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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 [...]
WB Announces Hanna-Barbera Animation Honorship
Warner Bros. Animation has announced the details about its 2013 Hanna-Barbera Honorship. The program, which was established in 2005, is open to graduating high school seniors enrolling in a college, university or trade school to study animation. Through the Warner Bros. Reach program, one outstanding student is awarded this scholarship and four full-time [...]
Clips: Key Voicers Discuss ‘Dark Knight Returns Pt. 2'
Warner Bros. has released three cool new interviews with the voice stars of the hotly anticipated finale to director Jay Oliva’s animated feature adaptation of the classic Frank Miller story, The Dark Knight Returns, Part 2. Check out these interviews with Peter Weller (Batman), Michael Emerson (The Joker) and Mark [...]
Gollum, You Never Looked Better!
The Hobbit’s vfx supervisor Joe Letteri talks about the vfx challenges of returning to J.R.R. Tolkien’s world nine years after the last Lord of the Rings movie cast its spell in theaters. When the team at Weta Digital got word that they were going to work on the prequel to [...]
All the Pretty Digital Pictures
A passing glance at the list of the 10 features which made the vfx Oscar shortlist and will present 10-minute clips at the January 3 Bake-0ff is that many of them are returning champs. From Spider-Man and Batman to Gollum (The Hobbit), Snow White and Iron Man (The Avengers), we’ve [...]
Pittsburg Animator Leland Hartman Dies at 82
Former Disney and Warner Bros. animator Leland “Lee” Hartman passed away at a nursing facility in Glen Hazel, PA on Dec. 24. He was diagnosed with dementia six years ago, shortly after losing his wife of 50 years, Elizabeth Hartman. A former Navy veteran, Hartman worked at Disney Studios after [...]
‘The Hobbit’ Passes the $500 Million Benchmark
Warner Bros. The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey has surpassed the $500 million benchmark at the worldwide box office in less than two weeks at the box office. To date, the blockbuster has earned an estimated $189.73 million domestically. In addition, on the heels of its record-breaking release in Australia — [...]
One ‘Hobbit’ to Rule the Box Office
Warner Bros. had another great weekend with its tentpole pic The Hobbit sitting on top of the charts, with another $36.7 million at the U.S. box office. Peter Jackson’s return to Middle-earth is close to reaching a total of $150 million domestically after only two weekends in theaters. Overseas, the [...]
Remembering Richard Stone
Some eighty years ago, after it was decided that cartoons should be heard as well as seen, the song scores in many cases became the driving forces for the shorts. An entire crop of now-heralded composers–Oliver Wallace, Scott Bradley, Carl Stalling, and by proxy, Raymond Scott, among them–contributed greatly to [...]
Michael Emerson & Mark Valley Join ‘Dark Knight’ Pt. 2
Primetime TV stars Michael Emerson (Person of Interest, Lost) and Mark Valley (Human Target, Fringe) have signed on to the voice cast for the final installment of the DC Universe Animated Original Movie two-parter Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Part 2, Warner Bros. has announced. Directed by Jay Oliva (Man [...]
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The parade of stars stopping by The Simpsons office to do guest voice stints on...
Boinx Unveils New Features of...
German software producer Boinx has unveiled some special upgrades the 3.1...
