Animation news, reviews and features from the BCDB blog, 2011 to 2017, kept here to read.
September 9, 2012 · Paul Anderson
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.
September 8, 2012 · Ethan Minovitz
The Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has voted to present the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award to DreamWorks Animation CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg.
September 7, 2012 · Dave Koch
We are always adding new cartoons and series at BCDB, and this week is no exception. Here are some of the new series and cartoons we added recently. Monk or Monk La Cata sur Pattes Klara 'n' Rumms Nuts Nuts Nuts Les Pastagums (English: The Pastagums) Scruff S.O.S. Bout du Monde The Untouchables of Elliot Mouse.
September 7, 2012 · Mr. Clevland
The National Film Board of Canada will showcase four animated shorts at the 31st annual Vancouver International Film Festival, to be held from September 27 to October 12.
September 7, 2012 · Ethan Minovitz
Montreal-born producer Jake Eberts, whose movies won 37 Oscars -- including four for best picture -- died Thursday morning in his hometown after a brief illness. He was 71. He was executive producer of seven theatrical animated feature films, including the 2000 hit Chicken Run, on which he partnered with Jeffrey Katzenberg.
September 7, 2012 · Ethan Minovitz
Move over, Yellowstone, there's a new national park in town! Brickleberry is a new animated series revolving around a group of dysfunctional park rangers at a second-tier national park. Ten episodes kick off on Comedy Central at 10:30 p.m. Tuesday, September 25.
September 6, 2012 · Paul Anderson
Nickelodeon and the National Football League continue their relationship with NFL Rush Zone: Season of the Guardians, the second season of the first-ever original half-hour animated series developed by a major U.S. sports league and a cable network, the two entities jointly announced today.
September 6, 2012 · Ethan Minovitz
Walt Disney Animation Studios debuted a newly restored digital print of the once-thought-lost 1928 Oswald the Lucky Rabbit animated short “Hungry Hobos” at the Telluride Film Festival on September 2. The film, which was found in a private film vault in England in 2011, was acquired by Disney that same year and has undergone extensive digital restoration.
September 6, 2012 · Dave Koch
The 2011 animated film Gnomeo & Juliet looks like it has a sequel about to head into production, tentatively titled, Sherlock Gnomes. The garden gnomes originally retold the story of “Romeo and Juliet,” but this time look like they will be sending up the classic tales of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
September 5, 2012 · Ethan Minovitz
DreamWorks Animation's "Rise of the Guardians" will receive this year's Hollywood Animation Award at the 16th Annual Hollywood Film Festival and Hollywood Film Awards gala ceremony, to be held October 22 at the Beverly Hilton Hotel.
September 4, 2012 · TammiToon
On Friday, September 21 at the Alex Theatre in Glendale, California, the Chuck Jones Centennial Celebration Film Festival will be an evening devoted to honoring the artist who brought to life such famous cartoon characters as Wile E. Coyote, Road Runner, Pepé le Pew, Marvin Martian and Marc Anthony.
September 4, 2012 · Ethan Minovitz
Members of The Animation Guild, Local 839 IATSE have ratified the collective bargaining agreement reached with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers by an 86.7% margin, the local announced Friday.
August 30, 2012 · Paul Anderson
Russell Hicks, a 14-year Nickelodeon veteran and its chief creative officer since 2008, has been named to the new position of president of content development and production for the Nickelodeon Group.
August 30, 2012 · Ethan Minovitz
Comedic character actor Steve Franken, who portrayed braggart rich kid Chatsworth Osborne, Jr. in the 1959-63 TV series The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, died Friday in Los Angeles. He was 80.
August 29, 2012 · Ethan Minovitz
New York-based animation distributor GKids announced Tuesday that it plans to give runs to four films in order to qualify them for this year's Oscars. Three of the four are French features: Zarafa (Pathe), Le Chat du Rabbin (The Rabbi's Cat) (TF1) and Le Tableau (The Painting) (Rezo). The fourth is Kokurikozaka Kara (From Up on Poppy Hill), from Japan's Studio Ghibli.
August 28, 2012 · Paul Anderson
The International Animated Film Society, ASIFA-Hollywood, announced Monday its "Call for Entries" for the 40th Annual Annie Awards. Submissions will be accepted beginning September 3.
August 28, 2012 · Ethan Minovitz
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.
August 27, 2012 · Dave Koch
With Disney's announcement for a November 13, 2012 Blu-ray release of the Pixar hit Brave, also comes the news of a new short based in the new Brave world. Extras on the release will include a new short called, The Legend of Mor’du as well as 2001's theatrically released La Luna (which was shown before Brave in it's theatrical release).
August 27, 2012 · Paul Anderson
Pixar's "Brave" collected an estimated $4.3 million from about 565 screens in the United Kingdom, leading that country's box office in its fourth weekend.
August 27, 2012 · Ethan Minovitz
Animator and director Kenneth David "Ken" Walker, whose work for Disney included such memorable films as Alice in Wonderland and Fantasia, died August 18 in Laguna Hills, California. He was 91.