Tag Archives: DreamWorks

Rise of the Guardians to get Award at Rome Fest


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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Wallen New CTO at DreamWorks Animation

Lincoln Wallen

Dream­Works Ani­ma­tion has announced they have pro­moted Lin­coln Wallen as their new CTO, replac­ing cur­rent CTO Ed Leonard. Dream­Works Ani­ma­tion has juts released Mada­gas­car 3: Europe’s Most Wanted, and is releas­ing the highly antic­i­pated Rise Of The Guardians next month.

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Guardians Unite On A New Poster

Rise of the Guardians

After a series of character-centric teaser posters, Dream­Works Animation’s Rise of the Guardians released a new pre-release poster. Fea­tur­ing all the major char­ac­ters from the film, the poster instills a sort of ani­mated Avengers team of super-heroes feel with it’s “Leg­ends Unite” tag line.

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Penguins Episode Wins Emmy for Animated Program

Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Emmy

The Return of the Revenge of Dr. Blow­hole,” an episode of the Nick­elodeon series The Pen­guins of Mada­gas­car, was named Out­stand­ing Ani­mated Pro­gram on Sat­ur­day after­noon at the 2012 Cre­ative Arts Emmy Awards.

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DreamWorks Animation and Technicolor Partner On Distribution Deal


DreamWorks Animation SKG

In a major strange bed­fel­lows pair­ing, Dream­Works Ani­ma­tion and Tech­ni­color announce a joint ven­ture in a con­tent dis­tri­b­u­tion deal. Their new com­pany– called M-Go– will be push­ing out con­tent dig­i­tally. But not just DWA’s con­tent… the agree­ment announced Tues­day are with NBCU­ni­ver­sal, Para­mount Pic­tures, Sony Pic­tures Home Enter­tain­ment, Twen­ti­eth Cen­tury Fox and Warner Bros. Dig­i­tal Distribution.

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Fox Reveals DreamWorks Animation 12-Picture Future


DreamWorks Animation SKG

20th Cen­tury Fox has leaked the next bak­ers dozen Dream­Works Ani­ma­tion movies-releases through the mid­dle of 2016– mark­ing the most ambi­tious slate for an ani­ma­tion house in Hol­ly­wood his­tory, and an indus­try first in output.

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Katzenberg to receive Academy’s Humanitarian Award

Jeffrey Katzenberg

The Board of Gov­er­nors of the Acad­emy of Motion Pic­ture Arts and Sci­ences has voted to present the Jean Her­sholt Human­i­tar­ian Award to Dream­Works Ani­ma­tion CEO Jef­frey Katzenberg.

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Animation award going to “Rise of the Guardians”


Rise Of The Guardians

Dream­Works Animation’s “Rise of the Guardians” will receive this year’s Hol­ly­wood Ani­ma­tion Award at the 16th Annual Hol­ly­wood Film Fes­ti­val and Hol­ly­wood Film Awards gala cer­e­mony, to be held Octo­ber 22 at the Bev­erly Hilton Hotel.

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DWA enters into distribution agreement with Fox


DreamWorks Animation SKG

Dream­Works Ani­ma­tion announced Mon­day that the Glen­dale, California-based com­pany has entered into a new five-year dis­tri­b­u­tion agree­ment with Twen­ti­eth Cen­tury Fox.

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Kung Fu Panda 3 to be U.S.-Chinese co-production

King Fu Panda 3

The third install­ment of Dream­Works Animation’s Panda series, “Kung Fu Panda 3″ will be made in China as a co-production with DWA, a new Chi­nese joint ven­ture announced Monday.

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Nightmare at DreamWorks: quarterly profit down 63%

DreamWorks Animation SKG

Second-quarter net income at Dream­Works Ani­ma­tion SKG Inc. fell by a whop­ping 63 per­cent, the Glen­dale, California-based com­pany announced Tuesday.

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Fox and Blue Sky Studios announce “Epic” casting

Blue Sky Studios

Twen­ti­eth Cen­tury Fox Ani­ma­tion and Blue Sky Stu­dios announced Thurs­day the voice cast for Epic, a 3D CG action-adventure com­edy that reveals a hid­den world unlike any other.

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Colbert, Janney join “Mr. Peabody & Sherman” cast


Mr. Peabody & Sherman

Stephen Col­bert (“The Col­bert Report”), Emmy win­ner Alli­son Jan­ney (The Help, The West Wing), Ellie Kem­per (Brides­maids, The Office), Ariel Win­ter (Mod­ern Fam­ily) and Stephen Tobolowsky (Dr. Seuss’ The Lorax, Cal­i­for­ni­ca­tion) have joined Dream­Works Animation’s Mr. Peabody & Sher­man, which is now sched­uled to be released on Novem­ber 8, 2013, the stu­dio announced Tuesday.

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Kung Fu Panda 2 (2011) — Theatrical Feature


Kung Fu Panda 2

#CotD: One year old today, “Kung Fu Panda 2″ was an Acad­emy Award nom­i­nee, but did not take the top prize.

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Shrek (2001) — National Film and Television School

Shrek

#CotD: Named Best Ani­mated Fea­ture in 2002, “Shrek” is also the first ani­mated film nom­i­nated for an Acad­emy Award for best adapted screenplay.

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