Voice actors' residuals increase, due to new SAG agreement
Negotiations between the Screen Actors Guild and major producers of cartoons on basic cable have resulted in a 20 percent rise in residuals for voice actors. “This is a significant… |
\\Simpsons\\ actors in work stoppage
\\Variety\\ reports (via {{link http://www.cnn.com/2004/SHOWBIZ/TV/04/01/television.simpsons.reut/index.html CNN}}) that the voice actors of \\The Simpsons\\ are in the middle of a work stoppage in an attempt to force settlement of contract disputes…. |
The Simpsons voice actors seal deal with Fox, get salary bump
…several months as voice actors and 20th Century Fox TV hammered out a deal. New pact bumps the stars’ salaries up to about $400,000 an episode; the thesps previously made… |
Animation Addicts Podcast #83: Mickey’s Christmas Carol – They’re Just Actors
…Carol (1983) • One of many adaptations of Dicken’s Christmas Carol. • Lots and lots of cameos. All these characters are actors. • Pre-Bill Farmer Goofy is so out of… |
Actors' strike to affect The Simpsons?
While the repercussions of the writers’ strike on the animation industry were relatively limited since animation is handled by a different guild, an actors’ strike would be a totally different… |
More actors to fight with Kung Fu Panda
Other actors have signed on to join Jack Black in the DreamWorks Animation comedy Kung Fu Panda, indicates Coming Soon. In addition to Black, who will voice the main character,… |
\\Sesame Street\\ actors make news
Two actors on PBS’ long running children’s show \\Sesame Street\\ are in the news this week. {{link http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,118125,00.html FOX News}} reports that Alison Bartlett, who has played Gina on the… |
2018 San Diego Comic Con Exclusive
…Cline explaining the historical context, Henn revealing the evolving animation styles and techniques, and Iwan talking of the voice actors who brought life to and shaped the character’s personality. In… |
Get Enchanted! Chapter Five: Animation with James Baxter and Thomas Schelesny
…really came from the actors and what they were doing. AV: How did you make your animated characters look like the actual actors? JB: I took photos myself. I met… |
Actors find Where the Wild Things Are
Benicio Del Toro, Forest Whitaker, Michelle Williams, Catherine O’Hara, Tom Noonan and Michael Berry have joined the cast of Warner Bros. Pictures and Playtone’s adaptation of Where the Wild Things… |
More actors Meet the Robinsons
Wikipedia notes that joining James Issac Conde and Spencer Fox are Gary Oldman, Harland Williams, Steve Zahn, Denzel Washington and Angela Bassett for Walt Disney Feature Animation’s December release, Meet… |
Actors caught in live-action aspect of Charlotte's Web
Coming Soon! indicates that Siobhan Fallon Hogan (‘Edgar’s wife, Beatrice’ in Men in Black) has joined the cast of Charlotte’s Web, where she will play the role of ‘Mrs Zuckerman’…. |
Directors Buck and Brannon on Surf’s Up
…how we did a lot of the voice recording. We brought in several actors at once to get that feeling like the scene was really happening in the moment. You… |
Over the Hedge: review, interviews, and production notes
…review, exclusive interviews with three of the voice actors, and some of the official production notes. Review The following is a review written by Animated News guest writer Rachael Reynolds:… |
2017 San Diego Comic Con Exclusive
…for them to accomplish this. Lewis talked about the joy in voicing Superman and working with a growing list of guest actors coming in to voice villains, in particular James… |
The Adventures Of Tintin: The Secret Of The Unicorn
…motion-captured films produced by Spielberg’s one-time protégé Robert Zemeckis. But whereas Zemeckis’ films (Polar Express, Beowulf and A Christmas Carol among them) simply transposed his mo-cap suited actors’ movements to… |
Beowulf: Director’s Cut
…that would translate each and every nuance of the actor’s movements into the computer rendered realm, “performance capture”. Over five years after Final Fantasy came so close to perfecting computer… |
How director Steve Anderson met The Robinsons!
…That kind of makes the balance between our “in-house actors” and our amazing professional actors like Harland Williams (Carl), Angela Bassett (Mildred) and Nicole Sullivan (Franny). They are great actors… |
2019 San Diego Comic Con Exclusive
…left the actors to do as they pleased, much to the hilarious delight of attendees. It was always fun to watch what the voice actors would come up with to… |
Phil Nibbelink talks Romeo & Juliet: Sealed With A Kiss
…up Leif Ericson. All the actors that were working with me on Leif Ericson are friends of mine and really super-good actors. I just said, ‘Gee, I’ve got another project… |
2016 Los Angeles Comic Con Exclusive
…numerous popular panels this year, among them was a panel celebrating the legacy of Pinky and the Brain through voice actors Maurie LaMarche and Rob Paulsen. Super geek Andre Meadows… |