Lightbox Expo Returns To Pasadena With More Than 500 Confirmed Guests And 150 Panels
Lightbox Expo 2022 runs October 14-16 at the Pasadena Convention Center, with the 2022 Concept Art Awards closing out the festivities.
Lightbox Expo 2022 runs October 14-16 at the Pasadena Convention Center, with the 2022 Concept Art Awards closing out the festivities.
The holiday feature will be adapted from a series of kids books by celebrated filmmaker Richard Curtis with Simon Otto directing.
Favorites like “Encanto” and “Flee” are jostling against smaller films such as “The Spine of Night” and “The Ape Star.”
The two streamers — plus Hulu — will share rights to some films next year under an unusual arrangement.
Meanwhile, “The Addams Family 2” has become the year’s second-highest-grossing animated film domestically.
The British-made film from Disney’s 20th Century Studios and Locksmith Animation will get a festival launch in London.
The film will be released in October.
Both films were scheduled for April. “Ron’s Gone Wrong” is now due to come out October 22 and “Bob’s Burgers” is unset.
As things stand, “Raya and the Last Dragon,” “Bob’s Burgers,” “Luca,” and “Ron’s Gone Wrong” will all come out between March and June.
Staff at the vfx titan are facing significant pay cuts. But some are now being offered “salary support,” with the help of production partner Locksmith Animation.
There is fresh uncertainty over how Disney will handle Fox Animation’s feature projects.
A key figure from Pixar’s glory days will head up character animation for DNEG’s burgeoning feature animation group.
Titles include Blue Sky films, a “Bob’s Burgers” feature, and the hybrid cg/live debut of Chris Sanders.
Disney’s acquisition of Fox will almost certainly affect Blue Sky Studios and Fox Animation, but no one is exactly sure how.