Michael LaPai

Michael LaPai
Occupation	Director, screenwriter, animator, producer, voice actor

Michael LaPai is a French-American director, screenwriter, animator, producer, president and occasional voice actor at Movie Land Animation Studios. He was a member of the creative team at Movie Land Digital Production Services, where he started in 1988 as a supervising animator. He is best known for directing films.

Early life

LaPai was born on May 5, 1971 to a Jewish family in France, and raised in Brooklyn, New York City.

Career

In the 1980s, he started his career as an animator at Hanna-Barbera where he worked on several projects at the newly-formed Ted-LaPai Productions studio.

In 1988, Ted-LaPai Productions was separated from Hanna-Barbera and renamed as Movie Land Animation Studios; founders Ted V. Miller and Rodney Rothman brought in some of the animators from Hanna-Barbera to the studio, and LaPai was one of them.

LaPai is Vice-President of Creativity at Movie Land Animation Studios.

Personal life

LaPai is married to Jane and they have two children: Josh and Amy.

Filmography

Feature film

Year	Title	Director	Writer	Producer	Animator	Voice actor	Role
1995	The Secret of Ace	Yes	No	No	Yes	No
1997	One Little Rabbit	No	No	Yes	Yes	No
1998	A Trip to Denmark	Yes	No	No	Yes	No
2002	Two Little Rabbits	Yes	No	Yes	No	No
2003	Bunnies on the Streets	No	No	Yes	No	No

Short films

Coming soon!

Unmade projects

Coming soon!

Television series

Coming soon!

Critical reception

Critical response to films LaPai has directed:

Film	Rotten Tomatoes	Metacritic
The Secret of Ace	79%	79
A Trip to Denmark	80%	82
Two Little Rabbits	80%	80

