The pitch for Ferdinand is simple. Like so many other classic kids movies and stories from throughout time, it all stems from the idea of a character born into a certain kind of world or family, but ...

It’s a natural progression that a beloved storybook bull who’d rather smell flowers than fight would find a home on the big screen in an animated feature. But in the case of “Ferdinand” — based on ...

Seven years of storyboarding and several research trips to Spain later, Academy-Award nominated director Carlos Saldanha and Blue Sky Studio teamed up to bring an authentic retelling of a 1936 classic ...

I cover the film industry. The animation studio, currently owned by Fox, needs to show that it can do more than just pump out Ice Age sequels. With Fox being purchased by Walt Disney, Blue Sky's fate ...

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It was a beautiful, warm morning Sunday, a perfect day to stop and smell the flowers at the Zanuck Theater on the 20th Century Fox lot during the premiere of Fox and Blue Sky’s “Ferdinand,” the tale ...

The beloved children’s book “The Story of Ferdinand” by Munro Leaf, with illustrations by Robert Lawson, was published in 1936. But the simple, pacifist story about a bull who would rather smell ...

For a simple children's story about a pacifist bull in Spain who would rather smell the flowers than charge a matador, Munro Leaf's The Story of Ferdinand generated tremendous controversy, owing to ...

This article is more than 8 years old. With all of the talk about the cross-overs and the anti-trust issues potentially at stake with a possible Disney/Fox merger, Blue Sky Studios has been lost in ...

Blue Sky finds the heart of Munro Leaf's beloved picture book, about a Spanish bull who refuses to fight, in this delightful CG toon. Of course, there’s a world of difference between a seven-minute ...