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Chris Waters is a 20-year veteran of animation and television development and production for kids/family and adult audiences. He currently serves as CPO of Playground Productions, an independent studio focused on development, finance and distribution of kids' and family content and co-founder of NounsFest, which funds and distributes independent animation globally. Prior to that, he served as head of development for nine-time Emmy® Award-winning Stoopid Buddy Stoodios (Robot Chicken, Crossing Swords, MODOK, Ultra City Smiths) and was co-founder of Oktobor Animation (Kung Fu Panda Legends of Awesomeness, Penguins of Madagascar, Robot and Monster). Chris lives in Los Angeles and wakes up early every New Year's Day to attend the Rose Parade, so making the “Shark Pickle Cone” documentary was a dream come true. Neil Berkeley is an Emmy-nominated filmmaker. His third feature film, GILBERT, follows the life and career of beloved and intensely private comedian, Gilbert Gottfried. The film had its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2017 and was distributed by Gravitas Ventures with exclusive SVOD on Hulu. His first feature film, BEAUTY IS EMBARASSING, premiered at SXSW in 2012 and chronicles inspiring artist Wayne White. The film won several Best Documentary Awards and was featured in PBS' Independent Lens in January of 2013. His second feature, HARMONTOWN, premiered at SXSW in 2014 and follows self-destructive TV writer Dan Harmon on an emotional, cross- country journey of self-discovery. Berkeley most recently served as showrunner for Amazon's standup comedy doc series, INSIDE JOKES. He is also a founding partner at Decential Media. Decential is a web3 media company focusing on telling the stories about the human side of emerging technology. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/crypto-hipster-podcast/support
EJ celebrates his favorite guy's 74th birthday by talking about his acting career, eventually picking his top five Tom Waits performances. Is one of them Ultra City Smiths? You know it is! Also, the Franchise Report looks at the Great Muppet Caper, a perfect movie. Check out our amazing sponsor teesbysummer.com!
Our third cameo compilation episode concludes Song by Song's journey through the film work of Tom Waits, with Leigh, Martin and Sam touching on the last decade of his screen appearances. This week considers Twixt (2011), The Laughing Heart (2003/2012), The Simpsons (2013), Citizen (2016), The Moon's Milk (2018), The Ultra City Smiths (2021), Licorice Pizza (2021) and a few others. Please pick up any spilled popcorn as you leave folks… website: songbysongpodcast.com twitter: @songbysongpod e-mail: songbysongpodcast@gmail.com Music extracts used for illustrative/review purposes include: Clips from The Simpsons 'Homer Goes To Prep School', dir. Mark Kirkland (2013) Clips from Twixt, dir. Francis Ford Coppola (2011) Clips from The Laughing Heart, dir. John Dullaghan/Travis Carr (2003/2012) Clips from A Brief History of John Baldessari, dir. Henry Joost/Ariel Schulman (2012) Clips from Citizen, dir. Alfonso Gomez-Rejon (2016) Clips from The Moon's Milk, dir. Ri Crawford (2018) Clips from Ultra City Smiths, dir. Steve Conrad/David H Brooks (2021) Clips from Licorice Pizza, dir. Paul Thomas Anderson (2021) (Meet Me In) Paradise Alley, Paradise Alley OST, Tom Waits (1978) We think your Song by Song experience will be enhanced by hearing, in full, the songs featured in the show, which you can get hold of from your favourite record shop or online platform. Please support artists by buying their music, or using services which guarantee artists a revenue - listen responsibly.
