Mickey Mouse is an cartoon character co-created in 1928 by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks.
In America, animation is rarely used for action or adventure films. Because it’s still largely regarded as children’s entertainment here, studios are usually reluctant to tell stories where the danger is real and the hero can be killed. In contrast, Masahiro Ando’s Sword of the Stranger (2007) is an action-filled samurai adventure that echoes the […]
He may just be the top “Director for Hire” in animation today. Over the past 17 years, Kelly Asbury had made “Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron” and “Shrek 2” for DreamWorks, “Gnomeo & Juliet” for Disney, “Smurfs: The Lost Village” for Sony, and now UglyDolls for newcomer STX. And his latest film is another music-driven […]
Paramount’s Sonic The Hedgehog is a live-action adventure comedy based on the global blockbuster videogame franchise from Sega – the one that centers on an infamously brash bright blue hedgehog. The film follows the (mis)adventures of Sonic as he navigates the complexities of life on Earth with his newfound – human – best friend Tom […]
Since 2016, Academy Award-winning actress Whoopi Goldberg has been curating the Tribeca Film Festival’s annual animation program. Goldberg has selected six shorts from around the globe for this year’s event, which will be available for attendees of the NYC festival three times. Past shorts screened as part of this program include the two most recent […]
Beloved Disney Channel star, popular actress Brenda Song (The Social Network) will return to the channel to play the lead voice role in Amphibia, an animated comedy series premiering this summer on Disney Channel and DisneyNOW. In production now, Song plays 13-year-old Anne Boonchuy, an independent and fearless teen who is magically transported to the […]
The ninth annual Red Dot Auction is a charity art experience and the largest annual fundraiser for the Chuck Jones Center for Creativity. 100s of artists from around the world contribute a work of art, anonymously, that becomes part of the silent auction. This year pieces include original work from Nick Park, Bill Plympton, Eric […]
Heads up, Marvel maniacs! Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy: Mission Breakout! will feature distinct animation styles in a multipart story arc kicking off Sunday May 5th (9:30–10:30 p.m. EDT/PDT), with two back-to-back episodes on Disney XD and DisneyNOW. In the new storyline, the Guardians, desperate to escape the Collector’s collapsing ship, jump into the Black […]
The world of animated film creation/distribution is made-up of major players and the smaller studios, who are also producing and releasing content on a regular basis. One of those is Viva Pictures, an independent studio and all-rights distributor, whose animation division, Viva Kids, has brought hundreds of feature films to screens big and small. The […]
The first thing noticeable about this film is that its title is a clever play on words; the main character, originally called “Mr. Link”, is missing a home, a family, and his entire species. There is also a second meaning. Missing Link is an evolutionary (and revolutionary) link in the craft of stop-motion animation. Before […]
The Loud House continues to make a lot of noise. While production is beginning for Season 4 of Nickelodeon’s hit comedy, so is work on the recently-announced, The Loud House Movie, which will find a home on Netflix. Oh, and the show just picked-up a trio of 2019 Daytime Emmy Award nominations, the most in […]
