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Czech it out: From the Eastern European region known for Oscar-winning animation comes a toy story with Grimm undertones.

Published by Vivian Schilling on September 7, 2012

Sept 7, 2012

-By Frank Lovece

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Toy Story by way of Jungian subconscious, this phantasmagoric stop-motion animated feature by Jiří Barta, the director called “the European Tim Burton,” is a rich, multi-course meal of images both enchanting and disturbing—the right mix for childhood, in other words.

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A Czech Toy Story

Published by Vivian Schilling on September 1, 2012
 
Sept. 12, 2012 by Ramin Zahed–Animation Magazine
 
An inventive, English-language version of Jiří Bárta’s acclaimed stop-motion feature Toys in the Attic arrives in the U.S. this month.
 
It looks like Cowboy Woody and Buzz Lightyear have some interesting competition this month. The new English-language version of Czech animator Jiri Barta’s “Toys in the Attic” (originally titled “In the Attic: Who Has a Birthday Today?”) arrives in the U.S. in select theaters, thanks to a new adaptation by Vivian Schilling and a top-notch voice cast that includes Forest Whitaker, Joan Cusack, Cary Elwes and Schilling herself.
 

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‘Sacred Prey’ Gets Big-screen Treatment

Published by Vivian Schilling on July 21, 2009
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) Hot scribe Brad Ingelsby and Warners will develop a feature based on “Sacred Prey,” Vivian Schilling’s novel about a hitman who becomes the victim of his own takedown.The high-concept thriller centers on a loan shark who kills a man he believes duped him, only to wake up and find himself in the body of that man three days before the murder. He then embarks on a furious effort to prevent the murder he committed.
 
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Brad Ingelsby to adapt Vivian Schilling’s novel

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