LOS ANGELES (Zap2it.com) - Hilary and Haylie Duff are taking their sister act to the movies.
The siblings will lend their voices to the CG-animated "Foodfight!," the inaugural project co-produced and distributed through Larry Kasanoff's Threshold Animation Studios, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
The project revolves around the world of the supermarket after the customers have gone home. Various packaged goods mascots, such as the jewelry-wearing Mr. Clean and the hapless Charlie the Tuna, will also make cameos in the grocery store adventure.
Kasanoff directed the project based on a screenplay by Brent Friedman, Rebecca Swanson and Sean Derek. The film is scheduled for a fall 2006 release.
Threshold's use of IBM's high-powered computer rendering system through the IBM On Demand Center allows the animation to be rendered in just a fraction of the usual time.
"We want to make the highest-quality animated movie, but we don't have five years and $200 million," Kasanoff says. "This solution allows us to get access to unlimited, real-time computing power whenever a scene is too big for our building."
Hilary Duff, 17, is currently taking remote online courses for Harvard and recently completed a couple tour dates in Texas. On the big screen, she's starred in "The Lizzie Maguire Movie," "Cheaper by the Dozen," "A Cinderella Story" and "Raise Your Voice." She next stars opposite Heather Locklear in the comedy "The Perfect Man," which will be released in the summer.
Haylie Duff, 20, has made guest appearances on her sister's Disney Channel show "Lizzie Maguire" and "Boston Public." Her most recent film credit is the quirky Fox Searchlight comedy "Napoleon Dynamite." | 
03-22-2005, 08:53 PM
