The year’s best work in children’s television and digital media was recognized by the global kids entertainment industry at the annual Kidscreen Summit in Miami. By AWN Staff Editor | Wednesday, February 13, 2019 MIAMI — At last night’s high-profile presentation event at Kidscreen Summit 2019, hosted by renowned actor/comedian Craig Lauzon and exclusively sponsored by the Canada[…..] […]
The director of Chris Miller and Phil Lord’s long-awaited ‘LEGO Movie’ sequel didn’t dial back a thing, encouraging crazy ideas from anyone and everyone when it came the film’s gags, cameos and brand-new characters. By Dan Sarto | Monday, February 11, 2019 It’s been five years since we last saw Emmett, Lucy, LEGO Batman and their cheerful,[…..] […]
Paris, February 12th, 2019: India-based-IP-development company Aadarsh Pvt. Ltd has inked a deal with leading animated entertainment company Cyber Group Studios to coproduce, distribute and licence, Purple Turtle, a brand new upcoming animated series inspired by the world-famous educational book of the same name and based on the leading preschool IP which has travelled across[…..] […]
Various problems appeared in the Spring Festival in 2019, including the withdrawing of movies due to “technical problems”, the unusually high price of film tickets, and thefts of film copyrights. Viewing from the box office, the score of 5.844 billion (the Spring Festival is from New Year’s Eve to the sixth day, the same below) is[…..] […]
Festival from 10th to 15th June 2019 Mifa from 11th to 14th June 2019 REMINDER – VR WORKS: There is still time to submit your works VR Works: new competitive category. Try your luck! To submit a work in the virtual reality category choose the registration form that corresponds to your film’s category and tick the “virtual reality” box at[…..] […]
Submissions Open for Summer Event in Los Angeles CHICAGO—Under the leadership of Conference Chair Mikki Rose, Senior Fur Technical Director at Blue Sky Studios, SIGGRAPH 2019 seeks submissions that cater to a central concept: Thrive. In its 46th year, the conference is set for 28 July–1 August 2019 at the Los Angeles Convention Center in Los Angeles,[…..] […]
By Ramin Zahed | February 7, 2019 Netflix will premiere writer-director Juan Antin’s (Mercano the Martian) Cesar Award-nominated animated film Pachamama in June of this year. The film, which is produced by Academy-Award nominee Didier Brunner (The Old Lady and the Pigeons, Kirikou and the Sorceress, The Triplets of Belleville, The Secret of Kells and Ernest and Celestine) is a hybrid animation adventure film about[…..] […]
By Animation Magazine | February 10, 2019 Ron Miller, husband of Diane Disney Miller, son-in-law of Walt Disney, President of the Board of Directors at The Walt Disney Family Museum, and owner of Silverado Vineyards, has died in Napa, California at the age of 85. “Everyone at The Walt Disney Company is deeply saddened by[…..] […]
Yan Kai, China’s most famous cartoonist. One of the “Three Swordsmen” of Chinese Comic in the age of “Comic’s King”; author of the first new comic separate in China, “Snow Coconut”. Yan Kai entered the comic industry in 1994. Today, he is still committed to domestic original animation & comic business, establishing a company and[…..] […]
By Mercedes Milligan | February 5, 2019 In the new trailer for Missing Link, the latest feature project from Oscar-nominated stop-motion powerhouse LAIKA, audiences will get to know a kindly creature of myth and legend — and two intrepid humans dedicated to helping him find his place in the world. The spot also promises more of the innovative[…..] […]
