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PGA Nominates Bolt, Panda, WALL’E
The Producers Guild of America has announced nominations for its 2009 awards, singling out the producers of Disney’s Bolt, DreamWorks Animation’s Kung Fu Panda and Disney/Pixar’s WALL’E in the animated feature category. The Dark Knight producers Christopher Nolan, Charles Roven and Emma Thomas are up for the Darryl F. Zanuck [...]
Iron Man Up For USC Libraries Scripter Award
Marvel Ent.’s smash hit superhero flick Iron Man is among the finalists for the 21st annual USC Libraries Scripter Award. The CG-laden actioner is up against fellow Paramount release The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, as well as The Weinstein Co.’s The Reader, Paramount Vantage’s Revolutionary Road and Fox SearchLight’s [...]
Monsters vs. Aliens Goes Long for Super Bowl
DreamWorks Animation and Paramount Pictures hope to score big with a 90-second Super Bowl spot for the upcoming animated feature Monsters vs. Aliens. According to Daily Variety, the entities will spend tens of millions of dollars for the precious airtime, and will also give away 150 million pairs of 3-D [...]
Pegg, Frost Join TinTin Cast
British comedic actors Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, who appeared together in the cult hits Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz, have reportedly signed onto the cast of Steven Spielberg’s and Peter Jackson’s epic performance-capture adaptation of Georges Remi’s classic Belgian Tintin comic series. Aint It Cool News cites [...]
Fisher-Price Toys with HIT’s Thomas
Children’s entertainment producer and rights owner HIT Ent. has appointed Fisher-Price Inc. as the global master toy licensee for the leading preschool property Thomas & Friends. The first line of products will be available in 2010, in time for Thomas’ 65th anniversary, and will expand as existing licensees’ rights expire [...]
Critics Choose to Waltz with Bashir
As Israel continues its controversial push into Gaza, Waltz with Bashir, Ari Folman’s animated documentary about a previous Israeli invasion, has been named Best Picture by the National Society of Film Critics. Mike Leigh’s Happy-Go-Lucky was second runner-up, followed by Disney/Pixar’s WALL’E. Heath Ledger was the group’s second choice for [...]
Gromit Special Scores Big for BBC
Aardman Animation’s new television special Wallace and Gromit: A Matter of Loaf and Death brought The BBC a merry Christmas. According to Daily Variety, the stop-motion adventure drew in an estimated 14.3 million viewers for a 53.3% share, making it the year’s most-watched U.K. show. The Oscar-winning 2005 movie Wallace [...]
Airdate for Afro Samurai: Resurrection
Spike TV will premiere the new two-hour animated movie Afro Samurai: Resurrection on Sunday, Jan. 25 at 10 p.m. (ET/PT). Produced by Japanese studio GONZO in association with GDH K.K. and FUNimation Ent., the film has Samuel L. Jackson returning to lead the voice cast and features an original score [...]
9 Trailer Emerges
Having attracted the attention of filmmaker Tim Burton, director Shane Acker’s award-winning CG-animated short film, 9, is coming to the big screen this year. Set in a post-apocalyptic world inhabited by rag dolls and mechanized monstrosities, this grim fairy tale adventure promises to deliver a very different brand of animated [...]
Madagascar Holds Overseas B.O. Lead
DreamWorks Animation’s Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa had a great holiday run, leading the foreign box office for a third consecutive week. The sequel has now taken in roughly $340 million in overseas markets, outdoing its predecessor by $2 million, according to Daily Variety. The film did particularly well in France [...]
BinWeevils Appoints Henwood...
U.K.-based digital social world BinWeevils, for kids 6-12, has appointed media...
Blue Sky’s...
Epic, the new animated adventure from director Chris Wedge and his gifted team...
