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Costume designs for Coraline by Chris Appelhans
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mtg-cards-hourly · 3 months
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Ethereal Haze
"Imagine a dove flying through smoke. Does the dove injure the smoke? Does the smoke impede the dove?" —Teachings of Eight-and-a-Half-Tails
Artist: Chris Appelhans TCG Player Link Scryfall Link EDHREC Link
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Title: Wish Dragon
Rating: PG
Director: Chris Appelhans
Cast: Jimmy Wong, John Cho, Constance Wu, Natasha Liu Bordizzo, Jimmy O. Yang, Aaron Yoo, Will Yun Lee, Bobby Lee, Nico Santos, Ronny Chieng, Ian Chen
Release year: 2021
Genres: fantasy, family, comedy
Blurb: Determined teen Din is longing to reconnect with his childhood best friend when he meets a wish-granting dragon who shows him the magic of possibilities.
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yazmmy · 1 year
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Wish Dragon (2021) dir. Chris Appelhans
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Spidey, Sony, Etc.
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The numbers are in.
SPIDER-MAN: ACROSS THE SPIDER-VERSE opened with a truly spectacular $120m. This makes it one of the biggest domestic opening weekends for an animated feature in North America, only behind... CGI LION KING ($191m), INCREDIBLES 2 ($182m), SUPER MARIO BROS. ($146m), FINDING DORY ($135m), FROZEN II ($130m), SHREK THE THIRD ($122m), and TOY STORY 4 ($120.9m).
That's also $85m more than what INTO THE SPIDER-VERSE opened with. Like I said in an earlier post, this joins the leagues of films like TERMINATOR 2, AUSTIN POWERS 2, SHREK 2, INCREDIBLES 2, and a few others... Where the original did either well enough or was a small sleeper hit, and the sequel just straight up exploded. Really shows what kind of staying power the first film had after its initial run... And I knew it way back when, too, because the first SPIDER-VERSE had incredible legs. It wall-crawled its way to $190m domestic off of that okay $35m opening, a rare 5x multiplier! I predicted around $90m for the opening weekend at the end of this past year, but I'm happy to be way off on that...
So... Sony Pictures Animation has a few films laid out, some of which are theatrical, some of them aren't (such as K-POP: DEMON HUNTERS, which is being directed by Maggie Kang and Chris Appelhans). SPIDER-MAN: BEYOND THE SPIDER-VERSE is the only movie with a concrete release date, which is currently March 29, 2024.
In the works are the aforementioned DEMON HUNTERS, a SPIDER-VERSE movie lead by female characters, along with a 2D Genndy Tartakovsky-directed raunchy dog comedy called FIXED, an animated GHOSTBUSTERS movie that's reportedly circling 2025, an adaptation of the graphic novel BUBBLE, TUT from HAIR LOVE director Matthew A. Cherry, TAO from director Emily Dean, and another Tartakovsky project called BLACK KNIGHT.
FIXED seems to be far along, if not done, and its first look will be given at Annecy in a matter of days. I'm hoping we get a release date for this picture, and a few others, but at this point, it looks like FIXED will be hitting theaters some time next year. Tartakovsky told a fan on his Instagram that FIXED was aiming for theaters, instead of being a streamer title. K-POP, on the other hand, is a streamer title - which kind of bums me out. The premise sounds so cool and fun, and because it's a post-SPIDER-VERSE Sony Animation movie... I think we'll be in for something really unique and dynamic.
Sony Animation also gave us the Lord and Miller-produced THE MITCHELLS VS. THE MACHINES, a real visual blast and a fun ride from top to bottom, a film that would've looked fantastic on a big screen, but couldn't go there because we were still in the early years of the pandemic. Release it now, and it'd maybe have a chance of making a suitable enough gross. There was also VIVO, WISH DRAGON, and the fourth HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA... SPIDER-VERSE Deux would've shared last year with HOTEL, but it was so gargantuan that it had to move almost a year away... I'm glad they took their time, given what I witnessed this past Friday afternoon.
And it all made sense, really... I was wondering why Sony Animation were so mum on when their future movies were coming out. I was like, "FIXED looks done! Or close to done? Why no date?" ACROSS THE SPIDER-VERSE, and its followup, were such Herculean efforts. We're hearing more and more about what kind of technical and artistic wizardry real went into this movie, such as the multiple framerates on one single character (Spider-Punk)... It's like, yeah, no wonder... They seemed like all hands on deck movies, and that everything else needed to be put aside for a brief second.
FIXED is an exception, though, as that is/was being animated at Renegade Animation. Some Sony Animation movies aren't done at the Sony Imageworks unit in Vancouver, sometimes other venues work on those movies. WISH DRAGON was a Chinese co-production with a number of studios, and THE STAR was done up at Cinesite. To name a few examples...
