Picking This Year’s Animated Feature, Animated Short, And VFX Academy Award Winners
While two of the categories feel like locks this year, the animated short race is still relatively open.
From fully-animated features to vfx-driven live-action films, animation is an integral part of the theatrical marketplace today.
While two of the categories feel like locks this year, the animated short race is still relatively open.
Meanwhile, ‘Puss in Boots’ managed another $7.4 million globally as it moves closer to the $500M milestone.
‘The Mitchells vs. the Machines’ director Jeff Rowe is directing. Montreal’s Mikros animation and Vacounver’s Cinesite are animating.
This year’s Oscar-nominated filmmakers share behind-the-scenes details of how they created memorable characters and brought their performances to life.
The film will get its U.S. premiere tomorrow night as the opening film of the New York International Children’s Film Festival.
The newly-launched studio already has two animated features and a kids’ tv series in the works.
Titles set to hit major platforms in March include ‘Agent Elvis,’ ‘The Magician’s Elephant,’ ‘Kiff,’ ‘Boy and the World,’ and ‘Inu-Oh.’
Netflix led all companies with 11 wins across 32 categories, while Disney floundered.
Visual effects supervisor Laurens Ehrmann also won a César for his work on ‘Notre Dame on Fire.’
“My first impressions were that animation was a magical medium. I wished that I could do something like that when I got older,” says Smith.
‘White Plastic Sky’ world premiered at this year’s Berlinale, where we caught up with filmmakers Tibor Bánóczki and Sarolta Szabó.
Apple TV’s ‘The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse’ was selected as the best British animated short over the weekend.
Universal is producing the live-action remake which is slated to hit theaters in March of 2025.
Based on Kate DiCamillo’s book of the same name, ‘The Magician’s Elephant’ will debut on Netflix worldwide March 17.
Radar Pictures is producing in collaboration with Italian ‘Geronimo Stilton’ animated series producer Atlantyca Entertainment.
Nine days after its release, ‘Cheburashka’ was already the highest-grossing Russian film ever. Now it’s more than doubled that total.
U.K. export ‘The Amazing Maurice’ failed to make much of an impact with its North American debut.
Liu’s latest was originally meant to premiere at Cannes last year, but Chinese Covid restrictions made that impossible.
The duo also unveiled the animated series ‘Creature Commandos,’ explaining its voice actors will play their characters in live action too.
Del Toro is working with writer Dennis Kelly (‘Matilda the Musical’), and will begin the design process in two months.