{"id":322,"date":"2004-04-27T11:31:00","date_gmt":"2004-04-27T19:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chasethelight.com\/word_press\/?p=322"},"modified":"2004-04-27T11:31:00","modified_gmt":"2004-04-27T19:31:00","slug":"marking-your-territory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chasethelight.com\/blog\/marking-your-territory\/","title":{"rendered":"Marking Your Territory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chasethelight.com\/images\/042704a.jpg\" class=alignleft width=100 border=\"1\"\/>The train is picking up steam&#8230; The Polar Express: Variety states that producer Steve Bing [<a href=\"javascript:void(0)\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0082893\/bio')\">LINK<\/a>] has made &#8220;one of the boldest moves ever taken by an independent producer&#8221; and personally invested $80 million &#8212; reportedly half of the film&#8217;s production budget &#8212; in Robert Zemeckis&#8217; upcoming children&#8217;s fantasy film. Adapted from Christian Van Allsburg&#8217;s Caldecott Medal-winning storybook about a boy who is whisked away on a magical steam engine to meet with Santa Claus at the North Pole, the film is being computer generated by Sony Pictures Imageworks from motion-captured performances of Tom Hanks and others, as illustrated in the teaser trailer <a href=\"javascript:void(0)\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.apple.com\/trailers\/wb\/the_polar_express')\">here<\/a>. The film will be arriving in theaters, from Warner Brothers and Castle Rock, November 19.<\/p>\n<p>The guy&#8217;s only a year older than me and has invested $80 million of his own money in the film&#8230; and fathered Elizabeth Hurley&#8217;s kid. Well, as long as my paycheck doesn&#8217;t bounce and shows up on Thursdays I&#8217;m happy. Ok, back to work so I can make him the money back. The new trailer we&#8217;ve been working on should be on the front of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban [<a href=\"javascript:void(0)\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.apple.com\/trailers\/wb\/harry_potter-azkaban')\">LINK<\/a>] in June.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The train is picking up steam&#8230; The Polar Express: Variety states that producer Steve Bing [LINK] has made &#8220;one of the boldest moves ever taken by an independent producer&#8221; and personally invested $80 million &#8212; reportedly half of the film&#8217;s production budget &#8212; in Robert Zemeckis&#8217; upcoming children&#8217;s fantasy film. Adapted from Christian Van Allsburg&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,10,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-movies","category-work"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1MOCs-5c","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chasethelight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chasethelight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chasethelight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chasethelight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chasethelight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chasethelight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chasethelight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chasethelight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chasethelight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}