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The screens title shows the logo of Gigantic, which will be released February 26th, Y5. The crowd erupts with cheers and applause. Greno says the plot for the movie is a mix in both previous plots of the unused drafts; In the age of exploration of Spain, Jack (Diego Boneta) has always been a thrill seeker, craving adventure in life, much to the disapproval of his father (Gael Garcia Barnel) his dreams are shattered, forcing him to settle as a farmer. If that’s not enough, his family are also facing severe financial issues as his farm isn’t producing enough product. Desperate, Jack buys some magical beans from an elderly man (Antonio Banderas) said to withhold a great fortune. And the rest is history, the beans are planted, the beanstalk grows to skyscraper sized proportions but here’s where things get twisted. Jack finds out there’s a world of giants in the clouds and becomes a captive plaything for a loveable and feisty 62.5 feet tall, 11 year old giant named Inma (Marsai Martin), who’s lost her way home. Together, the two form an unlikely bond to get Inna home whilst finding the legendary golden bird before the Storm Giants, 130 feet tall giants lead by the evil Faustus (Ewan McGreggor) plan use the bird for malevolent purposes. Greno also says the magic beans also play an interesting component in the story, hinting they may not be just for the beanstalk. Other cast members include: Bill Hader as Feebus John C. Reilly as Fifen Hannibal Buress as Fogel Alfred Molina as Fumm Chiwetel Ejifior Zoe Saldana Jake T Austin Hector Elizondo Victoria Justice LeFauve reveals that songwriters Alan Menken, Howard Ashman and Tim Rice (Aladdin, The Little Mermaid, The Lion King) will be writing the majority songs in the film. LeFauve notes although the Lopez’s (Frozen, Coco, Heart’s Song) won’t write the songs as originally planned they’ve kept two songs, including My Little Man (a song of which Inma expresses glee of having Jack as a toy which Jack try to exclaim and prove he is not) which is played for the audience. The song isn’t a big rouser like The Circle Of Life or Let It Go but the audience loves in and laughs quite a few times.

That you and yes please. I’ve been behind on it.

Greno talks about his work with the film My Peoples which started off as an unused Disney film untitled Endless Animation bought the rights from it in Y2, which Barry Cook was supposed to write and direct but the director had O$Corp’s Hope Fear Adventure, so Greno was bought on and delivered a knockout pitch that Irving loved, claiming this can put them on the map. My Peoples was later a huge box office success, and was one of the three films the studio got nominated for Best Animated Feature. LeFauve then talks about her experience on Can You Imagine?, Endless Entertainment and Endless Animation’s biggest film at the box office and critically, a film she wrote with the director Genndy Tartakovsky, which which also a cancelled animated film that Endless bought but at Sony. LeFauve said although Tartakovsky was the main genius behind the film, as she was bought for rewrites, she did contributed to the suggestions of a few things like the animation change that was applauded and some story additions. Endless was so impressed that LeFauve and Greno were assigned a project. LeFauve jokes “It was only natural they did another unused animated feature”

4:46 PM - The Greno/Lefauve film is taking Larrikins spot.

We start the presentations off with the updated Endless Entertainment logo. We start with the camera film coming out of a projector, each piece of film is a scene from a popular movie they made (Treasure Planet, My Peoples, Blue and Gold, God Of War, Can You Imagine, Crash Bandicoot, Don’t Let The Pigeon Drive, Kingdom of The Sun and Lilo and Stitch) at fast speed. We see the camera film form an infinity symbol and bronze letters spelling Endless Entertainment below. The film turns to a pure black and we go inside the film. The crowd goes nuts for the logo. Cheers are heard every corner of the room. CEO of Endless Entertainment, Xavier B. Irving, walks on stage shaking hands with some of the people up front. Xavier thanks everyone for coming and is visibly excited to show everyone the Y5 and beyond slate. Xavier says this year was one of Endless Entertainment’s greatest years, noting hits like Blue and Gold, Can You Imagine and Kingdom of The Sun, Infinite Studios first major success with Food Wars but first like last year they’ll start with the crown jewel of the studios; their animation arm. CEO of Endless Animation, Chris McKay sporting a long fake mustache like Earl from Can You Imagine, reveals that they’ll be unveiling a major slate all the way to Y8, (we see a massive slate with logos only and dates. Gadget and Squirrel Girl are the only films with dates and logos, Larrikins is nowhere to be seen. (A whopping 14 films are in development and scheduled from now to Y8; 3 films are for Y5, 5 for Y6, 4 for Y7, and 2 for early Y8) McKay then shows EA’s previous films box office results. McKay thanks the audience and everyone everywhere for seeing their movies. McKay brings out a panel of directors; Mark Dindal, Daron Nefcy, Tim Minuchin, Chris Miller and a slew of directors with known and unknown projects: Nathan Greno, Meg LaFauve, Peter Ramsey, Edgar Wright, Joe Dante, Brenda Chapman, Zach Snyder, Rebecca Sugar, Henry Selick, and Ava DuVernay. The audiences goes absolutely ballistic. McKay reveals although the output is increasing they won’t do just CG animated PG rated projects, revealing some upcoming ones are PG-13 and use different methods of animation. McKay sadly announces due to story problems, Larrikins is being pushed back to Y6 for the time being but McKay suspects that the audience may be a bit more intrigued on the next project. Nathan Greno and Meg LaFauve both take the stage.

Today: An announcement Friday: Y5-Y6 Saturday: Y7-early Y8

Is it canceled?

It’s not too late due to The Princess Bride/CAYOM Oscars crossover.

I am surprised KOTS is likely making the top 5.

I’m genuinely concerned if Can You Imagine makes it.

The budget according to Variety is $90M.

@cookie @Blankments @Alpha @Rorschach @Spagspiria Spider Verse is rated PG-13. The wave of PG-13 animation is starting even outside of CAYOM.

Honestly impressed Spider Verse is PG-13, hope it does well for the sake of breaking the animation=kids stigma that has riddled animation for years.

I saw a tv spot a few minutes ago that said PG.

As such, Sony’s Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse is the first big movie to hit the marquee following Thanksgiving, and should the film –which we hear is great– comes up short in its opening weekend, it will likely find an audience in the post-season holiday. We’re hearing a $30M+ start is reasonable for this movie, but it could jump up as high as $40M. This is nice, especially considering hype has gone down a bit.

God Damn @ Creed II. May do $60M five day. And great for Ralph 2, I think $90M five day is possible.

God damn it, I left during the credits.

I’m concerned yet intrigued if KOTS and/or CYI? make the top 10.

I feel it can work, outside of the Odyssey and War of The Gods (which was a one film deal) it’s not an overused one. The space opera one is though however we’re doing a lot to differentiate.

Starting to think Ralph 2 actually has a $90M five day.

Ralph 3 needs to arrive ASAP. Ralph Breaks The Internet is probably one of my favorite movies of the year so far. Really glad I was wrong about it.

I don’t know how I feel about the fact three documentaries are in the 21-25 slots.

Yes, agreed on the second act. I’ll talk about it later as I’m about to see Wreck It Ralph 2.

I’d like that very much.

As for GameVerse, I am done after Skylanders. As I don’t really want to continue the franchise.