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Dreamworks animating Kroft’s “Lidsville”
Hollywood has been taking classic animated cartoons and converting them to live action features for years. Now, The New York Times is …
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“Yogi Bear” Getting Bashed by Critics
What did you expect? The Hollywood trades are out with their luke-warm reviews of the live action-CG Yogi Bear feature, which opens this …
Weekend Box Office Report: “Megamind” Drops to Second
In its third weekend, DreamWorks Animation’s Megamind dropped to second place at the North American box office with a final gross of $16 …
“Megamind” talkback
Megamind surprised me. I liked it. Not only a good spoof of the whole Superman-Lex Luthor/Brainac mythos, but a good story with a …
5th Annual San Francisco International Animation Festival
SAN FRANCISCO FILM SOCIETY PRESENTS FIFTH ANNUAL SAN FRANCISCO INTERNATIONAL ANIMATION FESTIVAL NOVEMBER 11—14, SPONSORED BY …
Bill Plympton’s “Idiots and Angels” Opens Wednesday in New York
Bill Plympton’s fifth animated feature Idiots and Angels opens Wednesday in Manhattan at the IFC Center (323 6th Ave. at West 3rd St). …
Comic Con 2010
I’m on my way to “Comic Con” (aka today’s activities. Tomorrow (Saturday begins with a SpongeBob panel with producer Paul Tibbitt, …
SD Comic-Con’s Obscene Exhibitor Badge Price Increase
Artwork by Jeff Pidgeon The San Diego Comic-Con is pushing forward with its misguided agenda of appeasing corporate interests at the …
Carl Macek (1951-2010)
Mutual friend Bob Cabeen has just informed me of the passing of my former business partner Carl Macek. Carl died of a heart attack on …
LAT: Disney Restyles Rapunzel to Appeal to Boys
The Los Angeles Times is reporting that the title Tangled isn’t the only thing being changed about Disney’s production of Rapunzel – it’s …
Virus Attack
Cartoon Network may be trying to attract teens through live-action, but never fear – they haven’t left animation completely behind. …
Fantasy City by Tatsuo Shimamura
I’m not going to pretend like I fully understand what’s going on in this short–alienation and dehumanization in modern society is …
Avatar, The Animated Film That Wasn’t
I was thinking today, If Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel has enough animation in it to be eligible for Best Animated Oscar, and A …
2009 Annie Award Nominees by Category
PRODUCTION CATEGORIES Best Animated Feature Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs — Sony Pictures Animation Coraline — …
20 Animated Features in Oscar Race This Year
Start making your predictions now! The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced today that twenty films have been submitted …
Astro Boy‘s Abysmal Opening, and Imagi’s Sinking Ship
Imagi, an animation studio that thought it could compete with the big boys, has suffered a major blow after the abysmal opening of Astro …
The Creative Integrity of William Golden
Recently I revisited The Visual Craft of William Golden, a book published in the early-Sixties about the legendary CBS creative director. …
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 …
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 …
3-D is a Fad
I love 3D movies. Thanks to a pair of 3-D film festivals held in L.A. several years ago, I’ve been lucky enough to see perhaps 95% of …
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