Tag: Ethel & Ernest
Adventure Island: ‘Kensuke’s Kingdom’ Creatives Share the Joys & Challenges of Their Beautiful Adaptation
'It’s a proper adventure story full of action and excitement, but at the same time it is also extremely gentle, with a complex emotional...
The Creatives Behind ‘Mog’s Christmas’ Discuss Their Cat-astrophic Holiday Tale
The holiday season wouldn’t be quite the same without a beautifully crafted, 2D animated special from our friends across the Pond. This year, the...
WestEnd Boards Lupus Films’ Animated Feature ‘Las Dos Fridas’
As the Annecy Festival celebrates animation from Mexico this week, London-based sales agency WestEnd Films has announced that it has partnered with Lupus Films...
Lupus Films Celebrates 20th Anniversary with MAF Fellowship
Camilla Deakin and Ruth Fielding, the founders of multi award-winning, London-based animation studio Lupus Films, have been awarded the Manchester Animation Festival Fellowship 2022.
In...
‘The Snowman’ Creator Raymond Briggs Dies Age 88
British author-illustrator Raymond Briggs, who created numerous works which inspired animated classics such as The Snowman and Ethel & Ernest, died Tuesday, August 9 from pneumonia...
Howling with Greatness: Lupus Films Celebrates 20 Years of Producing Timeless Animation
***This interview originally appeared in the March '22 issue of Animation Magazine (No. 318)***
It’s hard to believe that it’s been 20 years since Camilla...
‘Canterville Ghost’ Completes Financing with Align, Begins Production
An animated twist on an Oscar Wilde tale is preparing to haunt the big screen, as The Canterville Ghost enters production after securing its...
14 Movies to Track at Cartoon Movie 2021
One of the most exciting aspects of France’s Cartoon Movie pitching and co-pro event (cartoon-media.eu), which takes place online March 9-11 this year, is...
Laguionie’s ‘Prince’s Voyage’ Journeys to U.S. with Shout! Studios
The Prince's Voyage, the latest award-winning animated feature from French auteur Jean-François Laguionie (The Painting, Palme d'Or short Rowing Across the Atlantic) is finally...
Shipwreck Adventure ‘Kensuke’s Kingdom’ Enters Production with New Partners
Kensuke's Kingdom is kicking off production at last, with new finance and animation studio partners along for the journey. Originally announced in 2017, the...
Lupus Films Ventures into Jill Barklem’s ‘Brambly Hedge’
Leading London animation studio Lupus Films (The Snowman & The Snowdog, The Tiger Who Came to Tea) announced today that it has optioned the...
Watch: Exclusive First Trailer for Lupus Films’ Movie ‘Kiki’
One of the highlights of this year’s Cartoon Movie event in France was a special preview of Lupus Film’s upcoming movie Kiki, which centers...
Nine Movies to Track at Cartoon Movie
**This article originally appeared in the March '19 issue of Animation Magazine (No. 288)***
The logistics at Cartoon Movie make it impossible to catch all...
Key Voice Cast & Pre-Sales for ‘Kensuke’s Kingdom’ Announced
Distributor Bankside Films kicked off the first day of Berlin’s European Film Market by announced the voice cast for upcoming animated feature Kensuke’s Kingdom,...
Roger Mainwood, ‘Ethel & Ernest’ Director, Dies at 65
Roger Mainwood, an admired and respected figure in animation whose works include some of the best-known and most enduring titles produced in the U.K.,...
Bankside Picks Up ‘Kensuke’s Kingdom’ for Cannes Sales Launch
London-based international sales & production company Bankside Films has acquired upcoming animated, ecologically-themed feature adventure Kensuke’s Kingdom, to be directed by animation veteran Neil...
‘Revolting Rhymes’, ‘Gumball’ & More Score 2018 British Animation Awards
The winners of the 2018 British Animation Awards were revealed Thursday night in a ceremony laced with surprises, held at London’s BFI Southbank and...
MONSTRA Fest Grows Up with 18th Edition
MONSTRA Lisbon Animation Festival returns to the Portuguese capital this week for its 18th birthday. Running March 8-18, this year’s event will pay homage...
Lupus, HarperCollins Invite ‘Tiger Who Came to Tea’ to TV
London-based film and animation company Lupus Films has teamed with HarperCollins Children’s Books to develop a hand-drawn animated TV special based on Judith Kerr’s...
‘Ethel & Ernest’ Leads British Animation Award Nominations
The nominees for the 2018 edition of the British Animation Awards have been revealed, with Lupus Film’s acclaimed graphic novel adaptation Ethel & Ernest...
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