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Prepare for an intense and gripping episode of “Parish” titled “Kumba,” airing on AMC at 9:00 Pm on Sunday, April 28, 2024. In this installment, Gray and his family confront a daunting new reality as they grapple with past traumas and navigate through their grief.

As Gray comes to terms with the challenges of their “new normal,” tensions rise as Horse, a key player in the community, takes matters into his own hands. With his business expanding, Horse finds himself confronting internal conflicts while also making a bold offer to Gray, one that could change the course of their lives forever.

“Kumba” promises to be a riveting episode filled with suspense, drama, and unexpected twists as the characters navigate through the complexities of their relationships and the harsh realities of their environment. Viewers can expect intense performances and gripping storytelling as the series continues to delve into the lives of its characters.

Dolph Lundgren and Emmy-winner Matthew Rhys have joined the stellar voice cast of “Seal Team,” the upcoming animated feature from South Africa’s Triggerfish, which is receiving the MIFA Industry Award at the 60th Annecy Int’l Animation Film Festival.

Cinema Management Group (Cmg), which handled worldwide sales on Triggerfish’s previous two animated hits, “Adventures in Zambezia” and “Khumba,” with a combined worldwide box-office over $ 61 million, executive produces and manages worldwide sales of “Seal Team.”

Lundgren and Rhys join the likes of Academy Award winner J.K. Simmons (“Whiplash”); four-time Annie Award nominee Patrick Warburton (“Family Guy”); Emmy nominee Kristen Schaal (“Toy Story 3”) and South Africa’s Sharlto Copley (“District 9”).

British Grammy Award-winner Seal and South African John Kani also give voice to the team of intrepid seals in the action-comedy toon.

Jessie T. Usher (“The Boys”) voices the main character and hero, Quinn, a seal who spends...

Edward Noeltner to launch sales in Cannes next month.

Cinema Management Group (Cmg) has boarded its latest prestige independent animation, acquiring sales rights to Annecy selection Away by director Gints Zilbalodis ahead of a Cannes market launch.

The film will premiere in Annecy’s new Contrechamp section in June when it will compete for the newly created Contrechamp Award and Contrechamp Jury Distinction. It joins Cmg’s Annecy selection Salma’s Big Wish (Dia de Muertos), which company president Edward Noeltner and his team began selling at the Efm in Berlin in February. Annecy International Animated Film Festival runs from...

Netflix is adding to its growing slate of African content with its first original animated series, “Mama K’s Team 4,” produced by South Africa’s award-winning Triggerfish Animation Studios and British kids’ and family entertainment production company Cake.

The series follows four teenage girls living in a futuristic version of Lusaka, Zambia, who are recruited by a retired secret agent to save the world. It was created by Zambian writer Malenga Mulendema, who in 2015 was one of eight winners of the Triggerfish Story Lab, a pan-African talent search backed by the Cape Town-based animation studio and The Walt Disney Co. The series is designed by the Cameroonian artist Malcolm Wope.

In the past decade, Triggerfish has become a powerhouse in South Africa’s burgeoning animation industry. Its first two animated features, “Adventures in Zambezia” (2012) and “Khumba” (2013), are two of the five top-grossing South African movies of all time.

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South Africa’s Triggerfish Animation Studios has begun production on its third animated feature, “Seal Team,” which the toon powerhouse will announce as part of a packed slate at the Annecy Int’l. Animation Film Festival, where it has a TV film in competition and will screen a short, “Belly Flop,” during the fest’s closing ceremony.

Blazing on the red-hot heels of its latest award-winning collaboration with the U.K.’s Magic Light Pictures, the Cape Town-based studio is going back to the successful feature-length formula that turned its first two films, “Adventures in Zambezia” (2012) and “Khumba” (2013), into two of the five top-grossing South African movies of all time.

“We’re delighted to be returning to our own IP after honing our skills on Magic Light Pictures’ BBC Christmas specials, like the Oscar-nominated ‘Revolting Rhymes,’” says Triggerfish’s head of development, Anthony Silverston.

The action-comedy “Seal Team” is the story of an orphan seal,...

Exclusive: Edward Noeltner’s sales company announces slew of Berlin deals led by Ainbo, New Life; horror-thriller Havenhurst sells to Soda Pictures in UK.

Beverly Hills-based Cinema Management Group (Cmg) announced on Monday it has licensed Tunche Films’ 3D CGI animated Ainbo – Spirit Of The Amazon (pictured) in 12 territories led by a deal with Turbo Films in China.

