okay. And let me ask you, what’s it like for so often people to assume you’re the other Adam Reed? Do you enjoy that or is it weird?
ADAM REED: No, look, we were at the same agency for a long time, and we’ve never actually met. So, you know, it’s just kind of funny.
QUESTION:Â Okay, thanks.
QUESTION: Hi. Question for Lino. Obviously you’ve been a head of animation before this, but I believe this is your first time as director. I was curious to know how different that responsibility has been for you being that you used to lead a team of just animators and now you’re managing the whole pipeline.
LINO DISALVO: Yeah. I love it. I mean, especially that ââ I think when you find a script that speaks to you and feels honest to you and you can relate to the characters, it’s really enjoyable. It’s wonderful. I mean, you know, the team that I was leading at Disney was ââ you know, I would oversee a couple hundred people, and I think the crew on our show was less than 200 people. So, listen, I loved it. Like, as an animator becoming a director and working on a holiday movie, dude, I’m thrilled. I loved it.
QUESTION: Okay. Thank you.
LINO DISALVO:Â Thank you.
QUESTION: Hi. Thanks, Kate. Hi, everyone. Candace, you’ve obviously got a lot going on this holiday season, like a lot. And you’re very associated with another network these days. Do you have a special ââ I don’t know if the word is “out” or “out clause” or whatever ââ in your deal with them that if something like this comes up that’s animation only, it’s okay for you to do it for another firm? And also, did this fit in comfortably with everything else that you’ve got going for this holiday season?
CANDACE CAMERON BURE: So to answer your question, yes. Obviously I’m in the project, so I was ââ I was able to do it. And it’s been a huge dream of mine for a very long time to be in something animated that’s very special. And it was so fitting to ââ for my first animated movie to be in a Christmas one. So that was very exciting for me. And I’m forgetting the second part of your question.
QUESTION: I’m sorry. The “yes” part was to that you have a special out clause with the other network in terms of doing something with animation? Was that what the “yes” was for? I’m sorry. Was that ââ there were two questions. I’m sorry. The “yes” that you gave was to the question about ââ
CANDACE CAMERON BURE: Oh, that, yes, I was able to do this project. And, yep.
QUESTION: And then the other question was ââ I guess the “yes” takes care of both of those. Thank you.
CANDACE CAMERON BURE:Â Okay.
QUESTION: We’re good. Thank you.
ADAM REED: And can I say one thing that is super important? When we started concepting this movie and how it was going to be, the first person we had in mind was Candace. She is obviously the queen of Christmas and just an amazing human being. And so when we created the roles, we ââ you know, she literally was the first person we thought of. And she is so incredible at this role, there is even a little Pinky plush that ââ
CANDACE CAMERON BURE:Â Oh, I have her.
ADAM REED:  ââ everyone is going to love. That is her character and as amazing as she is.
CANDACE CAMERON BURE: Adam, thank you. That was so sweet. I have the little Pinky plush right here. All my nieces are going to get this. And godchildren.
And, yes, I ââ you know, I did remember the second part of your question, if this movie was fitting into all of the other things that I’m doing. And the answer to that is yes. This movie is such a beautiful story that’s so heartwarming and so encouraging to kids to celebrate our uniqueness, and I just ââ I absolutely love it as a mom first and what the message sends. And then of course as an actress, it was just delightful to be in.
QUESTION:Â Thank you.
QUESTION: Hi, everyone. Thanks so much. I love the special. My twoâyearâold daughter has a little reindeer in here. Her name is Ida.
ADAM REED:Â Oh, I love that.
QUESTION: And, yeah, we’ve had her since last year. So she was home sick yesterday, so she actually watched the screener with me, and then all day today, she wants to watch the Ida movie. So I really ââ it was really great.
But I was just wondering, did you ââ because the book is done in, like, obviously a different animation style than the show. Were other animation styles considered when you did the special?
ADAM REED: Well, I want to toss that to Lino in a second. The only thing I want to say is you will see very quickly this year there’s a new vision of the book and plush set. So the art is elevated. It’s a completely new and fresh look. And it was very important that we not only elevate it, but we kept it classic. And when Lino and I first started talking, we wanted to have ââ look, for us, we want this to be a Christmas classic, right? To outlive us all, like Rudolph. So for us, we wanted something that was contemporary but also had classical feels to it and felt handâpainted. And I got to give Lino all the credit for that. He was the one that said, “Look, it’s CGâlooking, but we’re going to handâpaint all these elements.”
Lino, can you give some context to that?
LINO DISALVO: Yeah, yeah, yeah. I wanted to capture the charm of the illustrations from the new book that’s coming out. So, you know, a lot of times in CG, you’ll put this default fur on a character, and it’s very challenging to artâdirect the silhouette of the characters. The two things that’s very common and which makes illustration so appealing is when you handcraft and suggest fur in silhouette, you do the little drawings of a tuft of fur on the elbow.
So you’ll see ââ when you watch Blizz, you’ll notice that he has these little hero elements on him that really stand out and are really handcrafted. And the other is a lot of the times, you know, when two textures meet on a CG character, they kind of blend together. And I wanted to celebrate, again, what the illustration ââ what illustration artists would do, which is maybe use a dry blush to blend in the textures. So when you look at Blizz again, if you look at his nose, like at the top of his nose, there’s a dry brush stroke there.
And, yeah, I really love the idea that the movie is handcrafted and very high quality. We take pride in that.
ADAM REED: And by the way, if you want to be mom of the year, have Ida bring a special new gift, there is ââ we have âReindeer in Hereâ PJs this year and blankets. Yeah, at Target. So they just ââ they just launched and they’re pretty awesome. So maybe an early little Thanksgiving gift from Ida.
QUESTION: Very cool. Thank you.
QUESTION: Certainly. It’s a question for Candace. I’m wondering how you ââ you found the voice. I mean, it’s not that very different from your own voice, but, yet, it does have a distinctness to it. How did you find the voice for the character?
CANDACE CAMERON BURE: Well, that was ââ that was Lino. Really, I didn’t know if I was ââ if they even wanted me to try a different kind of voice. And we worked on that, and they initially were like, “No, we just ââ we really want your voice.” I think my voice is distinctive. I hear a lot from people on the street that they’re not sure if it’s me when they see me, but as soon as they hear my voice, they instantly know that it’s me. And so they really did want my voice. So it was just really working on the delivery of the lines and the little nuances of how we wanted her to be.
And I feel like ââ I feel like Pinky, she’s that ââ she’s that friend that tells it straight, but she has a little bit of a motherly quality to her, or that big sister quality, that she’s still gentle in speaking the truth.
QUESTION:Â Well, it’s a charming character.
CANDACE CAMERON BURE:Â Thank you.
KATE FISHER: We have another question actually for Adam. Adam, what has been your favorite part about bringing the book to life?
ADAM REED: Oh, my gosh. That’s a great question. Truly, that we get the opportunity to ââ for everybody in the world to see this. For every child at the most magical time of year to celebrate their uniqueness and their differences, to me, is the most important thing. And certainly my Christmas wish, the only thing I ever wished for was that ââ at some point in every child’s life, they feel different, and to celebrate those uniquenesses at the most magical time of year is all I could wish for, and the fact that this is happening is just all still surreal.
KATE FISHER: Thank you. And a question actually for Candace. What was one of the defining reasons you agreed to be part of the animated movie?
CANDACE CAMERON BURE: Well, one of my ââ my longtime friends ââ I have a very close friendship with Jonathan Koch, who’s a part of this movie. And then meeting with Adam. They ââ I talked to both of them, and I was very excited once I heard about the project. But after I read the script, I was like, “Oh, I’m in. Please. Anything. Like, anything that I can do, I would love to be a part of it.”
QUESTION: Thank you. Candace, I’m just curious. We know you so well for all these holiday projects. Has this been a case of you just wanting to do that because you love Christmas so much? Or do you find that when people start talking about Christmas projects, they think of you automatically? And is there a point where you ever went, “Gosh, I’d just like to do an Arbor Day movie”?
(Laughter.)
CANDACE CAMERON BURE: Christmas truly is my favorite holiday of the year. I’m a woman of faith, so there’s no bigger holiday than to celebrate Christmas. I love that I’ve become synonymous with Christmas because of the movies that I’ve done over the past 15 years. So it’s a great joy for me.
