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Interview: Director Raja Gosnell and Producer Jordan Kerner on The Smurfs

Monday, July 25, 2011 1:00PM - By

PK 36 Jordan 055 Interview: Director Raja Gosnell and Producer Jordan Kerner on The Smurfs

It takes a lot of work to make a live-action, animation hybrid, and though making a film about The Smurfs might seem like child’s play, it involves a number of very difficult technical challenges. But both producer Jordan Kerner and director Raja Gosnell, this is not their first go-around with famous kids projects, or complicated kids movies. We talked about the film, and how much they learned from James Cameron‘s Avatar in the making of The Smurfs. Check it out…

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Scooby-Doo Director To Helm Smurfs

Thursday, July 9, 2009 2:09PM - By

smurfs Scooby Doo Director To Helm Smurfs

Yet again, Hollywood is killing our childhood. Scooby-Doo director Raja Gosnell has signed on to direct Smurfs, a live action/animated movie starring the popular small blue characters created by Belgian cartoonist Peyo, says Reuters.

Gosnell is best known for directing Scooby-Doo and Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed, as well as last year’s Beverly Hills Chihuahua – films that put live actors and animated talking animals together on the big screen — How’s that for a skill?

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