Paws of Fury: The Legend of Hank | Paramount | July 15, 2022 | Animated movie

[Eric Atreides]

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/paramount-lands-animation-blazing-samurai-starring-mel-brooks-michael-cera-exclucive-1235078920/

 

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Paramount Animation has landed the animated feature Blazing Samurai, which has an A-list voice cast led by Michael Cera.
 

The studio acquired the movie from GFM Animation for Nothern America and other key international territories, setting a U.S. release of July 22, 2022.

 

Along with Cera, the voice cast includes Samuel Jackson, Ricky Gervais, Mel Brooks, George Takei, Djimon Hounsou, Michelle Yeoh, Kathy Shim, Kylie Kuioka, Gabriel Iglesias and Aasif Mandvi.

 

Cera voices Hank, a dog who dreams of becoming a samurai in a land where that privilege is reserved exclusively for cats. He gets his chance when a post opens up in the small town of Kakamucho, but little does Hank know that the local warlord (Gervais) who hired him is bent on destroying the town for his own gain. Seemingly destined to fail, Hank coaxes a reluctant, once great samurai (Jackson) out of retirement to become his mentor and together they become samurai heroes.
 

Rob Minkoff (The Lion King) and Mark Koetsier directed the film, from an original screenplay by Ed Stone and Nate Hopper with revisions by Robert Ben Garant and Minkoff. which is an Aniventure production, financed by Align, HB Wink and Aniventure with CG production carried out at Cinesite.

 

[CoolioD1]

^saw the title and thought there was a chance this would be some kind of cool action cartoon like samurai jack or something. instant frown at the end of the first sentence of that article.

Edited January 21, 2022 by CoolioD1

[SLAM!]

This is taking Under the Boardwalk’s spot on the release schedule so I hope it’s worth it 😕

[AJG]

The History on this one is odd

 

Looks like it was first a Kung Fu Panda knock off with a 2017 release date and got cancelled.

 

 

The write-up from the cancelled films wiki

 

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1. The reasons are unknown, but the movie itself has a troubled, shady and complicated history. It was first announced in 2015 that Mass Animation (then known as GFM Animation) was originally on board to work on the film and that Arc Productions provived a chunck of work via crowdsourcing, which would have been the first animated film to do so, but in 2016, Arc Productions closed their doors permanently as they are unable to pay employee wages due to a "glitch in the system", and Mass Animation hasn't updated their website since 2010, and they are possibly disbanded.

ARC Animation - that launched the production got shift down and locked employees out of the office in 2016

 

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Torontos’s Arc Productions shut down its studio today, locking out hundreds of employees and telling them not to come to work on Tuesday. 

http://www.cartoonbrew.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/arcproductions_logo.jpg

“We regret to inform you that Arc is experiencing significant financial difficulties and a liquidity crisis,” CEO Tom Murray wrote to his staff in a letter. “Despite the very best efforts of management to find a solution to this financial emergency, we have not been able to resolve this matter with our lender.”

 

It got salvaged and morphed into this

 

Edited January 21, 2022 by AJG

[BadOlCatSylvester]

Wild to see this thing finally exist for real.

 

[Eric Atreides]

 

[YM!]

 

 

Trailer Saturday for the two people that care, also probably attached with Sonic.

 

Paramount Animation is no longer producing it but it’s now under the Nickelodeon Movies banner. Interestingly enough it’s the first time Nickelodeon Movies albeit via Paramount is solo distributing a movie like a banner. It’s usually a coproduction.

[Grebacio]

37 minutes ago, YourMother said:

 

 

Trailer Saturday for the two people that care, also probably attached with Sonic.

 

Paramount Animation is no longer producing it but it’s now under the Nickelodeon Movies banner. Interestingly enough it’s the first time Nickelodeon Movies albeit via Paramount is solo distributing a movie like a banner. It’s usually a coproduction.

Tweet also says it's being released one week earlier now

[SLAM!]

6 hours ago, Grebacio said:

Tweet also says it's being released one week earlier now

Honestly, smart move. Now it’s sandwiched between two stronger sells, but in a smarter way: two weeks after Minions, two weeks before Super-Pets. 

[Grebacio]

 

[AJG]

Horrible. Everyone should be embarrassed. 

 

[Eric Atreides]

When I got this at Sonic, this was the trailer that made all the kids laugh the hardest. Never felt so embarrassed in all my life. 🙃

[YM!]

8 minutes ago, Eric Says Trans Rights said:

When I got this at Sonic, this was the trailer that made all the kids laugh the hardest. Never felt so embarrassed in all my life. 🙃

At least a kid didn’t shout Simp at the Spider Verse trailer you got.

[Grebacio]

30 minutes ago, AJG said:

Horrible. Everyone should be embarrassed. 

 

Yeah, this looks like the cash grab everyone thought Kung Fu Panda was going to be back in 2007

[Brainbug]

This looks like shit.

[Morieris]

1 hour ago, Grebacio said:

 

 

The blurred background and logo on SLJ's hat looks better than anything in the movie.

[Eric Atreides]

[Eric Atreides]

 

[AJG]

Going straight to Sky TV on the 22nd of July in the UK 

 

 

[robertman2]

I keep getting this trailer at movies and I want to die