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Brit Comedy Stars Light Up ‘Big Bad Fox’ English Voice Cast
GKIDS and StudioCanal have announced a raft of talented critters from the British comedy scene have joined the English-language voice cast of French animated...
Annapurna Dates LAIKA’s ‘Missing Link’ for April 19
LAIKA’s fifth stop-motion feature -- the cryptozoological adventure Missing Link -- has received an April 19, 2019 release date from US distributor Annapurna Pictures....
Score One for Animation
***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...
Oscar-Nominated Effects Artist Richard Alan Greenberg Dies
Richard Alan Greenberg, an Oscar-nominated effects artists and title designer who worked on diverse features from Predator and Alien to Xanadu and Superman, has...
Jennifer Lee and Pete Docter to Run Disney, Pixar
Frozen writer/co-director Jennifer Lee and Inside Out writer/director Pete Docter will be splitting John Lasseter’s duties as the creative head of Disney-Pixar animation studios...
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‘Bat Pat’ Flies to Toon-A-Vision
Atlantyca’s animated series Bat Pat is flapping its wings to the launch of Toon-A-Vision, the new free cable TV service and only...
GKIDS’ Animation Is Film Festival Sets Dates for 2018
GKIDS has announced the date for this year’s Animation Is Film festival in Los Angeles. The second annual event will take place Oct. 19...
Pinkava and Oftedal Reveal Secrets of VR ‘Piggy’
Show biz folks know that comedy is hard, and timing is everything. But when you try to make people laugh in the world of...
GKIDS and Fathom Revisit Ghbili’s ‘Pom Poko’
Studio Ghibli fans will get a chance to see the late Oscar-nominated director Isao Takahata’s acclaimed movie Pom Poko June 17, 18 and 20th...
Pearl Studio Ups Justinian Huang to Head of Dev, Reveals ‘Tiger Empress’
Pearl Studio (formerly Oriental DreamWorks) has promoted Justinian Huang to Head of Development, to continue overseeing the studio’s growing feature animation slate. The appointment...
Framestore Teams with Tech Pioneers at Magic Leap
Award-winning visual effects studio Framestore announced a strategic partnership with Magic Leap – technology innovators building the next spatial computing platform, powering mixed reality...
Exclusive Clip: ‘The Breadwinner’ Arrives in UK Cinemas May 25
This Friday, May 25, family audiences and lovers of great animated storytelling will be able to take in The Breadwinner on the big screen...
Mill Film to Open New Studio in Montreal
Technicolor's vfx studio, Mill Film, will open a new facility in Montréal, Québec with operations starting in the summer of 2018. The announcement follows...
Sam Rockwell, Chance the Rapper Get Down with ‘Trolls 2’
DreamWorks Animation has announced Oscar-winning Actor Sam Rockwell and Grammy-winning artist Chance the Rapper have joined the cast of Trolls 2, the sequel to...
Felicity Jones, Thomas Brodie-Sangster, Patrick Stewart & Freddie Highmore Join ‘Dragon Rider’
Timeless Films and Constantin Film announced from Cannes that Oscar- and Golden Globe-nominated actress Felicity Jones (Rogue One, The Theory of Everything), Thomas Brodie-Sangster...
Annecy: Disney’s Kira Lehtomaki & Josie Trinidad Preview ‘Wreck-It Ralph 2’
Disney Animation will offer an exclusive preview of upcoming feature Ralph Breaks the Internet: Wreck-It Ralph 2 during the Annecy International Animated Film Festival...
Chilemonos Fest to Honor Blue Sky Director Carlos Saldanha
The Chilemonos International Animation Festival will be bestowing its “Iconic Director” award on Carlos Saldanha, the Brazilian-born filmmaker behind many of Blue Sky Studios’...
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How to Introduce a Universe in 3 Minutes
Learn how the Cellarius team created an animated launch short to introduce Earthlings to its transmedia cyberpunk...
Meg Guidon to Lead nineteentwenty’s New Longform VFX Dept.
VFX post-production vet Meg Guidon has joined London-based nineteentwenty to lead the company’s new longform visual effects department. Guidon will apply her two decades...
‘Tito and the Birds’ Flocks to Indie Sales
Ahead of its premiere at the Annecy festival in June, Brazilian animated family feature Tito and the Birds has been picked up by Paris-based...
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