Company president Noeltner and his team also closed deals in the Baltics (Best Film), former Yugoslavia (Blitz Film & Video Distribution), Israel (Film House), Middle East (Front Row), Poland (Kino Swiat), Portugal (Cinemundo), South Korea (First Run), and Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, and Myanmar (Blue Lantern).

Brothers Sergio Zelada, Cesar Zelada and writer-director Jose Zelada founded Peru-based Tunche Films in 2003 and produced Ainbo and Noeltner acquired sales rights following a trip to Ventana Sur in Buenos Aires last December.

Argentum Entertainment’s romantic drama New Life has gone to Germany (Capelight Pictures), Scandinavia (Bld Media), China (Jetsen), Middle East (Front Row), Portugal...

Exclusive: Edward Noeltner’s Cinema Management Group has reported robust sales on the Croisette led by its hotly anticipated ‘painted animation’ starring Saoirse Ronan.

After closing a slew of deals on Loving Vincent in the run-up to Cannes, the upcoming film continues to entice buyers and the public alike, with Noeltner claiming that more than 110million people have watched the teaser.

Rights have gone in Japan (Parco), Scandinavia (Non-Stop), Italy (Adler), Colombia (CineColombia), and Israel (Shoval). Noeltner is in talks with interested parties for Us rights.

Loving Vincent chronicles the final days in the life of Vincent van Gogh and...

Exclusive: Edward Noeltner is Cannes-bound with world sales rights to the prestige Vincent Van Gogh ‘painted animation’ starring Douglas Booth, Saoirse Ronan, Jerome Flynn and Chris O’Dowd.

Oscar-winning stables Breakthru Films and Trademark Films are behind Loving Vincent, which tells of the final months and mysterious death of the famously troubled 19th century Dutch post-Impressionist.

Production got underway last week at Three Mills Studio in London’s East End and principal animation will continue in Gdansk.

Eleanor Tomlinson, Helen McCrory, John Sessions and Aidan Turner round out the key cast on what the producers cite as the world’s first ‘painted animation’ feature.

They plan to bring Van Gogh’s masterpieces to life using the Painted Animation Workstation system patented by Breakthru Films, Hugh Welchman’s London and Poland-based company that won the best animation short Oscar for Peter & The Wolf in 2008.

The filmmakers will project live-action footage frame-by-frame onto canvas and deploy a team of...

Efm: The Beverly Hills-based sales agency has launched a full-time office in Paris named Cmg Europe Sas.

The new venture will meet with producers at the Efm this week to discuss a number of projects as Cmg chief Edward Noeltner aims to expand his co-production business.

Cmg has been expanding its international portfolio and recently acquired the Argentina-Canada-Italy family film and recent Sundance selection The Games Maker.

The slate includes Venezuelan production Liz In September from Camera d’Or winner Fina Torres, while Bruno Barreto is in pre-production with another Latin American title.

“We were extremely pleased with our collaboration with Bruno on Reaching For The Moon and his new project, written by Bruno and Matthew Chapman has got huge international appeal,” said Noeltner.

Cmg will also present in Berlin The Messenger, its latest UK title after Saving Santa 3D and Plastic.

David Blair directs Robert Sheehan, Lily Cole and Joely Richardson in supernatural tale The Messenger from producer...

Leading sales agent Cinema Management Group (Cmg) has announced that "Born To Dance," a fresh take on the hip hop dance genre, began shooting on Monday in Auckland, New Zealand.

The feature is choreographed by eight-time World Hip Hop Championships winner Parris Goebel, a faculty member of Monsters of Hip Hop, and recent star in her own right of "Step Up All In."

U.S. bombshell Kherington Payne plays Sasha, the female lead in the multi-million dollar feature. Kherington was propelled to fame with her top ten placing in the hit Us reality show So You Think You Can Dance, which led to a principal role as Alice in the 2009 remake of feature film "Fame." She was also the lead in E! Networks docu-drama The Dance Scene, and was a principal dancer for Katy Perry’s Teenage Dream tour.

"Born To Dance" is a coming of age tale told through the eyes of ‘Tu’, an ambitious young man from Auckland who dreams of being a professional hip hop dancer. When he is invited to audition for the best crew in the country, and meets their leading lady Sasha, his dreams begin to turn to reality.

Australasian superstar Stan Walker will play the role of Benjy, Tu’s best friend. Walker shot to fame when he won the first season of Australian Idol and has since cemented his stardom with multiple platinum albums, appearing as a judge on The X Factor New Zealand, and a leading role in the 2013 feature film "Mt Zion."

