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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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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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Three “Simpsons” Episodes Nominated for WGA Award

The Simpsons

Three episodes of “The Simp­sons” are among the five nom­i­nees for the Writ­ers Guild of Amer­ica Award in the cat­e­gory of animation.

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Red-faced Mr. Burns Supports Romney For President in Cartoon

The Simpsons

Nuclear plant owner C. Mont­gomery Burns, of “The Simp­sons” fame (or infamy, depend­ing on how you look at it), is back­ing Mitt Rom­ney for pres­i­dent of the United States.

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Ice Age 4 Sets Foreign Record For Animated Film

Ice Age: Continental Drift

After open­ing at the top of Italy’s box office this past week­end, Fox’s Ice Age: Con­ti­nen­tal Drift — also known as Ice Age 4 – now holds the record for the highest-grossing ani­mated movie ever to be released abroad.

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Bob & Fox Flipping Burgers For a Fourth Season

Bob's Burgers

FOX is going back to the grill for a fourth sea­son of Bob’s Burg­ers, announc­ing twenty-two new episodes for next year barely two shows into this year’s third season.

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Ice Age 4 Sets Foreign Record for Animated Film

Ice Age: Continental Drift

After open­ing at the top of Italy’s box office this past week­end, Fox’s Ice Age: Con­ti­nen­tal Drift — also known as Ice Age 4 — now holds the record for the highest-grossing ani­mated movie ever to be released abroad.

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Guild Members to Discuss TV Animation Development

The Animation Guild, Local 839

The State Of TV Ani­ma­tion Devel­op­ment” will be the sub­ject of a panel dis­cus­sion at the gen­eral mem­ber­ship meet­ing of The Ani­ma­tion Guild on Tues­day, Sep­tem­ber 25.

Devel­op­ment”: that enig­matic place where all tele­vi­sion shows get their start. What’s hap­pen­ing in TV ani­ma­tion devel­op­ment today? How does it work, and what are they cur­rently excited about? What are they look­ing for, and what makes a great pitch?

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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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Fox Animation helping Maguire bend “Cardboard”

Cardboard

Fox Ani­ma­tion is option­ing the recently pub­lished Graphix novel Card­board, with plans for actor Tobey Maguire’s Mate­r­ial Pic­tures, graphic nov­el­ist Doug Ten­Napel and the Gotham Group to be exec­u­tive producers.

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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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Ice Age 4″ surpasses $500 million

Ice Age: Continental Drift

Ice Age: Con­ti­nen­tal Drift” grossed $50.7 mil­lion at 15,932 screens in 69 for­eign coun­tries over the week­end, rais­ing its over­all gross abroad to $516.3 million.

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Beyoncé Knowles Colin Farrell go Epic

Blue Sky Studios

Twen­ti­eth Cen­tury Fox Ani­ma­tion and Blue Sky Stu­dios announced the voice cast for Epic, a new 3D CG action-adventure com­edy that reveals a hid­den world unlike any other. From the cre­ators of the Ice Age series and the very pop­u­lar fea­ture film Rio, Epic tells the story of an ongo­ing bat­tle deep in the for­est between the forces of good and the forces of evil. When a teen age girl finds her­self mag­i­cally trans­ported into this secret uni­verse, she must band together with a rag-tag team of fun and whim­si­cal char­ac­ters in order to save their world… and ours.

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Simpsons Meet The Ice Age

The Longest Daycare

Ice Age: Con­ti­nen­tal Drift will fea­ture more than pals Man­fred, Sid, Diego, Ellie and Scrat when it pre­mieres in July. Rather than the usual short fea­tur­ing Scrat chas­ing his acorn, the fourth Ice Age movie will reach out to America’s most dys­func­tional fam­ily with The Longest Day­care.

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