Your American Box Office

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The car tentpole continues to dominate . Weekend Domestic Box Office 1). Furious 7 (UNI), 3,964 theaters (-58%) / $8.28M to $8.4M Friday / ... Continue reading →

Hackery Revisited

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So ... maybe a bunny rabbit picture ? Sony Pictures may be making a "Peter Rabbit" feature film, according to a series of leaked e... Continue reading →

Good Investing

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At the time Disney went on its acquisition spree of other companies a few years ago, there was skepticism. How are they going to get their ... Continue reading →

Daffy's Creation

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Cribbing from President Emeritus Stio's Facebook page ... April 17, 1937 "Porky's Duck Hunt" The birth of Daffy Duck. Dire... Continue reading →

Why Not "Popeye"?

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Via Animation Scoop . ... Genndy yesterday where he made it clear that he is concerned that if the studio doesn't move forward with Pop... Continue reading →

TV Ratings

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Cartoon Cable Networks, they do well . Across Q1 2015, Adult Swim ranked as basic cable's #1 network in total day among adults 18-24, a... Continue reading →

Salary Drop?

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Yes, Virginia. Once in a while, it happens . Members of the DreamWorks Animation board would have had a lot of explaining to do if they had... Continue reading →

The Fruits of Free Money

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It's no secret that Georgia is a magnet for the entertainment biz, not just in live-action but in animation and video game development. ... Continue reading →

It's Justice League

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Today it's all about Spirit * , but hey. There are these other super heroes. ... "Experience a divergent reality where the Justic... Continue reading →

Animation Jobs Held By Women

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A week ago, we posted the most recent employment percentages of women working in the cartoon business. The figures went like this: Out of ... Continue reading →

Girl Protaganist! What a Concept!

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In animation, it's now all the rage . In tackling a big screen adaptation of the literary classic "The Little Prince," directo... Continue reading →

Speaking of Females ...

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There is this ... Nicole Perlman, who co-wrote Marvel Studios' Guardians of the Galaxy, and Meg LeFauve, who co-wrote Pixar's upcom... Continue reading →

BASIC AGREEMENT Negotiations

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Tomorrow negotiations begin for the IATSE's Basic Agreement. And what the hey is the "Basic Agreement?" One of the oldest an... Continue reading →

Worldwide Box Office

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The animation movies (and affiliates thereof) do well . Foreign Weekend Box Office -- (World Totals) Home -- $15,200,000 -- ( $242,253,497 ... Continue reading →

High Flying Wages

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The creative community might take pay cuts, but not the oligarchs who rule them . ... Entertainment executives continue to reap some of the ... Continue reading →

Your American Box Office

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Home hangs in . APRIL 10-12 BOX OFFICE 1).Furious 7 (UNI), 4,022 theaters (+18)/ $19.2M Fri. (-71%) / 3-day cume: $62.7M (-57%)/ Total Cume... Continue reading →

Bob Walker Celebration

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From Thomas Baker via Facebook: ... A memorial service [for Disney director Bob Walker] will be held on Monday, April 13th at Gordon Biersch... Continue reading →

Not Fluffy Bunny Rabbits

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Animation isn't all about the cute . They're Trying To Make The Goriest Video Game Ever It all started with one completely anatomica... Continue reading →

ReDo News

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One more Beauty and the Beast addition . After portraying a wizard and a mutant in two lucrative franchises, Ian McKellen’s next role will ... Continue reading →

Foreigners in an Animated World

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These days, everybody is jumping into cartoons . Like for instance this: French pay TV giant Canal Plus is joining forces with American fil... Continue reading →

Richard vs. Goliath

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Funny thing. I've known artists in similar situations . Over 20 years after the comedy [ What About Bob ] came out, [Richard Dreyfuss] ... Continue reading →

Limited "Simpsons"

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Regarding the Yellow Family, apparently the era of each season of their series getting its own boxed set of little silver disks is at an end... Continue reading →

Lights, Camera ... LIVE ACTION!