Tammy Davis will direct, following from his award-winning shorts "Ebony Society" and "Sonny, My Older Brother." New discovery Tia Maipi, a member of world championship hip hop crew The Royal Family, will take on his first major acting role playing Tu.

Peter Jackson’s Park Road Post are the post-production partner, while Vendetta Films will distribute in Aus/Nz. Edward Noeltner’s Cinema Management Group begin world sales at the upcoming Afm. Noeltner says:

“We are very excited to be selling this high energy, exotic and incredibly choreographed film to the buyers at Afm. We are confident this will pick up where the Step Up franchise left off, and we see this as the next international music and dance sensation with terrific worldwide box office potential.”

About Cmg

Cmg, which is celebrating its 10th anniversary this year, has firmly established itself as one of the leading international sales companies. Recent successes include the 3D animated feature "Zambezia,"which saw its international box office climb to over Usd $37million. Other properties handled by Cmg which have had #1 openings internationally include "Khumba" and this holiday season’s 3D animated feature "Saving Santa." For more information, visit www.cinemamanagementgroup.com...

Sheriff leaves Aardman Animations after 25 years.

Cape Town-based Triggerfish Animation has appointed Arthur Sheriff as an advisor to the company.

London-based Sheriff has been Aardman’s Head of Communications for the past 25 years and will now step down from that post.

Sheriff said: “While I’m sad to be moving on from Aardman, I see in Triggerfish an exciting young company bursting with creative ideas. They remind me very much of Aardman before their huge worldwide success.

“I’ve had the pleasure of advising their management team in a ‘non-official’ capacity for the last few years, and now that I spend a considerable portion of the year in Cape Town, I’m looking forward to contributing in a more active role.”

Triggerfish has worked on Adventures in Zambezia and Khumba and is currently in production (with Magic Light) on Stick Man; more features are in development.

“Our first two feature films took us through the whole process...

Sheriff leaves Aardman after 25 years.

Cape Town-based Triggerfish Animation has appointed Arthur Sheriff as an advisor to the company.

London-based Sheriff has been Aardman’s Head of Communications for the past 25 years and will now step down from that post.

Sheriff said: “While I’m sad to be moving on from Aardman, I see in Triggerfish an exciting young company bursting with creative ideas. They remind me very much of Aardman before their huge worldwide success. I’ve had the pleasure of advising their management team in a ‘non-official’ capacity for the last few years, and now that I spend a considerable portion of the year in Cape Town, I’m looking forward to contributing in a more active role.”

Triggerfish has worked on Adventures in Zambezia and Khumba and is currently in production (with Magic Light) on Stick Man; more features are in development.

“Our first two feature films took us through the whole process of conceiving...

Catch the colourful children's animation Khumba three days before DVD - in Sky Store. Half-striped zebra Khumba (Jake T Austin) is kicked out by his superstitious herd and embarks on a daring quest to earn his stripes. When he chances on a map locating a magical lake, he grabs the chance to prove his worth and heads out into the wild with the help of killer leopard Phango (Liam Neeson).

London – Cape Town-based Triggerfish Animation Studios has signed with Wme for representation in all areas. The Hollywood agency will work with the independent studio, known as "the Pixar of South Africa," which plans to produce five new feature film projects over the next seven years. Known for producing animated features Zambezia, starring the voices of Jeremy Suarez, Abigail Breslin, Jeff Goldblum, Leonard Nimoy and Samuel L. Jackson, and Khumba, starring Jake T. Austin, AnnaSophia Robb, Steve Buscemi, Laurence Fishburne and Liam Neeson, Triggerfish is currently in development on its third feature. The film, Sea Monster,

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This zebra-striped South African animation resorts too much to hammy character stereotypes

Cluttered, clunky and derivative, Khumba is a homiletic tale about a zebra (voiced by Jake T Austin) born with half the usual number of stripes, who sets out to find a magic watering hole, and instead (spoiler alert) finds himself. Along the way, he encounters the usual eclectic menagerie of talking wildlife, voice-cast to conform to cultural stereotypes based on anthropomorphic ideas, so, for example, the daffy ostrich (Richard E Grant) becomes a buffoonish, theatrical Brit, and the rotund wildebeest (Loretta Devine) sounds like a sassy black mama. The cartoon facial expressions are hammy and the low budget shows in the sketchy quality of the animation. At least the landscapes look suitably grandiose and authentic, as they ought to, given that this is a South African production. There's a pretty score of harmonic, Isicathamiya-influenced music, but this is...