Accolades

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Part of WarnerMedia (AT&T) Filmography Released Stickman: The Movie (2014) • Reggie and the Penguin (2015) • Loppy the Dog (2016) • Birds (2017) • The Street of San Francisco (2017) • The Polar Express (2017) • Eddie (2018) • Major Lazer: The Movie (2018) • Penguinopolis (2018) • Smash of Claws (2018) • The Wampanoag Movie (2018) • The Hi-Tech and Science Fiction Movie (2018) • Doug (2018) • Funimals (2018) • Stuart Little (2018) • Sarcastics (2018) • Animals of Spy (2018) • Light It Up (2019) • Birds 2 (2019) • The Hampster Movie (2019) • Stickman 2: Larry's Adventure (2019) • Sphere (2019) • The Crown (2019) • Charlotte's Web (2019) • Animal Party (2019) • Car Chase (2019) • Ghost in the Shell (2019) • Star Trek (2019) • Loppy the Dog 2: The Second Movie (2019) • GoGo Tomago (2019) • Sarcastics 2 (2019) • The Great Spy Racers (2019) • Chunko (2020) • Ned's Newt (2020) • The Legend of Disguise (2020) • Spanish Empire (2020) • Twister (2020) • The Trumpet of the Swan (2020) • Technoville (2020) • Scrambled Eggs Super! (2020) • The Hunger Games (2020) Produced with Sony Pictures Animation The Animals in the Attic (2019) • The Secret Life of Animals 2 (2019) • Dimensions (2019) • Shaun and Roger: Roger Breaks the Internet (2019) • Gwen and Dan (2019) • Carmen Sandiego (2019) • Hoverboard (2019) • Chocolate Fever (2019) • Spider-Gwen (2019) • Go (2019) • Everest (2019) • Grossology (2019) • Bunny (2019) • Cool Girls (2020) • Spectrum (2020) Upcoming Romeo and Juliet (2020) • Las Vegas (2020) • Mr. Magoo (2020) • Spider-Gwen 2 (2020) • Panko the Dragon (2021) • Famous 5 (2021) • Carmen Sandiego 2 (2021) • Voltron (2021) • The Hollow (2021) • The Last Kids on Earth (2021) • Grossology 2 (2021) • Untitled Romeo and Juliet sequel (2022) Produced with Aardman Animations The JH Movie Collection Movie 2: The Second Part (2019) Upcoming The JH Movie Collection Movie: The Fate of the Tour (2020) • The JH Movie Collection Movie 4: Lost in Florida (2021) As Ted-LaPai Productions A Bird's Tale (1994) • The Secret of Ace (1995) • Cycle Throughout the World (1996) • Life of Animals (1996) • Power Up (1997) • One Little Rabbit (1997) • El Fuego (1997) • A Trip to Denmark (1998) • The Secret of Ace 2 (2000) • Yeti (2000) • A Bird's Tale 2 (2000) • Life of Animals 2 (2001) • Magnus • Los Altos (2002) • Two Little Rabbits (2002) • Bunnies on the Streets (2003) • The Animals Movie (2004) • Kevin the Lost Dog (2006) • A Trip to Los Angeles (2007) • The Final Chapter (2008) Upcoming Faster Bike (2020) • Cuphead (2020) • Jin (2020) • Carlos & Ricky: Into the Future (2020) • Reggie and the Penguin 2 (2020) • Shank (2020) • Spy Penguins (2020) Associated productions Sarcastics (2018) Direct-to-video films The Hunger Games (2020) Television series Stickman: The Series (2016-present) • Tom the Hand (2016-present) • All Hail Loppy the Dog (2017-present) • How Penguins Goes to Kansas (2017; television film) • The JH Movie Collection Show (2018-present) • The Christopher the Stickman Show (2020-present) Franchises Stickman (2014-present) • Loppy the Dog (2016-present) • The JH Movie Collection Movie (2018-present) • Sony's Movie Land Universe (2019-present) • Tom the Hand (season 3; 2016, 2019-present) People Directors Ted V. Miller • Robert Zemeckis • Stephen Heneveld • Mike Mitchell • Don Hall • Phil Lord and Christopher Miller • Chris Williams • Chris Miller • Jenny Harder • Bob Persichetti • Peter Ramsey • Rodney Rothman • Tom McGrath • William Renschen • Ella Ray • Dominic Formella • Alejandro Munoz • Marcos Rivera Producers Chris Meledandri • Kristina Reed • Bonnie Arnold • Roy Conli • Roy Lee • Phil Lord and Christopher Miller • Jordan Kerner • Don Hahn • Darla K. Anderson • Dan Lin • John Lasseter • Avi Arad • Amy Pascal • William Renschen • Ella Ray • Dominic Formella • Alejandro Munoz • Marcos Rivera Writers Karey Kirkpatrick • Nicholas Stoller • Rodney Rothman • Phil Lord and Christopher Miller • Jordan Roberts • John Davis • Peter Lord • Nick Park • William Renschen Executives/Associated figures Ted V. Miller • Michael LaPai • Monty LaBueno • George MacGuffin • Christopher MacGuffin • Chris Meledandri Animators and visual/special effects artists Gal Gadot • Jamie Chung • Bex Taylor-Klaus • Jeffrey Katzenberg • Rich Moore • Roy Conli • Gary Trousdale • Phil Lord and Christopher Miller • Steven Spielberg • Duncan Rouleau • Steven T. Seagle • Steven Yeun • Jenny Harder • Hailee Steinfeld • Shiyoon Kim • Panat Thamrongsombutsakul • John Knoll • Craig Hammack • Simon J. Smith • Samik Roy Choudhury • Erik-Jan de Boer • Cedric Nicolas-Troyan • Emilio Ruiz del Río Signature voice actors/actress Ben Stiller • Adam Sandler • Jim Carrey • Gal Gadot • Hailee Steinfeld • Jamie Chung • Bex Taylor-Klaus • Michael J. Fox • Andy Samberg • Keegan-Michael Key • Rihanna • John DiMaggio • Tenzing Norgay Trainor • Shameik Moore • Jake Johnson Signature musicians Henry Jackman • James Newton Howard • Lorne Balfe • Major Lazer • Alan Meyerson • Daniel Pemberton Signature character designer Monty LaBueno • Ronnie del Carmen • Jin Kim • Shiyoon Kim Visual Development & Storyboard Artists Dante Eriksen • Cody Cameron • Andrew Stanton • Shiyoon Kim • Jin Kim • Geoff Johns • Ronnie del Carmen Related topics Related media and projects Birdy Animation • Touchstone Animation Studios • Sphere Ball Studios • Shank Films • Panko and Panda Studios Miscellaneous Warner Bros. films (Unproduced Warner Bros. projects • WAG films • Warner Bros. animated films • Warner Bros. Animation franchises and productions) See also Movie Land • Movie Land Entertainment • Warner Bros. Pictures • Warner Bros. Animation • Warner Animation Group • Acquisition of Movie Land by Warner Bros. • The JH Movie Collection Movie (2018) • Gwen and Dan: Level Two (2020)