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John A. Lithgow ’67, actor. A two-time Oscar nominee, Lithgow has won four Emmys, three for his starring role in the recent series “Third Rock From the Sun.” His recent films include Orange County (2002) and Shrek (2001). Well, I’m an actor and actors tend to learn a little bit about a lot of things but not a lot about anything. In an oddball career, I have played a butcher, a rugby player, a nuclear physicist, a boxer, and loads of other parts. So I can tell...
...BOURSE No Funny Business H John Williams, producer of the film Shrek, struck a joint deal with Disney to open Europe's first full-scale computer animation studio. The company, Vanguard Animation, will be in London...
...Groove and Atlantis: The Lost Empire) grossed, on average, just $116 million, and the last two didn't make it to $90 million. Pixar films were originally meant to supplement Disney's basic animation menu; instead they have supplanted it. The story is the same at DreamWorks. The CG Shrek scared up $267 million, while the traditional Road to El Dorado cadged a paltry $51 million...
...past children’s films have been less than pleasurable experiences for older moviegoers, he states that films aimed towards children have recently become very savvy and now try to integrate two levels of humor—one aimed at children and another aimed towards parents. Monsters Inc., Shrek, Toy Story 2—all of these films are very clever and include humor that older audiences can enjoy. When asked why this large shift occurred, Mitchell doesn’t hesitate for a moment. “The Simpsons” changed everything, he quickly states...
Apart from featuring high-tech design, these hits have also primed audiences to assume that "there's stuff in [CG animation] for teens and adults," says Fox marketing executive Jeffrey Godsick, "and that's why you see a willingness in them to go to these movies on their own." Shrek, with its bathroom humor (you don't put Eddie Murphy and Mike Myers in a movie and get a Sunday school lesson) and inside jokes about rival studio Disney, made the genre seem cool to teens. Ice Age, directed by Chris Wedge and produced through Fox's digital arm, Blue...