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

Posted on January 18, 2013 by Ethan Minovitz

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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Five Animated Feature Films Up For Golden Globes

Posted on December 14, 2012 by DaveK

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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Hotel Transylvania to Open Again With 2015 Sequel

Posted on November 13, 2012 by Mr. Clevland

Hotel Transylvania 2

Sony Pic­tures Ani­ma­tion will release a sequel to sleeper Hotel Tran­syl­va­nia, said an unnamed spokesman for the stu­dio. Set for release in 2015, the movie is ten­ta­tively titled Hotel Tran­syl­va­nia 2.

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21 Animated Features Submitted For 2012 Oscar Race

Posted on November 5, 2012 by DaveK

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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Tartakovsky Offers Animated Cartoon Short for Halloween

Posted on October 26, 2012 by DaveK

Hotel Transylvania

“Hotel Tran­syl­va­nia” — the record-setting 3D computer-animated mon­ster com­edy from Sony Pic­tures Ani­ma­tion that ranked as the biggest Sep­tem­ber open­ing in movie his­tory and the best open­ing ever for the stu­dio — is releas­ing a new ani­mated short as a spe­cial Hal­loween treat.

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Hotel Transylvania Opens in 1st Place in Russia

Posted on October 25, 2012 by Ethan Minovitz

Hotel Transylvania

There were many guests at “Hotel Tran­syl­va­nia” in Rus­sia over the week­end, where the ani­mated film opened at No. 1 with $5 mil­lion from 797 screens.

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Hotel Transylvania A Monster Animation Success, Sucks Up $43M

Posted on October 1, 2012 by Ethan Minovitz

Hotel Transylvania

Talk about a mon­ster movie!

Ani­mated 3-D fam­ily film Hotel Tran­syl­va­nia debuted over the week­end at the top of the United States and Cana­dian box office with $43 mil­lion, set­ting an all-time record for a Sep­tem­ber open­ing of a movie.

Fea­tur­ing the voices of Adam San­dler and Selena Gomez, the hotel opened way ahead of live-action sci­ence fic­tion flick Looper, which col­lected $21.2 mil­lion between Fri­day and Sun­day for sec­ond place.

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Dracula To Take A Big Bite Out Of BO?

Posted on September 28, 2012 by Paul Anderson


Hotel Transylvania

Sony Pic­tures Ani­ma­tion is set to take a big bite out of week­end box office with the release of the ani­mated film Hotel Tran­syl­va­nia. Bets are on that the 3D film will slide to an easy vic­tory in the week­end race to sales, with esti­mates rais­ing as high as 35 mil­lion for the film.

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Sony Pictures Animation becoming a “Manimal” house

Posted on September 18, 2012 by Mr. Clevland

Manimal

Sony Pic­tures Ani­ma­tion is turn­ing the short-lived Man­i­mal into a live-action/CG hybrid film, hav­ing acquired movie rights to the 1983 NBC series.

Hugely pro­lific 1980s TV pro­ducer Glen A. Lar­son cre­ated the show about a man who could become an ani­mal. Now Larson’s attached as a pro­ducer, think­ing that a flop TV series can become a hit movie. Sony is look­ing for writ­ers to develop a script.

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SPA celebrates its 10th with special screenings

Posted on August 28, 2012 by Ethan Minovitz

Sony Pictures Animation

The 10th anniver­sary cel­e­bra­tion of Sony Pic­tures Ani­ma­tion con­tin­ues with a five-week series of spe­cial screen­ings fea­tur­ing SPA’s tech­ni­cally com­pe­tent but pro­saic col­lec­tion of ani­mated and hybrid films, as well as reunions with film­mak­ers par­tic­i­pat­ing in Q & As fol­low­ing each screen­ing, rare footage/materials from the SPA archives, and giveaways.

The series, which will cul­mi­nate with an exclu­sive screen­ing of the highly-anticipated com­edy Hotel Tran­syl­va­nia, in the­aters Sep­tem­ber 28, was announced Mon­day by Bob Osher, pres­i­dent of Sony Pic­tures Dig­i­tal Pro­duc­tions, and SPA pres­i­dent of pro­duc­tion Michelle Raimo-Kouyate.

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ALF ready to touch down at Sony Pictures Animation

Posted on August 10, 2012 by Ethan Minovitz

ALF

Hav­ing just com­pleted a deal to acquire rights to the 1980s sit­com ALF, Sony Pic­tures Ani­ma­tion will turn it into a fea­ture film com­bin­ing CG ani­ma­tion and live action.

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Blue Smurfs don’t keep Sony Corp. out of red ink

Posted on May 11, 2012 by Ethan Minovitz


Sony Corporation
Despite the pop­u­lar­ity of the partly ani­mated “The Smurfs,” Sony Corp. announced Thurs­day a record annual loss of 457 bil­lion yen ($5.7 bil­lion), mark­ing its fourth year of red ink in a row.

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Trailer To Hotel Transylvania

Posted on April 20, 2012 by Paul Anderson


Hotel Transylvania

Sony Pic­tures Ani­ma­tion trou­bled pro­duc­tion of the 3D ani­mated Hotel Tran­syl­va­nia has some­thing to show for the nearly 10 years in pro­duc­tion it has seen. A first trailer. A first look at Adam Sandler’s Drac­ula as he parades around his styl­ish resort for over­worked monsters.

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Blow me down: SPA hires writers for 3D Popeye film

Posted on November 18, 2011 by Big Cartoon DataBase


Sony Pictures AnimationSony Pic­tures Ani­ma­tion has set screen­writ­ers Jay Sch­er­ick and David Ronn to write the screen­play for an all-new Pop­eye ani­mated fea­ture, based on the iconic char­ac­ters of comic strip and car­toon fame, the stu­dio announced Thursday.

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SPA developing “Chickenhare” animated feature film

Posted on July 21, 2011 by Paul Anderson

Chickenhare

Sony Pic­tures Ani­ma­tion and Dark Horse Enter­tain­ment will develop an ani­mated fea­ture film based on the Dark Horse graphic novel series Chick­en­hare by Chris Grine, SPA pres­i­dent Michelle Raimo-Kouyate announced Wednesday.

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