The recently launched studio plans a 2019 release for their first animated feature.
Cirrina Studios, the recently launched entertainment finance, development and production company has announced its first animated feature film The Extincts.
Based on British writer Veronica Cossanteli’s novel of the same name, The Extincts centres on George Drake, a boy who goes to work on a farm hidden deep in the woods where he discovers a hidden cache of extinct and mythological creatures, one of which escapes and terrorizes the town in which he lives.
The novel is published by Chicken House/Scholastic in the UK and in the United States by Henry Holt and worldwide in translation.
William “Bill” Joyce is set to direct the film, while David Lipman, president of production at Cirrina Studios, will write the adaptation.
The film will be the first Cirrina Studios feature to start production at Dwarf Animation Studio in Montpellier, France.
Lipman...
Cirrina Studios, the recently launched entertainment finance, development and production company has announced its first animated feature film The Extincts.
Based on British writer Veronica Cossanteli’s novel of the same name, The Extincts centres on George Drake, a boy who goes to work on a farm hidden deep in the woods where he discovers a hidden cache of extinct and mythological creatures, one of which escapes and terrorizes the town in which he lives.
The novel is published by Chicken House/Scholastic in the UK and in the United States by Henry Holt and worldwide in translation.
William “Bill” Joyce is set to direct the film, while David Lipman, president of production at Cirrina Studios, will write the adaptation.
The film will be the first Cirrina Studios feature to start production at Dwarf Animation Studio in Montpellier, France.
Lipman...
- 5/24/2017
- ScreenDaily
An animated adaptation of British writer Veronica Cossanteli's popular middle grade novel The Extincts is in the works at the recently launched entertainment finance, development and production company Cirrina Studios.
David Lipman (producer of Shrek 2) will adapt the project for the big screen, with Oscar-winning filmmaker and author/illustrator William “Bill” Joyce helming. Lipman will also produce with Michael Siegel. Jane Startz and Barry Cunningham will executive produce alongside Jim Pesoli and Karine Martin of Cirrina Studios.
The Extincts follows the madcap adventures of George Drake, a boy who goes to work on a farm hidden deep in the woods...
David Lipman (producer of Shrek 2) will adapt the project for the big screen, with Oscar-winning filmmaker and author/illustrator William “Bill” Joyce helming. Lipman will also produce with Michael Siegel. Jane Startz and Barry Cunningham will executive produce alongside Jim Pesoli and Karine Martin of Cirrina Studios.
The Extincts follows the madcap adventures of George Drake, a boy who goes to work on a farm hidden deep in the woods...
- 5/24/2017
- by Rebecca Ford
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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