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Haowei Hu’s Seasons Wins at London Film Awards

Seasons

Sea­sons,” directed by Haowei Hu of the United States, was named Best Ani­mated Film on Sun­day at the Lon­don Film Awards.

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Fox Animation Working On del Toro’s Book Of Life


Guillermo del Toro

Fox Ani­ma­tion Stu­dios is join­ing pro­ducer Guillermo del Toro and Reel FX to work on the adven­ture movie Book of Life, to be released on Octo­ber 10, 2014.

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The Croods Coming Out of Cave at Berlin Festival

The Croods

Dream­Works Animation’s pre­his­toric comedy-adventure movie The Croods will have its world pre­miere at the 63rd Berlin Inter­na­tional Film Fes­ti­val, it was revealed Thursday.

Directed by Kirk De Micco (Space Chimps) and Chris Sanders (How to Train Your Dragon), and with the voices of Nico­las Cage, Emma Stone and Ryan Reynolds, the 3D movie will be screened out of competition.

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Five Animated Feature Films Up For Golden Globes

Golden Globes

Five movies each have been nom­i­nated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Ani­mated Fea­ture Film, the Hol­ly­wood For­eign Press Asso­ci­a­tion announced Thursday.

Three of the five were dis­trib­uted by Walt Dis­ney Pictures.

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Washington, D.C.-area Film Critics Like ParaNorman


ParaNorman

Para­Nor­man” was named Best Ani­mated Fea­ture of 2012 by the Wash­ing­ton, D.C. Area Film Crit­ics Asso­ci­a­tion on Mon­day morning.

The movie defeated fel­low nom­i­nees Brave, Franken­wee­nie, Rise of the Guardians and Wreck-It Ralph.

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L.A. Critics Name “Frankenweenie” Best Animation


Frankenweenie

Franken­wee­nie,” directed by Tim Bur­ton, has been named the Best Ani­ma­tion of 2012 by the Los Ange­les Film Crit­ics Association.

Don Hertzfeldt’s It’s Such a Beau­ti­ful Day was declared runner-up in the category.

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Three “Simpsons” Episodes Nominated for WGA Award

The Simpsons

Three episodes of “The Simp­sons” are among the five nom­i­nees for the Writ­ers Guild of Amer­ica Award in the cat­e­gory of animation.

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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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Netflix, Disney Announce Feature Film Agreement

Walt Disney Studios

Net­flix Inc. and The Walt Dis­ney Com­pany announced Tues­day a new multi-year licens­ing agree­ment that will make Net­flix the exclu­sive United States sub­scrip­tion tele­vi­sion ser­vice for first-run ani­mated and live-action fea­ture films from The Walt Dis­ney Studios.

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Brave, Guardians, Ralph each up for 10 Animation Annies

Annie Awards

Three fea­ture films each have received 10 nom­i­na­tions for the 49th Annual Annie Awards, rec­og­niz­ing the year’s best in the field of ani­ma­tion. The three are Brave (Pixar Ani­ma­tion Stu­dios), Rise of the Guardians (Dream­Works Ani­ma­tion) and Wreck-It Ralph (Walt Dis­ney Ani­ma­tion Stu­dios). All three are among the eight nom­i­nees for Best Ani­mated Feature.

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Phineas and Ferb Up for Producers Guild Award

Phineas and Ferb

Dis­ney Channel’s “Phineas and Ferb” was the sole ani­mated pro­gram announced Wednes­day as a nom­i­nee for the 24th Annual Pro­duc­ers Guild Awards.

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Studio Ghibli Animation Retrospective Coming to Vancouver

Studio Ghibli

Between Decem­ber 14 and Jan­u­ary 3, the Vancity The­atre and The Cin­e­math­eque — both located in down­town Van­cou­ver — are co-hosting Cas­tles in the Sky: The Mas­ters of Stu­dio Ghi­bli. It’s a major ret­ro­spec­tive of films from the world-renowned anime stu­dio Stu­dio Ghi­bli founded in Tokyo in 1985 by direc­tors Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Taka­hata and pro­ducer Toshio Suzuki.

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Gumball Gets Two British Academy Kids’ Animation Awards

Brian Cosgrove

Car­toon Net­work Europe series “The Amaz­ing World Of Gum­ball” was the win­ner in both the Ani­ma­tion and Writ­ing cat­e­gories Sun­day at the British Acad­emy Children’s Awards.

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Cartoon Zebras From South Africa Get Distributor

Khumba

South Africa’s Trig­ger­fish Stu­dios’ 3D ani­mated fea­ture Khumba has been picked up for North Amer­i­can dis­tri­b­u­tion by Mil­len­nium Enter­tain­ment. The film has just com­pleted pro­duc­tion. Khumba is a half-stripped zebra who sets out on a dar­ing quest to earn his stripes.

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Michael Hefferon Appointed President of Rainmaker Animation

Rainmaker Entertainment

Rain­maker Enter­tain­ment Inc. has appointed fea­ture film and TV exec­u­tive Michael Hef­feron as pres­i­dent and exec­u­tive pro­ducer, Craig Gra­ham, newly appointed chair­man and CEO of the Vancouver-based CGI ani­ma­tion pro­duc­tion stu­dio, announced.

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