The animation world was rocked this week as Dreamworks Animation closed its PDI Studio in northern California. The closure comes as part of an expected round of Dreamworks Animation layoffs, but the 500 jobs that were cut this week far exceeded expectations, and the closure of the studio had not been predicted at all. Along…
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Dreamworks Animation film B.O.O. - Bureau of Otherworldly Operations delayed past its original summer 2015 date as DWA figures out new business strategies.
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The upcoming DreamWorks Animation film B.O.O.: Bureau of Otherworldly Operations sounds like an explicitly for-kids combo of Men in Black and Ghostbusters, as it follows two agents in "a ghostly, top-secret government agency devoted to protecting humans from evil hauntings." Bill Murray is even voicing the villain, Addison Drake, who plots against the bureau. We don't have a…
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Bill Murray hasn't expressed much of an interest in fighting ghosts lately, but he's evidently not opposed to becoming one. The former Ghostbusters star has joined the starry voice cast of B.O.O.: Bureau of Otherworldly Operations, along with Octavia Spencer and Jennifer Coolidge. Seth Rogen, Melissa McCarthy, Rashida Jones, and Matt Bomer were already part of…
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The comic book adaptation R.I.P.D. (standing for Rest in Peace Department) features an agency staffed by deceased lawmen taking on spirits that don't want to leave Earth. Just in case the kids won't be attracted to that, DreamWorks Animation is making B.O.O. (Bureau of Otherworldly Operations), in which "a super secret government agency staffed with…
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Most movie studios release information about their upcoming slates a year or two at a time. But today DreamWorks Animation released a four-year slate, driven in part by the new distribution deal the company has with Fox, as well as the long lead time needed to make animated films, and also perhaps by the not-so-hot…
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