‘The Secret Life Of Pets’ Woofs It Past $500M At International Box Office
The total global gross on the Yarrow Cheney- and Chris Renaud-helmed movie is now $866.5M. Overseas, the movie opened No. 1 in 45 markets along the rollout which began in late June. The domestic cume is $366.3M. There, it had the best opening for an original film, animated or otherwise. In a big year for animation, Pets is the 6th highest-grossing film of 2016 at the worldwide box office.
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Fox Animation Picks Up ‘The Girl Who Drank The Moon’
Fox Animation has acquired the rights to Kelly Barnhill's widely acclaimed children’s fantasy novel 'The Girl Who Drank the Moon.' Carlos Saldanha, director of Fox/Blue Sky’s 'Rio,' will produce with Maresa Pullman through their company, BottleCap Productions.
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Andrew Adamson Directing Haunting Love Story for Amazon
Amazon Studios is developing an untitled spec it has recently acquired with “Chronicles of Narnia” and “Shrek” helmer Andrew Adamson attached to direct. Sources describe the film as a haunting love story with elements of “Memento” and “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.”
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DreamWorks Animation Unveils First Teaser for ‘Boss Baby’ Feature
Directed by Tom McGrath, produced by Ramsey Naito and Denise Cascino, written by Michael McCullers, and inspired by Marla Frazee’s award-winning picture book of the same name, 'The Boss Baby' is billed as “a hilariously universal story about how a new baby’s arrival impacts a family, told from the point of view of a delightfully unreliable narrator, a wildly imaginative seven-year-old named Tim.”
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Titmouse Inc.’s Chris Prynoski Talks 'Venture Bros.,' 'Son of Zorn' and His First Movie
If you’re a fan of Adult Swim, or of Fox’s new partially animated sitcom "Son of Zorn," you’ve probably seen the name Titmouse on your TV screen. They’re the animation studio behind some of your favorite late night cartoons, including "The Venture Bros." and "Metalocalypse." The studio was started in 2000 as a T-shirt company by Chris and Shannon Prynoski, but when they kept getting requests for cartoons, it morphed into the animation studio we know it as today.
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NYCC 2016: ‘Trollhunters’ World Fan Premiere Review
Saturday, October 8, at New York Comic-Con, famed director and writer Guillermo del Toro presented the first episode of his Netflix/DreamWorks Animation/Cha Cha Cha Films original animated series, Trollhunters, along with co-executive producers Rodrigo Blaas and Marc Guggenheim.
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Film Review: ‘Trolls’
The beaming, long-haired cherub dolls get their own animated film, and it turns out to be a madly colorful and blissed-out ride. The enchantment that “Trolls” achieves is all too real and, in its way, quite pure. Kids should adore it, but don’t let that scare you — the movie is every 3D psychedelic inch a fairy tale for adults.
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Duncan Studio Creates Animation for ‘Middle School’ Feature
The live-action film is peppered with fantastical animation sequences and characters created by a team of roughly 50 artists at Duncan Studio -- animators, background painters, color ink and paint, comp and effects artists -- under the leadership of animation director Chris Sauvé and Duncan Studio president Ken Duncan, who oversaw the production of 10 animated sequences for the film.
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Meet Eric Darnell: Virtual Reality Entrepreneur
Eric is one of the pioneers of computer-generated movies, he was the director of blockbuster animations like ANTZ, the Madagascar movies, Penguins. He's now decided the future of filmmaking is this: he has passed up the big bucks of Hollywood to run his very own Virtual Reality studio start-up Baobab.
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Fox Animation Hires Exec for Live-Action/CG Hybrid Initiative (Exclusive)
Nate Hopper will spearhead an initiative to expand the studio's portfolio to include what are being described as family hybrid movies.
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