In an interesting article about independent animation producers working without the traditional pipelines and high overhead, Variety reveals that Vanguard Animation, which plans to unveil its Space Chimps at the Annecy animation festival, is “finalizing the script for its next feature, an action-adventure version of a contemporary Oz story with Corpse Bride‘s Mike Johnson attached to direct.” Meanwhile, Exodus, which will also be presenting its next feature film, Igor, at Annecy as a work in progress, “picked Beijing-based Xing Xing to make its upcoming The Hero of Color City, to be directed by Becky Bristow, while a Tyler Perry project being written now will likely go the 2-D route with a different partner studio altogether.”