SONY PICTURES
ANIMATION AND AMAZON ALEXA TELL BEDTIME STORIES VOICED BY THE CAST OF HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA
3: SUMMER VACATION
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Actors
from the popular film franchise read bedtime stories exclusively for Alexa
customers with new Hotel Transylvania skill
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CULVER CITY, Calif.,
July 2, 2018 -
Beginning today, Alexa customers and their families can enjoy summer bedtime
stories voiced by their favorite Hotel Transylvania actors including Andy
Samberg (Johnny), Steve Buscemi (Wayne the werewolf), Keegan-Michael Key
(Murray the mummy), Fran Drescher (Eunice), and Asher Blinkoff (Dennis).
A new story, nursery rhyme, or joke read by the popular cast
will be available every day through Hotel
Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation's nationwide release on July 13.
Customers can access this new skill by simply saying, "Alexa, open Hotel Transylvania."
In addition to bedtime stories, customers can also set up a
custom Hotel Transylvania
alarm for Alexa through the Amazon Alexa app.
Commenting on the announcement, Elias Plishner, Executive Vice
President, Worldwide Digital Marketing, Sony Pictures Entertainment, said,
"The Hotel
Transylvania characters have won over young audiences and their
families for years. We love to utilize new technologies like voice
recognition to engage our young fans with the characters they love and spark
their imaginations in unique ways. This Alexa skill will surprise, entertain,
and enhance family time throughout the summer season."
Audiences can catch the beloved monster family's young vampire,
Dennis, putting the Alexa skill into action with a custom video, at https://youtu.be/coUBGkIZfRU.
About Hotel
Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation
In Sony Pictures Animation's Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation, join
our favorite monster family as they embark on a vacation on a luxury monster
cruise ship so Drac can take a summer vacation from providing everyone else's
vacation at the hotel. It's smooth sailing for Drac's Pack as the
monsters indulge in all of the shipboard fun the cruise has to offer, from
monster volleyball to exotic excursions, and catching up on
their moon tans. But the dream vacation takes
a dangerous turn when Mavis realizes Drac has fallen for the
human captain of the ship, Ericka, who holds a mysterious secret that
threatens them all. Directed by Genndy Tartakovsky and written by Genndy
Tartakovsky and Michael McCullers, the film is produced by Michelle Murdocca.
About
Sony Pictures Animation
Sony Pictures Animation produces a variety of animated and
family entertainment for audiences around the world. The studio is
following its worldwide comedy hits-the record-breaking monster
comedies Hotel
Transylvania and Hotel
Transylvania 2, the hybrid live action/animated
blockbusters The
Smurfs and The
Smurfs 2, and the mouth-watering Cloudy with a Chance
of Meatballs movies-with the fully animated reboot Smurfs: The Lost Village
available on digital and Blu-ray now; a surprising and comic take at the secret
world inside our phones with The
Emoji Movie now on Digital HD, Blu-ray, DVD, and 4K Ultra HD; the
inspirational The Star
now available on Blu-ray, DVD and Digital. Next will be Genndy Tartakovsky's Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer
Vacation in July 2018; from the minds of Chris Miller and Phil
Lord will come next the groundbreaking animated feature Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
in December 2018, followed by the original feature comedy The Mitchells Vs. The Machines
in January 2020; and the animated musical Vivo,
featuring original songs by Lin-Manuel Miranda, in November 2020. The
studio, in conjunction with Aardman Animations, has produced two critically
acclaimed feature films: the CG-animated family comedy Arthur Christmas; and
the Academy Award® nominated stop-frame animated high-seas adventure, The Pirates! Band of Misfits.
In 2007, Surf's Up also
received an Academy Award® nomination for Best Animated Feature Film; a
sequel entitled Surf's Up
2: WaveMania is now available on digital and DVD. The
division, whose first feature film Open
Season led to a very successful movie franchise including
the brand new Open Season:
Scared Silly now available on digital, DVD and Blu-ray, was
founded in 2002. Sony Pictures Animation is a division of the Sony
Pictures Motion Pictures Group.
Contact:
Angela Galgani
Senior Vice President, Publicity
Sony Pictures Entertainment
212-833-7521
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