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WALL-E wins Best Picture at Boston Critics award; and more
Pixar’s WALL-E shared the Best Picture honor with Slumdog Millionaire at the Boston Critics award on Sunday. Wall-E also received the Boston scribes’ inaugural award for animated feature, reports Variety…. |
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Hunger Force creators talk Boston bomb scare
…show’s big screen venture. Occurring on January 31, 2007, the ploy involved numerous electronic devices planted around Boston, Massachusetts, creating fear of terrorism among city residents. “We don’t even know… |
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Bee Movie swarms into Boston
Apparently due to its name starting with the letter “B” the city of Boston was chosen as the spot for a huge press event for DreamWorks Animation’s Bee Movie with… |
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Aqua Teen Hunger forces Boston alert
Multiple suspicious electronic devices planted around Boston, Massachusetts were found to be part of a marketing ploy for Aqua Teen Hunger Force. The stunt resulted in the closing of highways,… |
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DreamWorks Animation's Siggraph Presentations
…3rd at the Boston Convention & Exhibition Center in Boston, MA. DreamWorks Animation, which will fly more than 80 artists and executives from California for the event, will deliver six… |
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Northeastern University to host Visual Music Marathon
…animated images.” Drawing inspiration from Walt Disney’s Fantasia, the event is part of this year’s Boston Cyberarts Festival. Boston, Massachusetts – Northeastern University will host the first-ever Visual Music Marathon,… |
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Aqua Teen Hunger Force: Movie Film For Theaters
…cities. In Boston, the bomb squad and emergency services were posted to areas where reports of the suspicious blinking units had been filed, leading to the arrest of the two… |
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The Wind Rises takes award despite “morally egregious” claim
The Boston Society of Film Critics named Hayao Miyazaki‘s The Wind Rises as Best Animated Feature — but not without controversy, according to IndieWire. Before the vote Village Voice critic… |
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Popeye on DVD
…http://www.cartoonbrew.com/archives/2004_05.html#000133 Cartoon Brew}}, Beck points to an interesting article at the {{link http://www.boston.com/news/globe/living/articles/2004/05/03/popeye_fans_get_animated_in_dvd_debate/ Boston Globe}} that puts the fans’ views forward in regards to the classics being released on disc,… |
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Family Guy Season 10 Clips Premiere in Theaters
…Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles, Minneapolis, New York, Philadelphia, Phoenix, and Seattle have a chance to see the “Something, Something, Something Anniversary” show featuring clips of the season premiere “Lottery… |
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Batman – The Brave And The Bold: Season One, Part One
…Boston Brand comes to “life” in an episode where he aids Batman against The Gentleman Ghost, last seen in the Plastic Man episode’s teaser. Green Arrow and Speedy also appear…. |
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Those Daring Young Men In Their Jaunty Jalopies, or Monte Carlo Or Bust!
…after a serious turn as The Boston Strangler. Thomas is the kind of British scoundrel that would define the very meaning of the slick, only villain type that one would… |
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Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood
…Harry Hoyt’s Boston Blackie adventure picture to illustrate Won’s adventures on screen). Even the very basic plots could be distant cinematic cousins: with his threadbare New Era Studio close to… |
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Lion King D-rectors Roger Allers and Rob Minkoff: 2D’s for a 3D hit!
…living in Europe. In 1973, Allers moved to Boston where he began working with Lisberger Studios, animating and designing for children’s educational programs and commercials. Relocating with the studio to… |
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Enrico Casarosa on storyboarding Ratatouille
…the first thing I did was go to Boston for a summer workshop in animation at the school of the Museum of Fine Arts and that was really fun got… |
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Lorraine Feather & George Griffin on You’re Outa Here
…at the Aspen Shortsfest 2009: You’re Outa Here is also playing at The Underground Film Festival in New York, the Boston International Film Festival and at the South Beach Int’l… |
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Once Upon A Time In New York City: Oliver & Company’s Director George Scribner!
…his classes: motorcycles and cartoony looking iguanas! After high school in Florida, he majored in film at Emerson College in Boston and moved to Los Angeles to pursue animation. He… |
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Get Enchanted! Chapter Six: Director Kevin Lima and exec producer Chris Chase
…really blossomed when he discovered the art of puppetry in a workshop in Rhodes Island. After practicing this art for eight years, he went to Boston Emerson College and then… |
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Oscar nominated animated shorts profiled
The five animated short films nominated for an Oscar are being profiled by several sites around the web, including the Washington Post, the Boston Herald, the Huffington Post, and Crave… |
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Fred Grandinetti: Talking With Popeye’s No. 1 Fan
…doll again, not mine but another one, last Christmas and gave it to my mother. It was a Gund Olive Oyl doll. While in elementary school here in Boston, there… |
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Nickelodeon orders pilot for Monsters vs. Aliens
…at the 37th Annual J. P. Morgan Technology, Media and Telecom Conference in Boston in an appearance that was Webcast. The announcement comes at the heels of a just announced… |
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Walt Disney Treasures: Your Host, Walt Disney
…Tiki Room, a night time spectacular and preview of next week’s show, The Boston Tea Party, the first part of the Johnny Tremain story. If this all sounds vaguely familiar… |
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\\Curious George\\ series coming to TV
…with Imagine and PBS affiliate WBGH Boston, is developing an animated preschool television series based on the \\Curious George\\ character”. A motion picture version, with Will Ferrell as the voice… |
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Brad Bird wins BSFC Award for Best Screenplay
Upcoming Pixar reports that Brad Bird has won Best Screenplay for Ratatouille at the Boston Society of Film Critics awards. A full list of winners can be checked out here…. |
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UPN and The WB to cease operations, CBS and Warner Brothers to create new network
…to the mix, Tribune’s viewers and advertisers will benefit from an even stronger programming lineup.” The 16 Tribune affiliated stations will include New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Boston, Dallas, Washington,… |
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\\The Triplets of Belleville\\ wins BSFC award
\\{{link http://www.ew.com/ew/report/0,6115,561576_1_0_,00.html Entertainment Weekly}}\\ reports that \\The Triplets of Belleville\\ won the Best Foreign Language Film award from the Boston Society of Film Critics on their 23rd annual awards list…. |
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Shrek 2 reviews start coming in
…Conover at Jax Movies gives the film an “A,” stating, “Shrek 2 is as good, if not better, than the original.” The EDGE Boston‘s David Foucher gives it an “A-,”… |
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\\Father of the Pride\\ premieres tonight
…the average sitcom”. \\{{link http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/ae/tv/2768804 The Houston Chronicle}}\\ believes that \\Father of the Pride\\ is a “roaring good time” and \\{{link http://theedge.bostonherald.com/tvNews/view.bg?articleid=42058 The Boston Herald}}\\ adds that the show “shines”…. |
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Song of the South deserves a fresh look
The Boston Globe has an excellent article up about Song of the South‘s controversial history, and its push for a release on DVD. “This isn’t kowtowing to political correctness, as… |
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Pixar's 2004 fourth-quarter earnings to be annouced today
Forbes’ “Eye On Stock” feature gives their estimates of Pixar’s fourth-quarter earnings, which will be announced after the market closes today. “First Boston maintained a ‘neutral’ rating and $88 target… |