But, again, I’ve dreamed of being a part of a classic animated movie for a very long time. And when I was ââ was offered and pitched this project, it was just, I mean, even more magical for the fact that it was Christmas and it’s for children. I ââ you know, I’m a mom of three and I’ve written several children’s books myself.
So all ââ just the culmination of everything was a noâbrainer and ââ and just a delight to be a part of. So I’m ââ I’m happy ââ I’m happy to be, you know, a part of people’s Christmas traditions hopefully for years to come.
QUESTION:Â Thank you.
QUESTION: Yes. For Candace, when you do a regular holiday film, you’re dressed up in the holiday outfits and your makeup, and you’ve got the surroundings of Christmas. How did you get yourself into the holiday spirit for doing this when it’s ââ it wasn’t all decorated ââ set wasn’t decorated?
CANDACE CAMERON BURE: Oh, well, this was so exciting for me. I remember leaving the booth where ââ after recording the voices, and I was just like on the biggest high from recording these. I don’t think I need to have the surroundings of Christmas to feel like I’m in the Christmas spirit. I feel like I’m in Christmas 24/7 because I’m constantly ââ you know, 365 days a year, because I’m always reading Christmas scripts and always developing the next Christmas movies, whether I’m starring in them or producing them.
But it was ââ animation is just a whole different ball game and very new for me. So to be able to voice a character, to see some images on a screen, but then work with such an incredible director as Lino who really just pulled all different kinds of just different performances out of me through the character was so incredibly exciting. And I think that was ââ that’s a challenge as an actor when you are in front of the camera and you’re not used to doing things off camera. Everything about your voice has to change because people don’t get to see your facial expressions. They don’t get to see your hand movements. And I’m a big ââ I move. I had to move around that room. I had to move around the booth and really perform it as an actor. But you have to make sure that it all carries through your voice and you can’t rely on your body.
KATE FISHER: Thank you so much. I’m just going to ask Adam to maybe make a few final remarks to close our panel.
ADAM REED: Sure. Look, Candace and Lino and everybody at CBS, thank you. Look, this movie and the âReindeer in Hereâ tradition is really to celebrate the uniqueness of every child and show that Christmas wishes really do come true, not only at the most magical time of year, but yearâround. And this movie, we have created not only to be a Christmas classic that I hope outlives us all, but also is meant for the whole family. This is not just for children. It is funny. It works for adults. It works for children. You can really sit down with your entire family. And the adults will pick up on things that children don’t, and maybe vice versa. But we really hope you enjoy. And thank you, everybody. I’d encourage you to watch the whole film. And thanks for having us. We’re excited to share this tradition with the world.
KATE FISHER:Â Thank you so much to our panelists and journalists for participating in our âReindeer in Hereâ panel.
âREINDEER IN HEREÂŽâ ANNOUNCES THE STAR-STUDDED CAST BEHIND THE NEW ONE-HOUR ANIMATED HOLIDAY SPECIAL, PREMIERING TUESDAY, NOV. 29, ON CBS
Cast Led by Adam Devine, Jim Gaffigan, Melissa VillaseĂąor, Henry Winkler, Candace Cameron Bure, Donald Faison, Jo Koy, Gabriel Bateman and Brooke Monroe Conaway
Click HERE for REINDEER IN HERE Voice Cast Graphic
CBS announced today the star-studded voices behind the new CBS Original animated holiday special REINDEER IN HEREÂŽ, which premieres Tuesday, Nov. 29 (9:01-10:01 PM, PT/ET), on the CBS Television Network and will be available to stream live and on demand on Paramount+*. The one-hour special, filled with joy and magic for the whole family, will immediately follow the beloved holiday classic RUDOLPH THE RED-NOSED REINDEER (8:00-9:01 PM, ET/PT).
REINDEER IN HEREâs cast includes Adam Devine voicing Blizzard âBlizz;â Jim Gaffigan voicing Santa; Melissa VillaseĂąor voicing Candy; Henry Winkler voicing Smiley; Candace Cameron Bure voicing Pinky; Donald Faison voicing Bucky; Jo Koy voicing Hawk; Gabriel Bateman voicing Theo; and Brooke Monroe Conaway voicing Isla.
Based on the award-winning Christmas book and plush set created by acclaimed author Adam Reed, written for the screen by Greg Erb & Jason Oremland, and directed by former head of animation for Walt Disney Animation Studios Lino DiSalvo, REINDEER IN HERE is the heartwarming story of how Blizzard (Blizz), a young reindeer who has one antler that is significantly smaller than the other, and his unique group of friends band together to save the future of Christmas. In doing so, they unknowingly create a magical holiday tradition like none other.
“Constantine: The House of Mystery” Review by Suzanne 4/30/22
Although John Constantine and his story are in the title and cover of this DVD, it’s really four, short animated specials from DC Showcase (a comic book and DVD series). You’ll notice that at the very top of the DVD, in tiny letters, it says “DC Showcase Animated Shorts.” I would buy it, anyway, just for the great Constantine story. I love this character and his portrayer, Matt Ryan. They probably focused on the Constantine story because the character is more well known that the others.
This is a good story that takes place after the animated movie, “Justice League Dark: Apokolips War.” I haven’t seen that one, but now I’m going to have to watch it. That one ends on a sad note, apparently, and “House of Mystery” begins with Constantine telling us about how he tried to reverse what happened, using magic, and with the help of The Flash. The Spectre then sends him to the house, where he’s tortured. It’s a very good story. Unfortunately, it also has a sad ending, but it’s also not a very satisfying ending. I hope they make a sequel, so we can find out what really happened. This story is a bit dark; I would not let a child watch it because it might be too scary for them. Teens should enjoy it, though.
The second short is about Kamandi, The Last Boy on Earth. I used to read that comic back in the 70’s, so I’m happy to watch this short. It has a really cool ending that I loved, too. Kamandi and his tiger friend Prince Tuftan are captured by a gorilla cult and forced to undergo a series of dangerous trials to determine if any of them is The Mighty One. It’s better than it sounds! Cameron Monaghan (“Gotham”) plays Kamandi. Each of these shorts is done in a different style. The story here has a sort of Tarzan-meets-Planet-of-the-Apes vibe. It’s safe for kids, too.
The third short stars the WWII soldiers group called “The Losers.” I may have read some of their comics growing up. They sound vaguely familiar. This cartoon is very violent. Many people and beasts are murdered. The ending is horrible. I can’t imagine why anyone would like it. The Losers and some Chinese soldiers crash on a mysterious island with dinosaurs. The best thing about this is the cast: Dean Winters plays Captain Storm; Ming-Na Wen plays Fan Long; and Eugene Byrd plays Henry ‘Mile a Minute’ Jones. I recognized WInters’ voice right away. I’ve interviewed both him and Byrd before, and Wen is always terrific. This fine cast is wasted, but at least the animation was done very well.
The last one is the most fun. “Blue Beetle” was made in a campy 60’s style that will remind you of cartoons you watched on Saturday morning, as well as shows like the original “Batman.” I really laughed out loud with this one. Blue Beetle is accompanied by a character called The Question. I don’t recall if I ever read Blue Beetle comics or not. He was around in the 30’s (long before my time) and then was in Charlton Comics in the 60’s, which I may or may not have read. This is the best of the four shorts. The Blue Beetle tries to apprehend some villains who stole a large diamond. The Question aids him in tracking it down. They deduce that Doctor Spectro is controlling the other bad guys and have to defeat him to save the world from his mind control.
There’s also a special feature that tells about the shorts and how they made them. It’s very interesting. You should check out this DVD as it’s worth having for any fan of comics or animation – especially DC fans.
CONSTANTINE â THE HOUSE OF MYSTERY
ANCHORS NEW COLLECTION OF
DC SHOWCASE ANIMATED SHORTS
COMPILATION SPOTLIGHTS KAMANDI, THE LOSERS & BLUE BEETLE;
COMING TO BLU-RAY⢠AND DIGITAL ON 5/3/22
Warner Bros. Animation continues to glean beloved characters from DCâs robust library for the popular DC Showcase line of animated shorts, this time opting to elevate Constantine, Kamandi, The Losers, and Blue Beetle in the 2021-2022 compilation release, DC Showcase â Constantine: The House of Mystery. The R-rated shorts collection will be available from Warner Bros. Home Entertainment on Blu-ray (USA $24.99 SRP; Canada $29.99 SRP) and in 4K on Digital starting May 3, 2022.
