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Sony Pictures Animation becoming a “Manimal” house
Sony Pictures Animation is turning the short-lived Manimal into a live-action/CG hybrid film, having acquired movie rights to the 1983 NBC series.
Hugely prolific 1980s TV producer Glen A. Larson created the show about a man who could become an animal. Now Larson’s attached as a producer, thinking that a flop TV series can become a hit movie. Sony is looking for writers to develop a script.
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Oh Willy… Wins Award for European Animated Short
The winner of this year’s Cartoon d’Or for best European animation short film is Oh Willy…, by Emma De Swaef and Marc James Roels.
The award was handed out Thursday at the Cartoon Forum at the Théâtre National de Toulouse in France. The other nominees were Zing, Edmond Was a Donkey, Tram and Flamingo Pride.
NFB showcases animated shorts at Vancouver fest
The National Film Board of Canada will showcase four animated shorts at the 31st annual Vancouver International Film Festival, to be held from September 27 to October 12.
DWA enters into distribution agreement with Fox
DreamWorks Animation announced Monday that the Glendale, California-based company has entered into a new five-year distribution agreement with Twentieth Century Fox.
“Sid the Science Kid” episode wins Genesis Award
“Save the Stump!”, an episode of The Jim Henson Company’s partly animated PBS Kids series Sid The Science Kid, won in the Children’s Programming category Saturday at the 26th Genesis Awards, presented by the Humane Society of the United States.
Aardman’s Lord to visit Toronto kids’ film fest
Peter Lord, producer, director and co-founder of the Academy Award–winning Aardman Animation, will engage with audiences at the TIFF Kids International Film Festival during the Canadian premiere of his latest film, The Pirates! Band of Misfits.
“Rango” wins editing award for animated feature
The American Cinema Editors named “Rango” as 2011’s Best Edited Animated Feature Film on Saturday night, giving it one of this year’s ACE Eddie Awards.
“Tangled” tune by Menken and Slater gets a Grammy
A song from the Disney movie “Tangled” received one of those mini-phonographs Sunday night at the 54th Annual Grammy Awards, held at Staples Center in Los Angeles.
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Fox forges new unit for Saturday night animation
Building on its more than 20 years of animation domination, Fox Broadcasting Company has created a new unit to oversee the development and production of alternative animated series, shorts and user-adapted material for a brand new late-night animated programming block and new digital multi-platform network, FOX president of entertainment Kevin Reilly announced Sunday.
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Rod Parkes, 70, was animator on “Charlotte’s Web”
Rodney Barton “Rod” Parkes, an animator on the 1973 feature film Charlotte’s Web and other Hanna-Barbera Studios productions, died Tuesday. He was 70.
Parkes worked on the series Hardy Boys (1969); Sabrina and the Groovie Goolies, Will the Real Jerry Lewis Please Sit Down and Archie’s Fun House (all 1970); Hong Kong Phooey (1974); and Dynomutt Dog Wonder (1976).
It’s okay to say gang suspect looked like a Smurf
A robbery suspect may be feeling blue after an appeals court said Tuesday that a Yakima County, Washington judge could allow testimony that he was dressed like a Smurf.
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“Tintin” up for two British Academy Film Awards
Steven Spielberg’s “The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn” has received two nominations for this year’s Orange British Academy Film Awards, Daniel Radcliffe and Holliday Grainger announced Tuesday at BAFTA’s London headquarters.
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“Beauty and the Beast” return with $18.5 million
Walt Disney’s 3-D revamped version of its 1991 animated classic Beauty And The Beast opened in second place in North American theaters this weekend with $18.5 million, researcher Hollywood.com Box-Office said in an e-mailed statement Sunday.
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“Rango” wins Critics’ Choice Award for animation
Yet again, Paramount Pictures’ “Rango” has won an award from movie critics.
Rango was named best animated feature on Thursday night at the 17th Critics’ Choice Movie Awards, presented by the Broadcast Film Critics Association.
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Cartoon voice actors nominated by ACTRA Toronto
Five actors from three cartoon series have been nominated for Outstanding Performance – Voice in time for the 10th Anniversary ACTRA Awards in Toronto, to be presented at the Carlu on Saturday, February 25.
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