Annecy Animation festival
‘Despicable Me 4’ Director on Spoofing Superheroes, GentleMinions and Those Crowd-Pleasing Cameos
Despicable Me 4 introduces a new bundle of joy to the popular animated franchise, along with some long-planned Minions shenanigans that have finally come to fruition. The fourth installment in Universal’s movie series that hails from Illumination Entertainment opened in theaters Wednesday ahead of the Fourth of July weekend. Will Ferrell, Sofía Vergara, Joey King, […]
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‘The Imaginary’ Review: Studio Ponoc’s Animated Adventure for Netflix Is an Ode to Childhood Fancy
Yoshiyuki Momose directs the second full-length feature from the Japanese company spun out of Studio Ghibli, about a young girl's make-believe friend who endeavors to save her and their relationship.
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‘Memoir of a Snail’ Wins Annecy Film Festival
Adam Elliot’s oddball Aussie feature Memoir of a Snail has won the Cristal award for best feature film at the 2024 Annecy Film Festival, the world’s leading international animation fest. The dark dramedy, about a lonely, snail-obsessed hoarder — voiced by Succession star Sarah Snook — recounting her life story to one of her beloved gastropods, […]
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‘Spermageddon’ Review: Outrageously Raunchy Animated Feature Seems Destined for Cult Status
Norwegian director Tommy Wirkola ('Dead Snow') teams up with animator Ramsus A. Silversten for a sexually explicit cartoon comedy about two sperm cells vying to reach an egg.
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Warner Bros. Orders 8th Season of ‘Totally Spies!’
Warner Bros. Discovery EMEA and French kids network Gulli have ordered an eighth season of hit French animated series Totally Spies!. The companies made the announcement at the Annecy film festival this week. The beloved anime-influenced series follows Sam, Clover and Alex, three teenage girls from Beverly Hills, who work as undercover agents for the […]
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French TV Giant TF1 Boosts Animation Commitment
French free TV giant TF1 Group has signed a deal with national industry associations pledging to boost funding for animation films and series and to give more exposure to kids’ cartoons on air. The agreement, announced at the Annecy animation film festival on Wednesday, will see TF1 commit to earmarking 6 percent of its overall […]
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Chinese Animation Looks to Expand Its Global Reach at Annecy
The Chinese film industry has made no secret of the fact that it hopes the success of last year’s Chang’an will herald a new era for the country’s animation studios. It’s certainly a theory that is playing out front and center inside the China Film Pavilion at this year’s Annecy International Animation Film Festival. Run […]
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Tommy Wirkola on Going From Nazi Zombies in ‘Dead Snow’ to Singing Semen in ‘Spermageddon’
What rhymes with sperm in Norwegian? “Quite a few, actually, we got lucky in that respect,” says Tommy Wirkola, whose new film, Spermageddon, is an animated musical about sex and conception, told from the perspective of the spermatozoa. “You’d be surprised how many words you can find that rhyme, and how many variations and puns […]
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Adam Elliot Talks ‘Memoir of a Snail,’ Claymation as “A Form of Therapy”
You could call Adam Elliot the Australian Nick Park. But while the British Wallace and Gromit creator and his Aardman studio have gone from award-winning claymation shorts to big-budget animation features made with the likes of Dreamworks (Chicken Run, Flushed Away) and Netflix (Chicken Run: The Dawn of the Nugget, the upcoming Wallace and Gromit […]
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