Dream Ent.’s Disaster!, a stop-motion animated spoof of various nature-gone-wrong movies, was picked up by Screen Media Films for distribution in North America. The deal was made at the recent Cannes Film Festival and will see a wide theatrical debut in October, followed by a February home video release through the Screen Media’s partnership with Universal Studios Home Entertainment.
Directed by Roy Wood (Celebrity Deathmatch), Disaster! employs a combination of clay and wire armature animation to spoof the new generation of big-budget Hollywood disaster movies characterized by such titles as Armageddon, Twister and Deep Impact. As a giant planetoid hurdles toward Earth, vulcanoligist Harry Bottoms is enlisted by the government to assemble a team to go into space and eliminate the threat. Joined by his estranged daughter, Sandy Mellons, Bottoms must save the day with the help of specialists V.D. Johnson, Hanukah Jonze and Donkey Dixon. Members of the rock band Motley Crue also lend their voices and likenesses to adult-oriented comedy.
Disaster! was written by Paul Benson (X-Men Unlimited) and Matt Sullivan (The God and Devil Show), and features animation by artists who previously worked with Wood on Deathmatch, and pushed puppets for New Line Cinema’s Elf and Will Vinton productions such as The P.J.s and Gary & Mike. The production was entirely self-financed by former Dream Ent. CEO Ehud Bleiberg and Dream Ent. president Yitzhak Ginsberg. Bleiberg left the company last year to form Bleiberg Ent., but maintains 405 ownership of Disaster! and other Dream titles.
More information and animated clips from Disaster! can be found at www.disasterthemovie.com.
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