Animation news, reviews and features from the BCDB blog, 2011 to 2017, kept here to read.
November 2, 2012 · Ethan Minovitz
British stop-motion animator Dave Borthwick, a director of the feature films The Magic Roundabout (2005) and Doogal (2006), died this past week in Bristol, England, cartoon historian Jerry Beck said Thursday morning.
November 1, 2012 · Paul Anderson
DreamWorks Animation CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg's annual base salary will increase 150% from $1 million a year to $2.5 million under a contract extension reached with the studio.
November 1, 2012 · Ethan Minovitz
Through its Film Club, the National Film Board of Canada is a privileged partner of public libraries across the country.
October 31, 2012 · Mr. Clevland
The Walt Disney Company has agreed to acquire Lucasfilm Ltd. in a stock and cash transaction valued at $4.05 billion, the firms announced Tuesday. Lucasfilm is 100% owned by its chairman and founder, George Lucas. Lucasfilm has been involved as a producer of the animated series The Clone Wars and Droids: The Adventures of R2-D2 and C3P0, as well as the animated movies Twice Upon A Time (1983) and Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008). The firm also supported Williams Street's Robot Chicken: Star Wars specials.
October 31, 2012 · Ethan Minovitz
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.
October 30, 2012 · TammiToon
Sony Animation"s "Hotel Transylvania" opened for business in a host of countries this past weekend, helping it make $18.1 million in its fourth week of foreign release.
October 30, 2012 · Ethan Minovitz
The stereoscopic "Brasil Animado 3D" is among the slate of feature films from the acquisitions team at ITN Distribution Inc. which will be offered at the 2012 American Film Market, taking place from October 31 to November 7 at the Loews Santa Monica Beach hotel.
October 29, 2012 · Paul Anderson
The Humane Society of the United States has teamed up with Academy Award-winning film company Aardman Animations to produce a four-minute animated children's film titled "A Pig's Tale" exposing problems with factory farming from the perspective of a piglet named Ginger.
October 29, 2012 · Ethan Minovitz
Mamoru Hosoda's Ôkami Kodomo No Ame to Yuki (Wolf Children) was named best animated feature film at the 45th Sitges - International Fantastic Film Festival of Catalonia, while Fuga, by Juan Antonio Espigares of Spain, was honored as best animated short.
October 28, 2012 · Ethan Minovitz
Roger Enrico has resigned as chairman of the board of directors for DreamWorks Animation, effective immediately, the company announced Thursday.
October 27, 2012 · Mr. Clevland
The TV series "The Amazing World of Gumball" has received two nominations for the British Academy Children's Awards, organizers announced Monday.
October 27, 2012 · Ethan Minovitz
Relativity Media and Reel FX, a movie studio based in Dallas and Santa Monica, announced Wednesday that they will jointly produce and finance the animated comedy Turkeys, slated for a 2014 release.
October 26, 2012 · Dave Koch
"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.
October 26, 2012 · Ethan Minovitz
Singer-songwriter William "Bill" Dees, co-writer with Roy Orbison of such global hits as "Oh, Pretty Woman" and "It's Over," died Wednesday night at a nursing facility in Mountain Home, Arkansas. He was 73.
October 26, 2012 · Mr. Clevland
The Robot Hall of Fame inducted WALL•E, the fictional robot of the namesake Pixar movie, during a ceremony Tuesday evening at Carnegie Science Center in Pittsburgh.
October 26, 2012 · Paul Anderson
"Delhi Safari," directed by Nikhil Advani, will be in theaters across the United States in the top 20 regional markets featured on over 70 screens starting December 7, Applied Art Productions announced Wednesday.
October 25, 2012 · Paul Anderson
The National Film Board of Canada is launching the sixth edition of Get Animated!, bringing many of the country's finest and funniest animated films to communities across Canada in celebration of International Animation Day (Sunday, October 28).
October 25, 2012 · Mr. Clevland
PLATFORM, the internationally acclaimed animation festival, is hosting a three-day event in Los Angeles from Friday to Sunday, October 26 to 28.
October 25, 2012 · Ethan Minovitz
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.
October 24, 2012 · Paul Anderson
There is a new poster making the rounds on the Internets featuring Ryan Gosling in a new Ron Howard film called Walt. The poster features Gosling as Walt busy scribbling away in a train car, with Mickey in the clouds outside the window. Looks like a good film, but there is only one problem- it is a fake.