…“for the president of computer animation studio Pixar,” presumably referring to John Lasseter. UPDATE: It is referring to Ed Catmull. View Pool Photos Online Thanks to “A.C.” for the correction…

…companies tied to upcoming children’s films”. In related {{link http://www.videobusiness.com/article.asp?articleID=10959&catType=NEWS DreamWorks DVD news}}, the company has, “for the second time in two months, stunned Wall Street, sending studio shares plummeting…

…The Smurfs. The studio has hired Herb Ratner to script. He recently wrote Mr. Lucky for Revolution and co-wrote Focus’ Clean Break with Trevor Sands”. The Smurfs originated in 1958…

…results conference call. The webcast will be accessible through Pixar’s web site at http://www.pixar.com/investor/index.html. ————————————————————————————————————————– About Pixar Animation Studios: Pixar Animation Studios combines creative and technical artistry to create original…

CGCHAR is holding a half-day series of presentations to accompany the 2005 Siggraph Conference in Los Angeles. Speakers for the occasion include animators, supervisors, and directors from the animation studios…

Included with a group of journalists recently invited to visit DreamWorks Animation, Paul Fischer from Moviehole writes of the experience, in which sneak peeks from the studio’s future lineup were…

Jim Hill Media takes a look at DreamWorks Animation’s presence at SIGGRAPH 2005, in which the studio submitted four courses, two panels and seven sketches. At the event, info was…

DreamWorks Animation has been plagued in recent months by SEC investigations, stockholder lawsuits, a slump in DVD sales, and rumors of corporate takeovers by NBC; but the studio did get…

…underscores that the Disney studios down under are capable of producing theatrical quality animation, which, in turn, has made many wonder why the Disney executives are closing that studio down….

…and Studio Store, located next to the El Capitan Theatre, will be offering an exclusive collectable Cinderella pin with each pre-order purchase of the DVD. That offer also includes a…

…stop-motion animated film grossed approximately $16.1 million, averaging $4,417 per theater. Studio research indicates that 68% of sales were from families and 85% categorized the critically acclaimed Curse of the…

…awards, and historical artefacts, is not a part of the Aardman studio, and we are glad to report that no Aardman staff have been affected. However, we have lost a…

…formed Orphanage Animation Studios. With his new job, Tartakovsky will develop five feature projects, each of them having a budget of around $50 million – $75 million. The first animated…

…says magazine Home Media Retailing, via the IMDB’s Studio Briefing. The magazine goes on to say that industry insiders are predicting the DVD to become one of the year’s top-ten…

…via Coming Soon. For now, details on the movie’s plot are being kept under wraps, specifically “in a cave under a large boulder protected by a mastodon,” said the studio….

…project to an animation studio other than Wild Brain, which was once attached to animate the movie. The author of the commentary promises more on this story as it develops….

Industry 411 reports that Classic Media and Studio B Productions are co-producing a new animated series of George of the Jungle. The series has already been pre-sold to Cartoon Network…

The Disney Power Board has added a new group of behind-the-scenes Chicken Little images, taken from the studio in Burbank, California, along with the latest French poster for the film….

o-meon updates with an article by animation vet Floyd Norman about his recent trip to Kansas City, “the home of Walt Disney’s first animation studio.” Take a step back in…

The LA Times indicates that Pixar has been hit with two separate class action lawsuits claiming that the studio misguided investors with exaggerated projections for the Incredibles DVD. In response,…

Michael Giacchino, who had his break last year writing the score for Pixar’s hit animated film The Incredibles, has opted to continue his relationship with the studio. Music from the…

…that he was willing to consider selling to “two people with knowledge of the talks” to extend the studio’s current relationship with distributing giant Disney. According to CNNMoney, Jobs is…

Pixar Animation Studios announced Tuesday the beginning of sales of the program RenderMan for Maya 1.0. The Academy-Award winning program “is specifically engineered to deliver high-end feature film quality standards…

…2: Stitch Has a Glitch and Tarzan II. In the meantime, Disney CEO Robert Iger continues to send signals of the studio’s reteaming with Pixar. “Let’s not forget that Pixar’s…

…150 million overall. Should Chicken Little reach this goal, it will be the studio’s highest-grossing non-Pixar animated film since 1999’s Tarzan, which took $171.1 million. Box Office Guru has more…

…Black Cauldron. It contains hundreds of new stories about the Studio and its artists and should delight even the most serious historians and enthusiasts. Walt’s People is a notable new…

…way’”. Chung adds that he will coniinue to push for an animated \\Aeon Flux\\. “I have been working on writing a story for it. I think the studio has expressed…

…the future, even if Disney must begin the road alone. “No movie studio really wants to be first because it’s like going over the hill first in battle,” remarks Iger….

…Batter and Nancy Bernstein, and the promotion of Jane Hartwell. Batter will serve as a senior production executive, with Bernstein acting as Head of Production for the studio’s Glendale campus….

In a deal signed last Friday, DreamWorks, the independent studio founded by director Steven Spielberg, producer Jeffrey Katzenberg and music boss David Geffen, was sold to Paramount Pictures for $1.6…