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12.06.2023 - 07:49 / variety.com
John Hopewell Chief International Correspondent ANNECY — Opening under the pall of Thursday’s knife attack, – which prompted a spirited show of solidarity and communal defiance at its opening ceremony on Sunday – this year’s Annecy Intl. Animation Film Festival has never been bigger. Creativity is exploding, from “Spider-Verse” and beyond. Animation is flowering in India and Africa. Yet studio work, much courtesy of streamer orders, may rebound, but never return to the halcyon levels of the last few years. Theatrical for most animation titles has yet to return, moreover – save for extraordinary mega-blockbusters such as “Across the Spider-Verse” and “The Super Mario Bros. Movie.” 10 takes on this year’s Annecy, the biggest animation festival on the world:
Three – and nearly four – high-profile U.S. movies world premiere at Annecy: Disney’s “Once Upon A Studio,” a 100th anniversary celebratory short; DreamWorks Animation’s comedy fantasy “Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken”; and Netflix’s buzzy modern Medieval world set “Nimona,” heralded as a paean to more fluid identity. A third title, and like Ruby Gillman” a wide U.S. summer release, Paramount-Nickelodeon’s anticipated “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem,” plays very nearly completed on June 12. “Annecy has never been bigger.” Variety has been reporting that since it began extensive coverage of the festival in 2008. It took a global pandemic to break 12 years of consecutive year-on-year on-site attendance growth through 2019. Post-pandemic, that growth has renewed. All together, Festival and MIFA market accreditations by late May were around 13,300, already up on 2019’s 12,500 and last year. One key, Annecy Festival artistic director Michel Jean argues is
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