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Disney Announces First Marvel Animated Feature

Posted on May 9, 2013 by DaveK

Big Hero 6

Walt Dis­ney Ani­ma­tion has announced their first feature-length ani­mated film based on a Mar­vel prop­erty Big Hero 6. Inspired by a little-known Japan-set Mar­vel series about a team of state-sanctioned super­heroes, the film will cen­ter on a boy named Hiro Hamada and his beloved robot com­pan­ion Bay­Max who join a team of crime fight­ers in a myth­i­cal mashup high-tech city called San Fransokyo.

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Disney Grabs The Oscars

Posted on February 24, 2013 by Big Cartoon DataBase

Brave

It was a big night for Dis­ney ani­ma­tion at the Oscars tonight with Dis­ney short Paper­man tak­ing home Best Ani­mated Short, and Disney/PIXAR’s Brave grab­bing the stat­uette for Best Ani­mated Fea­ture. Paper­man had pre­vi­ously won the Annie for Best Short, while Disney’s Wreck-It Ralph had won the Annie for Best Fea­ture Film… so not so much on the Annies pre­dict­ing the Oscars anymore.


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The Jockstrap Raiders Invade The Internets!

Posted on February 12, 2013 by DaveK

The Jockstrap Raiders

The full video of the Stu­dent Acad­emy Award win­ning Ani­ma­tion “The Jock­strap Raiders” is now avail­able to view online. Five years in the mak­ing, this was a labor of love for direc­tor Mark Nel­son. The film became his Mas­ters the­sis project at UCLA.

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LAIKA Brings Back The Monsters

Posted on February 8, 2013 by DaveK

The Boxtrolls

LAIKA and Focus Fea­tures, whose cur­rent ani­mated fea­ture Para­Nor­man is in the run­ning for an Oscar, announced today that they have begun pro­duc­tion on The Box­trolls. The new movie will be released nation­wide by Focus on Octo­ber 17th, 2014 accord­ing to Focus CEO James Schamus and LAIKA President/CEO Travis Knight.

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And The Best In Animation Is.… Annie Award Winners

Posted on February 2, 2013 by DaveK

Annie Awards Statue
Through most of the night, things look pretty well split up between the big stu­dios, with one award going to Dream­Works, the next to Pixar, then to Para­Nor­man, and then to Dis­ney. But when the big awards came down, it was all Dis­ney, with Wreck-It Ralph pulling in Best Music, Voice Act­ing, Direct­ing and Best Fea­ture. Dis­ney short Paper­man won for best ani­mated short.

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Maltin, Paulsen and Lamarche to Host Annie Animation Awards

Posted on January 31, 2013 by Ethan Minovitz

Annie Awards Statue

Why have just one when you can have four!

For­mer Annie Awards host and movie reviewer Leonard Maltin and voice actors Rob Paulsen and Mau­rice Lamarche will share host­ing duties, along with a spe­cial appear­ance by long time Annies presenter-favorite, actor and ani­ma­tion indus­try pro­fes­sional Seth Green, at this year’s 40th Annual Annie Awards, set for Sat­ur­day, Feb­ru­ary 2.

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Animated Films Made Up 6 of Year’s Top 20 Grossers

Posted on January 18, 2013 by Ethan Minovitz

Brave

Six of the 20 highest-grossing North Amer­i­can films of 2012 were com­pletely ani­mated pic­tures, includ­ing Pixar’s Brave, which was sev­enth over­all with $237,262,307.

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Animated Films, TV Up For Canadian Screen Awards

Posted on January 16, 2013 by Ethan Minovitz

Canadian Screen Awards

Excel­lence in both film and TV was rec­og­nized Tues­day as the Acad­emy of Cana­dian Cin­ema & Tele­vi­sion announced its nom­i­nees for the inau­gural Cana­dian Screen Awards.

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Brave wins Golden Globe for Best Animated Feature

Posted on January 14, 2013 by Ethan Minovitz


Golden Globe

The highest-grossing ani­mated film of 2012 won the Golden Globe Award for Best Ani­mated Fea­ture Film on Sun­day night.

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3 Animated Features up For British Academy Awards

Posted on January 11, 2013 by Ethan Minovitz


British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA)

“Brave,” “Franken­wee­nie” and “Para­Nor­man” are the three nom­i­nees announced Wednes­day in the Ani­mated Film cat­e­gory of the EE British Acad­emy Film Awards, also known as the BAFTAs.

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The Animation Oscar Nominees

Posted on January 10, 2013 by DaveK

Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Oscar

It’s Oscar time! This morn­ing, the Acad­emy of Motion Pic­ture Arts and Sci­ences announced the nom­i­nees for this years Oscars. There are two main areas of com­pe­ti­tion for ani­ma­tion, the Fea­ture Length and the short awards. This year, the nom­i­nees are…

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Warner Brothers Diving into Animation Think Tank

Posted on January 9, 2013 by Ethan Minovitz

Warner Bros.

Warner Bros. Pic­tures has formed a fea­ture ani­ma­tion cre­ative con­sor­tium, mark­ing a new and inno­v­a­tive approach to the estab­lish­ment of a diverse and far-reaching ani­ma­tion slate, Warner Bros. Pic­tures Group pres­i­dent Jeff Robi­nov announced Monday.

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Disney Considering Layoffs to Cut Costs

Posted on January 9, 2013 by Paul Anderson

Walt Disney Studios

Lay­offs at the Walt Dis­ney Company’s stu­dios and other units may take place in the wake of an inter­nal cost-cutting review begun by the Mouse House sev­eral weeks ago, accord­ing to “three peo­ple with knowl­edge of the effort.” Con­tinue read­ing →

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Producers Guild Announces its Animated Nominations

Posted on January 7, 2013 by Mr. Clevland

Producers Guild

The Pro­duc­ers Guild of Amer­ica announced Wednes­day five nom­i­na­tions for the Award for Out­stand­ing Pro­ducer of Ani­mated The­atri­cal Motion Pictures.

Three of the nom­i­nees are prod­ucts of Dis­ney: Brave (Walt Dis­ney Stu­dios Motion Pic­tures), pro­duced by Kather­ine Sarafian; Franken­wee­nie (Walt Dis­ney Pic­tures), pro­duced by Alli­son Abbate and Tim Bur­ton; and Wreck-It Ralph (Walt Dis­ney Stu­dios Motion Pic­tures), pro­duced by Clark Spencer.

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Bron Studios Steps Up To Produce CG Sole Mates

Posted on December 21, 2012 by Paul Anderson

Sole Mates

Vancouver-based Bron Stu­dios announced Tues­day that it is mak­ing its first CG-animated fea­ture film, Sole Mates.

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