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1 week to the London International Animation Festival
…on all the films in the programme and everything else you need to know about LIAF hit the website at {{link http://www.liaf.org.uk www.liaf.org.uk}}. Festival Passes are just UKP £70 (£55… |
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Jonatha Brooke and Joel McNeely: the Pixie-Powered Music of Return To Neverland!
…have been written by the same talented hand: Joel McNeely. From Return to Neverland to the upcoming Tinker Bell Movie, we owe him Jungle Book 2, Mulan II, Pooh’s Heffalump… |
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The Hunchback Of Notre Dame: 2-Movie Collection
…is generally a pretty dark story, Quasi is naturally given some sidekicks to share the screen and lighten the mood with when things might just get a little too uneven… |
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Whose Bright Idea Was This?
…view of the Frank Gehry landmark is glorious — until around noon on a sunny day. Then, the sun hits the stainless steel arches on the hall’s Founders Room and… |
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Toonacious™ Family Entertainment news release
…to their distinctively creative projects Tony, Ben and Bo approach business with the same sense of creative energy and excitement! We are really eager to assist Toonacious in achieving their… |
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D23 Expo 2019 Exclusive
…to wait in line for hours, even spending the night at the convention center, for fun unlike any other. Making this year all the more fun was that I would… |
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Creative Craft Daytime Emmy animated honorees
Last Saturday night, the Creative Craft Daytime Emmy Awards ceremony took place, honoring some of the finest programming in daytime television entertainment. To view a list of animation-related winners, as… |
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Website helps creative talent stay connected
{{link http://www.creativetalentnetwork.com/ The Creative Talent Network}}, a virtual community of industry animators, designers, production artists and others, is online as a resource for people who want to “come together to… |
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The battle for Disney heats up: Philadelphia 2004…
…new pictures of the Save Disney Briefing, at the {{link http://www.savedisney.com SaveDisney.com}} site. Across the web, {{link http://news.google.com/news/en/us/business.html other stories are springing up}}, covering the Briefing yesterday, and today’s official… |
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TV Shows On DVD on looneys, wackies, cats and cavemen; Top Cat needs help!
…Golden Collection 2}} release date and bonus Clampett documentary, the release date set for {{link http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/newsitem.cfm?NewsID=1828 The Flintstones Season 2}}, a release date for {{link http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/newsitem.cfm?NewsID=1827 Top Cat: The Complete… |
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\\Barnyard\\ opens today
…{{link http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1153230-barnyard_the_original_party_animals/ Rotten Tomatoes}}. The \\{{link http://www.ew.com/ew/article/review/movie/0,6115,1222163_1_0_,00.html Detroit Free Press}}\\ complains that the film is “poorly animated and barely scripted”, while \\{{link http://www.ew.com/ew/article/review/movie/0,6115,1222163_1_0_,00.html Entertainment Weekly}}\\ notes that the story “swipes… |
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Tons of movie updates
Over at {{link http://www.darkhorizons.com/news.php Dark Horizons}} the site seems to have a ton of updates on animation-related projects. It seems that DreamWorks is looking to {{link http://www.darkhorizons.com/news04/040527g.php remake Forbidden Planet}}… |
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UPDATED: \\Shrek 2\\ opens big, breaks records
…million since opening on Wednesday. The film is already shaking up the record books as well. Assuming the estimates hold: {{link http://www.boxofficemojo.com/alltime/widest.htm?page=WIDESTOPEN&p=.htm widest opening release}}: opened on 4,163, besting \\X2’s\\… |
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Giacchino to host AMPAS animation music event
…program when the doors open at 6:30 p.m. The Samuel Goldwyn Theater is located at 8949 Wilshire Boulevard in Beverly Hills. For more information, call (310) 247-3600 or visit www.oscars.org…. |
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35th ANNIE AWARDS: Call for Entries
…in an animation festival or were commercially released in the United States between January 1, 2007 and December 31, 2007. The Annie Awards have long been recognizing pioneers at the… |
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Cineme Animation Festival and IGDA Video Game Developers Summit update
…volunteer at CINEME 2004 log on to: {{link http://www.cineme.org www.cineme.org}}. Internships and college credit available to those who qualify. CINEME’s mission is to foster the education, development and growth of… |
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Bambi II: Special Edition
…– for a while the Mouse’s only outpost for traditional cartooning, though now (and unfairly) a CGI factory churning out Tinker Bell after Tinker Bell movies. If you’re of the… |
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Pixar leads this week’s CG pack; plus a Fantastic Fox!
…reason, as my Blu-ray review explains: the Ice Age franchise simply continues to be great fun! Also new on Blu-ray, Randall presents his comments on Tinker Bell And The Lost… |
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Two Tinks?
In the article “A Tale of Two Tinker Bells,” Chuck Oberleitner explains an interesting scenario that is said to have occurred behind the scenes of Tinker Bell, in which two… |
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Kristen Bell “thinks” that Frozen 2 begins production next month
Kristen Bell just let a few secrets about Frozen 2 “slip” in an interview with E! Online, including the status of the first draft of the script, when she “thinks”… |
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Kristen Bell is the Snow Queen in Disney’s Frozen
Disney has announced the first official bit of voice casting for their upcoming animated fairy tale Frozen, THR is reporting. Actress Kristen Bell of Heroes and Forgetting Sarah Marshall fame… |
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Academy Award nominations
…Rabbit\\ Best Animated Short: \\{{link http://www.tandemfilms.com/home.html Badgered}}\\, \\{{link http://homepages.nyu.edu/~jc7/press/canemaker.pdf The Moon And The Son: An Imagined Conversation}}\\, \\{{link http://www.jaspermorello.com/gazette/ The Mysterious Geographic Explorations Of Jasper Morello}}\\, \\{{link http://www.shaneacker.com/ 9}}\\, \\{{link… |
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Kellyann Lamb, Scott Gagner on A World of Barriers
…with this genre when you’re watching it. You’re getting a built-in chuckle. Furthermore, it’s just something that I haven’t seen a lot of lately. It’s a genre that has fallen… |
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Susan Kirch promoted to vp, creative affairs for DisneyToon Studios
AWN reports that B. Susan Kirch has been promoted to vp, creative affairs for DisneyToon Studios, where she will be responsible for developing both original and sequel scripts and stories…. |
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2022 San Diego Comic Con Exclusive
…initially unhappy with their giving the Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale a happy ending and it bothered Clements enough that he apologized to the Queen for it. The Queen laughed… |
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Lasseter to receive Creative Excellence award
A recent Variety e-mailing reports that Pixar’s John Lasseter will be presented with the George Melies Award for Creative Excellence by the Visual Effects Society on February 15. “The kudos… |
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Ariel’s Song: Robert Reece, a fortunate writer under the sea!
…other. It’s a collaborative effort and we’d even be in contact via email or phone when I wasn’t at the studio. Thankfully, when I’d go home and write, the pages… |
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Disney/Marvel brings Stan Lee into the fold
…it is deepening its ties with The Walt Disney Company. “Enhancing our relationship with one of the world’s most creative and innovative entertainment companies makes perfect sense given all the… |
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Jennifer Lee and Pete Docter officially announced as the new chief creative officers of Disney and Pixar
Following leaked reports from earlier, Disney has officially confirmed that Jennifer Lee and Pete Docter will be the new Chief Creative Officers of Walt Disney Feature Animation and Pixar Animation… |
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Mary Sklar steps down as principal creative executive, Walt Disney Imagineering
The Los Angeles Times, via Toon Zone, indicates that Mary Sklar is resigning from his post as principal creative executive of Walt Disney Imagineering. At the age of 72, Sklar… |
