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Cloverfield DVD Attacks Stores Today
If you missed director Matt Reeves’ low-budget 350-foot monster movie Cloverfield in theaters last January, you can enjoy the nausea-inducing hand-held camera stylings at home thanks to the film’s new DVD release. Written by Drew Goddard and produced by J.J. Abrams (Lost, Alias), the feature got low grades for its [...]
Lasseter Shines at UCLA’s Dumbo Screening
CG animation pioneer and Oscar-winning director John Lasseter proved to be a huge hit at UCLA Film & TV Archive’s ‘The Movie That Inspired Me’ event Monday night at the Billy Wilder Theater in Westwood, Calif. The Chief Creative Officer of Disney Animation and Pixar was interviewed by the Archive’s [...]
Ben 10: Alien Force Shatters Earthly Records
Cartoon Network’s recent facelift and aging of Ben Tennyson, the star of the animated series Ben 10 proved to be a rating bonanza for the cabler. Ben 10: Alien Force‘s Friday night showing (8 to 9 p.m.) set new records as the most-watched original series premiere in Cartoon Network’s history [...]
Porchlight’s Four Eyes to Blink on CiTV
U.K.’s children’s digital channel CiTV has acquired L.A.-based PorchLight Entertainment and French Pictor Media’s 2D animated series Four Eyes. The 26 x 30 toon follows the offbeat adventures of a ten-year-old girl from another planet who is sent to Earth to attend boarding school. Veteran toon actress Candi Milo (Foster’s [...]
DIC Hits Right Notes with Online Music Service
DIC Ent. is expanding its empire with a new online production music business called Cuetunes (www.cuetunes.com). The new site, which debuted this month, offers quality, cost-effect production music to film and TV professionals, indie producers, teachers and students. One of the biggest selling points of this new service is that [...]
FICCI Frames Focuses on Original Indian Toons
This week’s well-attended FICCI-Frames confab in Mumbai (March 25-27) offered several animation and vfx-related panels exploring the growth of the industry in the region. Some of the top Indian studio players offered their take on how to make their new content reach a broader audience worldwide. In one panel moderated [...]
Annecy Unveils Eclectic ’08 Lineup
The organizers of the prestigious Annecy International Animated Film Festival have announced the lineup for this year’s edition (June 9-14). This year, 1,866 projects were submitted to the world-famous festival (40 features, 718 short films, 159 TV series, 25 TV specials, 36 educational/scientific projects, 139 animated ads, 94 music videos [...]
Z Animation Lays 2D Tiles
The creative team at New York- and L.A.-based studio Z Animation recently wrapped a new 30-second traditionally animated spot for Bella Casa, one of India’s top tile, bath and kitchen retailers. Directed by John Ryan, the High Def commercial was created by Bangalore’s Disha Communications and will be projected in [...]
Britney Blows Her Head Off on South Park
The career of everyone’s favorite troubled pop star, Britney Spears, has been getting a much-needed shot in the arm thanks to animation this week. A couple of weeks ago, Spears debuted her new animated music video ‘Break the Ice,’ in which her anime-inspired spy persona picks up where her live-action [...]
Persepolis Nabs Another Prize at Cartoon Movie
Although they lost the Oscar to Brad Bird and Ratatouille, Persepolis directors Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud won the Award for Best European Director of the Year at this week’s Cartoon Movie gathering in Postdam, Germany. Other nominees in the category were Victor Maldonado and Adrian Garcia for the Spanish [...]
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