Produced by Warner Bros. Animation, DC and Warner Bros. Home Entertainment, and inspired by characters and stories from the iconic DC Universe, the all-new quartet of DC Showcase shorts are produced by Rick Morales (Mortal Kombat Legends franchise, Injustice). Jim Krieg is producer, and Sam Register is executive producer.
While Kamandi: The Last Boy on Earth!, The Losers and Blue Beetle have all appeared as enhanced content on past DC Universe Movies, the extended-length Constantine â The House of Mystery makes its public debut as the anchor for this dynamic shorts compilation.
Matt Ryan (Constantine, Legends of Tomorrow) reprises his live-action and animated role as the Hellblazer himself in Constantine â The House of Mystery. In the all-new short, John Constantine wakes up in the eerie House of Mystery with no recollection of how he got there. Fortunately, Zatanna and his friends are all there. Unfortunately, they have a bad habit of turning into demons and ripping him to shreds, over and over again! Camilla Luddington (Greyâs Anatomy) and Ray Chase (Licorice Pizza) reprise their roles from Justice League Dark: Apokolips War as Zatanna and Jason Blood/Etrigan, respectively, while Robin Atkin Downes (The Strain) and Damian OâHare (Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl) reprise their roles from Constantine: City of Demons as Negral and Chas, respectively. In addition, Grey Griffin (Scooby-Doo franchise) and Lou Diamond Phillips (La Bamba, Longmire, Young Guns) join the cast of the short, which is directed by Matt Peters (Injustice) from a script by Ernie Altbacker (Batman: Hush).
Also included in the animated shorts collection are:
KAMANDI: THE LAST BOY ON EARTH!
Directed by Matt Peters (Justice League Dark: Apokolips War) from a script written by Paul Giacoppo (Young Justice, Star Wars: Resistance), Kamandi: The Last Boy on Earth! was initially released as a bonus feature on Justice Society: World War II in Spring 2021. Jack Kirbyâs beloved DC comic creation features the last civilized teenage boy on a post-apocalyptic Earth ruled by talking animals. In this short, Kamandi and his friends Prince Tuftan of the Tiger Kingdom and humanoid mutant Ben Boxer are kidnapped by a gorilla cult dedicated to finding the reincarnation of their god, The Mighty One. Golgan, the cultâs leader, puts Kamandiâs team through a series of deadly tests to find if any of them know the secret of The Mighty One. The thriller features the voices of Cameron Monaghan (Gotham, Shameless) as Kamandi, Steve Blum (Star Wars: Rebels, Cowboy Bebop, Naruto franchise) as Golgan & Tuftan, Adam Gifford (Masters of the Universe: Revelation) as Zuma, and Armen Taylor (Justice Society: World War II) as Ben Boxer.
THE LOSERS
The legendary rag-tag team of World War II outcasts â Captain Storm, Johnny Cloud, âMile-a-Minuteâ Jones, rookie Gunner and Sarge â find themselves marooned on an uncharted island in the South Pacific that is completely overrun with dinosaurs! Their would-be ally on this deadly mission, the mysterious and beautiful Fan Long of the Chinese Security Agency, tells them their job is to rescue the scientists that have been sent to study a time/space anomaly. Perhaps⌠but what is her mission? Ming-Na Wen (Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., The Book of Boba Fett) leads the cast as the mysterious Fan. Along for the journey is Dean Winters (John Wick, 30 Rock) as Captain Storm, Dave B. Mitchell (Mortal Kombat Legends: Battle of the Realms) as Gunner & Sarge, Eugene Byrd (Bones, Arrow) as Mile-a-Minute Jones, and Martin Sensmeier (Westworld, The Magnificent Seven) as Johnny Cloud. Initially included as a bonus feature on Batman: The Long Halloween, Part One, The Losers is directed by Milo Neuman (LEGO DC Comics Super Heroes: The Flash) from a script by Tim Sheridan (Batman: The Long Halloween).
BLUE BEETLE
Sufferinâ Scarabs! Silver Age Blue Beetle is back! And had he ever starred in a 1960s Saturday-morning limited-animation cartoon with its own jazzy earworm of a theme song, it would have been just like this short! Welcome to the adventures of Ted Kord, alias the Blue Beetle, as he teams up with fellow Super Heroes Captain Atom, The Question and Nightshade to battle that nefarious finagler of feelings, Doctor Spectro. Matt Lanter (Timeless, Star Wars: The Clone Wars, 90210) stars as Blue Beetle alongside Jeff Bennett (Johnny Bravo, Curious George) as Captain Atom & Pops, Ashly Burch (The Ghost and Molly McGee) as Nightshade, David Kaye (Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, He-Man and the Masters of the Universe) as The Question, and Tom Kenny (SpongeBob SquarePants) as Dr. Spectro. Originally attached to Batman: The Long Halloween, Part Two, Blue Beetle is directed by Milo Neuman (Freedom Fighters: The Ray) from a screenplay by Jennifer Keene (Phineas and Ferb) based on a story by Jeremy Adams (Mortal Kombat Legends franchise).
Launched in 2010, DC Showcase was originally comprised of four animated shorts: The Spectre (2/23/2010), Jonah Hex (7/27/2010), Green Arrow (9/28/2010) and Superman/Shazam: The Return of Black Adam (11/9/2010). An additional short, Catwoman (10/18/2011), was attached the following year to the release of Batman: Year One. For 2019-2020, DC Showcase returned with five shorts: Sgt. Rock (8/6/2019) Death (10/22/2019), The Phantom Stranger (3/17/2020), Adam Strange (5/19/2020), and the interactive Batman: Death in the Family (10/13/2020).
DC Showcase: Constantine â The House of Mystery â Special Features
Blu-ray and Digital
⢠DC Showcase: One Story at a Time (New Featurette) â Since the 1993 debut of Batman: Mask of the Phantasm, Warner Bros. Animation has revolutionized and mastered the feature film world with their critically successful DC Universe Movies and DC Animated Movies. In 2010, the creative team hit upon the idea of presenting some of the more under-utilized DC characters in shorter stories â and thus, the DC Showcase was born. The shorts program has provided a fertile venue for creators and animators to explore the vast array of DCâs diverse heroes, worlds and universes, and gives audiences a taste of their infinite possibilities. Featuring some big names as well as the deeper cuts, these short films reflect different styles and sensibilities, and are inspired by renown creators like Jack Kirby, Steve Ditko and Alan Moore. This documentary takes a look at the roots of DC Showcase â from Catwoman and Sgt. Rock to Death and Superman/Shazam: The Return of Black Adam, as well as the current quartet of shorts. Included are interviews with producer Rick Morales and directors Matt Peters & Milo Neuman as they explore the featured heroes and villains, the comics that inspired them, and these adventuresâ place in the bigger picture of the DC animated universe.
About Warner Bros. Home Entertainment, Inc.:
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment (WBHE) brings together Warner Bros. Entertainmentâs physical and digital distribution businesses in order to maximize current and next-generation distribution scenarios. An industry leader since its inception, WBHE oversees the global distribution of content through packaged goods (Blu-ray Disc⢠and DVD) and digital media in the form of electronic sell-through and video-on-demand via cable, satellite, online and mobile channels. WBHE distributes its product through third party retail partners and licensees.
ABOUT DC
DC, a WarnerMedia Company, creates iconic characters, enduring stories, and immersive experiences that inspire and entertain audiences of every generation around the world and is one of the worldâs largest publishers of comics and graphic novels. As a creative division, DC is charged with strategically integrating its stories and characters across film, television, consumer products, home entertainment, interactive games, DC UNIVERSE INFINITE digital subscription service and community engagement portal. For more information visit dccomics.com and dcuniverseinfinite.com.
CONSTANTINE and all related characters and elements are TM and Š DC. Š 2022 Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.
