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Only in Hollywood animation: seven white dudes discuss representation, feminism, and cultural sensitivity.

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Mark Osborne, director of "The Little Prince" and "Kung Fu Panda," is now attached to comic book adaptation "Bone."

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New York City has a new mini-animation festival, and it's taking place this week.

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The unique Italian digital arts conference VIEW is right around the corner. Here's what you can expect.

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Mark Osborne talks about why he said no to directing the project at first and why working in CG can drive a director crazy.

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The media streaming giant has set a summer release date for "The Little Prince."

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The online streaming service will debut the film on its service later this year.

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The Cesar-winning film had been scheduled to come out next week in the U.S.

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Three French features and four shorts were nominated for César awards this year.

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Paramount Animation will be releasing lots of random animated films over the next few years.

The French animated feature The Little Prince, directed by Mark Osborne (Kung Fu Panda) and produced by French/Canadian studio Mikros Image, launched in China with a solid $10.8 million. The film opened in the #3 spot, behind the debut of Ant-Man and the Chinese megahit Goodbye Mr. Loser.

The adaptation of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s novella, which uses a mixed-media approach combining CGI and stop motion, has grossed $38 million worldwide to date. That total includes over $10 million in France, and over $7 million in Brazil, where it became the first non-American animated feature to reach #1 at the box office. Paramount is looking to release in the United States in 2016.

Little Prince’s Chinese launch will likely beat out the recent debut of Pixar’s Inside Out, which has grossed just $14.7 million after two weeks of release. Boxoffice.com pointe out that part of the reason may have been the release strategy:

The Little Prince was shown in both English and Mandarin dubbed versions and naturally, audiences flocked to the Mandarin one. In a smart move, distributor Fundamental Films utilized high-profile celebrity voice talents Huang Bo (Lost in Thailand) and teen idol Jackson Yi to attract family audiences. In contrast, Inside Out’s dubbed version was voiced by a cast of virtually unknown Chinese performers which could be one reason the pic failed to hit with Mainland audiences.

Back in the United States, Genndy Tartakovsky’s Hotel Transylvania 2 grossed $12.6M in its fourth frame, good for fifth place. The film has now grossed $136.8M domestically, and will soon exceed the original’s $148.3M total.

Internationally, the Sony Pictures Animation film scored $30.6M, lifted by a #1 bow in the UK with $9.5 million. Worldwide total is now $267.9M.

The digital art and computer graphics community gathers in Turin, Italy for a one-of-a-kind conference. We speak with the event's director Maria Elena Gutierrez.

The feature animation and VFX worlds will converge in Turin, Italy in October.

Mexico's largest animation industry conference will take place next month in Cuernavaca, Mexico.

The movie combines CG and stop-motion animation to tell the classic tale.

Festival director Thierry Frémaux continues to show his love for animation.

At the Oscars tonight, The Rock called animation a genre. It's not.

The studio that made the upcoming "Little Prince" feature also has another film coming out in 2015: "Mune."

Today we look at the work of Rony Hotin, Cartoon Brew's Artist of the Day!

Onyx Films, the Paris-based producer of the fantasy film Upside Down and the low-budget animated sci-fi Renaissance, is currently working on an animated film adaptation of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s 1943 novella The Little Prince.

According to the Hollywood Reporter, the film has now gained a voice cast comprised of James Franco, Rachel McAdams, Jeff Bridges, Benicio Del Toro and Paul Giamatti. More notably, the film is to be directed by Mark Osborne, co-director of Dreamworks’ 2008 hit action-comedy Kung Fu Panda.

Some may consider it unusual for the director of a successful animated film from a major American studio to move on to a project from a small foreign studio, however when you consider the diversity of Osborne’s previous work: live action sequences in Spongebob Squarepants, music video work for “Weird Al” Yankovic and a half-dozen live action and stop motion film projects, it seems like his experience may aid a project of any size.