SATURDAY, AUGUST 2, 2014 Casting director Dougherty to receive posthumous Emmy eteran casting director Marion Variety Program or a Special, and Grainne O’Sullivan, Costume The Powerpuff Girls Dougherty will posthumously Outstanding Individual Achievement Supervisor Dance Pantse, , Vreceive the 2014 Governors in Animation. Outstanding Individual Award from the Television Academy at “SNL” and “SYTYCD” won for cos- Achievement in Animation Jasmin Lai, Background Painter the Aug. 24 Creative Arts Emmy tumes, while 10 different art directors, Adventure Time Awards, the Academy announced on designers, storyboard artists and ani- Wizards Only, Fools, Cartoon DC Comics Special II: Villains in Thursday. mators won in the animation category. Network, Cartoon Network Paradise, , A Dougherty’s pioneering work in the Two awards went to “ Studios Production casting industry made her the subject Treehouse of Horror XXIV,” while oth- Nick Jennings, Art Director in association with Stoopid of the 2012 Emmy-nominated docu- ers went to “Robot Chicken,” “The Disney Gravity Falls Monkey and mentary “Casting By,” which pre- Powerpuff Girls,” “Disney Mickey Dreamscaperers, Disney Channel, Cameron Baity, Animator miered on HBO. She began serving as Mouse,” “Adventure Time” and others. Disney Television Animation The Simpsons a casting director in 1949 with the NBC Ian Worrel, Art Director Treehouse of Horror XXIV, FOX, series “Kraft Television Theatre” and The full list of winners: Disney Mickey Mouse Gracie Films in association worked on shows that included Outstanding Costumes for a Variety ‘O Sole Minnie, Disney Channel, with 20th Century Fox Television “Naked City,” “Route 66” and “All in the Program or a Special Disney Television Animation Dmitry Malanitchev, Color Design Family.” Saturday Night Live Narina Sokolova, Background Director Dougherty, who was among the Host: Jimmy Fallon, NBC, SNL Painter The Simpsons early champions for such actors as Studios in association with Disney Mickey Mouse Treehouse of Horror XXIV, FOX, Robert Duvall, Warren Beatty and Jack Universal Television and Broadway The Adorable Couple, Disney Gracie Films in association Lemmon, died in 2011 at the age of 88. Video Channel, Disney Television with 20th Century Fox Television The Academy also announced that Tom Broecker, Costume Designer Animation Charles Ragins, Background “Saturday Night Live,” “So You Think Eric Justian, Costume Designer Valerio Ventura, Background Designer You Can Dance” and “The Simpsons” So You Think You Can Dance Designer Uncle Grandpa are among the earliest of the year’s Episode 1008, FOX, Dick Clark Long Live the Royals Afraid of the Dark, Cartoon Emmy winners. It revealed 12 winners Productions, Inc. and 19 CartoonNetwork.com, Cartoon Network, Cartoon Network Studios in two categories that are judged by Entertainment Network Studios Nick Edwards, Character juries: Outstanding Costumes for a Marina Toybina, Costume Designer Sean Szeles, Storyboard Artist Designer. —Reuters ‘Guardians of the Galaxy’ set to take over US theaters

n the world of superheroes, the ragtag “Guardians of successful films and the wildly popular “Avengers” of the Galaxy” are a bit less polished than the A-list movie-it features lesser-known adventurers, including I“Avengers”, but they are nevertheless set to con- a gun-toting raccoon voiced by Oscar nominee quer US movie theaters this weekend. The latest film Bradley Cooper. But that hasn’t stopped filmgoers featuring heroes from the Marvel universe is a bit of a from snapping up advance tickets, setting “Guardians” risk for Disney, which now owns the stable of comic on course to be one of the runaway blockbusters of book characters. Rather than beloved superheroes the summer. According to Hollywood industry journal like Iron Man, Captain America and Thor-all headliners Variety, the film has already set a record for advance

This image released by Disney - Marvel shows, from left, Zoe Saldana, the char- acter Rocket Racoon, voiced by Bradley Cooper, Chris Pratt, the character Groot, voiced by Vin Diesel and Dave Bautista in a scene from “Guardians of the Galaxy.” The movie released yesterday. —AP online ticket sales for a August release, and is on track to relate to them much easier than they would with to rake in about $65 million in its opening weekend. Iron Man or Thor or Captain America. I think they’re So far this summer, the fourth installment in the just going to be able to relate to these characters,” he “Transformers” series has earned the top spot for a told AFP. He describes Drax as “a very literal character, debut weekend with $100 million in ticket sales. meaning he takes every thing you say very literally But Disney has high hopes for “Guardians” and and in turn, he means everything that he says.” has already green-lighted a sequel for summer 2017. Along with Quill and Drax, the Guardians include Early reviews have been positive: Entertainment the assassin Gamora, played by Zoe Saldana who-after Weekly calls it a “giddily subversive space opera that going blue for her breakout role in James Cameron’s runs on self-aware smart-assery.” The New York Times “Avatar”-is this time green from head to toe. says director James Gunn has given the film “a pulse, The top-flight cast for the comedy also includes wit, beauty and a real sensibility.” The live action-ani- Cooper-a two-time Oscar nominee for his work in mation mash-up recounts the space adventures of “Silver Linings Playbook” and “American Hustle”-who Peter Quill (played by Chris Pratt) who, when faced goes off-camera this time to voice the obscenity- with the destructive plans of the evil Ronan the spewing raccoon Rocket, and Vin Diesel playing the This combo of file photos shows clockwise from upper left: British boy band One Accuser, allies with four aliens to try to save the galaxy. tree-like creature Groot. Direction singer Zaryn Malik, NBA player Dwight Howard of the Houston The interaction between the titular Guardians “is Rockets, NBA player Metta World Peace of the LA Lakers, singer Rihanna, come- Ragtag team of heroes a little rough at first... because they definitely are not “They’re such a ragtag group of people, a group of friends or looking to be friends in this movie,” dienne Joan Rivers and singer Selena Gomez. The celebrities are some of the misfits,” says professional wrestler and mixed martial Bautista says. “Towards the end, they come togeth- many pop idols and professional athletes who are going public with strong arts star Dave Bautista, who plays the muscular Drax er as a group for the greater cause, but they also views about Gaza, putting their relations with fans on the line while stirring up a the Destroyer, a character hell-bent on revenge over kind of learn to love one another and rely on one social media frenzy. —AFP his family’s murder. “It’s cool-I think people are going another.” —AFP