Astro Boy movie poster
Short Showing has the teaser poster and an interview with director Colin Brady:
FS.net: Will this AstroBoy be aimed purely at kids or will it...
Down in the (uncanny) valley
Early reviews of Beowulf harp on the fact that it's just goldurned unnachurl:
Here's the deal: the best stuff in Beowulf is the most stylized,...
12 movies vie for animation Oscar®
Via Cartoon Brew the list of movies submitted for the Academy Award for best animated feature. Only three will be chosen.
Alvin and the Chipmunks
Aqua...
Connecticut now run by Taliban?
What the heck is going on in Connecticut? It was bad enough when teacher Nate Fisher was fired over a mistake that should have...
Persepolis stuff: Comics gave Satrapi worms
http://www.youtube.com/v/7i9Vs97x7IU
The Persepolis movie continues to win raves and plaudits, as creator and co-director Marjana Satrapi does the rounds, including an interview at Vulture:
What about...
Persepolis raves
The animated PERSEPOLIS film continues to get great reviews. Stephen Holden in the NY Times:
Because it is animated, “Persepolis” is a bold choice for...
Persepolis poster debuts
Cinematical introduces the poster for the animated PERSEPOLIS poster to the world. The film is having its American debut at the NY Film Festival...
Wallace and Gromit return!
Could there be better news than a new 30-minute Wallace and Gromit short the first since 1995's A Close Shave.
Creator Nick Park said: "The...
Simpsons movie-palooza
Some dude with an accordion has assembled a bunch of Simpsons scenes and the movies they reference. The movies are not ID'd so...hours of...
Kids WB is no more
Various news sources are reporting that The CW is ending the Kids WB! Saturday morning programming block, instead licensing it out to 4Kids, which...
Adventure on!
Over on his blog, Jeff Smith recently announced some impressive sales figures for Scholastic's BONE reprints:
I received some astonishing sales figures from Scholastic -...
