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EXCLUSIVE: Oscar-nominated animator and director Michael Thurmeier has inked with Range Media Partners. Thurmeier began his career as an animator at Blue Sky Studios, working on special animation for the film Fight Club and the multi-award winning HBO series The Sopranos.  His work led to being named lead animator on…

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 franchise. One can say that the writing was always on the wall for Blue Sky, especially after Disney acquired 20th Century…

As I sat in front of Caesars Palace’s Wheel Of Fortune Triple Extreme slot machine late Thursday night right after this year’s NATO CinemaCon convention had just ended, I realized I had much in common with the studios who had just spent the week touting their biggest and best bets to the gathered throng of theatre…

EXCLUSIVE:  Carlos Saldanha, who co-directed Ice Age and then helmed two Ice Age sequels in addition to Robots and Rio, has formed BottleCap Productions. The label is Fox-based, where Saldanha made an exclusive five-year deal with 20th Century Fox and Fox International to develop both live-action and animated…

EXCLUSIVE: UTA has signed Michael Berg, who co-wrote with Jason Fuchs 20th Century Fox's upcoming Ice Age: Continental Drift, the fourth installment in the animated franchise. Berg co-wrote the first and third installments, the first of which was Oscar nominated for Best Animated Film. He also served as a consultant…

At this morning’s CinemaCon presentation of 20th Century Fox‘s 2012 product reel, co-chair Tom Rothman began by mentioning several future projects in various stages of production or pre-production. Those included new editions in the Die Hard (A Good Day To Die Hard set for Feb 14 2013), Percy Jackson, Planet Of The Ape…