Old Brew NOT SO WILD ABOUT THE WILD by Jerry Beck Saturday April 1, 2006 7:40 am East coast film reporter Eric Lurio sent us this note concerning The Wild:”For the first time in its history, Disney will …
Old Brew DO-IT-YOURSELF GIGANTOR by Jerry Beck Friday March 31, 2006 12:30 pm Japanese robot maker Vstone Corporation has just released itslatest consumer product: Tetsu-jin 28 (aka Ironman 28 – or …
Anime Studio 4°C’s TEKKON KINKURITO by Amid Amidi Friday March 31, 2006 9:02 am The upcoming feature TEKKON KINKURITO, scheduled for Japaneserelease in December 2006, is produced by Studio 4°C, the …
Old Brew THE BROTHERS QUAY IN LA by Jerry Beck Friday March 31, 2006 8:00 am The Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences’s annual MarcDavis Lecture will be presented on Friday, April 21st. In a year …
Old Brew 2006 CG IMPLOSION by Jerry Beck Friday March 31, 2006 7:30 am Get ready to hurl.With billboards and bus posters for ICE AGE 2(opening today), THE WILD (4/14) and OVER THE HEDGE (5/19) …
Old Brew Animation Blast #9 Almost Done by Amid Amidi Friday March 31, 2006 7:22 am Just a brief update on the status of ANIMATION BLAST #9: I’malmost done with the issue and planning to send it to the …
Animators Yuri Norstein’s HERON AND CRANE (1974) by Amid Amidi Friday March 31, 2006 4:44 am If you have an extra ten minutes to spare today, you can spendthat time no better than watching the lyrical short HERON AND …
Animators Scary Flash Animation by Amid Amidi Thursday March 30, 2006 6:49 pm Some sick perverted souls in South Korea came up with this piece of Flash animation. It might make you queasy. It might make …
Old Brew FLEISCHER COLOR CLASSICS by Jerry Beck Thursday March 30, 2006 5:06 pm Film buff John McElwee posted another great entry on his blogabout old cartoons. This time offering some perspectives on …
Old Brew GREAT TO BE NOMINATED by Jerry Beck Thursday March 30, 2006 7:15 am It’s back! Randy Haberkamps’s great series of Monday nightscreenings at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, …
Animators Eisner Ruins Something Besides Disney by Amid Amidi Thursday March 30, 2006 2:45 am If Michael Eisner talks and nobody listens, does he still have a talkshow? The debut of Eisner’s new series on CNBC tanked …
Old Brew UMB by Liron Damir by Amid Amidi Thursday March 30, 2006 2:19 am UMB is a graduate film created by Israeli animation/broadcastdesign student Liron Damir at the Bezalel Academy of Art and …
Old Brew ASTERIX AND THE VIKINGS by Jerry Beck Wednesday March 29, 2006 4:00 pm Maybe it’s me – or maybe I’m just nostalgic for an old fashioned hand drawn animated feature – but this Asterix and the …
Old Brew TOONWORLD TV CLASSICS by Jerry Beck Tuesday March 28, 2006 10:30 pm My friend Wayne Daigrepont has a cell phone and just found outhe had Toonworld TV Classics. Here’s his email to me:So here’s …
Old Brew POW! BAM! WHAM! by Jerry Beck Tuesday March 28, 2006 11:10 am Holy Animated Sound Effects! As a child of the 1960s, I was ahuge fan of the 1966 BATMAN TV show. So I have to say I’m …