Animation news, reviews and features from the BCDB blog, 2011 to 2017, kept here to read.
January 16, 2014 · Dave Koch
DreamWorks Mr. Peabody & Sherman has a new clip for you to judge it by. The film, which is due out in theaters on March seventh, is a film based on Jay Wards' Peabody's Improbable History, a segment on the long-running…
January 15, 2014 · Dave Koch
The day after Frozen pulled in the Golden Globe for Best Animated Feature, Disney Theatrical Prods. has confirmed that the film is being updated for a possible Broadway production. The film, which earned over $97…
January 13, 2014 · Dave Koch
Golden GlobeDisney's Frozen was the big pick for the Best Animated Feature at the 71st Annual Golden Globe awards last night, sponsored by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. Other top winners were "12 Years a…
January 11, 2014 · Dave Koch
DreamWorks cartoon arm DreamWorks Animation has partnered with web video sharing site YouTube for a new daily show for the Internet. Titled YouTube Nation, the show is expected to run five minutes per day, and will…
January 8, 2014 · Dave Koch
British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA)British Academy of Film and Television Arts or BAFTA- the British version of the Academy Awards- has announced their nominees for the 2014 awards, including the…
January 7, 2014 · Dave Koch
Thank you all for your interest in our List of Disney animated films. While producing the list with one page for each film gave us the opportunity to add a lot of facts and Disney trivia, it made it hard for those…
December 28, 2013 · Dave Koch
Disney has seen more than one copy-cat company try and piggy-back on their successes over the years. In a flash-back to the popular films of the 1990's- and the Golden Films rip-offs of those films- Disney is alleging…
December 25, 2013 · Dave Koch
There is probably no other list in animation that is more intriguing– or more argued over. In fact, it was the creation of this list that was the impetus for even creating the Big Cartoon DataBase… MY friends…
December 21, 2013 · Cassie Costner
The Christmas season is well underway. As we gather together as family and friends to reminisce on the past year and all there is to be grateful for, take the time to watch some of the classic Christmas cartoons. This…
December 18, 2013 · Dave Koch
Disney has announced an animated feature for 2018- and their newest Princess in the process through the site D55. Moana will feature Moana Waialiki, Disney's first heroine of Polynesian extraction. She will be the only…
December 15, 2013 · Dave Koch
Japanese director Hayao Miyazaki's new film Kaze Tachinu (The Wind Rises) has walked away with the New York Film Critics Circle's award for best animated film of the year. The film is also a nominee for best animated…
December 3, 2013 · Dave Koch
Annie Awards StatueASIFA-Hollywood has announced the nominations for its 41st annual Annie Awards, the awards that show the best in animation. The Walt Disney Company and GKIDS both have two nominees for Best Animated…
December 2, 2013 · Dave Koch
With all the talk over the weekend about Frozen, many are missing the little gem of a short that precedes the big, cold monster. While Lauren MacMullan's Get A Horse! first released last June at the Annecy Film Festival…
December 1, 2013 · Dave Koch
As the long Thanksgiving holiday weekend winds to a close, Disney's Frozen is freezing out the competition. Placing second for the extended weekend at the box office, both first place The Hunger Games: Catching Fire and…
November 30, 2013 · Dave Koch
Frozen is definitely Disney- perhaps Disney Junior better describes this 'tween movie. There are bits and pieces of what we know and expect from Disney here, but when it is all put together, a little Disney does not a…
November 25, 2013 · Dave Koch
Pixar's misfortune associated with the ill-fated animated film The Good Dinosaur seem to be continuing. A short two months after announcing that the feature would be held back a year- and only three since changing up…
November 22, 2013 · Dave Koch
The Simpsons is a massively creative show, with years of great parody under it's belt. Many of their fans wait excitedly each week for the show open, or "Couch Gag"- which varies many scenes for many little surprises.…
November 21, 2013 · Dave Koch
Canadian and South Korean animated co-production The Nut Job has a new trailer online. Based on Peter Lepeniotis' 2005 short Surly Squirrel, this film is ToonBox Entertainment’s first feature length film. This film has…
November 20, 2013 · Dave Koch
It could be the best of films.... or it could be the worst. Disney is revisiting one of their scariest characters in this tale of Maleficent, complete with a new back story that re-writes a lot of what they first showed…
November 11, 2013 · Dave Koch
DreamWorks Animation has attached a director and a writer to their in-development project Captain Underpants. Rob Letterman, who also directed DreamWorks' Shark Tale and Monsters vs. Aliens will direct the film, with…