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The Influence Of Looney Tunes On Live-Action Filmmakers

What do Denis Villeneuve, Wes Anderson, Steven Spielberg, Jean-Luc Godard, and Stephen Chow all have in common?

George Lucas’ Museum Of Narrative Art On Course To Open In L.A. By 2025

The museum reinforces Los Angeles’ status as a major center for the physical record of contemporary art and pop culture.

Op-Ed: Why I Filed The Wage-Theft Lawsuit Against Major Animation Studios

Georgia Cano, one of the three lead plaintiffs in the animation wage-fixing lawsuit, speaks out for the first time.

20-Year Anniversary: Creature Supervisor Phil Tippett Reflects On ‘Starship Troopers’

Visual effects legend Phil Tippett looks back at two decades since “Starship Troopers,” and shares recently unearthed location scout and on-set video from the film.

The Artists Win! Disney, Pixar, and Lucasfilm To Pay $100 Million in Wage-Theft Lawsuit

The artists win!

BREAKING! Los Angeles Selected As Home Of Lucas Museum of Narrative Art

A $1.5 billion museum dedicated to illustration, comics, film, and animation is coming to Los Angeles.

The People Who Won’t Let George Lucas Build A Narrative Art Museum Are Idiots

If someone wants to spend $1.5 billion dollars of their own money to educate people about art, you don’t say no.

ILM’s Rebel ‘Jurassic Park’ Artists Reflect On The State of VFX Art Today

Mark Dippé and Steve ‘Spaz’ Williams, who created groundbreaking vfx work on “Jurassic Park,” “T2,” and “The Abyss,” talk about what’s different about the vfx industry today.

Dreamworks Animation CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg Spent $353,000 On Dinner Yesterday

Dreamworks Animation CEO recently said his company is “in the toilet,” but he seems to be doing fine himself.

Lawsuit Alleges Disney’s Board of Directors Knew About Artist Wage-Fixing Conspiracy

How deep does the conspiracy against animation artists go?

Judge Rules Disney, Pixar, DreamWorks, Sony, and Other Studios Can’t Evade Wage-Fixing Lawsuit

A judge rule that animation artists can continue a case against studios which allegedly suppressed wages for decades through fraud.

New Doc ‘Raiders, Raptors and Rebels’ Celebrates 40 Years of ILM

George Lucas’s groundbreaking visual effects company is celebrated in a new one-hour special on the Science Channel

Exclusive: John Korty’s ‘Twice Upon A Time’ Coming To Home Video

Warner Archive will release John Korty’s cult 1983 feature “Twice Upon A Time” onto home video this spring.

‘Strange Magic’ Has Something That Resembles a Trailer

There are bad trailers, and then there’s this incomprehensible thing promoting “Strange Magic,” an animated feature that feels like Blue Sky’s “Epic” produced by the people who made “Delgo.”

Lucasfilm Announces Surprise Animated Feature ‘Strange Magic’

Disney-owned Lucasfilm dropped a bombshell on the film world this morning: “Strange Magic,” a new previously-unannounced animated feature based on a story by George Lucas, will be released into theaters by Disney’s Touchstone Pictures label on January 23, 2015.

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