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Paramount Pictures has snapped up worldwide rights to Charlie Kaufman and Duke Johnson’s stop-motion feature Anomalisa, following warmly received showings at the Telluride, Toronto and Venice film festivals. The distributor is planning a December 30, 2015 release in New York and Los Angeles in order to squeak in for Oscar consideration.

Anomalisa is the first animated foray for Kaufman, who wrote Being John Malkovich and wrote and directed Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. The animation expertise came from co-director Johnson, whose directorial credits include Moral Orel, Mary Shelley’s Frankenhole, Beforel Orel and the 2010 animated Christmas episode of Community. Anomalisa is billed as a film about a man “crippled by the mundanity of his life” and his experiences within a bizarre hotel.

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http://www.animationmagazine.net/fe...ing_wp_cron=1442456359.5309860706329345703125

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[Oersted]

Anomalisa represents Kickstarter culture at its most exciting and adventurous; it's a cult oddity that has absolutely no place in commercial culture, but got summoned into existence anyway.

http://www.gq.com/story/anomalisa-charlie-kaufman-toronto

With Anomalisa, Kaufman makes the case for a kinder and gentler treatment, and he might be on to something. The unflinching realization that we are all alone in this indifferent world has never hurt quite so good.

http://consequenceofsound.net/2015/09/tiff-film-review-anomalisa/

Life is lonely and cold, it says, leavened only briefly, if you're lucky. Happiness is transient. Love an anomaly. We're lucky such art as this is not.

http://variety.com/2015/film/festivals/anomalisa-film-review-1201586854/

 

[Discotheque]

Wow those review snippets make this sound so good

 

[M.W.]

Michel Gondry directed Eternal

 

[Puck Beaverton]

A Kaufman stop motion movie sounds so fucking awesome, most anticapted movie this year easily. This might also mean this gets an Oscar push that will hopefully lead into a Her situation.

 

[Oersted]

The film was funded via Kickstarter. The thread on it is here

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=482170

 

[jayu26]

wrote and directed Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.

No

Michel Gondry directed Eternal

Yes

 

[Toothless]

This will be interesting, although I can't imagine a big Oscar success with it considering the subject of it.

 

[yepyepyep]

Its good that Charlie is having another success. Most of his projects have been in development hell or cancelled after Synechdoche New York.

 

[kerotan_eater]

I'll watch anything by Kaufman, genius, a true auteur. It's been seven years, since Synechdoche New York, so yeah I can't wait.

 

[DICKS AHOY]

I'm surprised I had no clue this existed. I like Kaufman's earlier stuff (Adaptation is hilarious but a lot of Synecdoche New York went over my head) and I loved Moral Orel, so I'll definitely look out for this.

Is Dino Stamatopoulos involved at all, or just Johnson?

 

[Stabby McSter]

I'll watch anything Charlie Kaufman works on.

 

[Oersted]

I'm surprised I had no clue this existed. I like Kaufman's earlier stuff (Adaptation is hilarious but a lot of Synecdoche New York went over my head) and I loved Moral Orel, so I'll definitely look out for this.

Is Dino Stamatopoulos involved at all, or just Johnson?

Dino Stamatopoulos is Exec.Producer alongside Dan Harmon and Duke Johnson.

 

[Tom_Cody]

It has been fun following this project since its conception. I can't wait to finally see it.

 

[HoJu]

It's pretty great. Probably Kaufman's smallest project in scale and concept, yet it's his most moving and heartfelt . Also it's hilarious.

 

[Akahige]

Awesome, been way too long since we got a Kaufman project, didn't realize it had been 2008 since the last one.

 

[DICKS AHOY]

Dino Stamatopoulos is Exec.Producer alongside Dan Harmon and Duke Johnson.

Good to hear!

 

[FriedConsole]

Nope. Don't like extensial crisis movies.

 

[SOME-MIST]

kinda bummed that I don't get my blu-ray or a viewing before it's released to the general public, but at least it's complete and doing well. looks like 100% on RT with 21 reviews so far.

 

[jetjevons]

I kickstarted this!

 

[BioHazard]

Heard amazing things about this at TIFF, but wasn't able to see it, excited for it's qualifying run later this year

 

[Tom_Cody]

I went to a midnight screening of this last night.

My GF and I loved it. I have no idea how they are going to market this.

 

[Dio]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjOsdtlgbQs

YMS recently did an interview with Charlie Kaufman and Duke Johnson on Anomalisa, if you want to watch it. He asked questions that people don't really ask so you might be surprised.

 

[jacksnap]

I went to a midnight screening of this last night.

My GF and I loved it. I have no idea how they are going to market this.

Ha! Same here. Couldn't believe how tall Dino Stamatopoulos was.

Movie was amazing - peak Kaufman, and technically incredible. You can definitely tell it's based off a play, very intimate and minimal. I was blindsided by its central conceit, really took me for a ride.

But yeah, it's going to be hard to market for sure. I'm not sure how much people are down for full-on

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puppet lovemakin'

 

[Orbis Tabula]

Reviews make it sound like my kind of thing. I'll be keeping an eye on this.

 

[Messofanego]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjOsdtlgbQs

YMS recently did an interview with Charlie Kaufman and Duke Johnson on Anomalisa, if you want to watch it. He asked questions that people don't really ask so you might be surprised.

Whoah YMS does interviews now? And one with Charlie, who is rare with interviews? Nice!

 

[SOME-MIST]

I was able to see it yesterday as part of the chicago international film festival and it definitely met my hype. charlie kaufman and duke johnson showed up for a surprise q&a too!