Meledandri was born in New York City to Roland Meledandri, a men's fashion designer, and Risha Meledandri, an activist, growing up in the Upper East Side of Manhattan. In 2021, he joined Nintendo's board of directors after working with the video game company on The Super Mario Bros. He previously served as President of 20th Century Animation, and has worked as the producer for the film series of Ice Age, Despicable Me, The Secret Life of Pets and Sing. 21 in time for the holiday season.Christopher Meledandri ( / m ɛ l ɛ ˈ d ɑː n d r i/ born May 15, 1959) is an American film producer and founder and CEO of Illumination. The film was initially set to release on Dec. adaptation is due to hit theaters on April 7 in North America, followed by a Japanese release on April 28. Especially because (Pratt has) given such a strong performance.” He said that considering he had “Italian American heritage, I feel I can make that decision without worrying about offending Italians or Italian Americans. And now that we’ve done about 15 recording sessions, and the movie is three-quarters done, I sit here and say that I love his performance as Mario,” said Meledandri. “Chris was cast because we felt he could give a great performance as Mario. A casting choice which has been called out online due to the fact that Pratt isn’t Italian. Meledandri also chatted about the social media buzz around its untitled “ Super Mario” movie whose A-list voice cast is led by Chris Pratt playing the titular video game character. On whether Illumination would be willing to include a similar scene in a film at the risk of shutting itself out of some markets, Meledandri gave a cautious answer and said “it’s not been something that has come up on our past films.”īut he continued, “there are topics of conversation right now that are very relevant to what we’re doing in the future that get into areas that potentially might not please everybody.” He said it was a matter of “honoring the stories that you tell, honoring the choices that your filmmakers make.” Meledandri was also asked to comment on Pixar’s move to have a same-sex kiss scene included in “Lightyear” which got the film banned in several parts of the world, including Saudi Arabia and the U.A.E. “We have a committed strategy to movies as a cinema-going experience, and we can layer other businesses on top of that,” said Meledandri who pointed the company had 1,000 staffers, 800 of whom are working out of its Paris studio. He acknowledged, however, that the company was “going to have to evolve” because “our world has changed” during the last couple years, and suggested that Illumination would ramp up its output to deliver movies for both theaters and streamers. Quizzed about the strategies of other studios who opted to launch anticipated movies on their streaming services to grow their subscriber bases during the pandemic, Meledandri said that as the world was in “a period of disruption, there were a lot of decisions made, and they became essentially experiments (…) and when we look back now, we see that perhaps many of those decisions weren’t as good as they looked to be when people were making them.” He said he was that while he was ‘thrilled to be part of building Peacock” it wouldn’t be at the expense of motion pictures and cinemas.”
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