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JoBlo (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
Gil Kenan caught the attention of Hollywood heavy-hitters when he wrote and directed his first short thesis film THE LARK, while finishing his Masters at UCLA’s film school. Consequently, a nod of approval from Bob Zemeckis’ and Steven Spielberg, earned him a director’s chair for their animated film MONSTER HOUSE in 2006. Kenan became an overnight star as he walked away with an Academy Award nomination...
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FLiXER: Entertainment Industry News (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago
By Phil Contrino After making a successful feature film debut in 2006 with Monster House , an animated flick that featured the voices of Steve Buscemi, Maggie Gyllenhaal and Jon Heder, director Gil Kenan decided to switch over to the world of live action for City of Ember . Even though the 31-year-old Kenan avoids watching other films while in production on his own, there is one classic that held...
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Starpulse News (Free subscription) | yesterday
Oscar-winning Monster House director Gil Kenan takes the helm for this children's fantasy concerning two teens who attempt to solve an ancient mystery in time... Continue summary Pictures / Video / More
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SCI FI Wire (Free subscription) | 01/10/2008
Gil Kenan, director of the fantasy film City of Ember, told SCI FI Wire that he considers the story the ultimate tale of light vs. darkness. The movie is based on Jeanne DuPrau's youth novel.
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Matt Dentler's Blog (Free subscription) | 29/09/2008
(Harry Knowles and Bill Murray, at the Fantastic Fest closing night party. Photo courtesy of Picture in Picture.) I knew when I left Fantastic Fest early, I was going to miss a lot of the goods. And by goods, I mean the "secret screenings" that mark some of the event's biggest annual highlights. This year's "secret screenings" included The...
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RopeofSilicon: Latest Headlines (Free subscription) | 27/09/2008
A political style ad aptly placed
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SCI FI Wire (Free subscription) | 25/09/2008
Gil Kenan--director of City of Ember, the upcoming big-screen adaptation of Jeanne DuPrau's youth fantasy novel--told SCI FI Wire that the author was supportive of him even as she came to terms with the fact that a film can be vastly different from its source material.
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Frankly My Dear... (Free subscription) | 19/09/2008
Gil Kenan's City of Ember isn't even in theaters, but already Bob Zemeckis has lined up his Monster House director to helm his new animated project, Airmen, based on the children's adventure book by Eoin Colfer, who also wrote Artemis...
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SCI FI Wire (Free subscription) | 19/09/2008
Gil Kenan, director of the upcoming Fox Walden film City of Ember, gave SCI FI Wire a tour of the film's set in Belfast, Northern Ireland, where an entire city has been constructed inside a massive building that once housed the RMS Titanic.
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Animated News (Free subscription) | 19/09/2008
According to The Hollywood Reporter, the Monster House team of executive producer Robert Zemeckis and director Gil Kenan will collaborate again to bring Artemis Fowl author Eoin Colfer’s children’s adventure book Airman to the screen, using the same performance-capture technology as before. The plot concerns one Conor Broekhart, a “young man born in a hot [...]
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FirstShowing.net (Free subscription) | 03/09/2008
The first full poster for Fox Walden's City of Ember has just made its way online and the quickest way to describe it is simply to say that it's epic. Since when did combining the posters for The Goonies and Journey to the Center of the Earth become the latest hot thing in Hollywood? I think Fox Walden has done a good job so far marketing City of Ember, with the light bulbs and dark and misty atmosphere...
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Ain't it Cool News (Free subscription) | 26/07/2008
Hey folks. Capone in San Diego here with a little preview of the upcoming live-action debut from director Gil Kenan, who made what I consider to be the most entertaining animated film of 2006, MONSTER HOUSE. His follow-up the bold adaptation of the wildly popular book for young adults CITY OF EMBER by author Jeanne Duprau. I'll admit the trailer had me scratching my head as far as what exactly the...
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Variety.com (Free subscription) | 25/07/2008
Film News: Studio pre-emptively buys pitch -- 20th Century Fox has pre-emptively bought Gil Kenan and John Glenn's original pitch "Junkers."
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Rotten Tomatoes (Free subscription) | 24/07/2008
A chance Comic Con encounter between CHUD's Devin Faraci and producer Gary Goetzman has yielded some encouraging news for film fans eagerly awaiting Spike Jonze's Where the Wild Things Are.
