Following its release in its native Japan, an all-new Sound! Euphonium story following the Kitauji High School concert band club, from the novels by Ayano Takeda, is coming to select U.S. movie theaters nationwide. From Kyoto Animation (“A Silent Voice,” “Liz and the Blue Bird,” and “Violet Evergarden”) comes the long-awaited sequel in the Sound! […]

Today, May 11th, is the 90th birthday of Margaret Kerry, actress, dancer, entertainer who was cast by Marc Davis as the live-action model for Tinker Bell for Disney’s classic film Peter Pan (1953). Davis, one of Disney’s famed nine-old-men, also cast her as the Red-Headed Mermaid in the Mermaid Lagoon sequence. We here at Animation […]

Since 2016, Academy Award-winning actress Whoopi Goldberg has been curating the Tribeca Film Festival’s annual animation program. Goldberg has selected six shorts from around the globe for this year’s event, which will be available for attendees of the NYC festival three times. Past shorts screened as part of this program include the two most recent […]

The ninth annual Red Dot Auction is a charity art experience and the largest annual fundraiser for the Chuck Jones Center for Creativity. 100s of artists from around the world contribute a work of art, anonymously, that becomes part of the silent auction. This year pieces include original work from Nick Park, Bill Plympton, Eric […]

The International Animated Film Society, ASIFA-Hollywood, announced today its key dates for the 47th Annie Awards ceremony set for Saturday, January 25, 2020 at UCLA’s Royce Hall. “We try to set the Annie Awards early in the award season so that the media and other award ceremonies have a window into how our industry members […]

In the week leading up to the 91st Oscars, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will present a series of public programs celebrating this year’s nominees in the Animated Feature Film and Animated Short Film categories. These events will be held at the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills. The Oscar Week […]