Tag: Universal
Disney’s ‘Frozen’ Wins Golden Globe for Best Animated Pic
Disney's Frozen won the Golden Globe for Best Animated Feature, beating DreamWorks' The Croods and Universal/Illumination's Despicable Me 2 at the awards ceremony on...
Animated Titles Dominated 2013 Global Box Office
The animation community got some great news as the final numbers for the 2013 box office came out. Universal/Illumination's Despicable Me 2 ($393.5 million),...
‘Despicable Me 2’ Blu-ray Breaks Animation Sales Records
It definitely seems that audiences can't get enough of Gru and his hard-working Minions. The newly released Universal/Illumination movie Despicable Me 2 generated $80...
Three Toons to Vie for Golden Globe
The nominees for the 71st annual Golden Globe Awards have been unveiled, and Toon Town seems a bit under-represented considering all the great flicks...
‘Moshi Monsters’ U.K. Debut Imminent
On December 20, a very cuddly-cute invasion of strange beings will descend on U.K. theaters as the animated Moshi Monsters: The Movie arrives. The...
Walden Restructures for Film & TV Expansion
Walden Media, a division of Anschutz Film Group and producer of fantasy family films like The Chronicles of Narnia series, Bridge to Terabithia, Charlotte's...
Milk to Deliver VFX for New ‘Doctor Who’ Series
Milk Visual Effects, the company behind the visual effects created for the BBC's Doctor Who 50th Anniversary Special: The Day of the Doctor -...
ASIFA Unveils List of 41st Annie Awards Nominees
The International Animated Film Society, ASIFA-Hollywood has announced the nominations for the 41st Annual Annie Awards. In the Best Animated Feature category, 2D is...
Obama Gets the Star Treatment at DreamWorks
President Obama talked about the economy, praised DreamWorks and got the inside scoop on two of the studio's upcoming movies, during his visit to...
Minions Take Over Manhattan
The team at Universal is doing a fantastic job promoting Despicable Me 2's digital HD release this week and the Blu-ray/DVD arrival on December...
‘Room on the Broom,’ ‘Adventure Time’ Win BAFTAs
BBC's acclaimed TV special Room on the Broom, Cartoon Network's Adventure Time and BBC/Aarmdan's Timmy Time were among the top TV winners at last...
‘Despicable Me 2’ Helps Deliver Universal’s Best Year
Universal Pictures announced this week that the studio has set a new record for its highest-grossing year ever at the North American box office...
Bela Lugosi Meets a Hollywood Animator
Halloween is upon us once again, which set me thinking about Walter Lantz.
What, you may ask, does the purveyor of Woody Woodpecker and Andy...
New DVDs: ‘DreamWorks Holiday Classics’ and More
It's one of those off weeks in which we don't have a lot of high-voltage animated titles hitting the home entertainment market. However, if...
‘The Croods’ Is First DVD Mailed to Voters
The team at Fox/DreamWorks are hoping that being the first studio to send out their DVD screeners to Academy members will get them a...
Rupert Grint Leads English ‘Foosball’ Cast
Harry Potter's Rupert Grint will be leading the voice cast for the English-language version of Juan Jose Campanella's Spanish-Argentine co-pro CG feature, Foosball. Variety...
‘Minions’ Movie Pushed Back to July 2015
Universal has decided to push back its Minions spinoff movie from Dec. 19, 2014 to July 10, 2015. The Hollywood Reporter points out that...
Global TV News Bytes
+ SLR Productions and co-producers Telegael and Top Draw Animation have welcomed Nine Network and ZDF Enterprises as broadcast partners for the new kids...
Baumbach Working on DreamWorks’ Breathed Feature
Noah Baumbach, the quirky filmmaker behind indie features such as Frances Ha and The Squid and the Whale is working on a new animated...
Bowers In Talks to Direct ‘Clifford’ Movie
Veteran animation director David Bowers is in talks to helm a hybrid feature film take on the classic children's book series Clifford the Big...
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