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Annies online!
…the Annie for Best Home Entertainment Production and ShadowMachine’s Robot Chicken won Best Short Subject for Star Wars 2.5. The Best Animated Television Commercial went to Acme Filmworks for their… |
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MAD magazine coming to Cartoon Network
…Chicken) about how they went about bringing the show to television, what sort of humor that they’re going for and what type of audience they’re expecting for the series to… |
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Annie nominations for 2011 films announced
…Studios Joel McNeely, Brendan Milburn and Valerie Vigoda Pixie Hollow Games– DisneyToon Studios Kevin Kliesch Thundercats — Warner Bros. Animation and Cartoon Network Shawn Patterson, Zeb Wells Robot Chicken —… |
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Emmy nominations announced
…Program, the nominations were Phineas and Ferb, Robot Chicken, MAD TV, Adventure Time and Regular Show. And for Voice Over Performance, the nominations were Dan Povenmire as Dr. Doofenshmirtz for… |
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Seth MacFarlene to host the Oscars
…Guy and American Dad, his voice can also be heard as Emperor Palpatine in the Robot Chicken Star Wars TV specials and Johann Kraus in Hellboy II: The Golden Army…. |
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Time To Go Dragon Ball Hunting With Col. Sanders
The famous Kentucky Colonel is getting a new makeover to coincide with the new Dragon Ball Z: Battle of the Gods. In seven Tokyo Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurants, statues of… |
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UPDATED: Cancelled, Star Wars: The Clone Wars has been
…get specific on those details. In other news, the Star Wars spoof series Star Wars Detours–from Robot Chicken creator Seth Green–has also been turned to the dark side, with all… |
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List of Cartoon Network, Adult Swim shows coming to Netflix
…addition to DC series Justice League, Batman Beyond and Batman: The Brave and the Bold. Robot Chicken, Aqua Teen Hunger Force and Squidbillies will be among the Adult Swim offerings…. |
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Annie Award nominees for 2013 films revealed
…Inc. Best Animated Video Game • Diggs Nightcrawler – Moonbot Studios • Tiny Thief – 5 ANTS • The Last of Us – Naughty Dog Best Student Film • Chicken… |
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2014 animation Emmy winners
…Long Live the Royals Jasmin Lai – The Powerpuff Girls Narina Sokolova – Mickey Mouse Valerio Ventura – Mickey Mouse Cameron Baity – Robot Chicken Dmitry Malanitchev – The Simpsons… |
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Open Season: Scared Silly bringing together old and new faces for franchise’s 10th anniversary
…feel like I know these characters. They are like friends.” Feiss is best known for creating the popular Cartoon Network series Cow and Chicken. Since Open Season, he had been… |
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Star Wars icon Carrie Fisher passes away following heart attack
…her role as the character in the Robot Chicken Star Wars TV specials. In addition, Fisher also frequently guest starred on Family Guy as Peter’s grouchy and dirty-minded boss Angela…. |
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Aardman launches online hub for original animated comedy
…projects to launch on AardBoiled is Weirdy Rhymes, a series originally developed by the late director/animator Terry Brain (The Trap Door, Chicken Run, Shaun the Sheep) which is directed and… |
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Burt Reynolds dies; All Dogs Go to Heaven star was 82
…the 1996 sequel, but he did do voice work as “himself” on Robot Chicken and was also heard in the straight-to-DVD The Legend of Frosty the Snowman. Reynolds was 82…. |
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Missing Link goes missing at the box office
…states, making it the second-highest grossing stop-motion animated film ever, behind only 2000’s Chicken Run. In Coraline’s case, though, Laika had the benefit of producing a movie similar to The… |
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71st Emmy nominations announced
…BoJack Horseman Come Along With Me (Adventure Time) The Simpsons Outstanding Short Form Animated Program Love, Death & Robots Robot Chicken SpongeBob SquarePants Steven Universe Teen Titans Go! Outstanding Children’s… |
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Netflix announces cast and first look for animated feature My Father’s Dragon
…& Wild, Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio, Wendy Rogers’ The Magician’s Elephant, Minkyu Lee’s The Witch Boy, and Aardman sequel Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget. MY FATHER’S DRAGON – From… |
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Paramount+ reveals song from upcoming new Dora series, ¡Somos Familia!
…Gifford as Big Red Chicken; and Quiñones as The Fiesta Trio’s Armadillo. Featured guest stars this season are Taboo as Quickatoo and Kate del Castillo as Ale the Alebrije. Dora… |
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And now for some random 'toon trivia…
…exists.” Here’s hoping this stuff will make it to the Masterpiece Edition DVD coming out in January! Read more fun little animation tidbits at Jackson King’s potpourri column Cartoon Crazy!!… |
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Here's that first look at Disney's Home On The Range!
…and their little “Patch Of Heaven” – the farm on which they live. Other stills show off the farm animals, a close-up of Roseanne’s character, plus villain Slim (Randy Quaid)… |
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\\Brother Bear\\ from inception to debut
…it has a lot of little known trivia including: – part of Michael Eisner’s inspiration in pushing this project forward was “an original landscape he’d bought by Albert Bierstadt” –… |
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Brother Bear Two Thumbs Up!
…one. How could you go wrong with “very good”? Roeper calls it a “sweet, little adventure story” with all the classic Disney story elements and humorously warns that “your children… |
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A Note About The Brother Bear Soundtrack…
…customers. I’m sorry that this was noted so late, but the advertizing for this track, as far as I’ve seen, has been very little, to none at all. Even the… |
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Simpsons' Jokes Cause Fox to Nearly Sue… Itself
…headlines like ‘Do Democrats Cause Cancer?’ While the lawsuit never materialized, Groening said some action was taken. ‘Now Fox has a new rule that we can’t do those little fake… |
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A look back at a wonderful Nightmare!
…heard about under its release name The Lion King, which was eventually completed the following summer. As with Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Disney execs were a little worried that audiences… |
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Bugs and Daffy in the digital age.
What happened to the days artist used a paint brush to fill in animation cells? I don’t know, but take a peek at Animation Artist‘s little tid bit about the… |
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\\Haunted Mansion\\ 3D Ghost Tour at NYC's Grand Central Station
…to roam throughout the mansion, concentrating on the red objects. Special appearances were made by Maleficent, Little Red Riding Hood and the Big Bad Wolf, and a few spooky characters… |
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Bakshi's Wizards coming to DVD
…Bits. Featuring the voice of Mark Hamill (who in the same year would make more of a mark for himself in a little film you may have heard of: Star… |
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Don't Forget! Frank And Ollie Is A Walt Disney Treasure All Of Its Own!
…“Ollie And His Backyard Trains” – Rare Performance with Frank And ‘The Firehouse 5 Plus 2’ From “Jazz Scene USA” – Frank & Ollie’s Debut Scenes: “The Brave Little Tailor”… |
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Disney's upcoming Broadway shows
…and \\Tarzan\\ is slated for 2005. After that, projects in planning stages include \\The Little Mermaid\\, \\Hoopz\\, and \\Pinocchio\\. Hackney also gives his thoughts on DreamWorks’ possible foray on Broadway…. |