Bienvenidos y bienvenidas a Cultura Seriéfila. En el vigésimo programa quinta temporada, que supone nuestra despedida hasta septiembre, analizamos los estrenos de la segunda quincena de junio, con las nominaciones a los premios a la mejor y peor serie de dicho mes. Tendremos regresos, renovaciones y cancelaciones. Y en El Bar, hablamos de las series con las que ha debutado AMC+, la nueva plataforma de streaming que ha llegado muy fuerte. Para despedirnos, leemos el feedback de Ivoox y nos despedimos hasta septiembre, especial de verano mediante. ¡Feliz verano! Estrenos (7:13) Netflix (7:52) No sabéis quién soy (8:00) El hombre contra la abeja (18:20) La casa de papel: Corea (24:09) Reina (28:10) Spriggan (32:46) El futuro de… (32:46) Filmin (38:34) La fragancia del primer amor (38:42) Reyka (41:08) Todo lo que amas (46:06) Prime Video (52:03) El verano en que me enamoré (52:09) Chloe (52:18) La lista final (1:03:00) HBO Max: El puto Michael Che (1:13:29) Movistar+: Locomía (1:16:09) Apple TV+: Loot (1:27:52) Starzplay: El refugio (1:37:12) Sundance TV: Helsinki: Unidad de menores (1:41:32) Renovaciones y cancelaciones (1:56:00) El Bar: AMC+ (2:06:25) Firebite (2:07:21) Too Close (2:11:15) Trom (2:15:41) 61st Street (2:19:06) Ultra City Smiths (2:24:44) Brockmire (2:27:44) Bloodlands (2:32:09) Kin (2:34:58) Comentarios (2:45:32) Por último, os dejamos nuestro contacto. miguel.romero@culturaseriefila.com Twitter: @CSeriefila Instagram: cultura_seriefila Aquí nuestro enlace de afiliados de Amazon: http://www.amazon.es/?tag=culturaserief-21 Y nuestro grupo de Telegram, Seriestopía: https://t.me/joinchat/QcGidULj4GpPprSQ
This episode features Toronto and New York based stop motion animator and filmmaker Chelsea Lee. In the past Lee has worked with brands like Bank of America, Hennessy, and Pinterest, and also productions like Ultra City Smiths, and Benny's Mini World. In this chat Lee shares her journey from professional dancer into the art of animation. Tune in to Ibele and Lee to hear: *Her biggest tips to impress new clients *How to show confidence when something goes wrong (and you don't know what you're doing) *What it was like being pregnant and animating on a stop motion television show ~[Sponsored Message]~ This episode is sponsored by HUE, makers of colorful, affordable USB cameras and animation software for creative teaching, work and play. Available from huehd.com and Amazon, the new HUE HD Pro camera features 1080p image and video resolution, a built-in microphone and LED lights. HUE's funky, flexible, Plug & Play cameras are easy-to-use and they are compatible with any apps that recognize USB cameras including Discord, Dragonframe, OBS, Twitch, Google Meet, Zoom and many more. Visit www.huehd.com for more information and follow @HUEcameras on Instagram or Twitter for news, freebies and giveaways! ~ Social Links: Check out Lee's website: http://www.chelsearobinlee.com/ Follow Benny's Mini World on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bennysminiworld/
Steve Conrad is a fantastic screenwriter best known for writing The Secret Life of Walter Mitty and The Weather Man. He is now the creator/writer of the Ultra City Smiths which is available on AMC Plus! Traverse with us, Fellow Travelers! Email: TraversingTheStars@gmail.com https://www.facebook.com/traversingthestars (Facebook) https://twitter.com/Traversingstars (Twitter) https://www.instagram.com/traversing_the_stars_podcast/ (Instagram) https://www.tiktok.com/@dudeistweirdo? (JD on Tiktok)
This episode features Stop Motion Animator William Allinson and how he's built his career in Toronto. Allison has animated on projects like New Math, Dad Fight, Canadian Tire spots, and Ultra City Smiths. You'll also learn: *How Bill has survived as an independent animator in Toronto *What Bill has learned about self-promo to pick up new gigs *Bill's plans to create and sell a stop motion web series Follow Bill on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wallymation/ ~[Sponsored Message]~ This episode is sponsored by HUE, makers of colorful, affordable USB cameras and animation software for creative teaching, work and play. Available from huehd.com and Amazon, the new HUE HD Pro camera features 1080p image and video resolution, a built-in microphone and LED lights. HUE's funky, flexible, Plug & Play cameras are easy-to-use and they are compatible with any apps that recognize USB cameras including Discord, Dragonframe, OBS, Twitch, Google Meet, Zoom and many more. Visit www.huehd.com for more information and follow @HUEcameras on Instagram or Twitter for news, freebies and giveaways! ~
