Open Road nabs star-studded animated comedy “Thunder Squad” February 2, 2017 - 15:50 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Open Road Films has acquired all U.S. rights to the animated comedy “Arctic Justice: Thunder Squad” from Andrea Iervolino and Monika Bacardi’s Ambi Media Group, Variety said. The movie will be released in 2018. It features the voices of Jeremy Renner, Alec Baldwin, Heidi Klum, John Cleese, James Franco, Anjelica Huston and Omar Sy, and is directed by Aaron Woodley. Animation work for the film is currently being done out of Ambi’s Toronto-based AIC Studios. The movie is fully financed. The story revolves around the sinister Doc Walrus (voiced by Cleese) hatching a secret plot to accelerate global warming and melt the arctic circle. A rag-tag group of inexperienced heroes (voiced by Renner, Franco, Baldwin, Huston, Klum and Sy) must come together to foil his evil plans and save the arctic. Open Road’s Tom Ortenberg said, “The family film audience is hungry for quality product and we are very happy to serve up something fresh and topical with ‘Arctic Justice.'” Open Road distributed the 2014 animated comedy “The Nut Job,” which grossed $120 million worldwide. It’s set to release the sequel in August. The deal was negotiated on behalf of Open Road by Ortenberg, Elliott Kleinberg and Lejo Pet and by Iervolino on behalf of AMBI Media Group.  Top stories The creative crew of the Public TV had chosen 13-year-old Malena as a participant of this year's contest. She called on others to also suspend their accounts over the companies’ failure to tackle hate speech. Penderecki was known for his film scores, including for William Friedkin’s “The Exorcist”, Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining”. The festival made the news public on March 19, saying that “several options are considered in order to preserve its running”   Partner news |  Latest news Czech-Armenian military cooperation discussed in Yerevan  A delegation led by the Director General for the Industrial Cooperation Division of the Ministry of Defence of the Czech Republic visited Armenia.U.S. welcomes efforts to define Armenia-Azerbaijan border The United States welcomes efforts to define the border between Armenia and Azerbaijan, says Vedant Patel.Biden honors resilience of Armenian people on April 24 U.S. President Joe Biden has issued a statement on the 109th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide.Ex-Karabakh leader moved to solitary confinement cell in Baku, his son says David Vardanyan is the son of former Karabakh leader Ruben Vardanyan who who is currently imprisoned in Azerbaijan. |
