By Ramin Zahed | January 3, 2019 DreamWorks Animation’s third and final chapter of the epic fantasy series, How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World, is one of the most anticipated animated features of 2019. After making a splash at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena on New Year’s Day via its award-winning float, the movie[…..] […]
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,[…..] […]
Multi-award-winning short film co-produced by Croatia’s Bonobostudio and the National Film Board of Canada released online as a Vimeo Staff Pick. By Jennifer Wolfe | Friday, December 28, 2018 at 3:17pm As we close out 2018 there have been a number of award-winning short films released online, including Eva Cvijanović‘s exquisitely polished stop-motion adaptation of the classic[…..] […]
By Mercedes Milligan | January 2, 2019 The merc with a mouth returns in the home video release for a unique fairy tale-twisted version of Deadpool 2 that the whole family can enjoy in Once Upon a Deadpool — arriving digitally on Movies Anywhere and on Blu-ray on January 15. The flick follows Deadpool (Ryan Reynolds) as he teams up with[…..] […]
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[…..] […]
Character designer Masayoshi Tanaka, animation director Atsushi Tamura, and art director Hiroshi Takiguchi returning for Shinkai’s latest anime feature. By Jennifer Wolfe | Thursday, December 27, 2018 at 5:41pm CoMix Wave Films has announced that Makoto Shinkai, the director of the 2016 blockbuster Japanese animated feature Your Name, will write and direct a new film[…..] […]
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[…..] […]
At the end of 2018, the imported blockbusters “Aquaman” and “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse” continued to maintain their heat. In 2019, the new domestic films “Call Calling”, “The Last Night of the Earth” and “Yunnan Worm Valley” also swept the domestic box office market. The total box office of the DC superhero movie “Neptune” released[…..] […]
CGGE: Can you briefly introduce it to our readers, why did you think about establishing this science and fantasy fund? Which industries are the originators of the fund mainly from? What are the channels through which the fund is raised? Which companies/individuals can benefit from this fund? SGF: Let’s start with the initiator. Our promoters[…..] […]
