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In L.A. This Week: Meet Selick, Docter and Anderson
If you are a member of Asifa Hollywood, this is a killer week: you can meet Henry Selick, Peter Docter and Wes Anderson and see their …
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This Little Light of Mine
Dave Way directed this commercial, Light of Mine, another beauty from New Zealand animation collective Watermark – the same gang who …
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 …
“Skhizein” by Jeremy Clapin
Jeremy Clapin’s Skhizein, a poignant short that grows on me every time I see it, is now available for online viewing. It’s also available …
Meet the President of Fox Animation Studios
Since 2007, Vanessa Morrison has been President of Fox Animation Studios. Morrison started as an intern at 20th Century Fox fifteen years …
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 …
Teletoon’s Detour pilots
I don’t know if these will be as exciting as CN’s unaired Cartoonstitute pilots we featured a while back, but Canada’s Teletoon network …
More about the closure of Wild Brain San Francisco
It’s been a tough year in San Francisco. First, The Orphanage shut down, and then we reported earlier this month that Wild Brain is a …
Cartoon Network presentation reel (1991)
I was a consultant to the Cartoon Network shortly after it launched in 1992. Somehow back then I acquired a copy of this 1991 …
Astro Boy talkback
Flying into 3,014 U.S. theaters this weekend, the kiddie-skewing Astro Boy movie could gross anywhere from $10 million to… who knows? …
Flintstones Stop-Mo
Here’s the way it should be: the stop motion sequence from Flintstones: On the Rocks (2001), by the gang at Screen Novelties. …
3 Dog Band by Paul Rudish
Worth checking out: a hi-res version of the Cartoonstitute short 3 Dog Band directed by Paul Rudish (Dexter’s Lab, Star Wars: Clone …
Ottawa Animation ad campaign
The funniest thing I saw in Ottawa last week wasn’t on screen, in a theatre or even cartoons. They were the festival posters plastered on …
Fred Wolf retrospective
Speaking of Ninja Turtles… My next screening at the Cinefamily/Silent Movie Theatre in Hollywood is a tribute to animator Fred Wolf. …
Zemeckis’ A Christmas Carol
This trailer has been out for a while, but I just have to ask: Does anyone in Hollywood have the cajones to tell Zemeckis to just …
More tickets for The Iron Giant 10-year reunion
Last week we posted about Asifa-Hollywood’s Iron Giant 10-Year Reunion. It sold out within 24 hours. Now, a limited number of …
New dates for Cartoon Dump
Shhhh…. We are having a top secret performance of Cartoon Dump this month. Why top secret? Because the date was shifted around with …
“Products For Little Black Princesses”
I’m not going to post on every oddball piece of merchandising Disney is doing these days – and this one isn’t particularly oddball – but …
Luxo Jr. gets the chair
(Thanks, Eric Graf)
The Mad Magazine TV Special (1974)
I admit it, this one has me stumped. Don Martin, Antonio Prohias, Al Jafee, Mort Drucker and Dave Berg – adapted to animation! How did I …
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