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About DaveK

Editor and publisher of the Big Cartoon DataBase, Dave has been involved in cartoons since opening the Cartoon Factory animation art gallery in 1993. You may contact Dave here.

Disney’s John Carter Remains in VFX Oscar Race

John Carter

Disney’s dis­as­trous hybrid “John Carter” is one of 10 films which remain in the run­ning in the Visual Effects cat­e­gory for the 85th Acad­emy Awards, the Acad­emy of Motion Pic­ture Arts and Sci­ences announced Friday.

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Cartoon Zebras From South Africa Get Distributor

Khumba

South Africa’s Trig­ger­fish Stu­dios’ 3D ani­mated fea­ture Khumba has been picked up for North Amer­i­can dis­tri­b­u­tion by Mil­len­nium Enter­tain­ment. The film has just com­pleted pro­duc­tion. Khumba is a half-stripped zebra who sets out on a dar­ing quest to earn his stripes.

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Ten Animated Shorts Move Ahead in 2012 Oscar Race

Oscar Statuette, Academy Awards

The Acad­emy of Motion Pic­ture Arts and Sci­ences announced Fri­day that 10 ani­mated short films will advance in the vot­ing process for the 85th Acad­emy Awards.

Fifty-six pic­tures had orig­i­nally qual­i­fied in the category.

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21 Animated Features Submitted For 2012 Oscar Race

Oscar Statuette, Academy Awards

Twenty-one fea­tures have been sub­mit­ted for con­sid­er­a­tion in the Ani­mated Fea­ture Film cat­e­gory for the 85th Acad­emy Awards, the Acad­emy of Motion Pic­ture Arts and Sci­ences announced Friday.

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Ireland To Brown Bag An Animated Film

Brown Bag Films

Irish ani­ma­tion house Brown Bag Films is set to begin pre-production on their first fea­ture length ani­mated film early next year. Night­glider will be co-produced by Brown Bag Films and Wind Dancer Films, and directed by Brown Bag Films’ cre­ative direc­tor Dar­ragh O’Connell.

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Tartakovsky Offers Animated Cartoon Short for Halloween

Hotel Transylvania

Hotel Tran­syl­va­nia” — the record-setting 3D computer-animated mon­ster com­edy from Sony Pic­tures Ani­ma­tion that ranked as the biggest Sep­tem­ber open­ing in movie his­tory and the best open­ing ever for the stu­dio — is releas­ing a new ani­mated short as a spe­cial Hal­loween treat.

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Oscar Sets Animation Feature Film Deadline

Oscar Statuette, Academy Awards

Want to be in the run­ning for best ani­mated film this year? The Acad­emy of Motion Pic­ture Arts & Sci­ence– the peo­ple behind the Oscars– have set a dead­line for when your film needs to be to them.… and the dead­line is just around the corner.

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Newest Disney Cartoon Princess Upsetting Hispanics

Sofia The First

Disney’s newest princess is set to pre­miere in three short weeks in Sofia the First: Once Upon a Princess. Despite Sofia the First being Disney’s first Latino princess– and Disney’s youngest– Sofia has not endeared her­self to many in the His­panic population.

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Bob & Fox Flipping Burgers For a Fourth Season

Bob's Burgers

FOX is going back to the grill for a fourth sea­son of Bob’s Burg­ers, announc­ing twenty-two new episodes for next year barely two shows into this year’s third season.

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Tarzan Motion Picture Animated Film Gets Poster, Trailer

Tarzan

The new motion cap­ture ani­mated take of the Tarzan leg­end has a new poster, and a new teaser trailer. To be released in 3D next sum­mer, the film is pro­duced by Con­statin Film in Germany.

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The Tom and Jerry Show Coming to Cartoon Network

The Tom and Jerry Show

One of the world’s most beloved car­toon duos returns to tele­vi­sion in The Tom and Jerry Show, a fresh take on the clas­sic fren­e­mies com­ing soon to Car­toon Network.

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Liars Autobiography Sees New Poster, Animated Trailer

A Liar's Autobiography

What do you call an auto­bi­o­graph­i­cal film that bills itself as totally untrue? How about exactly what you would expect from the five remain­ing mem­bers of Britain’s infa­mous comic troupe Monty Python.

A Liars Auto­bi­og­ra­phy fea­tures the voices of Pythons’ John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Michael Palin as well as the sub­ject of this film, Gra­ham Chapman.

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Marvel Animation To Create Avengers Sequel


Iron Man & Hulk: Heroes United

Mar­vel Ani­ma­tion is team­ing the big green guy with Tony Stark in an all new fea­ture film. Iron Man & Hulk: Heroes United is a direct-to-video ani­mated film that will team the two up to bat­tle the energy crea­ture Zzzax.

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Meet The Croods, The New Animated Stone-age Family


The Croods

With Dream­Works Animation’s “Rise Of The Guardians” win­ning all kinds of awards– even before it is released– the next movie is the com­pany pipeline is start­ing to get some love. “The Croods” is on deck and ready to show it’s stuff. First look is now avail­able with the first trailer from the ani­mated film now available.

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Who’s In At London Animation Festival

London International Animation Festival

The largest ani­mated film fes­ti­val in the United King­dom– the Lon­don Inter­na­tional Ani­ma­tion Fes­ti­val– has announced this years pro­gram. Included are over 280 films from thirty coun­tries com­pet­ing in 10 cat­e­gories. Show­cas­ing the best in British and inter­na­tional ani­ma­tion, this years fes­ti­val also includes sev­eral impor­tant pre­mieres, in addi­tion to attendee events and symposiums.

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