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Will Avatar sink Titanic?

…of mouth and buzz about potential Oscar nominations. Currently standing at $430 million, Avatar would have to make about $170 million more in order to best Titanic’s $600 million gross….

Blue Sky in the spotlight

…is the last of his kind”; The Leaf Men (directed by Blue Sky co-founder and Oscar winner Chris Wedge) is based on the William Joyce book; and Ice Age 4….

Fox challenging Up?

…for the Oscar? The New York TImes makes the case — in their usual in-depth fashion. Awards Daily, however, much more tersely replies “but critics don’t vote on the Oscars”….

Hoodwinked Too! toys now at Burger King, despite movie’s delay

…desperate need for a hit right now. The studio has been going through financial trouble for a long time, with their Oscar hopeful Nine bombing with a current box office…

Pretty as a picture: Chuck Jones retrospective

…The White Seal. On March 25, 1996, Jones’ work was celebrated with a special Lifetime Achievement Oscar, presented to him at the Academy Awards by Robin Williams. In addition, Chuck…

Trailer and poster for The Secret of Kells

Collider shares the promotional trailer and the first poster for The Secret of Kells. Nominated for best animated film Oscar, The Secret of Kells opens in theatres this spring….

Avatar comes to home video in April

Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment announced that it will launch director James Cameron’s Avatar on Blu-ray Disc and DVD on Thursday, April 22. The Oscar winning epic is the highest…

The lighting and look of Dragons

The New York Times discusses the lighting and overall look of DreamWorks’ How To Train Your Dragon with director Chris Sanders and cinematographer and eight time Oscar nominee Roger Deakins….

How To Train Your Dragon

…Feet and Horton Hears a Who). Also brought in was eight-time Oscar nominated cinematographer Roger Deakins (Fargo, O Brother, Where Art Thou, No Country for Old Men) — a live…

Beauty And The Beast: Diamond Edition (song clip)

…second was 2009’s Up), Beauty and the Beast earned six Academy Award nominations and won two Oscars in 1992 for Best Original Song (Beauty and the Beast) and Best Original…

Pixar’s Newt cancelled ‎

…April 2008. The film was being directed by Gary Rydstrom, sound designer and director of Pixar’s 2006 Oscar-nominated short film Lifted and was scheduled for a summer 2011 release. ‎…

Armageddon

…Airport were based on soapy bestselling books, but the all-star cast brought gravitas and the mold was set: the film’s Best Picture Oscar cementing the fact that more of the…

The Secret of Kells coming to DVD/BD in October

New Video has announced that they have acquired U.S. television, digital, VOD and home video distribution rights to the Oscar nominated animated film The Secret of Kells and will be…

Newman gets star on Walk of Fame

…animated film — 1995’s Toy Story. Since then he’s become one of the most popular and honored animated film composers around. Ten of Newman’s nineteen Oscar nominations have been for…

The Illusionist international trailer now online

A new international trailer for writer/director Sylvain Chomet’s upcoming feature The Illusionist can now be seen at Collider. Chomet’s follow-up to the Oscar-nominated The Triplets of Belleville, is slated to…

King Kong lives!

Hot on the heels that Peter Jackson is to direct his long gestating The Hobbit movies comes news that another character he brought to the screen, in 2005’s Oscar-winning King…

Original Kermit the Frog donated to Smithsonian

…puppets include characters who would later become the inspiration for Sesame Street Muppets Oscar the Grouch and Cookie Monster, along with Jim’s oldest surviving creation, Pierre the French Rat. “It…

Fantasia and Fantasia 2000 DVD and Blu-ray in November

…a 2 movie collection in a 4-Disc Special Edition Blu-ray and DVD Combo and a 2-Disc Special Edition DVD. Blu-ray exclusives will include the Oscar-nominated Walt Disney/Salvador Dali collaboration Destino,…

Timmy Time

…duo Wallace & Gromit, in a series of relentlessly entertaining short films that routinely pick up Oscar nominations and wound up with the studio enjoying an ultimately rather short-lived run…

Beauty And The Beast: Glen Keane on discovering the beauty in The Beast

…the stories behind the creation of one of his most successful characters, and certainly one of the deepest Disney characters ever – the Beast from the Studio’s celebrated Oscar-nominated feature…

Warner Archive: Atlantis: The Lost Continent / The Power

…the Best Animated Short category at the Oscars, between 1942 and 1948, and a step to features was natural. The Great Rupert, a very sweet Christmas story that featured a…

Have A Laugh! Volumes 1 and 2

…it was Oscar nominated for best animated short in 1948. The cut-down, which comes with newly produced Have A Laugh! branding and recreations of the title credits now placed on…

Toy Story 3

…reasoning. The first Toy Story, coming in 1995 on the wave of Tom Hanks’ rise to the A-list via double Oscar wins for Philadelphia and Forrest Gump as well as…

Awards Watch: Animators’ Roundtable

…1, Part 2 and Part 3 to hear their thoughts on a variety of issues, including the Pixar/DreamWorks rivalry and chances of an animated feature winning a Best Picture Oscar….

Sherlock: Season One

…movie – even if, as Arnold’s Twitter page updated, he had written that cue for the Sherlock pilot some seven months before Zimmer’s (who ended up being Oscar nominated!) score,…

Picks Of The Year 2004

…($85 million domestically), garnered an Oscar nomination for Best Animated Feature, and found a wide audience on video and DVD. On the flipside, Home On The Range remains a vastly…

Scrat coming to theaters with Gulliver’s Travels

…already did something similar to that in the Oscar-nominated short Gone Nutty. Gulliver’s Travels comes to theaters tomorrow, while a fourth Ice Age film is due in theaters in 2012….

DreamWorks, Dragon take home the Annies

…an Oscar nominee for Best Picture, but How To Train Your Dragon won the Best Animated Feature Annie. Pixar’s Day & Night won Best Animated Short Subject and Nickelodeon’s SpongeBob…

Newman wins Grammy

Though he didn’t get an Oscar nod for his Toy Story 3 score, Randy Newman was honored by the music industry with a Grammy Award for Best Score Soundtrack Album…

Mila Kunis to join Disney’s Oz: The Great and the Powerful?

…famous wizard who finds himself in the land of Oz. Kunis can currently be seen in the Oscar-nominated Black Swan, and is the voice of Meg on Fox’s Family Guy….