Tag "Berkeley Breathed"

Ready for their Market Close-Ups

October 10, 2012 by Ramin Zahed No Comments divider image

We know what many of the TV animation industry will be doing during the first 10 days in October. They’ll be checking out all the new animated shows in production and early stages of development at the MIPCOM market in Cannes. Here are some of the intriguing shows and newsworthy [...]

Animated People: Berkeley Breathed

March 16, 2011 by Ramin Zahed No Comments divider image

15 Minutes with… Berkeley Breathed Acclaimed cartoonist (Bloom County, Opus) and children’s book author (Mars Needs Moms) Animag: How did you come up with the idea for the book, Mars Needs Moms, which in turn inspired the movie? Berkeley Breathed: When the idea occurred to me, it was a cinematic [...]

DreamWorks Adopts Berkeley Breathed’s ‘Flawed Dogs’

February 14, 2011 by Thomas J. McLean No Comments divider image

DreamWorks Animation has optioned Berkeley Breathed’s picture book and novel Flawed Dogs for a big-screen adaptation, Variety reports. Breathed, who rose to fame as the creator of the popular 1980s comic strip Bloom County and has since transitioned to books, also penned the book that Disney has adapted into the [...]

Trailer, Images Drop for ‘Mars Needs Moms’

November 23, 2010 by Thomas J. McLean 2 Comments divider image

Disney has released a new trailer and stills from Mars Needs Moms, a CG-animated film made with mo-cap techniques by Robert Zemeckis’ ImageMovers Digital. Based on the children’s book by Berkeley Breathed of Bloom County and Opus comic-strip fame, the movie is directed by Simon Wells and features the voices of [...]