The Walt Disney Company will close Blue Sky Studios, the animation company inherited in its 2019 acquisition of 20th Century Fox. Founded in 1987, Blue Sky helped grow top-grossing family franchises ...

From its inception in 1908 with Émile Cohl’s Fantasmagorie, film animation has always been a medium that esteems the conveyance of visuals, by its very definition. As animation as we know it has ...

The former Editor of Ask.com, Kate (she/they) was nominated for an LA Press Club National Arts & Entertainment Journalism Award in 2022. Their fiction, reviews, and articles have been published by ...

EXCLUSIVE: Disney is shuttering Blue Sky Studios, the $5.9 billion global-grossing former 20th Century Fox animation division that during its run churned out 13 feature films including the Ice Age ...

Disney is closing down the Oscar-winning animation studio Blue Sky, which broke out with the Ice Age franchise and whose movies generated $5.9 billion at the box office. The Connecticut-based studio ...

In 2020, it can be hard to remember how dire the state of American animated television was not so long ago. In the 1980s, repetitive adventure series designed to sell action figures, like Transformers ...

Animation awoke from a decades-long slumber in the early Nineties. After decades of network-driven and script-driven animated shows, a new crop of series redefined animation for the modern era. Then ...

Five years ago, Reid Mitenbuler penned “Bourbon Empire,” about the business of liquor. It’s only fitting that his new book is on animation history, since both subjects are the stuff that dreams and ...