Zebra named Khumba a new star on the silver screen
It is said a leopard can’t modify his spots, merely tin a zebra modify his stripes?
Movie-goers volition presently move able to discovery out, every bit the latest computer-animated brute feature, with a zebra inwards the championship role, hits the large screen.
Khumba is the minute animated characteristic produced yesteryear South Africa-based Triggerfish Animation Studios, next the successful global liberate of Adventures inwards Zambezia.
The computer-animated moving painting features the vocalisation of Liam Neeson every bit a malicious leopard, every bit good every bit the voices of Jake T Austin, AnnaSophia Robb, Lawrence Fishburn, too Steve Buscemi, alongside others.
The film, released inwards South Africa on Oct 25, tells the storey of Khumba, a zebra who has alone one-half his stripes. When he is blamed for a drought yesteryear the balance of his herd, he sets off on a daring holler for to earn his stripes.
He meets a make of quirky characters too teams upward with an unlikely duo – Mama V, an overprotective wildebeest, too Bradley, a flamboyant ostrich.
But he every bit good has to come upward confront to confront with Phango, a sadistic leopard who controls the waterholes too terrorises all the animals inwards the Great Karoo.
The Cape Town studio is capitalizing on growing withdraw for animated movies, with the moving painting manufacture buoyed yesteryear the returns they tin deliver.
This yr volition reckon the broad theatrical liberate of eleven animated movies — upward from 6 a decade ago.
In total, 75 animated movies bring been released since 2008, according to Hollywood.com, too an additional thirteen movies are slated for liberate inwards 2014.
Helen Kuun, main executive of Indigenous Film Distribution, which is distributing the celluloid inwards South Africa, said animated films typically outperformed other types of movies at the box office.
“In an analysis of average box-office grosses yesteryear genre, manufacture analysts bring establish that animation consistently ranked minute behind activeness movies inwards each of the final 6 years.”
Kuun notes that inwards the yesteryear few years, 4 or 5 of the transcend 10 highest-grossing movies bring been animated films.
“In 2012, Pixar Animation’s Brave made to a greater extent than than one-half a billion inwards worldwide box office. Universal scored a massive hitting with Despicable Me 2, which has made to a greater extent than than $US750 1000000 since its liberate inwards July, making it the close profitable moving painting inwards the studio’s history. Disney every bit good produced a hitting with Pixar Animation Studios’ Monsters University, which has pulled inwards to a greater extent than than $US658 1000000 inwards ticket sales since its liberate inwards June.
“It’s encouraging to reckon that DreamWorks, Disney too Pixar, which used to dominate the animation moving painting industry, are facing growing contest from other studios,” Kuun added.
“It opens upward the marketplace too signals that the manufacture is good for you lot – that bodes good for top-end local animation companies similar Triggerfish.
“It’s a genre that is hither to rest too is 1 of the close consistently performing. Animated movies every bit good are appealing because they generate to a greater extent than revenue from DVD too toy sales than whatsoever other genre.”
Khumba is inwards 3D too is directed yesteryear Anthony Silverston. The celluloid is every bit good beingness released inwards its local marketplace inwards Afrikaans.
Release dates tin move establish here.
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