★★☆☆☆As the recent critical and box office success of both the Oscar-winning Frozen (2013) and The Lego Movie (2014) can attest to, animated movies have seldom been more popular than they are today. Though noble in its intentions, Anthony Silverston's Khumba (2013) - the sophomore effort from the Cape Town-based Triggerfish Animation Studios - is a substandard digimated excursion that's all the more dissatisfying when compared to the films that inspired it. When young zebra Khumba (voiced by Jake T. Austin) is born with only half of his usual stripes, his superstitious herd believe it to be a bad omen and he is quickly blamed and branded an outcast when a drought falls upon the dazzle's land.

It goes without saying that we were completely thrilled to be given the opportunity to email across some questions to British acting legend Richard E. Grant ahead of his role as Bradley the Ostrich in Anthony Silverston’s Khumba: A Zebra’s Tale.

Though his answers are somewhat short and sweet to say the least, it’s always interesting to hear what the great man has to say. Right?

So, how would one prepare for a role when playing an animated ostrich?

Read the script and look at the initial character sketches.

Were you able to see a drawing of your character before voicing him? Is that helpful?

Yes. The drawing gives you an instant idea of what the character is like and is very helpful.

There’s an incredible cast on Khumba – the likes of Liam Neeson, Steve Buscemi, Laurence Fishburne… Did you have much time to hang out together,...

Ice cool princesses on melodic voyages of self-discovery, are undeniably delightful. Yet sometimes one wants something a little more ferocious from a trip to the movies. With its roll call of eccentric characters and sweeping desert scapes, Khumba: A Zebra’s Tale provides an earnest and offbeat – if temporary - antidote to those sisters this Easter holiday. A wild and winsome tale of big courage!

Khumba (Jake T. Austin) is an outcast among his insular zebra herd. Born half-striped, raised as a veritable outsider and newly motherless, his instinct to offer a share of their dwindling water supplies to a stranger only elevate suspicions within the group. The superstitious elders of the herd – mulishly determined not to remember a time when things were different – keep the waterhole locked down by a wall of thorns and hoard the precious commodity.

Regardless, demand is outstripping supply and someone needs to act.

Check out what's new to rent and own this week on the various streaming services such as cable Movies On Demand, Amazon, iTunes, Vudu, and, of course, Netflix. Cable Movies On Demand: Same-day-as-disc releases, older titles and pretheatrical exclusives for rent, priced from $3-$10, in 24- or 48-hour periods The Best Man Holiday (comedy; Morris Chestnut, Taye Diggs; rated R) Ender's Game (Ya sci-fi/action; Asa Butterfield, Harrison Ford; rated PG-13) The Armstrong Lie (documentary; Lance Armstrong; rated R) The Artist and the Model (drama; Jean Rochefort, Claudia Cardinale; rated R) Austenland (comedy; Keri Russell, Bret McKenzie; rated PG-13) Khumba (animated family film, voices: Jake T. Austin, Liam Neeson; also available in 3D; not rated) Knights of...

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Title: Khumba Directed by: Anthony Silverston Starring: Jake T. Austin, Liam Neeson, Steve Buscemi, AnnaSophia Robb, Laurence Fishburne, Richard E. Grant, Loretta Devine Running time: 85 minutes, Not Rated, Available on Blu-ray 3D and DVD Special Features: Behind the Scenes Featurette; Acting Out- Character Evolution; The Karoo – A World of Difference; Nora – A Great Partnersheep Khumba (Jake T. Austin) is a young zebra that was born with only half his stripes. Teased by the rest of the herd, blamed for the drought and his mother’s death by his father Seko (Laurence Fishburne), he runs off into The Karoo, the vast land outside the safety of their secluded watering [ Read More ]

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Update: Jake T. Austin wanted to introduce the clip from Khumba. Check out the new, updated version with Jake T. Austin in person!

Jan. 14, 2014 - We have an Exclusive clip of Jake T. Austin's hilarious animated comedy, Khumba! The movie, which is available on Blu-Ray/DVD today (only at Wal-mart) is about a zebra with only half his stripes who ispicked on by his tribe. He leaves the tribe to seek a legendary waterhole where he thinks he'll get the rest of his stripes. On his journey, he meets a Really Funny assortment of animals, the first of which is this wild dog who may or may not have bad intentions. The movie also features AnnaSophia Robb, Liam Neeson, Steve Buscemi, and many more. 

 

See Riley's review of Khumba and after you see the DVD, tell us what you think!