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We're down to deep strip-mining now. "Pinocchio"-inspired Live-Action Feature Being Developed at Disney Yet another live-acti... Continue reading →

The Mouse

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America's favorite rodent will soon star in another new teevee show. From a Diz press release via Deadline : Now Mickey Mouse is set st... Continue reading →

Stan Freberg

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Rest in peace . Stan Freberg, who skewered pop culture and McCarthyism with satirical records and did cartoon voices for nearly six decades,... Continue reading →

Disney Animated Record-Breaker

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Like they don't have enough of them. Last week’s premiere of the original animated series “Star vs. the Forces of Evil” has become the ... Continue reading →

Progress

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Slow, but steady. And what the hell am I talking about? Why, the rising numbers of women now at work in the Los Angeles animation business... Continue reading →

The Weirdness of the Internets

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I got a note this morning from Cartoon Brew about this : ... Walt Disney had his mustache accidentally lit on fire by the animator Ken Ander... Continue reading →

Lawsuit Thrown Overboard

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The judge who approved a larger settlement on one class action, has stopped another . Disney, Sony & DreamWorks Animation Antitrust Clas... Continue reading →

Final Chapter

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Last chunk of self-aggrandizement. ‘Mouse in Transition’: Basil or Mouse Detective? (Chapter 19) ... My wife Janette and I had a lengthy ar... Continue reading →

Your Global Box Office

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Apparently there's a whole lot of cartooning going on . FOREIGN WEEKEND BOX OFFICE -- (World Totals) Home -- $20,700,000 -- ( $180,820,... Continue reading →

Rudolph Perz, RIP

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The creator of a well-loved animated character moves on . Rudolph Perz, an advertising executive who pondered a soulless, squishy, cylindric... Continue reading →

Box Office

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First, the forecast . Box Office Mojo's Weekend Predictions 1. Furious 7 - $110 million 2. Home - $28 million (-45%) 3. Get Hard - $16.5... Continue reading →

International Animation: Summaries of the Obvious

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So there are animation analyses of Europe and Asia out and about. The Asian summary goes : Much of Asia's animation production since the... Continue reading →

Contract Talks

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The production locals of our mother International commence talks with the AMPTP on Monday. The following Monday, the IATSE sits down to neg... Continue reading →

Cartoon Network's Atlanta Outpost

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Though a major part of Cartoon Network's production happens in Burbank, California, there are shows happening in the land of Scarlett an... Continue reading →

Xynergy

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There's really nothing to say ... Yeah, it's a goof, but with all the Disney sequels floating around, the possibility (threat?) is a... Continue reading →

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Deadline reports : ... FX has put in development Brightmoor , an animated comedy executive produced by Sean “Diddy” Combs. Created and writt... Continue reading →

China

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Not the country. The third season of the Adult Swim show begins on Sunday, and CI creator Brad Neely talks about how he got to the power po... Continue reading →

Jobs and Networking

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At last night's General Membership meeting, there was lengthy discussion about ways to find jobs in the animation business. Some bullet... Continue reading →

Wartime Escapism

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World War II versions . ... When you look back at the films that were incredibly popular during war years, an entirely different kind of mov... Continue reading →

What a Difference

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... a weekend makes . The financial press reports nice things about DreamWorks Animation: • "Home" outperformed estimates and prov... Continue reading →

Buh Bye, Sportsmen's Lodge

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In the heart of the San Fernando Valley, a monument will change . ... A new development approved on Wednesday calls for demolishing the west... Continue reading →

A New Cartoon Honcho in Burbank

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A trade paper relates : ... Nickelodeon has appointed Jennifer Dodge to the newly created position of SVP West Coast Development and Product... Continue reading →

Still More Remakes

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Well, it ain't Bambi but nevertheless ... ... [Diz Co. is eyeing another live-action retelling: Mulan . Disney bought a script by wri... Continue reading →

The TAG Interview -- Carl H. Greenblatt

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Carl Greenblatt came to animation after an education at the University of Texas (Austin) and a short, productive career in New York advertis... Continue reading →

Jeffrey's Shifting Strategies

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Dow Jones Business News weighs in : ... "I would read [Jeffrey Katzenberg's] blog and get exhausted," says a former DreamWorks... Continue reading →

International Box Office Goes Home

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DreamWorks Animation takes the top slot . Weekend Foreign Box Office -- (World Totals) Home -- $24,000,000 -- ( $102,200,000 ) Cinderella ... Continue reading →

The Deerest Feature

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Robert Iger, are you listening? The next big, Diz Co. sequel . Now that Disney is in the business of shooting dark, gritty, live-action rem... Continue reading →

Tyrus Wong

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He's now a hundred and four years old and still active . ... In 1938, The Walt Disney Studio hired [Tyrus Wong' as an "inbetwee... Continue reading →

Silver Linings Box Office

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Now with Add On . The animation buinsess has always been a roller-coaster, and DreamWorks Animation, after a rough few years now comes roari... Continue reading →

Nightmare Time

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Let’s share a Nightmare. In this dark dream, you are not a talented, creative artist. Instead you are an accountant. You work at the very sa... Continue reading →