FEATURED MOVIE: G-Force

Movie Premier | The G-Force Experience | Flo Rida "Jump" Music Video | Movie Trailer | Nicolas Cage Interview | Interview with Jerry Bruckheimer | Interview with Bill Nighy | Interview with Tracy Morgan | Interview with Director Hoyt Yeatman Jr

G-Force Movie Premier

BlacktreeTV's Erica O'Young hits the G-Force movie premiere red carpet and chats with some of the stars from the film.

The G-Force Experience

BlacktreeTV's Erica O'Young experiences G-Force, firsthand at the G-Force Experience in Hollywood, California.

Produced by: Jamaal Finkley and Erica O'Young
Host: Erica O'Young
Camera and Edit: Yev Shrayber

Flo Rida's "Jump" Official G-Force Music Video

Flo Rida's Official new music video, "Jump," featuring Nelly Furtado.

Movie Trailer

Producer Jerry Bruckheimer brings his first 3-D film to the big screen with G-FORCE, a comedy adventure about the latest evolution of a covert government program to train animals to work in espionage. Armed with the latest high-tech spy equipment, these highly trained guinea pigs discover that the fate of the world is in their paws. Tapped for the G-FORCE are guinea pigs Darwin (voice of SAM ROCKWELL), the squad leader determined to succeed at all costs; Blaster (voice of TRACY MORGAN), an outrageous weapons expert with tons of attitude and a love for all things extreme; and Juarez (voice of PENELOPE CRUZ), a sexy martial arts pro; plus the literal fly-on-the-wall reconnaissance expert, Mooch, and a star-nosed mole, Speckles (voice of NICOLAS CAGE), the computer and information specialist.

Directed by Academy Award®-winning visual effects master Hoyt Yeatman—G-FORCE takes audiences on a high-octane thrill ride, proving once and for all that size really doesn't matter.

CAST: Bill Nighy, Will Arnett, Zach Galifianakis, with the voices of Nicolas Cage, Sam Rockwell, Jon Favreau, Penelope Cruz, Steve Buscemi, Tracy Morgan

DIRECTOR: Hoyt Yeatman
SCREENPLAY BY: The Wibberleys and Ted Elliott & Terry Rossio and Tim Firth, based on a story by Hoyt Yeatman (credits not final)
PRODUCER: Jerry Bruckheimer
GENRE: Comedy-Adventure
RATING: TBD
RELEASE DATE: July 24, 2009

Interview with Nicolas Cage

Much like the fictional G-Force, the movie G-FORCE employs the latest technologies, taking the film to the next level. But producer Jerry Bruckheimer says theres another aspect of the film that really makes the four-legged G-Force work. Its the humans who bring these animals and their world fully alive, says Bruckheimer.

Nicolas Cage (Knowing, National Treasure), a lifelong fan of animation, provides the voice of Speckles, the blind and brilliant, star-nosed mole. G-FORCE was to be the actors sixth collaboration with Bruckheimer (with The Sorcerers Apprentice soon to follow as the seventh), but one unlike any of the others. Jerry showed me pictures of the G-FORCE characters and said I could play any role I wanted, says Cage. When I saw Speckles, something about it got to me, and I thought I could do something interesting with the voice. It was important to me to create a new voice that was unrecognizable from my own vocal patterns. It was also important to me to go into an area that had kind of a zany intensity. To me, thats what would make Speckles fun to play, and hopefully fun for the audience. One of my favorite actors is Mel Blanc, continues Cage, referring to the great vocal talent behind Warner Bros. cartoon characters Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Elmer Fudd and Yosemite Sam. He was a marvelous character actor. We knew him only from his voices, so I thought it would be fun to create a whole new voice for this marvelous looking little mole in G-FORCE.

Nic Cage has created a terrific voice for Speckles, sort of going back to a 1930s kind of character, says Bruckheimer. Then theres Sam Rockwell, who also has a wonderful voice, powerful and strong, as Darwin, the team leader.

Interview with producer Jerry Bruckheimer

Producer Jerry Bruckheimer brings his first 3D film to the big screen with G-FORCE, a comedy adventure about the latest evolution of a covert government program to train animals to work in espionage. Armed with the latest high-tech spy equipment, these highly trained guinea pigs discover that the fate of the world is in their paws. Tapped for the G-Force are guinea pigs Darwin (voice of SAM ROCKWELL), the squad leader determined to succeed at all costs; Blaster (voice of TRACY MORGAN), an outrageous weapons expert with tons of attitude and a love for all things extreme; and Juarez (voice of PENÉLOPE CRUZ), a sexy martial arts pro; plus the literal fly-on-the-wall reconnaissance expert, Mooch, and a star-nosed mole, Speckles (voice of NICOLAS CAGE), the computer and information specialist. Along the way, the G-Force encounters myriad other members of the animal kingdom, including pet shop layabout Hurley (voice of JON FAVREAU) and the rabidly territorial hamster Bucky (voice of STEVE BUSCEMI).

