Tag: MGM
Len Uhley to Receive WGA Animation Award
Veteran television animation writer Len Uhley (Ben 10, Static Shock, Duck Tales) is set receive the Writers Guild of America, West Animation Writers Caucus'...
Mike Peraza to Receive Friz Freleng Award
Award-winning Disney artist Mike Peraza will be honored with the Friz Freleng Lifetime Achievement Award for Excellence in Animation at the International Family Film...
Which Witch is Which?
Halloween season seems to be the perfect time to bring up one a cartoon character who had one of the most remarkable careers of...
Turner Rebrands Boomerang
Turner Broadcasting has announced it will be re-launching its kids brand Boomerang as a worldwide, all-animation, youth-targeted network, featuring a line-up up classic and...
The Early Hanna-Barbera, a la Benedict
San Diego Comic Con is once more upon us, offering a virtual Roman coliseum packed with all things pop culture. For baby boomer toonheads,...
MGM Vet Steve Hendry Joins Rainmaker Board
Vancouver's Rainmaker Entertainment has appointed former Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer executive Steve Hendry to its board of directors. The decision was announced by Rainmaker's chairman and CEO...
Genius Brands Grows Distribution Arm
Global kids' entertainment brand management company Genius Brands International has expanded its operations, launching a new global distribution division and appointing longtime distribution executive...
Milk Shakes Up BAFTAs with ‘Doctor Who’
London based indie visual effects house Milk has won a British Academy Television Craft Award for its outstanding vfx work on the BBC's Doctor...
Cast Your Votes for Fan-Favorite ‘Pink Panther’ DVD
MGM and FOX are inviting cartoon fans to celebrate the 50th anniversary of beloved DePatie-Freleng feline The Pink Panther by planning a first-ever, fan-selected...
MGM Plans ‘Pink Panther’ Hybrid Movie
MGM is bringing The Pink Panther back to the big screen in a hybrid animation-live action feature film to be directed by The Simpsons...
Tex Avery’s Hometown Honors His Legacy
Tex Avery holds a special place in the hearts of most animation fans for the fantastic comedy shorts he directed for the likes of...
Joe Barbera’s Snow Job
As regular readers of this blog know, whenever I'm at a loss for a story idea, I turn back to the book of Joe...
Longtime Animator ‘Lefty’ Callahan, 84, Dies
Oliver Edward "Lefty" Callahan, who had a long career in animation ranging from MGM theatrical shorts to pretty much every show made by Hanna...
‘Mary Poppins,’ ‘The Hole’ Added to Film Registry
Disney's Mary Poppins, the Hubley's animated short The Hole and sci-fi epic Forbidden Planet are among the 25 titles added to the National Film...
Milk to Deliver VFX for New ‘Doctor Who’ Series
Milk Visual Effects, the company behind the visual effects created for the BBC's Doctor Who 50th Anniversary Special: The Day of the Doctor -...
‘Grinch,’ ‘Shrek the Halls’ Return to ABC
Christmas arrives early to ABC this year as the alphabet channel will air the classic holiday special Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas...
MGM producing Animated ‘Addams Family’ Movie
Charles Addams' classic monster family is coming back to the big screen. Variety reports the beloved kooky characters are being prepared for an animated...
The Best Western You’ve Never Seen
I've written before about the increasingly thin barriers between animation and live-action filmmaking, barriers that are becoming more transparent with time (check out Guillermo...
Boomerang Brings Back Classic Looney Tunes in Oct.
Fans of the old classic Looney Tunes cartoons have a big reason to celebrate the arrival of October. Boomerang is bringing back the famous...
New Producer Gnosis Launches with Vinton Film
A new L.A.-based CG film and social gaming studio, Gnosis Moving Pictures, has announced it will kick off its production slate with an animated...
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