{"id":35075,"date":"2014-11-11T14:05:45","date_gmt":"2014-11-11T19:05:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=35075"},"modified":"2014-11-11T14:05:45","modified_gmt":"2014-11-11T19:05:45","slug":"first-look-at-lucasfilms-animated-strange-magic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2014\/11\/11\/first-look-at-lucasfilms-animated-strange-magic\/","title":{"rendered":"First Look At Lucasfilm&#8217;s Animated STRANGE MAGIC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/LucasfilmLogo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/LucasfilmLogo.jpg\" alt=\"LucasfilmLogo\" width=\"550\" height=\"202\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-35076\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/LucasfilmLogo.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/LucasfilmLogo-300x110.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Despite appearances, <strong>Star Wars<\/strong> films aren&#8217;t the only thing on Lucasfilm&#8217;s production slate, and today they announced the first of such projects &#8211; <strong>Strange Magic<\/strong> &#8211; which will be heading to theaters on January 23, 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the tweet from from Lucasfilm publicist Chris Argyropolous and the press release sent out soon after &#8211; <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u201cStrange Magic,\u201d a new animated film from Lucasfilm Ltd., will be released by Touchstone Pictures on January 23 2015 <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/wpLNxqkiHk\">pic.twitter.com\/wpLNxqkiHk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Chris Argyropoulos (@ThatChrisA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ThatChrisA\/status\/532217532371841025?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 11, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cStrange Magic,\u201d a new animated film from Lucasfilm Ltd., will be released by Touchstone Pictures on January 23, 2015.  \u201cStrange Magic\u201d is a madcap fairy tale musical inspired by \u201cA Midsummer Night&#8217;s Dream.\u201d Popular songs from the past six decades help tell the tale of a colorful cast of goblins, elves, fairies and imps, and their hilarious misadventures sparked by the battle over a powerful potion. Lucasfilm Animation Singapore and Industrial Light &#038; Magic, which created the CGI animation for 2011\u2019s Academy Award\u00ae-winning film \u201cRango,\u201d bring to life the fanciful forest turned upside down with world-class animation and visual effects.<\/p>\n<p>With a story by George Lucas, \u201cStrange Magic\u201d is directed by Gary Rydstrom (\u201cToy Story Toons: Hawaiian Vacation,\u201d \u201cLifted\u201d), produced by Mark S. Miller (associate producer \u201cMars Attacks!\u201d) and executive produced by George Lucas, with a screenplay by David Berenbaum (\u201cElf\u201d), Irene Mecchi (\u201cBrave,\u201d \u201cThe Lion King\u201d) and Rydstrom. An extraordinary roster of film, television and Broadway stars lend their voices to \u201cStrange Magic,\u201d including Alan Cumming (CBS\u2019 \u201cThe Good Wife,\u201d Broadway\u2019s \u201cCabaret\u201d), Evan Rachel Wood (\u201cThe Ides of March\u201d), Kristin Chenoweth (Broadway\u2019s \u201cWicked\u201d), Maya Rudolph (\u201cBig Hero 6,\u201d \u201cBridesmaids\u201d), Sam Palladio (ABC\u2019s \u201cNashville\u201d), newcomer Meredith Anne Bull, Alfred Molina (\u201cChocolat\u201d), Elijah Kelley (\u201cHairspray,\u201d \u201cThe Butler\u201d), Bob Einstein (HBO\u2019s \u201cCurb Your Enthusiasm\u201d) and Peter Stormare (\u201cFargo\u201d). Well-known music producer Marius de Vries (\u201cMoulin Rouge\u201d) serves as both the musical director and composer.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Strange-Magic.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Strange-Magic-550x234.jpg\" alt=\"Strange-Magic\" width=\"550\" height=\"234\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-35077\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">It&#8217;s not just STAR WARS movies they&#8217;re making.<\/div>\n<p> <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2014\/11\/11\/first-look-at-lucasfilms-animated-strange-magic\/\" title=\"First Look At Lucasfilm&#8217;s Animated STRANGE MAGIC\">[click for more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35076,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[7511],"series":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-35075","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-strange-magic"},"aioseo_notices":[],"nelio_content":{"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"efiAlt":"","efiUrl":"","followers":[],"highlights":[],"isAutoShareEnabled":false,"networkImageIds":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[],"series":[],"suggestedReferences":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35075\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35075"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=35075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}