|
Disney, Pixar end Annie boycott
TheWrap.com is reporting that its sources are saying Disney and Pixar are ending their boycott of the Annie Awards. The studios dropped out about a year ago over judging criteria… |
|
|
Bollywood Star to be Honored in an Animated Film
…will use twenty-six of Kapor’s most famous musical numbers and incorporate them into a film using the best graphic artists available. Technicians from an undisclosed studio in Los Angeles have… |
|
|
Description of Wreck-It Ralph footage now online
The first four minutes of Disney’s upcoming animated movie Wreck-It Ralph were recently screened at the studio’s D23 Expo, and while the footage itself has yet to make it to… |
|
|
Avatar is heading for Walt Disney World
The world of Pandora will soon be coming to the world of Disney. James Cameron and Disney CEO Bob Iger have just announced that the studio will be creating attractions… |
|
Mad: Season One, Part One
…Robot Chicken-like stop-motion for others, or hand-drawn and Flash-enhanced cartooning elsewhere that mocks work from every studio from Disney to Filmation. Usually the movie lampoons use the original actors’ heads… |
|
|
It’s official: This season or next season, The Simpsons is ending
Only days ago was it revealed that The Simpsons was at risk of being cancelled this season if the voice actors and the studio could not come to an agreement… |
|
|
Simpsons not ending after all
…arguments. If an unnamed member of the Simpsons cast is to be believed, this was nothing more than a “cheap negotiating tactic” on the studio’s part. In any case, Springfield… |
|
Phineas And Ferb: The Movie – Across The 2nd Dimension
…in a very accomplished soundtrack, and this mix has everything going for it, including some big music cues orchestrated by on-off Disney Studio collaborator (and composer in his own right)… |
|
Winnie the Pooh and Burny, too: a chat with animation legend Burny Mattinson
Senior Story Artist Burny Mattinson is one of the few remaining Disney artists who worked with Walt Disney and is still on staff at Walt Disney Animation Studios. His lengthy… |
|
|
First look at Frankenweenie
…of The Nightmare Before Christmas and Alice in Wonderland, which is something the studio hopes to find when Frankenweenie comes to theaters next year, in glorious black and white 3-D…. |
|
Robotech: Complete Original Series
…It’s on par with the rest of series, though it has that rushed feeling of a studio scrapping together a movie to make some profit on a scrapped project. Robotech:… |
|
|
Brad Bird has “several good ideas” for The Incredibles sequel
…but I don’t have a whole movie yet.” He also admits that the reason Pixar hasn’t move forward with the sequel is because the studio wants him to do it…. |
|
Young Justice: Season 1, Volume 2
…studio when they create conflict and test their characters’ ire so early in a series. It shows that they are willing to give Young Justice time to mature, develop their… |
|
|
Phineas and Ferb get a fourth season
…reporting. In a press release issued by the studio, Disney also confirmed previous rumors that the upcoming theatrical Phineas and Ferb movie will in fact be a mix of live-action… |
|
Arthur Christmas composer Harry Gregson-Williams: from Venice Beach to the North Pole!
…middle of August, outside of my studio in Venice Beach, to hear tubular bells, play bells and things like that! But it was great fun and we had a great… |
|
|
New Pirates: Band of Misfits trailer
Arrrr! The full trailer for Aardman Animation’s The Pirates: Band of Misfits has just been revealed and can be viewed at ComingSoon.net. The film marks the studio’s first stop motion… |
|
Dr. Seuss’s Holidays On The Loose!
…bought the animation studio in order to create in-house animated incarnations of its popular superhero properties. Although again not tied to any specific holiday (only How The Grinch Stole Christmas… |
|
Beauty and the Beast: Belle’s Magical World
DisneyToon Studios (1998), Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment (2011), 1 discs, 92 mins. plus supplements, 1.33:1 ratio, Dolby Digital 5.1, Rated G, Retail: $29.99 Storyboard: Did you ever wonder what… |
|
|
New ParaNorman trailer
…boy–who has the power to speak with the dead–facing a supernatural army that he must find a way to stop. Given that the studio’s last stop-motion animated feature, Coraline, ended… |
|
|
Cloudy With a Chance of… sequels?
…recieve an official greenlight, the studio has hired two artists who worked on the first one to direct the film, Cody Cameron and Kris Pearn. The original Cloudy was a… |
|
|
Tangled Ever After clip now online
A clip from Disney’s upcoming animated short Tangled Ever After has just been posted on the studio’s official Youtube page. The short will tell the story of the wild events… |
|
|
del Toro talks animation and more
Hero Complex talks with DreamWorks’ Guillermo del Toro, who discusses the studio’s two Best Animated Feature nominees, his thoughts on live action directors crossing to animation and animation directors doing… |
|
Lady and the Tramp’s Peggy Lee on the right side of the (sound)tracks!
…sing Peace On Earth? HFW: Though she didn’t sing it in the movie, she did record this song in the studio. I’m not sure why this is. AV: Can you… |
|
|
Lorax promotions to go in a different direction
The Associated Press reports that Universal Pictures’ promotions for their upcoming film Dr. Seuss’ The Lorax are taking a different tack from the usual studio campaigns for animated movies. With… |
|
|
Disney and Warner Bros. at war over Oz
With Disney’s upcoming Wizard of Oz prequel Oz: The Great and the Powerful coming to theaters next year, it was only a matter of time before Warner Bros.–the studio responsible… |
|
|
Guillermo del Toro to direct live-action Beauty and the Beast
Proving that he continues to be one of the single busiest guys in Hollywood, fantasy mastermind Guillermo del Toro has now found a studio to distribute his long-rumored Beauty and… |
|
|
John Carter sequel already in the works
…production budget of over $200 million, the sci-fi adventure is a gamble for the studio to say the least, but the Mouse House is apparently at least somewhat confident that… |
|
|
China opens more to Hollywood, DreamWorks
U.S. film studios will have more access to China under an agreement announced this week according to Bloomberg. The restrictive regime, which limits foreign films allowed in the country to… |
|
|
del Toro adds animated Day of the Dead to plate
Guillermo del Toro is on board to produce the animated film Day of the Dead for independent animation studio Reel FX, according to Entertainment Weekly. The film is about “a… |
|
Mad: Season One, Part Two
…for some skits, Robot Chicken-like stop-motion for others, or hand-drawn and Flash-enhanced cartooning elsewhere that mocks work from every studio from Disney to Filmation. Usually the movie lampoons use the… |
