‘Hobbit’ Tops Saturn Award Nominees List

February 20, 2013 by Mercedes Milligan 1 Comment

The Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films has revealed the list of nominees for the 39th annual Saturn Awards, with Peter Jackson’s vfx blockbuster The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey garnering the most nods with nine nominations. Other top contenders are Ang Lee’s Life of Pi and Sam Mendes’ [...]

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Long Weekend News: ‘Tad,’ ‘Simpsons,’ ‘Planet Earth’

February 18, 2013 by Ramin Zahed No Comments

It was another big weekend of awards for animated titles. Fox-TV’s long-running animated series The Simpsons received a Writers Guild honor for the episode “Ned and Edna’s Blend Agenda” written by Jeff Westbrook. The episode was competing against three other episodes of the show and the “Forget-Me-Not” episode of Family [...]

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‘Tad, the Lost Explorer’ Becomes Spain’s Top Animated Film

December 27, 2012 by Ramin Zahed No Comments

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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