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Saturday, February 6, 2021
LAIKA and Bowie State University to Build first Stop-Motion Animation Studio at a Black College
LAIKA Teams up with Bowie State University to Build First HBCU Stop-Motion Animation Studio
Feature Film Animation Studio Commits to Enhance BSU’s Curriculum & Create a Career/Internship Pipeline
BOWIE, Md. & HILLSBORO, Ore.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--LAIKA, the Oscar®-nominated and BAFTA and Golden Globe Award-winning feature film animation studio best known for Missing Link, Kubo and the Two Strings and Coraline, is partnering with Bowie State University to build the nation’s first stop-motion animation studio at a historically Black college and university (HBCU). The partnership will enhance BSU’s animation curriculum, with the goal of providing a career pathway for BSU students into the animation industry.
“This is a great opportunity for students to learn valuable skills that will carry them into the professional world of animation”
LAIKA’s donation will fund upgrades to Bowie State’s green screen studio to allow stop-motion animation production. The art form, one of cinema’s oldest techniques, entails the incremental movement of objects, such as puppets, filmed 24X per second to create the illusion of movement.
“This is a great opportunity for students to learn valuable skills that will carry them into the professional world of animation,” said Tewodross Melchishua Williams, chair of the BSU Department of Fine & Performing Arts. “There are a lot of storytelling and narrative elements that have yet to be brought to life via stop-motion animation, especially in the arena of children’s programming. We are looking at this partnership to be an internship and career pipeline that can help diversify the animation industry, which has been a traditionally underrepresented sector when it comes to the voices of people of color, women, LGBTQ and other communities.”
“LAIKA is thrilled to be partnering with as prestigious an institution as Bowie State University,” said LAIKA’s head of production Arianne Sutner, the Golden Globe-winning and Oscar®-nominated producer of Missing Link, Kubo and the Two Strings and ParaNorman. “At its heart, LAIKA is a community of artists, craftspeople and scientists committed to expanding the technological capabilities of our animation medium in order to tell everyone’s stories with boldness, compassion and excellence. Helping BSU students to express their experience, their artistry and their potential through the stop motion art form speaks to our creative and corporate mandate. We’re so excited to explore their talents and to provide mentorship and tools that will enlarge the scope of their filmmaking vision.”
The partnership between LAIKA and Bowie State developed as a way to create internship opportunities for BSU students. As the relationship grew, LAIKA committed to making a long-term investment at Bowie State to prepare students for success in the animation industry.
Bowie State’s animation & motion graphics concentration is part of the visual communication & digital media arts (VCDMA) bachelor’s degree program, which is one of the university’s fastest-growing majors. Bowie State was recently recognized as one of the nation’s top HBCU art programs by The Hundred-Seven, which specifically highlighted the five concentrations in the VCDMA program.
Celebrating its 15th anniversary this year, LAIKA’s five films have been nominated for Academy Awards for “Outstanding Animated Feature Film.” In addition, Kubo and the Two Strings also received an Oscar nomination for its visual effects, only the second time in Academy history that an animated film received such distinction. Kubo and the Two Strings won the BAFTA Award and the National Board of Review, and Missing Link was this year’s Golden Globe winner. LAIKA’s films have won multiple Annie Awards, animation’s highest honor, as well as a Scientific and Technology Oscar® in 2016 for its innovation in 3D printing in facial animation.
About Bowie State University:
Bowie State University (BSU) is an important higher education access portal for qualified persons from diverse academic and socioeconomic backgrounds, seeking a high-quality and affordable public comprehensive university. The university places special emphasis on the science, technology, cybersecurity, teacher education, business, and nursing disciplines within the context of a liberal arts education. For more information about BSU, visit bowiestate.edu.
About LAIKA:
Fueled by the vision of its President & CEO Travis Knight, the animation studio LAIKA was founded in 2005. Located just outside of Portland, Oregon, LAIKA was awarded a Scientific and Technology Oscar® plaque in 2016 for its innovation in 3D printing. All of LAIKA’s five films: Coraline (2009), ParaNorman (2012), The Boxtrolls (2014), Kubo and the Two Strings (2016) and Missing Link (2019) were nominated for the Academy Award® for Outstanding Animated Feature. Kubo and the Two Strings also won the BAFTA Award for Best Animated Film and received an additional Oscar® nomination for Visual Effects. Missing Link was awarded the Golden Globe® as Best Animated Film. @laikastudios
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Negromancer News Bits and Bites from February 1st to 6th, 2021 - Update #21
by Leroy Douresseaux a.k.a. "I Reads You"
You can support Leroy via Paypal or on Patreon:
ENTERTAINMENT AND CULTURE NEWS:
MOVIES - From YahooEntertainment: Kemp Powers talks about the two game-changing films in which is was involved, "One Night in Miami," which he wrote, based upon his play, and Pixar's "Soul," which he co-write.
