First poster for “Rise Of The Guardians”

A while ago we reported that Isla had signed to voice a role in another animated comedy, Rise Of The Guardians, and now the first poster for the film has been released! It doesn’t feature Isla, but you can view it below, and find two synopsis’s after that.

When Pitch (Jude Law), an evil spirit akin to the Boogeyman, lays down the gauntlet to take over the world, the immortal Guardians must join forces for the first time to protect the hopes, beliefs and imagination of children all over the world.

Rise of the Guardians tells the story of a group of heroes — each with extraordinary abilities. When an evil spirit known as Pitch lays down the gauntlet to take over the world, the immortal Guardians must join forces for the first time to protect the hopes, beliefs and imagination of children all over the world. This epic 3D adventure stars Chris Pine as Jack Frost, Alec Baldwin as North (Santa Claus), Hugh Jackman as Bunnymund (Easter Bunny), Isla Fisher as Tooth (Tooth Fairy) and Jude Law as Pitch (The Boogeyman).

Peter Ramsey and William Joyce are directing, David Lindsay-Abaire has written the screenplay, and Guillermo del Toro and Michael Siegel are executive producers. The film is based on the books by William Joyce.

You can see concept art for the Jack Frost character at RopeOfSilicon.com. And read an interview with co-director and story writer William Joyce at HitFix.com.

Rise of the Guardians is set for release on November 21st 2012.

DreamWorks Animation Sets Release Calendar Through 2014

DreamWorks Animation has announced its release calendar through 2014, setting dates for seven toons, including How To Train Your Dragon 2 and Mr. Peabody & Sherman.

The big question is whether Paramount and DreamWorks Animation will renew their output deal, which expires in 2012. For now, Paramount is listed as the distributor on all of the titles.

“At DreamWorks Animation, our creative ambition has never been greater and the release schedule we’re unveiling today is designed to give our movies the time and resources they need to realize their full potential so each one can become a true event for our audiences,” company CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg said.

DreamWorks Animation’s 2012 slate kicks off on June 8 with Madagascar 3. The threequel returns Ben Stiller, Chris Rock, David Schwimmer, Jada Pinckett Smith and Sacha Baron Cohen in the title voice roles.

Based on the forthcoming books by William Joyce, Rise of the Guardians will open in theaters Nov. 21, 2012. Voice cast includes Chris Pine, Alec Baldwin, Hugh Jackman, Isla Fisher and Jude Law.

– Read the full article (nothing further on Isla/Rise of The Guardians) at The Hollywood Reporter

New interview with Scotsman.com

Interview: Isla Fisher, actress

TEETERING into the London hotel room on six-inch heels, Isla Fisher is in full glamorous mode as she grips my hand: a gesture that combines warmth with a pressing need for something to hang on to.

This is day two of a European tour to promote her new film Rango, and the tight schedule of TV and press leaves her no time to change between interviews – hence her plunging neckline, some Weimar-era eye make-up and the vertiginous footwear. Yet underneath it all, a rising comedy star is still recognisable as she wobbles towards a chair.

“I’m definitely at my most comfortable tapping into my inner idiot,” she confirms. “I mean, I love dramatic actors and actresses but I’ve never personally aspired to have an Oscar. I’m just a comedy fan.” Up until now however, in films such as Wedding Crashers, Confessions Of A Shopaholic and Wedding Daze, she’s been able to rely on her physical gift for slapstick. In Rango, her performance concentrates on a deadpan vocal performance as a sceptical frontier lizard called Beans, who doesn’t even have Fisher’s Australian accent. “The director wanted Beans to sound like Holly Hunter – so I watched Raising Arizona a million times and practised until I got the pitch nice and low.”

Gore Verbinski’s animated animal western is about Rango (Johnny Depp), a chameleon who manages to blend into the old west world of gunshooting rattlesnakes (Bill Nighy), bar-room rats (Ray Winstone) and a precocious desert mouse (Little Miss Sunshine’s Abigail Breslin). Fisher’s character is the only one who suspects that Rango is an imposter rather than a real gunslinger.

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More quotes from a “Rango” press junket

The Daily Aztec has posted further quotes from a recent Rango press junket, so again, visit the link to see the whole thing, and below are the Isla bits:

DA: What projects do you all have in the pipelines? Isla or Abigail, do you have any desire to do animated projects again in the future?

ISLA FISHER: I’m actually doing an animated movie now, “Rise of the Guardians,” and I’m playing Tinkerbell which is a really different voice from Bean’s. And I’m really enjoying that, but I’m in an isolated booth.
ABIGAIL BRESLIN: Yeah, I love animated movies, so yeah, I’d love to do one, for sure. But I liked doing it like this, and I don’t think that they do many animated movies like that. But I suppose I’d be in an isolated booth too if it was a cool movie.
JD: But you’d still wear the wig and the gun and stuff.
AB: I’d still come completely, full out in the character’s costume.

DA: Isla, can you tell us about creating the voice of Beans and if you feel like having to cover your accent so frequently in films made it easier to do the characterization?

IF: I kind of imagine Beans, if Clint Eastwood and Holly Hunter would have a love child, that would be Beans.
JD: I’d like to watch that.
GV: Yes.
IF: If you were around. No, and then the physicality of the character had already been created; I’d already seen 20 minutes of the movie and some linear drawings. So I knew how she moved. Gore was with me every step of the way vocally, and he was very specific about what he wanted. And no one ever wants to hire an Australian, so I’m just used to never doing my own voice, ever. I mean, they do want to hire — oh, that came out wrong. They do want to hire Australians, obviously.

Isla to voice the Tooth Fairy in animated “Rise of the Guardians”

Chris Pine, Hugh Jackman, Jude Law, Alec Baldwin and Isla Fisher will voice the lead roles in DreamWorks Animation’s 3D epic “Rise of the Guardians.”

Peter Ramsey is directing the pic based on “The Guardians of Childhood,” an upcoming series of children’s books by William Joyce, who will co-direct.

Guillermo del Toro and Michael Siegel are exec producing, while Christina Steinberg and Nancy Bernstein will serve as producers.

Pulitzer Prize winner David Lindsay-Abaire wrote the screenplay, which follows a group of heroic childhood legends, each with extraordinary abilities. When Pitch (Law), an evil spirit akin to the boogeyman, lays down the gauntlet to take over the world, the immortal Guardians must join forces for the first time to protect the hopes, beliefs and imagination of children all over the world.

Project was originally announced in December 2009, with Leonardo DiCaprio voicing Jack Frost, a role Pine will be taking over. He’ll be joined by Jackman’s Bunnymund (the Easter Bunny), Baldwin’s North (Santa Claus) and Fisher’s Tooth (the Tooth Fairy).

“It’s a thrill to be working with such an all-star team of actors and filmmakers,” Bill Damaschke, DWA’s chief creative officer, said in a statement to Variety. “When we bring Bill Joyce’s imaginative vision to the screen in 2012, audiences will experience an incredible story with a truly epic sense of adventure.”

DWA will release the film on Nov. 21, 2012.

– variety.com

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