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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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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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Brave, Muppets Animated Film Music Nominated For ’13 Grammys

Grammy

Tunes from such ani­mated or partly ani­mated films as Pixar’s Brave and Disney’s The Mup­pets are up for the 55th Annual Grammy Awards. Nom­i­na­tions were announced Wednes­day night by The Record­ing Academy.

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National Board of Review Lauds Animated Wreck-It Ralph

Wreck-It Ralph

Disney’s “Wreck-It Ralph” has been named Best Ani­mated Fea­ture of 2012 by the National Board of Review, the Board announced Thurs­day.
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Cartoon of the Day: La Planète Sauvage (Fantastic Planet)

La Planete Sauvage English Title: Fantastic Planet

A car­toon we get asked about a lot (and I do mean a LOT!) is La Planète Sauvage (Eng­lish Title: Fan­tas­tic Planet). Not one I saw when I was grow­ing up, but many of you obvi­ously did. This joint pro­duc­tion by French and Czecho­slo­va­kian film­mak­ers was seen as a metaphor for Soviet oppres­sion of Czecho­slo­va­kia, and pres­sure from the Com­mu­nist government.

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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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DWA’s Guardians on Rise Abroad, Collects $40M

Rise Of The Guardians

Though it had tepid results in North Amer­ica, Dream­Works Animation’s Rise of the Guardians col­lected $40 mil­lion in 56 for­eign coun­tries over the weekend.

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Animated Monsters Gets A New Poster

Monsters University

Mon­sters Inc sequel Mon­sters Uni­ver­sity gets a new pro­mo­tional poster. The new film, set for release next June, will reunite Billy Crys­tal and John Good­man as Mike Wazowski and James P. ‘Sul­ley’ Sul­li­van, in a pre­quel of their col­lege days together.

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Jennifer Lee joins Chris Buck to direct Disney’s Frozen

Frozen

Walt Dis­ney Ani­ma­tion Stu­dios announced Thurs­day that it has tapped Jen­nifer Lee to join Chris Buck at the helm of its 53rd full-length ani­mated fea­ture, Frozen, which is slated for the big screen on Novem­ber 27, 2013.

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Cartoon of the Day: Treasure Planet

Treasure Planet

On this date in 2002, Dis­ney released Trea­sure Planet. Sort of a Dis­ney ver­sion of Robert Louis Stevenson’s “Trea­sure Island,” set in outer space.

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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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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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