Animation news, reviews and features from the BCDB blog, 2011 to 2017, kept here to read.
March 9, 2012 · Paul Anderson
Voice actress Sayuri Yamauchi, credited by her first name in the anime in which she was heard, died Wednesday of cancer, voice actor Nobuyuki Kobushi and The Simpsons Fan Club of Japan reported. She was 55.
March 9, 2012 · Ethan Minovitz
"Cars 2," "Kung Fu Panda 2," "Puss In Boots," "Rango" and "Rio" have been nominated in the Animated Comedy Film category of the Comedy Awards 2012, the second annual blockbuster event dedicated to celebrating all that is funny.
March 9, 2012 · Ethan Minovitz
"Romance," a co-production of the National Film Board of Canada and two Swiss studios, was named Best Animated Short on Thursday night at the Genie Awards, Canada's equivalent of the Oscars.
March 9, 2012 · Dave Koch
CotD: PIXAR director Andrew Stanton makes the jump to live-action films with "John Carter" which was originally to be helmed by PIXAR's Brad Bird (who directed Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol).
March 8, 2012 · Paul Anderson
The sequel to Illuminations/Universal's 201 hit Despicable Me, so imaginatively titled Despicable Me 2, has it's first trailer out. The trailer gives nothing of the plot away, but if you love the little yellow Minions, you will love the new trailer. Or if you love the Beach Boys, you will love it.
March 8, 2012 · Ethan Minovitz
French comedic actor Pierre Tornade, the voice of chubby best friend Obelix in many Asterix cartoon movies, died Wednesday morning. He was 82.
March 8, 2012 · Dave Koch
CotD: Daffy steps up to center screen in "Robin Hood Daffy" as he once again tries to out-do Errol Flynn.
March 7, 2012 · Paul Anderson
Laika Entertainment's new puppet animation feature ParaNorman has just released the first trailer of the film.
March 7, 2012 · Ethan Minovitz
Jazz accordionist Frank Marocco, one of the world's most recorded accordion players, died Saturday at his home in California's San Fernando Valley. He was 81. He had been hospitalized earlier at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles for complications following hip replacement surgery, his daughter Cynthia said.
March 7, 2012 · Ethan Minovitz
Warner Bros. has picked up Sean Rubin's upcoming graphic novel Bolivar for an intended animated feature film.
March 7, 2012 · Dave Koch
CotD: Donald shows his rural roots in 1941's "Golden Eggs" as he goes to great lengths to get his hens to lay eggs.
March 6, 2012 · Ethan Minovitz
Jerome "Jerry" Courtland, one of two producers of the partly animated 1977 Disney movie Pete's Dragon, died Thursday of heart disease in the Santa Clarita Valley, California. He was 85.
March 6, 2012 · Ethan Minovitz
Philip Madoc, a television actor who was heard in the first Welsh-language animated feature film, died Monday. He was 77.
March 6, 2012 · Ethan Minovitz
Songwriter Robert B. Sherman, writer of many memorable tunes for Walt Disney movies, died Monday in London. He was 86. Few details are known as yet about the circumstances.
March 6, 2012 · Dave Koch
CotD: Friz gives us his version of an old Harmon-Ising style cartoon with "The Fifth-Column Mouse" updated to World War II themes.
March 5, 2012 · Ethan Minovitz
Sheldon Moldoff, a legendary artist during the Golden Age of Comics, died Wednesday. The Lauderhill, Florida resident was 91. Best known for a 15-year run with Batman from 1953 to 1967, he drew some of the goofiest, but most beloved Batman episodes ever, including "Zebra Batman" and "The Mermaid Batman." He introduced Batwoman and the original Batgirl.
March 5, 2012 · Ethan Minovitz
Universal Pictures' "Dr. Seuss' The Lorax" cleaned up at the North American box office over the weekend, making $70.7 million for the biggest opening of any movie so far this year.
March 5, 2012 · Dave Koch
CotD: Introducing both the characters and the series, "The Ant And The Aardvark" was Friz Freleng's follow up to his hugely popular Pink Panther and Inspector series.
March 4, 2012 · Paul Anderson
The second of two lawsuits against Christian media mogul Naguib Sawaris over a cartoon of Mickey and Minnie Mouse in conservative Muslim guise was dismissed Saturday by a Cairo court, Egyptian state media reported.
March 4, 2012 · Ethan Minovitz
Canada's Global Television network has been made to apologize to viewers for giving them insufficient warning about a Family Guy spoof in which Elmer Fudd kills wascally wabbit Bugs Bunny at wast. A 2006 episode, Stewie B. Goode, has a bloody, protracted scene in which Elmer shoots Bugs four times, then breaks his neck.