Category Archives: Animation

Child’s play: 2012 a promising year for kids’ movies

By doris | Published: January 7, 2012

Full Story at Entertainment.msnbc.com Sick of watching that “Smurfs” DVD over and over again? Fear not, parents — 2012 offers a toybox full of animated and other movies for kids. 3-D is a controversial topic. The extra dimension jacks up ticket prices, some kids refuse to wear the special glasses, and often it doesn’t do [...]

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3-D ‘Puss in Boots’ is the cat’s meow

By doris | Published: October 28, 2011

Full Story at TODAY.com Fairy tales are coming to life all over the place these days, what with “Grimm” and “Once Upon a Time” both kicking off on TV this month. On the big screen, classic kids’ tales and nursery rhymes combine in “Puss in Boots,” which spins off Antonio Banderas’ suave feline from the [...]

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Movie Review: Mars Needs Moms a Strange, Stirring Trip

By doris | Published: March 11, 2011

Full Story at E.Online.com Review in a Hurry: Adapted from a children’s book by Bloom County artist Berkeley Breathed, Mars Needs Moms is visually inventive and occasionally emotionally potent, but feels overly padded in its attempt to stretch such a short story to feature length. RELATED! Battle: Los Angeles is also in theaters this week [...]

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‘Tangled’ wraps up No. 1 spot at box office

By doris | Published: December 7, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com (EW.com) — The week after Thanksgiving is historically known for its precipitous drops, and in that regard, this weekend didn’t disappoint. The overall box office was down 54 percent from last week, as Disney’s “Tangled,” armed with a frying pan, bludgeoned its way past “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows — [...]

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‘The Flintstones’ turns 50

By doris | Published: October 1, 2010

Full Story atMarquee.Blog.CNN.com They are perhaps more recognizable among children as the funny-looking characters that adorn their daily multivitamin, but today “The “Flintstones” are 50! At first we thought, “How can a family that lived circa 1,000,000 B.C. be just 50?” But then we remembered it was a fictional cartoon. Hanna-Barbera’s “Flintstones” TV series premiered [...]

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‘Toy Story 3’ sets worldwide box office abuzz

By doris | Published: June 21, 2010

Full Story at TODAY.msnbc.msn.com LOS ANGELES — Welcome back, Woody and Buzz. After a decade-plus absence from theaters, the animated heroes of “Toy Story 3″ sold $153.8 million worth of tickets during their opening weekend at the worldwide box office, according to estimates issued Sunday by distributor Walt Disney Co. Moviegoers in the United States [...]

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‘Avatar’ tops box office for 6th straight week

By doris | Published: January 25, 2010

Full Story at msnbc.com LOS ANGELES – James Cameron’s “Avatar” is on a course to sink “Titanic” at the box office. No. 1 for the sixth-straight weekend with $36 million, the 20th Century Fox sci-fi spectacle lifted its domestic total to $552.8 million, according to studio estimates Sunday. “Avatar” raised its worldwide total to $1.841 [...]

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Gumby animator Art Clokey dies at 88 in California

By doris | Published: January 10, 2010

Full Story atnews.yahoo.com LOS OSOS, California – Animator Art Clokey, whose bendable creation Gumby became a pop culture phenomenon through decades of toys, revivals and satires, died Friday. He was 88. Clokey, who suffered from repeated bladder infections, died in his sleep at his home in Los Osos on California’s Central Coast, son Joseph told [...]

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Roy E. Disney Dies at 79; Rejuvenated Animation

By doris | Published: December 17, 2009

Full Story at NYTimes.com LOS ANGELES — Roy E. Disney, who helped revitalize the famed animation division of the company founded by his uncle, Walt Disney, and who at times publicly feuded with top Disney executives, died on Wednesday in Newport Beach, Calif. He was 79.

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‘Princess and the Frog’ rules the box office

By doris | Published: December 15, 2009

Full Story at msnbc.com “The Princess and the Frog” earned a big wet kiss from family audiences as the animated musical leaped to No. 1 with $25 million in its first weekend of nationwide release, according to studio estimates Sunday. The Disney musical is the studio’s first hand-drawn animated tale in five years, a contrast [...]

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