EXCLUSIVE: Paramount Pictures and Akiva Goldsman's Weed Road Pictures have set Patrick Osborne to develop to direct Monument Valley, hoping to launch a live action/CG hybrid family franchise based on the Ustwo Games' international mobile game phenomenon. Osborne won the Best Animated Short Film Oscar for Feast and is…
EXCLUSIVE: Netflix has landed an untitled pitch that Oscar-winning animation director Patrick Osborne will helm from a script that will be written by Emma Needell. The plot is being held under wraps, but it's in the vein of The Jungle Book and The Wizard of Oz that centers on a young boy who travels to a fantasy…
Patrick Osborne is no stranger to the Academy Awards: The animator-cum-helmer made his directorial debut with animated short Feast, a charming tale told from the point of view of an adorable dog, which earned him a Best Short Oscar in 2015. This year Osborne, who has worked as an animator on a host of Oscar-nominated…
ABC has given a formal pilot order to an untitled comedy blending live-action and CGI animation (aka Imaginary Gary, Imaginary Friend), from Oscar-winning former Disney animator Patrick Osborne and The Goldbergs team of creator/executive producer Adam F. Goldberg, executive producer David Guarascio, Happy Madison and…
EXCLUSIVE:Â Jason Mantzoukas has been set to write Battling Boy at Paramount, with Plan B producing and Patrick Osborne directing. The live-action/animated hybrid project is an adaptation of Paul Pope’s acclaimed graphic novel set in the city of Arcopolis, where monsters roam the streets and swallow children into the…
EXCLUSIVE: In a very competitive situation, ABC has landed Imaginary Friend, a comedy blending live-action and CGI animation from Oscar-winning Disney feature animator Patrick Osborne and The Goldbergs team of creator/executive producer Adam F. Goldberg, executive producer David Guarascio, Happy Madison and…
EXCLUSIVE: If you sawBig Hero 6 last week then you probably saw the directorial debut of Patrick Osborne. The supervising animator on the Oscar-winning short Paperman, Osborne helmed the unbelievably charming short Feast that was shown before the Don Hall- and Chris Williams-directed feature from Walt Disney…
