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MATHEW ALDERSON PARTNER Earris & Moure, Beijing office Queensland U., Australia, 1989 Over the past 18 months Alderson has advised on various ventures between Chinese and foreign partners, including feature [...]

PIXAR ANIMATION Studios has always had its eye solidly on the future of moviemaking, using cutting-edge technology and old-fashioned storytelling to propel animation into the 21st century. It rarely has [...]

'We started writing six years go--and who finished writing during the mix,' says Phil Lord, who cho-wrote and co-directed 'Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs' with Chris Miller. 'We always [...]

Nine years after the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences added a category for best animated feature, this year's contenders shows just how far the medium has come, especially […]

As at-home judging tapes arrive in the mailboxes of the membership of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, the Emmys race enters its final and most important phase. Like [...]

'Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs' (Sony) Directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller say the forecast wasn't always so rosy for 'Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs.' 'There were different [...]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] "9" Focus Features DIRECTOR:Shane Acker THE SCOOP:Acker turns his Oscar-nominated short film into a visually stunning adventure movie in which tiny mechanical"stitchpunk" men battle machines of war. Its […]

They call it the Cartoon Network Effect, and it can send the sales of graphic novels--particularly manga titles--soaring. Consider the moderately popular manga series Bleach. The anime debuted September 9 [...]

# 1 Reel Film Festival Sept. 1-4, 2006 168 Hour Film Festival March 23-25 A Abitibi-Temiscamingue Intl. Film Festival Oct. 29-Nov. 3 AFI Fest Nov. 3-13 African Diaspora Film Festival [...]

In the battle for kudocast glory, the next contender to step into the ring is the Critics' Choice Awards. The kudosfest and its organizer the Broadcast Film Critics Assn. are […]

A Abitibi-Temiscamingue Intl. Film Festival Oct. 25-30 AFI Los Angeles Intl. Film Festival Nov. 6-16 AFO Intl. Film Festival Sept. 29-Oct. 2, 2003 African American Women in Cinema March African […]

A AFI Fest Nov. 7-17 African American Women In Cinema Film Festival African Diaspora Film Festival Nov. 29-Dec. 15 Ajijic Festival Internacional de Cine Nov. 19-24 Alpe Adria Cinema--Trieste Film [...]

Ten years ago, Disney's status as the premier producer of animated feature films was in question. A creative and commercial rough patch marked by strife between talent, management and shareholders [...]

Information in this chronological listing was submitted by the festivals. Festivals with FIAPF accreditation are so indicated. AUGUST Cine-Retro Edition: 7th, 8th Dates: Aug. 1-31; Aug. 6-Sept. 4, 2002 Genres [...]

HOLLYWOOD Showtime takes its commitment to topnotch family fare seriously. "I think we're trying to tell stories others can't or won't tell that are perhaps not traditional family programming but […]

HOLLYWOOD Keeping up with the changes brought on by convergence is a daunting task, but one that should be made a little easier by the National Assn. of Television Program […]

He stands 13 1/2 inches weighs 8 1/2 pounds and is plated with 24-karat gold. Oscar also is a priceless possession -- not just to those who take him home, [...]

The debate at Cartoon Network was always about whether the channel was for children or for animation fans of all ages--and it rolled over into internal soul-searching about the target [...]

Don't try to tell 'The Walking Dead' exec producer Greg Nicotero that Creative Arts Emmy nominees are candidates to be marginalized. 'I don't think the words 'second-class' and 'champion' belong [...]

When TV actors go behind the camera, they're not doing it to win an Emmy. With voters having given only the faintest of recognition to such double threats--the only recent [...]

Western companies looking to reach Chinese ands have long been daunted by high regulatory and creative hurdles, a problem Hasbro Studios--the entertainment arm of the toymaker behind 'Transformers' and 'My [...]

With new technologies changing every aspect of the television business, keeping up is a job in and of itself. That's part of the inspiration for MipCube, a new tech-focused event [...]

Few shows are as suited to a modern attention span as 'Robot Chicken.' Its sketches--often but a few seconds long--are ideal online viewing and tap directly into the fanboy mind [...]