Directed by Academy Award®-winning visual effects master Hoyt H. Yeatman Jr.—G-FORCE takes audiences on a high-octane thrill ride, proving once and for all that the world needs bigger heroes.

JERRY BRUCKHEIMER (Producer) Great stories, well told. They can be for audiences in darkened movie theatres or home living rooms. They can feature great movie stars or introduce new talent. They can be true adventure, broad comedy, heartbreaking tragedy, epic history, joyous romance or searing drama. They can be set in the distant or recent past, an only-imagined future or a familiar present. Whatever their elements, though, if they begin with a lightning bolt, they are stories being told by Jerry Bruckheimer, and they will be great stories, well told.

The numbers—of dollars and honors—are a matter of often-reported record. Bruckheimers films have earned worldwide revenues of over $15 billion in box-office, video and recording receipts. In the 2005-6 season he had a record-breaking 10 series on network television, a feat unprecedented in nearly 60 years of television history. His films (16 of which exceeded the $100 million mark in U.S. box-office receipts) and television programs have been acknowledged with 41 Academy Award® nominations, six Oscars®, eight Grammy Award® nominations, five Grammys, 23 Golden Globe® nominations, four Golden Globes, 77 Emmy Award® nominations, 17 Emmys, 23 Peoples Choice Award nominations, 15 Peoples Choice Awards, 12 BAFTA nominations, two BAFTA Awards, numerous MTV Awards, including one for Best Picture of the Decade for Beverly Hills Cop, and 20 Teen Choice Awards.

But the numbers exist only because of Bruckheimers uncanny ability to find the stories and tell them on film. He is, according to The Washington Post, the man with the golden gut. He may have been born that way, but more likely, his natural gifts were polished to laser focus in the early years of his career. His first films were the 60-second tales he told as an award-winning commercial producer in his native Detroit. One of those mini-films, a parody of Bonnie and Clyde created for Pontiac, was noted for its brilliance in Time Magazine and brought the 23-year-old producer to the attention of world-renowned ad agency BBDO, which lured him to New York.

A BlackTree Media Production

Produced by Jamaal Finkley
Journalist Jamaal Finkley

Interview with Bill Nighy

Bill Nighy (Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Mans Chest, Pirates of the Caribbean: At Worlds End) was tapped to play Leonard Saber. You have a choice in trying to describe what G-FORCE is. You either go into a very long explanation which gets very technical, and they are more mystified. Or you say Im in a guinea pig movie, which is the quick way. Then, of course, they think youre going to be a guinea pig, or the voice of a guinea pig, and I have to explain that no, in fact, I play an industrialist named Leonard Saber whos bent on world domination. Then it becomes clearer.

Interview with Tracy Morgan

BlackTree TV's Jamaal Finkley sits down with G-Force member Tracy Morgan to talk about his role as 'Blaster' in the hit new 3D Animation Film.

Interview with Director Hoyt Yeatman Jr.

HOYT H. YEATMAN JR. (Director/Story by) has contributed to the conception, design, supervision and production of special effects for more than 100 motion picture, television and commercial projects. He was also one of the original founders of Dream Quest Images, an Academy Award-winning visual effects company.

Yeatmans conceptual and innovative approach to special visual effects embodies his commitment to high-quality creative, technical and visual performance. He has always been drawn to the visually artistic, the technically complex and the challenge in blending these two worlds seamlessly.

His dramatic use of miniatures and underwater bluescreen photography in the 1989 film The Abyss won Yeatman an Oscar® for Best Achievement in Visual Effects. He was responsible for the visual effects and the photo-realistic 3D character animation for the Jerry Bruckheimer production Kangaroo Jack. He was also visual effects supervisor on the 1998 Academy Award-nominated Mighty Joe Young, as well as the feature films The Rock, Crimson Tide and Armageddon, all produced by Jerry Bruckheimer. In March 2000, Yeatman and the Eastman Kodak Company were honored with a Scientific and Technical Achievement Certificate from the Academy for their joint development of a new visual effects film stock, SFX 200T. Additionally, he has directed special attraction films for Warner Bros. Recreation, Sony Wonder, Imax Corp. and Samsung.

Yeatman attended UCLA where he studied animation and film. After receiving his Bachelor of Arts in 1977, Yeatman joined the effects crew of Close Encounters of the Third Kind, an experience which springboarded him into work on the animation and special effects for NBCs Laugh-In specials, Buck Rogers and Battlestar Galactica. Following this, Yeatman was recruited by the production team of Paramount Pictures for Star Trek: The Motion Picture, the first of a series of highly successful films based on Gene Roddenberrys television series phenomenon.

It was on this film that he and the co-founders of Dream Quest first met and planned the creation of their own visual effects company in 1979. Dream Quest Images was acquired by The Walt Disney Company in 1996 and, in 1999, became The Secret Lab, the digital production studio of Walt Disney Feature Animation