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Oakley Smurf
Brainy Smurf Snaeha
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posted 04-14-2013 11:51 AM
ENOUGH with the argument just do the **** thing in 2D animated and whatever your "good reason" not to do it just yet because you got more money than brain or some higher ups wants to boosting their merchandise sales,just try not to run the franchise down to the ground okay?
And please if you decides to do one,you better do it in my lifetime!
I know i'm taking this a bit too serious but really i'm brainy and you have to take my glasses (which i don't have) away to keep me from replying.
I'm in a hope to see if this 2nd movie going to be any better than the first one just hoping you guys at SPA will not smurfed it up,i like it or not i got stuck with your works anyway others were all great but the smurfs? Not so great.
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Squeaky Smurf
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posted 04-14-2013 03:23 PM
At first, sorry if I'm meddling in others' matters; but, I must confess that's not the first time I see discussions like that here in Bluebuddies over this or that kind of animation. In my opinion, 2D shall always have the charm of its own. But I don't dislike 3D, quite the opposite actually: the animation in the Smurfs movie is awesome, perfect. Though I still prefer something like it was done
(sorry, ClumsyRules), for example, in the 3D Garfield Show,
The Garfield Show Intro
whose characteristics are the same from original comics, just the opposite of what was done in 'Garfield the Movie'. Or the one with Scooby-Doo.
Honestly, I don't think there's any reason to go on with discussions that achieve nothing but some quarrel. Mainly among people with something in common: loving Smurfs. ![[Frown]](frown.gif)
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Oakley Smurf
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posted 04-14-2013 08:10 PM
I really have no problem with CG animated but the live action i don't know it just doesn't go along well with any of the cartoon turned-to-movie.
Winnie the pooh movie that released the same year as The Smurfs is the example of how the old school approach never dies.
I'm not here to convince you to guys to make it in 2D but sometimes under all the hype and money you got,it's easy to forget of what you really was/is. (original roots)
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posted 04-17-2013 03:26 PM
More news, and this time on the end credits song for the film's soundtrack.
And this time, it will be sung by Britney Spears:
Britney Spears Smurfs 2 Song Ooh La La Will Be Smurftastic
First Published: April 17, 2013 1:15 PM EDT
Los Angeles, CA -- "The Smurfs 2" already has Katy Perry lending her voice to the animated movie sequel and now Britney Spears will lends her vocal talents to the soundtrack.
The pop star will perform "Ooh La La," which will play at the end credits of the film.
"I have always loved the Smurfs as a kid and now my boys are the biggest Smurfs fans EVER. I wanted to surprise them with a song in the movie. I know they’ll think it’s Smurftastic!," Britney said in a statement on Wednesday.
She also confirmed the news on Twitter, writing, "Remember that surprise song I recorded for my boys? It’s coming soon! #OohLaLa for #TheSmurfs2 :) Stay tuned for more."
The movie’s director, Raja Gosnell, is elated about to have Brit onboard.
"I am very excited that Britney is joining our Smurfy adventure. ‘Ooh La La’ is the perfect Smurf-party song, and the perfect button on the film for audiences around the world," he said in a statement.
"The Smurfs 2" – with returning cast Neil Patrick Harris, Jayma Mays, Sofia Vergara, and Katy Perry as Smurfette and Hank Azaria as Gargamel – hits theaters on July 31, 2013. |  |
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BlueTiger10
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posted 04-18-2013 03:17 PM
I can't wait till the soundtrack arrives! That's gonna be swell! I remember Britney Spears was one of the judges from Season 2 of X Factor!
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posted 04-19-2013 10:57 AM
Look what's coming later this year....
THE SMURFS: THE LEGEND OF SMURFY HOLLOW
04/17/2013 10:52 am by Jim Hill
As the staff cuts at DreamWorks Animation and Walt Disney Studios prove, bigger is no longer thought of as better in Hollywood. The suits are now angling after a far more efficient business plan. Tinsel Town 2.0, if you will. A place where smaller teams follow shorter production schedules and work within tighter budgets yet still somehow manage to deliver top-quality motion pictures.
You know. The way that Sony Pictures Animation has been doing business for the past 10 years.
Oh, sure. Pixar's animated features get all the acclaim while Blue Sky Studios' movies clean up at the box office. But over in Culver City, SPA has been consistently turning out strong performing animated features for a significantly lower price point than anyone else in town. Which -- in the wake of "Hotel Transylvania's" success last fall (This Genndy Tartakovsky film sold $148.3 million worth of tickets stateside, $198.3 million foreign for a combined worldwide gross of $346.6 million) -- has not gone unnoticed in certain corner offices.
Of course, one of the main reasons that SPA is often able to do so much more with less if that this animation studio grew out of Sony Pictures Imageworks. And given that the work ethic of a visual effects house is hardwired into Sony Pictures Animation's DNA, it's no wonder that these guys have a gift when it comes to delivering top-quality work on very tight schedules.
