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Re: Mary Poppins Returns
Posted: Fri Nov 30, 2018 10:23 pm
by D82
Re: Mary Poppins Returns
Posted: Sun Dec 02, 2018 12:50 pm
by D82
Re: Mary Poppins Returns
Posted: Sun Dec 02, 2018 3:26 pm
by Musical Master
The social media embargo has been lifted and the majority of Twitter posts have been overwhelmingly positive/raves towards this movie and it made me very happy. A minority felt it was disappointing but this film won't please everyone on earth.
Re: Mary Poppins Returns
Posted: Sun Dec 02, 2018 4:14 pm
by JeanGreyForever
Glad to hear that all the hype is real! Really looking forward to this film especially after the debacle that was WIR2.
Re: Mary Poppins Returns
Posted: Tue Dec 04, 2018 3:27 am
by Atlantica
'Where the Lost Things Go' is such an emotional song ! I was driving home from work and it popped onto my Spotify; I was welling up listening to it. Absolutely wonderful. Emily is absolutely exquisite singing it.
I really hope the film is as wonderful as I have built it up to be in my head.
Re: Mary Poppins Returns
Posted: Tue Dec 04, 2018 1:53 pm
by Old Fish Tale
Re: Mary Poppins Returns
Posted: Tue Dec 04, 2018 2:22 pm
by D82
Mary Poppins Returns has been selected one of the top ten films of the year by The American Film Institute.
Black Panther is also on the list:
AFI top 10 movies of 2018:
BlacKkKlansman
Black Panther
Eighth Grade
If Beale Street Could Talk
The Favourite
First Reformed
Green Book
Mary Poppins Returns
A Quiet Place
A Star is Born
Source: https://ew.com/awards/2018/12/04/afi-top-10-films-2018/
Speaking of awards, I was wondering if it would be possible for the film to get an Annie nomination for its animated sequence, but I didn't expect it would get five!: Character Animation, Character Design, Production Design, Storyboarding and Best Animated Special Production. I hope it wins at least one of them.
Re: Mary Poppins Returns
Posted: Tue Dec 04, 2018 9:08 pm
by D82
Re: Mary Poppins Returns
Posted: Tue Dec 04, 2018 10:39 pm
by Sotiris
D82 wrote:Rob Marshall, Emily Blunt and Lin-Manuel Miranda mention some of the songs that didn't make it into the film in
this interview.
At least we know the titles of two deleted songs now. "The Anthropomorphic Zoo" and "Stuff and Nonsense". It's perplexing as to why they didn't give the movie a deluxe edition soundtrack. It would have been a great opportunity to share some of the deleted songs. Not to mention, an expanded score instead of wasting it on a FYC CD.
D82 wrote:Speaking of awards, I was wondering if it would be possible for the film to get an Annie nomination for its animated sequence, but I didn't expect it would get five!: Character Animation, Character Design, Production Design, Storyboarding and Best Animated Special Production. I hope it wins at least one of them.
That's because Ken Duncan submitted the sequence himself (unlike AMPAS, ASIFA-Hollywood allows filmmakers to submit their own work). I doubt Disney would have cared enough to do so.
Ken Duncan wrote:Congrats to the animators that Duncan Studio submitted, for their Annie Nomination (Poppins)!
Source:
https://www.facebook.com/kenduncan99/po ... 1453535661
Speaking of which, Ken Duncan broke his silence on the way Disney treated him during the making of Mary Poppins Returns and it's appalling to put it mildly. Apparently, Disney is in the habit of purposefully mishandling budgets allocated to third-party VFX houses it hires to work on live-action movies in order to save a buck and as a result those studios often end-up bankrupt and are forced to shut down.
Ken Duncan wrote:I‘m going to discuss something here that I heard in a public space, at the Poppins screening...It was something surprising, but also affirming. Disney Pictures treated Duncan Studio in a strange way during the making of the animated sequences. We were considered a VFX house (we think of ourselves as an animation studio). As we know, several VFX houses have been put out of business after working on a Disney Pictures film (not Disney Animation), i.e. Rhythm & Hues, Café FX, etc. We experienced a rather unsympathetic Disney accountant on the Poppins production (among others). On Thursday after arriving at the theater, this accountant saw me in the restroom before the screening. Several minutes later, Juliet and I made our way to our seats. The people next to us, and behind us were turned away and chatting rather loudly. I don’t think they saw us seated. I heard someone say, “…Duncan, the guys that did the 2D animation…”. It was the accountant, saying he saw me earlier...or to that effect. Then, his wife said rather loudly, “Duncan Studio, well you shut them down didn’t you?” (closed down) and then laughed.
Wow! There it was! This somewhat affirms how we were treated on this project, and what we assumed their objective was. Well, we haven’t been SHUT DOWN, bitches!!….and there’s more to say about this.
P.S. Rob Marshall and Jim Capobianco did not behave this way. They were about the art. Very cool.
Source:
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid ... 6506515661
Darlie Brewster wrote:It is Hollywood Ken. One day while walking down the hallway at Disney I ran into Phil Lafaro and a bunch of executives. Lafaro looked at me with scorn, reached into his pocket pulled out a dollar bill and threw it at my feet and said "Pick it up". The executives laughed as they walked by. I just stared at him. That is Hollywood.
Source:
https://www.facebook.com/kenduncan99/po ... 2331%22%7D
Re: Mary Poppins Returns
Posted: Wed Dec 05, 2018 1:21 am
by JeanGreyForever
Hopefully the deleted songs will be on the Blu-Ray.
It's repugnant how Ken Duncan was treated! As if we didn't already need physical proof that the hate against hand-drawn animation is real. I'm really hoping that if nothing else, this film will revive interest in that. If movie musicals can be in fashion again, then surely hand-drawn animation can as well, especially if Disney finally goes ahead with that "experimental" technique they haven't touched since Paperman.
