Charades has scored a raft of pre-sales on Ben Stassen’s 3D animated feature “Bigfoot Family,” one of the biggest features competing at Annecy’s online film festival.
Directed by Stassen and Jérémie Degruson, “Bigfoot Family” (previously titled “Bigfoot Superstar”), is the sequel to “Son of Bigfoot” which was released internationally in 2017 and grossed more than $50 million worldwide.
Budgeted at more than $20 million, “Bigfoot Family” will be widely released by Francois Clerc’s Apollo Films in France on August 5. The movie was produced by Brussels-based nWave Pictures and stars Pappy Faulkner, Lindsay Torrance and Chris Parsons. “Bigfoot Family” is based upon an original story by Stassen, and was written by Bob Barlen and Cal Brunker (“Escape From Planet Earth”).
Over the last few months, Charades has pre-sold the anticipated film to most territories, including Germany (Splendid), Spain (Tripictures/A Contracorriente), Israel (Forum), Switzerland (Impuls), South Korea (Isu C&e), Greece (Odeon...
Directed by Stassen and Jérémie Degruson, “Bigfoot Family” (previously titled “Bigfoot Superstar”), is the sequel to “Son of Bigfoot” which was released internationally in 2017 and grossed more than $50 million worldwide.
Budgeted at more than $20 million, “Bigfoot Family” will be widely released by Francois Clerc’s Apollo Films in France on August 5. The movie was produced by Brussels-based nWave Pictures and stars Pappy Faulkner, Lindsay Torrance and Chris Parsons. “Bigfoot Family” is based upon an original story by Stassen, and was written by Bob Barlen and Cal Brunker (“Escape From Planet Earth”).
Over the last few months, Charades has pre-sold the anticipated film to most territories, including Germany (Splendid), Spain (Tripictures/A Contracorriente), Israel (Forum), Switzerland (Impuls), South Korea (Isu C&e), Greece (Odeon...
- 6/17/2020
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
A boy discovers his real, Neanderthal dad, who is hiding from a crazed pharmaceutical firm, in this impressively rendered animation
In a corner of suburban America next to woods, 13-year-old Adam Harrison (voiced by Pappy Faulkner) is distressed to find his body is growing at an alarming rate in particular areas while thick unruly hair grows uncontrollably in others. No, it’s not puberty – or at least not just puberty – but evidence that he’s actually the son of a semi-feral remnant of Neanderthal genetics, a real live bigfoot (Christopher L Parson), living in the woods to avoid the unwanted attentions of a crazed pharmaceutical company, determined to mine his genes to create a cure for baldness.
It’s a fundamentally daft premise, but the film-makers have fun with it, sprinkling wry one-liners along the way to perk things up and threading the plot on a surprisingly strong emotional through-line.
In a corner of suburban America next to woods, 13-year-old Adam Harrison (voiced by Pappy Faulkner) is distressed to find his body is growing at an alarming rate in particular areas while thick unruly hair grows uncontrollably in others. No, it’s not puberty – or at least not just puberty – but evidence that he’s actually the son of a semi-feral remnant of Neanderthal genetics, a real live bigfoot (Christopher L Parson), living in the woods to avoid the unwanted attentions of a crazed pharmaceutical company, determined to mine his genes to create a cure for baldness.
It’s a fundamentally daft premise, but the film-makers have fun with it, sprinkling wry one-liners along the way to perk things up and threading the plot on a surprisingly strong emotional through-line.
- 11/2/2017
- by Leslie Felperin
- The Guardian - Film News
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