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We have an Exclusive clip of Jake T. Austin's hilarious animated comedy, Khumba! The movie, which is available on Blu-Ray/DVD today (only at Wal-mart) is about a zebra with only half his stripes who ispicked on by his tribe. He leaves the tribe to seek a legendary waterhole where he thinks he'll get the rest of his stripes. On his journey, he meets a Really Funny assortment of animals, the first of which is this wild dog who may or may not have bad intentions. The movie also features AnnaSophia Robb, Liam Neeson, Steve Buscemi, and many more. 

 

See Riley's review of Khumba and after you see the DVD, tell us what you think!

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Edward Noeltner has been a friend of ours in and out of 'the business' (as those of us who work in it tend to call it) for many years now. Our families know each other and we have been on many nice social occasions to each other's homes.

Thus we have a lovely personal connection to this great film guy.

So it is with impressed awe that we have watched his company expand and continue to represent great and important films.

Edward was born in New Jersey and moved at one year of age to Munich, Germany. His dad was Head of Radio Liberty, a Us government sponsored radio station that beamed Us government propaganda (let's call it that) to the countries of the (then large and active and now gone) Soviet Union.

He lived in Munich West Germany, and on September 4, 1972 attended the Olympic Games there. He describes it like this. 'The atmosphere that day was very free spirited and lively in the Olympic Village. Then the next day - massacre.' On September 5, 1972 disaster struck the Olympics. The sporting nature of which was largely overshadowed by the Munich massacre in which eleven Israeli athletes and coaches, a West German police officer, and five Palestinian Black September militants were killed.

He left Germany in 1973. But he had grown up at his father's workplace, and knew radio production and and often hung out at the Munich station. From Germany he moved to Arizona where he attended high school in Tucson. He worked there at radio and TV stations in the newsroom of the local CBS affiliate. 'I fell naturally into this as I had developed such a love of radio and news as a boy'.

He remembers the great Fellini film 8 1/2 particularly arousing his interest in film and especially European cinema.

In Tucson he began to habituate their great (and still thriving) arthouse cinema The Loft.

He entered the University of Arizona / Tucson to get a degree from theDepartment handling Radio TV Film Drama. 'I was very close to getting my Master's there when I left'.

He decided then to move to USC instead to get a Masters Degree and was there from 1980-84.

It was there he met his wife who also studied there, the French national Marie Christine. In 1984 they moved to Paris.

He first worked for Europe Export Films and stayed with them for 7 years. In 1994 he started Senator International in Berlin and stayed until 1996.

He then moved on to Pandora Cinema of Paris where we first met him when he worked there with Ernst Goldschmidt and Sudy Coy.

In 1998 Pandora was sold to Gaylord Entertainment (which Edward describes as 'a mainstream company').

In 1999 Svensk of Copenhagen offered him a good job opportunity. They had a nice library of 40 plus film titles.

He came as they had just gotten Faithless, based on an Ingmar Bergmann script and directed by the great Bergman actress Liv Ulman. Edward says, 'Big success. It sold everywhere and was in the Cannes Film Festival Official Selection'.

Edward also had an Oscar Nomination there with Under the Sun by Colin Nutley.

In 2001 he accepted a Miramax offer to become Head of Sales for the Weinstein brothers in New York. Chicago was just one of their great titles which had a very good run.

In 2003 he decided to move to La and start his own sales company, Cinema Management Group / Cmg. Off to a good start one of his first films, the animation Hoodwinked grossed $110 million worldwide.

Since 2003, Cmg has added over 100 titles to its line-up which includes quality feature films of all genres, 3-D animated features and series as well as award winning feature length documentaries and series.

Over the past 25 years, Edward Noeltner has licensed some 16 Oscar nominated features (many of them Oscar winners) and has worked with some of the most creative individuals in the industry. Films like Scott Hick’s Shine, Carlos Saura’s Tango, Liv Ullmann’s Faithless, or Rob Marshall’s Chicago are just some of the many memorable feature films Noeltner has been associated with in terms of int’l sales.

Since its inception, Cmg has been known for offering original, commercial properties. Cmg co-executive producing the cult animated series "Happy Tree Friends" and licensed both DVD and Television rights to the series in over 40 int’l territories including the Us and Canada. Today, Cmg offers an array of exciting new 3-D Digital CGI animated features, all independently produced with amazing voice talents such as Jeff Goldblum, Samuel L. Jackson, Abigail Breslin, Steve Buscemi, Laurence Fishburne and Liam Neeson along with some of the finest animators working in the business. Cmg’s collaboration with Triggerfish Animation – Adventures In Zambezia– garnered over Us$ 26million in its theatrical run with a number of major territories still to be released.