Here at HEAVY we like nothing more than a bit of off beat humor with explicit and gratuitous lashings of murder, mystery and mayhem thrown in.Luckily for us, the people behind Australia's latest streaming service AMC+ have given us all that and more with their new series Ultra City Smiths, a stop-motion animated comedy series brought to you by the creators of Patriot and Robot Chicken.Centering around an investigation into the mysterious disappearance of fictional metropolis Ultra City's most famous magnate, Carpenter K. Smith (Kurtwood Smith, That 70's Show), Ultra City Smiths follows two intrepid detectives - David Mills (Jimmi Simpson, Westworld) and Gail Johnson (Da'Vine Joy Randolph, Dolemite Is My Name) – who follow the case, rallying to fight against their city's dangerous corruption at a high cost to themselves and their families and in pursuit of a gentler place to call home.Sound complicated?Well throw in the fact the characters are animated baby dolls repurposed as a cast of grown up characters and you might get some insight into the twisted world in which creator Steve Conrad has invited us.The series also features all-star voice talent including Kristen Bell (The Good Place), Dax Shepard (Parenthood), John C. Reilly (Stepbrothers) and Debra Winger (Terms of Endearment) and is streaming now.HEAVY nailed down Conrad to talk about Ultra City Smiths and get some insight into the inner mechanisms of a brain that can turn something like this into pure gold."Stop motion animation you'll remember from holiday specials when you were very young,” Conrad explained, “like Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer and Frosty The Snowman. It's a type of animation where you move the figurines fractions of inches at a time and then run the film and it looks like they're moving. It's an artform you'll remember from your childhood but we have made an adult drama using this artform. I have happened on calling it adult entertainment for former children. I'm hoping to plug into the way we felt about that art when we were kids to use it to explore such mature things as violence and sex and revenge and power etc."In the full interview, Steve runs us through the plotline of Ultra City Smiths, the main characters, the city he has created and why it is so bleak, working humor into the storyline, how far you can go with things in terms of censorship using animation, the actors and actresses who provide the voice overs, creating emotion and tension with animated characters, working with some of the industries heavyweights, future plans and more.
What an episode! Dan interviews Bebe Neuwirth. Best known for playing Lilith Crane on Cheers and on Frasier, she has had a hugely extensive career on stage and screen including roles in Jumanji, Madam Secretary, The Good Fight, Law & Order: SVU. She is one of the voice actors in the really very good animated police noir comedy musical animated show Ultra City Smiths. Of course, there are also reviews: The French Dispatch (In cinemas now) And Just Like That (BINGE | HBO Max) Dear Evan Hansen (In cinemas now) Resident Evil: Welcome To Racoon City (In cinemas now) Voir (Netflix)
This chat features Kyla Atlas, a Toronto-based stop motion animator who is also the co-founder of See You On the Moon animation studio. Atlas shares her journey into stop motion, what it's like running her own business, and how she got to work on Ultra City Smiths at the new Stoopid Buddy Stoodios in Toronto. And as a bonus, Nicole Honderich, my former Stoopid Buddy Studio coworker is also joining me to interview Kyla. You'll also learn: *How Atlas picks up animation gigs *How demanding running an independent studio can be *Why Atlas put her business on hold to work at Stoopid Buddy Stoodios ~[Sponsored Message]~ This episode is sponsored by HUE, makers of colorful, affordable USB cameras and animation software for creative teaching, work and play. Available from huehd.com and Amazon, the new HUE HD Pro camera features 1080p image and video resolution, a built-in microphone and LED lights. HUE's funky, flexible, Plug & Play cameras are easy-to-use and they are compatible with any apps that recognize USB cameras including Discord, Dragonframe, OBS, Twitch, Google Meet, Zoom and many more. In fact, if you go to YouTUbe and watch my interview with laura, I'm actually using a Hue camera as my webcam, so you can see what it's like firsthand there. Visit www.huehd.com for more information and follow @HUEcameras on Instagram or Twitter for news, freebies and giveaways! ~ Social Links: *Follow Kyla on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/seeyouonthemoon/ *Check out Kyla's website: https://www.seeyouonthemoon.ca/
Today on the show we are joined with the super talented visual artist/stop motion animator Cristal Buemi. You can see some of her recent work in the new AMC series "Ultra City Smiths" that features an all star cast and is produced by the same studio that created Robot Chicken. Around hearing about how she landed that gig we dive into her inspiring journey of becoming a professional animator, talk about physical/mental health, every day perspectives of an animator, and just all around share some pleasant vibes!
