{"id":1339,"date":"2012-09-27T07:55:13","date_gmt":"2012-09-27T12:55:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/?p=1339"},"modified":"2012-09-27T07:57:30","modified_gmt":"2012-09-27T12:57:30","slug":"genndys-hotel-transylvania-opens-this-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/2012\/09\/genndys-hotel-transylvania-opens-this-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"Genndy&#8217;s Hotel Transylvania Opens This Weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Being a huge fan on Genndy Tartakovsky, I am curious how well Hotel Transylvania will do this weekend. He was the fifth director signed on to the project, which has been in development since 2006 &#8211; so clearly there is some extra baggage associated with this film. However, it&#8217;s worth pointing out that Sony Pictures liked his work enough on this film to sign him to direct another animated feature (sadly, it&#8217;ll be a movie based on Popeye as opposed to new material&#8230; or Samurai Jack).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dac4_cR1TrI\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"464\" height=\"261\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>While the concept doesn&#8217;t blow you away, I do like how the movie possesses a cartoony feel despite being a 3D movie. This was intentional, as Genndy himself stated <a title=\"An interesting read. \" href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment\/movies\/moviesnow\/la-et-mn-hotel-transylvania-20120826,0,3490529.story\" target=\"_blank\">in an article for the movie<\/a>. I certainly enjoy the realism of 3D animation, but I&#8217;m also a huge fan of traditional 2D animation; so I&#8217;m interested to see how a 3D movie is executed by someone with such an accomplished background in 2D. Now let&#8217;s just hope the story doesn&#8217;t ruin it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Being a huge fan on Genndy Tartakovsky, I am curious how well Hotel Transylvania will do this weekend. He was the fifth director signed on to the project, which has been in development since 2006 &#8211; so clearly there is some extra baggage associated with this film. However, it&#8217;s worth pointing out that Sony Pictures [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[22],"class_list":["post-1339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-genndy-tartakovsky"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1339"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1346,"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1339\/revisions\/1346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}