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Live Outside the Box Wins at Oregon Film Awards

Posted on November 13, 2012 by Ethan Minovitz

Live Outside The Box

Directed by Shu-Hsuan Lin of Tai­wan, “Live Out­side the Box” was named the Grand Win­ner for Best Ani­ma­tion on Wednes­day at the Ore­gon Film Awards.

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Ten Animated Shorts Move Ahead in 2012 Oscar Race

Posted on November 12, 2012 by DaveK

Oscar Statuette, Academy Awards

The Acad­emy of Motion Pic­ture Arts and Sci­ences announced Fri­day that 10 ani­mated short films will advance in the vot­ing process for the 85th Acad­emy Awards.

Fifty-six pic­tures had orig­i­nally qual­i­fied in the category.

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Will Ferrell, Liam Neeson Join Animated “Lego” Voice Cast

Posted on November 12, 2012 by Ethan Minovitz

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Will Fer­rell, Liam Nee­son, Nick Offer­man and Ali­son Brie are the lat­est stars to sign on for the new fea­ture film adven­ture Lego: The Piece of Resis­tance, Warner Bros. Pic­tures announced.

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21 Animated Features Submitted For 2012 Oscar Race

Posted on November 5, 2012 by DaveK

Oscar Statuette, Academy Awards

Twenty-one fea­tures have been sub­mit­ted for con­sid­er­a­tion in the Ani­mated Fea­ture Film cat­e­gory for the 85th Acad­emy Awards, the Acad­emy of Motion Pic­ture Arts and Sci­ences announced Friday.

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Ireland To Brown Bag An Animated Film

Posted on November 2, 2012 by DaveK

Brown Bag Films

Irish ani­ma­tion house Brown Bag Films is set to begin pre-production on their first fea­ture length ani­mated film early next year. Night­glider will be co-produced by Brown Bag Films and Wind Dancer Films, and directed by Brown Bag Films’ cre­ative direc­tor Dar­ragh O’Connell.

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Disney Purchasing Lucasfilm Ltd. For $4.05 Billion

Posted on October 31, 2012 by Mr. Clevland

Lucasfilm

The Walt Dis­ney Com­pany has agreed to acquire Lucas­film Ltd. in a stock and cash trans­ac­tion val­ued at $4.05 bil­lion, the firms announced Tues­day. Lucas­film is 100% owned by its chair­man and founder, George Lucas.

Lucas­film has been involved as a pro­ducer of the ani­mated series The Clone Wars and Droids: The Adven­tures of R2-D2 and C3P0, as well as the ani­mated movies Twice Upon A Time (1983) and Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008). The firm also sup­ported Williams Street’s Robot Chicken: Star Wars specials.

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Wolf Children, Fuga Win Awards at Sitges Animation Fest

Posted on October 29, 2012 by Ethan Minovitz

Sitges

Mamoru Hosoda’s Ôkami Kodomo No Ame to Yuki (Wolf Chil­dren) was named best ani­mated fea­ture film at the 45th Sit­ges — Inter­na­tional Fan­tas­tic Film Fes­ti­val of Cat­alo­nia, while Fuga, by Juan Anto­nio Espi­gares of Spain, was hon­ored as best ani­mated short.

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DreamWorks Animation Chairman Roger Enrico Quits

Posted on October 28, 2012 by Ethan Minovitz

Roger Enrico

Roger Enrico has resigned as chair­man of the board of direc­tors for Dream­Works Ani­ma­tion, effec­tive imme­di­ately, the com­pany announced Thursday.

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Animated “Turkeys” Coming to Movie Houses in 2014

Posted on October 27, 2012 by Ethan Minovitz

Turkeys

Rel­a­tiv­ity Media and Reel FX, a movie stu­dio based in Dal­las and Santa Mon­ica, announced Wednes­day that they will jointly pro­duce and finance the ani­mated com­edy Turkeys, slated for a 2014 release.

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Tartakovsky Offers Animated Cartoon Short for Halloween

Posted on October 26, 2012 by DaveK

Hotel Transylvania

“Hotel Tran­syl­va­nia” — the record-setting 3D computer-animated mon­ster com­edy from Sony Pic­tures Ani­ma­tion that ranked as the biggest Sep­tem­ber open­ing in movie his­tory and the best open­ing ever for the stu­dio — is releas­ing a new ani­mated short as a spe­cial Hal­loween treat.

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Kids’ Delhi Safari Hits U.S. Theaters December 7

Posted on October 26, 2012 by Paul Anderson

Delhi Safari

“Delhi Safari,” directed by Nikhil Advani, will be in the­aters across the United States in the top 20 regional mar­kets fea­tured on over 70 screens start­ing Decem­ber 7, Applied Art Pro­duc­tions announced Wednesday.

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Marvel Animation To Create Avengers Sequel

Posted on October 5, 2012 by DaveK


Iron Man & Hulk: Heroes United

Mar­vel Ani­ma­tion is team­ing the big green guy with Tony Stark in an all new fea­ture film. Iron Man & Hulk: Heroes United is a direct-to-video ani­mated film that will team the two up to bat­tle the energy crea­ture Zzzax.

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Rise of the Guardians to get Award at Rome Fest

Posted on October 4, 2012 by Paul Anderson


Rise of the Guardians

The Rome Film Fes­ti­val (Fes­ti­val Inter­nazionale del Film di Roma, Novem­ber 9 to 17, Audi­to­rium Parco della Musica) and Van­ity Fair will award the new Van­ity Fair Inter­na­tional Award for Cin­e­matic Excel­lence this year to Rise of the Guardians, the lat­est 3D film by Dream­Works Ani­ma­tion SKG.

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Montreal Stop Motion Film Festival’s Program Out

Posted on October 4, 2012 by Ethan Minovitz

Montreal Stop Motion Film Festival

The fourth edi­tion of the Mon­treal Stop Motion Film Fes­ti­val has announced the release of its offi­cial pro­gram for 2012.

This year, the fes­ti­val will be tak­ing place from Octo­ber 19 to 21 in the J.A. de Sève The­ater at Con­cor­dia Uni­ver­sity (1453 Mackay Street, Montreal).

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Who’s In At London Animation Festival

Posted on September 29, 2012 by DaveK

London International Animation Festival

The largest ani­mated film fes­ti­val in the United King­dom– the Lon­don Inter­na­tional Ani­ma­tion Fes­ti­val– has announced this years pro­gram. Included are over 280 films from thirty coun­tries com­pet­ing in 10 cat­e­gories. Show­cas­ing the best in British and inter­na­tional ani­ma­tion, this years fes­ti­val also includes sev­eral impor­tant pre­mieres, in addi­tion to attendee events and symposiums.

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