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NEWS: Mamoru Hosoda's Belle Film Unveils Trailer, Designs by Frozen's Jin Kim, July Opening


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dm
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 01, 2021 8:08 pm Reply with quote
Huh.

When Hosoda ventures into virtual worlds the results are visually stunning. But in Cartoon Saloon, with their abstract medievalist art style (Secret of Kells, Song of the Sea, The Breadwinner and Wolf Walkers), it's hard to imagine a group that are stylistically farther from Hosoda's precise draftsmanship of his virtual worlds.

But one place both groups come together is emotion-laden melodrama connecting family and community (I guess maybe they come together in love for the furry, as well).

I'm an old softie, so I've found most of Hosoda's works really enjoyable, though I understand people who complain that he wears his heart too prominently on his sleeve.

I'll be looking forward to this one!

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PostPosted: Thu Apr 01, 2021 8:35 pm Reply with quote
Oh my god, so many surprises here! Disney and Cartoon Saloon animators working with Mamoru Hosada? Jeez...

I do remember Hosada saying he wanted this film to appeal to general audiences, but I didn't think he was gonna go this hard. Man, now I'm really excited for this!!!

I am wondering in what way Cartoon Saloon contributed to the film. Animation? Art design? I wouldn't be surprised if they animated the Belle character tbh
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 01, 2021 8:38 pm Reply with quote
Working with Disney animators is one thing, but the fact that Hosoda is also working with animators from Cartoon Saloon for this movie has definitely piqued my interest. I'm a longtime Cartoon Saloon fan, so I'd like to see how this turns out.
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 01, 2021 8:53 pm Reply with quote
Not to trivialize his motivations or anything, but Hosoda must really want that Oscar if he's recruiting Disney designers of all people onto this project.
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 01, 2021 10:00 pm Reply with quote
That's quite the collaborative effort! I hope it pays off.
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 01, 2021 10:51 pm Reply with quote
This movie looks incredibly beautiful I can't wait to see it. Very Happy
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 01, 2021 11:27 pm Reply with quote
Hosoda be like

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PostPosted: Thu Apr 01, 2021 11:43 pm Reply with quote
Character design makes Belle look like Princess Anna.
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 01, 2021 11:49 pm Reply with quote
Ngl, I flipped out a little reading this. Hosoda and the folks of Cartoon Saloon are among my favorite purveyors of animation in the last two decades so this is HUGELY exciting for me! This must've been what horror fans felt back in the 80s when it was announced Stephen King, George Romero and Tom Savini were collaborating on 'Creepshow'. I'll try my best to keep my expectations in check but needless to say I am absolutely looking forward to seeing this.

I'm also curious as to what extent Moore and Stewart are involved though, if they were just consultants or part of the production itself.
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PostPosted: Fri Apr 02, 2021 12:10 am Reply with quote
Summer Wars ???
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PostPosted: Fri Apr 02, 2021 12:24 am Reply with quote
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The staff also unveiled character designs of the title characer Belle by Jin Kim (Frozen, Tangled, Big Hero 6, Moana)


Well, that explains why I thought this was a Disney title on the front page based on the thumbnail
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PostPosted: Fri Apr 02, 2021 2:49 pm Reply with quote
N_roxy wrote:
Summer Wars ???


It reminded me of Summer Wars too lol .

The visual and premisse of the movie seem pretty interesting. I'm curious to see how it turns out, but I'm gonna wait sometime before getting hyped.
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PostPosted: Fri Apr 02, 2021 9:57 pm Reply with quote
Wouldn’t it be great if the man returned to his roots and directed a new Digimon film
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The New Yorker recently just did an extensive piece how Studio Saloon came about, from an Irishman's perspective:

Cartoon Saloon and the New Golden Age of Animation: The studio’s hand-drawn movies—including its latest, “Wolfwalkers”—offer an alternative vision of what children’s entertainment can be."
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“Nearly everyone in my class ended up going into computer animation,” Moore told me. “I wanted to be a classical animator in the way of the old Disney movies.” He and his friends soon found other inspirations, too. Hayao Miyazaki’s Studio Ghibli, in Tokyo, had begun to achieve global renown, with its classically animated masterworks that drew on Shinto-inflected ideas about the oneness of nature. Another hero was the Canadian maverick Richard Williams, who labored for thirty years on a lavish fantasia called “The Thief and the Cobbler,” about a thirteenth-century Arab folk hero. The movie employed radically flattened perspectives inspired by Persian miniature paintings. It never got a proper release: Warner Bros., which had agreed to finance the film, took it away from Williams in 1992, the same year that “Aladdin”—which borrowed liberally from Williams’s unfinished picture—had its première.

No one expected a children’s film about manuscript-making monks to be the next “Lion King,” and no one was disappointed when it wasn’t. (The studio told me that the movie made around two million dollars.) After it was finished, Cartoon Saloon shrank to twelve people in a single office. Stewart went to Laika Studios, a stop-motion outfit near Portland, Oregon, which also released its début feature in 2009, the Oscar-nominated “Coraline.” Moore told me that everyone at Cartoon Saloon could have got on a flight to L.A. and walked into a job at a major studio; for a time, he thought about doing so. “But, after the Oscars, I started to meet people who worked at Pixar and places like that,” he said. “And they were, like, ‘Man, you guys are living the dream! You’re doing what everybody wishes they could do, making your own films in your own way.’ ”
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 15, 2021 9:02 pm Reply with quote
I'm sensing a strong inspiration from "Beauty and the Beast" here, like this is at least in part a modern take on the classic fairy tale. The Disney-esque character designs only reinforce that impression.
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