Tag: Warner Bros.
Woody Woodpecker Flies to the Big Screen
Walter Lantz’ hyperactive animated bird Woody Woodpecker will be making his way to the bigscreen, thanks to Chris Meledandri and his team at Universal’s...
Twilight’s Stewart Offered ‘Akira’ Role
Warner Bros. has offered the role of Ky Reed—an anglicized take on the young revolutionary love interest Kei from the animated film—in its live-action...
Academy Screens 45 Shorts for Oscar Consideration
Last weekend, the Academy screened the 45 projects that were submitted for Best Animated Shorts consideration. Members of the Shorts and Animation branch of...
Box Office Gods Smile at ‘Immortals’ and ‘Puss’
It was a good weekend for Tarsem Singh’s Immortals, the vfx-laden Henry Cavill-starrer, which was the No. 1 movie at the box office and...
Warner Bros.’ Greenlights Hybrid ‘Lego’ Movie
Warner Bros. has given the go-ahead to the upcoming Lego movie, based on the popular Danish construction toy, reports Variety. The feature, which will...
June Foray Attends Special ‘Puddy Tat’ Premiere
Legendary voice actress June Foray attended a special screening of the new Looney Tunes 3D theatrical short I Tawt I Taw a Puddy Tat...
‘ThunderCats’ Mane Frame FB App Launches
Fans of Warner Bros.’ revamped ThunderCats series on Cartoon Network have something new to wiggle their whiskers about today as the show’s official Mane...
‘Cars 2’ Discs Ready to Roll on Home
Cars 2 crosses the home video finish line this week, bringing the most-recent feature from Pixar home in multiple formats and with plenty of...
‘Arkham City’ Has Super Sales
Batman: Arkham City, the latest Dark Knight baddy-busting videogame from Warner Bros. Interactive and DC Entertainment, has shipped over 4.6 million units in its...
Warner Pulls ‘Harry Potter’ Vanishing Act
Warner Bros. plans to halt shipping DVD and Blu-ray of all of the Harry Potter movies to retailers after Dec. 29, Deadline.com reports today....
Warner Bros.’s Live-Action ‘Akira’ to Roll 2012
Fans of the great anime feature and manga Akira got some good news courtesy of Warner Bros. today. The studio has officially greenlit a...
The Best Interview in Animation
There are good interviews and bad interviews. Some interviewees stick to the marketing playbook at all costs while others tell stories they’ve told so...
Sam Register Shares Secrets of WB Success
Sam Register, exec VP of Creative affairs at Warner Bros., closed the MIP Junior market on Sunday (Oct. 2) with a dynamic look at...
Don’t Toot That Horn! Leonardi & the Art of Claiming Credit
Forget the F-word. In animation and related fields like comic books, there is only one serious danger word, the one you utter completely at...
Animation Writer and Historian Earl Kress Dies at 60
We were saddened to learn of the recent death of beloved animation writer and historian and Animation Guild VP Earl Kress passed away recently at age...
‘Adventure Time’ Highlights Arrives on Disc
Fans of Cartoon Network’s crossover hit, Adventure Time will have a chance to revisit the Emmy-nominated episode “My Two Favorite People” on DVD today....
‘Lion King’ Swallows ‘Dolphin Tale’ in B.O. Battle
For the second week in a row, Disney’s 3-D retooling of The Lion King ruled the box office, taking in $22.1 million domestically. In...
Celebrating Chuck Jones’ 99th Birthday
Few animators have been as influential as Chuck Jones, who would have turned 99 years old today.
Jones directed many of the best Looney Tunes...
Goldsmith to Sell Henson’s ‘Pajanimals’ at MIPCOM
The Jim Henson Company has appointed Richard Goldsmith as exec VP of Global Distribution. Goldsmith will lead global sales at MIP Junior and MIPCOM...
VES Preps for Production Summit
The Visual Effects Society (VES) has announced it will hold its third annual Production Summit for the entertainment industry on October 1 at the...
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