Portal:Animation/News/2012

• December 15, 2012: Fox pulls new episodes of Family Guy and American Dad! after Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting. Entertainment Weekly
• November 12, 2012: The fifth season of Adventure Time begins airing on Cartoon Network. MTV Geek
• November 2, 2012: Lucasfilm announces that the CGI animated series Star Wars: The Clone Wars will leave from Cartoon Network and to move to Disney XD next year. The Hollywood Reporter
• October 29, 2012: Wreck-It Ralph had its world premiere. CBS News
• October 5, 2012: Walt Disney Pictures releases Frankenweenie. Box Office Mojo
• October 1, 2012: Cartoon Network celebrates its 20th anniversary since its launch in 1992. Reuters
• September 28, 2012: Sony Pictures Animation releases Hotel Transylvania, setting a new record for the highest-grossing September opening weekend, and earned a total of $152,261,335 on a budget of $85 million. Box Office Mojo
• September 14, 2012: Walt Disney Pictures and Pixar re releases Finding Nemo in 3D. Entertainment Weekly
• September 8, 2012: Hotel Transylvania, a 3D computer animated film directed by Genndy Tartakovsky premieres at Toronto International Film Festival. Tiff
• August 17, 2012: SpongeBob SquarePants, the long running Nickelodeon animated television series, announces a ban the series in Ukraine as it promotes homosexuality. The Daily Mail
• August 17, 2012: ParaNorman, a stop-motion animated comedy horror film releases in North America.
• July 23, 2012: DreamWorks Animation acquires Classic Media from Boomerang Media for $155 million. Los Angeles Times
• July 13, 2012: 20th Century Fox releases the computer-animated adventure/comedy film Ice Age: Continental Drift in North America, receiving mixed reviews from critics. The Hollywood Reporter
• July 4, 2012: Cartoon Network, a Atlanta based channel primarily airs animated series launches in Canada along with Adult Swim. Canada Newswire
• June 22, 2012: Pixar and Walt Disney Pictures releases Brave.
• June 12, 2012: DC Comics and Warner Bros. releases direct-to-video Superman vs. The Elite. The World's Finest
• May 1, 2012: KidsCo Media Ventures LLC purchases the Yu-Gi-Oh! franchise from 4Kids Entertainment for $10 million. Anime News Network, ICv2
• April 14, 2012: The Legend of Korra, a sequel of Avatar: The Last Airbender premieres on Nickelodeon, receiving 4.5 million viewers. New York Daily News, Zap2it
• April 1, 2012: Ultimate Spider-Man, an animated series based on the Marvel Comics superhero and the comic book series airs on Disney XD. USA Today
• March 27, 2012: Shout! Factory releases the second season DVD of CatDog, Part 1. TVShowsonDVD.com
• March 20, 2012: Shout! Factory releases the second season DVD of Hey Arnold!, Part 1. TVShowsonDVD.com
• March 3, 2012: Green Lantern: The Animated Series, a computer-animated animated series based on the DC Comics superhero character airs on Cartoon Network. The World's Finest
• March 2, 2012: Universal Pictures releases The Lorax, a film based on the children's book by Dr. Seuss, receiving mixed reviews from critics. Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic
• February 28, 2012: Paramount and Nickelodeon announces to produce the second SpongeBob SquarePants film to be released in 2014. Hollywood Reporter
• February 22, 2012: David Stainton, president of the animation division of Paramount Pictures resigns. Los Angeles Times
• February 21, 2012: Shout! Factory and Classic Media releases a 10-disc set of Underdog. USA Today
• February 17, 2012: DreamWorks Animation, China Media Capital, Shanghai Media Group and Shanghai Alliance Investment announces to establish Oriental DreamWorks in China. Reuters
• February 17, 2012: Walt Disney Pictures releases the Japanese animated film The Secret World of Arrietty receiving positive reviews from critics. CTV
• February 7, 2012: Shout! Factory releases the second season DVD of Rocko's Modern Life. TVShowsonDVD.com
• January 10, 2012: Shout! Factory releases the season one of the 1989 DiC version of G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero. The Terror Drome