Animation news, reviews and features from the BCDB blog, 2011 to 2017, kept here to read.
April 1, 2012 · Ethan Minovitz
The partly animated "Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked" was named Favorite Movie at Saturday night's Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards, defeating two other hybrid films.
April 1, 2012 · Dave Koch
CotD: Screwy Squirrel first appeared in Tex Avery's "Screwball Squirrel from 1944. Contray to popular beleif, the directer did NOT voice Meathead.
March 31, 2012 · TammiToon
From there to here, from here to there, things are stolen everywhere. This time, it's a 300-pound, three-foot-high bronze statue of Dr. Seuss' The Lorax, star of the recent animated film of the same name.
March 31, 2012 · Ethan Minovitz
Charlize Theron, the "Our Friends" narrator in the computer-animated 2009 movie Astro Boy, will receive the CinemaCon Distinguished Decade of Achievement in Film Award, the convention's managing director, Mitch Neuhauser, announced Thursday.
March 31, 2012 · Dave Koch
CotD: Art Davis' last Warner Bros. cartoon as a director, "Quackodile Tears is sometimes erroneously credited to Friz Freleng.
March 30, 2012 · Paul Anderson
Disney's expensive and critically panned 3D epic "John Carter" has found favor in -- of all places -- China.
March 30, 2012 · Ethan Minovitz
The animated "A Letter to Momo," a beautifully hand-drawn tale combinining bursts of whimsy, kinetic humor and deep-felt emotion (and goblins!), won the Grand Prize Feature award at Sunday's conclusion of the New York International Children's Film Festival.
March 30, 2012 · Dave Koch
CotD: Based On A book by William Joyce "Meet The Robinsons was the first feature under the supervision of Walt Disney Animation president David Stainton.
March 29, 2012 · Dave Koch
CotD: Marvin the Martian takes on Bugs Bunny in "Hare-Way To The Stars, and the universe will never be quite the same again.
March 28, 2012 · Dave Koch
CotD: Taz's final appearance in a classic Warner Bros. cartoon short was in 1964's "Dr. Devil And Mr. Hare.
March 27, 2012 · Ethan Minovitz
Multiple Emmy-winning animator, director and producer James "Jim" Duffy, a 20-year Klasky Csupo veteran, died Friday after a long battle with cancer. He was 75.
March 27, 2012 · Dave Koch
CotD: Based on the horror comic book "Rex Havoc," "Monsters vs. Aliens was the first DreamWorks Animation film produced in stereoscopic 3D.
March 26, 2012 · Dave Koch
As reported earlier, Glen Keane, renown Disney animator of such highly regarded films as The Little Mermaid (1989), Beauty And The Beast(1991) and Aladdin (1992), announced his resignation from Disney after thirty-eight years with the Mouse House. he announced his resignation to his colleagues at Disney in a letter. Here is the full text of Friday's letter.
March 26, 2012 · Mr. Clevland
"Save the Stump!", an episode of The Jim Henson Company's partly animated PBS Kids series Sid The Science Kid, won in the Children's Programming category Saturday at the 26th Genesis Awards, presented by the Humane Society of the United States.
March 26, 2012 · Paul Anderson
Glen Keane, an animator with Walt Disney Animation Studios on such classics as The Little Mermaid (1989), Beauty And The Beast(1991) and Aladdin (1992), announced Friday that he's leaving the company after a 38-year gig.
March 26, 2012 · Ethan Minovitz
Actor and magician Joseph Anthony "Tony" Giorgio, who portrayed Bruno Tattaglia in the classic 1972 movie The Godfather, died February 1 in Van Nuys, California of cardiopulmonary failure. The Sherman Oaks, California resident was 88.
March 26, 2012 · Dave Koch
CotD: The new Looney Tunes theme music begins with "Sahara Hare, a hare of Bugs and Sheik Riff Raff Sam in the desert.
March 25, 2012 · Dave Koch
CotD: Ben Hardaway last voiced Woody Woodpecker in "Drooler's Delight; Grace Stafford would voice the rest of the Woody shorts produced by her husband Walter Lantz.
March 24, 2012 · Paul Anderson
The Oscar-nominated French animated feature "A Cat in Paris" and the British featurette "The Gruffalo's Child" will both have their southeastern United States premieres at the Florida Film Festival, to be held from April 13 to 22. Both films can be seen at 4 p.m. Saturday, April 14 at the Garden Theatre and at 12 noon Sunday, April 15 at Regal Winter Park Village A.
March 24, 2012 · Ethan Minovitz
Organizers on Friday revealed details on the film program for the London 2012 Festival –- a 12-week United Kingdom-wide cultural celebration from June 21 to September 9 bringing together leading artists from across the world with the very best from Britain.