EDITORIAL
Flatland
...Tom and Jerry are two of the staples of American animation. The Hanna-Barbera cat-and-mouse rivals were mainstays on TV from the 1940s through the 1950s, and the stars of dozens of animated shorts, TV shows, films, and more. And finally, they’ll be entering the real world with the upcoming hybrid animated film Tom & Jerry. But they’ll look, for the most part, exactly the same as we remember from those hand-drawn slapstick short skits. That’s because director Tim Story (Shaft) insisted on retaining Tom and Jerry’s 2D looks, even as they enter the 3D world. ...
Have a safe week and a pleasant Friday night at the movies,
Jean Constant
Film and TV production has been back on track for months in Australia and New Zealand and the two southern hemisphere countries have attracted various footloose shoots that might otherwise have shot in locked-down Europe or North America. First to re-open to international shoots was New Zealand. Sources estimate that up to 400 non-citizens, plus family, have entered New Zealand to work on about 20 international and local productions since the government limited arrivals and introduced managed isolation and quarantine (MIQ) as part of its Covid-19 elimination strategy that began after the country’s strict national lockdown in March 2020...
