Mickey Mouse is an cartoon character co-created in 1928 by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks.
In what has become an annual tradition at Annecy International Animated Film Festival, Walt Disney Animation Studios (WDAS) returns with a Bonlieu Theater presentation showcasing the Studios’ latest projects, presented by the filmmakers themselves. On Friday, June 14, Head of Animation Becky Bresee and Head of Effects Animation Marlon West take to the stage to […]
The Harvey Girls are back for Season 2 of the popular DreamWorks Animation series, now streaming on Netflix. Executive Producer Brendan Hay and Supervising Producer Aliki Theofilopoulos discuss the bigger, bolder new season, starting with a title change. Jackson Murphy: The show was called Harvey Street Kids for Season 1. Now it’s called Harvey Girls […]
Today, May 11th, is the 90th birthday of Margaret Kerry, actress, dancer, entertainer who was cast by Marc Davis as the live-action model for Tinker Bell for Disney’s classic film Peter Pan (1953). Davis, one of Disney’s famed nine-old-men, also cast her as the Red-Headed Mermaid in the Mermaid Lagoon sequence. We here at Animation […]
The Pokémon have been with us since 1996, long enough to have entertained a couple of generations of fans. The mythical beasties have a history in video games, anime, TV series, manga, and, importantly, feature films. None of them, however, have been quite like Detective Pikachu. The film is based on the Nintendo adventure game […]
DrinkTV, in conjunction with Shout! Studios and Dr. God, is announcing a new show airing exclusively on the streaming platform. Hell Den is an animated series that mixes original animation and re-dubbed cartoons in a deliciously warped and hilarious brew of social satire, musical parody, and good ol’ fashioned absurdist humor. Hell Den is a […]
GKIDS has announced it acquired North American distribution rights for the adult-targeted animated feature Another Day Of Life. GKIDS will release the film theatrically in 2019. Based on famed author and journalist Ryszard Kapuściński’s book of the same name, and directed by Raúl De La Fuente and Damian Nenow, Another Day Of Life was an […]
With Toy Story 4 warming up for release, UglyDolls may be the least anticipated animated release of this Spring. More’s the pity. Although this film has taken a critical drubbing (and some aspects of it deservedly so), My own take is that STX Family UglyDolls is an underrated work that deserves better than the barbs […]
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 […]
