Animation news, reviews and features from the BCDB blog, 2011 to 2017, kept here to read.
September 18, 2012 · Mr. Clevland
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.
September 18, 2012 · Ethan Minovitz
Canadian and world cinema lost a true giant Sunday with the death of film pioneer and former National Film Board of Canada filmmaker Roman Kroitor. Born on December 12, 1926 in Yorkton, Saskatchewan, Kroitor made enormous contributions to filmmaking during his tenure at the NFB in the 1950s and 1960s, developing the IMAX giant-screen format at the NFB's Montreal studio.
September 18, 2012 · Paul Anderson
Aardman Animations and Sony Pictures feature The Pirates! Band of Misfits is the odds on favorite in this years European Film Awards (EFA) competition. But is is not all clear sailing for the hit claymation film. It is up against Ignacio Ferreras and his film Arrugas (Wrinkles) from Spain, and the Czech entry Alois Nebel from director Tomás Lunák.
September 18, 2012 · Dave Koch
John Coates, one of the producers behind the animated feature adaption The Beatles' 1968 film Yellow Submarine, has passed away. He was in his eighties. He died at home in Kent, England on Sunday following a battle with cancer.
September 18, 2012 · Ethan Minovitz
Actor John Ingle, who portrayed Cera's father in many incarnations of The Land Before Time, died Sunday in Los Angeles. He was 84.
September 17, 2012 · Paul Anderson
"Finding Nemo" narrowly lost the swimming race with Resident Evil: Retribution at the North American box office this past weekend, according to studio estimates released Sunday. A 3D version of the 2003 Pixar-Disney smash hit, Finding Nemo charted at No. 2 spot in the United States and Canada to open at $17.5 million, according to Disney.
September 17, 2012 · Ethan Minovitz
"The Return of the Revenge of Dr. Blowhole," an episode of the Nickelodeon series The Penguins of Madagascar, was named Outstanding Animated Program on Saturday afternoon at the 2012 Creative Arts Emmy Awards.
September 16, 2012 · Mr. Clevland
The winner of this year's Cartoon d'Or for best European animation short film is Oh Willy..., by Emma De Swaef and Marc James Roels. The award was handed out Thursday at the Cartoon Forum at the Théâtre National de Toulouse in France. The other nominees were Zing, Edmond Was a Donkey, Tram and Flamingo Pride.
September 16, 2012 · Ethan Minovitz
Longtime Hollywood marketing executive Geoffrey Ammer, who worked with such animated films as Toy Story 2, Mulan and A Bug's Life, died Sunday morning at St. John's Health Center in Santa Monica, California. He was 62.
September 15, 2012 · Ethan Minovitz
French film and theatre actor and director Pierre Mondy, heard in two 1980s Asterix cartoon movies, died Saturday morning at Pitié-Salpêtrière hospital in Paris from a relapsed lymphoma. He was 77. He voiced Caius Obtus in Asterix et la Surprise de Cesar (Asterix vs. Caesar; 1985) and Cetinlapsus in Asterix Chez Le Bretons (Asterix in Britain; 1986).
September 14, 2012 · Dave Koch
DC Nation- the animated collaboration between Cartoon Network, Warner Bros. Animation and DC Entertainment- will see new episodes of Green Lantern: The Animated Series and Young Justice: Invasion throughout the fall. Also returning are the comedic animated shorts and exclusive behind-the-scenes views of the DC Universe. This full hour animated action show begins a new season Saturday, September 29, at 10 a.m.
September 14, 2012 · Ethan Minovitz
The Walt Disney Company will record a $50 million write-down at its movie studio division after halting production on an as-yet untitled stop-motion animated film, an unnamed "source with knowledge of the matter" told Reuters on Thursday.
September 13, 2012 · Dave Koch
Dublin-based Brown Bag Films is expanding their employee base to 125, more than doubling size in the past two years. The firm’s most recent Disney series, and the top-rated pre-school show in the U.S., Doc McStuffins, attracted almost five million viewers and will expand to Europe this autumn.
September 13, 2012 · TammiToon
In a major strange bedfellows pairing, DreamWorks Animation and Technicolor announce a joint venture in a content distribution deal. Their new company- called M-Go- will be pushing out content digitally. But not just DWA's content... the agreement announced Tuesday are with NBCUniversal, Paramount Pictures, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, Twentieth Century Fox and Warner Bros. Digital Distribution.
September 13, 2012 · Paul Anderson
Newly opened Reel Rock GSW Studio has the unique distinction of becoming the first full-fledged animation facility in Jamaica. The studio was launched Monday evening at its Braemar Avenue headquarters in St Andrew. With a 12-member full time staff, the company is headed by directors Lorna Green, Wayne Sinclair and Fayval Williams.
September 12, 2012 · Ethan Minovitz
Longtime character actor Lance LeGault, the voice of Junior the Buffalo in the 2004 Disney movie Home on the Range, died Monday at his Los Angeles home, his daughter Mary said.
September 11, 2012 · Dave Koch
Building upon the global success of recent artist-driven series like Adventure Time and Regular Show, Cartoon Network has green-lit two new animated series. Steven Universe, from Adventure Time writer and storyboard artist Rebecca Sugar, and Uncle Grandpa, from Emmy Award-nominee Pete Browngardt, have started pre-production.
September 11, 2012 · Paul Anderson
Animation company Digital Domain is closing the doors to their Port St. Lucie studio, and in the process, is laying off between 280 and 350 employees.Their first original production "The Legend of Tembo," is now in limbo.
September 11, 2012 · Ethan Minovitz
Former Disney senior executive Bob Lambert, who helped the Mouse House move from film to digital production, died suddenly Friday of unnamed causes at his Glendale, California home, his family announced Monday night. He was 55.
September 10, 2012 · Dave Koch
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.