Stories By Michael Mallory
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Television
Hip Tunes for Toons: Top Composers on Creating Eclectic Soundtracks
June 27, 2019It practically goes without saying that children’s animated shows today don’t look like they used to....
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Features
2018’s Animated Feature Composers Strike a Universal Chord
January 18, 2019With the checkered flag about to be waved on the 2019 Academy Award race, the list...
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Features
‘Buñuel in the Labyrinth of the Turtles’: Drawn to Reality
December 11, 2018Spanish director Salvador Simó puts an animated spin on a special chapter in Luis Buñuel’s life...
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Features
Your 2018 Animated Feature Oscar Dossier!
November 13, 2018This year’s roster of animated pictures is large and very diverse, though unlike some prior years,...
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Features
The Grinch: Illuminating Dr. Seuss’s Mean One!
October 17, 2018The new CG-animated feature The Grinch digs deeper into the world of the favorite holiday curmudgeon....
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Features
‘Hotel Transylvania’ Third Time’s a Charmer
July 12, 2018In 2015, after captaining two entries in Sony Pictures Animation’s monster franchise Hotel Transylvania, animation maestro...
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Features
Netflix Unleashes Painterly ‘White Fang’ This Friday
July 6, 2018Director Alexandre Espigares leads a noble effort to bring Jack London’s White Fang to CG- animated...
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Features
Score One for Animation
June 22, 2018***This article originally appeared in the June/July issue of Animation Magazine (No. 281)*** Probably no area...
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Features
Renegade Animation at 25: The Little Toon Train that Could
March 30, 2018How much of a challenge has it been to keep an animation studio up and running...
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Features
‘Maya’ Buzzes Off to U.K., Nordics
July 6, 2015Studio 100 Film has secured a new distribution deal for its CG-animated Maya the Bee movie...
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Tales from the Toon Trenches
Price Was Right, and a Farewell
January 2, 2015After 163 entries over the course of 2½ years — all culled from the thousand or...
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Tales from the Toon Trenches
Remembering Martha Sigall
December 17, 2014Very few people can be called irreplaceable, but Martha Goldman Sigall, who passed away this week...
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Tales from the Toon Trenches
Stamps of Approval
December 4, 2014A few days back I was in the post office to buy stamps. “So what?” you...
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Tales from the Toon Trenches
The Problem With Predictions
November 20, 2014The critical success of this fall’s salsa-flavored The Book of Life got me thinking about an...
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Tales from the Toon Trenches
Remembering ‘Click’
November 6, 2014As I write this, the country is mourning the death of Tom Magliozzi, NPR radio star...
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Tales from the Toon Trenches
Which Witch is Which?
October 23, 2014Halloween season seems to be the perfect time to bring up one a cartoon character who...
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Tales from the Toon Trenches
There is No ‘I’ in Team (If ‘I’ Means ‘Interest’)
October 9, 2014The above title may be a provocative one since motion pictures, both live action and animated,...
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Tales from the Toon Trenches
When the Studios Saw Red
September 25, 2014These days, it’s difficult not to wander into a social-media argument over unions, with organized labor...
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Tales from the Toon Trenches
Surviving the Uncommon Cold
September 11, 2014What could be more frustrating for a voice artist than having to call in sick because...
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Tales from the Toon Trenches
Bicoastal Bakshi
August 28, 2014Back in the early 1970s, when feature animation was believed to be in its final days,...
Recent Posts
Walter Salles' Video Filmes and Caio & Fabiano Gullane's award-winning prodco Gullane have brought on ...
Paramount Animation recently revealed its new logo clip, which introduces a magical tween heroine called ...
***This story originally appeared in the Sept./Oct. '19 issue of Animation Magazine (No. 293)*** As VR ...
