This year’s highlights include Sylvain Chomet’s highly-anticipated 2D Marcel Pagnol biopic, “A Magnificent Life,” which will be a part of the official competition and released domestically this year through Sony Pictures Classics; sneaks of Andy Serkis’ “Animal Farm” and Genndy Tartakovsky’s R-rated, 2D “Fixed” (streaming on Netflix); and special previews of Disney’s “Zootopia 2,” Pixar’s “Elio,” DreamWorks’ “The Bad Guys 2,” Sony Picture Animation’s “GOAT,” Paramount Animation’s “The SpongeBob Movie: Search for Squarepants,” and Netflix’s “In Your Dreams.” “After a historic 2024 edition, with a record attendance of 17,400 badgeholders, and all this despite a difficult context for the industry, we have worked with renewed determination to make the 2025 edition stronger, open and ambitious — to assist the revival,” Mickaël Marin, CEO of CITIA said in a prepared statement. This year’s in-competition lineup includes the star power of France’s Chomet (the Oscar-nominated “The Illusionist” and “The Triplets of Belleville”), whose 2D rendering of Pagnol re-examines his childhood with the help of his younger self, along with the debut feature of animator Zaven Najjar, who adapts “Allah Is Not Obliged” (Belgium, Canada, France, Luxembourg) from Ahmadou Kourouma’s raw, first-person novel.
Author: Bill Desowitz
Published at: 2025-04-23 22:30:00
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