Maybe come next week, we'll hear what's up with FIXED and K-POP: DEMON HUNTERS. Keep in mind, Sony Animation also launched a TV series with AGENT KING a little while ago, and YOUNG LOVE - based on HAIR LOVE - is around the corner. The plate is full.
So... Congrats SPIDER-VERSE Two! Makes me wonder how much higher BEYOND will open. Given the various dismayed reactions to the film being over, as opposed to *what happened* in the final 10 minutes, I think it has a chance to get an ENDGAME-style bump. Sometimes, when a sequel opens so big, the third one kinda dips a little... I don't think that will be the case with BEYOND... It could even challenge CGI LION KING for the top opening weekend gross for an animated movie... I'd love to see it.
Also quite neat that the two biggest openings of 2023 are animated movies... MARIO with $146m, and now this with $120m... Right behind is MCU entry GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY VOL. 3 with $118m. Which also has a lot of animated characters and animated VFX in it. With the strong reception it has, I can see this easily getting a 3-3.5x multiplier, and making its way to $400m domestic, and perhaps double that worldwide... With that, it would become Sony Animation's highest grossing production, dethroning the live-action/animated SMURFS movie that made around $563m back in 2011. Surreal to think that that film has remained their biggest picture, but if we're going to go with all-animated movies... HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA 3 would be tops with $528m worldwide.
Most importantly, it's quite beloved already, a film that has blown minds. INTO THE SPIDER-VERSE caught the world by surprise, and this animated Spider-Man movie eventually won a lot of hearts over, hence this opening so big. Like I said before, I feel this is a watershed moment for animated features...
Not dissimilar to how plenty of adult audiences showed up in droves for the early run of Disney Renaissance animated movies. Or how Pixar and early DreamWorks/PDI films scored huge numbers circa the late '90s/early '00s. Or how we saw more blockbuster heavies in the 2010s like TOY STORY 3, FROZEN, and INSIDE OUT. It continues to prove that a lot of the public likes animation quite a bit, and will shell out hard-earned money to see these films in theaters. I know people will say "But it's still Spider-Man, it's Marvel, it's a well-known IP." Yes, that's correct... But plenty of adults could've said "What? Why is there a Spider-Man CARTOON now?" I feel INTO THE SPIDER-VERSE had a lot to prove, and it did, hence those excellent legs. Anyways, yeah, adults show up to cartoons...
Too bad the heads who don't pay the filmmakers, or those who run prestigious centers celebrating film... don't give the medium much respect, can't or absolutely refuse see that...
But the public says otherwise, and that's what matters to me. The popular vote vs. a very biased electoral college.
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princess-josie-riki · 2 years
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Year of the Alice Day 176
This is my first (and hopefully only) one-year project (which will be only 365 days) and this one is Alice's Adventures in Wonderland-themed.
In this pic, Alice Liddel meets Long.
Made with Microsoft Paint.
Enjoy! ♠️♥️♣️♦️
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (c) Lewis Carroll
American McGee's Alice (c) American McGee and Electronic Arts
Wish Dragon (c) Chris Appelhans, Sony Pictures Animation and Tencent Pictures
Idea and artwork (c) me
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hitku · 2 years
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Kite maker by Chris Appelhans
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geekcavepodcast · 3 years
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Wish Dragon Trailer
Din wants to reconnect with his best friend when he finds a teapot that contains a wish-granting dragon.
Sony Animation’s Wish Dragon stars the voice talents of Jimmy Wong, John Cho, Constance Wu, Natasha Liu Bordizzo, Will Yun Lee, Jimmy O. Yang, Aaron Yoo, Bobby Lee, and Ronnie Chieng. The film is written and directed by Chris Appelhans. 
Wish Dragon hits Netflix on June 11, 2021.
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lilian-cho · 3 years
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I met the studio in China and I met their team and they were young sort of born in the 90s generation. Chinese talent and they were so smart. They were so into the idea. They also had a ton of really thoughtful notes about like, “but here’s what you have wrong,” and “here’s why this doesn’t really feel right,” and “here’s what this dynamic would be like with this kid and his mom, not what you think it is.” So as soon as I got that feedback, I’m like, “Oh, I got to make the movie with these people because we’re trying to kind of tell a story together.” And in many ways, it’s a story of their generation. So I can just sort of be a vessel, kind of be a megaphone to help shoot that out over the world.
--Chris Appelhans, Interview: Wish Dragon Director Chris Appelhans Chose Authenticity Over Budget (June 11, 2021).
