Paterna: the Next Hollywood?
Renamed Magical Circus, the Made in Valencia cartoon, originally titled Animal Crackers, was an enormous success in China, where in July 2018 it was one of the top five box office hits on its premiere.
You don’t often see the likes of Sylvester Stallone or Danny de Vito hanging around Paterna; however, their voices are to be heard there as they participate in this sensational blockbuster.
Valencian film maker Jaime Maestro co-directs this little masterpiece from the Valencian studios of Blue Dream, based in Paterna, along with American directors Christian Scott Sava and Tony Bancroft.
Stallone and De Vito play a human cannonball and a clown respectively, along with actors John Krasiski and Emily Brandt, the stars of the show.
The project was launched in September 2014 by Maestro and a young team of students, mainly from the Escuela de Arte y Diseño Barreira, where Maestro, as his name suggests, is a teacher.
Maestro won a ‘Goya’ award (a Spanish Oscar) for his contribution to ‘El vendedor de humo’.
Animal Crackers has been financed by investors from South Korea, China and the USA, and has helped to provide work for over 100 people in and around Paterna’s Technological Park where Blue Dream Studios is located.
The work created and the income generated by Blue Dreams was achieved in fierce competition with competitors in China and Canada.
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