Home-grown surprise summer hit Nezha has become the highest-grossing animated feature release in Chinese box-office history. The folklore-inspired CG comedy-adventure came out of its second weekend with a cumulative take of 2.45 billion yuan (about $348 million USD) — surpassing the record previously set by Disney’s Zootopia (2016) and returning the top spot to a[…..] […]
ASIFA-Hollywood issues call for entries; excellence in 10 production categories, 22 achievement categories and up to 5 honorary awards will be recognized at January 25, 2020 ceremony. BURBANK, CA — The International Animated Film Society, ASIFA-Hollywood, announced its ‘Call for Entries’ for the 47th Annual Annie Awards to begin today, August 5. Honoring excellence in[…..] […]
With Discover Family counting down the final 13 episodes of My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, Hasbro is pumping up the fun for this bittersweet farewell with some fun new videos for MLP fans. Check out a music video for original tune featuring Weird Al Yankovic reprising his role as “super duper party pony”[…..] […]
Former Legendary Entertainment production executive most recently managed 3D conversions of ‘Suicide Squad’ and ‘Venom.’ CoSA VFX has announced the appointment of Stephanie Winslow as the company’s new executive producer. Winslow brings her extensive industry experience and business development, VFX and post-production knowledge to the studio, where she’ll work both with new and existing clients.[…..] […]
VFX supervisor Phil Brennan describes the making of Jean Grey’s cosmically altered telekinesis, her childhood car crash, an enhanced Cerebro and the 3rd act prison train. 13 years after writing the script for X-Men: The Last Stand, where the telepathic Jean Grey gets possessed by a cosmic force that turns her into the most powerful adversary ever faced[…..] […]
Another set of layoffs hit the Walt Disney Company Wednesday as a direct result of the recent 20th Century Fox acquisition, bringing the total number of film employees let go so far to around 250, according to Variety. As reported, the most recent cuts included Fox head of visual effects John Kilkenny, executive VP of feature production[…..] […]
Andrea Miloro, the veteran animation executive who, along with fellow co-president Robert Baird, oversaw Fox Animation, one of the new divisions Disney acquired as part of its $71.3 billion 21st Century Fox purchase earlier this year, has stepped down. Baird reportedly will remain at the company. Miloro provided no reason for her departure.[…..] […]
It’s been a big week for Nike campaigns, with celebrations popping up online of a new Air Max range and the swoosh of its classic logo. While the swoosh isn’t celebrating any anniversaries this year, shoewear brand Footlocker decided to team up with agency One Hundred – and a whole host of cult animators – for a series of short[…..] […]
Source: Dreamworks […]
Every Summer, there is an animation feature. Starting from Miyazaki’s “Spirited Away”, there were also “The Secret Life of Pets 2”, “GG BOND, Incredible World”, “Mobile Suit Gundam NT”, ” Fate/stay night: Heaven’s Feel III. spring song 2” and a couple others. But except for “Spirited Away”, most of them did not get hot. But[…..] […]
