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Three Animated Pics Get BAFTA Noms
Three animated features received BAFTA nominations today. The three titles up for the Best Animated Feature of 2012 are: • Disney/Pixar’s Brave (directed by Mark Andrews, Brenda Chapman) • Disney’s Frankenweenie (Tim Burton) • LAIKA’s ParaNorman (Sam Fell, Chris Butler) Among the films that didn’t get any BAFTA love were [...]
‘Amazing World of Gumball’ Wins BAFTA Honors
Cartoon Network’s acclaimed series The Amazing World of Gumball took home the BAFTA Award for Best Animation on Sunday (Nov. 25). Created by Ben Bocquelet, the hit series is exec produced by Bocquelet, Michael Carrington and Daniel Lennard and has won numerous honors since it first aired in May of [...]
HBO Developing Animated Feature with Paul McCartney
Throughout his amazing career, superstar Paul McCartney has had several brushes with the animation world, including the acclaimed feature Yellow Submarine (1969), and the shorts Rupert and the Frog Song (1985), Tropic Island Hum (1997) and Shadow Cycle (2000). Now we get word via Showbiz411 that the former Beatle has [...]
‘Almost Naked Animals’ Streak to CiTV for Season 3
Canada’s 9 Story Entertainment has announced that CiTV U.K. has renewed the hit animated kids comedy series Almost Naked Animals (52 x 22) for a third season. The 2D-animated show which is produced and distributed by 9 Story was recently nominated for a BAFTA Kids’ Vote Award. The series blends [...]
CN Renews ‘Regular Show,’ ‘Orange,’ ‘Gumball’
Cartoon Network has picked up a fifth season of its hot, Emmy-wining show Regular Show. The network also announced it will bring back The Amazing World of Gumball for a third season and web-to-television sensation Annoying Orange for additional episodes. Since its debut in September 2010, Regular Show has become [...]
BAFTA Unveils 2012 Children’s Awards Nominees
The British Academy of Film & Television has announced its 2012 Children’s Awards nominees, which aim to recognize the best in the U.K.’s kids entertainment industry. Animation: The Amazing Adrenalini Brothers, Pesky Productions/POP The Amazing World Of Gumball, Cartoon Network Europe in association with Dandelion Studios, Boulder Media and Studio [...]
Animator Run Wrake Has Died
U.K.-based animator and illustrator Run Wrake, whose 2005 short film Rabbit won the Best Film Award at the British Animation Awards as well as the McLaren Award at the Edinburgh Film Festival and a nomination for the Best Animated Short BAFTA, passed away early in the morning on Sunday, October [...]
‘Adventure Time’ Reveals Cool Season 5 News
Neil Patrick Harris (How I Met Your Mother) and Donald Glover (Community) will be featured in a special episode of Cartoon Network’s hit animated series Adventure Time, the network announced today. The episode, entitled “Bad Little Boy,” is slated to air in early 2013 as part of the hit series’ [...]
Turner Greenlights ‘Gumball’ Season 3
Turner Broadcasting has commissioned a third season of critically acclaimed cartoon The Amazing World of Gumball, the debut series from its London-based Cartoon Network Studios Europe. The ground-breaking series created by Ben Bocquelet, directed by Mic Graves and exec produced by Daniel Lennard blends 2D, 3D and live-action scenery to [...]
British Animation Icon John Coates Dies at 85
We are saddened by the news that beloved British animator John Coates, the man behind such revered projects such as The Beatles’ Yellow Submarine and the Oscar-nominated special The Snowman, passed away of cancer on Sunday in his home in Longfield, Kent, in the U.K. He was 85. According to [...]
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