Animation news, reviews and features from the BCDB blog, 2011 to 2017, kept here to read.
August 8, 2012 · Ethan Minovitz
The third installment of DreamWorks Animation's Panda series, "Kung Fu Panda 3" will be made in China as a co-production with DWA, a new Chinese joint venture announced Monday.
August 7, 2012 · Dave Koch
The Rhode Island International Film Festival hosts an unforgettable showcase from across the globe in "Where Dreams Are Born," a two-hour collection of animated shorts from Britain, Spain, Australia, Germany and the United States.
August 6, 2012 · Dave Koch
FEARnet, cable's premier destination for horror, suspense and thriller content, is adding a new two-hour weekend programming block starting August 18.
August 6, 2012 · Ethan Minovitz
Nickelodeon announced Friday that it has greenlit over a dozen new animation, live-action and TV-movie projects -- featuring top creative talent in front of and behind the camera, iconic characters from its most popular series and an animated talking snake -- that will begin rolling out this fall and into 2013. The CG-animated series Monsters vs. Aliens and 2D-series Sanjay & Craig have been greenlit, with both productions based at Nickelodeon's Animation Studio in Burbank, California. In addition, Nick preschool has added a new animated series, Monty and Norville, and two pilots, Blaze and the Monster Machines and Bad Seeds.
August 6, 2012 · Ethan Minovitz
Japanese director Toshiko Hata's animation "Rootless Heart" was named the Jury's Choice for Short Film at the 11-day Puchon International Fantastic Film Festival, held in South Korea.
August 4, 2012 · Ethan Minovitz
Character actor John "J.P." Finnegan, the voice of main villain Warren T. Rat -- feline leader of the Mott Street Maulers -- in Don Bluth's 1986 film An American Tail, died Sunday at his Palm Desert, California home from pneumonia and complications of old age, his wife Carolynn said. He was 85.
August 4, 2012 · Dave Koch
Nickelodeon’s brand-new CG-animated buddy comedy, Robot & Monster, premieres on Saturday, August 4 at 11:00 a.m. (ET/PT). The series follows the friendship and adventures of the most unlikely best-friend duo, Robot, a mechanical and self-proclaimed genius, and Monster, a happy-go-lucky organic. These pals live in a strange world where robots and monsters, also known as mechanicals and organics, live side-by-side and everybody is united by a love for bacon.
August 3, 2012 · Dave Koch
Several animated shorts were honored at this year's Giffoni International Film Festival, the largest children's film festival in Europe. Young jurors gave the Amnesty International Award to Heimatland, by Andrea Schneider, Marius Portmann and Fabio Friedli of Switzerland.
August 3, 2012 · Ethan Minovitz
Genndy Tartakovsky's "Hotel Transylvania" and the 3D version of "Finding Nemo" will both have their world premieres during the TIFF Kids program of the 37th Toronto International Film Festival, which runs from September 6 to 16.
August 2, 2012 · Ethan Minovitz
Second-quarter net income at DreamWorks Animation SKG Inc. fell by a whopping 63 percent, the Glendale, California-based company announced Tuesday.
August 2, 2012 · Paul Anderson
After a five-year absence, the National Film Board of Canada is back with an open-air screening of its recent animation at Montreal's enchanting Théâtre de Verdure.
August 1, 2012 · Ethan Minovitz
Director Andrew Stanton is returning to full animation with a sequel to Pixar's 2003 classic Finding Nemo.
July 31, 2012 · Ethan Minovitz
"Ice Age: Continental Drift" grossed $50.7 million at 15,932 screens in 69 foreign countries over the weekend, raising its overall gross abroad to $516.3 million.
July 31, 2012 · Dave Koch
The Minions -- yellow creatures who were Groo's henchmen for Groo in the animated hit Despicable Me -- will star in a feature film to be released by Universal in 2014.
June 17, 2012 · Dave Koch
#CotD: From Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera first theatrical series on their own, "Big Mouse Take" was also their only theatrical series.
June 16, 2012 · Dave Koch
#CotD: Disney's second most commercially successful animated film of it's time, "Lilo & Stitch" was unique in it's throw-back watercolor backgrounds.
June 15, 2012 · Dave Koch
#CotD: The most commercially successful animated film of it's time, "The Lion King" was criticized by as being little more than an animated Hamlet.
June 14, 2012 · Dave Koch
#CotD: From Zero to Hero, "Hercules " flip-flopped the traditional roles of Hera and Hades.
June 13, 2012 · Ethan Minovitz
Twentieth Century Fox Animation and Blue Sky Studios announced Thursday the voice cast for Epic, a 3D CG action-adventure comedy that reveals a hidden world unlike any other.
June 13, 2012 · Paul Anderson
Former Warner Bros. Entertainment president Alan Horn has been named chairman of the Walt Disney Studios effective June 11, Walt Disney Company chairman and CEO Bob Iger announced Thursday.