About Warner Bros. Animation
Warner Bros. Animation (WBA) is one of the leading producers of animation in the entertainment industry, producing and developing projects for multiple platforms, both domestically and internationally. WBAâs current series include Animaniacs for Hulu, Green Eggs and Ham and Wings of Fire for Netflix, Aquaman: King of Atlantis, Batman: Caped Crusader, Batwheels, Gremlins: Secrets of the Mogwai, Harley Quinn, Jellystone!, Little Ellen, Looney Tunes Cartoons, My Adventures with Superman, Tiny Toons Looniversity, Tom and Jerry in New York, Velma and Young Justice for HBO Max, DC Super Hero Girls, Teen Titans Go!, ThunderCats Roar for Cartoon Network, Dorothy and the Wizard of Oz, Scooby-Doo! and Guess Who?, The Tom and Jerry Show and Yabba-Dabba Dinosaurs! for Boomerang. WBA is also in production on a series of animated longform movie specials for ACME Night, WarnerMedia Kids & Familyâs family programming block on Cartoon Network and HBO Max. Programs include Did I Do that to the Holidays? A Steve Urkel Story, Merry Little Batman and an Untitled Looney Tunes Cartoons movie. The studio is currently in production with New Line Cinema on the upcoming original anime feature film, The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim. WBAâs full-length theatrical film, Teen Titans GO! to the Movies, was released in summer 2018. As home to the iconic animated characters from the DC, Hanna-Barbera, MGM and Looney Tunes libraries, WBA also produces highly successful animated films â including the DC Universe Movies â for DVD, Blu-rayÂŽ and digital media. One of the most-honored animation studios in history, WBA has won six Academy AwardsÂŽ, 40 EmmyÂŽ Awards, the George Foster Peabody Award, a BAFTA Childrenâs Award, an Environmental Media Award, a Parentsâ Choice Award, the HUMANITAS Prize, two Prism Awards and 21 Annie Awards (honoring excellence in animation).
About WarnerMedia
WarnerMedia is a leading media and entertainment company that creates and distributes premium and popular content from a diverse array of talented storytellers and journalists to global audiences through its consumer brands, including: HBO, HBO Max, Warner Bros., TNT, TBS, truTV, CNN, DC, New Line, Cartoon Network, Adult Swim, Turner Classic Movies and others. WarnerMedia is part of AT&T Inc. (NYSE:T).
“Rick and Morty Seasons 1 – 5” Review by Suzanne 3/25/22
This is a very popular show, but it’s never been one of my favorites. I don’t like the animation, for one thing. I find this type of animation too crude and gross for my tastes. However, the animation style is similar to the style of humor as well. I’m probably just the wrong age to enjoy it because younger people are the ones that love it.
If you’re a fan of the show, you will no doubt love this 5-season set. on regular DVD or Blu-ray. It is a huge set that has many features for each season. It is well worth the price. However, since the show is still running, you might want to save your money and wait until the whole series finishes to buy the big set. If you’re a serious collector, though, you’ll want both.
Adult Swimâs Two-Time EmmyÂŽ Award Winning Series
Brings Home an Out-of-this-World Box Set
Rick and Morty: Seasons 1-5
OOH WEE! Own All the Antics on Blu-ray⢠& DVD March 29, 2022
BURBANK, CA (January 24, 2021) From creators Justin Roiland (âSolar Oppositesâ) and Dan Harmon (âCommunityâ), go on an intergalactic adventure across the multi-verse with the epic release of the Rick and Morty: Seasons 1-5 boxed set on Blu-ray⢠and DVD from Warner Bros. Home Entertainment on March 29, 2022. Get Schwifty while you binge on one of cables #1 watched comedies – and follow the misadventures of Americaâs favorite crazy scientist and his grandchildren with this outrageous boxed set which includes all 51 episodes from the first five seasons of the award-winning series, along with copious special features, including audio commentary, deleted scenes, âInside the Episodeâ segments, numerous featurettes, past animatic sketches, and more. For a limited time, fans who purchase the set will receive an exclusive poster from the series. Rick and Morty: Seasons 1-5 is priced to own at $89.99 SRP for the Blu-ray ($99.99 in Canada), which includes a Digital Copy (U.S. only) and $79.99 SRP for the DVD ($89.99 in Canada). Rick and Morty is also available to own on Digital via purchase from digital retailers.
Rick and Morty is the critically acclaimed, half-hour animated hit comedy series on Adult Swim that follows a sociopathic genius scientist who drags his inherently timid grandson on insanely dangerous adventures across the universe. Rick Sanchez is living with his daughter Bethâs family and constantly bringing her, his son-in-law Jerry, granddaughter Summer, and grandson Morty into intergalactic escapades. Rick and Morty stars Justin Roiland (âSolar Oppositesâ), Sarah Chalke (âScrubsâ), Chris Parnell (âSaturday Night Liveâ), and Spencer Grammer (âGreekâ). The series is created by Dan Harmon (âCommunityâ) and Roiland who also serve as executive producers.
With Blu-rayâs unsurpassed picture and sound, Rick and Morty: Season 1-5 Blu-ray release will include 1080p Full HD Video with DTS-HD Master Audio for English 5.1. Featuring all 51 episodes from seasons 1-5 in high definition, as well as a digital code of the seasons (available in the U.S. only).
ABOUT DIGITAL
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BONUS FEATURES
Season 1
Commentaries for Every Episode
Animatics for Every Episode
Behind the Scenes
Deleted Scenes
Season 2
Commentaries for Every Episode
Animatics for Every Episode
Deleted Animatic Sketches
Rick and Morty Season 2 Premiere Party Featuring Chaos Chaos
Season 3
Commentaries for Every Episode
Animatics for Every Episode
âInside the Episodeâ for Every Episode
Exclusive âInside the Recording Boothâ
Origins of Rick and Morty Part 1 & 2
Season 4
âA Day at Rick and Mortyâ: Inside Season 4
âInside the Episodeâ for Every Episode
Creating Snake Jazz
Directing Rick and Morty
Samurai and Shogun
Prop Process
Character Creation
Animation Challenges
Season 5
“Fighting Gravity”: The Making of Season 5
âInside the Episodeâ for Every Episode
B-Story Generator Vol. 1 & Vol. 2
Backgrounds
Animation and Compositing
Coloring Rick and Morty:
Directing ‘Mortyplicity’ & ‘Rickmurai Jack
Season 5 Hype
51 (22 Minute) EPISODES
Season 1
Pilot
Lawnmower Dog
Anatomy Park
M. Night Shaym-Aliens!
Meeseeks and Destroy
Rick Potion #9
Raising Gazorpazorp
Rixty Minutes
Something Ricked This Way Comes
Close Rick-Counters of the Rick Kind
Ricksy Business
Season 2
A Rickle in Time
Mortynight Run
Auto Erotic Assimilation
Total Rickcall
Get Schwifty
The Ricks Must Be Crazy
Big Trouble In Little Sanchez
Interdimensional Cable 2: Tempting Fate
Look Whoâs Purging Now
The Wedding Squanchers
Season 3
The Rickshank Rickdemption
Rickmancing the Stone
Pickle Rick
Vindicators 3: The Return of Worldender
The Whirly Dirly Conspiracy
Rest and Ricklaxation
The Ricklantis Mixup
Mortyâs Mind Blowers
The ABCâs of Beth
The Rickchurian Mortydate
Season 4
Edge of Tomorty: Rick Die Rickpeat
The Old Man and the Seat
One Crew over the Crewcooâs Morty
Claw and Hoarder: Special Ricktimâs Morty
Rattlerstar Ricklactica
Never Ricking Morty
Promotyus
The Vat of Acid Episode
Childrick of Mort
Star Morty Rickturn of the Jerri
Season 5
Mort Dinner Rick Andre
Mortyplicity
A Rickconvenient Mort
Rickdependence Spray
Amortycan Grickfitti
Rick & Morty‘s Thanksploitation Spectacular
Gotron Jerrysis Rickvangelion
Rickternal Friendshine of the Spotless Mort
Forgetting Sarick Mortshall
Rickmurai Jack
BASICS
Release Date: March 29, 2022
Presented in 16×9 widescreen format
Total Runtime: Approx. 1139
10 DVD-9 / 5 BD-50
Audio – English (5.1)
Subtitles – English SDH
Rated: TV-MA
DVD Price: $79.99 SRP ($89.99 in Canada)
Blu-ray Price: $89.99 SRP ($99.99 in Canada)
About Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Inc.
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment (WBHE) brings together Warner Bros. Entertainment’s home video, digital distribution and interactive entertainment businesses in order to maximize current and next-generation distribution scenarios. An industry leader since its inception, WBHE oversees the global distribution of content through packaged goods (Blu-ray Disc⢠and DVD) and digital media in the form of electronic sell-through and video-on-demand via cable, satellite, online and mobile channels, and is a significant developer and publisher for console and online video game titles worldwide. WBHE distributes its product through third party retail partners and licensees.
