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A follow up to the Mr. Burns Endorses Mitt Romney video:

This year’s Annie Award nominations have been announced. The Annie Award is the Oscar equivalent for the animation industry. The winners will be announced February 2, 2013.Production CategoriesBest Animated Feature Brave – Pixar Animation Studios Frankenweenie – The Walt Disney Studios Hotel Transylvania – Sony Pictures Animation ParaNorman – Focus Features Rise of the Guardians […]

From Hollywood Reporter: Family film Wreck-It Ralph opened to a record-breaking $49.1 million from 3,752 theaters – the top weekend debut for a Disney Animation Studios title. The record had been held by Tangled, which opened with $48.8 million during Thanksgiving weekend in 2010. (Opening on a Wednesday, the film grossed $68.6 million in its […]

The Norm creator Michael Jantze has started an Indiegogo campaign to raise funds to cover legal expenses due to a suit he says is “frivilous”.From his fundraising site: Here’s what happened to me in a nutshell: I worked for free for someone for a year and now he claims I owe him money. Really? That’s […]

The Simpsons’ Mr. Burns is endorsing Governor Romney for president.

I didn’t see this one coming.From ABC News: The Walt Disney Company (NYSE: DIS) announced today that it has agreed to acquire Lucasfilm Ltd. in a stock and cash transaction valued at $4.05 billion. Lucasfilm is 100 percent owned by Lucasfilm chairman and founder, George Lucas. Under the agreement and based on the closing price […]

Cartoonist and animator Bill White has passed at the age of 51. His wife posted on his blog news that he passed last Saturday. She writes: His talent and humor were known by many, and his legacy will continue for years to come. Thank you for your continued support of Bill’s blog over the years. […]

Silo Roberts creator Rob Cabrera stepped away from his comic strip and went back to school for a masters in animation. He made is directorial debut this last Sunday with the animation short entitled Monica. It premiered at the Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival.“Monica” also features Bailee Madison who co-stars with Billy Crystal, Bette Midler, […]

Colin Druce-McFadden writes over at Dvice.com “16 ways cartoonist Winsor McCay quietly changed the world” So why did Google drudge up a name that most of us never knew? Same-day reporting mentioned that he was an animation pioneer, influenced Walt Disney, was a vaudevillian comedian and things of that nature. To my mind, this hardly […]

Waterman Entertainment (executive producer for Casper, Alvin And The Chipmunks, Stuart Little) has announced that it has acquired the film rights to the comic strip Healthcliff from Peter Gallagher who produces the comic strip. The strip will be a CGI/live action film.From the press release: “Their track record is impeccable. Casper, Stuart Little and Alvin […]

DreamWorks Animation has released a 90 second trailer for “Rise of the Guardians” The movie features the voice talent of Chris Pine, Alec Baldwin, Hugh Jackman, Isla Fisher and Jude Law. Due out November 21.

A new Peanuts feature film will be hitting theaters in 2015 according to Peanuts Worldwide – the joint venture between Iconix Brand Group and Charles M. Schulz Creative Associates. The film is written by Charles M. Schulz’ son, Craig.From the press release: Craig Schulz, President, Charles M. Schulz Creative Associates, commented, “We have been working […]

With the release of the “Monsters Inc” prequel, “Monsters University” next summer, Disney/Pixar has rolled out an official Monsters University website that has all the typical content of a real university: news, a store, information for students, faculty, admission, campus life, etc.Monsters Inc. is one of my favorite Pixar films and I’m looking forward to […]

Dreamworks to release 12 animation films in next 4 yearsCommingsoon.net reports that Dreamworks Animation SKG will release 12 animated films in the next four years.The Croods – March 22, 2013 Turbo – July 19, 2013 Mr. Peabody & Sherman – November 1, 2013 Me and My Shadow – March 14, 2014 How to Train Your […]

A couple of years ago I reported that StoryCorp had begun creating animating some of their stories. They’ve continued to animate more, but now they want to create a long-form animated special and are asking for donations though Kickstarter to make that happen. About two years ago, StoryCorps, the national oral history project, began animating […]