The secret had been well kept. If the festival-goers knew that Chris Meledandri was going to receive the Ticket d’or, a reward which offers lifelong accreditation to the Annecy Festival to the big names in animation, they were left speechless when they saw that it was Pharrell Williams himself. even who came to present the trophy to the creator of the Illumination studio to whom we owe in particular Minions.
Very moved, the singer, who met the producer for the first time to Me ugly and mean, evoked the child’s soul of his friend. “When you see life through your eyes, the clouds don’t have to be white and every traffic jam can become the start of a beautiful journey to a great place. That’s what we like about Chris: he lives in a frameless world, without ceilings and without limits. »
Past and future successes
Franchises Me, ugly and mean And All on stage not only made the studio a major player in international animation, but many of its films were born in their Paris studios. “I like the public and it took me a long time to find what could correspond to both their tastes and mine,” declared Chris Meledandri after receiving the famous ticket that Pharrell Williams passed around his neck.
The producer seems to have found the right recipe as evidenced by the first sublime images of Migration, first 3D film by Benjamin Renner, director ofErnest and Celestine And big bad fox. The journey of a mallard duck family who decides to spend the winter in Jamaica will be in theaters on December 6th. And what we’ve seen already makes you want to take flight with them.