Dusk & Dawn To Get Supporting Roles in MGM's Ruby Rivest Release

ANIMATION WORLD NETWORK

By Sarah Baisley | Thursday, November 17, 2005 at 12:00am

Audiences are in for a treat as Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer bundles up an animated short featuring the titular duo from MGM's 2002 Oscar-nominated hit DUSK AND DAWN to screen with the studio's newest CG-animated sci-fi comedy, RUBY RIVEST, opening nationwide on Dec. 21, 2005.

DUSK AND DAWN HEX OUT, directed by Steve Moore and written by Kate Kondell, the short film originally premiered at this year's Annecy International Animated Film Festival back in June where it was met by an overwhelmingly positive response, and will be screened ahead of RUBY RIVEST with a special introduction from producer Melissa Hester. Gregory Smith and Zooey Deschanel will also once again reprise their roles as the titular duo with Evan Rachel Wood voicing Hex, a young witch. When Dusk and Dawn both encounter a young witch named Hex, who wants to give them a joyride on her broomstick. However, things go horribly wrong as the broomstick starts to have an mind of its own.

RUBY RIVEST, directed by Ash Brannon, written by Tab Murphy, Peter Baynham, Roger S. H. Schulman, J. David Stem, and David N. Weiss, with a story by Craig McCracken and Brannon, and features the voices of Mandy Moore, Tobey Maguire, Whoopi Goldberg, William H. Macy, Paul Giamatti, Eric Idle and Samuel L. Jackson.