AWARDS - From Variety: The National Board of Review names Spike Lee's "Da 5 Bloods" (Netflix) the best film of 2020. Variety also analyzes this year's awards.
SCANDAL - From Deadline: Facing expulsion from SAG-AFTRA, the labor union that represents film and television actors, journalists, radio personalities, voice actors, etc., Donald Trump resigns from the union via a letter filled with his usual bluster. SAG-AFTRA president Gabrielle Carteris and national executive director David White responded with two words: “Thank you.”
MOVIES - From RottenTomatoes: 15 Up-and-Coming Black Directors Set To Shape the Future of Hollywood
AWARDS - From Variety: The 2021 Screen Actors Guild Awards nominations have been announced. The winners will be announced April 4, 2021.
From Variety: The late Chadwick Boseman makes history by becoming the first actor to get for SAG Awards nominations in a single year.
SPORTS - From BET: Serena Williams Says People Cheered When She And Venus Williams Lost Tennis Matches
BLM - From YahooNews: Timothy Loehmann, the incompetent cop who killed a black child named Tamir Rice, has been secretly playing semi-professional football in Cleveland for a team of first responders. Loehmann is no longer a cop or first responder in Cleveland...
AWARDS - From Variety: The 78th / 2021 Golden Globe Awards nominations have been announced. The winners will be announced Sun., Feb. 28th, 2021.
From Deadline: Time to talk about Golden Globes nomination snubs.
AWARDS - From Deadline: At its third annual celebration of Black cinema, the Critics Choice Association honors the late Chadwick Boseman.
COVID-19 - From YahooLifestyle: A British study says that the biggest spreaders of new cases of COVID-19 maybe the age group 35 to 49.
DISNEY - From Deadline: The Walt Disney Company has signed a five year deal with "Black Panther" director Ryan Coogler and his company Proximity Media. Coogler is working on a "Black Panther" sequel and will develop a TV series for Disney+ that will be set in Black Panther's kingdom, Wakanda.
TELEVISION - From TCM: Two-time Academy Award nominee, actor John Garfield, is Turner Classic Movie's "Star of the Month" (his third time) for the month of February 2021. Starting Tuesdays this month, TCM will present Garfield's films all day long.
MOVIES - From THR: Oscar-winner John Legend and and his producing partner, Mike Jackson, talk about the state of black cinema.
STREAMING - From TheRinger: Is There Such Thing As a Cult Movie in the Streaming Era?
BOX OFFICE - From Variety: The winner of the 1/29 to 1/31/2021 weekend box office is "The Little Things" (starring Oscar winners Denzel Washington, Rami Malek, and Jared Leto), with an estimated take of 4.8 million dollars.
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POLITICS - From Jacobin: Everything You Always Wanted to Know about QAnon But Were Too Weirded Out to Ask
BLM - From YahooNews: Black Lives Matter movement nominated for 2021 Nobel Peace Prize
OBITS:
From Variety: Canadian actor, Christopher Plummer, has died at the age of 91, Friday, February 5, 2021. Movie audiences will likely best remember Plummer for his role as "Captain Georg von Trapp" in the 1965 film, "The Sound of Music." Plummer was nominated for the Academy Award for "Best Supporting Actor three times and won for 2011's "Beginners." He also won two Tony Awards and two Primetime Emmy Awards. Plummer was most recently seen in the 2019 films, "Knives Out" and "The Last Full Measure."
From Variety: Film, television, and stage actor, Hal Holbrook, died at the age of 95, Saturday, January 23, 2021. Holbrook's personal assistant confirmed his death Mon., Feb. 1st. Holbrook starred in films such as "All the President's Men" (1976), "Creepshow" (1982), and "Lincoln" (2012). He earned a best supporting actor Oscar nomination for his performance in "Into the Wild" (2007). Holbrook may be best known for his long-running one-man stage show, "Mark Twain Tonight!," for which he won a Tony Award.
From Variety: Former child star, Dustin Diamond, has died at the age of 44, Monday, February 1, 2021. He was best known for playing the character, "Samuel 'Screech' Powers" on the NBC TV series, "Saved by the Bell" (1989-93). Diamond was a cast member of the Disney Channel series, "Good Morning, Miss Bliss," which spawned Saved by the Bell. He went on to appear in the "Saved by the Bell" sequel series, "Saved by the Bell: The College Years" (1993-94) and "Saved by the Bell: The New Class" (1993-20000).
From Deadline: Television and producer and executive, Jamie Tarses, has died at the age of 56, Monday, February 1, 2021. She is remembered for being instrumental in the development of such NBC TV series as "Frasier" and "Friends." Tarses became president of ABC Entertainment at the age of 32 in 1996, the first woman to hold such a position on an American broadcast network and one of the youngest ever.
