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Question for the Week of July 18 2011
Did you get a chance to check out Disney’s Winnie the Pooh at the box office? What did you think of it?
‘Harry Potter’ Casts Record-Breaking B.O. Spell
Harry Potter cast a record-setting spell on the box office this weekend, with the premiere of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 selling a stunning $168 million worth of tickets. The Warner Bros. release also did well overseas, making $307 million for a three-day worldwide total of $475 [...]
Movies Bid ‘Potter’ Adieu, Welcome Back ‘Pooh’
It’s a weekend for old friends as movie goers bid adieu to Harry Potter and the students of Hogwarts and welcome back a beloved old bear named Winnie the Pooh. The undisputed juggernaut is Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2, which opens Friday at nearly 4,400 theaters — [...]
Soyuzmultfilm Requests Fund Increase from Russia’s Putin
Iconic Russian animation studio Soyuzmultfilm has requested a bailout from Prime Minister Vladimir Putin to avoid going under, reports Variety. Founded 75 years ago, the studio has produced such classics as The Snow Queen, The Golden Antelope and a Russian version of Pinocchio called The Adventures of Buratino. It also produced [...]
‘Transformers’ Rolls Over Comedy Competition
The robots in disguise remained the top draw at the box office for the second week in a row as Transformers: Dark of the Moon became the year’s top-grossing movie. Based on the Hasbro toys and classic 1980s animated TV series, the third film in Michael Bay’s Transformers series grossed [...]
Back to the Days of Christopher Robin & Pooh
Disney returns to the basics with the terrific 2D movie Winnie the Pooh, which is inspired by five classic stories by A. A. Milne. In this day and age, when everyone is trying to jump on the 3-D, CG animation bandwagon, you’ve got to admire Disney for sticking to its [...]
Sweet Serpent – ‘The Ballad of Nessie’
Stevie Wermers-Skelton and Kevin Deters’ charming Ballad of Nessie brings a certain lake-dwelling Scottish monster to animated life. Here’s a lesson for animation students: Don’t forget about your favorite class projects after you graduate. That’s the take-away lesson from the story of how Stevie Wermers-Skelton’s CalArts project inspired this summer’s [...]
Mighty ‘Transformers’ Faces Comedy Challengers
Can a one-two comedy punch topple the mighty Transformers where other films have failed? That’s the test of this weekend’s box office, as Michael Bay’s visual-effects extravaganza tests its legs after a huge six-day holiday opening. Based on the Hasbro toy line and 1980s animated TV series, Transformers: Dark of [...]
‘Transformers’ Morphs into Box Office Monster
We might need to roll out a new definition for blockbuster and call it Transformers: Dark of the Moon. The movie, based on the Hasbro toys and classic 1980s animated TV series, had an incredible debut at the box office, taking in $116 million in domestic ticket sales over the [...]
Question for the Week of June 27 2011
Now that we’ve hit the mid-year mark of 2011, which one of the following movies do you think has the best chance of getting nominated in the Best Feature category? Kung Fu Panda 2 Rango Cars 2 Winnie the Pooh
Academy Makes Animation...
The Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has...
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The Eisner Award-winning comic-book series by Joe Quesada, Paul Jenkins, Bill...
