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WATCH: Ryan Reynolds discovers fire – and Chris Sanders – with ‘The Croods’

There is apparently no end to  Lilo & Stitch creator Chris Sanders’ talents, from doing a great Nicolas Cage impression to braving the bitter cold at the NYC premiere of  The Croods  – with no jacket! Just how impressed was Ryan Reynolds  with Sanders?  “This is my first animated movie I’ve ever done, and I was doing one subsequently right afterwards and I learned so much from [the directors] that I shifted the sessions in the next animated movie to feel more like this one!” The Croods is director Chris Sanders’ second film for Dreamworks Animation, where he defected to after clashing with Disney over  American Dog. ( The title became   Bolt  after his departure).  Is he still enjoying his new home?  “Every film we make we get, like, better technology — so even better!”  Plus he’s already hard at work on  How To Train Your Dragon 2 . But his co-writer and director, Kirk De Micco, chimed in to say there was one area where Dreamworks Animation struggled — creating digital tar!   The request threw the animators for a loop.  “How deep is the tar?!  How sticky is the tar?!  Does it stick to their clothes?!”  Good thing Sanders and De Micco were there to answer their questions. Check out my full interview below: Follow Grace Randolph on  Twitter . Follow Movieline on  Twitter . 

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WATCH: Ryan Reynolds discovers fire – and Chris Sanders – with ‘The Croods’

James Franco Wears Lipstick, Directs Kenneth Anger In Daddy Music Video

It’s Tuesday afternoon, time to figure out what James Franco  has done today to merit our attention. Well, lookie here:  The Spring Breakers star has donned lipstick, eye shadow and a Rolling Rock cap to promote the release of the music video for “Love in the Old Days (Ted James 1999 Mix)”  by his band with fellow Rhode Island School of Design alumnus Tim O’Keefe.  Better yet, Franco directed the clip and cast one of his underground idols, Scorpio Rising filmmaker and Hollywood Babylon author Kenneth Anger as a theremin-playing occult priest.  Yeah, it’s that kind of freaky.  James Franco’s Band, Daddy: ‘Love in the Old Days (Ted James 1999 Remix)’ Music Video Interview magazine posted the exclusive on its website on Tuesday, and Franco released this statement about the clip: “Kenneth Anger has been an influence on me since I was first exposed to ‘Kustom Kar Kommandoes’ and ‘Scorpio Rising,’ but especially ‘Scorpio Rising,'” explains Franco. “When I went to NYU for film, I was always looking for ways to Anger up my films. My first one in particular, ‘The Feast of Stephen’ owes a lot to Anger, the way his camera transformed a gang of real 1960 bikers into homoerotic gods. In other films and projects I loved the way he took celebrity and the occult and fused them in [Sergei] Eisensteinian juxtapositions to achieve a greater, spiritual/aesthetic significance.” “I was asked to do project about a marriage,” Franco continues, describing the footage used in the video. “I wanted to do two marriages and call it ‘The Marriage of Heaven and Hell after Blake.’ I could think of no one better to preside over the marriage of Hell than Anger. He is a force. A fusion of art, pop-culture, magik and sex. He is the voyeur-king.” Franco certainly Angered up this video, which depicts an occult wedding ceremony at a strip bar and one helluva French kiss near the end. Call it Scorpio Settling Down .  See if you can name all of the different animal heads that the wedding guests are wearing. Or play a game with your kids and  ask them to name them. (Wait, this is the Internet. I need to add that I’m kidding.) Follow Frank DiGiacomo on  Twitter. Follow Movieline on  Twitter.  [ Interview ]

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James Franco Wears Lipstick, Directs Kenneth Anger In Daddy Music Video