Animation news, reviews and features from the BCDB blog, 2011 to 2017, kept here to read.
June 24, 2014 · Dave Koch
The 38th annual Annecy International Animation Festival wound up June 14th and the winners are now available. The big winner for best feature film - the Cristal- is Alê Abreu's O Menino e o Mundo (The Boy and the World…
June 23, 2014 · Dave Koch
Disney Television Animation has announced they have begun production on "Pickle & Peanut," a buddy-comedy series about two unlikely friends. Scheduled to premiere on Disney XD in fall 2015 premiere, "Pickle & Peanut"…
June 20, 2014 · Dave Koch
Pixar's next animated feature film - Inside Out- is due out in one year, and today Pixar announced the short that will accompany the film. The short is titled Lava and is described as a musical love story that takes…
June 19, 2014 · Dave Koch
Over the last week, three new series have been announce from three separate studios, all of them revisiting previous shows or films. Disney is sending The Lion Guard to Disney Jr., Scholastic Entertainment is sending…
June 18, 2014 · Dave Koch
Remember last month when DreamWorks pulled the old switcheroo with a couple films? Monday DreamWorks released the first trailers for both films... 2014's The Penguins of Madagascar and 2015's Home. DreamWorks does not…
June 17, 2014 · Dave Koch
The popular 1990's Hanna-Barbera series The Powerfuff Girls is headed back to Cartoon Network. Not much has been released about the new series, so we have no word on who is directing, writing or producing. We don't even…
June 11, 2014 · Dave Koch
Laika Entertainment has released the official domestic trailer for their highly anticipated 2014 release The Boxtrolls. Three months from release, the film is directed by Anthony Stacchi and Graham Annable and based on…
June 5, 2014 · Dave Koch
Once again dipping into their deep archives, Disney is pulling out a rework of the life of the Seven Dwarfs for their new animated TV show The 7D. Rather than set the story in the world of Snow White And The Seven…
June 2, 2014 · Dave Koch
I have been looking forward to Maleficent with equal amounts of anticipation and dread. On one hand, she is easily my favorite Disney villain, so cold and so pure, and I want desperately to see more of her and her…
June 1, 2014 · Dave Koch
In the mess of trailers before Maleficent this weekend, there was one that quite literally took my breath away. It was not Boxtrolls (which looks good), or Jupiter Rising, but The Book of Life, the new CG animated…
May 29, 2014 · Dave Koch
DreamWorks Animation's Dragons: Defenders of Berk (which was called Dragons: Riders of Berk it's premiere year) is making an even bigger change for it's third season. According to Hollywood Reporter, after the second…
May 28, 2014 · Dave Koch
Just days after the first pictures are released from the next Disney animated film Big Hero 6, Disney has dropped a teaser trailer on the web. Timing in at 1:37, the video shows the main character Hiro Hamada creating…
May 22, 2014 · Dave Koch
Disney has released the first real peek at the artwork and character design from their next major feature film, Big Hero 6. The images show the main character Hiro Hamada, and also show his robotic creation BayMax.…
May 21, 2014 · Dave Koch
DreamWorks Animation has switched the release dates on a couple of upcoming films, one only six months before it was to hit screens. November's release of Home has been switched with The Penguins of Madagascar, which…
May 12, 2014 · Dave Koch
As we count down to the release date of Disney's new take on Maleficent, the PR machine is hitting high gear. A whole new series of posters starts the celebration off... four new teaser posters featuring the main…
May 9, 2014 · Dave Koch
It took a while, but we are finally here! The Big Cartoon DataBase hit the milestone of 150,000 entries earlier today with the addition of the cartoon The Polish Language. This film was added to BCDB on May 9th, 2014 at…
May 8, 2014 · Dave Koch
Funnyman Will Ferrell and partner Adam McKay are working on bringing back everyone's favorite stone-age family. The duo's production company Gary Sanchez Productions is in development on a new Flintstones animated…
May 8, 2014 · Dave Koch
Director Kelly Asbury's The Untitled Smurfs Movie- planned for a 2015 release- has been pushed back a year. But there is still no official title. The film is believed to be a full 3D CGI animated film, not an…
May 2, 2014 · Dave Koch
Brown Bag Films series Peter Rabbit seems to have hopped ahead of the pack. The series, produced in Dublin, Ireland has bagged three daytime Emmys and scored another five nominations, earning the most nominations for an…
May 1, 2014 · TammiToon
Bob Hoskins, perhaps best known as detective Eddie Valiant in "Who Framed Roger Rabbit," has died at age 71. Eddie was the live action comic foil to the animated Roger. He grudgingly helped the bunny clear his name when…