The Oogieloves in the Big Balloon Adventure
The Oogieloves in the Big Balloon Adventure also known as The Oogieloves is a 2012 American live action musical comedy adventure childrens film edited by Girish Bhargava, written by Scott Stabile, produced by Kenn Viselman and Gayle Dickie, coproduced by Kenn Viselman Presents and Big Balloon Adventure Movie with music by Joseph Alfuso and Robert Rettberg and directed by Matthew Diamond. It is based loosely on the childrens television series My Bedbugs by Alex Greene and Carol Sweeney. It stars Toni Braxton, Cloris Leachman, Christopher Lloyd, Chazz Palminteri, Cary Elwes and Jaime Pressly. Marketed as an interactive film, The Oogieloves encourages the viewers in the theater to sing and dance along. The film was theatrically released on August 29, 2012 by Kenn Viselman Presents and Freestyle Releasing. The film was panned by critics and it earned 1,065,907 on amillion budget. The film was nominated for Worst Picture and Worst Screen Ensemble at the 33rd Golden Raspberry Awards, but lost both to The Twilight Saga Breaking Dawn Part 2. The film was released on DVD on February 5, 2013, exclusively at Walmart.
The film was written by Scott Stabile and produced by Kenn Viselman, who was behind the American localization of the British childrens series Teletubbies and Thomas amp Friends. Viselman claims that he and Teletubbies creator Anne Wood had multiple disputes with each other, because Wood refused to let Viselman pursue a film adaptation of the show. The film is loosely based on the characters from the childrens TV show My Bedbugs. After seeing Madea Goes to Jail in a theater, where he saw how the audience members would shout out advice to the characters on screen, Viselman was partially inspired to create a childrens film in the vein of Teletubbies with the interactive aspect, allowing the children to sing, dance, and respond to the characters on screen. He felt that The idea of interactivity isnt new, but the idea of interactivity in a theater is.The film was released on August 29, 2012. On its opening weekend, the film became the biggest box office bomb of all time for films released in at least 2,000 theaters. ........
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