Animation news, reviews and features from the BCDB blog, 2011 to 2017, kept here to read.
October 27, 2011 · Dave Koch
CotD: The grand daddy of all Halloween specials, "It's The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown" first aired 45 years ago today (or, tonight rather!)
October 26, 2011 · Big Cartoon DataBase
Laika Entertainment's feature for next summer, ParaNorman, now has a pre-release poster. Due for release August 17, ParaNorman will be a stop-action film on the order of their last film, the highly acclaimed film adaption of Neil Gaiman's Coraline.
October 26, 2011 · Ethan Minovitz
"Tatsumi," by Eric Khoo, was named Best Animated Film at the 44th annual Sitges International Fantastic Film Festival in Spain on Saturday. The 98-minute film is a co-production of studios in Singapore and Indonesia. Khoo borrowed manga artist Yoshihiro Tatsumi's autobiography, A Drifting Life, and five short stories to take the big leap from cartoon to the big screen.
October 26, 2011 · Dave Koch
CotD: Its that time of year and Bugs Bunny is celebrating the season in 1978's "Bugs Bunny's Howl-Oween Special"
October 25, 2011 · Ethan Minovitz
"The Ugly Duckling" ("Gadkiy utyonok," directed by Garri Bardin of Russia, received the Best Feature Film Award late Saturday at the sixth annual Anim'est Animation Film Festival in Bucharest
October 25, 2011 · Dave Koch
CotD: Spun off from PIXAR's Cars film, "Mater And The Ghostlight" brought secondary character Tow Mater into the (lime) light
October 24, 2011 · Ethan Minovitz
Vancouver-based Rainmaker Entertainment is joining forces with family entertainment producer Jane Startz on the development and production of two family-oriented animated feature films. Utilizing Rainmaker's extensive CGI talents, the two films -- Tiger's Apprentice, based on Newbury Honor winner Laurence Yep's best-selling young adult novel of the same title, and Far Flung Adventures: Fergus Crane, based on the children's fantasy tale written by Paul Stewart and illustrated by Chris Riddell (which was also the winner of the Nestle Children's Book Prize) -- will be produced by Startz and Rainmaker Entertainment president and executive producer Catherine Winder, who announced the two film projects Wednesday.
October 24, 2011 · Dave Koch
CotD: The first PIXAR film with human characters, "The Incredibles" was a wonderful mix of James Bond and PIXAR
October 23, 2011 · Dave Koch
CotD: The shortest of all the Disney features, "Dumbo" packs a lot of emotion into its 64 minutes
October 22, 2011 · Dave Koch
CotD: Fresh off the closing of the WB studios, Freleng and many other veterans got right to work on a new series starring a pink cat, like "Paperback Writer".
October 21, 2011 · Dave Koch
CotD: I do not like always posting old WB cartoons, but "Bye, Bye Bluebeard" is an Art Davis cartoon, and I will always post an Arty Cartoon!
October 20, 2011 · Dave Koch
CotD: Fresh off the closing of the WB studios, Freleng and many other veterans got right to work on a new series starring a pink cat, like "An Ounce Of Pink".
October 19, 2011 · Dave Koch
CotD: Disney took on Rudyard Kipling in "Mad As A Mars Hare", the last feature film Walt Disney actively oversaw.
October 18, 2011 · Paul Anderson
Tunisian extremists firebombed the home of a TV station's chief late Friday to protest a broadcast of the Oscar-nominated 2007 animated film Persepolis. About a hundred men besieged the home of Nabil Karoui, the head of private television channel Nessma, the station reported in its evening news bulletin. Some tossed Molotov cocktails at the home, located in the national capital of Tunis.
October 18, 2011 · Ethan Minovitz
Green Lantern, a DC Comics mainstay for more than 70 years, will be seen in an entirely new way when Warner Bros. Animation's Green Lantern: The Animated Series -- from world-renowned producer, artist and animator Bruce Timm (Batman: The Animated Series, Justice League) -- comes to Cartoon Network in a one-hour special event. Fans in the United States can watch a sneak peek of the complete first scene from the series at the Green Lantern: The Animated Series webpage at BCDB .
October 18, 2011 · Dave Koch
CotD: Disney took on Rudyard Kipling in "The Jungle Book", the last feature film Walt Disney actively oversaw.
October 17, 2011 · Ethan Minovitz
The animated "Rio" and partly animated "Yogi Bear" are among the three nominees for this year's Environmental Media Award in the Feature Film category. The 21st annual EMAs will be held Saturday in Los Angeles.
October 17, 2011 · Dave Koch
CotD: Those meddling kids head to the islands in "A Tiki Scare Is No Fair"; So did Freddy drive the whole way?
October 16, 2011 · Mr. Clevland
Dallas-based media and entertainment company Odyssey Pictures Corporation has acquired the screenplay and feature film rights of the children's literary franchise Hank the Cowdog from Rising Star Studios. Odyssey plans to produce the property as an animated feature film.
October 16, 2011 · Dave Koch
CotD: Poor Ralph Phillips from "From A To Z-Z-Z-Z" is still daydreaming his life away, 57 years later