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MGM’s animated take on The Addams Family, a CG feature film that has been in the works the past four years, is finally ramping up. A week after Sausage Party co-director Conrad Vernon was set as director, Cinesite Studios has come aboard to provide animation and digital visual effects ad has started production in…

A re-teaming of Seth Rogen with director Conrad Vernon, following 2009’s Monsters vs. Aliens, Sausage Party was a risk, financially and creatively—a film that spent years in development before Megan Ellison’s Annapurna Pictures came on board to jump start the process. Co-financed and distributed through Sony Pictures…

Perhaps one of the more unlikely participants in this year’s big all-day awards-season event The Contenders Presented By Deadline is the raunchy and very adult animated feature Sausage Party, which Sony Pictures brought to showcase in front of a packed DGA theater full of Oscar and key guild voters. Star and creative…

When it comes to a bawdy, R-rated animated film, don’t count it out of Oscar season. As a refresher: 1999’s South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut was nominated in the best song category for “Blame Canada”, which wound up being an unforgettable musical number during the awards telecast with Robin Williams. The mind…

EXCLUSIVE: Sausage Party co-director Conrad Vernon has been set to helm The Toxic Avenger, the live-action remake of the signature schlock franchise launched years ago by Troma. This version is a more grounded and mainstream telling of the story, and it’s set up at Bob Cooper and Richard Saperstein's Storyscape Enterta…