Tag: The Hobbit
Animated Classic ‘The Last Unicorn’ Makes 4K Debut in August with Shout!
The beloved hand-drawn fantasy feature The Last Unicorn (1982) will get an enchanting Ultra-High Definition treatment for the first time ever this summer. Releasing August...
Steamroller Steams ahead with Real-Time Animated Feature Plans with New CTO Shawn Dunn
Steamroller Animation has announced that Shawn Dunn will be joining the studio as Chief Technology Officer. Dunn will be responsible for guiding and overseeing the studio's...
Exclusive: Weta FX Whiz Mark Gee on Making Peacemaker’s Eagly Soar
Eagly, the clever, compassionate and lively sidekick to John Cena’s Christopher Smith character in HBO Max’s well-received series Peacemaker, is one of the most...
News Bytes: Amazon Dates ‘Lord of the Rings,’ MacFarlane Blasts FOX, Joaquin’s Bear Necessities & More
First-Look at Amazon's 'Lord of the Rings' Revealed
A sweeping, sunrise scene of Middle-earth gave fans their first look at the new Lord of the...
‘Weathering With You’ Breezes Back to Theaters This Month
Tickets are on sale now for Weathering With You, the critically acclaimed feature from director Makoto Shinkai and producer Genki Kawamura, creators of the...
New Line, WB Animation Bring Fans Back to Middle-earth in Standalone LOTR Anime ‘The War of the Rohirrim’
Twenty years after delivering the award-winning The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, based on the iconic books by J.R.R. Tolkien, New Line Cinema has...
Florida’s Steamroller Studios Taps Aaron Gilman as Chief Creative Officer
Steamroller Studios has hired animation veteran Aaron Gilman to serve as their new Chief Creative Officer, joining the Steamroller Team in April 2021. His...
Classic Toons Stay Tuned with HBO Max Extension
HBO Max announced today that a slew of Hanna-Barbera titles and Looney Tunes series will no longer be departing the service on April 30....
VES Names Peter Jackson Lifetime Achievement Awardee
Today, the Visual Effects Society (VES), the industry’s professional global honorary society, named Sir Peter Jackson, Academy, DGA, PGA and VES Award-winning director-producer-screenwriter, as...
Weta Taps Former Disney Exec Ann Le Cam as Production SVP
CEO Prem Akkaraju continues to invest in Weta Digital’s executive ranks by hiring Ann Le Cam as the premiere visual effects company’s SVP, Global...
Exclusive BTS Clip: Making the Play for ‘Strike’
An unlikely animal sports star takes the pitchin Strike, a stop-motion family flick from Gigglefish Animation Studios and Homesick Angel in the U.K. The...
Mungo Mole Goes for the Goal in Stop-Mo Adventure ‘Strike’
An underground animal hero reaches for soccer stardom in Strike -- a new animated adventure coming to DVD and Digital on April 7 from...
GKIDS ‘Weathering With You’ Dub Cast Features Lee Pace, Alison Brie, Riz Ahmed
GKIDS has announced the English-language voice cast for Weathering With You, the new film from director Makoto Shinkai and producer Genki Kawamura -- creators...
In Memoriam: Animation & VFX Greats We Lost in 2019
These past 12 months, we had to say goodbye to many talented men and women who made our favorite art form, and our world...
Disney Takes a Leap with ‘Amphibia’
***This article originally appeared in the June/July ‘19 issue of Animation Magazine (No. 291)***
When Matt Braly was a young boy, he used to visit...
Animated People: Diego Molano, Creator of Cartoon Network’s ‘Victor and Valentino’
***This interview originally appears in the May ‘19 issue of Animation Magazine (No. 290)***
Over the past decade, Diego Molano has had a colorful career...
Angel Eyes: Creating Realistic Manga-Inspired CG for ‘Alita: Battle Angel’
When James Cameron decided to produce and direct a series of sequels for Avatar, his adaptation of Yukito Kishiro’s manga about a cyborg suffering...
Don Cheadle on ‘DuckTales’ & More Disney TV Toon Highlights for August
The summer toon landscape is still sizzling, with the Mouse House revealing all the episode premiere highlights for August across Disney Channel, Disney Junior...
Annapurna Dates LAIKA’s ‘Missing Link’ for April 19
LAIKA’s fifth stop-motion feature -- the cryptozoological adventure Missing Link -- has received an April 19, 2019 release date from US distributor Annapurna Pictures....
LAIKA’s Fifth Movie ‘Missing Link’ Coming in 2019
Announced from Cannes, LAIKA has titled its fifth and most ambitious film to date: Missing Link. The Oscar-nominated animation behind Kubo and the Two...
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