luke and lucy & the texas rangers
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Dark City, Texas: the evil and mysterious Jim Parasite terrorizes the city and has concocted a plan to become the biggest and most powerful man in the world. He captures the Texas Rangers, but one of them manages to escape and calls upon Luke and Lucy for help. Together with their aunt and their two best friends, Luke and Lucy travel to Texas to become the new Texas Rangers, determined to put Parasite and his gang where they belong: in jail.TRANSCRIPT
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CREDITSOriginal title: Suske en Wiske & De Texas Rakkers
Directors: Mark Mertens and Wim BienOriginal screenplay: Dirk Nielandt, Guy Mortier, Eric Wirix
based on the comic book series Suske & Wiske, created by Willy Vandersteen
Editing: Joris Brouwers Sound: Galaxy Studios, Mol (Belgium)
Visual effects: C.G. Lux Music: Ian Marien
VOICE CaST (UK):Carlos Alayeto, Guilherme Apollonio, Sally Bondi, Ken Clement,
Billy Ray Cyrus, Chloe Dolandis, Dave Dreisin, Todd Durkin, Scott Genn, Paul Homza, James Keller, Aubrey Shavonn,
Barry Tarallo, Gregg Weiner
VOICE CaST (FR):Lionel Bourget, Alexandre Crepet, François Damiens,
Patrick Donnay, Nicolas Dubois, Jean-Charles De Keyser, Circe Lethem, Maurane, Mathieu Moreau, Daniel Nicodème,
Philippe Résimont, Beverly Jo Scott, Alain Soreil, Martin Spinayer
FORMaT Versions: Dutch, English and French
Running time: 85’ Format: hard disk, 1:1.85, Dolby SR, Colour
Year of production: 2009-2010
PRODUCTION Flemish producers: Eric Wirix and Jan Theys Production: Skyline Entertainment Co-production: WAT-Productions (BE), LuxAnimation (LU), CoToon (BE), Supported by: Flanders Audiovisual Fund (VAF), Promimages, CIAV+, CoBO, Wallimage INFO SKYLINE ENTERTAINMENT De Limburg Stirumlaan 243/1 BE - 1780 WemmelBelgium/EU T +32 2 240 77 77 F + 32 2 242 26 68 [email protected] www.skyline-entertainment.be SaLES DELPHIS FILMS 5455 De Gaspe Ave, suite 803 Montreal, Quebec H2T 3B3 Canada T +1 514 843 3355 x 2291 F +1 514 843 9574 [email protected] www.delphisfilms.com
www.lukeandlucymovie.com
Skyline Entertainment presents by Mark Mertens and Wim Bien
Media/Press materials: www.presskit.be
ABOUT THE DIRECTORSMark Mertens Mark Mertens started his career in television where he worked on productions like top-rating series such as Our Happiness, Diamond, Spike, Good Luck Professor, Aspe and live-action features Everything Must Go, The Intruder and Hell in Tangier. His short Le petit blue marked his debut as a director. Luke and Lucy & the Texas Rangers is his feature debut. The Magic Crystal will be his second animated feature. Wim Bien Wim Bien started his career as a free-lance 2D, puppet and stop-motion animator in the mid 90s. He was involved in many animation projects for television, commercials, feature films, games, and more. In 2003, he worked for DisneyToon Studios on A Mickey Mouse Christmas Special and continued to collaborate with Hollywood’s major studios as a character animator on features like Ice Age 2 and The Ant Bully. After co-helming Luke and Lucy & the Texas Rangers, he went on directing cut scenes for games, in-game animations and commercials for clients like Mattel, Nihilistic and Sony Computer Entertainment America.
ABOUT THE PRODUCERSSkyline Entertainment is a producer of high quality, commercially successful TV series (Silent Waters, Aspe and De Rodenburgs), features (The Intruder, Hell in Tangier, Germaine) and animated features such as Luke and Lucy & the Texas Rangers.Besides a local box office hit, the critically acclaimed The Intruder was shown at 15 international film festivals. Hell in Tangier was another major box office success in its home territory, with lead actor Filip Peeters receiving the Best Actor award at the Montreal World Film Festival. Currently in different stages of production are the live-action feature Germaine (autumn 2011), the animated The Magic Crystal, as well as the eighth season of the popular crime TV series Aspe.
Dark City, Texas: the evil and mysterious Jim Parasite terrorizes the city and has concocted a plan to become the biggest and most powerful man in the world. He captures the Texas Rangers, but one of them manages to escape and calls upon Luke and Lucy for help. Together with their aunt and their two best friends, Luke and Lucy travel to Texas to become the new Texas Rangers, determined to put Parasite and his gang where they belong: in jail. Based on the hugely popular original comic books created by Willy Vandersteen, this CG-animated feature film produced at a budget close to U$14 million will take you to the Wild Wild West.
THE TExAS RAngERS
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