This chat features stop motion animator Cristal Buemi who shares her journey into creating her career in Toronto. Throughout her career, she's worked on projects like Below Her Mouth, Party for One, Ultra City Smiths, and Gaea. You'll also learn: *How Cristal made the right connections to work on Ultra City Smiths *5 top tips to avoid injuries on the job *Everything you wanted to know about working with TAIS ~[Sponsored Message]~ This episode is sponsored by HUE, makers of colorful, affordable USB cameras and animation software for creative teaching, work and play. Available from huehd.com and Amazon, the new HUE HD Pro camera features 1080p image and video resolution, a built-in microphone and LED lights. HUE's funky, flexible, Plug & Play cameras are easy-to-use and they are compatible with any apps that recognize USB cameras including Discord, Dragonframe, OBS, Twitch, Google Meet, Zoom and many more. In fact, if you go to YouTUbe and watch my interview with laura, I'm actually using a Hue camera as my webcam, so you can see what it's like firsthand there. Visit www.huehd.com for more information and follow @HUEcameras on Instagram or Twitter for news, freebies and giveaways! ~ *Follow Cristal on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cristalclear_/ *Check out Cristal's website: https://www.cristalbuemi.com/
Things discussed: Wendy's Big Bacon Cheddar Cheeseburger Greak: Memories Of Azur, Boyfriend Dungeon, Psychonauts 2, Death's Door, Persona 5 Strikers, 12 Minutes, The Artful Escape Kevin Can F*** Himself, Ultra City Smiths, Heels, What We Do in the Shadows, A.P. Bio, American Crime Story, DAVE, Ted Lasso
ULTRA CITY SMITHS SERIES REVIEW Tom Waits narrates this stop-motion animated noir thriller that delves into a world with alley cats abandoning their alleys for picket fences and howling at a moon that shines over the city. In the dead of night, a baby howls back at them, sitting abandoned outside a police station. Maybe… Read More »Screener Squad: Ultra City Smiths
ULTRA CITY SMITHS SERIES REVIEW Tom Waits narrates this stop-motion animated noir thriller that delves into a world with alley cats abandoning their alleys for picket fences and howling at a moon that shines over the city. In the dead of night, a baby howls back at them, sitting abandoned outside a police station. Maybe… Read More »Screener Squad: Ultra City Smiths
Actor Luis Guzmán has been one of Hollywood's most reliable character actors for the last 4 decades. He joins Mase & Sue to talk about his life growing up on the Lower East side of Manhattan, his early days as a social activist, working with Paul Thomas Anderson and Steven Soderbergh and his latest project "Ultra City Smiths" on AMC.
The sibs wrap a summer of non-stop TV and movies with their best and worst pics for 2021. We've got everything from the popular and acclaimed (Hacks, the White Lotus, Ted Lasso), to the lesser known but even more impressive gems (We Are Lady Parts, Reservation Dogs, Ultra City Smiths), to the downright unfinishable (Jungle Cruise, any action movie on Netflix). Also, Becky and Shai lament what they look like on camera. The Friday Night Movie Family supports the following organizations: NAACP Legal Defense Fund | Equal Justice Initiative | Asian American Journalists Association. Subscribe, rate and review us on your favorite podcast platform, including iTunes | Spotify | Stitcher | Google Play | Podbean | Overcast. Play along with Friday Night Movie at home! Read the FNM Glossary to learn the about our signature bits (e.g., Buy/Rent/Meh, I Told You Shows, Tradesies, etc.) and then head on over to our merch store your very own official FNM t-shirt. Send us your recommendations and your tradesies! We'll watch them and report back on the show! Email us at pancake@pancake4table.com or tweet @FriNightMovie, @pancake4table, @chichiKgomez, and/or @paperBKprincess. Follow our creations and zany Instagram stories @frinightmovie and @pancake4table. Follow us on Letterboxd (@pancake4table) where we're rating every movie we've EVER watched. Subscribe to our quarterly newsletter for exclusive giveaways and news! Theme music by What Does It Eat. Subscribe and leave a review on IOS or Android at fridaynightmoviepod.com.