And given that all of this got started back in July of 2002 when Sony Pictures Imageworks released its Oscar-winning short, The ChubbChubbs!, it's kind of appropriate that SPA has recently gotten back into the short animated film game with last year's traditionally animated Goodnight, Mr. Foot which Tartakovsky wrote, directed and animated himself and then continuing with the 22 minute-long movie The Smurfs: The Legend of Smurfy Hollow. Which will have its world premiere in June when this Halloween TV special is screened at Annecy in official competition.
Now some industry watchers might see The Legend of Smurfy Hollow as a cold & somewhat calculated bit of brand extension. A way for Sony to cash in on "The Smurfs 2," which is expected to do big office this summer (The original Smurfs was one of the biggest hits of 2011, selling more tickets worldwide than Pixar's Cars 2 and Blue Sky Studios' Rio). But since The Smurfs: The Legend of Smurfy Hollow (in a nod of the old Smurfs television series) will mostly be done in 2D while The Smurfs 2 will be a mix of live action and CG, from the Sony Pictures Animation's point of view, there's more than brand extension to this Halloween TV. Smurfy Hollow also allows the studio to expand its creative palette & production pipeline. It gives SPA different ways to tell stories.
And Sony Pictures Animation is taking the same sort of approach when it comes to producing sequels to some of its more popular early releases. When "Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs" developed such a strong following after its theatrical release in September 2009, Bob Osher -- the president of the Digital Production division at Sony Pictures Entertainment -- decried that it was time for SPA to revisit Swallow Falls, the setting of the original "Cloudy" movie.
But where this gets interesting is that Osher -- rather than seeing Cloudy 2 as a strict cash grab -- opted to also view this sequel as an opportunity to grow SPA's creative team. So the studio had Phil Lord and Chris Miller, the directors of the original Cloudy with Chance of Meatballs, meet with Cody Cameron and Kris Pearn, two longtime Sony Animation Pictures story artists. As the four of them tried to come up with an exciting, entertaining storyline for this Cloudy follow-up.
Borrowing a page for Pixar's Toy Story 2 playbook (i.e. John Lasseter and co. used scenes and characters that had been cut out of the original Toy Story as the jumping-off point for that film's sequel), Phil, Chris, Cody and Kris took some food-imals that had been cut out of the final act of the first Cloudy movie and then made them into the main attraction of this movie's sequel. And as soon as SPA management heard about the proposed "Something big was leftover" storyline for Cloudy 2 ... Well, Osher and co. not immediately got excited about this creative new direction for Cloudy 's sequel, they also decided to let Cody and Kris direct the picture.
It's bold moves like this that are causing a lot of people in feature animation to keep a closer watch on Sony Pictures Animation these days. When Bob took up the reigns on the digital side of things and Hannah Minghella was named as the new president of production for animation back in March of 2008, these two brought a new energy and focus to the operation. It was Osher and Minghella who rebooted The Smurfs under the watchful eye of Michael Lynton (who grew up with these little blue creatures) and Amy Pascal. Hannah was subsequently promoted to president of production at Columbia Pictures in 2010. Bob and her successor Michelle Raimo Kouyate are then responsible for recruiting Genndy to come direct Hotel Transylvania which had been stalled in development hell for years before that.
And speaking of Hotel (Which SPA is already sequelizing. The follow-up to this family-friendly vampire movie is due to hit theaters in late September of 2015), Tartakovsky won't be returning to Transylvania anytime soon. The Monday after Hotel Transylvania held its U.S. premiere at the Grove, Genndy and his story team were already hard at work boarding a big screen comedy-adventure starring E.C. Segar's Popeye the Sailor Man. Which -- if the early buzz on this 3D movie proves to be true -- Popeye is really going to wow audiences when it sails onto screens on September 26, 2014.
And when you factor in the great work that's being done over at Universal's Illuminations Entertainment (Their latest CG feature, Despicable Me 2, will be bowing in multiplexes nationwide on July 3rd) and Paramount Pictures' animation division (where they're currently hard at work on a sequel to 2004's The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie), Sony Pictures Animation is now one of a trio of animation studios that are delivering top quality feature films at a significant lower price point than Disney, Pixar, Blue Sky Studios and DreamWorks Animation are.
Which -- to hear Jeffrey Katzenberg talk (as he was reflecting on how poorly Rise of the Guardians had performed at the box office during DWA's Quarter 4 2012 earnings conference call) -- is an issue that his animation studio is now attempting to address. By mid-2014, DreamWorks Animation hopes to have new technology in place that will then lower the production costs of their new full-length features to $120 million.
Which -- to put things in perspective here -- will still be $35 million more than SPA spent during the entire eight years that Hotel Transylvania was in development.