This Afm Edward and Cmg are launching a mixed agenda of films and he is especially high on the thriller

Plastic

This following company promo makes me want to see it:

High octane from start to finish, Plastic is based on the incredible true story of a heist of one of Beverly Hills’ top jewelry merchants. Brilliant college student Sam has the perfect credit card scam…until his crew robs the wrong man. Now they have two weeks to repay ruthless gangster Marcel Us$2 million or they will be dead. Sam and his team devise a scheme to clear their debt by heading to Miami to poach enough cash and merchandise. But they come up short. So Sam and his gang set their sights on a daring jewelry heist that could make them hugely wealthy for life. Their plan turns sour, however, when the team members start turning on each other. Now it’s up to Sam to finish the brazen heist and turn the tables on Marcel before they all go down.

Cmg at Afm will also have the supernatural horror feature

The Hunted : In an attempt to land their own TV show, Jake (Josh Stewart) and Stevie (Ronnie Gene Blevins) head to the dense, secluded mountains of West Virginia. Equipped with only their bow and cameras, they have three days to kill a monster buck big enough to grab the attention of a TV network. Once they find the massive animal, they look to strike fast. But as the sun sets, they realize they're not alone. A supernatural force appears to be lurking in the vacant woods... and now they're the ones being hunted.

Always good on animation for the kiddies this coming holiday season Edward is selling

Saving Santa 3D : At the top of the North Pole, Bernard is an elf in Santa’s workshop who’s always messing up. One morning, after sleeping in late, Santa kindly shows Bernard the oh-so-secret time machine on his sleigh, which almost no one knows about. Suddenly, Bernard finds army commandos raiding the North Pole, demanding to know the location of his coveted time machine. If the world were to discover the exact location and existence of the North Pole, it would ruin Christmas for everyone! Bernard runs to the time machine and activates the device, going back in time to that same morning. Now it’s a race against time to forge a plot with any elf that will believe his tale, and save Santa before the world finds out the secret of Christmas.

And

The Santa Story: Inspired by Frank L. Baum’s timeless classic, take a magical 3D animated journey to uncover the true origins of the little boy named Nick who grew up to become Santa Claus. Set in his childhood village, join in Little Nick’s first real life adventures which teach him the gift of giving and the powerful spirit of community. As Nick grows up, he must confront his own self-doubts and bring everyone together to keep his old foe Rolf from taking over his village. With the help of two amazingly crafty elves, a majestic reindeer and a group of lovable orphans, Nick rebuilds his hometown and finally becomes the man we all know and love – Santa Claus.

Another kiddie animation film that looks great, about a half-striped zebra proving himself on the African plains

Khumba : When Khumba, a half-striped zebra is blamed for the lack of rain by the rest of his insular, superstitious herd, he embarks on a daring quest to earn his stripes. In his search for the legendary waterhole in which the first zebras got their stripes, Khumba meets a quirky range of characters, and teams up with an unlikely duo: an overprotective wildebeest, Mama V, and Bradley, a self-obsessed ostrich. But before he can reunite with his herd, Khumba will have to come face to face with Phango, a scary leopard who controls the waterholes and terrorizes all the animals in the Great Karoo.

It's not all black and white in this colorful adventure with a difference!

Afm will also see Cmg's quality drama, the Barreto family Produced/ Directed

Reaching for the Moon : Frustrated poet Elizabeth Bishop travels to Brazil and encounters the beguiling architect Lota de Macedo Soares. Initial hostilities make way for a complicated yet long-lasting love affair that dramatically alters Bishop’s relationship to the world around her. Anchored by magnificent lead performances from Miranda Otto and Gloria Pires, Reaching for the Moon is an intimate snapshot of the search for inspiration, wherever and however you find it

Cmg also has quality documentaries like Rob Stewart's ambitious feature that tours the planet with an inspiring and beautiful ecological message about saving our world.

Revolution : Continuing his adventurous journey around the world, filmmaker Rob Stewart brings us Revolution, a full length feature film that is inspiring humans to change the world and save our planet. Along with world renowned experts, he learns that past evolutions can help solve some of our current and future environmental problems. Startling, beautiful, and provocative, Revolution has already won awards at international film festivals and shows us that we can make a difference.

