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SpongeBob Helps Fanboy Set New Records for Nick
Last Friday, a new star-studded special featuring SpongeBob SquarePants, one of Nickelodeon’s most popular weapons of mass entertainment, helped deliver huge numbers for the premiere of the network’s newest series, Fanboy and Chum Chum. The special SpongeBob TV event (Nov. 6 at 8 p.m.) drew 7.7 million total viewers, ranking [...]
A Dug’s Life: Ronnie del Carmen Chats About His New Pixar Short
Just in time for the November 10 release of Disney/Pixar’s much-loved feature Up on DVD and Blu-ray, we had the chance to chat with acclaimed story supervisor and storyboard artist Ronnie del Carmen (Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron, Finding Nemo, Ratatouille). Del Carmen joined Pixar in the summer of 2000 [...]
How to Train Your Dragon Trailer Arrives
DreamWorks Animation has released the first trailer for its eagerly awaited spring 2010 movie How to Train Your Dragon on Yahoo Movies. Directed by Dean DeBlois and Chris Sanders (Lilo & Stitch), the 3-D feature centers on a Viking teenager (voiced by Jay Baruchel) who befriends an injured drago and [...]
Kyle Baker Talks About Showtime’s Dexter Toon
Considering that the fourth season premiere of Dexter, Showtime’s popular drama about everyone’s favorite serial killer, generated 1.5 million viewers, it’s not surprising that the cabler has launched a web prequel of sorts to provide fans with more backstory. What’s interesting about this online series, which premiered last Sunday on [...]
Demme to Direct Animated Katrina Pic
Jonathan Demme (Silence of the Lambs, Rachel Getting Married) will be venturing into the world of animation with an upcoming adaptation of Dave Eggers’ Zeitoun. The Oscar-winning director announced this week that he plans to direct an animated film based on the non-fiction book which chronicles the real-life tale of [...]
Win Free Coraline Halloween Screening Tickets!
If you and your family are looking for the perfect way to celebrate Halloween this Saturday (and you live in the Los Angeles area), we have the perfect treat for you. The good people at LAIKA and Focus Features have given us 50 free tickets for a special 3-D screening [...]
OddBot Serves Sweet Candy
Just in time for Halloween, L.A.-based animation house OddBot Studio is serving up a cool new short about a lovesick Corn Kernel which comes up with a clever way to win the affections of an out-of-his-league Candy Corn! A Candy Affair is the directorial debut of one of Oddbot’s talented [...]
Mary and Max Wins Top Movie Prize at Ottawa
Adam Elliot’s emotionally charged stop-motion movie Mary and Max won the Ottawa International Animation Festival’s Grand Prize for Best Animated Feature this weekend. Elliot’s feature also received the top prize at Annecy earlier this year and was picked as Sundance Film Festival’s opening feature in January. The movie recently completed [...]
Comet and Toonzip Hire Alien Babysitters
Korean studio Toonzip has teamed up with Toronto-based Comet Entertainment to produce a new animated series titled Dodopam: Alien Babysitters. The 52 X 13 animated series follows the adventures of five aliens who find themselves in modern-day Manhattan and have to take care of human babies until they can return [...]
Groening Is Toast of the Town in Cannes
Forget about all the content sale hustle and global TV business deals. Matt Groening’s appearance at the 2009 MIPCOM market in Cannes was the biggest news in town this past week. Sure, Jerry Seinfeld, Lisa Kudrow and Joan Rivers were also here promoting their latest reality/game shows, but it was [...]
Jon Vitti to Pen ‘Angry...
Emmy-winning writer Jon Vitti, who has worked on hit toons The Simpsons and...
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+ Canadian indie Guru Studio and publishing partner Immedium have released a...
