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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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Blue Umbrella serves as cover for Monsters U.

The Blue Umbrella

To be released just before the new fea­ture film Mon­sters Uni­ver­sity on June 21, the six-minute short Blue Umbrella will be the first Pixar film to be made by one of its tech­ni­cal artists.

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Warner Brothers Diving into Animation Think Tank

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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Ice Age sequel Was Fox’s Top Foreign Cartoon Hit For ’12

Ice Age: Continental Drift

20th Cen­tury Fox’s computer-animated “Ice Age: Con­ti­nen­tal Drift” was the studio’s top for­eign box-office hit of 2012, gar­ner­ing a ginor­mous $718.1 million.

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Producers Guild Announces its Animated Nominations

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

Sole Mates

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

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Cartoon of the Week: Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs

Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs

Dis­ney is quoted as say­ing, “It all started with a mouse.” Dis­ney was always invent­ing, always try­ing new things, push­ing the ani­ma­tion enve­lope. Today is the seventy-fifth anniver­sary of Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs, and while it was not the first ani­mated fea­ture film, or even the first in full color… it was cer­tainly the first com­mer­cially suc­cess­ful ani­mated fea­ture film, and it’s legacy is still being felt today.

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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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Hayao Miyazaki to Release First Animated Movie in 5 Years

Kaze Tachinu (The Wind Rises)

Japan­ese ani­ma­tor Hayao Miyazaki’s first film in five years will come out next year, dis­trib­u­tor Toho announced Thurs­day. Miyazaki will release wartime romance Kaze Tach­inu, based on the novel of the same name, usu­ally trans­lated as The Wind Has Risen.

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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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Angry Birds Bigger Than Disney?


Angry Birds

Mikael Hed, chief exec­u­tive of Finnish gam­ing com­pany Rovio, says the com­pany is going ahead with a 2016 fea­ture film based on his company’s famous avians, the Angry Birds. But Hed is not happy just mak­ing a fea­ture film, he plans on tak­ing the giant of children’s ani­ma­tion, Disney.

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Cartoon of the Day: The Emperor’s New Groove

The Emperor's New Groove

I am REALLY on the fence about The Emperor’s New Groove. Sure, it has it’s moments… it has Eartha Kitt… it also has Patrick War­bur­ton and Wendie Mal­ick. On the down side, it does have the barely one-dimensional David Spade in the lead role, and it was directed by Mark Din­dal who was still per­fect­ing the art of really screw­ing up an ani­mated film here (his Mas­ters the­sis was Chicken Lit­tle in 2005, eas­ily the worst film ever from Disney.)

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Concept Art From Animated Frozen

Frozen

The rumors of Dis­ney on ice are true, at least as far as the studio’s 53rd full-length ani­mated fea­ture full-length ani­mated fea­ture is con­cerned. Frozen, due in the­aters in a lit­tle less than a year is that ice-cold project, and Dis­ney has just released their first peak at the art from the film.

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