Tag: The Lion King
‘Frozen II’ Snows Competition as Highest-Grossing Toon Ever
Having rapidly skated past the $1 billion marker with its fourth weekend (the sixth Disney Studios film of the year to do so), blockbuster...
Oscar Watch: Tunes that Makes Toons Fly
***This article originally appeared in the February ‘20 issue of Animation Magazine (No. 297)***
Feature animation and music have been Oscar-night dates for some eight...
Box Office Winners of 2019
The top 10 animated and VFX-fueled big screen blockbusters that closed out the decade with a box-office bang!
Animated Movies
The Lion King (Disney) $543,638,043
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News Bytes: Artios Awards Nominees, Disney+ 2020 First Look, KyoAni Attack In-Depth & More
The Great Animation Strike
Kristin Hunt for JSTOR Daily brings us back to the 1930s, when Sadie Bodin and other fed up artists took a...
MPSE Reveals 67th Golden Reel Nominees
The Motion Picture Sound Editors (MPSE) announced the nominees for the 67th Annual MPSE Golden Reel Awards. Nominees represent the work of the world’s...
News Bytes: MPC Vancouver Logs Off, ‘Thrones’ Creators Tackling ‘Lovecraft’, New ‘Short Treks’ Blast Off & More
Boy, A Lot of People Searched Pornhub for Animated TV Characters in 2019
We hope you’re all proud of yourselves ... Especially whoever was searching...
‘Sleeping Beauty’ Joins National Film Registry
The traditionally animated Disney classic Sleeping Beauty was the sole representative of toon history to make this year’s list of National Film Registry inductees,...
HFPA Reveals Conventional List of Golden Globe Animation Noms
The Hollywood Foreign Press came up with a more conventional list of nominees in the Best Animated Feature category this morning. Surprisingly enough, the...
20 Contenders Advance in VFX Oscar Race
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences today announced that 20 films are in the running in the Visual Effects category for the...
‘Lion King,’ ‘Game of Thrones,’ ‘Spider-Verse’ Win HPA Awards
The 14th annual HPA Awards took place Thursday night, honoring a range of individuals and companies exhibiting exceptional talent and brilliance in the evolving...
‘Hand Drawn’ Documentary Crowdfunds Final Round
Hand Drawn, an upcoming, feature-length documentary about the past, present and potential future of hand-drawn animation as told by the animators keeping it alive,...
Epic Games Acquires Quixel, Opens Megascans Library for UE Use
Kicking off Unreal Academy London, Epic Games announced the acquisition of Quixel, creator of the world’s largest photogrammetry asset library and bundled toolset, with...
‘Llama Llama’ S2 Premieres on Netflix Nov. 15
Genius Brands International, Inc. announced today that season two of the popular animated preschool series Llama Llama will launch on Netflix on November 15,...
Animago 2019 Plans Something for Everyone
What do Blow Studio, Digic Pictures, Framestore, Mackevision, MPC Film, Pixar Animation Studios, Pixomondo, Rise FX, Sony Pictures Imageworks, The Mill, Scanline VFX and...
‘Maleficent 2’: No Rest for the Wicked
***This article originally appeared in the December '19 issue of Animation Magazine (No. 295)***
Five years ago, Disney opted to retell the story of Sleeping...
World Animation & VFX Summit Announces 2019 Hall of Fame Honorees
Animation Magazine has unveiled its list of this year’s distinguished Animation Hall of Fame Game-Changers award recipients. The honorees will receive their awards at...
SPARK Animation to Honor Bonnie Arnold with Lifetime Achievement Award
The world’s leading lights in animation will present their expertise and award-winning films at the SPARK Animation 2019 Conference, Film Festival and Career Fair...
Cosmos-Maya’s ‘Harry’ Takes the Spotlight for MIPCOM
Leading India- and Singapore-based animation studio Cosmos-Maya has secured a raft of key global deals for its brand-new animated series Harry ahead of its...
Box Office Smash ‘The Lion King’ Comes Home Next Month
Disney’s worldwide hit The Lion King, which has issued a roaring challenge to definitions of the line between animation and live action, is ready...
TIFF: ‘Extinct’ Adds Voice Cast, J.K. Simmons Joins ‘Seal Team’
U.S.-Chinese animated comedy feature Extinct has announced key voice cast members ahead of its sales launch at Toronto Int’l Film Festival. International sales agent...
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