From Deadline: Television writer, producer, and actor, Marc Wilmore, has died at the age of 57, Saturday, January 30, 2021 from complications of COVID-19. He was a writer on such TV series as "In Living Color," "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno," "The PJs," and "The Simpsons." Most recently, Wilmore was a writer and executive producer on Netflix's animated series, "F is for Family." Wilmore was the brother of television host and comic, Larry Wilmore.
Friday, February 5, 2021
#28DaysofBlack Review: "SUICIDE SQUAD" Kills Itself
TRASH IN MY EYE No. 8 of 2021 (No. 1746) by Leroy Douresseaux
[This review was originally posted on Patreon.]
Suicide Squad (2016)
Running time: 123 minutes (2 hours, 3 minutes)
MPAA – PG - 13 for sequences of violence and action throughout, disturbing behavior, suggestive content and language
DIRECTOR: David Ayer
WRITER: David Ayer (based on characters appearing in comic books published by DC Comics)
PRODUCERS: Charles Roven and Richard Suckle
CINEMATOGRAPHER: Roman Vasyanov (D.o.P.)
EDITOR: John Gilroy
COMPOSER: Steven Price
Academy Award winner
SUPERHERO/FANTASY/ACTION/DRAMA
Starring: Will Smith, Margot Robbie, Jared Leto, Joel Kinnaman, Jai Courtney, Jay Hernandez, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Karen Fukuhara, Care Delevingne, Shailyn Pierre-Dixon, Ike Barinholtz, Common, Alain Chanoine, Adam Beach, Scott Eastwood, and Viola Davis with Ben Affleck
Suicide Squad is a 2016 superhero film from writer-director David Ayer. The film is based on the DC Comics team of antiheroes, Suicide Squad, and also features characters associated with DC Comics' Batman franchise. Suicide Squad the movie focuses on a team of incarcerated supervillains forced together to save the world from a supernatural apocalypse.
Suicide Squad opens some time after the death of Superman (in Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice). Intelligence officer Amanda Waller (Viola Davis) believes that the United States government must prepare for the day when the next Superman is not so friendly. She believes that the U.S. government should have its own arsenal of metahumans (beings with extraordinary powers and abilities) to respond to extraordinary threats. Thus, Waller assembles what she calls “Task Force X,” a team composed of dangerous criminals who also possess super-powers.
She finds that kind of criminal at Belle Reve Prison, a federal penitentiary for metahumans. The first two recruits are the elite hit man, Deadshot (Will Smith), and former psychiatrist, Harley Quinn (Margot Robbie), who also happens to be the love interest of Batman's archenemy, The Joker (Jared Leto). The next recruits include the pyrokinetic (fire-starter) and ex-gang banger, El Diablo (Jay Hernandez); the boomerang-wielding thief, Captain Boomerang (Jay Courtney); the genetic mutation, Killer Croc (Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje), and the mercenary, Slipknot (Adam Beach).
This group, called “Suicide Squad” by Deadshot, are placed under the command of Army Special Forces Colonel Rick Flag (Joel Kinnaman) to be used as disposable assets in high-risk missions for the United States government. Their first mission takes them to Midway City where an apocalypse is brewing, created by a mystical creature familiar to Colonel Flag.
Suicide Squad is a genuinely terrible movie, and dear readers, I don't think that it is worth going into too much detail about all that is bad. It is also a genuinely disappointing movie, as there are elements in the story that could have been developed to make this a good movie. The opening sequences, two vignettes about Deadshot and Harley Quinn are... cool. They made me think that Suicide Squad was going to surprise me and be a good movie... The scenes between Deadshot/Floyd Lawton and his daughter, Zoe (Shailyn Pierre-Dixon), are also among the too few nice moments of drama in this film.
I would also be remiss if I did not comment on Jared Leto's depiction/version of The Joker. Following the late Heath Ledger's stunning portrayal of the Joker in 2008's The Dark Knight (for which he posthumously received a best supporting actor Oscar), Leto was in a no-win situation. Actually, Leto and Suicide Squad writer-director David Ayer do come up with a version of the Joker that is almost a good follow-up to Ledger's legendary turn. Why do I say “almost?” Well, it is as if Leto and Ayer got the character right and then, did not have the smarts or had too much ego to stop. What could have been a truly frightening and terrifyingly creepy Joker often becomes an over-the-top character that causes goosebumps and eye-rolling in equal measure.
Well, I have to give Warner Bros. credit; it has produced three mediocre or bad films based on DC Comics characters, and these movies have all been box office blockbusters. Suicide Squad was a blockbuster waste of my time. It is clunky and weird, and does not know if it wants to be a superhero film, a movie about antiheroes, a special forces movie, or a supernatural-fantasy-action movie. It is like a messy soup with all the wrong ingredients from four or five different recipes.
3 of 10
D+
Saturday, June 10, 2017
NOTES:
2017 Academy Awards, USA: 1 win: “Best Achievement in Makeup and Hairstyling” (Alessandro Bertolazzi, Giorgio Gregorini, and Christopher Allen Nelson)
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