Animation news, reviews and features from the BCDB blog, 2011 to 2017, kept here to read.
November 17, 2012 · Ethan Minovitz
The animated comedy "Turkeys" will be released November 14, 2014, Relativity Media and Reel FX announced Thursday. Turkeys is helmed by Jimmy Hayward, director of box office hit Horton Hears A Who! and animator on such films as Disney/Pixar's Finding Nemo and Monsters Inc. The film is jointly produced and financed by Relativity and Reel FX, and is now set for theatrical release.
November 16, 2012 · Ethan Minovitz
Rainmaker Entertainment Inc. has appointed feature film and TV executive Michael Hefferon as president and executive producer, Craig Graham, newly appointed chairman and CEO of the Vancouver-based CGI animation production studio, announced.
November 16, 2012 · Paul Anderson
Mystery continues to surround the fatal shooting of a 10-year-old boy who was watching Wreck-It Ralph in a southern Mexico City theater.
November 15, 2012 · Mr. Clevland
Actress Mitsuko Mori, the voice of Hii-sama in the original Japanese version of Hayao Miyazaki's 1997 film Princess Mononoke, died Saturday at a Tokyo hospital. She was 92.
November 15, 2012 · Ethan Minovitz
Nickelodeon has named Jill Sanford vice-president of animation development for the Nickelodeon Group.
November 14, 2012 · Mr. Clevland
Voice actress Lucille Bliss, who portrayed the title character of the first made-for-TV cartoon series, Crusader Rabbit (1949-51), died Thursday night, animator Dave Nimitz said. She was 96.
November 14, 2012 · Ethan Minovitz
Animator and director Margaret Nichols, an executive board member of The Animation Guild from 1980 to 1985, died November 5. She was 82.
November 13, 2012 · Mr. Clevland
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.
November 13, 2012 · Ethan Minovitz
Directed by Shu-Hsuan Lin of Taiwan, "Live Outside the Box" was named the Grand Winner for Best Animation on Wednesday at the Oregon Film Awards.
November 12, 2012 · Dave Koch
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced Friday that 10 animated short films will advance in the voting process for the 85th Academy Awards. Fifty-six pictures had originally qualified in the category.
November 12, 2012 · Ethan Minovitz
Lego: The Piece of Resistance[/caption] Will Ferrell, Liam Neeson, Nick Offerman and Alison Brie are the latest stars to sign on for the new feature film adventure Lego: The Piece of Resistance, Warner Bros. Pictures announced.
November 8, 2012 · Ethan Minovitz
"It's Such a Beautiful Day," directed by Don Herzfeldt, was named Best Animation at the fourth international Yosemite International Film Festival, held in California. It's Such a Beautiful Day had won the First Prize Golden Zagreb Award at this year's Zagreb World Festival of Animated Films. It also was named Best Animation Film (Animated Short Film) a the Fant-Asia Film Festival and received the Best Animation Yoram Gross Award at the Flickerfest International Short Film Festival.
November 7, 2012 · Ethan Minovitz
Jack Bosson, chair of Woodbury University's animation department for three years, has died, cartoon historian Jerry Beck announced Monday evening. His age was not immediately available.
November 6, 2012 · Mr. Clevland
The Cinematheque and the Vancity Theatre, both located in downtown Vancouver, are co-hosting a major retrospective of the films of Studio Ghibli, the world-renowned anime studio founded in Tokyo in 1985 by animation directors Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata and producer Toshio Suzuki.
November 6, 2012 · Ethan Minovitz
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.
November 5, 2012 · Paul Anderson
"Wreck-It Ralph" topped the box office at $49.1 million to achieve the highest-grossing opening weekend in Walt Disney Animation history.
November 5, 2012 · Dave Koch
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.
November 5, 2012 · Ethan Minovitz
Character actor Leonard Termo, who appeared alongside Mickey Rourke in five 1980s films, died peacefully in his sleep Tuesday at his Santa Clarita, California home, his friend, actor Elias Koteas, said Friday. He was 77.
November 3, 2012 · Ethan Minovitz
DreamWorks Animation had net income of $24.4 million for the third quarter ended September 30, up 24% from $19.7 million for the same period in 2011, the studio announced Thursday. For the quarter, the company reported total revenue of $186.3 million. This compares to revenue of $160.8 million for the same period in 2011.
November 2, 2012 · Dave Koch
Irish animation house Brown Bag Films is set to begin pre-production on their first feature length animated film early next year. Nightglider will be co-produced by Brown Bag Films and Wind Dancer Films, and directed by Brown Bag Films' creative director Darragh O’Connell.