Monthly Archives: October 2012

Hotel Transylvania Opens in 1st Place in Russia

Hotel Transylvania

There were many guests at “Hotel Tran­syl­va­nia” in Rus­sia over the week­end, where the ani­mated film opened at No. 1 with $5 mil­lion from 797 screens.

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New Walt Disney Bio Pic a Fake

Walt fake poster

There is a new poster mak­ing the rounds on the Inter­nets fea­tur­ing Ryan Gosling in a new Ron Howard film called Walt. The poster fea­tures Gosling as Walt busy scrib­bling away in a train car, with Mickey in the clouds out­side the win­dow. Looks like a good film, but there is only one prob­lem– it is a fake.

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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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Award-winning “Rabbit” Director Run Wrake Dies, 47

Run Wrake

British ani­ma­tor and illus­tra­tor Run Wrake, whose Rab­bit was nom­i­nated for a BAFTA Award for Best Ani­mated Short, died at 5 a.m. Sun­day due to can­cer. He was 47.

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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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Russell Means, 72, Was Pocahontas Actor, Activist

Russell Means

Native Amer­i­can activist and actor Rus­sell Means, the voice of Chief Powhatan — the title character’s father — in the 1995 Dis­ney film Poc­a­hon­tas, died early Mon­day at his ranch in Por­cu­pine on the Pine Ridge Reser­va­tion in South Dakota, his fam­ily said in a state­ment. He was 72.

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Ruby-Spears Color Stylist Geri Rochon Dies at 62

Ruby-Spears Productions

Geri Rochon, a color styl­ist at Ruby-Spears and Kookanooga from 1986 to 1994, died May 17. She was 62.

She was a main title super­vi­sor and color key super­vi­sor for the TV series The Angry Beavers from 1997 to 1999.

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Noodle Fish Catches Warsaw Film Festival Animation Award

Noodle Fish

South Korean direc­tor Kim Jin-man’s “Noo­dle Fish” was named Best Ani­mated Short in the Short Films Com­pe­ti­tion pro­gram at the 29th War­saw Film Festival.

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Silver Surfer actor Bernard Behrens Dies at 85

Bernard Behrens

British-born Cana­dian the­atre, TV and film actor Bernard “Bunny” Behrens, the voice of Nietre in the Mar­vel Enterprises/Saban Enter­tain­ment series Sil­ver Surfer, died Sep­tem­ber 19 in Perth, Ontario, just shy of his 86th birthday.

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Dementia Tale Wins for Animated Short in San Pedro

The Reality Clock

Amanda Tasse’s “The Real­ity Clock,” in which a watch­maker search­ing for his lost clock loses him­self in mem­ory, was named Best Ani­mated Short at this year’s San Pedro Inter­na­tional Film Fes­ti­val (SPIFFest).

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Renee Fleming Singing for Rise of the Guardians Cartoon

Rise Of The Guardians

Acclaimed soprano Renee Flem­ing has per­formed the orig­i­nal song “Still Dream” on the sound­track for the upcom­ing Rise of the Guardians, Dream­Works Ani­ma­tion announced.

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Katsuhiro Ôtomo Getting Lifetime Achievement Award For Animation

Katsuhiro Otomo

PLATFORM, the inter­na­tion­ally acclaimed ani­ma­tion fes­ti­val in Los Ange­les, will present renowned Japan­ese artist Kat­suhiro Otomo with a Life­time Achieve­ment Award at 9:30 p.m. Sat­ur­day, Octo­ber 27.

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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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Frankenweenie Collects $4.9 Million Overseas


Frankenweenie

Tim Burton’s comedy-horror ani­mated movie “Franken­wee­nie” opened in nine over­seas coun­tries over the week­end to take in $4.9 million.

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John Clive was John Lennon in Yellow Submarine

John Clive

Actor John Clive, the voice of John Lennon in the 1968 Bea­t­les car­toon movie Yel­low Sub­ma­rine, died after a short ill­ness, his fam­ily said Mon­day. He was 79.

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