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Raymond Briggs, the British writer and illustrator who delighted generations of children and adults with his beloved festive book The Snowman and many other, has died. He was 88.
His publisher Penguin Random House confirmed the news on Wednesday. “Raymond liked to act the professional curmudgeon, but we will remember him for his stories of love and of loss,” Briggs’ literary agent Hilary Delemere told The Guardian. “I know from the many letters he received how his books and animations touched people’s hearts. He kept his curiosity and sense of wonder right up to the last.”
Across a career spanning six decades, Briggs’ widely adored creations included The Snowman, which has become a festive TV tradition in Britain thanks to Channel 4’s 1982 animated version that was nominated for an Oscar, plus the green, angsty creature Fungus the Boyeyman and an exceptionally grumpy...
Raymond Briggs, the British writer and illustrator who delighted generations of children and adults with his beloved festive book The Snowman and many other, has died. He was 88.
His publisher Penguin Random House confirmed the news on Wednesday. “Raymond liked to act the professional curmudgeon, but we will remember him for his stories of love and of loss,” Briggs’ literary agent Hilary Delemere told The Guardian. “I know from the many letters he received how his books and animations touched people’s hearts. He kept his curiosity and sense of wonder right up to the last.”
Across a career spanning six decades, Briggs’ widely adored creations included The Snowman, which has become a festive TV tradition in Britain thanks to Channel 4’s 1982 animated version that was nominated for an Oscar, plus the green, angsty creature Fungus the Boyeyman and an exceptionally grumpy...
- 8/10/2022
- by Alex Ritman
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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Newen Connect, the distribution arm of TF1 Group-owned Newen Studios, is partnering with Andy Serkis’ Imaginarium Productions to co-develop and distribute Madame!, an epic period series on the life of Marie Tussaud, the French artist and entrepreneur who founded world-famous wax museum Madame Tussauds.
Serkis, famous for his roles as Gollum in the Lord of the Rings films and Caeser in the Planet of the Apes franchise, created the series and will act as showrunner and director. Imaginarium, the production outfit Serkis runs with Jonathan Cavendish, will produce Madame! along with Felicita Films’ Marie Guillaumond.
Newen Connect will help finance the development of the series as well as selling the show internationally.
Madame! is pitched as the untold story of Tussaud, a French artist known for her wax sculptures who honed her craft during the age of enlightenment and the French Revolution and...
Newen Connect, the distribution arm of TF1 Group-owned Newen Studios, is partnering with Andy Serkis’ Imaginarium Productions to co-develop and distribute Madame!, an epic period series on the life of Marie Tussaud, the French artist and entrepreneur who founded world-famous wax museum Madame Tussauds.
Serkis, famous for his roles as Gollum in the Lord of the Rings films and Caeser in the Planet of the Apes franchise, created the series and will act as showrunner and director. Imaginarium, the production outfit Serkis runs with Jonathan Cavendish, will produce Madame! along with Felicita Films’ Marie Guillaumond.
Newen Connect will help finance the development of the series as well as selling the show internationally.
Madame! is pitched as the untold story of Tussaud, a French artist known for her wax sculptures who honed her craft during the age of enlightenment and the French Revolution and...
- 8/8/2022
- by Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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