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Fox Offers More Details on CG ‘Peanuts’ Feature
Good grief, Charlie Brown! One of the hot items announced at last week’s CinemaCon event in Las Vegas was that Fox’s upcoming Peanuts feature will definitely be CG-animated and in stereoscopic 3-D. The studio also confirmed that the film will be released in November 2015 to mark the 65th anniversary [...]
DreamWorks Announces New Chinese Co-pro ‘Tibet Code’
DreamWorks Animation Chief Exec Jeffrey Katzenberg announced the launch of a new Chinese co-production on Friday (April 18) in Beijing. Based on a popular Chinese book series set in ninth-century Tibet, the movie is called Tibet Code, and is a joint venture of Oriental DreamWorks and Chinese investors, including the [...]
Simon Cowell to Make an Animated Feature
British media mogul and sharp-tongued reality show judge Simon Cowell (The X Factor, American’s Got Talent) told The Daily Star recently that the has sold an animated feature to a major studio. Although he was tight-lipped about the animation production company and the subject of his animated pic, he did [...]
Ari Folman’s ‘The Congress’ to Premiere in Cannes
Annie-nominated director Ari Folman’s new pic The Congress will open the 45th Director’s Fortnight sidebar during the Cannes Film Festival on May 16. The sci-fi movie mixes live-action with animation and stars Robin Wright, Paul Giamatti, Jon Hamm, Harvey Keitel, Danny Huston and Frances Fisher. The much-anticipated feature by the [...]
RGH Sends ‘Santa Claus’ to Cannes
RGH Entertainment, a division of Rubicon Group Holding, has begun production on Life and Adventures of Santa Claus, an animated feature film to be released in CG 3-D Stereoscopic. Directed by Anthony Bell (Alpha and Omega, Rugrats, and the upcoming Norm of the North) from a screenplay written by Rob [...]
GKIDS Sets NY, LA Dates for ‘Painting’
GKIDS, distributor of high profile animated films for adult and family audiences, has announced key U.S. release dates for French animator Jean-Francois Laguionie’s acclaimed feature The Painting (Le Tableau); a co-production of France’s Blue Spirit and Belgium’s Be-Films. The English-language version will open in New York on May 10, followed [...]
DreamWorks Returns to the Cave with ‘Croods’ Sequel
The adventures of the rambunctious Croods family will continue in a brand new sequel at DreamWorks. According to The Hollywood Reporter, a sequel to The Croods has been greenlit at DreamWorks Animation. Original co-writers and co-directors Kirk De Micco and Chris Sanders are returning for the project. The studio is [...]
‘Monsters University’s’ Full Cast Revealed
Disney/Pixar has announced the complete cast for its upcoming feature Monsters University: Helen Mirren, Alfred Molina, Dave Foley, Sean P. Hayes and More Join Billy Crystal, John Goodman and Steve Buscemi in the impressive cast for the much-anticipated prequel, slated for a June 21 release date. Joining Billy Crystal and [...]
‘Iron Man 3' to Play in 4DX in Japan
Japanese audiences will have a chance to experience Iron Man 3 in a completely new way when the feature plays in 4DX at a theater in Nagoya on April 26. The theater, which is operated by Korona World chain will screen 12 titles a year using the new format, says [...]
Japan’s HeARTBIT Beats for Toon Boom Pipeline
Japanse studio HeARTBIT Digital Creation has announced that it will use a Toon Boom pipeline, namely Storyboard Pro and Toon Boom Harmony for its upcoming production Francesca, which is based on a popular manga. “I feel extremely honored to use Toon Boom technology. I find it far superior, providing users [...]
BinWeevils Appoints Henwood...
U.K.-based digital social world BinWeevils, for kids 6-12, has appointed media...
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