Sito Recalls
At the Network of Cartoons
Cartoon Network had a bunch of announcements about series old and new today . They were as follows ... We Bare Bears -- Each episode follo...
Falling Wages, Falling Marriage Rates
And now, because this is (occasionally) a labor blog: The Death of American Unions Is Killing American Marriage For all the mawkish, maudli...
So What About the Anthem Security Breach?
Mr. Kaplan and I have continued our tour of studios this week. A question keeps coming up: "What about Anthem?! What about the securi...
Niceness ... and Not
Sayeth Ms. Pascal: "We all live in this weird thing called Hollywood. If we all actually were nice, it wouldn't work." I don...
From Live Action to Animation
... Instead of the other way around . But some oversensitive types refuse to see the value in it. ... In June we reported that the BBC was ...
Hero Follow-Up
Penn Zero, PTH , which premiered over the weekend, enjoyed solid results for its initial outing. Premiering with a Disney Channel and Disn...
Evening Factoid
Third highest grossing : ... Big Hero 6 has now grossed $219.3M at the domestic box office, which pushed it past Beauty and the Beast . Tha...
Lawsuit City
Not against the Big Boys this time, but a well-loved VFX and animation studio that went bankrupt just as it won an Academy Award. ... On Fr...
At Disney TVA
Your World-Wide B.O.
Time once again for a look at animation and VFX foreign box office . Weekend Foreign Box Office -- (World Totals) Spongebob Squarepants -- ...
WGA Animation Awards
The WGA passed out awards tonight. This was the animated show that received one. Best Animated TV Show (WINNER) “Brick Like Me” (The Simps...
Biz Rep Questionnaire
TAG organizer/Peg-Board editor/utility infielder Steve Kaplan has been running profiles of Animation Guild Executive Board members in the m...
American Box Office
Gary Owens, RIP
From the AP : Gary Owens, the droll, mellifluous-voiced announcer on “Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In” and a familiar part of radio, TV and mo...
Tom Sito's February History
Once again, it's time for Professor/ President Emeritus Sito's movie factoids. Feb 1, 1893- In New Jersey, Thomas Edison and his en...
Health Factoid
What the hell ? Wired found shockingly low vaccination rates at a number of corporate-sponsored daycare facilities in Silicon Valley. And ki...
Disney Hand Off
The Times says it's going swimmingly . ...At companies in less ego-driven industries than media and entertainment, the orderly naming of...
British Tech Centers
The fastest growing areas are not (surprisingly?) in London . ... Tech Nation, the most comprehensive analysis of the UK’s digital industrie...
Lawsuit Pushback
You remember the recent lawsuit by David Wentworth, Robert Nitsch Jr. and Georgia Cano? The one where Wentworth, Nitsch, and Cano claim a c...
Congratulation Professor Sito
So a past President (three terms) of the Animation Guild is now a tenured professor at USC. This, after a five decade career in animation a...
The Gender Thing. Again.
Kind of a recurring theme . ... The lack of gender parity seen in both film and tech fields overall is also evident in VFX (VFX: visual effe...
Job Gains
As DreamWorks Animation lays off staff (and it's been going on for some time), other entertainment-related jobs in Los Angeles/Californi...
The Animation Guild's Redesigned Website
For those who haven't visited the Guild's website in a while, we think you're in for a treat. The freshly redesigned website wa...
Amy Goes to Marveland
Now we know where Ms. Pascal is going . Sony Pictures Entertainment and Marvel Studios are joining forces on the next iteration of Spider-Ma...
