Monthly Archives: May 2012

Ceux d’en Haut (2012) — Theatrical Short

Ceux d'en Haut (The Inn)

#CotD: New this month from Folim­age Pro­duc­tions, “Ceux d’en Haut” is strik­ing and sur­real– really worth a look.

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Finding Nemo (2003) — PIXAR Animated Film

Finding Nemo

#CotD: The box office cham­pion of 2003, “Find­ing Nemo” cost a mere $94 mil­lion to make.

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Partly Cloudy (2009) — PIXAR Animated Film

Partly Cloudy

#CotD: released the­atri­cally with the film Up, “Partly Cloudy” was a new look at the clas­sic stork stories.

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Nominees for 13th Golden Trailer Awards announced

Golden Trailer Awards

Nom­i­nees were announced Sat­ur­day in many cat­e­gories, includ­ing animation/family, for the 13th Annual Golden Trailer Awards.

For Best Animation/Family, the nom­i­nees include The Adven­tures of Tintin: The Secret of the Uni­corn (Columbia/Paramount, Igni­tion Cre­ative), Mada­gas­car 3: Europe’s Most Wanted “Trailer 1″ (Para­mount Pic­tures, TRANSIT) and The Mup­pets “Their Movie” (Walt Dis­ney Stu­dios Motion Pic­tures, Bud­dha Jones).

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The Isle Of Pingo Pongo (1938) — Merrie Melodies Cartoon Series

The Isle Of Pingo Pongo

#CotD: One of WB’s infa­mous Cenored Eleven, “The Isle Of Pingo Pongo” was the first of many Tex Avery Warner Bros. spot-gag-filled par­o­dies of travelogues.

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Three Little Pigs (1933) — Silly Symphonies Cartoon

Three Little Pigs

#CotD: The first in what became a series of four car­toons, “Three Lit­tle Pigs” also spawned a pop­u­lar song in it’s day a song you prob­a­bly still know today!

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Simpsons Meet The Ice Age

The Longest Daycare

Ice Age: Con­ti­nen­tal Drift will fea­ture more than pals Man­fred, Sid, Diego, Ellie and Scrat when it pre­mieres in July. Rather than the usual short fea­tur­ing Scrat chas­ing his acorn, the fourth Ice Age movie will reach out to America’s most dys­func­tional fam­ily with The Longest Day­care.

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AS Announces Largest Programming Schedule Ever


Adult Swim Logo

Adult Swim, basic cable’s #1 net­work with young adults for seven con­sec­u­tive years, has announced the largest pro­gram­ming com­mit­ment in Adult Swim’s his­tory, which includes new and return­ing series, pilots and specials.

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Kung Fu Panda 2 (2011) — Theatrical Feature


Kung Fu Panda 2

#CotD: One year old today, “Kung Fu Panda 2″ was an Acad­emy Award nom­i­nee, but did not take the top prize.

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Charlie Brown Christmas Named to Nat’l Registry

A Charlie Brown Christmas

An album with tracks from the 1965 car­toon spe­cial A Char­lie Brown Christ­mas is among the sound record­ings selected Wednes­day for induc­tion into the National Record­ing Reg­istry of the Library of Congress.

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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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Hair-Raising Hare (1946) — Merrie Melodies Cartoon Series

Hair-Raising Hare

#CotD: The orange, sneaker-wearing mon­ster first appeared in “Hair-Raising Hare” but he was not yet called Gossamer.

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Mickey and Donald Strike at Disneyland Paris

Disneyland Paris

Dis­ney­land Paris staff who dress up as such char­ac­ters as Mickey, Don­ald Duck and Goofy have with­drawn from “Meet and Greet” events to protest the return of a senior col­league who was accused of sex­u­ally harass­ing women.

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Super Mario Bros. creator wins major Spanish prize

Shigeru Miyamoto

Shigeru Miyamoto, cre­ator of such hit video games as Super Mario Bros. and Don­key Kong — both adapted into car­toon series — won a $64,000 award Wednes­day for “rev­o­lu­tion­iz­ing” the industry.

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Mike’s New Car (2002) — Theatrical Short

Mike's New Car

#CotD: The the­atri­cally released short from Mon­sters, Inc. “Mike’s New Car” won an Acad­emy Award for short film.

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