‘CORPSE BRIDE’ Co-Director Mike Johnson At Helm Of Vanguard’s Animated Film ‘OZ WARS’ John Williams, President and CEO of Vanguard Films , announced today the company has signed Oscar™ and Annie Award-nominee Mike Johnson , co-director of Corpse Bride , to direct its CG/stop-motion hybrid feature film, Oz Wars . "Mike Johnson is a spectacular director and one of the masters of stop-motion,” says Williams. “We all think Oz Wars is a wildly original and commercial project that will thrill and astonish audiences. Additionally, due to revolutionary new stop-motion software, Mike will be making this world-class quality film at an unprecedentedly economical cost point.” Oz Wars, written by Rob Moreland (Space Chimps 1 & 2 and Vanguard's upcoming live action City of Dragons) and Athena Gam (Vanguard's recently announced Alien Rock Band), transforms the Oz narrative into a contemporary, freaky action-packed PG-13 audience pleaser, with Dorothy caught up in a whirlwind of