Celebrating France’s rich tradition as a pioneer of animation, the French Institute Alliance Française (FIAF) announces the 2019 Animation First festival. Building on its wildly successful inaugural year, the second edition of Animation First showcases the vast history, enduring ingenuity, and diversity of France’s renowned animation studios and schools. This year’s schedule includes 17 premieres, […]
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Don Lusk (1913-2018)
December 30th, 2018 
Jerry Beck Disney Legend Don Lusk has passed away today at age 105 – reported by his dear friend Navah Paskowitz-Asner (Ed Asner’s daughter-in-law) on her Facebook page this morning. Lusk was hired by The Walt Disney Company in 1933 and he became an animator in 1938 on Ferdinand The Bull. His animation graced key scenes in […]
Børge Ring R.I.P.
December 27th, 2018 Jerry Beck The animation community is mourning the passing today of one of its own and most beloved, Børge Ring – a renown Danish comic strip artist, jazz musician and animator. In 1978 he animated a short Oh My Darling, which won awards at the Cannes Film Festival and received an Academy Award nomination – and in […]
Dreamworks’ Oscar Short-listed Shorts Now Online
December 21st, 2018 Jerry Beck Dreamworks has dropped – for a few weeks only – their two Oscar shortlisted short films Bird Karma (directed by William Salazar) and Bilby (directed by Liron Topaz, Pierre Perifel and JP Sans). Both shorts from the inaugural launch of the “DreamWorks Shorts” program are being strongly considered by the Academy for an Academy Award.
US TRAILER for Sony Classics “Ruben Brandt, Collector”
December 18th, 2018 Jerry Beck Sony Pictures Classics dropped the first trailer for their release of Ruben Brandt Collector. Written and directed by Milorad Krstic, this English language animated feature from Hungary has been winning acclaim on the festival circuit – and was just nominated attend for an Annie Award for Best Animated Feature – Independent. The film will be […]
TEASER: Illumination’s “The Secret Life Of Pets 2”
December 18th, 2018 Jerry Beck The Secret Life of Pets 2 will follow summer 2016’s blockbuster about the lives our pets lead after we leave for work or school each day. The Secret Life of Pets 2 will see the return of writer Brian Lynch (Minions) and once again be directed by Chris Renaud (Despicable Me series, Dr. Seuss’ The […]
Oscar’s Animated Short Film Nominees – The Shortlist
December 17th, 2018 Jerry Beck The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences today announced the shortlist for the 91st Oscars in the category of Animated Short Film. Ten films were selected out of Eighty-one films qualified in the category. Members of the Short Films and Feature Animation Branch vote to determine the shortlist and the nominees. The films, listed […]
Emily Hubley on “The Faith Journal Project”
December 17th, 2018 Jerry Beck Filmmaker Emily Hubley has announced her next project: The Faith Journal Project, a 3-part undertaking (short film, an installation and an application) related to the 7000+ self-portraits (in 49 journals) created by her mom, artist/filmmaker Faith Hubley, in the final decades of her life. “This has long been in the works,” says Hubley. “and now […]
TEASER: “PlayMobil: The Movie”
December 14th, 2018 Jerry Beck Here comes The Lego Movie’s younger cousin — PlayMobil: The Movie takes audiences on an epic comedy adventure through a sprawling imaginative universe in the first-ever feature film inspired by the award-winning German Playmobil role-play toys. Directed by Lino DiSalvo (head of animation on Disney’s Frozen), It is currently scheduled for a August 16th, 2019 […]
TRAILER: Dreamworks/Netflix “3Below: Tales Of Arcadia”
December 12th, 2018 Jerry Beck DreamWorks Animation Television has released the full trailer for Guillermo del Toro’s highly anticipated Netflix original series 3Below: Tales of Arcadia, bringing an out-of-world experience exclusively to Netflix December 21st. Featuring an all-star voice cast including Diego Luna (Narcos: Mexico), Tatiana Maslany (Orphan Black), Nick Offerman (Parks and Recreation), Glenn Close(The Wife) and more, 3Below: […]
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TEASER TRAILER: A New Shaun The Sheep Movie “Farmageddon”
December 11th, 2018 Jerry Beck It’s close encounters of the herd kind in the brand new Shaun The Sheep movie from Aardman Animation. Shaun The Sheep Movie: Farmageddon is directed by Richard Phelan and Will Becher, Written by Jon Brown and Mark Burton, Produced by Paul Kewley with Executive Producers Mark Burton and Richard Starzak, Peter Lord, Nick Park and […]
Netflix Announces New Original Anime Series of “Ghost in the Shell”
December 7th, 2018 Jerry Beck Ghost in the Shell is going to reborn by changing itself into a new form — 3DCG. This time, Kenji Kamiyama and Production I.G will join forces with Shinji Aramaki and SOLA DIGITAL ARTS, who brought Japanese 3DCG animation to the whole world in series like Appleseed. This will be “a next-generation animation film” and […]
2018 Golden Globe Nominees
December 6th, 2018 Jerry Beck The infamous Hollywood Foreign Press Association announced their nominees today – and included in the mix were their choices for Best Animated Feature. As expected, Disney’s Ralph Breaks The Internet (Rich Moore and Phil Johnston ) and Pixar’s The Incredibles 2 (Brad Bird) made the grade; Sony’s Spider-Man: Into The Spiderverse (Peter Ramsey, Robert Persichetti […]
Annecy Becomes An Official Festival Partner with The Annie Awards
December 5th, 2018 Jerry Beck The International Animated Film Society, ASIFA-Hollywood is honored to announce that Annecy International Animation Film Festival has officially become a festival partner with the Annie Awards. Also joining the Annie Awards’ festival partnership is Ottawa, Hiroshima and Zagreb festivals. Annecy was created in 1960 and takes place at the beginning of June in the town […]
It’s a Wrap – LA Animation Festival Winners Announced
December 3rd, 2018 Jerry Beck The LA Animation Festival had its awards evening on Sunday at The Mayflower Club and gave awards in many filmmaking and craft categories including a Best of the Fest Award for an experimental film by Louis Morton called Floreana, a Best Feature Award to renowned independent experimental filmmaker Joanna Priestley for North of Blue and […]
