Tag: Disney
Disney Buys Lucasfilm, Plans 2015 ‘Star Wars 7'
Big business news today as The Walt Disney Company announces it has agreed to acquire Lucasfilm Ltd.—including the popular Star Wars franchise—in a stock...
Cinesite Appoints Eamonn Butler Animation Director
Leading digital visual effects house Cinesite has announced it has appointed Eamonn Butler as animation director to head up its expanding animation division. Butler...
‘Wreck-It Ralph’ Gets Early Raves from Critics
The first reviews of Wreck-It Ralph are in, and everybody seems to be in love with Disney’s charming pic about an 8-bit video game...
Credit Where Credit is Due?
One of the tasks of a cartoon historian is to research and identify as accurately as possible which artists and artisans worked on what...
Avengers Costumes Top Fandango’s Halloween List
Costumes from The Avengers and Catwoman from The Dark Knight Rises are some of the most popular choices for men and women this Halloween,...
‘Monster’ Gallery Show Spotlights Disney Talent
Check out these great photos from the opening of Disney Television Animation’s fall art gallery show, “Some Kind of Monster”! The show spotlighted submissions...
Vintage ‘Wreck-It Ralph’ TV Spots Hit the Web
One of the most winning qualities of the upcoming Disney animated feature Wreck-It Ralph is how it beautifully mixes our nostalgia for the early...
Disney’s ‘Secret of the Wings’ Flies to DVD/Blu-ray
Just when you thought you knew everything about Peter Pan’s feisty little friend, the creative folks at Disney come up with new twists and...
Disney’s New Princess Sofia Sparks Controversy
It seems like yesterday when Disney’s Princess Tiana (Princess and the Frog) generated lots of debate over the depiction of multicultural characters in animated...
Disney’s Swampy the Gator Gets His Own Show
This past week, Disney Interactive premiered its first online short-form animated series based on its own popular game franchise. Swampy the Gator, the star...
Alexander Film: A Forgotten Toon Powerhouse
Some years back I was talking with a veteran animation director about animation’s Golden Age. “Golden age?” he replied, with an expression of disdain, “I...
Disney Implements New Paper Policy
The Mouse House is being commended by the Rainforest Action Network (RAN) for making a commitment to change its policy on sourcing paper products...
Marathon Media Reveals World Domination Plans
As Marathon Media’s Totally Spies! heroines get ready to take over the palace of Versailles, the French studio prepares a new storyboard-driven series with...
SIGGRAPH Asia Reveals Sessions, Speakers
The 2012 SIGGRAPH Asia event, set to take place in Singapore this November 28 thru December 1, will bring together leading names from the...
‘Frankenweenie’ Gets Run Over by ‘Hotel Transylvania’
The weekend box office numbers are in and it looks like Tim Burton's highly anticipated 3-D, black and white stop-motion feature adaptation of his...
Voices Set for ‘Poppy Hill’
Indie distributor GKIDS has announced its English language voice cast picks for the North American release of Studio Ghibli’s From Up on Poppy Hill,...
Dawn of the Dead Pets
Director Tim Burton pays homages to his favorite monster movies and his childhood pet in the charming stop-motion gem Frankenweenie.
Filmmaker Tim Burton had two...
Method Launches ‘Little Prince’ Drawing Contest
In conjunction with the launch of the third season of the new animated adaptation of The Little Prince, producer Method Animation and distributor PGS...
Rick Hoberg’s Seriously ‘Amazing Friends’
What’s the classic line...“Everything old is new again?” Nowhere is that more evident than in the world of television.
This week I’m thinking of what...
Marathon’s ‘Redakai’ Hits High Numbers in France & U.K.
Marathon Media and Spin Master’s Redakai: Conquer the Kairu (52 x 26’) is hitting some high notes on French youth and family broadcaster Gulli...
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