According to
this movie news article the official POPSTAR! website, PopStarOnline.com, Nickelodeon Stars Kendall Schmidt and Logan Henderson, who portray the characters 'Kendall Knight' and 'Logan Mitchell' in the hit Nickelodeon original musical comedy series "Big Time Rush", will be lending their voices to a brand new independent animated movie called "The Great Migration", which will be about a predator whose altered state proves to be a threat to the local ecosystem. Kendall Schmidt and Logan Henderson will also contribute to the film's original soundtrack. Production for the brand new animated movie "The Great Migration" is expected to begin on Thursday 1st November 2012:
BIG TIME VOICES
Kendall Schmidt and Logan Henderson of Big Time Rush along with “High School Musical” actresses Vanessa Hudgens and Ashley Tisdale will be lending their voices to a new animated film, “The Great Migration”. This indie flick was written by Kevin G. Schmidt, who also wrote “Cheaper By The Dozen I, II”. This movie is about a group of characters who meet a predator threatening the environment. Film production is expected to start November 1st.
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Also, from the
Inside Movies blog on the official Entertainment Weekly website, insidemovies.ew.com:
Casting Net: Vanessa Hudgens, Ashley Tisdale board animated 'Great Migration.' [...]
Vanessa Hudgens, Ashley Tisdale, Ashley Benson (Pretty Little Liars), and Big Time Rush members Kendall Schmidt and Logan Henderson have all signed on to lend their voices to the indie animated feature The Great Migration, about a predator whose altered state proves to be a threat to the local ecosystem. If the project wasn’t already chockablock with teen dreaminess, all of the actors will also contribute to the film’s original soundtrack. No director was announced, but screenwriter Kevin G. Schmidt (Cheaper By the Dozen) will also perform in the film. [THR]
Also, from
The Hollywood Reporter:
Vanessa Hudgens, Ashley Tisdale, Big Time Rush Members to Star in Animated Film (Exclusive)
The teen-friendly cast will also lend their voices to an original soundtrack accompanying the indie project.
High School Musical alum Vanessa Hudgens and Ashley Tisdale are getting back into the animation business.
The actresses join Big Time Rush members Kendall Schmidt, Logan Henderson and Pretty Little Liars' Ashley Benson in a teen-friendly cast for The Great Migration, an animated film from the newly-formed CMI Entertainment, The Hollywood Reporter has learned. Additionally, the group will lend their voices to an original soundtrack to accompany the film.
Writer Kevin G. Schmidt (Cheaper By the Dozen I, II) will also star.
"The idea for The Great Migration arrived in my email inbox via a weekly newsletter from an alternative physician I follow in Chicago," Schmidt says. "The film centers on a group of characters that encounter a mutated predator threatening to destroy the balance of their environment."
Tisdale has long lent her voice to animation as a series regular on Disney Channel's Phineas and Ferb, while Hudgens previously voiced a character on Seth Green's adult cartoon series Robot Chicken. This will be the first animated project for Kendall Schmidt and Henderson.
The project will mark CMI Entertainment's first attempt at producing a film using pre-visualization, which aims to create high quality animation below current market prices.
"What we hope to accomplish with The Great Migration is the most efficient animated storytelling without sacrificing artistic vision or quality," says CMI's Michael Cammarata, who cites Timur Bekmambetov as his mentor and inspiration for the project. "If the right partners are economically and creatively on the same page, I believe projects can be brought from conception to reality quicker than ever before."
The film is expected to begin production Nov. 1. Cammarata, Kevin G. Schmidt and Rob Minkoff are producing.
