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Xmas in August for Sony’s ChubbChubbs
The aliens are back! The fuzzy, unpredictable CG-animated characters of Eric Armstrong’s Oscar-winning 2003 short are back for a new holiday romp titled The ChubbChubbs Save Xmas. Directed by Cody Cameron and produced by Kirk Bodyfelt, the four-minute short will premiere in select theaters this Wednesday, showing in tandem with [...]
JoeCartoon Relaunches One-Stop Humor Site
If you’re looking for ways to battle the mid-summer blahs, you may want to check out the new JoeCartoon.com website, which has just relaunched. Recently acquired by Endemol USA, the site offers an enhanced, user-friendly interface, providing a rich selection of the best videos from all over the Internet, as [...]
Get Ready for Toon Boom Studio 4
Montreal-based animation software solution powerhouse Toon Boom Animation has announced the arrival of its new Toon Boom Studio 4 package. The release is billed as an all-in-one software, offering the ability to create eye-catching animations for video, websites, TV, film, games, mobile device and more with a new easy-to-use interface. [...]
Surf’s Up Catches Blu-Ray Wave This Fall
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment revealed yesterday that it will bring its early summer CGI feature Surf’s Up to Blu-ray on October 9. The announced extras of the Blu-ray will include filmmaker audio commentary, a three-part making-of documentary and music videos. Tech specs include 1080p video and an uncompressed PCM 5.1 [...]
Popeye the Sailor DVD Sets Sail Today
Fans of a certain spinach-chomping sailor with oversized forearms will be stampeding to stores today as Warner Bros. Home Entertainment releases the long-awaited Popeye the Sailor: 1933-1938 Vol. 1 DVD. Priced at $64.98, this glorious 4-disc collector’s edition features the first 60 of the original Fleischer Studios cartoons, fully restored [...]
In the Small Gets Big-Screen Treatment
The film rights to Michael Hague’s graphic novel In the Small have been snapped up by Warner Bros. and Akiva Goldsman’s Weed Road Pictures. According to Daily Variety, Hague’s Little, Brown Books comic is on its way to become a big studio project. In the Small examines the after-effects of [...]
Izzard Takes Over as Igor’s Nemesis
Move over, Ari Gold. Eddie Izzard’s in the lab. The trades announced recently that actor and comedian Eddie Izzard (The Riches, My Super Ex-Girlfriend) has replaced Jeremy Piven (Entourage) as the voice of the nutcase Schadenfreude in Exodus Film Group’s upcoming CG-animated feature, Igor. Izzard will portray an evil enemy [...]
Happy 67th Birthday, Bugs!
Everyone’s favorite carrot-chomping, wise-cracking rabbit is celebrating his 67th birthday today. Bugs Bunny first appeared in Tex Avery’s much-loved short, A Wild Hare, on July 27, 1940. In this monumental short, Bugs actually comes out of his rabbit hole and asks hunter Elmer Fudd the famous question, ‘What’s up, Doc?’ [...]
Depp Sinks His Teath in Dark Shadows Role
Johnny Depp will be adding the role of famous bloodsucker Barnabas Collins to his growing list of oddball/creepy/crazy screen portrayals. Todays’ Daily Variety reports that Warner Bros. is joining forces with the actor’s Infinitim-Nihil production outfit and Graham King’s GK Films to develop a big-screen adaptation of Dark Shadows, the [...]
Junction Point Becomes Mouse’s New Cheese
Disney has bought Warren Spector’s Junction Point Studios in an effort to continue fortifying its game-publishing arm. Based in Austin, Texas, Junction Point will continue to create games based on Disney characters, according to the Los Angeles Times. Gaming visionary Spector has designed and produced video games such as Deus [...]
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