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Seth MacFarlane is Three-Time Roast Master
For the third consecutive time, the man behind modern animated comedy classics Family Guy, American Dad! and The Cleveland Show will serve as emcee of a Comedy Central Roast and earn a place in the record books at the host with the most return appearances. Seth MacFarlane has been tapped [...]
FishBowl Producing Webtoon ‘The Potts’
FishBowl Worldwide Media, a next gen studio founded by industry vets Vin Di Bona and Bruce Gersh, have announced the studio will begin production on a pilot episode for an original animated we series, The Potts. The series will follow a family desperate to get on reality TV and find [...]
Sesame Street: “Bert and Ernie Aren’t Gay!”
In response to an online petition on change.org urging Sesame Street puppets Bert and Ernie to marry, the org has issued a statement noting that the two popular characters are just friends. In a statement released to The Hollywood Reporter, Sesame St. Workshop pointed out: “Bert and Ernie are best [...]
Pomann Celebrates ‘Doug’s’ 20th Anniversary
Award winning sound shop Pomann Sound held a nostalgic party in their New York City studio last week to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Nickelodeon hit Doug, which returns to broadcast with TeenNick’s new The ‘90s Are All That block. Voice stars Tom McHugh, Chris Phillips, Fred Newman, Becca Lish, [...]
PBS Kids Catches New ‘Dinosaur Train’ Special
PBS Kids is planning some major Jurassic action this month with a one-hour Dinosaur Train movie to kick of the second season of the popular Henson Company series. Slated for August 22, the special finds Buddy and his adoptive Pterandon family on a pre-historic adventure as they gather all their [...]
Eddie Murphy Lands Hong Kong Phooey Role
After supplying the voice of Donkey in the Shrek Movies and Mushu the Dragon in Mulan, actor Eddie Murphy is now going to stars as Hanna Barbera’s Hong Kong Phooey in a a new live-action/CG hybrid feature produced by Alcon Entertainment. The company’s co-founders and CEOs Broderick Johnson and Andrew [...]
Disney’s D23 Expo Boasts Stars & Sneaks
Disney’s ultimate fandom expo, taking place August 19 – 21 at the Anaheim Convention Center, has announced its planned sneak peeks and appearances by stars from upcoming films, while promising even more surprises for attendees. Film previews will cover The Muppets, John Carter, Oz the Great and Powerful, Tim Burton’s [...]
Lucasfilm, Imageworks Release Alembic 1.0
The public release of Alembic 1.0, the open source project developed jointly by Sony Pictures Imageworks and Lucasfilm Ltd., was announced at SIGGRAPH in Vancouver, BC yesterday. Alembic is a computer graphics interchange format focused on efficiently storing and sharing animation and visual effects scenes across multiple software applications. It [...]
Academy to Screen Méliès’s ‘Trip to the Moon’
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will present the original hand-colored version of Georges Méliès’s landmark 1902 film A Trip to the Moon on Tuesday, September 6, at 7:30 p.m. at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills, Calif. An original color print of the film was recently [...]
Sony Plans Smurfy Sequel for Summer of 2013
Give the success of Sony’s summer blockbuster The Smurfs, which has brought int $135 million worldwide since its release on August 29, it’s not surprising that the studio has greenlit a sequel to the CG live-action/animation hybrid. Sony Pictures has announced that it plans to release The Smurfs 2 on [...]
A Real-Life Replica of...
Cowabunga, dude! A real-life replica of Simpsons’ hometown of Springfield is...
Blue Sky’s...
Epic, the new animated adventure from director Chris Wedge and his gifted team...
