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Early Look at 2014 Feature Film Award Contenders
With eight months of the year nearly passed, we're beginning to get a clearer sense of who the major contenders will be in the upcoming award season.
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Betty Boop Film Planned by Simon Cowell and Animal Logic
What do you get when you cross a British reality TV show host, the studio that made "Happy Feet," and an 84-year-old cartoon sex symbol? You may not have to wait long to find out.
‘How to Train Your Dragon 2’ Launches with $50 Million
DreamWorks Animation's "How to Train Your Dragon 2" opened in second place this weekend with an estimated $50 million. The film trailed the $60 million debut of another sequel, the R-rated "22 Jump Street," directed by Phil Lord and Chris Miller, who also directed "The LEGO Movie," which opened to $69 million earlier this year.
How Garfield Got His Groove Back: The ‘Garfield’ Remix Phenomenon
Poor Garfield. In his heyday, he was amongst the most beloved characters on the funny pages, his plush likenesses fastened to car windows and his sarcastic barbs adorning office walls around the globe. Then, somewhere along the line, he underwent a pop-cultural re-evaluation. Jim Davis’ strip is now something of a pariah: just look at how "The Simpsons" paired it with "Love Is" as the kind of strip that Milhouse reads. What a comedown for a character once hip enough to be quoted in “Two Tribes” by Frankie Goes to Hollywood. But yet, the orange cat has been saved from cultural oblivion by a peculiar trend: the remixed "Garfield" strip.
The ASIFA-East Animation Awards Were Classier This Year
The 45th annual ASIFA-East Animation Festival Awards took place last Sunday in Manhattan. The long-running ceremony, which celebrates achievements in East Coast animation, is making an effort to gradually transform its annual ceremony into a more upscale affair.
Animation’s Domination Slips on Fox Sundays
While Fox’s Sunday night lineup was dubbed Animation Domination in May 2005, it did not officially become all-animated until 2010. Now, the announcement of their fall 2014 schedule reveals that the cartoons will be ceding some of their Sunday night territory to live-action comedies "Brooklyn Nine-Nine" and "Mulaney," which will be taking over the 8:30 and 9:30 time slots, respectively.
Warner Bros. Will Release 3 Animated Features in 2017-’18
Following the success of the "LEGO Movie"—$457 million to date—Warner Bros. is getting back into feature animation in a big way.
The ‘New Yorker’ Discovers ‘Adventure Time’ After Five Seasons
This week's issue of "The New Yorker" does something that they rarely ever do: review an animated TV series. The show they elected to discuss is "Adventure Time."
Blue Sky’s ‘Rio 2’ Opens In Second Place in the U.S.
Blue Sky's "Rio 2" failed to unseat "Captain America 2" at the box office last weekend and settled for a second-place opening of $39.3 million.
‘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.
‘Muppets’ Stumble in the US, ‘Rio 2’ Is #1 in Russia
No new animated movies debuted in the United States this weekend, although Disney's family-oriented "Muppets Most Wanted" opened. The film opened in second place with a disappointing $16.5 million (estimated), far below the $29.2M opening of the franchise reboot "The Muppets" in 2011. That earlier film plummeted at the box office, too, after its opening, suggesting that the Muppets franchise isn't as relevant to kids today as it was with earlier generations.
‘The Hero of Color City’ Brings Crayons to Life
If LEGO can have its own movie, so can crayons. At least that's the thinking behind "The Hero of Color City," an animated feature being distributed in the U.S. by Magnolia Pictures, which also distributes the Oscar-nominated short films as well as documentaries like "Jiro Dreams of Sushi" and "Blackfish."
‘Mr. Peabody & Sherman’ Top Dog at Box Office
The DreamWorks feature "Mr. Peabody & Sherman" moved from second to first place in its sophomore weekend with a modest gross of $21.2 million (estimated)
‘Mr. Peabody & Sherman’ Opening Continues DreamWorks’ Mild Streak
The DreamWorks feature "Mr. Peabody & Sherman," directed by Rob Minkoff, opened in the United States this weekend with an estimated $32.5 million. The film settled for second place behind "300: Rise of An Empire."
‘Frozen’ Crosses $1 Billion Mark On The Day It Wins Oscar
It's a special day for directors Chris Buck and Jennifer Lee. Their film "Frozen" will win the Best Animated Feature Oscar on the day that it crosses $1 billion in global box office revenue. It becomes, along with "Toy Story 3," only the second animated feature to achieve this distinction, and the 18th film overall.
Hand-Drawn Feature “Aunt Hilda!” Has Opened in France
2014 is shaping up to be one of the strongest years for quirky and original animated features. True, there's the usual spate of sequels—"Rio 2," "How to Train Your Dragon 2" and "Planes: Fire and Rescue"—but looking beyond those films, there are some genuinely fresh ideas on the horizon, most notably Laika's "The Boxtrolls," Reel FX's "Book of Life," and Cartoon Saloon's "Song of the Sea."
“Frozen” Jumps to Second Place In Its 10th Weekend
Boosted in part by a sing-along version that was released into theaters, Disney's "Frozen" jumped back into second place this weekend, an amazing feat for a film now in its 10th weekend of wide release.
2014 Animated Feature Preview
From mainstream releases to independent foreign productions, we've got a guide to the animated feature releases that you can look forward to in 2014.
Was Bambi Jewish?
Was Bambi Jewish? It sounds like the setup to an unfunny "Family Guy" joke, but it's actually the fascinating argument put forth by Paul Reitter, an author and professor at Ohio State, in a newly published "Jewish Review of Books" piece entitled "Bambi’s Jewish Roots."
“Le Gouffre” Looks Beautiful and Was Made by Just 3 Artists
"Le Gouffre" is an animated short by three young French-Canadians that has raised nearly 400% of its Kickstarter goal.
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