About Warner Bros. Global Kids, Young Adults and Classics (GKYAC)
Warner Bros. Global Kids, Young Adults and Classics (GKYAC) brings together Cartoon Network, Adult Swim, Boomerang and Turner Classic Movies (TCM), as well as Cartoon Network Studios and Warner Bros. Animation. Among the iconic franchises, series and characters under the GKYAC banner are Looney Tunes, DCâs animated Super Heroes, Rick and Morty, Craig of the Creek, the classic Hanna-Barbera library, Tom and Jerry, Scooby-Doo, Warner Bros.â unrivaled film library, and many more.
GKYACâs mission is to be the premier global provider of kids, family, young adults, and classics content and brands. The groupâs programming supplies unique and compelling content for HBO MAX, WarnerMediaâs direct-to-consumer platform. Uniting these award-winning networks and innovative brands helps maximize opportunities and growth potential, both as standalone businesses and as content generators, to drive and support its franchises, cross-studio initiatives as well as ratings.
Warner Bros. GKYACâs content is currently distributed in 192 countries around the world and the divisionâs networks are in 500 million homes, delivered through more than 65 channels in 31 languages.
About Adult Swim
Adult Swim (AdultSwim.com), launched in 2001, is WarnerMediaâs #1 brand for young adults offering original and acquired animated and live-action series. Airing nightly from 8 p.m. to 6 a.m. (ET/PT) on its linear channel, and also available through HBO Max, Adult Swim is basic cable’s #1 network with persons 18-34 and 18-49, and is seen in 94 million U.S. homes, reaching over 40 million viewers via HBO Max.
About WarnerMedia
WarnerMedia is a leading media and entertainment company that creates and distributes premium and popular content from a diverse array of talented storytellers and journalists to global audiences through its consumer brands including: HBO, HBO Now, HBO Max, Warner Bros., TNT, TBS, truTV, CNN, DC, New Line, Cartoon Network, Adult Swim, Turner Classic Movies and others. Warner Media is part of AT&T Inc. (NYSE:T).
“The Batman: The Complete Series” (2004) (Blu-ray + Digital) Review by Suzanne 2/25/22
This is one of the best Batman animated series. The first great series was “Batman: The Animated Series,” which ran from 1992-1995. It was groundbreaking in terms of animation, story and Batman mythos. This series was also very good, but they did a completely different take on Batman. This Batman is younger. Batman, Alfred, Robin, Barbara and The Penguin are not big name actors, but they do a fantastic job. Rino Romano is great as Bruce/Batman. Alastair Duncan voices Alfred, who is very droll. Most of the rest ARE voiced by actors you’ve heard of, such as Ming-Na Wen, Mitch Pileggi, Gina Gershon, and Jason Marsden.
They really do a fantastic job of bringing out all of the characters and their personalities. If you haven’t seen this one, you should. It would also make a great gift. The Blu-ray version has many great features that I enjoyed watching. The new featurette, “The Dark Dynasty Continues,” explains all about the making of the series. It’s really informative and interesting.
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment has officially announced that it will release on Blu-ray The Batman: The Complete Series. The six-disc box set will be available for purchase on February 1.
Official studio description: The early years of the Caped Crusader get a closer examination as Warner Bros. Home Entertainment (WBHE) brings the fully-remastered The Batman: The Complete Series to Blu-ray for the very first time. Produced by Warner Bros. Animation and DC, the 65-episode box set will be distributed by WBHE on Blu-ray+Digital ($69.99 SRP) in the United States, and a Blu-ray only package ($79.98 SRP) in Canada.
The six-time Emmy Award-winning series premiered on September 11, 2004 on Kids’ WB before eventually shifting to Cartoon Network for subsequent seasons. The Batman: The Complete Series follows 20-something-year-old Bruce Wayne’s early adventures as he balances his daytime persona as a bachelor billionaire with his nighttime guise as a caped crimefighter. Along the way, Batman is joined by allies Robin and Batgirl as they combat Gotham City’s Rogues’ Gallery, including updated versions of his familiar foes as well as a bevy of rarely seen villains like Killer Moth and The Everywhere Man. Join one of the most complex and intriguing character in comic book history for action-packed super heroic adventures that test the limits of this legendary character’s extraordinary physical prowess and super-sleuthing skills.
Executive Producer Alan Burnett led an extremely talented team that included producers Glen Murakami, Jeff Matsuda and Linda Steiner, and supervising producers Michael Goguen and Duane Capizzi. Brandon Vietti anchored a group of eight series directors, while the episode writers featured an all-star roster of scribes including Bob Goodman, Paul Dini, Stan Berkowitz, Steven Melching, Greg Weisman, Joseph Kuhr, Michael Jelenic, Jane Espenson, Paul Giacoppo and Len Uhley.
Rino Romano (Spider-Man Unlimited, Curious George) heads the cast as the voice of Bruce Wayne/Batman. Romano is joined by Evan Sabara (The Polar Express) as Dick Grayson/Robin, Danielle Judovits (Naruto: ShippĂťden) as Barbara Gordon/Batgirl, Kevin Michael Richardson (The Simpsons, American Dad!) as the Joker, Ming-Na Wen (Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., The Book of Boba Fett) as Detective Ellen Yin, Tom Kenny (SpongeBob SquarePants) as The Penguin, Clancy Brown (The Shawshank Redemption, Dexter: New Blood) as Mr. Freeze, Alastair Duncan (Batman: The Long Halloween) as Alfred, Gina Gershon (Face/Off, Showgirls) as Catwoman, Jason Marsden (Transformers: Rescue Bots, Young Justice) as Firefly, Steve Harris (The Practice) as Detective Ethan Bennett/Clayface, Mitch Pileggi (The X-Files) as Commissioner James Gordon, and Adam West (Batman) as Mayor Grange.
Stars of cinema and primetime television populate the voice cast, which featured Louis Gossett Jr. (Lucius Fox), Mark Hamill (Tony Zucco), Chris Pratt (Jake), Dana Delany (Lois Lane), Ron Perlman (Killer Croc), George Newbern (Superman), Brooke Shields (Julie), Robert Englund (The Riddler), Brandon Routh (Everywhere Man), Peter MacNicol (Dr. Kirk Langstrom), Frank Gorshin (Hugo Strange), Diedrich Bader (Captain Slash), Patrick Warburton (Cash Tankinson), Jerry O’Connell (Nightwing), Dorian Harewood (Martian Manhunter), Billie Hayes (Georgia), Wallace Langham (Basil Karlo), Gwendoline Yeo (Mercy Graves), Edward James Olmos (Chief Angel Rojas), Christopher Gorham (William Mallery), Xander Berkeley (Paul), James Remar (Black Mask), John Larroquette (Mirror Master), Patton Oswalt (Cosmo Krank), Fred Willard (Instructor), Robert Patrick (Hawkman), Dermot Mulroney (Green Lantern), Keone Young (Hideo Katsu), Ian Abercrombie (Ewan), Dave Foley (Francis Grey), Miguel Ferrer (Sinestro), Henry Gibson (Bagley), Edie McClurg (Mrs. Brown), David Faustino (David), Kevin Grevioux (Solomon Grundy) and Glenn Shadix (Artie Brown).
In addition, the series featured a who’s who of popular actors destined for the voice actor hall of fame, including Phil LaMarr, Hynden Walch, Kevin Conroy, Jeff Bennett, Daran Norris, Lex Lang, Dan Castellaneta, Grey Griffin, Charlie Schlatter, Will Friedle, Townsend Coleman, Kath Soucie, Peter Jessop, Rob Paulsen, Maurice LaMarche, Jim Meskimen, Jim Cummings, Jennifer Hale, John DiMaggio, Cathy Cavadini, Bumper Robinson, Dee Bradley Baker, Carlos Alazraqui and Patrick Seitz.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
NEW The Dark Dynasty Continues (Featurette) â Explore the relationship between The Batman and his allies as he evolves from mysterious vigilante to the World’s Greatest Detective.
Joining Forces: The Batman’s Legendary Team-Ups (Featurette) â How the series’ producers adapted the DC “Team-Up-Tales” approach from the comic books to the screen.
The Batman Junior Detective Challenge (Quiz) â Alfred tests your detective skills with The Batman: The Complete Series challenge.