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Millennium Entertainment's Khumba animation which is being voiced by Jake T. Austin, Liam Neeson, Steve Buscemi, AnnaSophia Robb and Laurence Fishburne, has added a first trailer and a second poster. Rejected by his superstitious herd, a half-striped zebra embarks on a daring quest to earn his stripes but finds the courage and self-acceptance to save all the animals of the Great Karoo. Anthony Silverston directs, with a release date both OnDemand and in theaters on February 11, 2014. Watch the trailer below, and see the poster under that for Khumba. That reminds me of the Khumba rollercoaster...

Filming party scenes at a private park in New York City today (September 20), AnnaSophia Robb and Chris Wood continue their work on “Sex and the City’s” prequel series, “The Carrie Diaries.”

Amongst her several wardrobe changes, the 19-year-old actress showed some leg, wearing a brown button-down tucked into a short dark skirt, and also exhibited an elegant black-and-yellow-patterned dress.

Looking masculine and robust in a gray shirt, skinny blue pants and brown worker’s shoes, Chris played alongside the “Bridge to Terabithia” actress, towering an entire foot over her!

Meanwhile, Robb has a few upcoming projects including the CG-animated movie “Khumba” and the forgiveness flick, “Life at These Speeds.”...

Exclusive: Edward Noeltner’s Cinema Management Group has licensed rights on the animation and Toronto selection to Transmission in Australia, Kaleidoscope in the UK and Eagle for Italy.

Kaleidoscope is eying a first quarter 2014 release for the story about a half-striped zebra who embarks on a quest for his origins, accompanied by an overprotective wildebeest, narcissistic ostrich and plucky young zebra.

Khumba follows hot on the heels of Zambezia, which became the biggest hit at the South African box office in 30 years.

The film gets its first theatrical release when it opens in South Africa on October 25.

Jake T Austin, Steve Buscemi, Loretta Devine, Laurence Fishburne, Richard E Grant, AnnaSophia Robb, Catherine Tate and Liam Neeson comprise the key voice cast.

“We’re delighted to be in business with these three powerhouse independent distributors” said Noeltner.

Triggerfish writers Raffaella Delle Donne and Anthony Silverston wrote the original screenplay in consultation with Jonathan Roberts, co-writer of [link...

Exclusive: Edward Noeltner’s Cinema Management Group will commence pre-sales in Toronto on Rob Stewart’s eco documentary.

Gus Van Sant serves as executive producer on Revolution, which took Stewart on a four-year global journey investigating topics such as the acidification of oceans and ecosystem decay.

Noeltner will kick off sales next week in Toronto on the film, which screens this autumn at the Tokyo International Film Festival as part of the Telefilm Perspectives showcase.

Revolution marks Stewart’s follow-up to Sharkwater and opened in Canada on Apr 12, grossing $490,000 through D Film.

Sandra Campbell, Brian Stewart, Rob Merilees and David Hannan are among the executive producer roster.

“Rob has an incredible talent for storytelling,” said Noeltner. “This is as compelling a documentary film as I have seen and we feel there’s a worldwide audience that shares Rob’s passion for our planet’s future.”

In addition to Revolution, Cmg will screen the 3D animated features [link=tt...

Edward Noeltner’s Cinema Management Group has teamed up with The Collector and The Collection producers Brett Forbes and Patrick Rizzotti of Fortress Features and actor Josh Stewart on the Toronto-bound sales title.

The supernatural horror thriller stars Stewart as a hunter who heads into the West Virginian woods with a friend in a bid to land their own reality TV show. They soon learn a terrifying entity is stalking them. Wme Global represents Us rights.

Cmg will screen Hunted outside the festival for buyers on Sept 6 at 6.30pm at the Deluxe Screening Room.

“Josh, Brett, and Patrick have really taken their amazing skills of making horror films to another level with Hunted,” said Noeltner.

“We’ve had terrific success selling their previous films, and I think there’s a huge worldwide audience looking for a supernatural thriller as frightening as this one. We really can’t wait to share this film for the first time with...

Check out this adorable new trailer for director Anthony Silverston’s Khumba.

After screening at the Annecy and Durban film festivals, it was announced yesterday Khumba will have its North American premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival in September.

Khumba tells the story of a half-striped zebra who is blamed for the drought by his superstitious herd. He leaves his home in search of the magic waterhole where legend has it, the first zebras got their stripes. Teaming up with an overprotective, sassy wildebeest and a self-obsessed ostrich, this plucky young zebra meets an array of wacky characters in an unforgettable adventure through the Great Karoo desert to earn his stripes.

The cast includes Liam Neeson, Laurence Fishburne and Steve Buscemi.

