Disney to Debut Animated...
The new animated Star Wars Rebels series will premiere in the fall of 2104 as a...
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Oswalt to Host VES Awards
The Visual Effects Society (VES) has announced comedian/actor Patton Oswalt (Young Adult, Ratatouille) as the host for the org’s tenth annual VES Awards ceremony, to be held at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on Tuesday, February 7. This year’s duties will mark the popular funnyman’s third appearance at the event, which [...]
Patton Oswalt to Host 39th Annual Annie Awards
Patton Oswalt, the voice of Remy, everyone’s favorite rat chef in Pixar’s Ratatouille, will be the host of this year’s 39th Annual Annie Awards on Saturday, Feb. 4 at UCLA’s Royce hall. “The Annies are where the real weirdos hang, and it’s a visual feast just to have a drink [...]
Animation Lovers’ Holiday Gift Guide
We all know the trials of finding the right holiday gift for your loved ones can make December a horrible, ulcer-inducing time of the year. That’s why we’ve put together a list of some of our favorite animation-related goods that will brighten anyone’s miserable winter day. Here’s to the hope [...]
A High-Tech, Dysfunctional Santa’s Coming to Town
How the wizards at Aardman joined forces with Sony Animation to deliver the poignant and funny CG-animated holiday adventure, Arthur Christmas. Santa Claus and animation have enjoyed a long, mutually rewarding relationship over the years. From classic Rankin-Bass specials like Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer to Chuck Jones’ How Grinch Stole [...]
Animation Magazine’s Oscar Watch [Part 1 of 4]
Early award season watchers seem to be unable (or unwilling) to pick frontrunners in the animation race this year. But most of them have high hopes for a certain Belgian boy reporter and his dog Snowy. A wise man once said that the greatest friend of truth is time. So, [...]
Disney-Pixar’s Lasseter Gets Star on the Walk of Fame
Fans can finally walk all over John Lasseter — and he’s thrilled about it. The creative head of both Pixar and Walt Disney Animation Studios, as well as the director of Toy Story 1 and 2, A Bug’s Life and Cars 1 and 2, received Tuesday a star on the Hollywood [...]
Telemundo Gets Animated With 10 Disney/Pixar Titles
U.S. Spanish language broadcaster Telemundo has acquired the rights to air 10 acclaimed animated features from Disney/Pixar, including Up, Ratatouille, WALL.E, Finding Nemo, The Incredibles, Monsters, Inc. and Toy Story. The broadcast window begins this Osctober. The new deal brings 10 of the studio’s films to Telemundo beginning in October. [...]
Pixar’s Good-Luck Charm
Okay, so Cars 2 was the first film from Pixar Animation Studios that was greeted by the critics with less than Messianic reviews. Was it bound to happen, given that critics are allowed to love you only so long before they turn ugly and form a mob against you? Or [...]
Lasseter Unveils Pixar Stamps at D23
Walt Disney Studios and Pixar Animation Studios chief creative officer John Lasseter was joined by deputy postmaster general Ronald Stroman at top Disney fan event D23 Expo over the weekend to unveil the new USPS Send a Hello Forever stamp series. Characters from five popular Disney/Pixar movies grace the Send [...]
Giant Robots, Firemen and Classic Re-issues Out on Disc
Robots, children’s titles and re-issues dominate this week’s animated home video releases. Up first is Transformers — The Japanese Collection: Headmasters (Shout! Factory, $29.96), offering a unique look into the original animated series that spawned the current box-office king feature film Transformers: Dark of the Moon. And if giant robots in [...]
Academy Makes Animation...
The Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has...
Shout! Unleashes...
The Eisner Award-winning comic-book series by Joe Quesada, Paul Jenkins, Bill...
