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Sesame Street Retrospective in Brooklyn
This weekend in Brooklyn, BAMcinématek (30 Lafayette Avenue) is presenting “Sesame Street: A Celebration!,” a series of screenings …
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2009 Annie Award Nominees by Category
PRODUCTION CATEGORIES Best Animated Feature Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs — Sony Pictures Animation Coraline — …
Annie Award Nominees 2009
ASIFA-Hollywood announced its nominees for the 2009 Annie Awards this morning. For Best Animated Feature, Sony’s Cloudy With a Chance …
Quote of the Week: Tom Rothman
From the November 2 issue of The New Yorker: “The trick is, from the business side, to try to be fiscally responsible so you can be …
The Academy (Shorts) Short-List
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced today its short-list of the 10 animated short films that will vie for …
Chinese rip-off of Presto
Trying to find a free online version of Doug Sweetland’s Pixar short Presto, reader Michael Rianda instead found this: a Chinese …
Next Weekend: CTN-X Animation Expo
Next weekend (11/20-22) is the CTN Animation Expo, and that’s where I’ll be with several hundred of my friends. It’s a convention/trade …
THIS WEEKEND: Animation Seminars at the Egyptian
Sorry for the late notice, but if you are in L.A. this weekend you might check out the animation panels going on at the Egyptian Theatre …
The Simpsons: An Uncensored, Unauthorized History
Noteworthy new book about The Simpsons–The Simpsons: An Uncensored, Unauthorized History by journalist John Ortved draws on eighty new …
CTN Expo Update
Last month we told you about the animators expo shaping up for this November in Burbank being organized by former Disney character …
2009: Five Features for Oscar??
I was going to write a post about this, but my friend Pete Hammond at the L.A. Times beat me to it. This has been a pretty good year …
The Continuing Media Bias Against Animation
And so it goes: Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs was the number #1 film in the country last week, grossing $30.1 million dollars in its …
Princess and the Frog Little Golden Book
I collect all the Pixar and Disney Little Golden Books because they usually feature incredible artwork by the studio’s best artists. And …
Capobianco’s Leonardo begins screening
Pixar animator Jim Capobianco’s long awaited hand-drawn short film Leonardo will screen this weekend for Academy Award qualification. You …
Spark Animation ’09
Spark Animation ’09 is taking place next week in Vancouver. I wasn’t blown away by the line-up for the event’s first year, but this …
This Week at the Movies
I was flipping through the paper today – the entertainment section – and came across a trio of the ugliest movie ads I’d ever seen. The …
Hayao Miyazaki/John Lasseter Press Conference
I had an opportunity to join selected journalists at a Hayao Miyazaki-John Lasseter press conference held yesterday (7/28) before their …
Happy Birthday, Bud Luckey!
As a change of pace, here’s some happy news about a veteran animation artist: today is Bud Luckey’s 75th birthday. Luckey’s career …
Ice Age Enters Record Books
A fact that took me by surprise: Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs is now the fifth-highest grossing animated feature of all-time at the …
SDCC ’09: More Books!
In the run up to the Comic Con next week, I’ll be posting on several unique events and items that might be of interest to our readers. …
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