Fantastic Mr. Fox

• Jason Schwartzman Talks About His First Foray Into The Realm of Animation

  Published on: November 9, 2009

  By Shannon Nystedt
  MovieSet.com
  
  For Schwartzman’s first time voice acting in the role as Ash in Fantastic Mr. Fox, the experience was far from average. While most voice actors spend their time alone in the recording booth, Schwartzman and the rest of the cast found themselves being recorded as they ran around a farm reading their lines. At this morning’s press day for Fantastic Mr. Fox Schwartzman talked a little about the experience.
  
  "…It’s an incredible way to work because it’s, you know, three days -- or in our case, it was two days," he says. "I think it’s really hard to work in such a short amount of time, because in a movie those first five days are really hard, because everybody’s getting to know each other, and you find that groove, you do begin to learn things. But in a short film, you have to find that groove much more quickly, because you don’t have the second week…"

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• London Film Festival opens with ‘The Fantastic Mr. Fox’

  Published on: July 28, 2009

  By Shannon Nystedt
  movieset.com
  
  Organizers announced Monday that The Fantastic Mr. Fox will be opening the 53rd London Film Festival.  The Fantastic Mr. Fox is a stop-motion animated film based on a story by Roald Dahl, and directed by The Royal Tenenbaums’ Wes Anderson.  The film sports a roster of A-list actors voicing the characters including: George Clooney, Meryl Streep, Bill Murray, Anjelica Huston and Michael Gambon.
  
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