February Planner
1 It’s the big night for animation as The Annie Awards are given out at UCLA’s Royce Hall. This year’s host is Patrick Warburton. (annieawards.org) 4 The time-traveling turkey movie Free Birds is one of the new DVD/ Blu-rays arriving today. Also on the home entertainment menu this week are The Cat in the Hat Knows a Lot About That: Fat Pack, Geronimo Stilton: Intrigue on the Rodent Express and the charming 2D animated French/German/ Irish movie, Moon Man. 6- 16 A new digitally restored version of the 1920 silent classic The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari kicks off this year’s Berlin Film Festival. (berlinale.de) 7 Phil Lord and Chris Miller deliver Warner Bros.’ eagerly anticipated The LEGO Movie. 9- 12 The Kidscreen Summit brings over 1,600 delegates from the business to the Hilton in midtown New York City. (summit.kidscreen.com) 10- 22 U.K.’s Animated Exeter program offers almost two weeks of toon-related screenings, panels and student workshops. (animatedexeter.co.uk) 11 Looking for awesome Valentine’s Day gifts? How about the DVD/ Blu-ray/ digital Diamond Edition of the beloved 1967 Disney classic The Jungle Book and the new Warner Bros. Home Ent.’s Academy Award-Nominated Animation: Golden Gems DVD? You can also throw in the first season of League of Super Evil! 12 Get ready to hobnob with the cream of the digital effects crowd at the 12th annual VES Awards, which take place in Beverly Hills tonight. (visualeffectssociety.com) 14 Omnicorp’s fighting machine RoboCop is reborn, played by Joel Kinnaman. Jose Padilha directs the pic, which may not be quite the right choice for those Valentine’s Day dates. 15 If you run into Simpsons creator Matt Groening today, make sure you wish him a happy 60th birthday. 16- 19 Find out which play things are hot and which are not at the annual Toy Fair in New York City (toyassociation.org) as well as the Digital Kids Conference, which takes place at the same time. (digitalkidscon.com) 18 You can finally catch up with the delicious and very bloody third season of Game of Thrones on DVD/ Blu-ray or the awesome Limited Edition set today. Among the other hot new titles: Beware the Batman: Shadows of Gotham, Land Before Time 4 Movie Family Fun Pack, Tom and Jerry: Mouse Trouble and Peter Rabbit. 21 The dubbed version of Miyazaki’s The Wind Rises opens in the U.S., featuring the voices of Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Stanley Tucci and Emily Blunt. Paul W.S. Anderson’s take on Pompeii stars Game of Throne’s Kit Harrington and CarrieAnne Moss ( The Matrix). 25 Decisions, decisions: Take in the colorful, rollicking comedy of Adventure Time: The Complete Third Season or watch Sandra Bullock and George Clooney float effortlessly in Gravity, both of which arrive on DVD/ Blu-ray today. 28 Today is the first day of Brussels’ popular four-day Anima festival, which runs through March 9. (animatv.be) Opening in movie theaters is the new thriller Non-Stop, set aboard an international jetliner and starring Liam Neeson and Julianne Moore.