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Pioneering Voice Actress Lucille Bliss Passes

November 11, 2012 by Ramin Zahed No Comments divider image

Pioneering voice actress Lucille Bliss passed away on Thursday Night (Nov. 8), per Cartoon Brew. She was best known for voicing TV’s first cartoon character, Crusader Rabbit (1949), as well as her memorable parts as Anastasia in Disney’s Cinderella (1959), Smurfette in Hanna-Barbera’s The Smurfs and Miss Bitters on Nickelodeon’s [...]

LAIKA’s ‘ParaNorman’ Continues Spooky Reign

August 26, 2012 by Ramin Zahed No Comments divider image

LAIKA’s well-received stop-motion feature ParaNorman did respectable business at the box office during its second weekend of release, with an estimated $8.6 million. Directed by Chris Butler and Sam Fell, the zombie-filled family movie now has a $28.3 million domestic cume and a $36 million worldwide total since its release [...]

‘Dark Knight’ Has a Heroic $64 Million Weekend

July 29, 2012 by Ramin Zahed No Comments divider image

Chris Nolan’s epic feature The Dark Knight Rises managed to remain on top of the box office chart his weekend, taking in $64 million domestically. The Warner Bros. release, which will forever be connected to the Aurora shooting tragedy, has a $289 million cume after its second weekend in U.S. [...]

Will Weekend Auds Warm to New ‘Ice Age’ Movie?

July 10, 2012 by Ramin Zahed No Comments divider image

The fourth installment of the Ice Age franchise introduces several new characters as well as meticulously rendered visuals to draw fans back into theaters. Who could have predicted that a CG-animated movie about a saber-toothed tiger, a sloth and a wooly mammoth would have such legs? Back in March of [...]

Spidey, ‘Ted,’ ‘Brave’ Spin Box Office Gold

July 8, 2012 by Ramin Zahed No Comments divider image

The high weekend temperatures translated to big box office numbers for audiences in the U.S. and all over the world this past weekend. Sony’s successful Amazing Spider-Man reboot proved to be the huge blockbuster that everyone expected, landing on the top spot with $140 million (during its six-day opening) and [...]

10 Titles Up for Best Feature Annie Award

December 5, 2011 by Ramin Zahed 2 Comments divider image

The nominations for the 39th Annual Annie Awards were unveiled this morning. Thanks to the healthy number of animated features released in 2011, ASIFA members will vote on ten titles in the animated Features race. Folimage’s A Cat in Paris, Perro Verde Films’ Arrugas (Wrinkles), Sony/Aardman’s Arthur Christmas, Disney/Pixar’s Cars [...]