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internetluda · 3 years
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Wish Dragon - Review
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Wish Dragon is a charming animated film directed and written by Chris Appelhans and stars Jimmy Wong as Din, John Cho as the Wish Dragon and Natasha Liu Bordizzo as Li-Na. The story is like a retelling of the classic Aladdin story but it takes place in modern day Shanghai.
Din wants to reconnect with his childhood friend, Li-Na who moved away with her father to live a better life. He receives a teapot after meeting an old man while delivering food and discovers that inside the teapot lives a wish dragon named Long that can grant three wishes. The dragon must serve ten masters before he can go free to the spirit world. Let’s just say that Long has his own back story and I think it’s great.
You can relate to Din, he's such a likable character and has the same problems similar to other teenagers growing up in an Asian household.
There’s also three thugs that are chasing after Din and are looking for the teapot. I really did like the villain of the film. Not to mention, the henchmen were hysterical. The cast did a really good job at bringing the characters alive. I also loved the character designs and the clean animation. Sony Animation did a wonderful job at capturing what Shanghai, China looked like.
I really do like what Sony Animation is doing this year. They are just killing it when it comes to animated feature films. Not just with this film but with The Mitchells Vs The Machines. These films should had been released in theaters.
Other notable cast members include Contance Wu as Din’s mom and Will Yun Lee as Li-na’s dad.
I highly recommend this film. Not only does it tell a good story but it has characters that are enjoyable to watch. You can watch it on Netflix.
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visdevart · 3 months
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Visual development for Coraline by Chris Appelhans
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rye-views · 3 years
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Wish Dragon (2021) dir. Chris Appelhans. 7.4/10
I would recommend this movie to my friends. I would rewatch this movie.
This reminded me of Love Hina and obviously, Aladdin. I lowkey wish we didn't make it so similar to Aladdin, but it was good.
Din is so cute.
There were moments when characters sounded so American even though we were in Asia.
I vibe with shrimp chips.
When Din is on that door and Long sank, I was like..Titanic.
Lying is always wrong.
Li Na reminded me of the Incredibles's Violet.
I like Din's Nomoney suit more than his rich one.
I would love to touch Long. He seems so fluffy. I want to hold hands with him.
The dogs were so cute. Seems like something you can get from a claw machine.
That dumpling with the man's face was cute.
Memorable Quotes: "Go to school. Stop planning things."
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Wish Dragon
“Wish Dragon” is a decently made movie with a few good moments, but definitely not as good as it was hyped up to be.
Din was a boy who didn’t really fit in. This is what helped him connect with his friend, Li Na. They were the best of friends until one day, Li Na moved away. After a few years, Din is finally ready to find Li Na and be friends with her once more. The only problem is, Li Na is now part of a lavish life where he doesn’t fit in. Luckily, he’s given a magical teapot that contains a powerful wish dragon named, Long.
This movie wasn’t on my radar until a couple of the movie review channels I watch on YouTube were gushing about it. They were talking about how it was an underrated gem that was being overshadowed by “Luca” and that everyone should check it out. That piqued my interest and I wanted to give this movie a try. Fast forward to today and I finally checked it out. I can confidently say that it’s fine. I think the animation can be really good at times, like the fight scenes and the way Long moves. I just wish the character design of the human characters were more inspired. They look like the default option of any video game. It really didn’t help establish them as their own unique characters at times. Like, Din is fine, but he’s just this neutral good character that just looks plain. Li Na is the standard pretty girl who is more humble than her initial appearance leads you to assume. I thought Long’s design was fine, but nothing to write home about. The main antagonists also felt gimmicky and plain. The main one fights with his legs only, which is funny conceptually, but wears thin pretty quickly. The others are your classic henchmen pairing of the short one and the big one. I haven’t really heard anyone point this out yet, but I thought the voice acting was a bit weak at times. The movie boasts some pretty big names like Jimmy Wong, John Cho, and Constance Wu. The only problem is, I felt like the movie didn’t use their best takes for some of the scenes. The story is akin to “Aladdin”, but has added a few tweaks to make the story technically original. The major character development is focused on Long instead of Din and I thought it worked. Still, this movie wasn’t phenomenal. There’s really not much more I can say because it’s just a decently made movie that doesn’t do anything outstanding.
★★★
Watched on March 22nd, 2022
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Wish Dragon (2021)
My rating: 7/10
For what is basically a Chinese remake of Disney's Aladdin (with bits of Hercules and Emperor's New Groove thrown in), this is very entertaining - the characters are quite likeable, and while the plot is basic and predictable, it hits enough emotional beats, both funny and sentimental, to be quite engaging.
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animalfictionsource · 5 years
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Concept art for Wes Anderson's Fantastic Mr Fox, drawn by Chris Appelhans
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scurviesdisneyblog · 6 years
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The Princess and The Frog concept art by Chris Appelhans 
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