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How Blue Sky channeled Charles Schulz for The Peanuts Movie
via Animation Scoop, September 29, 2015 | Category: News
Inside the original pitch for Uncharted
via The Verge, September 29, 2015 | Category: News
Spielberg’s DreamWorks Studios considering a name change
via Hollywood Reporter, September 29, 2015 | Category: News
Highlights from the Ottawa International Animation Festival
via News-Gazette, September 29, 2015 | Category: News
Hotel Transylvania 2 opens
September 25, 2015 | Category: News

Sony Animation’s Hotel Transylvania 2 opens today in 3,753 theatres according to Box Office Mojo. It’s not winning over a majority of the critics, earning a 41% so far at Rotten Tomatoes. Still it should have no trouble earning a weekend win with just over $35 million according to both Box Office Prophets and BOM.
Aardman buys U.S. animation studio Nathan Love
via Variety, September 23, 2015 | Category: News
VFX and animation studio Animal Logic opens Vancouver facility
via Animation Magazine, September 23, 2015 | Category: News
Australian animation pioneer Yoram Gross dies at 88
via Hollywood Reporter, September 23, 2015 | Category: News
Meet the Invisible Man’s girlfriend in Hotel Transylvania 2 clip
via Spinoff Online, September 21, 2015 | Category: News
Disney & Sony want animation anti-poaching suit scratched out
via Deadline, September 21, 2015 | Category: News
Peanuts featurette shows the animation process
via ScreenCrush, September 21, 2015 | Category: News
Emily Blunt may top Mary Poppins shortlist
via Den of Geek, September 17, 2015 | Category: News
Can The Muppets save ABC?
via The Motley Fool, September 17, 2015 | Category: News
Duncan Studio provides animation for new Iron Giant sequences
via Animation World Network, September 16, 2015 | Category: News
Katzenberg focusing more on films at DreamWorks
via TAG Blog, September 16, 2015 | Category: News
Russian Snow Queen franchise enlists Disney writer
via Hollywood Reporter, September 16, 2015 | Category: News
New images from Angry Birds film revealed
via IGN, September 15, 2015 | Category: News
Brad Bird gives Incredibles 2 update
via Collider, September 15, 2015 | Category: News
Justin Timberlake adds his voice to DreamWorks’ Trolls
via Deadline, September 15, 2015 | Category: News
Guardians of the Galaxy is Marvel Animation’s “Phase Two”
via SuperHeroHype, September 14, 2015 | Category: News
Watch Glen Keane draw in virtual reality
via Engadget, September 14, 2015 | Category: News
Meet the Marine vet behind Disney’s Bambi
via USA Today, September 14, 2015 | Category: News
Bringing Peanuts to the big screen without destroying its heart
via San Francisco Chronicle, September 10, 2015 | Category: News
PBS airing Walt Disney and Jim Henson documentaries
via USA Today, September 10, 2015 | Category: News