Can the cast of “Sing” take on a Halloween thriller? They’re about to find out in the special short “Sing: Thriller.” This time, the cast performs a spirited version of the hit Michael Jackson song. The real thrills occur when Buster Moon and the team find themselves at a spooky party. What follows is an homage to classic horror and the famous music video for Jackson’s song.

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People love singing. People love animals. Why not combine the two in a film about singing animals? That’s exactly what happened in the hit feature, “Sing.” And guess what? It was such a success, it spawned a sequel, appropriately titled, “Sing 2.”

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As seen in the new trailer for “Sing 2,” your favorite crooning animals are back with a new adventure.

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“Sing,” Illumination Entertainment’s 2016 animated feature, is a breath of fresh air, particularly for a company most closely associated with the screeching, omnipresent minions. A kind of jukebox musical set in a world populated by oddball anthropomorphic animals (released just a few months after “Zootopia”), it is charming and upbeat. The kind of movie you can tap your toe to. (It was also hugely successful, making nearly $650 million worldwide.) A sequel was inevitable.

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Six years ago, writer/director Garth Jennings introduced audiences to Calatonia and the human-like animals that live there in his animated film “Sing.” In that film, koala Buster Moon puts on a singing competition to save his once-renowned Moon theater from going under and rouses the musical dreams of others in the process. Now, Buster, Rosita, Mike, Ash, Johnny, and Gunter are back in “Sing 2,” set to hit theaters this holiday season.

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Once you meet Garth Jennings its easy to understand how the creative mind behind the big screen version of “Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” and “Son of Ranbow” found himself making an animated movie. He simply has an enthusiastic and upbeat nature that’s quite infectious. The British filmmaker didn’t plan on give three years of his life up to make Universal Pictures and Illumination Entertainment’s “Sing,” but the potential of directing an expected worldwide blockbuster, two Golden Globe nominations and the adoration of his family (more on that later) are certainly nice benefits.

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With Thanksgiving out of the way, we’re now less a month from Christmas, and frankly, the most wonderful time of the year can often feel like a giant ball of stress. But leave it to Wes Anderson to put some real cheer into the holiday season.

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The director has taken a break from his animated dog movie to direct a commercial for H&M, and the results are wonderfully what you’d expect.

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There’s a certain breed of cinephile who may turn up their nose at “Sing,” the upcoming, ridiculously star-laden animated musical featuring Matthew McConaughey, Reese Witherspoon, Seth MacFarlane, Scarlett Johansson, John C. Reilly, Taron Egerton, Nick Kroll, Nick Offerman, Peter Serafinowicz, Leslie Jones, Jay Pharoah, and more. However, you might be able to get them to buy a ticket, and also dazzle them with a bit of film trivia by telling them that Wes Anderson and Edgar Wright have also lent their voices to the movie.

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TORONTO – Sometimes you just can’t hate a movie. It may annoy you. It may make your eye rolls a bit, but eventually you just succumb to the sheer entertainment of it all. That’s the case with Garth Jennings’ “Sing” which had its world premiere at the 2016 Toronto International Film Festival Sunday afternoon.

The Universal Pictures and Illumination Entertainment production is Jennings’ first animated feature after critical and cult favorites “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” and “Son of Rambow.” His strong eye serves him well here as he purposefully has the camera zig and zag around the animated landscape of a San Diego-like city filled with talking and walking animals (“Zootopia” who?) and throws in a slew of creative visual ideas you don’t expect here and there (many of which should simply not be spoiled).

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As Disney‘s billion-dollar “Zootopia” proved, talking animals are an animated trope that never gets old with audiences, and Illumination Entertainment is doubling down hard on the fact this year. On Friday, “The Secret Life Of Pets” opens nationwide, and before the year is out, the studio will also drop “Sing,” featuring lots of cute creatures belting out a number of hit songs in what promises to be a musical extravaganza.

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Details Revealed About Garth Jennings’ Animated Musical: Now Titled ‘Sing’ Featuring Matthew McConaughey, Reese Witherspoon, Scarlett Johansson

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Universal Announces Release Dates For 'Despicable Me 3,' A New 'Grinch' & An Untitled Garth Jennings Animated Project

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Since then, the team has put their head down and continued their work on music videos and ads, but Jennings took a time out to speak with Pitchfork about Hammer & Tongs’ videos for Vampire Weekend and some film projects they hope to get off the ground.

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It’s a coming-of-age story (but with kids, not bratty teens) set in the ’80s about two friends who bond over their love for “Rambo: First Blood” who then set out to make their own movie inspired by Sly Stalllone’s Vietnam-vet gone bonkers in normal society action franchise.

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