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Goncalves has previously explored the documentary genre with her graduation film Three Weeks in December, which was a short pick of the day on Cartoon Brew in 2017. Other key short film winners at the festival this year included Hugo Covarrubias’s Oscar-nominated Chilean short Bestia, which was awarded the Golden Zagreb Award for Creativity and … Read more
Studio Khara‘s new Shin Ultraman (New Ultraman) film dropped from #1 to #2 in its third weekend. The film sold 229,000 tickets over the weekend, and earned 343,932,700 yen (about US$2.68 million) from Friday to Sunday. The film has sold a total of 1.8 million tickets for 2,711,758,900 yen (about US$21.15 million). The film debuted … Read more
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Due to Corona and the war in Ukraine, we had more difficult conditions for the festival this year than ever before! It was therefore all the more gratifying that we were not only able to register a record number of entries (approx. 2,100 submissions), but also to offer an intensive program that dealt with the … Read more
[*] Diamond Comics has just released its sales charts for March, representing orders from direct sales comics shops. James Tynion IV and Werther Dell’Edera’s Something Is Killing the Children #21 was the best selling comics periodical – kicking off a new storyline in the popular series. The Hero Initiative edition of the Kurt Busiek/George Perez … Read more
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January 2022 comics sales: It’s the first monthly comics sales chart of the Post-Lunar, post PRH era for Diamond, and if you thought Image would be tops in January – you were right! But Boom also had a strong showing, led by their incredibly successful James Tyne-written Erica Slaughter franchise. But not to be denied, … Read more
The only other winner in the animated feature categories was Disney’s Raya and the Last Dragon which won for effects simulation in an animated feature. Both Disney-Pixar’s Luca and Sony Pictures Animation’s The Mitchells vs. the Machines were shut out at the awards. The Apple TV+ series Foundation picked up two awards, including best photoreal … Read more
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