Project is directed by German animator Uli Meyer.
Gfm Animation has acquired Molesworth, the debut feature from animator Uli Meyer, for worldwide sales.
The UK-based firm will also provide production financing for the 2D-animated feature, working with production studio Lupus Films and producers Camilla Deakin and Ruth Fielding.
Molesworth is based on the book series by Geoffrey Willans, illustrated by Ronald Searle. It tells the story of Nigel Molesworth, a self-confident public schoolboy with a mischievous nature and a penchant for daydreams. Matt Lucas will voice the title character.
The film is German animator Meyer’s feature debut as director...
Gfm Animation has acquired Molesworth, the debut feature from animator Uli Meyer, for worldwide sales.
The UK-based firm will also provide production financing for the 2D-animated feature, working with production studio Lupus Films and producers Camilla Deakin and Ruth Fielding.
Molesworth is based on the book series by Geoffrey Willans, illustrated by Ronald Searle. It tells the story of Nigel Molesworth, a self-confident public schoolboy with a mischievous nature and a penchant for daydreams. Matt Lucas will voice the title character.
The film is German animator Meyer’s feature debut as director...
- 3/7/2023
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
New projects from Fernando Trueba, ‘Loving Vincent’ filmmakers and a ”Nordic Sex Education”.
Screen has been on the ground at animation pitching event Cartoon Movie in Bordeaux this week, hearing about 66 feature film projects at various stages of concept, development and production.
Here are five which generated particular buzz among attendees:
Calamity, a Childhood of Martha Jane Cannary (Fr-Den)
With Cartoon Movie tracking the attendance of its delegates to each pitch, the most popular – by a decent 10% margin – was this France-Denmark co-production with 316 audience members from the 800 people at the event. The second feature from French director Rémi Chayé, it...
Screen has been on the ground at animation pitching event Cartoon Movie in Bordeaux this week, hearing about 66 feature film projects at various stages of concept, development and production.
Here are five which generated particular buzz among attendees:
Calamity, a Childhood of Martha Jane Cannary (Fr-Den)
With Cartoon Movie tracking the attendance of its delegates to each pitch, the most popular – by a decent 10% margin – was this France-Denmark co-production with 316 audience members from the 800 people at the event. The second feature from French director Rémi Chayé, it...
- 3/6/2020
- by 1101321¦Ben Dalton¦26¦
- ScreenDaily
British comedian and actor Matt Lucas will voice the lead role in “Molesworth,” an animated film adaptation of the best-selling series of boarding school books written by Geoffrey Willans and illustrated by Ronald Searle.
Lupus Films and Melusine Productions, the producers behind the acclaimed animated feature “Ethel & Ernest,” will team up with Uli Meyer Studios to produce the 2D, hand-drawn feature, based on “The Compleet Molesworth” series. The film will be pitched next month at Cartoon Movie, Europe’s leading animated movie co-production forum, which takes place in Bordeaux, France.
Lucas will voice the role of Nigel Molesworth, a self-confident, tousle-haired public school boy with a mischievous nature and a penchant for power. The character was first drawn by Ronald Searle for his Punch magazine comic strip and later developed into a series of books, first published in 1953.
Commenting on his role as the less than scholarly school boy,...
Lupus Films and Melusine Productions, the producers behind the acclaimed animated feature “Ethel & Ernest,” will team up with Uli Meyer Studios to produce the 2D, hand-drawn feature, based on “The Compleet Molesworth” series. The film will be pitched next month at Cartoon Movie, Europe’s leading animated movie co-production forum, which takes place in Bordeaux, France.
Lucas will voice the role of Nigel Molesworth, a self-confident, tousle-haired public school boy with a mischievous nature and a penchant for power. The character was first drawn by Ronald Searle for his Punch magazine comic strip and later developed into a series of books, first published in 1953.
Commenting on his role as the less than scholarly school boy,...
- 2/4/2020
- by Christopher Vourlias
- Variety Film + TV
Artist and cartoonist best known for St Trinian's and Molesworth
The artist Ronald Searle, who has died aged 91, will always be associated with St Trinian's, the anarchic girls' boarding school he created in pen and ink in the 1940s, which inspired a long-running series of films. Searle and St Trinian's go together like Petruchio and Kate; except that Searle created his own shrews and lived with their reputation for the rest of his life.
Before he left for second world war service, during which he would be held captive in Changi jail, Singapore, Searle posted off several cartoons to Kaye Webb, the assistant editor of Lilliput magazine. One of them showed a group of schoolgirls clutching hockey sticks gathered around a noticeboard; the caption read: "Owing to the international situation, the match with St Trinian's has been postponed." This is only obliquely about St Trinian's, but is always known as...
The artist Ronald Searle, who has died aged 91, will always be associated with St Trinian's, the anarchic girls' boarding school he created in pen and ink in the 1940s, which inspired a long-running series of films. Searle and St Trinian's go together like Petruchio and Kate; except that Searle created his own shrews and lived with their reputation for the rest of his life.
Before he left for second world war service, during which he would be held captive in Changi jail, Singapore, Searle posted off several cartoons to Kaye Webb, the assistant editor of Lilliput magazine. One of them showed a group of schoolgirls clutching hockey sticks gathered around a noticeboard; the caption read: "Owing to the international situation, the match with St Trinian's has been postponed." This is only obliquely about St Trinian's, but is always known as...
- 1/4/2012
- by Michael McNay
- The Guardian - Film News
Cartoonist Ronald Searle died in France on December 30 at age 91. The death was announced by his daughter Kare Searle, who said in a statement that he "passed away peacefully in his sleep with his children, Kate and John, and his grandson, Daniel, beside him." Photos: Hollywood's Notable Deaths Searle is best known for creating St. Trinian's and co-authoring the Molesworth books with Geoffrey Willans. His antic line drawings profoundly influenced illustrators from Ralph Steadman to Matt Groening. He also contributed cartoons to the New Yorker. Searle was born in Cambridge, England on March 3, 1920. He
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- 1/3/2012
- by Andy Lewis
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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