Animation news, reviews and features from the BCDB blog, 2011 to 2017, kept here to read.
August 24, 2012 · Paul Anderson
The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences announced Wednesday the juried winners for the 64th Primetime Emmy Awards in the category of Individual Achievement in Animation.
August 24, 2012 · Dave Koch
Universal Pictures' "Untitled Minions Project," a spin-off from the blockbuster movie Despicable Me, will be released December 19, 2014, the studio announced Tuesday night.
August 24, 2012 · Ethan Minovitz
This year's BFI London Film Festival festival will open Wednesday, October 10 with the European premiere of Disney's Frankenweenie, directed by acclaimed filmmaker Tim Burton, organizers announced Thursday.
August 23, 2012 · Paul Anderson
David Hand's seminal "Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs" and the 2012 Disney short Paperman will be screened at the 50th New York Film Festival as part of the Masterworks section, organizers announced Monday.
August 22, 2012 · Ethan Minovitz
Dick Van Dyke, who took on the dual role of Bert and Mr. Dawes Senior in the partly animated 1964 Disney musical Mary Poppins, will receive SAG-AFTRA's highest honor -- the SAG Life Achievement Award for career achievement and humanitarian accomplishment.
August 21, 2012 · Mr. Clevland
DreamWorks Animation announced Monday that the Glendale, California-based company has entered into a new five-year distribution agreement with Twentieth Century Fox.
August 21, 2012 · Ethan Minovitz
Phyllis Diller, a pioneer of female stand-up comedy, died Monday morning at her Los Angeles home surrounded by family, sources close to the comedienne said. She was 95. "She died peacefully in her sleep and with a smile on her face," longtime manager Milton Suchin told the Associated Press.
August 20, 2012 · Dave Koch
Upset with Disney for their continued lobbying efforts to secure copyright extensions for Mickey Mouse and other early characters, Los Angeles street artist Denmark has taken to the streets. Denmark has modified numerous stop signs in the Burbank area to resemble the classic Mickey Mouse profile, and including a message reading, “Copyright Extension needs to stop”.
August 20, 2012 · Paul Anderson
Laika Entertainment's "ParaNorman," an animated comedy thriller starring a small-town boy who battles zombies, opened at third place in the North American box office this weekend with $14 million.
August 20, 2012 · Ethan Minovitz
You'd think that a cartoon picture of Bobby Hill (of King of the Hill fame) on an ID card would raise booze salesmen's eyebrows. But in an undercover operation, a teenager used it successfully to buy alcohol six times in England's Nottinghamshire county. Moreover, the age given on the card was 17 -- under legal drinking age in Britain.
August 17, 2012 · Ethan Minovitz
"The Last Belle," by Neil Boyle of the United Kingdom, won the Grand award in Animation at FLICKERS: Rhode Island International Film Festival.
August 16, 2012 · Ethan Minovitz
At this year's Vancouver International Film Festival, China's The Monkey King gets an eye-popping 3D restoration on its 50th anniversary; A Liar's Autobiography (also in 3D) celebrates Graham Chapman's inimitable work with Monty Python; and Persistence of Vision tells the story of what could have been the greatest animated feature of all time, The Thief and the Cobbler.
August 15, 2012 · Ethan Minovitz
The Walt Disney Company is not proceeding with Henry Selick's still-untitled stop-motion animated film, crew members on the project were told Tuesday afternoon. Known only as "Untitled Henry Selick 3-D Project," it was scheduled for release October 4, 2013. About 150 San Francisco-based artists were ready to complete work on the movie, which started shooting last summer.
August 14, 2012 · Paul Anderson
Animation by the National Film Board of Canada will be showcased at the 36th Montreal World Film Festival, which runs from August 23 to September 3. The event will screen three NFB animated short films in their French versions, including MacPherson, by Martine Chartrand. Two more NFB animated shorts, The Banquet of the Concubine (Folimage/Foliascope/NFB/Nadasdy Film), by Hefang Wei, and It's a Dog's Life (Folimage/NFB), by Julie Rembauville and Nicolas Bianco-Levrin, have been selected.
August 14, 2012 · Ethan Minovitz
"Asura," by Keiichi Sato, and "A Letter to Momo," by Hiroyuki Okiura, tied for the Audience Award for Best Animated Feature at the 16th Fantasia International Film Festival, which ended Thursday in Montreal.
August 12, 2012 · Paul Anderson
The first American woman to direct an animated feature film from a major studio has left Pixar to become a consultant for Lucasfilm Animation.
August 11, 2012 · Ethan Minovitz
Canadian-born essayist, journalist and actor David Rakoff, a writer for The New York Times Magazine and many other publications, died Thursday evening. He was 47. Rakoff was in the voice cast of the 2009 Williams Street animated pilot Snake 'n' Bacon. Based on the creations of American cartoonist and illustrator Michael Kupperman, it aired on Cartoon Network's Adult Swim channel.
August 10, 2012 · Ethan Minovitz
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.
August 9, 2012 · Paul Anderson
The Toronto International Film Festival is set to present 44 world-class Canadian short films, including four with animation, in this year's Short Cuts Canada program. With a lineup as diverse in themes and cultures as the country itself, six engaging programs will represent the styles of both accomplished and emerging directors from across Canada. From strong social statements to deadpan humor, Short Cuts Canada programmers Alex Rogalski and Magali Simard received nearly 700 entries -- the most submissions to date for the program -- indicating steady growth in film talent in Canada.
August 9, 2012 · Ethan Minovitz
Strong ticket sales to such films as "Brave" helped third-quarter profit at Disney's movie studio zoom to $313 million from $49 million a year ago.