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‘Minions’ Banks $115M For Second-Biggest Animated Opening of All-Time
Whether in the U.S. or abroad, audiences can't stop watching "Minions."
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DreamWorks Execs Have An Incredible Reason For Why Their Films Are Unpopular
An investment analyst asked DreamWorks execs why they'd gone creatively astray; this is what they told him.
Why Audiences Loved Pixar’s First Film ‘Toy Story’
A new book explores the original, un-Disney-like goals of Pixar's first feature effort.
John Lasseter: Disney and Pixar Will Have More “Female, Ethnic Characters”
John Lasseter says that Disney and Pixar will aim to increase diversity onscreen—and hopefully offscreen too.
Pixar’s ‘Inside Out’ and ‘The Little Prince’ Will Premiere at Cannes
Festival director Thierry Frémaux continues to show his love for animation.
One Corporation Cannot Own the Animated Feature Oscar
The Disney Corporation has won the Oscar seven of the last eight years, and that's not healthy for the art form.
Bill Plympton on ‘Cheatin” and the Challenges of Making Indie Animation for Adults
"Why should kids be the only ones who get pleasure out of animation," says the revered indie animation director Bill Plympton. "It offends me that American animation is stereotyped this way."
Feature Animation Falls Short At the 2014 Global Box Office
For the first time in 17 years, no animated feature earned enough global box office dollars to rank among the top ten-grossing worldwide theatrical releases.
‘Mouse in Transition’: “Call Us Mike and Frank” (Chapter 14)
Walt Disney Productions changed forever when two guys named Mike and Frank showed up.
27 Animated Features To Look For in 2015
If you love animation, you'll want to check out this list of animated features that will be released in 2015.
10 Animated Shorts Make the 2014 Oscar Shortlist
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced this afternoon the list of 10 animated shorts which will advance in the voting process for this year's Academy Awards.
Peter Sohn Named New Director of Pixar’s ‘The Good Dinosaur’
Yesterday evening, Pixar quietly revealed on Twitter that the new director of "The Good Dinosaur," scheduled to be released in November 2015, is Peter Sohn.
Pixar’s Announces ‘Lava,’ New Musical Short
Pixar has announced their latest short film, "Lava," directed by James Ford Murphy, a studio veteran who has animated on the company's films since "A Bug's Life."
‘Frozen’ Just Became The Highest-Grossing Animated Film Ever
This weekend, Disney’s "Frozen" became the highest grossing animated film of all time. Its $1.072 billion worldwide gross has surpassed the $1.063 billion of "Toy Story 3," which was the previous record-holder for biggest animated feature.
Pixar Makes Painterly CG: New Research Could Change The Look of Their Films
Last summer at SIGGRAPH, Pixar presented a paper offering some clues about one of the major new directions that CG feature animation is headed. The paper, "Stylizing Animation By Example," explored how filmmakers could achieve more expressive rendering styles that disregard the perfect boundaries of computer graphics rendering and mimic traditional painting techniques.
The Man Who Invented the Name Pixar Retired Yesterday
A tweet last night by Pixar director Mark Walsh announced that one of the company's earliest employees, Loren Carpenter, retired on Friday.
The Ultimate Guide to Animated Mockbusters
Disney's recent trademark lawsuit against Phase 4 Films and their movie "Frozen Land" has reignited discussion about 'mockbusters,' the portmanteau used to describe a genre of home video that is dedicated to tricking customers into mistakenly purchasing a low-budget imitation of a popular movie.
Pixar Co-Founder Ed Catmull Wrote A Book about How Pixar Works
Pixar co-founder (and current president of both Walt Disney and Pixar Animation Studios) Dr. Ed Catmull has written a book that explores …
10 Animated Shorts Advance in 2013 Oscar Race
This afternoon, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences announced the ten animated shorts that have been shortlisted for the Best …
Is Alfonso Cuarón’s “Gravity” An Animated Film?
Animation plays such a seamless role in live-action production nowadays that some films which are identified as live-action are mostly …
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