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Hip Tunes for Toons: Top Composers on Creating Eclectic Soundtracks

Michael Mallory - June 27, 2019

It practically goes without saying that children’s animated shows today don’t look like they used to. But neither do they sound the way they...

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2018’s Animated Feature Composers Strike a Universal Chord

Michael Mallory - January 18, 2019

With the checkered flag about to be waved on the 2019 Academy Award race, the list of likelies for the Best Animated Feature category...

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‘Buñuel in the Labyrinth of the Turtles’: Drawn to Reality

Michael Mallory - December 11, 2018

Spanish director Salvador Simó puts an animated spin on a special chapter in Luis Buñuel’s life and career. Imagine a movie that proposes to explore,...

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Your 2018 Animated Feature Oscar Dossier!

Michael Mallory - November 13, 2018

This year’s roster of animated pictures is large and very diverse, though unlike some prior years, there is not that single slam-dunk juggernaut representing...

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The Grinch: Illuminating Dr. Seuss’s Mean One!

Michael Mallory - October 17, 2018

The new CG-animated feature The Grinch digs deeper into the world of the favorite holiday curmudgeon. Anyone who has shared Thanksgiving dinner with extended family...

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‘Hotel Transylvania’ Third Time’s a Charmer

Michael Mallory - July 12, 2018

In 2015, after captaining two entries in Sony Pictures Animation’s monster franchise Hotel Transylvania, animation maestro Genndy Tartakovsky was ready to abandon ship when...

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Netflix Unleashes Painterly ‘White Fang’ This Friday

Michael Mallory - July 6, 2018

Director Alexandre Espigares leads a noble effort to bring Jack London’s White Fang to CG- animated life. Few would argue that animation is the best...

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Score One for Animation

Michael Mallory - June 22, 2018

***This article originally appeared in the June/July issue of Animation Magazine (No. 281)*** Probably no area of filmmaking has changed so much over time as...

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Renegade Animation at 25: The Little Toon Train that Could

Michael Mallory - March 30, 2018

How much of a challenge has it been to keep an animation studio up and running throughout the industry’s vast technological and artistic upheaval...

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‘Maya’ Buzzes Off to U.K., Nordics

Michael Mallory - July 6, 2015

Studio 100 Film has secured a new distribution deal for its CG-animated Maya the Bee movie with London-based entertainment company Primal Screen. The agreement...

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Price Was Right, and a Farewell

Michael Mallory - January 2, 2015

After 163 entries over the course of 2½ years — all culled from the thousand or so interviews stowed inside my garage — I...

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Remembering Martha Sigall

Michael Mallory - December 17, 2014

Very few people can be called irreplaceable, but Martha Goldman Sigall, who passed away this week at the age of 97, was one. Martha...

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Stamps of Approval

Michael Mallory - December 4, 2014

A few days back I was in the post office to buy stamps. "So what?" you may be asking, so, so this: when the...

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The Problem With Predictions

Michael Mallory - November 20, 2014

The critical success of this fall's salsa-flavored The Book of Life got me thinking about an effort a decade ago by the Canadian company...

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Remembering ‘Click’

Michael Mallory - November 6, 2014

As I write this, the country is mourning the death of Tom Magliozzi, NPR radio star and possessor of the most infectious cackle since...

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Which Witch is Which?

Michael Mallory - October 23, 2014

Halloween season seems to be the perfect time to bring up one a cartoon character who had one of the most remarkable careers of...

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There is No ‘I’ in Team (If ‘I’ Means ‘Interest’)

Michael Mallory - October 9, 2014

The above title may be a provocative one since motion pictures, both live action and animated, based on comic book teams – X-Men, Guardians...

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When the Studios Saw Red

Michael Mallory - September 25, 2014

These days, it's difficult not to wander into a social-media argument over unions, with organized labor having become just one more political wedge issue....

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