China’s Original Force Announces New LA Studio and Feature ‘Duck Duck Goose’
Former DreamWorks and Sony execs Sandra Rabins and Penney Finkelman Cox are leading Original Force's push into feature animation.
Former DreamWorks and Sony execs Sandra Rabins and Penney Finkelman Cox are leading Original Force's push into feature animation.
The Aardman theatrical animation brand has become all but obsolete in the United States.
Reports are emerging that the Weinstein Company may delay the release of "Underdogs" for the third time.
It's the fifth feature in a cartoon series that you probably haven't heard about in the West.
China has a new all-time animation champ...and it's a Chinese-made animated feature!
The Chinese box office made a bold statement this weekend.
"Top Cat Begins" arrives October 9 in Mexico from Warner Bros. Pictures.
Not one, but two animated features are currently raking in big box office bucks.
Pete Docter's latest smashes opening weekend box office record for an original film.
CEO Bob Iger has driven the Disney Company to record profits. But how long will his strategy work?
U.S. audiences get to enjoy a new Studio Ghibli film in theaters for potentially the last time.
Disney can't let it go just yet.
The Weinstein Company has released the American trailer for "Underdogs," which it will release into U.S. theaters on April 10, 2015.
We present complete coverage of the animation-related Oscar nominees for the 87th annual Academy Awards.
We often hold up box office numbers as proof of a movie's success or failure, but even for "Frozen," which is the highest-grossing animated movie of all time, its box office gross is a fraction of the merchandising revenue it has generated for the Walt Disney Company.
Disney's "Big Hero 6," directed by Don Hall and Chris Williams, topped the United States box office with a first weekend gross of $56.2 million.
Every time you want to stop writing about "Frozen," it breaks another record. This weekend, the Disney smash hit remained in first place at the Japanese box office for an incomprehensible eleventh weekend in a row.
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.
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.
"Frozen" is beautiful to see, fun to sing along with and is a modern day marketing marvel, but the script has structural and performance issues that are worth examining because they impact directly on acting.