30-Second Bunnies Theatre

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name = 30-Second Bunnies Theatre
director = Jennifer Shiman
producer = Jennifer Shiman
writer = Various
starring = Douglas McInnes
Jennifer Shiman
John Mathot
Shannon Torrence
Michael Dougherty
Bryan Singer
distributor = Angry Alien Productions
Starz
released = June 21, 2004 ("Titanic")-present
runtime = 30 sec. (some films run just over one minute)
country = flagicon|USA
language = English
website = http://www.angryalien.com/
imdb_id = 0473394Infobox TV ratings
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usa_tv = TV-14
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TV-MA-LSV ("Reservoir Dogs"; uncensored version, "")
TV-MA-LV ("Die Hard")
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30-Second Bunnies Theatre is a Webby Award-winning Flash cartoon series featuring films re-enacted by bunnies in 30 seconds. The series is produced by Angry Alien Productions.

The series debuted in 2004, when website creator Jennifer Shiman was looking to create a funny web series. She created a version of "The Exorcist", re-enacted by animated bunnies in only 30 seconds. It was a huge hit, prompting Shiman and company to create more "30 second bunny movies". In 2005, the "bunny troupe" was commissioned by Starz! to make new shorts. Each Starz-commissioned re-enactment has premiered on Starz on Demand as well as Starz Ticket before moving online. The series take on "Star Wars" was also featured on CNN on April 16, 2006. Recently, The series took on the popular comedy "Borat! Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan", which was released to the Starz Bunny Club on January 16, 2007, the day after Sacha Baron Cohen won the Golden Globe for Best Actor (Musical or Comedy). The short can be viewed [http://www.angryalien.com/aa/boratbuns.asp here.]

Angry Alien Productions has plans to release the shorts on DVD in the near future. However, the "Titanic" short was included on that film's 4-Disc Special Collector's Edition DVD, released in 2005.

In 2008, the site won two Webby Awards for Online Film and Video/Animation, as well as the People's Voice award in that category [ [http://www.angryalien.com/ Angry Alien Productions: 30-Second Bunnies Theatre and other cartoons ] ] .

Current releases

*"Alien" (1979)
*"The Big Chill" (1983)
*"" (2006)
*"Brokeback Mountain" (2005)
*"Caddyshack" (1980)
*"Casablanca" (1942)
*"Christmas Vacation" (1989)
*"A Christmas Story" (1983)
*"Die Hard" (1989)
*"The Exorcist" (1973)
*"Fight Club" (1999)
*"Freddy vs. Jason" (2003)
*"Goodfellas" (1990)
*"Grindhouse" (2007)
*"The Grudge" (2004)
*"Highlander" (1986)
*"It's a Wonderful Life" (1946)
*"James Bond" Montage
*"Jaws" (1975)
*"Jurassic Park" (1993)
*"Kill Bill" (Both volumes) (2003-2004)
*"King Kong" (1933)
*"March of the Penguins" (2005)
*"My Dinner With Andre" (1981)
*"Napoleon Dynamite" (2004)
*"Night of the Living Dead"
*"No Country For Old Men" (2007)
*"Office Space" (1999)
*' 1, and ' (2003, 2006, 2007)
*"Pulp Fiction" (1994)
*"Raiders of the Lost Ark" (1981)
*"Reservoir Dogs" (censored and uncensored versions) (1992)
*"The Ring" (2002)
*"Rocky" (1976)
*"The Rocky Horror Picture Show" (1975)
*"Saw" (2004)
*"Scream" (1996)
*"Sixteen Candles" (1984)
*"The Shining" (1980)
*"Snakes on a Plane" (2006)
*"Spider-Man" 1, 2 and 3 (2002, 2004, 2007 respectively)
*"" (1977)
*"Superbad" (2007)
*"Superman" (1978)
*"The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" (2003)
*"Titanic" (1997)
*"30 Days of Night" (2007)
*"The War of the Worlds" (1953)

Upcoming releases

People's Choice

Starting August 1, 2006, fans could vote for the next Bunny re-enactment by text message. The contestants were "The Silence of the Lambs", "Fight Club", "", and "Gone with the Wind". Voting ended September 5, 2006, and the winner was "Fight Club", which was released after "The Ring".

Aspect Ratios

The first eleven bunny shorts were created in full screen and standard-definition formats ("The Exorcist" and "The Shining" bunny shorts were shot in an aspect ratio of instead of ). All current bunny shorts from "The War of the Worlds" onwards are animated in widescreen and high-definition formats, although the "Rocky" bunny short (as a VW Fox commercial) is reformatted from its original ratio of to the full screen ratio of (cropping the left and right of the image), though not pan and scan as the camera stays directly in the center of the image. [ [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJtMYWk6m0o YouTube - VW Fox - Rocky ] ] Like other television shows filmed in high-definition (such as "American Idol", "Father of the Pride", "Curious George", and "Out of Jimmy's Head") and other films filmed in high-definition (such as "The Proud Family Movie", ', "Scooby-Doo! in Where's My Mummy?", "High School Musical", and '), the monitor the animation team would have worked from would have 16:9 and 4:3 safe areas so that the full screen version would not crop off too much of any important visual elements (such as characters). All bunny shorts filmed in widescreen are seen on Starz on Demand and widescreen images of the shorts are shown, but with no black bars showing (an anamorphic print compressed to fit the full screen ratio). The bunny shorts created in full screen are on Starz on Demand as well, but some of them are slightly matted from their original full screen ratio of to the widescreen ratio of with no black bars showing (an anamorphic print compressed to fit the full screen ratio).

References

External links

* [http://www.angryalien.com/ Official website]
* [http://www.starzbunniestheater.com/ 30-Second Bunnies Theatre] at Starz! on Demand
* [http://www.g4tv.com/screensavers/features/51229/Ten_Minutes_with_Jennifer_Shiman.html Jennifer Shiman interview at] G4TV