Jamie Foxx has signed on to voice the lead character in CGI animated family film Groove Tails, from Ambi Group and Imprint Entertainment.
Foxx will also produce the film with Imprint’s Michael Becker and Ambi principals Andrea Iervolino and Monika Bacardi. The script was written by Johnny Mack, who will also serve as an executive producer. Cameron Hood (co-director of Megamind) will direct.
Ambi’s Aic Studios in Toronto will animate and produce the film and Ambi Distribution, the worldwide sales arm of the Ambi Group, will oversee worldwide distribution.
Groove Tails, is about the world of competitive street dance competitions for mice. Foxx will voice lead character Biggz, who tries to regain his confidence for dance and pay off his debt to a club while cleaning up the streets from the alley cats and winning the love of a girl.
Said Iervolino: “As one of the most multidimensional and accomplished entertainers of our generation, everything...
Foxx will also produce the film with Imprint’s Michael Becker and Ambi principals Andrea Iervolino and Monika Bacardi. The script was written by Johnny Mack, who will also serve as an executive producer. Cameron Hood (co-director of Megamind) will direct.
Ambi’s Aic Studios in Toronto will animate and produce the film and Ambi Distribution, the worldwide sales arm of the Ambi Group, will oversee worldwide distribution.
Groove Tails, is about the world of competitive street dance competitions for mice. Foxx will voice lead character Biggz, who tries to regain his confidence for dance and pay off his debt to a club while cleaning up the streets from the alley cats and winning the love of a girl.
Said Iervolino: “As one of the most multidimensional and accomplished entertainers of our generation, everything...
- 10/6/2015
- ScreenDaily
Italian firm to produce animated feature film about an adventurous gang of kids in Rome.
Ambi Pictures, the Rome-based film production and finance company, is to make its first foray into animation with feature East End.
The family film will be directed by Federico Moccia, Giuseppe Squillaci and Luca Scanferla, who also teamed to write the script. Producers are Ambi Pictures heads Andrea Iervolino and Monika Bacardi.
The story follows eight-year-olds Leo and Lex who get up to mischief in the run down East End area of Rome, which lead to some “wild adventures”.
Iervolino said: “With the worldwide appetite for animated family entertainment continuing to grow, we feel it’s important for Ambi Pictures to establish a footprint in this market and deliver the most intelligent, cutting-edge and commercially viable animated family films in the marketplace.”
East End co-director and co-writer Moccia has penned novels including Three Metres Above the Sky (Tre Metri Sopra Il Cielo), which...
Ambi Pictures, the Rome-based film production and finance company, is to make its first foray into animation with feature East End.
The family film will be directed by Federico Moccia, Giuseppe Squillaci and Luca Scanferla, who also teamed to write the script. Producers are Ambi Pictures heads Andrea Iervolino and Monika Bacardi.
The story follows eight-year-olds Leo and Lex who get up to mischief in the run down East End area of Rome, which lead to some “wild adventures”.
Iervolino said: “With the worldwide appetite for animated family entertainment continuing to grow, we feel it’s important for Ambi Pictures to establish a footprint in this market and deliver the most intelligent, cutting-edge and commercially viable animated family films in the marketplace.”
East End co-director and co-writer Moccia has penned novels including Three Metres Above the Sky (Tre Metri Sopra Il Cielo), which...
- 4/11/2014
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
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