TOP STORIES: Annecy: Pixar Reveals Evolution of Troubled Toon 'The Good Dinosaur'; Annecy: Didie...

Annecy eSHOW DAILY NUMBER TWO 04.01.25

TOP STORIES Annecy: Pixar Reveals Evolution of Troubled Toon 'The Good Dinosaur' By Peter Debruge “At Pixar, we ask a lot of ‘What ifs,’” the studio’s Pete Sohn told a crowd of cartoon devotees (a mix of animation students, professionals and fans) at France’s Annecy Intl. Animated Film Festival. Read Full Story at Variety.com → Annecy: Didier Brunner’s Unveils Folivari's First Slate (EXCLUSIVE) By John Hopewell ANNECY – Didier Brunner, one of the founding fathers of modern European animation, is teaming with Julianne Films’ Jean-Charles Ostorero to produce a 2D/CGI big screen animated feature Everest epic “The Summit of the Gods,&... Read Full Story at Variety.com → Annecy: Disney Gives Toon Fans a Taste of 'Zootopia' By Peter Debruge What “Tangled” and “Frozen” did for the Disney animated fairy-tale, “Zootopia” hopes to do for the talking-animal toons. Read Full Story at Variety.com → Annecy: Daniel Chong on Cartoon Network’s Big New Play, ‘We Bare Bears’ (EXCLUSIVE) By John Hopewell ANNECY – Riding a ratings surge, Cartoon Network has scheduled just two new broadcast shows. There’s now a fast gathering visibility on one, “We Bare Bears,” which launches on Cartoon Network in July and will screen e... Read Full Story at Variety.com → Annecy: DreamWorks’ Margie Cohn Unveils ‘Dragons: Race to the Edge’ By John Hopewell ANNECY – “This changes everything,” “How to Train Your Dragon” hero Hiccup (once more voiced by Jay Baruchel) mysteriously announces at the opening credit roll climax of DreamWorks Animation TV’s new serie... Read Full Story at Variety.com → Annecy: Nickelodeon’s Nina Hahn on How the Animation Industry is Changing (EXCLUSIVE) By John Hopewell At 2015’s Annecy, Nickelodeon will for the first time take exhibition space. Between screenings – of “Breadwinners” seg “Employee of the Month” and “The SpongeBob Movie: Fish Out of Water” &nda... Read Full Story at Variety.com → Annecy: Gkids Buys Edgar Allan Poe's 'Extraordinary Tales' By Dave McNary Gkids has bought North American rights to "Extraordinary Tales," an animated film anthology of five of Edgar Allan Poe's best-known stories. The film features the voices of Christopher Lee (in one of his final film performances), Bela Lugosi... Read Full Story at Variety.com → Annecy: BRB, Mili Unsheath ‘Dogtanian’ (EXCLUSIVE) By Emilio Mayorga ANNECY, France — BRB Internacional, one of Spain's biggest kids TV producers, is moving into movie production, with a spinoff feature of one of the most successful Spanish TV series ever, “Dogtanian and the Three Muskehounds.&rdq... Read Full Story at Variety.com → Annecy: Atresmedia TV, Planeta Junior, Famosa, Kotoc Set For ‘Mutant Busters’ By Emilio Mayorga ANNECY--Atresmedia Television, one of Spain's two biggest broadcastnetworks, has associated with European children TV giant Planeta Junior, powerful Spain's toys company Famosa, and Kotoc, a Barcelona-based studio focused on creating CGI Int... Read Full Story at Variety.com → Annecy: ‘Walter’ Joins Cultures Bringing Nature Alive at Annecy Festival By Mannie Holmes Director Clément Du Ruyter fuses French, Japanese and American influences into his own style for the upcoming animation series, “Walter." In hopes of receiving funds for a toon skein, “Walter” chronicles a man’... Read Full Story at Variety.com → REVIEWS Film Review: 'Stand by Me Doraemon' By Peter Debruge What’s blue and white and read all over? That would be Doraemon, a time-traveling robot cat from the 22nd century who ranks as the all-time most popular comicbook (or “manga”) character among Japanese kids. Read Full Story at Variety.com → 'Rocks in My Pockets' By Alissa Simon Boasting a narrative of extraordinary complexity and density, stuffed with irony, humor and tales-within-tales, the imaginative animated memoir “Rocks in My Pockets” merges a mini-history of 20th-century Latvia with that of helme... Read Full Story at Variety.com → French Toon Studio TeamTO Blossoms at 10, Sells 'YellowBird' to Universal By Elsa Keslassy Turning 10 this year, TeamTO has blossomed into one of France's top animation producers, forging ties with local and international players and diving into feature films. Boasting sprawling high-tech facilities in Paris and Bourg-les-Valences... Read Full Story at Variety.com → TeamTO at 10: New Horizons and Partnerships By Christopher Pickard The growth of TeamTO over the past decade, especially following the opening of its dedicated animation studio at La Cartoucherie in 2008,has meant that the company has been able to offer its production and animation expertise to other third ... Read Full Story at Variety.com → TeamTO AT 10: A Timeline By Christopher Pickard 2005 TeamTO is founded. Read Full Story at Variety.com → Tweet this Forward this