Bill Desowitz

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Bill Desowitz has been covering the Animation industry since the early 2000s for Animation Magazine, Animation World Network, IndieWire, and Animation Scoop. He is also the author of James Bond Unmasked (Spies Publishing), which chronicles the first 50 years of 007’s evolution, and includes exclusive interviews with all six Bond actors.

Articles By Bill Desowitz

DreamWorks

After successfully pulling off the marvelous hand-made-looking DreamWorks heist comedy, The Bad Guys, (Zootopia meets Oceans Eleven), director Pierre Perifel wanted to go more epic for The Bad Guys 2 sequel. In fact, he began brainstorming even before the end of production. Fortunately, there were plenty of great ideas to grab from Aaron Blabey’s sophisticated […]

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Shredder’s mutant henchmen, Beebop (Gary Anthony Williams) & Rocksteady (Stephen Farrelly), finally get the spotlight in the TMNT sequel, Out of the Shadows, directed by Dave Green (Earth to Echo). They made for off-beat transformations into mutant warthog and rhino. “Typically, these transformations are painful, but these two guys enjoy their new bodies,” explained Kevin […]

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DreamWorks Drops First ‘Forgotten Island’ Trailer About Friendship and Philippine Mythology

The trailer dropped today for DreamWorks Animation’s Forgotten Island (Universal, September 25), the studio’s first embrace of Filipino culture about friendship and memory. The comedy-adventure follows two lifelong friends who grow up together in the ’90s in the Philippines — Jo (singer H.E.R./Gabriella Wilson) and Raissa (Liza Soberano) — and the stakes of potentially growing […]