The Batman Junior Detective Exam: Level 2 (Quiz) â Pass The Batman test of knowledge with the level 2 exam.
Building Batman (Featurette) â Detective Ellen Yin investigates The Batman’s true identity.
Gotham PD Case Files (Featurette) â Highly confidential profiles of The Batman’s most dastardly foes.
New Look, New Direction, New Knight (Featurette) â Go behind the scenes to explore the development of The Batman television series.
The Batman: Season 3 Unmasked (Featurette) â Supervising Producer Duane Capizzi talks about the animated series.
The Batman: Season 4 Unmasked (Featurette) â A behind the scenes look into the making of Season 4.
Interview with actress Jessica Henwick, producers and directors of “Bladerunner: Black Lotus” on Adult Swim by Suzanne 9/21/21
This is a great animated series that premieres November 13 on Adult Swim (Cartoon Network). I don’t watch much anime, but I loved the “Bladerunner” movies, and this is as good as the original movie (if not better). The way the people move is very realistic – not at all like a regular animated show. The two directors, who are Japanese, were translated by the producers in this TCA panel.
Blade Runner: Black Lotus
Jason DeMarco (SVP, Anime/Action WarnerMedia), Shinji Aramaki (Co-Director), Kenji Kamiyama (Co-Director), Joseph Chou (Producer), Andrew Kosove (Producer)and Jessica Henwick (Voice of Elle)
2021 Virtual Tour Los Angeles, CA September 21, 2021
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Actress Jessica Henwick told us that she didn’t know much about her character when she started. She preferred to learn about her as they recorded her lines. They made them in chronological order. She also praised the lighting and cinematography as “stunning.” Later, she spoke about how well the show fits into the “Bladerunner” universe because it asks the same fundamental questions about what it is to be human or alive, and what separates humans from replicants as well as humans from animals. She approached playing Elle like you would play a child, since she is child-like when she first awakens. She said that she “has to figure out her limits and what she thinks is okay and what her moral compass is in the same way that we all have to as weâre all growing up.”
The show is set in 2032, between the two films, Andrew Kosove of Alcon told us. They own the rights to the whole franchise, so it was very important to them to keep the series in tune with the source material and to make fans happy. He mentioned that there are many Easter eggs for fans in the series. Joseph Chou, translating from the directors, asserted that they based the show’s visual style in part on the movies while also making it look distinctly for that time period and because it’s anime. Kosove praised the four filmmakers involved with the movies and this series, saying that we have “the vision of different filmmakers because you have the ability both to honor what’s been done before, but to bring something new and to build on what has occurred previously and be fresh and original.”
They told us that the animation was full CG and they used motion capture. Because they were using actors who spoke English, they did the motion capture first and then did the recordings later (because of the pandemic).
Kosove hinted that there may be some interactive elements to the series later on (perhaps a video game based on it) and that there will be some announcements coming up about that. They were asked whether video games were their biggest competition, but he said that they couldn’t possibly compete with videogames. They just focus on doing this great series. Jason DeMarco answered that all of them (meaning TV networks) are competing with videogames and streaming networks as well as everything else because we all only have so many hours in the day for entertainment. He thinks that their show is good enough that people should stop playing videogames and spend their half an hour per week to watch it. He would also love a “Bladerunner: Black Lotus” videogame because he’s a fan and nerd himself, but he thinks the show lives up to the quality of the movies.
Chou spoke about the animation. They did it to look partly realistic and partly animated. They used CG rather than 2D because they thought the lighting would look better. The lighting and atmosphere are created to give it that “Bladerunner” look. It took them a while to get it exactly the way they wanted.
Don’t miss this series, especially if you’re a fan of scifi or animation. The story is really good, and the rest is phenomenal.
MORE INFO:
Based on the Blade Runner franchise, comes the highly anticipated new anime series Blade Runner: Black Lotus. The newest edition of the franchise follows a young woman who wakes up in Los Angeles, the year is 2032, she has no memories and possessing deadly skills. The only clues to her mystery are a locked data device and a tattoo of a black lotus. Putting together the pieces, she must hunt down the people responsible for her brutal and bloody past to find the truth of her lost identity. Join directors Shinji Aramaki and Kenji Kamiyama, Jason DeMarco (senior vice president, anime and action series/longform at Warner Bros. Animation/Adult Swim) alongside voice starts Jessica Henwick* (voice of Elle), Samira Wiley* (voice of Alani Davis) and Wes Bentley* (voice of Niander Wallace Jr.) as they discuss bringing the series to life and explore the Blade Runner universe. Set to premiere later this year on Adult Swim and Crunchyroll, the series is produced by Alcon Entertainment and animation studio Sola Digital Arts.
“Genndy Tartakovsky’s Primal: The Complete First Season” Review by Suzanne 5/25/21
This is a truly great animated series on Adult Swim about a caveman. There is no speaking. Everything is just action, sounds, and grunts. It’s not the type of series kids should watch, though, as it is violent. It has great animation and storytelling, with a bit of fantasy. Anyone should love it.
The only feature is a behind-the-scenes interview that’s interesting to watch. Don’t miss this one, and it will be a great holiday gift as well. I can’t wait for Season 2, which should be out later this year.
âA piece of elemental storytelling that finds some real emotional depth without either of its protagonists uttering a single word of dialogue.â â IndieWire
GenndyTartakovsky’sPrimal:
 The CompleteFirstSeason
Available on Blu-ray & DVD June 1, 2021
BURBANK, CA (March 30, 2021) â Eat, or be eaten! Kill, or be killed! Get into survival mode with Adult Swimâs #1 prehistoric animated series with the release of GenndyTartakovsky’sPrimal: The CompleteFirstSeason on Blu-ray and DVD from Warner Bros. Home Entertainment on June 1, 2021. The critically acclaimed series displays a perfect 100% rating by critics & 99% by audience on Rotten Tomatoes, and recently won 3 Juried EmmyÂŽ Awards for Outstanding Achievement in Animation. Travel back in time and binge on all 10 fascinating episodes from the firstseason and go behind the scenes with interviews from the incredible talent from this wordless series. The edge-of-your-seat thriller is priced to own at $24.98 SRP for the DVD ($30.99 in Canada) and $29.98 SRP for the Blu-ray ($39.99 in Canada), which includes a Digital Copy (U.S. only). GenndyTartakovsky’sPrimal: The CompleteFirstalso available to own on Digital via purchase from digital retailers.
Coming off an award-winning final season of âSamurai Jack,â Adult Swim reunites with creator Genndy Tartakovsky on a new animated series. âPrimalâ features a caveman at the dawn of evolution. A dinosaur on the brink of extinction. Bonded by tragedy, this unlikely friendship becomes the only hope of survival in a violent, primordial world.
SPECIAL FEATURES
Behind the Scenes Interviews
INCLUDES ALL 10 EPISODES
Spear and Fang
River of Snakes
A Cold Death
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Blu-ray & DVD Release Date: June 1, 2021
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This is a very entertaining and cute CGI animated kids show. All of the characters are dogs, and they live in Pawston. They have a lot of energy and fun. Some of them sing. Of course, they also learn some valuable lessons. The show doesn’t hammer you over the head with the “lesson,” though. They like to zoom around in fast cars, which is why it’s entitled “Go, dog, go!”
The main dog is Tag, who’s like a 6 year old child, and in the first episode he meets a newcomer to town, Scooch Pooch. Scooch Pooch is from a farm, so he is new to city life. They have a big dog party in a tree. Everyone wants to go, so the traffic is slow. They keep trying different ways to get there: on foot, by river and by blimp! They are all slow.
The show is based on a series of children’s books that have been around a long time. Dreamworks is behind the series, and they always have top-notch shows.
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Handy and inventive pup Tag chases adventure with her best pal, Scooch, solving problems and helping the citizens of Pawston along the way.
NETFLIX TO LAUNCH DIVERSE SLATE OF ORIGINAL PRESCHOOL SERIES FROM AWARD-WINNING KIDS PROGRAMMING CREATORS
Hollywood, Calif. – July 22, 2019 – In a commitment to deliver high quality, age-appropriate content for kids ages 2-6 everywhere, Netflix today announced seven original preschool series from some of the industry’s most respected and prolific creators. Netflix’s preschool slate is produced by creators from all over the world, designed for diverse audiences, and inclusive of a wide range of genres and formats – from educational to nonverbal comedies, and with many options in between.
