My Little Pony: Equestria Girls (film)
My Little Pony: Equestria
Girls, or simply known as Equestria Girls, is a 2013 Canadian – American Flash animated fantasy musical film which is the first installment of Hasbro's toy line and media franchise, which is itself an anthropomorphized spin- off of the 2010 relaunch of the My Little Pony franchise.
The film was written by Meghan McCarthy and directed by Jayson Thiessen, and was produced by DHX Media's 2D animation studio in Vancouver, Canada for Hasbro Studios in the United States.
It premiered at the Los Angeles Film Festival on June 15, 2013, followed by limited release in the United States and Canada on June 16, 2013, with a home media release on August 6, 2013.
It also commemorates the thirtieth anniversary of the launch of the original My Little Pony toyline.
The film re-envisions the main characters of parent franchise, normally ponies, as teenage human characters in a high school setting.
Set between the and of, the film's plot involves pursuing her stolen crown into an alternate world where she transforms into a human teenage girl.
While learning how to behave as a human, Twilight encounters human counterparts of her pony friends, who help her in her search for her crown.
The film's critical reception was mostly negative, with most criticism directed towards the character design, writing, plot and characterization.
The film was followed by three sequels –( 2014),( 2015), and( 2016) – all of which were more positively received.
Jayson Thiessen
Jayson Thiessen is a Canadian animation director, most famous for being the supervising director and executive producer of the animated television series and its spin- off films and.
He also directed the based directly on the television series.
Prior to working on" My Little Pony", he worked on season 2 of the" Pucca" television series aired on Jetix( now Disney XD).
Ian Barry (director)
Ian Barry is an Australian director of film and TV.
My Little Pony: Equestria Girls
My Little Pony: Equestria Girls, or simply known as Equestria Girls, is a Canadian-American product line of fashion dolls and media franchise launched in 2013 by Hasbro, as a spin-off of the 2010 of the My Little Pony franchise.
"Equestria Girls" features humanized versions of "My Little Pony" characters from "Friendship Is Magic".
It includes various doll lines and media tie-ins (including four films, music albums, a mobile app, , sixteen , a on YouTube, , and).
The "Equestria Girls" setting is established as a parallel counterpart to the main world of the 2010 incarnation of My Little Pony, populated with humanoid versions of the characters from the franchise; the Hasbro website described them as "full-time students and part-time magical pony girls".
Michael Mann
Michael Kenneth Mann( born February 5, 1943) is an American director, screenwriter, and producer of film and television who is best known for his distinctive brand of stylized crime drama.
His most acclaimed works include the crime films" Thief"( 1981)," Manhunter"( 1986)," Heat"( 1995), and" Collateral"( 2004), the historical drama" The Last of the Mohicans"( 1992), and the docudrama" The Insider"( 1999).
He is also known for his role as executive producer on the popular TV series" Miami Vice"( 1984 – 89), which he later adapted into a 2006 feature film.
For his work, he has received nominations from international organizations and juries, including the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, Cannes, and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
" Total Film" ranked Mann No. 28 on its list of the 100 Greatest Directors Ever," Sight and Sound" ranked him No. 5 on their list of the 10 Best Directors of the Last 25 Years, and" Entertainment Weekly" ranked Mann No. 8 on their 25 Greatest Active Film Directors list.
Brian Johnson (special effects artist)
Brian Johnson( born 1939 or 1940) is a British designer and director of film and television special effects.
My Little Pony: The Princess Promenade
My Little Pony:
The Princess Promenade is a 2006 direct- to- video animated musical family fantasy film produced by SD Entertainment and distributed by Paramount Home Entertainment in association with Hasbro.
The film is the second feature in the third incarnation of the My Little Pony series and the first film to promote the Crystal Princess line.
It featured the debut of the Breezies and the 2006 re-design of Spike the dragon, who originally featured in the first My Little Pony series from the 1980s.
The film received mostly positive reviews from critics, and became the first successful My Little Pony animation to date, before the debut of.
It has a strong following amongst" G3" collectors, and has been positively received by many since its DVD debut in 2006.
The DVD also features two bonus episodes:" A Charming Birthday", which was originally released on video in 2003 and" Pinkie Pie and the Ladybug Jamboree".
The film is notable for being the MLP animation that was sent to Lauren Faust in the hopes of retooling the My Little Pony series.
The movie has been reissued in the 2- disc DVD collection" My Little Pony: Classic Movie Collection", alongside" The Runaway RainbowDancing in the Clouds" and" Friends are Never Far Away".
Alongside and, the film premiered on August 8, 2014 on the Hub Network after its" My Little Pony Mega Mare- athon".
According to Broadway World, the" Mega Mare- athon" itself drew in 5.4 million viewers and has earned significant delivery growth on every demographic measured by Nielsen: Kids 2-11( +134%), Girls 2-11(+ 179%), Kids 6-11(+ 169%), Girls 6-11(+ 216%), Adults 18- 49(+ 111%), Women 18-49(+ 146%), Adults 25- 54(+ 74%), Women 25- 54(+ 76%), Persons 2+(+ 124%) and Households( +98%).
Peter Levin
Peter Levin is an American director of film, television and theatre.
Hanro Smitsman
Hanro Smitsman, born in 1967 in Breda( Netherlands), is a writer and director of film and television.
Public Enemies (2009 film)
Public Enemies is a 2009 American biographical crime drama film directed by Michael Mann and written by Mann, Ronan Bennett and Ann Biderman.
It is an adaptation of Bryan Burrough's non-fiction book" Public Enemies: America's Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI, 1933 – 34".
Set during the Great Depression, the film chronicles the final years of the notorious bank robber John Dillinger( Johnny Depp) as he is pursued by FBI agent Melvin Purvis( Christian Bale), Dillinger's relationship with Billie Frechette( Marion Cotillard), as well as Purvis' pursuit of Dillinger's associates and fellow criminals Homer Van Meter( Stephen Dorff) and Baby Face Nelson( Stephen Graham).
Burrough originally intended to make a television miniseries about the Depression- era crime wave in the United States, but decided to write a book on the subject instead.
Mann developed the project, and some scenes were filmed on location where certain events depicted in the film occurred, though the film is not entirely historically accurate.
The film received a generally positive reception upon release and was a commercial success, grossing$ 214.1 million, more than double its$ 100 million budget.

Question: Are both director of film Public Enemies (2009 Film) and director of film My Little Pony: Equestria Girls (Film) from the same country?