Fine Tooning with Drew Taylor - Episode 156: Meet the directors of “Hotel Transylvania: Transformania”

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🗓️ 11 January 2022

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Drew Taylor & Jim Hill interview Derek Drymon & Jennifer Kluska, the co-directors of the fourth & final installment of this Sony Pictures Animation franchise. They also discuss Disney’s decision to shift Pixar’s “Turning Red” from a theatrical release to premiering on the Company’s subscription streaming service Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to fine tuning with Drew Taylor, you won some shop when it comes to animation news and
0:04.3	commentary. I'm Drew's co-host, entertainment writer Jim Hill, and he and I are recording this
0:09.6	show on Friday, January 7th, 2022. Obviously a big show this week drew lots of news with the
0:17.9	biggest story being today's announcement of Pixar's turning red that it's not going to be released
0:24.4	theatrically on March 11th, but rather will now make its debut on Disney Plus on that same day.
0:31.3	Omicron and the pandemic did factor into this decision. In fact, early this evening Drew, you on
0:37.9	Twitter mentioned the New York Times piece that just got posted this afternoon that talked about
0:43.4	how the number of hospitalized kids who were testing positive for COVID is really jumping up.
0:49.6	Yes. Omicron and the pandemic weren't the only reasons.
0:54.4	That the mouse house decided to change turning red from theatrical recent to an animated feature,
1:00.2	which then would debut on the company's subscription streaming service. It's kind of a complicated
1:06.0	situation, right? Yes. Okay, and you're going to explain that at length later in today's show.
1:13.2	Okay, happy to do it. On the second half of today's show, Drew and I have an interview with Derek
1:20.3	and Jennifer Kluszka, who are the directors of Hotel Transaving Net Transformania, the fourth
1:26.6	and final film in the Sony picture animation franchise, which will be available for streaming
1:32.7	on Amazon Prime Video starting this coming Friday, January 14th. But first, the news, and as always,
1:40.0	the news portion of fine tuning is brought to you by Swordbook Destinations trusted travel partner
1:45.5	of the Jim Hill Media Podcast Network. For a worry-free travel experience, please book online
1:51.5	at storybookdestinations.com. It's been you, which though, that if you were paying attention to
1:56.8	the animated projects that have stepped in the spotlight this past week, 2022 is looking an
2:01.8	awful lot like 1992, Drew. Take for example, earlier this week via Twitter, we learned the production
2:08.5	on X-Men 97, which is the continuation of X-Men The Animated Series, which debuted on Fox Kids.
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