By Mercedes Milligan | January 4, 2019 The Producers Guild of America has announced the motion picture and television nominations for the 30th Annual Producers Guild Awards, presented by Cadillac. The winners will be revealed Saturday, January 19 at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Los Angeles. Ten films are vying for the main Darryl F. Zanuck Award[…..] […]
By Mercedes Milligan | January 3, 2019 The National Film Board of Canada has unleashed Alison Snowden and David Fine’s Oscar shortlisted animated short Animal Behaviour on its YouTube channel, available now through January 12. This Academy Award season has seen each of the 10 film vying for a Best Animated Short nomination made available online,[…..] […]
By Karen Idelson | January 2, 2019 ***This story originally appeared in the February 2019 issue of Animation Magazine (No. 287)*** Before he was even finished with middle school, Perry Chen began a deeply personal creative journey he hoped would touch and inspire his terminally ill father to live even just a little bit longer so[…..] […]
Get ready for virtual reality with Chinese characteristics. By Kevin Geiger | Monday, December 31, 2018 at 10:25am Say what you will about the People’s Republic of China, but it’s never without a plan (even if those don’t always pan out). Just in time for Christmas, mainland China’s Ministry of Industry has set out a platform of[…..] […]
By Ramin Zahed | December 31, 2018 The animation community was saddened by the death of longtime Disney and Hanna Barbera animator and director Don Lusk on Sunday at age 105 in San Clemente, Calif. The news of his passing was announced by his friend Navah-Paskowitz Asner on social media yesterday. Lusk joined the Walt[…..] […]
As we get ready to ring in the new year, it’s good to know that 2018 is going down as the largest grossing year at the domestic box office, with an estimated total $11.5 billion in tickets sales. The previous record was 2016’s $11.37 billion total. Of course, most of the revenue was generated by[…..] […]
Continuing the adventures of Guillermo del Toro’s ‘Tales of Arcadia’ trilogy, ‘3Below’ follows two royal teenage aliens heroes on the run from intergalactic bounty hunters. By Jennifer Wolfe | Thursday, December 20, 2018 at 12:18pm DreamWorks Animation Television has released new clips for Guillermo del Toro’s highly anticipated Netflix original series 3Below: Tales of Arcadia,[…..] […]
With seven of the 10 shortlisted films available to watch online, take a closer look at this year’s contenders for an Academy Award nomination for best animated short film. By Jennifer Wolfe | Friday, December 21, 2018 at 6:09pm On the heels of this week’s announcement of the 10 animated short films vying for a nomination at the 91st[…..] […]
On December 20th, the “China Culture & Creative Investment Bay Area Summit” namely “the Launching Ceremony of the Youth Cultural Creation & Entrepreneurship Support Program of Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area” was officially held at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in Luohu District, Shenzhen. The summit invited over 10 guests to gather and discuss the development trend[…..] […]
By Mercedes Milligan | December 19, 2018 With the concepts of socialism and communism being increasingly embraced by younger generations, it was only a matter of time before this trend made inroads in animation. Sure enough, news out of China that top video streaming site Bilibili will soon deliver an anime-style series based on the[…..] […]
