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About TammiToon

TT has been with the BCDB for a long time, and is the resident Hanna-Barbera expert. Tammi loves the old show, and keeps up with the nes ones, too. You can reach her here.

Adam and Dog Full Video Online

 Adam And Dog

Acad­emy Award nom­i­nee “Adam and Dog” is now fully rep­re­sented online. If you are inter­ested in see­ing the full 15 minute short, you now can because direc­tor Minkyu Lee has posted the full ver­sion to the Internets.

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Bydlo Named One of Canada’s 10 Best Short Animated Films

Bydlo

Bydlo,” an ani­ma­tion directed by Patrick Bouchard for the National Film Board of Canada, was named Tues­day evening as one of Canada’s top short films of 2012.

The 12th annual Canada’s Top Ten list was announced at a Toronto gala orga­nized by the Toronto Inter­na­tional Film Fes­ti­val Group. Actors Sarah Gadon and Don McKel­lar were the hosts.

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Hotel Transylvania Opens in Spain to $3.6 million

Hotel Transylvania

Sony Animation“s “Hotel Tran­syl­va­nia” opened for busi­ness in a host of coun­tries this past week­end, help­ing it make $18.1 mil­lion in its fourth week of for­eign release.

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Musicians’ Union Sues Over Use of “Simpsons” Tunes

The Simpsons

The Amer­i­can Fed­er­a­tion of Musi­cians sued 20th Cen­tury Fox and NBC Uni­ver­sal last week, object­ing to the use of the recorded music sound­track from The Simp­sons in a series-based roller coaster attrac­tion at Uni­ver­sal Stu­dios Theme Park in Hollywood.

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Jeanette Thomas was Widow of Disney’s Animator Frank Thomas

Jeanette Thomas

Jeanette Armen­trout Thomas, the widow of leg­endary Dis­ney ani­ma­tor Frank Thomas (one of Walt Disney’s renowned “Nine Old Men”), died Sat­ur­day at Hunt­ing­ton Hos­pi­tal in Pasadena, Cal­i­for­nia from age-related ill­nesses. She was 91.

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Wallen New CTO at DreamWorks Animation

Lincoln Wallen

Dream­Works Ani­ma­tion has announced they have pro­moted Lin­coln Wallen as their new CTO, replac­ing cur­rent CTO Ed Leonard. Dream­Works Ani­ma­tion has juts released Mada­gas­car 3: Europe’s Most Wanted, and is releas­ing the highly antic­i­pated Rise Of The Guardians next month.

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DreamWorks Animation and Technicolor Partner On Distribution Deal


DreamWorks Animation SKG

In a major strange bed­fel­lows pair­ing, Dream­Works Ani­ma­tion and Tech­ni­color announce a joint ven­ture in a con­tent dis­tri­b­u­tion deal. Their new com­pany– called M-Go– will be push­ing out con­tent dig­i­tally. But not just DWA’s con­tent… the agree­ment announced Tues­day are with NBCU­ni­ver­sal, Para­mount Pic­tures, Sony Pic­tures Home Enter­tain­ment, Twen­ti­eth Cen­tury Fox and Warner Bros. Dig­i­tal Distribution.

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Film festival in Glendale has a Jones for Chuck

Chuck Jones

On Fri­day, Sep­tem­ber 21 at the Alex The­atre in Glen­dale, Cal­i­for­nia, the Chuck Jones Cen­ten­nial Cel­e­bra­tion Film Fes­ti­val will be an evening devoted to hon­or­ing the artist who brought to life such famous car­toon char­ac­ters as Wile E. Coy­ote, Road Run­ner, Pepé le Pew, Mar­vin Mar­t­ian and Marc Anthony.

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Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie voicing animated film

The Canterville Ghost

Long­time friends Stephen Fry and Hugh Lau­rie are reunit­ing for an ani­mated film to be released on Christ­mas Day 2014.

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Scaredy Squirrel wins Canadian screenwriting award

Scaredy Squirrel

Noth­ing But the Tooth,” an episode of Nelvana’s “Scaredy Squir­rel” writ­ten by Dar­rin Rose, won a Cana­dian screen­writ­ing award for ani­ma­tion Mon­day evening from the Writ­ers’ Guild of Canada.
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Universal’s “The Lorax” makes $8.6 million abroad

Dr. Seuss' The Lorax

With open­ing dates in 16 major coun­tries yet to be deter­mined, Uni­ver­sal Stu­dios’ 3D-animated Dr. Seuss’ The Lorax made $8.6 mil­lion at 3,753 venues in 51 over­seas coun­tries this past weekend.

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Reimage Disney Posters

Peter Pan

British free­lance graphic artist Rowan Stocks-Moore likes to take well-known media and rework them in his min­i­mal­ist style. He has revi­sioned the major nom­i­nees fr this years Oscars, and many notable works of lit­er­a­ture. In his lat­est opus, he takes on the clas­sic films from Disney.

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Lorax” statue goes missing from Dr. Seuss’ home

"Lorax" statue goes missing from Dr. Seuss' home

From there to here, from here to there, things are stolen everywhere.

This time, it’s a 300-pound, three-foot-high bronze statue of Dr. Seuss’ The Lorax, star of the recent ani­mated film of the same name.

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Madagascar 3″ making world premiere at Cannes

Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted

Mada­gas­car 3: Europe’s Most Wanted” will have its world pre­miere at the Cannes Film Fes­ti­val in May, mak­ing the Dream­Works Ani­ma­tion film the first major sum­mer release to be on the fest’s schedule.

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CG-animated Beasts of Burden hauled into theaters


Beasts of Burden

Shrek” and “Chron­i­cles of Nar­nia” direc­tor Andrew Adam­son is lead­ing the team that will adapt Dark Horse Comics’ Beasts of Bur­den onto the big screen.
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