It was a long time ago in a suburb not too far from New York that the seeds were planted for 'Robot Chicken,' at a then-modest startup magazine about comicbooks [...]

The morning of the Golden Globes nominations is a major marker during awards season, an event that brings into focus which films have traction and which don't. For some pics, [...]

To Snarf or not to Snarf was the unusual question facing exec producer Sam Register and the creative team at Warner Bros. Animation as they were developing an updated version [...]

Few Emmy nominees are as long in the tooth as the comedies in the animation programming category, where 'The Simpsons,' 'South Park' and 'Futurama' not only have more than 40 [...]

It's been apparent from the first episode of 'Smallville' that the final episode would see Tom Welling's Clark Kent don the familiar red cape and blue tights, soar off into [...]

R. Brent Adams Director, the Center for Animation, Brigham Young University, Salt Lake City ADAMS, WHO MIGRATED from architecture and engineering visualization to computer animation education, says BYU's program evolved [...]

Few comic actresses working primarily in television can boast the kind of career Julia Louis-Dreyfus has had, with success on long-running comedy shows in three decades. But Louis-Dreyfus says she [...]

Live entertainment has often been a stabilizing force in the fluctuating Las Vegas economy, adapting quickly to radical changes in the market and rolling out splashy and popular new acts, [...]

There are always surprises when the Oscar nominations are announced, but usually they're only surprises to people who aren't paying attention. This year, the Academy's selection of 'The Secret of [...]

It's not exactly a Hallmark card farewell that NATPE CEO Rick Feldman is sending Las Vegas, but it is honest. 'Vegas was useful for the time; now it's time to [...]

Once again, the turning of the seasons heralds the broadcast networks' annual fall rush for viewers, with ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox and the CW tossing many of their new shows [...]

It wasn't so long ago that the chance to visit a movie set, attend a junket or interview top Hollywood talent was a privilege reserved for a small network of [...]

Comedy hasn't exactly vanished from TV screens, but the sitcom is definitely in decline--the 2008-09 network lineup of laffers was a mere fraction of the number on the schedule only [...]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The Web is very much on the mind of the TV business these days, with sites like YouTube, Hulu and Crackle luring tech-savvy viewers away from traditional cable [...]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] No director is hotter in fanboy circles than Zack Snyder, who has accomplished a feat long thought impossible by bringing the dense, deep and critically acclaimed [...]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The only thing more solid than the muscles, smackdowns and pile drivers laid down by the stars of the WWE is the company's television ratings. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] WWE [...]

As the DVD market plateaus and ever more releases vie for space on store shelves, the direct-to-video kidvid sector is proving resilient in tough economic times. Take Disney's 'Tinker Bell,' [...]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Superheroes have grown accustomed to striking gold at the box office. Yet now, in a shift that has the entire genre being taken more seriously, they're being discussed [...]

In 2001, when the Academy added its animated feature category, the org included a clause by which it would withdraw the award in years when fewer than eight toons were [...]

Once, it wasn't so easy being green. Today, all you have to do is turn on the TV. Green TV programming has exploded in popularity, spawning not just a slew [...]

The gritty urban tales that Will Eisner brought to life in 'The Spirit' comicbooks of the 1940s are a world removed from the desert charm and sweeping vistas of Albuquerque, [...]

The motion picture industry is making a big bet on 3-D, in part because it's supposed to promise an experience that can't be duplicated on television. There's a problem with [...]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Only a few years after starting up Tokyopop with licensed titles from Japan, founder Stu Levy floated the idea to bookstores of publishing manga in the original, right-to-left [...]

Comicbooks and graphic novels have been hot stuff at the box office the past few years. But as studios work their way through the superhero pantheon, the need for new [...]

In the kidvid biz, there's nothing more valuable than a beloved classic property that appeals to both poppets and parents. But while relaunching such brands is easier than developing and [...]

Most superheroes fly, swing and crawl through the streets of New York City--or a city very much like it--because it is home to the industry that created them. But until [...]