Ultra City Smiths is Steven Conrad's creation in the same way Primal was a composite of Genndy Tartakovsky's ideas. Like Tartakovsky, Conrad has had a prominent career. He wrote the screenplays to Nicholas Cage's Weather Man, Will Smith's Pursuit of Happiness, and Ben Stiller's The Secret Life of Walter Mitty. And This isn't his first television show. Most recently, EPIX aired the neo-noir thriller Perpetual Grace, LTD. And more notably, he completed two seasons of Patriot for Amazon. Why am I broadcasting Steven Conrad's biggest hits? Well Ultra City Smiths is different than anything you've seen before. So on Today's Episode, we recap the sixth episode finale (titled Family of Orphans) to Ultra City Smiths; the stop-motion crime drama featuring an ensemble of talking baby dolls living in a musical thriller noir.
Three Friends discuss buying planets, Neuralink brain chips, the new Skate game, Dead Space remake, Hunt: Showdown, Battlefield: Portal, and ULTRA CITY SMITHS. Intro/Outro by CHRVNS. This podcast is powered by Pinecast.
This episode is a review of Steven Conrad's new AMC Plus series Ultra City Smiths.
This week on the show: - Dustin sort of talks about Turner & Hooch on Disney+! (0:57) - The final Kung Fu Corner of the season! (20:45) - Ultra City Smiths on AMC+! (31:25) - Ted Lasso of course! (46:41) And other nonsense, which does not have a specific time code. Like the show? Consider rating or reviewing us on iTunes or whatever podcast platform on which you listen (assuming they allow ratings and/or reviews)! Or tell a friend! Our theme song is by Juan Gutierrez!
It was a jam packed fun fest with in-studio guest comedian Lizzy Cooperman (and her keyboard), plus tv creator Steve Conrad (Patriot, Ultra City Smiths), and Jules Boykoff & Molly Lambert (NOlympics LA) zooming in to tell us why the Olympics are a bunch of of junk! Watch video of today's show + After Hours RIGHT NOW, get the AD FREE mega podcast including After Hours and much more at patreon.com/officehourslive. Support NOlympics LA by following them on Twitter or Instagram at @nolympicsla. SoCal friends: see Office Hours Live LIVE at Dynasty Typewriter in LA on August 24th. Get tickets before they sell out at bit.ly/ohl-aug-24-la-early.
On today's What to Watch: Jan is shocked to see how many queens voted for her on RuPaul's Drag Race, and the remaining queens star in RuMerican Horror Story for the maxi challenge; NBC's Good Girls, which has been gaining in popularity thanks to the Netflix bump, wraps up its four-season run on NBC; and the stop-motion animation series Ultra City Smiths debuts. Plus, entertainment headlines — including Black Panther sequel casting news and Kate Winslet on SNL's Murdur Durdur sketch — and trivia. More at ew.com, ew.com/wtw, and @EW. Host: Gerrad Hall (@gerradhall); Editor/Producer: Joshua Heller (@joshuaheller); Writer: Tyler Aquilina (@tyler_aquilina); Executive Producers : Shana Naomi Krochmal (@shananaomi) and Carly Usdin (@carlytron). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
169, nice. This week we’re talking about the bonkers cast list for “Ultra City Smiths”, HBO Max’s new Batman Animated Series, Hocus Pocus 2 and how excited we are for it, and the Saw franchise breaking $1,000,000,000 globally in box office.Is there something you think we should see or want to know if we’ve seen? Let us know on Facebook or Twitter!