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Dream On Silly Dreamer report and photos

…harder for the creative talent to do their jobs and then when quality began to suffer they said to the creatives, “Looks like we don’t need you anymore.” When CGI…

Toy Story: full 10th Anniversary DVD details

…Tim Allen and Academy Award-winner Tom Hanks, respectively. The star-studded vocal cast also includes legendary comedian Don Rickles as Mr. Potato Head, the late Jim Varney as Woody’s flexible canine…

Andreas Deja Podcast Interview Part 3

…two weeks we will be posting our own interview with Andreas, but don’t worry, it was coordinated in conjunction with the Animation Podcast interview so that the content will be…

Interview: Supervisors for English releases of Studio Ghibli films

Ultimate Disney points to Nausicaa.net, where Cindy Hewitt, Don Hewitt, and Rick Dempsey, supervisors for the English translations and releases of Studio Ghibli films, reveal the aspects of the dubbing…

Valiant trailer goes QuickTime; magazine still available

…in the US through Walt Disney Pictures on August 19 2005. Don’t forget that the producers and creators of Valiant talk about the financing and making of the film in…

Chuck Jones Newport Beach Gallery Grand Opening

…representative of Animated News will also be in attendance. I don’t know why they call this a grand opening because I am pretty sure this gallery has been around at…

The Small One comes to region one DVD; Muppetational releases!

Although Disney’s much requested 1978 animated featurette The Small One, directed by Don Bluth, has been available on DVD internationally for a couple of years now (most notably on the…

Joe Grant Life Celebration tickets available

…the animation legend who passed away in May are Eric Goldberg, Pete Docter, Burny Mattinson, Mike Gabriel, Don Hahn, Roy Disney, David Stainton, Charles Solomon, and Grant’s children and grandchildren….

DreamWorks previews upcoming slate at 2005's Comic-Con International

…film’s promotional campaign. Transformers is being produced by Lorenzo di Bonaventura (Constantine), Don Murphy (The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen) and Tom DeSanto (X-Men and X2: X-Men United), with Steven Spielberg…

Joe Grant Life Celebration

…Lorenzo had been “marinating” in Joe’s head for several decades and was finally animated and released in the 2004. Don Hahn then presented the actual Annie Award trophy for Lorenzo…

Kids watching adult cartoons; Ren & Stimpy returning to Nickelodeon

…900,000 viewers in that age group, according to Nielsen Media Research. Says David Goodman, executive producer of Family Guy, “I think it’s absolutely for adults,” he says. “I don’t let…

Breaking news: 2D is not dead

…(who pretty much owned the evening with his wit and infectious rambunctiousness with Eric Goldberg as a close second) responded with, “I don’t think it’s dead. What I think is…

Two images from The Small One

Two stills from the rare 1978 Don Bluth-directed short The Small One can be viewed by clicking on the ‘More’ link. The Small One will be released to DVD for…

Happy Birthday Toy Story

The 10th Anniversary DVD of Pixar’s first film Toy Story is being released today. If you have previous versions of Toy Story on DVD don’t throw those away or eBay…

Reviews: Loonatics Unleashed

…According to Matthew Williams, “If this show doesn’t tell you that the animation industry needs help, I don’t know what will.” ‘Javeman’ remarks, “It’s Space Jam. On acid.” “It seems…

Cheesy fame feared in Wallace & Gromit

…earlier feature. “I don’t know what’s going to happen. We’re a small farm, a microbusiness really, and we simply can’t produce more cheese.” This entry was written by Brandon Neeld….

Cinderella Grab Bag

…is included but no new footage is shown. The “Middle-aged Mob” discuss the Nine Old Men. This still is from a 22-minute bonus feature with Don Hahn, John Musker, Ron…

Penguins rundown

…a stocking. If his fellow Penguins don’t get there in time, the Private will be mincemeat come Christmas morning.      DreamWorks Animation’s A Christmas Caper was directed by Gary Trousdale, the…

Chicken Little soundtrack cover and track listing

…“We Are the Champions”; Ugly Duckling and Runt’s performance of the Spice Girls hit “Wannabe”; the Chicken Little cast’s presentation of “Don’t Go Breaking My Heart”; and the Barenaked Ladies’…

Family films becoming less family-friendly?

…Louis University School of Medicine, states, “All the animated films involve violence or threats of violence… The problem is when kids don’t have anyone to help them process these things.”…

Animated "kid's films" becoming increasingly adult

…when considering what is appropriate for children to view. “Kids are sponges,” noted Kimberly Thompson, author of the Harvard study. “They don’t make this artificial distinction between entertainment and education.”…

Caption Contest

…talk me into going to Las Vegas? Flintheart: It looked like a good idea at the time! How was I suppose to know that they don’t allow treasure hunting in…

Aardman Mini bios

Don’t throw those Sunday newspapers away just yet. The Mini Page insert which appears in most US Sunday newspapers focuses their biography today on Academy Award winners Nick Park and…

Iger continues push to stop delay between theater and DVD release

…“They don’t want to take the most bullets.” Moreover, it has been revealed that Iger proposed to theater owners the selling of Chicken Little DVDs in their lobbies, with profits…

Disney new release Tuesday: Kronk and Valiant

…caption And don’t forget Valiant. This little movie about a band of WWII homing pigeons came and went at the box office but is worth giving a second chance on…

Fox prepares Anatasia, Ice Age re-releases

…two-disc set will present the film in widescreen and full screen, with an English Dolby Digital 5.1 track. Bonus features for the DVD involve: a director/producer commentary by Don Bluth…

UPDATE: Animator corrects recent story

…the best work it can. Our goal is to not compromise in quality in any way. We have utmost respect for quality animation and don’t denegrate it in any way”….

Academy Award nominations

…NORMAN CORWIN ACHIEVEMENT IN FILM EDITING CINDERELLA MAN THE CONSTANT GARDENER CRASH MUNICH WALK THE LINE BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM OF THE YEAR DON’T TELL JOYEUX NOèL PARADISE NOW SOPHIE…

Personnel changes at Disney

C. W. Oberleitner discusses the appointment of longtime animation producer Don Hahn as interim head of Walt Disney Feature Animation in A Tale of Two Divisions and the future of…

Animex Student Animation Awards 2006 results

…by Staffordshire University student Tom Elgin – Winner in the Motion Graphics category For a full listing of all the prize winners and runners up please visit: http://www.animex.net/awards Don’t forget…