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Weinsteins escape from Area 51
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Since Hoodwinked's box office returns currently stand at more three
times the film's budget, the Weinstein Brothers can't be blamed for wanting to reteam with the film's makers. To that
end, they've acquired the rights to a pitch from Cory Edwards and Tony Leech who, along with Edward's brother Todd, wrote and directed Hoodwinked. The new film, another
animated feature, is titled Escape From Planet Earth, and sounds completely fantastic: it's a comedy about a
prison break staged by the various aliens imprisoned at Area 51. I mean, that's brilliant! Why has no one does this
before? Seriously, it seems sort of obvious for an animated movie - what could possibly be more fun for an animator
than creating an entire universe of aliens?Leech will directed this movie all by himself, but the Hoodwinked trio are currently working together on a follow-up to the film for the Weinstein Company, tentatively titled Hoodwinked 2: Hood vs. Evil. (Ooooh the clever.)
Review: Hoodwinked
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After watching Hoodwinked, the Weinstein Company’s first foray into animation, one is not surprised to learn that the film has three directors (brothers Cory and Todd Edwards, and Tony Leech). In fact, the news is somewhat reassuring, because it potentially offers some explanation for the wildly schizophrenic work they have produced. Lurking beneath the surface of this (relatively) low-budget, modern retelling of Little Red Riding Hood are at least three distinct films. First is the traditional sweet animated story, complete with a bicycling, singing heroine who is briefly beset by an easily-resolved family conflict. Second comes the edgy, sarcastic 21st century cartoon, where all of the characters make knowing jokes, and people say things like “fo shizzle.” And, third, there’s the wildly unhinged, new style of animated film which stars a conniving, insane villain and his singing, action figure sidekicks. While all three would be fine on their own - the third, in fact, is fantastic - thrown together they result in an unfortunately uneven mess.
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