LOOK: New Images from Michaël Dudok de Wit's ‘The Red Turtle’
Paris-based film sales group Wild Bunch bringing a 50-second extract of the highly anticipated Studio Ghibli co-production to the 2015 Cannes Film Festival.
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AWN Professional Spotlight: FMX 2014 – Blue Sky’s Chip Lotierzo & Tom Cardone
Senior animator Chip Lotierzo and art director Tom Cardone discuss their respective roles on Blue Sky’s animated features, including ‘Rio 2,’ as part of AWN’s series of exclusive video interviews from FMX 2014.
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AWN Professional Spotlight: FMX 2014 – Animal Logic’s Damien Gray
CG supervisor Damien Gray discusses Animal Logic’s animated feature ‘The LEGO Movie’ as part of AWN’s series of exclusive video interviews from FMX 2014.
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All-Star Voice Cast Set for ‘Arctic Justice: Thunder Squad’ Feature
John Cleese, Alec Baldwin, James Franco, Anjelica Huston, Heidi Klum and Omar Sy board AMBI Pictures’ 3D CGI animated family film ‘Arctic Justice: Thunder Squad,’ directed by veteran animator Dimos Vrysellas.
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AWN Professional Spotlight: FMX 2014 – DreamWorks Animation’s Doug Cooper
Doug Cooper discusses the role of Visual Effects Supervisor at DreamWorks Animation’s as part of AWN’s series of exclusive video interviews from FMX 2014.
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Disney Reports Q2 Revenues of $12.5 Billion
Fuelled by the company’s parks and resorts, Disney beats analysts’ predictions, pushing the company’s shares to new highs of more than $113.
AWN Professional Spotlight: FMX 2014 – Sony Pictures Animation’s Kris Pearn
Sony Pictures Animation story artist and director Kris Pearn discusses the many different hats a big studio animated feature film director wears.
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Benjamin Renner to Direct ‘The Big Bad Fox’
Superights and newly-launched prodco Folivari to produce three TV specials from the writer and director of the Oscar-nominated 2D animated feature, 'Ernest & Celestine.’
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Gruppo Alcuni Signs New Deal for ‘Pet Pals’
Italian animation producer Gruppo Alcuni signs an exclusive deal with MCF MegaCom Film for two animated feature films, ‘Pet Pals – Marco Polo’s Code’ and ‘Pet Pals in Windland.’
AWN Professional Spotlight: FMX 2014 – DreamWorks Animation’s Scott Peterson
Co-head of fffects Scott Peterson discusses DreamWorks Animation’s CG-animated sequel, ‘How to Train Your Dragon 2,’ as part of AWN’s series of exclusive video interviews from FMX 2014.
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WATCH: New Trailer for ‘The Prophet’
Roger Allers-directed feature set to open Annecy 2015 features animation from Tomm Moore, Joan Gratz, Bill Plympton, Nina Paley, Joann Sfar, Paul and Gaetan Brizzi, Michal Socha, and Mohammed Harib.
DreamWorks Animation Posts $54.8 Million Loss
The Jeffrey Katzenberg-led studio exceeds analyst expectations with a 13 percent rise in revenues despite posting a $54.8 million loss for the period ended March 31, 2015.
Annecy Festival Unveils 2015 Feature Selections
Eight feature films are selected to screen in competition at Annecy 2015, including three films from France, two from Japan, a French-Dutch co-production, and films from Spain and Columbia.
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‘The Prophet’ to Open Annecy 2015
Including work from nine of the biggest names in animation, The Prophet,’ directed by Roger Allers, is set to premiere as the opening film at the 2015 Annecy International Animated Film Festival.
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‘LEGO Movie’ Directors Developing Animated ‘Spider-Man’ Feature for Sony
Phil Lord and Chris Miller are writing the treatment and producing the animated feature set to arrive in theaters on July 20, 2018.
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Romania’s Anim’est Issues 2015 Call for Entries
The deadline for submission to the 10th edition of the Bucharest International Animation Film Festival is June 20, 2015.
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Dolby Vision to Launch with Disney’s ‘Tomorrowland ‘and Pixar’s ‘Inside Out’
Disney’s live-action remake of ‘The Jungle Book,’ due out April 15, 2016, will also be presented in Dolby Vision, with more titles to be announced.
Watch: New International Trailer for ‘The Little Prince’
CG/stop-motion hybrid adaptation of Antoine de Saint-Exupery’s beloved book directed by Mark Osborne of ‘Kung Fun Panda’ fame to premiere at the Cannes Film Festival.
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DreamWorks Animation Shifts ‘Kung Fu Panda 3’ Release Date
DreamWorks Animation and distribution partner 20th Century Fox move ‘Kung Fu Panda 3’ up from March 18, 2016 to January 29, 2016.
ANIMPACT Programmer Sung-Joo Kim Dies at 41
Multinational festival programmer served as the main programmer for South Korea’s ANIMPACT Animation Festival and the Seoul International Cartoon and Animation Film Festival.
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Phil Lord & Christopher Miller Named 2015 Texas Avery Award Recipients
Reel FX to present the 9th annual “Texas” Avery Animation Award to BAFTA winners and Golden Globe nominees Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, the writers/directors of ‘The LEGO Movie’ and ‘Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs.’
Pixar’s ‘Inside Out’ to Premiere at 2015 Cannes Film Festival
‘Inside Out’ director Pete Docter, producer Jonas Rivera and co-director Ronnie Del Carmen will attend the Cannes premiere, along with members of the all-star English-language voice cast.
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Disney Planning Live-Action ‘Pinocchio’
Peter Hedges (‘What’s Eating Gilbert Grape’) is writing a script for the feature loosely based on the ‘Pinocchio’ story originally brought to the screen in 1940.
GKIDS Releases New Trailer for Studio Ghibli’s ‘Marnie’
The second feature from ‘The Secret World of Arrietty’ director Hiromasa Yonebayashi begins its U.S. theatrical run in New York and Los Angeles on May 22.
Watch: Brad Bird’s 1980 Pencil Test for ‘The Spirit’
Pencil test “trailer” created by Bird and several of his CalArts classmates for an adaptation of Will Eisner’s ‘The Spirit’ shows what could have been.
