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Triggerfish Swims with the Majors

January 14, 2013 by Ramin Zahed No Comments divider image

The South African studio ups the ante in 2013 with Zambezia and Khumba, two new CG-animated features that have generated great buzz globally. Last year, when Capetown-based Triggerfish Studios released its movie Zambezia in several territories, it made animation history: Not only was this South Africa’s first full-length animated feature, [...]

Toon Actors Star in Hurricane Sandy Relief Fundraiser

December 5, 2012 by Ramin Zahed 1 Comment divider image

An all-star reading of Dickens’ classic A Christmas Carol has been organized to help support Hurricane Sandy relief efforts. The fundraiser is called “Voices for the Shores” and will take place on Sunday, December 9th at 3 p.m. at the Jon Lovitz Comedy Club in Universal City, Calif. Hosted by [...]

New ‘Hotel Transylvania’ Short Debuts Friday

October 25, 2012 by Ramin Zahed No Comments divider image

Fans who are hungry for more of Hotel Transylvania’s Drac and the rest of his monster pals have reason to celebrate this Friday. Sony is debuting a charming new animated short, directed by Genndy Tartakovsky featuring the clan in Regal Theaters before the original feature, just in time for Halloween. [...]

Disney Plans New ‘Jake’ Special for Talk Like a Pirate Day!

July 30, 2012 by Ramin Zahed No Comments divider image

Disney Junior has scheduled a special Jake and the Never Land Pirates: Jake Saves Bucky primetime outing for International Talk Like A Pirate Day, (Wednesday, September 19 at 7 p.m.) on Disney Channel. In the family night one-hour episode, Peter Pan returns to Never Land once again to help Jake [...]

Channeling P-P-P-Porky Pig

August 22, 2011 by Ramin Zahed No Comments divider image

Emmy-Nominated Bob Bergen talks about his career as a multi-talented voice-over artist. Voice over star Bob Bergen has worked on hundreds of cartoons, commercials, promos, radio programs and interactive games, but Looney Tunes fans will know him as the voice of Porky Pig, Tweety Bird, Marvin the Martian, Henry Hawk, [...]

DVD Rush: ‘Idiots & Angels,’ ‘The Gruffalo’

August 15, 2011 by Ramin Zahed No Comments divider image

The dog days of summer may be ruling on TV, but there are plenty of new, exciting toons debuting on DVD and Blu-ray this week. First up, Bill Plympton’s wonderful movie Idiots & Angels (Passion River, $19.99), which was completed in 2008, but had its limited release in 2010 and [...]