Animation Magazine

1861 POSTS0 COMMENTS

Awards

Online Film Critics Society Awards Nominated 5 Animated Features

Animation Magazine - January 17, 2025

Nominations have been announced for the Online Film Critics Society Awards, which this year has put five films up for its animated feature category. Artful...

Publishing

Webtoon Ent.’s LINE Joins Forces with Manga Studio No. 9

Animation Magazine - January 16, 2025

LINE Digital Frontier, a Japanese subsidiary of Webtoon Entertainment (own by Korean co. Naver), announced at the end of the year a strategic partnership...

Festivals & Events

Anime On Stage: ‘Totoro’ London Show Returns in March, ‘Sailor Moon’ Sets U.S. Dates

Animation Magazine - January 15, 2025

The Royal Shakespeare Company has announced that its stage production of Hayao Miyazaki animated classic My Neighbor Totoro (totoroshow.com) will be returning to London's...

Awards

‘Doraemon’ Voice Stars Nobuyo Oyama & Noriko Ohara Awarded Posthumous Japan Academy Special Prizes

Animation Magazine - January 14, 2025

The Japan Academy, presenters of the annual awards for cinema achievement, have announced the Special Awards recipients for the 48th Japan Academy Film Prizes. Among...

Features

Urban Sales Picks Up Kid Koala’s Animated Feature ‘Space Cadet’

Animation Magazine - January 14, 2025

Ahead of its premiere in the Berlin International Film Festival's (Berlinale) youth-targeted Generation Kplus program next month, Paris-based agency Urban Sales has acquired worldwide...

Features

Animator Files $10 Billion Lawsuit Over Disney’s ‘Moana’ Franchise

Animation Magazine - January 13, 2025

A lawsuit has been filed against Disney over claims that Walt Disney Animation Studios lifted elements of another project pitch to create Moana and the...

Features

Gallery: New ‘Flow’ Images Set Sail

Animation Magazine - January 13, 2025

New images have been released for Gints Zilbalodis' Golden Globe-winning animated feature Flow. Released theatrically in the U.S. by Sideshow and Janus Films, the...

Awards

Academy Updates 97th Oscar Season Dates

Animation Magazine - January 13, 2025

The Academy announces updates to its 97th Oscars key dates and schedule of events due to the impact of the Los Angeles-area fires. Academy CEO...

Features

Aussie Animated Indie ‘Lesbian Space Princess’ Blasts Off with Blue Finch

Animation Magazine - January 13, 2025

The 2D animated adult comedy-adventure Lesbian Space Princess has been acquired by U.K.-based Blue Finch for global distribution (excluding Australia and New Zealand). The...

Features

‘Moana 2’ on Course to Hit $1 Billion; ‘Mufasa’ & ‘Sonic 3’ Reach Milestones

Animation Magazine - January 12, 2025

Animation had a boffo international box office weekend, with the fully-animated Disney pic Moana 2 on track to pass $1 billion this week. The seafaring...

Passings

Disney Renaissance Animator Mike Toth Has Died

Animation Magazine - January 10, 2025

Mike Toth, a character and effects animator whose career spanned many iconic television and film productions including classics of the Disney Renaissance, died December...

Awards

Creative Arts Emmys Move Dates in Award Schedule Revamp

Animation Magazine - January 10, 2025

The Television Academy has shifted dates for some of its specialty awards ceremonies, including the Creative Arts Emmys which present the juried awards for...

Anime

Toho Reveals Promo & Cast Additions for New ‘Rose of Versailles’ Movie

Animation Magazine - January 10, 2025

Staff working on the new animated feature film The Rose of Versailles, based on the classic manga by Riyoko Ikeda, have been sharing new info...

L.A. Fires: Resources, Closures & Event Cancellations

Animation Magazine - January 9, 2025

As multiple fires rage across the Los Angeles area with limited containment, the animation industry is affected by studio closures and event cancellations. More...

A Day in the Life

A Day in The Life: Lucy Heavens and Nic Smal

Animation Magazine - January 9, 2025

This month, we have the pleasure of tagging along with Lucy Heavens and Nic Smal, the charming and brilliant creators of Disney’s popular animated...

Features

Award-Winning Animated Feature ‘Flow’ Makes Digital Debut

Animation Magazine - January 8, 2025

Gints Zilbalodis' independent animated feature effort Flow, which this week stunned awards watchers by snagging the Golden Globe amid competition from Pixar, DreamWorks and Aardman,...

Features

Watch: DreamWorks Sneak Peeks ‘Dog Man’ with New Featurette

Animation Magazine - January 8, 2025

From the studio that brought Captain Underpants to the big screen comes a new Dav Pilkey adaptation in DreamWorks Animation's Dog Man, coming to theaters on January...

Awards

NAACP Image Awards Announce Nominees for 2025

Animation Magazine - January 7, 2025

The nominees have been announced for the 56th NAACP Image Awards, celebrating the achievements of Black entertainment creatives across film, TV, music and more....

People

Palak Patel Departs Sony for Prime Focus CCO Post

Animation Magazine - January 7, 2025

Palak Patel is leaving his position as EVP of Production & Development at Sony Pictures Entertainment to become Chief Creative Officer of Prime Focus...

Archives Animation Magazine – #347 February 2025

Animation Magazine - January 7, 2025

Directors Nick Park and Merlin Crossingham take us behind the scenes of Aardman’s latest adventure, Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl. Director Peter Browngardt gives...

1...345...94 Page 4 of 94