“With high-quality, age-appropriate programming for kids at every age and stage, we want to help young people find and connect with the stories and characters they love on Netflix,” said Melissa Cobb, vice president of original animation at Netflix. “We are also here to empower parents to find the shows that are just right for their families during whatever time they feel is appropriate to enjoy entertainment.”
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The seven new Netflix Original Preschool titles include:
DreamWorks Dragons Rescue Riders (2019) is a CG animated comedy adventure series that opens a brand new chapter in DreamWorks Animation’s Academy Award-nominated and Golden Globe-winning How to Train Your Dragon franchise. The all-new series is about twins, Dak and Leyla, who because they were raised by dragons, share a unique ability to communicate with them. The brother and sister lead a team of five young dragons that spend their days rescuing other dragons, and helping the people in their adopted town of Huttsgalor.
Executive Producers: Emmy Award winner Jack Thomas (Dragons: Race to the Edge, The Fairly OddParents) as executive producer and Brian K. Roberts (VeggieTales in the House) as co-executive producer.
Director: TJ Sullivan (Barnyard, Beware the Batman)
Hello Ninja (2019) For Wesley and his best friend Georgie, every day is an adventure. When Wesley puts his hands together, bows to his reflection and says the words, “Hello, Ninja” his surroundings instantly transform into an enchanting Ninja world. From Atomic Cartoons, a Thunderbird Company, this CG animated series is based on the picture book of the same name from author N.D. Wilson.
Executive Producer: N.D. Wilson
EP/showrunner: Mark Palmer (Treehouse Detectives, Kim Possible)
Story Editor: Susan Kim (Wonder Pets, Handy Manny)
Director: Michael Dowding (Slugterra, Reboot)
StarBeam (2020) Zoey is excited to tackle second grade, but when danger beckons, she sneaks away and – with her signature call out “It’s time to shine!” – transforms into StarBeam, the speediest, most powerful and most enthusiastic superhero to ever sip from a juicebox. StarBeam is a CG animated series produced by Kickstart Entertainment.
Executive Producers: Jason Netter (Preacher), Loris Kramer Lunsford. (Johnny Test), and Heather Puttock (Ready Jet Go!)
Head Writer: Noelle Wright (Doc McStuffins, Super Monsters)
DreamWorks Go, Dog. Go! (2020) is a CG animated series produced by DreamWorks Animation and DHX Media, based on the beloved, classic children’s book by P. D. Eastman, published by Random House Children’s Books. Every dog wants to go! Go fast, go far, go to a big dog party in a tree. The series follows young pup Tag Barker and her adventures in Pawston, a colorful community of dogs on the go.
Showrunner / Executive Producer: Adam Peltzman (Odd Squad, Wallykazam)
What-To-Doodles (2020) A team of adventurous and lovable young creatures play, grow, laugh, learn, and sing together in this CG animated series that teaches young viewers “what to do” in everyday social experiences and firsts. Created by Art Spigel and Hannah Kole, the series is produced by creative production company 7ate9 Entertainment.
Story Editor: Doug Wood (Molly of Denali, Bob the Builder)
Izzy Bee’s Koala World (2020) 11-year old Izzy Bee, known affectionately as the Koala Whisperer, lives on Australia’s Magnetic Island where she rescues and rehabilitates koalas with her veterinarian Mom, Ali and her dad, Tim. This non-fiction series is produced in partnership with The Dodo and Nomadica Films.
Executive Producers: Jared McGillard (Dodo Heroes, Last Alaskans), Izzie Lerer (Founder/Chief Creative Officer The Dodo, Dodo Heroes), Suzanne Kolb (Dodo Heroes, The Swim), Elizabeth Keyishian (Sesame Street, Paw Patrol, Astroblast)
Producers: David Glauber (Snug’s House, Toca Boca: Toca TV), John Collin (Dodo Heroes)
Emily’s Wonder Lab (2020) Discover what makes STEAM fun with these visual demonstrations that will blow your mind! Acclaimed science communicator Emily Calandrelli takes kids through lively experiments and entertaining activities in this new live-action series created and produced by Bunim Murray Productions (The Real World, Crystal Maze, Keeping up with the Kardashians).
Executive Producer & Host: Emily Calandrelli (Xploration Outer Space, Bill Nye Saves the World)
Executive Producers: Gil Goldschein, Maria Peppin, Trish Gold
The new slate joins the already robust Netflix original preschool offering for kids aged 2-6, which includes beloved shows such as Ask The StoryBots, Chip and Potato, Mighty Little Bheem, Motown Magic, Super Monsters, True and the Rainbow Kingdom, Word Party, and YooHoo to the Rescue. Other previously announced Netflix preschool originals that are soon to launch include DreamWorks Archibald’s Next Big Thing, Go! Go! Cory Carson, and Chico Bon Bon.
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Ernie Kovacs: The Centennial Edition Happy 100th Birthday, ERNIE! To celebrate the 100th birthday of televisionâs original genius, this collection combines the previously released volumes of groundbreaking, rule-breaking, surreal and charmingly silly comedy of Ernie Kovacs. Included are over 22 hours of decidedly offbeat entertainment from across his many television shows and specials, all of which showcase an utterly unique sensibility that has influenced such comedy institutions as Monty Python and SNL. Featuring: Episodes From His Local And National Morning Shows; Episodes From His NBC Prime-Time Show; Kovacs On Music; Five ABC TV Specials; The Color Version of His Legendary Silent Show, Eugene; His Award-Winning Commercials For Dutch Masters Cigars; Short Films, Tributes, Rarities; 18 Bonus Sketches Featuring Many Of His Most Beloved Characters; 3 Complete Episodes Of His Offbeat Game Show Take A Good Look; A Pony For Chris: His Rare TV Pilot For Medicine Man Co-Starring Buster Keaton; The Lively Arts Featuring The Only Existing Filmed Solo Interview With Ernie Kovacs; and 2011 American Cinematheque Panel
The Beverly Hillbillies: The Official Fifth Season Season five of The Beverly Hillbillies finds the sturdy Clampett clan — Jed (Buddy Ebsen), Elly May (Donna Douglas), Jethro (Max Baer Jr.), and Granny (Irene Ryan) — still retaining their mountain-grown values and essential decency despite Jed’s millionaire status and the family’s luxurious Beverly Hills surroundings. Two of the season’s best plotlines are characteristically manifested in story arcs, spread out over several successive episodes. In the first, Jed is targeted for blackmail by a pair of slick con artists, played by Leon Ames and Gayle Hunnicutt. This is followed by a farcical escapade in which Granny forces a trained gorilla (actually a costumed stunt man, played by George Barrows) to take over the chores at the Clampett estate. Otherwise, season five follows the pattern established in season four of enlivening the traditional Beverly Hillbillies nonsense with choice guest-star appearances. Veteran comic actor Charles Ruggles makes a return appearance as Mr. Farquhar, the skirt-chasing father-in-law of Jed’s banker Milburn Drysdale (Raymond Bailey). Gloria Swanson plays herself in another episode, wherein the Clampetts, acting under the misapprehension that Swanson is broke, bankroll her “comeback” in a brand new silent movie (and no, William Holden did not write the screenplay). And in the episode “The Indians are Coming,” John Wayne makes what must have been the best-publicized “surprise” guest appearance in TV history! But perhaps the most memorable of the guest-star turns is contributed by the voluptuous Joi Lansing, cast as the wife of country singer Lester Flatt. In “Delovely and Scruggs,” Mrs. Flatt is given a Hollywood screen test, with Jed’s bumptious nephew Jethro Bodine (Max Baer Jr.) launching what he hopes will be an illustrious Hollywood career as the test’s director. The Beverly Hillbillies closed out its fifth season on CBS as America’s seventh most popular TV series, indicating that the corn pone-comedy well had not yet run dry!
Cast & Crew: Buddy Ebsen – Jed Clampett; Irene Ryan – Daisy `Granny’ Moses; Donna Douglas – Elly May Clampett; Max Baer Jr. – Jethro Bodine; Raymond Bailey – Milburn Drysdale; Nancy Kulp – Jane Hathaway; and Harriet MacGibbon – Margaret Drysdale.
