Mickey Mouse is an cartoon character co-created in 1928 by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks.
DreamWorks Animation Television is creating two original kids series for Amazon Prime Video, beginning with the all-new The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle expected to premiere May 11, 2018 in the US, UK, Germany, India, and Japan. A second series inspired by the blockbuster franchise, Kung Fu Panda: The Paws of Destiny, will have a […]
Voice actor, puppeteer, and comedic actor Chuck McCann, has passed. He died Sunday afternoon at Cedar-Sinai Medical Center. He was 83. If you grew up in New York or the tri-state area, McCann was an ever-present figure on channel 11 (WPIX), after school, becoming a second father to many of us with his skits and […]
It’s time to play The Lupin Game! Anyone can play. Anyone, that is, with a smart phone, a wifi connection and a face recognition app. If you spot the notorious “gentleman thief,” tag and report him. You may even get a reward. What a challenge for Lupin the 3rd. After 26 feature-length TV serials, several […]
It was a box office hit and surprise Oscar nominee, with a sequel in the works. But fans of The Boss Baby don’t have to wait three years to see the pint-sized business mogul in action again. DreamWorks Animation TV will debut The Boss Baby: Back in Business this Friday (4/6) on Netflix. Two-time Emmy-winner […]
We are very sad to report (via USC’s Tom Sito) of the passing of animator Fred Crippen at age 90. Fred created the legendary TV cartoon series Roger Ramjet, and the very funny “Shorty and Cheap Chicken” commercials for National Lumber. He animated spots for Sesame Street, shorts for UPA and contributed to many classic […]
The GLAS Animation Festival 2018 in Berkeley has come to a close and they have unveiled news of a new GLAS Animation Grant, a new program to support independent animators making short films in the United States. This first year, GLAS will be awarding two grants of $2,500 each to two animation filmmakers. Applications and […]
Disney XD will premiere Yonatan Tal’s student short film, Nightmare in the Morning on Saturday, March 24th at 9:00pm ET/PT, marking the first time the channel has run a short film created by a student. Tal made the film during his third year in the Character Animation program at CalArts, and completed it while on […]
Starting Thursday, the 3rd annual GLAS Animation Festival takes place all over Berkeley California. Special Programs include A Conversation With David O’Reilly, An Intimate Q&A with Phil Lord & Chris Miller; presentations by Nickelodeon, Tonko House, Google Spotlight Stories; Animation surveys from Croatia and Zagreb; spotlights on animators Jorge Gutierrez, Jonathan Hodgson, Sophie Koko Gate, […]
Like Ouran High School Host Club (2006), the teen romcom Kiss Him, Not Me (2016), plays off the distaff equivalent of the harem comedy. Based on the award-winning 2013 manga by Junko, the Japanese title Watashi ga Motete Dōsunda literally means “What’s the Point of Me Getting Popular?” High school junior Kae Serinuma (voice by […]
US distributor GKIDS announced today that it has acquired the North American distribution rights to Fireworks, from director Nobuyuki Takeuchi and general director Akiyuki Shinbo. The deal for the film was negotiated by Eric Beckman of GKIDS and Rui Machida at Toho Co., Ltd. GKIDS will release the film theatrically in Summer 2018. Here’s the […]
