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Luxo sues Pixar/Disney
Poetic justice – or inevitable? The Los Angeles Times reports that the Norwegian lamp maker is suing over non contractual uses of its …
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Metropia
Here’s an intriguing trailer for a new, adult animated feature coming out of Sweden. Metropia, directed by Tarik Saleh, uses still …
Technicolor Tuesday
Join me at the Silent Movie Theatre on Tuesday (September 1st) for an entire orgy of 35mm Technicolor cartoons from the 30s, 40s and 50s. …
Sheridan Instructor Attempts Art Criticism (and Fails)
In my mind, the worst quality a teacher can have is to be close-minded because that narrow interpretation of good and bad is passed on to …
Two Upcoming Animation Festivals in Brazil
Next month in Rio de Janeiro marks the debut of Ãris–International Festival of LGBT Animation. According to the festival, they will …
The King Of Jazz
Walter Lantz animated a short sequence for the Universal feature King Of Jazz (released 3/30/30). The sequence is notable as the first …
Cartoon Network loses gamble
The LA Times has a huge front page story in it’s Business section today, reporting on Cartoon Network’s recent programming gamble on live …
Virginia Davis 1918-2009
Virginia Davis of Walt Disney’s Alice Comedies passed away this morning. She was 90 years old and had been in failing health this past …
“Charmaine Champagne” music video
Great-looking experimental music video for The Fiery Furnaces’ song “Charmaine Champagne.” It was directed by Phillip Niemeyer of …
Obama = Felix The Cat?
We try our best to keep politics out of Cartoon Brew, but an item reported this morning on The Huffington Post caught my eye, and I felt …
Worms
Worms is a new stop-motion family film being produced in Brazil. The project has an excellent production blog explaining what it’s about, …
Hiroshima Anniversary
Today also marks the 64th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima, in which upwards of 100,000 Japanese people were killed instantly by …
Victor Haboush (1924-2009)
Victor Haboush passed away on May 24, 2009 at age 85. A first-generation American of Lebanese descent, he was born on April 16, 1924 and …
An update on Freaky Flickers
Remember this? Last year we posted a link for a new animated film called Freaky Flickers. Recently, Brew reader Joshua Bell …
Fantastic Mr. Fox Trailer
Trailer is out today for Wes Anderson’s first animated feature Fantastic Mr. Fox. Maybe it’s just me, but the dialogue delivery sounds …
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 …
Harry Potter and the Office of Unemployment
I haven’t seen a new piece of animation by stop-motion animator Corky Quackenbush in what seems like forever, so I was pleasantly …
Notes from the Comic Con
I’m just back from “Comic Con” aka the San Diego Comic Con (for the record, I refuse to call it Comic Con International) and, all said …
The Prodigy
No, it’s not Kung Fu Panda… it’s SO not Kung Fu Panda. Yeah, once again it’s time to take note a knock-off DVD, but this one – 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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