As Elizabeth Banks’ Cocaine Bear goes face to face with Disney-Marvel’s Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania this weekend, the film has already picked up its first award! PETA is providing its “Beary Finest” Award to the director for utilizing a human “bear performer” together with state-of-the-art CGI as a substitute of actual bears for the film. Banks directed and co-produced the horror comedy a couple of bear who goes on a cocaine-fueled rampage within the Georgia woods.
The movie’s visible results supervisor is Robin Hollander and the real looking results had been produced by Weta FX and Rising Solar Footage.
“Cocaine Bear’s hyper-realistic star proves that the way forward for movie lies in know-how, not dragging abused animals onto film units,” says PETA Senior Vice President Lisa Lange. “PETA is glad to have fun Elizabeth Banks for recognizing that forcing an actual bear to carry out in her darkish comedy would have been something however humorous.”
PETA’s undercover investigations and law-enforcement probes into animal suppliers for the movie and TV industries have documented that animals are sometimes whipped and stored in deplorable circumstances. Bears are separated from their moms prematurely, inflicting a lifetime of psychological misery, and handlers sometimes use merciless methods reminiscent of meals deprivation, beatings, electrical shocks, and chaining to interrupt their spirits, make them compliant, and drive them to carry out on cue.
PETA urges anybody who sees animals getting used for movie or tv productions to report it at PETA.org/Report or name the whistleblower hotline at 323-210-2233.
For extra info, please go to PETA.org.
Watch the trailer for the film beneath:
