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The Russians Love Their ‘Ice Age’ Too!
The number-one movie at the Russian box office in 2012 was the Fox/Blue Sky blockbuster toon Ice Age: Continental Drift, with $50.1 million in ticket sales. The summer release, which was No. 14 at the U.S. box office for the past year, earned about $161.3 million in the U.S. Like [...]
GKIDS’ ‘The Rabbi’s Cat’ Rolls Out in the U.S.
Prolific French comic-book artist and film director Joann Sfar discusses the real-life inspirations behind The Rabbi’s Cat and his love for American classics. Joann Sfar, the celebrated French comic-book artist and director of the animated film The Rabbi’s Cat, had harbored dreams of writing about his grandmother’s tales of life [...]
Fortune Picks DreamWorks as Best Studio to Work for
DreamWorks Animation was snubbed by the Oscars this year, but studio head Jeffrey Katzenberg can raise his head up high for leading the only Hollywood studio in Fortune magazine’s list the best places to work in the U.S. this year. The Glendale, Calif-based studio, which has 2,350 employees, was 12th [...]
Passion Signs ‘ParaNorman’s Sam Fell
Award-winning indie production house Passion Pictures has just signed animated feature film director Sam Fell for worldwide commercial representation. Fell has recently received both an Academy Award and BAFTA nomination for LAIKA/Focus Features’ stop-motion film ParaNorman, which he co-directed with Chris Butler. Fell’s previous animated feature directing credits include Flushed [...]
Pixar’s ‘Brave’ Nabs the Golden Globe Award
Pixar’s Brave won the Golden Globe on Sunday for Best Animated Feature Film. The blockbuster film, which has made over $535.4 million in theaters worldwide, was the most popular animated movie at the box office in 2012. The film is also doing very well on the DVD/Blu-ray chart since its [...]
Trey Parker, Matt Stone to Launch Own Studio
South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone have launched their own production studio, Important Studios, in order to pursue film, TV and theater projects. Their upcoming slate includes a possible movie version of The Book of Mormon, says The New York Times. Important Studios has an estimated value of $300 [...]
Academy Announces 9 Science/Tech Honorees
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences today announced that nine scientific and technical achievements represented by 25 individual award recipients will be honored at its annual Scientific and Technical Awards Presentation at The Beverly Hills Hotel on Saturday, February 9, 2013. Unlike other Academy Awards to be presented [...]
Pixar’s ‘Brave’ Is No. 1 Animated Pic of 2012
Brave, Disney/Pixar’s charming tale of a bold Scottish princess, took the crown as the best-selling animated movie of 2012. Directed by Mark Andrews and Brenda Chapman, the movie landed at No. 7 on the total U.S. box office with over $237 million gross (as of 12/27/2012) and $545.4 million worldwide [...]
‘Tad, the Lost Explorer’ Becomes Spain’s Top Animated Film
In 2012, while American animation fans were enjoying the usual handiworks of DreamWorks, Pixar, Disney, Sony and Fox, Spanish audiences chose to take in a home-grown feature about a Peruvian treasure hunt called Tad, the Lost Explorer. Directed by Enrique Gato, the film has made $24 million at the box [...]
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