Saturday, June 24, 2017
Annecy: Aardman’s Peter Lord and David Sproxton
Few studios around the world are as beloved as Aardman Animations, the U.K. stop-motion and Claymation studio behind such hits as Creature Comforts, Wallace and Gromit, Chicken Run ... Continue Reading →
Jeremy Whitham Named Dev Director at Shout!
Shout! Factory has appointed industry vet Jeremy Whitham as Development Director, a newly created role that expands Shout!’s development and production team. The announcement ... Continue Reading →
Acamar Taps El Ocho to Rep ‘Bing’ in Iberia
British indie studio Acamar Films has appointed El Ocho as the licensing and merchandising agent for its International Emmy-winning preschool series Bing in Spain and Portugal. The ... Continue Reading →
Brown Bag Opens New Flagship Studio
Award-winning animation producer Brown Bag Films — a subsidiary of Toronto’s 9 Story Media Group — inaugurated a new, 30,000 square foot studio in Smithfield, Dublin on ... Continue Reading →
Milk Sops Up Third BAFTA in Three Years for ‘Jonathan Strange’
Academy Award-winning independent VFX studio Milk has added another accolade to its shelves after winning its third consecutive British Academy Television Craft Award at Sunday night’s ... Continue Reading →
Animation Dingle Sets Keynotes, Panels
Taking place March 18-19 in Dingle, Ireland — on the most westerly peninsula of Europe — the fourth Animation Dingle festival will celebrate excellence in local and international ... Continue Reading →
Daily News Bytes
Spielberg and Ford Reunite as Indiana Jones Returns to Theaters July 19, 2019
Director Steven Spielberg and star Harrison Ford are on board a fifth film for the adventure franchise.
New ... Continue Reading →
Technicolor’s ‘The Deep’ Sets Course for CBBC
Technicolor, an underlying rights holder in The Deep, and DHX Media have finalized an agreement with the U.K.’s BBC that will bring the underwater animated adventure series to ... Continue Reading →
Star British Actor Alan Rickman Dies at 69
One of Britain’s most admired stars of stage, film and television Alan Rickman has died in London at age 69. The acclaimed performer, whose turns as Severus Snape in the Harry Potter ... Continue Reading →
‘Yellow Submarine’ Animation Director Robert Balser Dies
Robert Balser, best known for serving as animation director on The Beatles’ psychedelic Yellow Submarine, succumbed to respiratory failure and died on Monday, January 4 at age 88. ... Continue Reading →