Khumba is the second animated feature to be produced by Cape Town-based, Triggerfish Animation Studios, which has seen a successful global release of Adventures In Zambezia. The original...

With only the Discovery, Mavericks and Masters programmes left to be determined, Tiff head programmers dished out the final make-up of the Galas, Special Presentations and Tiff Kids line-ups. Among the surprise/highly anticipated world preems we find Arie Posin’s The Face of Love, John Turturro’s Fading Gigolo, Kevin Macdonald’s How I Live Now, the long overdue showing for Charlie Stratton’s Therese and the out of nowhere sophomore feature from Quinceañera pairing Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland in The Last of Robin Hood, as well as the “theatrical” world preem to Sean Durkins’ Southcliffe (Channel 4′s TV Mini-Series, see pic above). Here are the added titles:

Galas

Blood Ties – Guillaume Canet, France/USA North American Premiere

Bright Days Ahead (Les Beaux jours) – Marion Vernoux, France North American Premiere

Words and Pictures – Fred Schepisi, USA World Premiere

Special Presentations

A Promise (Une Promesse) – Patrice Leconte, Belgium...

AnnaSophia Robb (Race to Witch Mountain, "The Carrie Diaries") and Jake T. Austin (Hotel for Dogs, "Wizards of Waverly Place") will voice characters in Khumba, an animated movie about a zebra who only has half his stripes (Austin) and becomes a scapegoat for the drought his herd is experiencing. He teams up with a narcissistic ostrich and an overprotective wildebeast and defeat a leopard dictator and his herd. Steve Buscemi (The Incredible Burt Wonderstone) and Anika Noni Rose (Tiana from The Princess and the Frog)  just joined the cast which includes Liam Neeson (Wrath of the Titans), Laurence Fishburne (Man of Steel) and Loretta Devine (Lottery Ticket, "Doc McStuffins"). South Africa's Triggerfish Animated Studios is behind the film. 

Source: Deadline...

K5 In The Ring With ‘Cutie And The Boxer’ K5 International has boarded director Zachary Heinzerling’s Cutie And The Boxer which is screening this week in Tribeca. Heinzerling won the U.S. Documentary directing prize in Sundance for the film which is his feature debut. The movie is a New York love story about life and art that explores the chaotic 40-year marriage of renowned boxing painter Ushio Shinohara and his wife and artist Noriko. It will be released Stateside by Radius-twc in August. King Records will distribute in Japan with Parco and Madman in Australia. Steve Buscemi, Anika Noni Rose Join ‘Khumba’ South Africa’s Triggerfish Animation Studios has added the voice talent of Steve Buscemi and The Good Wife’s Anika Noni Rose to its 3D animated feature, Khumba. They join Liam Neeson, Laurence Fishburne, AnnaSophia Robb, Jake T. Austin, Loretta Devine and Richard E. Grant. Khumba...

Game Of Thrones Breaks BitTorrent Piracy Record Game Of Thrones debuted Sunday on HBO and began Monday night on the UK’s Sky Atlantic. The series hit a high with its third season premiere in the U.S., averaging 4.4M viewers, up 4% from Got‘s previous series high posted by the second season finale. At the same time, however, the premiere broke the record for what TorrentFreak calls “the largest BitTorrent swarm ever.” According to the website, a few hours after the first torrent of the show was uploaded, the OpenBitTorrent tracker reported 163,088 people sharing one single torrent, 110,303 were sharing a complete copy of the torrent and 52,786 were still downloading. The previous record was held by Heroes. Yesterday, TorrentFreak estimated the Got episode had been downloaded over a million times and expects it to be the most downloaded TV-show of the year, much as it was last year. Pirates in the U.

Eliza Graves

Jim Sturgess has joined the cast of Brad Anderson's horror thriller "Eliza Graves" alongside Kate Beckinsale. The story is a loose adaptation of Edgar Allen Poe's short story "The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether."

Sturgess plays a med school graduate who takes a job at an insane asylum. He is unaware of the fact that it has been taken over by its occupants who are posing as the staff. Shooting begins in June. [Source: THR]

Things People Do

Wes Bentley, Haley Bennett, Jason Isaacs and Vinessa Shaw have all joined the cast of Saar Klein's "Things People Do". Shooting has just begun in New Mexico.

Bentley and Shaw will play a married couple with the husband's life thrown into chaos after losing his job and meeting a stranger (Bennett). Isaacs is a detective he befriends. [Source: Deadline]

Khumba

Laurence Fishburne will join Liam Neeson, AnnaSophia Robb, Jake T Austin,...