Italy’s View Conference...
Italy’s popular computer graphics conference View has announced its 2013...
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Panda Clobbers Competition at Annies
DreamWorks Animation’s Kung Fu Panda dominated the 36th annual Annie Awards, taking home 11 trophies, including best animated feature, while its spinoff short film Secrets of the Furious Five took four more. Wall’E, the Pixar film that was one of the best reviewed of the year and seen as a [...]
Spielberg, EA Spin Boom Blox Sequel
Director Steven Spielberg and Electronic Arts are working on a new videogame called Boom Blox Bash Party, a sequel to their first videogame collaboration. The game, being developed for the Nintendo Wii, is expected to be out this spring, says The Hollywood Reporter. “Boom Blox Bash Party is a wild [...]
Sarnoff Departs Sony Imageworks
Tim Sarnoff has stepped down from his longtime post as president of Sony Pictures Imageworks. Sarnoff joined SPI in 1997 and has lead it to success as one of the industry’s top visual effects and animation shops ever since, reports Variety. A Sony spokesman told the trade the Sarnoff would [...]
Torrence Joins Animax as CEO
Animax Entertainment has hired Corey Torrence as its new chief executive. Torrence, previously president of Prodigious Worldwide, will over see daily operations and plan for the company’s growth with president Michael Bellavia. Founded in 2001 by Andrew K. Bain and writer-actor Dave Thomas, Animax specializes in Flash animation and has [...]
Kalagian to Develop Business for Fresh TV
Toronto-based family entertainment company Fresh TV has teamed up with Kalagian Productions to broaden its development and production slates. Under the deal, Kalagian president Terry Kalagian will act as a consultant, finding co-production and financing opportunities for Fresh TV and its animation service partner, Elliott Animation. Kalagian was previously VP [...]
Taken Tries to Tackle Fans Away from Super Bowl
The list of films looking to lure viewers away from this weekend’s Super Bowl is led by Taken, a new thriller from Fox starring Liam Neeson that opens on more than 3,100 screens. Also opening this weekend are The Uninvited, a remake from Paramount/DreamWorks of a Korean horror film, hitting [...]
Isla Fisher Joins Cast of Rango
Actress Isla Fisher will jump from the world of shopping into animation. Variety reports the star of the upcoming Confessions of a Shopaholic will voice the lead female character in Rango, an animated feature to be directed by Gore Verbinski at Paramount. Already on board the voice cast are Johnny [...]
Fox Picks Up Narnia
20th Century Fox has signed on to co-finance the next film in the Chronicles of Narnia series with Walden Media. Disney, which co-financed the first two films in the series, dropped out a month ago on the third film, Voyage of the Dawn Treader. According to Variety, Fox and Walden [...]
Universal Picks Up The Thing
The classic horror movie The Thing will be remade once again, with Universal attaching Battlestar Galactica‘s Ron Moore to the script and commercial director Matthijs van Heijningen to direct, Variety reports. Based on a novella by John W. Campbell Jr., the story was first adapted to film in 1951 as [...]
Panda Director Gets He-Man Gig
John Stevenson, co-director of the Oscar nominated animated feature Kung Fu Panda, has been hired to direct a He-Man live-action film, Variety reports. He-Man, who was created as part of the Masters of the Universe toy line in the early 1980s, went on to star in a popular animated TV [...]
Amazon’s LoveFilm and...
LoveFilm and Disney have signed a new pact which allows the Amazon subscriber...
CN All About ‘Adventure...
Cartoon Network Enterprises is riding the runaway Adventure Time train...