Which is why -- as we enter the era of Tinsel Town 2.0 -- you should expect to see even more financial pruning and production fine-tuning on the Toon Town side of the operation.
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BlueTiger10
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posted 04-19-2013 02:01 PM
Hokey smurfs! A new Halloween Special! I wonder what it'll be about?
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Oakley Smurf
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posted 04-20-2013 05:22 AM
At least this mini-movie will be in 2D!
And i liked the SPA strategy now looks like they will be a household name in few years time.
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posted 04-22-2013 03:22 PM
“The Smurfs 2” photo call at The 5th Annual Summer Of Sony at the Ritz Carlton Hotel on April 22, 2013 in Cancun, Mexico.
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Squeaky Smurf
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posted 04-22-2013 04:19 PM
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Originally posted by Oakley Smurf:
I really have no problem with CG animated but the live action i don't know it just doesn't go along well with any of the cartoon turned-to-movie.
Winnie the pooh movie that released the same year as The Smurfs is the example of how the old school approach never dies.
I'm not here to convince you to guys to make it in 2D but sometimes under all the hype and money you got,it's easy to forget of what you really was/is. (original roots)
Don't worry, Oakley Brainy. We know. ![[Happy Smurf]](graemlins/Happy_Smurf.gif)
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Originally posted by Smurfette:
“The Smurfs 2” photo call at The 5th Annual Summer Of Sony at the Ritz Carlton Hotel on April 22, 2013 in Cancun, Mexico.
Smurfingly great, Smurfette, thanks a smurf for sharing! !ARRIBA PITUFOS! ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
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Vic George The ND Guy
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posted 04-22-2013 05:05 PM
The Smurf of the social network age.
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VIC GEORGE -- Westfield, MA, USA
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posted 04-22-2013 05:07 PM
AWESOME Pics Smurfette and VicGeorge!!
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Vic George The ND Guy
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posted 04-22-2013 05:11 PM
Whatever you do, DO NOT put duct tape on exposed Smurf skin. It hurts when you peel it off.
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VIC GEORGE -- Westfield, MA, USA
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Smurfette
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posted 04-22-2013 05:44 PM
The New Smurfs 2 Game!! Trailor Here:
The Smurfs 2 - Video Game Trailer
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Jokie Smurf
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posted 04-22-2013 06:09 PM
I wonder how good that game is going to be, because I honestly don't think the trailer makes it look very good.
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Oakley Smurf
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posted 04-22-2013 08:38 PM
If it release only on android or ios then it's a good game.
But this will release on consoles and that screams "milking" this type of game never have enough time to develop anyway so it almost certain that this game will be rubbish.
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posted 04-23-2013 12:53 AM
More Pictures from Valentine's Day that my friends from Sony sent me a while back ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
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posted 04-23-2013 09:01 AM
Here's another one of Katy Perry and Smurfette!
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posted 04-23-2013 09:02 AM
I would love to play in that smurfy beach behind Katy Perry!!!
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Jokie Smurf
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posted 04-23-2013 09:28 AM
Those are smurfy pictures! And that beach does look cool Sassette! I bet this movie will be smurftastic!
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posted 04-23-2013 09:54 AM
Since Britney Spears will be doing a song for the new Smurfs 2 Movie... it reminds me of a picture I did a while back - I made Britney into Smurfette!
Britney Spears Smurfette
This picture was from this funny Famous People As Smurfs post.
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Jokie Smurf
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posted 04-23-2013 09:56 AM
Lol! That is cool Sassette!
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posted 04-23-2013 10:08 AM
Britney Spears - Smurf Song "Ooh La La"
One of the co-writers for the Britney Spears Smurf Song, "Ooh La La" had this to say about the smurfy song...
Bonnie McKee (Co-writer of "Ooh La La"):
"I just wrote something for Britney Spears for the Smurfs movie, which was a really funny assignment because it’s for the Smurfs movie so it has to family friendly but it’s Britney Spears so it has to be a Britney Spears radio song. And Britney Spears is just all *** all day. So how many sexual innuendos can I come up with that aren’t too painfully obvious for the parents to get upset about. That was an interesting challenge."
![[Smurfette]](graemlins/smurfette.gif)
(The track will roll during the credits of The Smurfs 2, which hits theaters July 31. The song was written and produced by Lukasz Gottwald in addition to Joshua Coleman and Henry Walter. Also getting "Ooh La La" writing credits: Bonnie McKee, Jacob Kasher Hindlin, Lola Blanc and Fransisca Hall.)
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posted 04-23-2013 10:32 AM
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I would love to play in that smurfy beach behind Katy Perry!!!
Me too! Me too!
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posted 04-23-2013 01:31 PM
Wolf whistle on Britney!
Katy Perry looks cool in blue!
Smurfs in Cancun!
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