Re: Mary Poppins Returns
Posted: Wed Dec 05, 2018 6:38 am
by WonderNeverOz
I saw it last night and lets just say I was smiling the entire time when I was watching it. It's a magical movie that's worthy to be a sequel to the original movie.
Re: Mary Poppins Returns
Posted: Wed Dec 05, 2018 12:55 pm
by D82
^Thanks for sharing your opinion,
WonderNeverOz! I'm glad you liked it.
By the way, someone has uploaded the ABC TV special about the making of the film to Youtube!
Making of "Mary Poppins Returns" (1/3)
Making of "Mary Poppins Returns" (2/3)
Making of "Mary Poppins Returns" (3/3)
Here's where the new snippets to some of the songs are located in the special:
"(Underneath the) Lovely London Sky":
https://youtu.be/Qtbu-DSdRw8?t=414
"Can You Imagine That":
https://youtu.be/Qtbu-DSdRw8?t=471
"A Cover Is Not the Book" snippet 1:
https://youtu.be/Qtbu-DSdRw8?t=189
"A Cover Is Not the Book" snippet 2:
https://youtu.be/KP-BOjx6vlw?t=46
Re: Mary Poppins Returns
Posted: Wed Dec 05, 2018 4:33 pm
by Old Fish Tale
WonderNeverOz wrote:I saw it last night and lets just say I was smiling the entire time when I was watching it. It's a magical movie that's worthy to be a sequel to the original movie.
I'm so glad you liked it. I know eight people who have already seen it too and seven of them absolutely loved it.
Luke Bonanno from this site has seen it too and he apparently loved it:
https://letterboxd.com/deanmfjones/films/ratings/
https://twitter.com/DVDizzy_com/status/ ... 4459704321
They're his Letterboxd and Twitter accounts, right?
Re: Mary Poppins Returns
Posted: Wed Dec 05, 2018 8:23 pm
by disneyprincess11
I'm 100% not shocked. This is the company that delieberaly closed down one of the Disney Jr animation production houses. Why would they sabotage a company that literally holds no threat to them? It makes no sense whatsoever.
On a lovely note, (Underneath the) Lovely London Sky is beyond beautiful and A Cover is Not the Book reminds me so much of Super....
Re: Mary Poppins Returns
Posted: Thu Dec 06, 2018 5:25 am
by blackcauldron85
It's of course just my speculation, but my thought about how the other animation companies have been treated was that maybe Disney wants them to do Disney's work for this one project, ya know, use their labor, then squash the competition so those studios can't be competitors. If other film studios see the work Duncan Studios did on MPR, they may want to hire them for their own film, and then Disney has competition...?
I had a couple Fandango codes to use, so I bought my MPR tickets last night- I'm so excited (Saturday 12/22, here we come!)
Re: Mary Poppins Returns
Posted: Thu Dec 06, 2018 7:09 am
by disneyprincess11
Shockingly enough: Mary Poppins didn't get Best Song, but it's sure to win a lot!
Best motion picture, comedy or musical
“Crazy Rich Asians”
“The Favourite”
“Green Book”
“Mary Poppins Returns”
“Vice”
Best actor in a motion picture, comedy or musical
Christian Bale, “Vice”
Lin-Manuel Miranda, “Mary Poppins Returns”
Viggo Mortensen, “Green Book”
Robert Redford, “The Old Man and the Gun”
John C. Reilly, “Stan and Ollie”
Best actress in a motion picture, comedy or musical
Emily Blunt, “Mary Poppins Returns”
Olivia Colman, “The Favourite”
Elsie Fisher, “Eighth Grade”
Charlize Theron, “Tully”
Constance Wu, “Crazy Rich Asians”
Best original score, motion picture
Justin Hurwitz, “First Man”
Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman, “Mary Poppins Returns”
Marco Beltrami, “A Quiet Place”
Alexandre Desplat, “Isle of Dogs”
Ludwig Göransson, “Black Panther”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-ent ... f560cf71ac
Re: Mary Poppins Returns
Posted: Thu Dec 06, 2018 10:48 am
by Old Fish Tale
It's funny because the Hollywood Foreign Press Association didn't nominate any songs from 'Mary Poppins' either. In fact, 'Mary Poppins' and 'Mary Poppins Returns' were nominated in the same categories! Only four Golden Globe nominations.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/22nd_Golden_Globe_Awards
Re: Mary Poppins Returns
Posted: Thu Dec 06, 2018 11:16 am
by Musical Master
Old Fish Tale wrote:It's funny because the Hollywood Foreign Press Association didn't nominate any songs from 'Mary Poppins' either. In fact, 'Mary Poppins' and 'Mary Poppins Returns' were nominated in the same categories! Only four Golden Globe nominations.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/22nd_Golden_Globe_Awards
That is very interesting and I'm glad for the nominations that we got. Plus the soundtrack is coming out tomorrow and I am very excited to hear the songs.
Re: Mary Poppins Returns
Posted: Thu Dec 06, 2018 12:13 pm
by tsom
Old Fish Tale wrote:It's funny because the Hollywood Foreign Press Association didn't nominate any songs from 'Mary Poppins' either. In fact, 'Mary Poppins' and 'Mary Poppins Returns' were nominated in the same categories! Only four Golden Globe nominations.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/22nd_Golden_Globe_Awards
So funny! If history repeats itself again, then Emily Blunt will win a Golden Globe for Best Actress -- Musical or Comedy, just like Julie Andrews.
Re: Mary Poppins Returns
Posted: Thu Dec 06, 2018 4:09 pm
by D82
You can already listen to the soundtrack on
Spotify.
