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Sherak Elected as New Academy President
Industry veteran Tom Sherak was elected president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences on Tuesday by the org’s Board of Governors. Sherak succeeds Sid Ganis, who served the maximum four consecutive one-year terms in the position. Actors Branch governor Tom Hanks was elected first vice president; Producers [...]
Chop Socky Chooks Ready to Peck on DVD
Billed as ‘poultry that packs a punch,’ the Aardman/Decode CG-animated series Chop Socky Chooks will be released on a two-disc DVD set on October 6. This Fox Home Ent. release will feature 13 episodes that originally aired in the U.S. on Cartoon Network last year. Chop Socky Chooks Volume One [...]
Porchlight and E1 Ent. Makes Distrib Deal
L.A-based PorchLight Entertainment has made a long-term distribution deal with global E1 Entertainment Distribution. Under this new pact, E1 Entertainment will distribute the December 2009 direct-to-DVD A Martian Christmas and Jay Jay the Jet Plane: Jay Jay’s Christmas Surprise. Also on the E1 slate are series such as Adventures from [...]
REDCAT’s Hot for Animation This Fall
The new fall season at REDCAT (the Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater in Los Angeles) will offer an eclectic mix of cutting-edge animated projects from around the world. Among the animated fare offered at the venue are Chinese artist and filmmaker Sun Xun’s multi-layered meditations on a century of modernity [...]
Lasseter to Receive Golden Lion from Lucas
George Lucas will present the Venice Festival’s Golden Lion Lifetime Achievement Award to John Lasseter, Brad Bird, Pete Docter, Andrew Stanton and Lee Unkrich. Lucas, hailed as a leader in Hollywood’s digital revolution by the fest, will be presenting the Pixar team with the grand honor at a special ceremony [...]
CBBC Commissions New Toons
U.K.’s CBBC channel announced that it’s expanding its online Cartoon Works portal and has commissioned a new animated series called Muddle Earth (based on the books by Paul Steward and Chris Riddell) and picked up a second season of Aardman’s Shaun the Sheep. Steven Andrew, CBBC’s head of drama, animation [...]
Stitch! Show Is Big in Japan
It looks like the wonderful blue alien star of Chris Sanders and Dean DeBlois’ 2002 animated feature Lilo & Stitch is getting his own show in Japan. Variety reports that TV Asahi will air Stitch!, a half-hour toon inspired by the movie at 7 p.m. on Tuesday nights. A co-pro [...]
Disney, Zemeckis Plan to Embark on Yellow Submarine
After putting their spin on Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, director Robert Zemeckis and Disney Studio are planning to remake the 1968 Beatles’ animated feature Yellow Submarine. According to Daily Variety, the studio has been trying to nab the rights for 16 original Beatles songs to be used in the [...]
Weekend Choices Include Shorts, Ponyo, Basterds
No new animated features are debuting this Friday, but Disney’s English-language version of Hayao Miyazaki’s Ponyo will enter its second week of release in 927 theaters and should easily surpass the $6 million gross mark. Family audiences should also get a kick out of the new Robert Rodriguez (Spy Kids, [...]
MacFarlane Criticizes Pixar and DreamWorks Pics
You’ve got to admit it: Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane sure knows how to generate major press. Last week, he dropped the huge bombshell that Stewie Griffin was gay in a Playboy interview. We also found out that he complained that Pixar and DreamWorks’ movies lack substance, so we decided [...]
Academy Makes Animation...
The Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has...
Shout! Unleashes...
The Eisner Award-winning comic-book series by Joe Quesada, Paul Jenkins, Bill...