Specs: Details: Format DVD; Studio Paramount; Flags Suitable for Children; Language English; Release Date 10/02/2018; Region Code 1; Aspect Ratio 1.33:1; Subtitles English; Rating TV-G; Sub Genre Comedy of Manners, Sitcom [TV]; and Themes Fish Out of Water, Rags To Riches.
The Outer Limits: Season Two Newly Re-Mastered in HD! The entire first season â 17 Episodes. A four-disc set that controls over 15 hours of transmission from the 1964-1965 series. Guest stars include William Shatner, Adam West, Leonard Nimoy, Robert Duvall, Robert Culp, Eddie Albert, Patrick OâNeal, Dabney Coleman and Robert Webber.
SPECIAL FEATURES: 17 Episodes and 2 Alternates Episodes – All Newly Mastered in HD; THE UNKNOWN â the alternate cut of âThe Forms of Things Unknownâ intended a pilot for a show that was never broadcast â with an optional audio commentary track by Dr. Reba Wissner; PLEASE STAND BY â the alternate cut of âThe Galaxy Beingâ was the pilot episode shown to ABC executives which later became THE OUTER LIMITS â with an optional commentary track by Film Historian Eric Grayson; AUDIO COMMENTARIES: – SOLDIER by Film Historian David J. Schow; – COOL HANDS, WARM HEART by Film Historian Craig Beam; – BEHOLD ECK! by Film Historian Reba Wissner; – EXPANDING HUMAN by Film Historian Reba Wissner; – DEMON WITH A GLASS HAND by Film Historian Craig Beam; – CRY OF SILENCE by Film Historian Gary Gerani; – CRY OF SILENCE by Film Historian Reba Wissner; – THE INVISIBLE ENEMY by Film Historian Craig Beam; – WOLF 359 by Film Historian Craig Beam; – I, ROBOT by Film Historian David J. Schow; – THE INHERITORS: PART 1 by Film Historians Gary Gerani and Steve Mitchell; – THE INHERITORS: PART 2 by Film Historians Gary Gerani and Steve Mitchell; – KEEPER OF THE PURPLE TWILIGHT by Film Historian David J. Schow; – THE DUPLICATE MAN by Film Historian Tim Lucas; – COUNTERWEIGHT by Film Historian Reba Wissner; – THE PREMONITION by Film Historian Tim Lucas; 12 TNT PROMOS with Robert Culp, Harlan Ellison, Martin Landau, Cliff Robertson, William Shatner and Leslie Stevens; DAVID J. SCHOW â Showtime Interview; THE OUTER LIMITS PHENOMENON; PENN & TELLER TNT Host Segments; CLIFF ROBERTSON â THE GALAXY BEING â Full TNT Interview; JOSEPH STEFANO â Full TNT Interview (64:07); JOANNA FRANK â ZZZZZ â Full TNT Interview; TNT Interview with Casting Director Meryl OâLoughlin; ANTHONY LAWRENCE Interview; CREATURE FEATURES with DAVID J. SCHOW; The Museum of Television & Radio’s William S. Paley Television Festival – The Outer Limits – March 10, 2000 – with guests David M. Schow, Robert H. Justman, Lou Morheim, Conrad L. Hall, Martin Landau, Joseph Stefano (73:09); PROJECT UNLIMITED â Commentary by David J. Schow; WHATâS NEW ON ABC? â 1963 Promo with Edie Adams; 5 TV SPOTS; and THERE IS STILL NOTHING WRONG WITH YOUR TELEVISION SET â Booklet Essay by David J. Schow.
Alice: The Complete Eighth Season Aliceâs eighth season starts with a bang as a distant relative of Joleneâs (Celia Weston) comes visiting, straight from Hazzard County! Boss Hogg (Sorrell Booke) himself arrives, with Enos (Sonny Shroyer) in tow, and faster than you can say âBeau and Luke Duke,â heâs tricked Mel (Vic Tayback) out of his beloved diner. Good thing âgood olâ galâ Alice (Linda Lavin) has a plan to get it back. Florence Henderson stops by as Sarah James, the singing-star girl of Melâs dreams, who stuns the staff when she sweeps him off his feet. Martha Raye makes a number of return visits as Melâs mom, Carrie, while the staff gears up for a big event â Vera (Beth Howland) gets hitched to her boy in blue, local cop Elliot (Charles Levin)! This 3-disc, 24-episode collection contains the entire eighth season, including the seventh-season-produced episodes Jolene Lets the Cat Out of the Bag and Veraâs Secret Lover, which aired in season eight.
Hey Arnold!: The Ultimate Collection Keeping your feelings a secret is so last decade! Now, for the first time ever, you can shout your love from the rooftop of the nearest boarding home with Hey Arnold!:The Ultimate Collection, featuring all 99 stories from the show, Hey Arnold: The Movie and Hey Arnold!: The Jungle Movie!
What are you waiting for? Move it, Football Head! Bonus Content Includes: Hey Arnold! The Pilot; Original Claymation Short: Arnold Escapes from Church; Drawing Arnold; The Jungle Movie: Table Read; and Unboxing the Original Jungle Movie Development Art.
The Time Tunnel: The Complete Series Blu-ray All region BR release for the 1st time. New 5. 1 surround sound mixes provide an extraordinary new depth to the audio. A 1080 HD 1:33:1 spec. Digitally enhanced to significantly improve the picture quality & increase depth of field, making it far superior to the existing DVD. All 30 episodes to be restored to their original uncut format & broadcast order. Packed full of bonus material including the original unaired pilot, interviews with the cast, the TV movie from 1976, the unaired 2002 TV pilot and more… Will contain a brand new booklet, written in association with the world s most prominent & knowledgeable Irwin Allen devotees, The Irwin Allen News Network. Special Features: Original Unaired Pilot Episode (HD Version) 2002 Unaired TV Pilot Time Travelers TV Movie Cast Interviews Irwin Allen s Behind-The-Scenes Home Movies UK Edit (No Audio) Promotional TV & Radio Spots Visual Effects Camera Test (No Audio) Stills Galleries. Tech Info: VIDEO*: 1080P HIGH DEFINITION 16×9 1:33 / COLOUR AUDIO*: ORIGINAL MONO + NEW 5. 1 / ENGLISH *FEATURE EPISODES ONLYTech Info: VIDEO*: 1080P HIGH DEFINITION 16×9 1:33 / COLOUR AUDIO*: ORIGINAL MONO + NEW 5. 1 / ENGLISH *FEATURE EPISODES ONLY
Fahrenheit 11/9Â Hailed as “Michael Moore’s most powerful film yet” (Sophia A. McClennen, Salon), Fahrenheit 11/9 is a provocative and comedic look at the times in which we live. It will explore the two most important questions of the Trump Era: How the f**k did we get here, and how the f**k do we get out?
Shakespeare Uncovered: Series 3 Series 3 includes six films with new hosts as they weave their personal passions with history and analysis to tell the stories behind the stories of Shakespeare’s famous works.: Much Ado About Nothing (Helen Hunt); The Merchant of Venice (F. Murray Abraham); Measure for Measure (Romola Garai); Julius Caesar (Brian Cox); The Winter s Tale (Simon Russell Beale); Richard III (Antony Sher).
The Invaders: The Complete Series Architect David Vincent (Roy Thinnes) has stumbled upon a terrifying secretâŚaliens from a doomed planet are infiltrating the Earth! After witnessing their spaceship land, Vincent tries to warn the authorities, who believe heâs crazy or have already been compromised by the Invaders, who take on human form. As Vincent learns more about the aliens and their plans to take over the earth, he becomes their greatest threat. Now a target of the aliens, our hero, along with believer and millionaire Edgar Scoville (Ken Smith), races to stop the invasion and save the human race. From the producers of The Fugitive, Cannon and Streets of San Francisco, The Invaders, The Complete Series, features all 43 episodes of the original, suspense-filled series, plus special features and commentary by the series creator.
The Jackie Gleason Show: In Color From 1966-1970, Gleason, everyone’s favorite working-class hero, entertained enthralled audiences across the country with his eponymous TV Variety Show featuring hilarious sketches, celebrity guest stars and much more. Taped in beautiful Miami Beach, The Jackie Gleason Show delivered an unforgettable gallery of characters Gleason himself created and fine-tuned, including his most indelible and legendary creation — Ralph Kramden — as he and Art Carney revived their Honeymooners roles (with Sheila MacRae and Jane Kean added as the new Alice and Trixie), all presented in glorious color for the first time.
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