Tag: Chicken Little
‘The Garfield Movie’ Director Mark Dindal & Animation Supe Jason Boose Dish on the Tubby Tabby’s Return
Since his birth in 1978, the lazy, tubby tabby named Garfield has become an institutional pop culture figure akin to other cartoon celebs, such...
Animated Favorites & More Pack Freeform’s ’30 Days of Disney’
Summer is going to be chock a block with nostalgic favorites on Freeform, which celebrates 30 Days of Disney throughout the month of June. Viewers...
Alcon’s ‘Garfield’ Flick Gets Purring with Chris Pratt to Star
Fandom favorite Chris Pratt is taking on another iconic animated character! Just over a month since the Parks and Recreation, Guardians of the Galaxy ...
Comedy Actor Fred Willard, Voice of Dozens of Cartoons, Dies Age 86
Acclaimed comedian and actor Fred Willard -- known for his spotlight-stealing turns in Christopher Guest mockumentaries Spinal Tap, Best in Show, A Mighty Wind...
‘Short Circuit’ Experimental Films Debut on Disney+
Walt Disney Animation Studios’ experimental Short Circuit films arrived on Disney+ on Friday, bringing 14 varied and innovative and short animated stories to fans.
Started...
World Animation & VFX Summit Announces 2019 Hall of Fame Honorees
Animation Magazine has unveiled its list of this year’s distinguished Animation Hall of Fame Game-Changers award recipients. The honorees will receive their awards at...
Warner Animation Group Confirms Funko Movie Project
Warner Bros. has officially optioned rights to the super popular Funko toy brand, famed for its distinctive super-deformed POP! figures. Warner Animation Group will...
Sony’s Karen Rupert Toliver Promoted to EVP Creative
Karen Rupert Toliver is moving up the ranks at Sony Pictures Animation. After serving as Senior Vice President of Creative Development since joining the...
Annecy: Disney Premiering 3 Experimental Shorts, BTS of ‘Frozen 2’
In what has become an annual tradition at Annecy International Animated Film Festival, Walt Disney Animation Studios returns with a Bonlieu Theater presentation showcasing...
DePaul U Brings Phil Tippett, Julia Pott, Pritt Parn to FxF Conference
Organizers of the Frame-By-Frame Animators Conference (FxF), one of the U.S. Midwest’s premiere toon confabs, have confirmed a luminous guests of honor lineup for...
Animation Magazine’s Rising Stars of Animation 2019
***This feature appears in the April issue of Animation Magazine (No. 289)***
It has become an annual spring tradition here at the magazine to highlight...
‘Playmobil: The Movie’ Premiere to Open Annecy ‘19
This year’s edition of the Annecy Int’l Animated Film Festival (June 10-15) in France will open with the world premiere screening of Playmobil: The...
Martin Short & Catherine O’Hara Join ‘Addams Family’ Cast
Canadian-American comedy legends Martin Short and Catherine O’Hara have signed on to MGM’s upcoming fully-animated The Addams Family feature. The much-lauded actors, who have...
Mark Dindal Tapped to Helm ‘Garfield’ for Alcon
Annie Award-nominated director Mark Dindal (Chicken Little, The Emperor’s New Groove, Cats Don’t Dance) has come on board the new fully-animated Garfield feature underway...
NYC Exhibition Celebrates the Legacy of Mickey Mouse
It all started with a mouse. And just as the Mouse popped out of thin air in New York back on November 18, 1928,...
Pearl Studio Shines Light on Slate at Annecy
Chinese director, star and producer Stephen Chow is developing The Monkey King, an animated feature for Pearl Studio based on the popular mischievous superhero....
Pearl Studio Ups Justinian Huang to Head of Dev, Reveals ‘Tiger Empress’
Pearl Studio (formerly Oriental DreamWorks) has promoted Justinian Huang to Head of Development, to continue overseeing the studio’s growing feature animation slate. The appointment...
Karen Rupert Toliver Tapped as SVP Development at Sony Animation
Fox Animation and Disney veteran Karen Rupert Toliver has been hired on as the new Senior Vice President of Development at Sony Pictures Animation,...
Peilin Chou Upped to CCO of Oriental DreamWorks; 5 Films Announced
Oriental DreamWorks has promoted Peilin Chou to the post of Chief Creative Officer and revealed five new feature film projects in the works. Chou...
‘Big Hero 6’ Writer Daniel Gerson Dies Age 49
Daniel Gerson, a long-time story and script writer for Disney and Pixar feature films who co-wrote the 2015 Oscar winner Big Hero 6, has...
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