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Why Nobody Wants To Watch Sony’s Features

According to Steve Hulett of the animation union Local 839, the execs at Sony are perplexed about why their films (Open Season, Surf’s …

Stereoscopic 3-D filmmaking is either the latest film fad or the future of theatrical animation. For those who know their film history, …

The prizes for the 2008 Annecy Animation Festival were announced last Saturday. The top prize for short film, The Annecy Cristal, went to …

The awesome 2-D end credit sequence from Kung Fu Panda has been posted by Shine Studios in high quality Quicktime. Shine produced this …

What hath Alvin and the Chipmunks wrought? It’s being widely reported today that Sony is co-financing a live action/CG Smurfs feature …

Dreamworks Kung Fu Panda opens today. I’ve seen it twice now and I think it’s a great film. It works on all levels – humor, action, …

This is an honest, if not particularly funny, bit from the MTV Movie Awards about the desperation in Hollywood for finding new and unique …

Nothing is going to deter me from going to see a film about wacky animals who engage in martial arts, not even this video from the Kung …

It’s getting crowded in outer space. In addition to Wallâ€¢E and Space Chimps, nWave Pictures is releasing Fly Me To The Moon, a 3-D …

A terrific interview in Film & Video with filmmaker Nina Paley, who completed a full-length animated feature by herself…on a Mac…for …

Critics are beginning to weigh in on Bill Plympton’s latest feature Idiots and Angels, which is now playing around the festival circuit. …

In this article Jeffrey Katzenberg talks about how little he knows about animation, which shouldn’t exactly come as news to anybody who’s …

A quick update about last week’s story about the new Israeli animated feature Waltz with Bashir. The Hanuka brothers–Asaf and …

Joe Morgenstern of the Wall Street Journal attempts to make sense of the spectacular box office failure of Speed Racer, which raced to …

While DreamWorks debuted its umpteenth cookie-cutter ‘hip’ animal comedy, Kung Fu Panda, at the Cannes Film Festival this past week, it’s …

(click for full-size image) The Hollywood Reporter notes that the first footage from Sylvain Chomet’s The Illusionist will debut this …

Interesting year at the box office. Horton Hears A Who was a huge box office success. Kung Fu Panda and Wallâ€¢E are going to be …

The 2008 Tribeca Film Festival kicks off this week and there are three animated features in competition. Each of them plays multiple …

Over the past couple years, I’ve mentioned the French animated feature Peur(s) du Noir, which is a collection of black-and-white horror …

One of my favorite non-animation websites is Trailers From Hell. This site archives various genre (mainly sci-fi/fantasy/horror) film …