Musician Zayn Malik, Simone Ashley (Bridgerton), and comedian Mo Gilligan are among the stacked cast who will lend their voices to the new CG-animated family comedy 10 Lives from director Chris Jenkins (Duck Duck Goose).
Sophie Okonedo (Hotel Rwanda) and Dylan Llewellyn (Derry Girls) round out the cast.
The flick is the story of a pampered and selfish cat who takes for granted the lives he has been dealt. After carelessly losing his ninth life, he begs to be given a second chance, an opportunity to show he can learn from his mistakes. Eventually, his wish is granted but with hilarious stipulations. GFM Animation will present first-look footage at AFM.
In the film, Gilligan voices Beckett, the pampered feline with a taste for fine food & lazy days who doesn’t know what’s about to hit him when he begs for a new set of lives. Ashley voices Rose, a dedicated and passionate research student intent on saving the world’s bee population. Malik voices two characters, Kirk and Cameron, twin brothers who like to think they are as tough as they come but who, deep down, want nothing more than to please their mum.
Okonedo voices Grace, an ethereal yet no-nonsense woman with the power to grant Beckett his new set of lives, and Llewellyn is Larry, Rose’s socially uncomfortable lab partner.
Producers on the pic are Guy Collins and Sean Feeney for 10 Lives Productions Ltd, with casting by Robyn Klein and Jeremy Ross. The animation studio is L’Atelier Animation in Montreal.
Mo Gilligan is repped by The UTC Group for worldwide management, Creative Artists Agency, Nelson Davis, and MBC. Simone Ashley is represented by Creative Artists Agency, Identity Agency Group and Myman Greenspan Fox Rosenberg Mobasser Younger & Light. Zayn Malik is represented by Nicola Carson (ZenKai Management/Taryn Zimmerman). Sophie Okonedo is represented by Creative Artists Agency and Hamilton Hodel. Dylan Llewellyn is represented by Hamilton Hodell.
Other titles on the GFM Animation slate include A Greyhound of a Girl, based on the Roddy Doyle book & directed by Enzo d’Alo, and Sneaks, an animated adventure featuring the voices of Laurence Fishburne, Roddy Ricch, Ella Mai, Macy Gray, Swae Lee, and Chris Paul.
Last night, I went only so far and no more within my mind. There was a point within, where my attention was being blocked and I didn’t mind it. There is much Peace in the mind spaces that lie beyond the subconscious. Leaving the subconscious mind’s gravitational pull does have a negative g-force kind of feel about it. However, the experience of ‘spiritual wilderness’ comes with the blessing of a growing Peace. It’s all good beyond the subconscious.
Towards the end of last night’s meditation, I shook harder than what I did through most of the session. Energies were gathered to make their way through dark grooves in the head. They were blocked to move ahead at an undefined point. Peace filled up parts of me that it is familiar with. It couldn’t cut inroads.
While building a foundation with a solid material, if the material settles between working days, one doesn’t complain about the level of the foundational material lowering. With renewed will, one fills it again till at least the bared and dried mark is covered. I can’t say if I have filled till half point of my individual self with Peace. I don’t know how many more years it is going to take for me to say that Peace is now overflowing my individual self.
However, this is Peace we are talking about. To be patiently cultivating my spiritual foundation is the best I can do as an individual right now. I have no other goals that are as important to me as maintaining my meditation habit. Thankfully, meditation is a habit already. It requires me little to no willpower to keep it going.
A man who is prevented arrived. His daughter, 14 years old, has cancer, a tumor in the head.She is blind and can hardly walk. The mother has a permit to pass with her but she needs more physical help. The mother cannot do so on her own. The hospital has sent a letter asking that he be given permission to pass until February. He had not been inside yet and so we gave him Hanna Barag's phone number if he was refused.
The usual complaints that, although the period of prevention has ended, the computer does not show this and more than two months have passed.
A teacher from Bethlehem told us that the army had come in the early morning, at two to summon him to a meeting with the GSS. They banged on the door and the children who are small, 10, 6 and 3 were terrified. Another man received a phone call to come in. He had been in jail. He was accused of being in the Hamas though he is not. Prove you do not have a sister. He was told that the army did not have to prove that he was a member of Hamas.