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Croods Posters Evolve

The Croods Theatrical Poster

Dream­Works Animation’s next ani­mated film, The Croods, today got two new updated posters, one domes­tic and one Inter­na­tional. Both posters fea­ture the whole pre­his­toric fam­ily, and a view of the exotic lands they live in. The domes­tic poster fea­tures the film release date– March 23, while the inter­na­tional ver­sion just says com­ing soon.

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

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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The Animation Oscar Nominees

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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Rise of the Guardians Wins at Satellite Awards

Rise Of The Guardians

Dream­works Animation’s “Rise Of The Guardians” was named Best Motion Pic­ture, Ani­mated or Mixed Media at the Satel­lite Awards, held Sun­day night by the Inter­na­tional Press Acad­emy at the Inter­con­ti­nen­tal Hotel in Bev­erly Hills.

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DWA’s Rise of the Guardians Surpasses $100M Abroad


Rise Of The Guardians

Rise of the Guardians” went past the $100 mil­lion bench­mark at the for­eign box office over the weekend.

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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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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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Guardians Slow to Rise, Opens in Fourth Place

Rise Of The Guardians

Such child­hood heroes as the Tooth Fairy and Santa Claus save the world in Rise of the Guardians, but they didn’t stop the movie from open­ing in fourth place over the five-day Thanks­giv­ing weekend.

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21 Animated Features Submitted For 2012 Oscar Race

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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DreamWorks Animation’s Profit Rises by 24 Percent


DreamWorks Animation

Dream­Works Ani­ma­tion had net income of $24.4 mil­lion for the third quar­ter ended Sep­tem­ber 30, up 24% from $19.7 mil­lion for the same period in 2011, the stu­dio announced Thursday.

For the quar­ter, the com­pany reported total rev­enue of $186.3 mil­lion. This com­pares to rev­enue of $160.8 mil­lion for the same period in 2011.

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DWA’s Katzenberg To Receive 150% Salary Increase

DreamWorks Animation

Dream­Works Ani­ma­tion CEO Jef­frey Katzenberg’s annual base salary will increase 150% from $1 mil­lion a year to $2.5 mil­lion under a con­tract exten­sion reached with the studio.

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DreamWorks Animation Chairman Roger Enrico Quits

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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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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Meet The Croods, The New Animated Stone-age Family


The Croods

With Dream­Works Animation’s “Rise Of The Guardians” win­ning all kinds of awards– even before it is released– the next movie is the com­pany pipeline is start­ing to get some love. “The Croods” is on deck and ready to show it’s stuff. First look is now avail­able with the first trailer from the ani­mated film now available.

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