2017 in animation-Cedar Herald Index

This is a list of events in animation in 2017.

Events

January

January 15: Your Name becomes the highest grossing anime film, grossing nearly $300 million. January 16: PBS Kids Channel launches and became available on many PBS member stations as a digital subchannel (particularly those that in the past, PBS had routinely supplied content for their independently programmed, kid-targeted subchannels) and through apps and streaming services, features a broad mix of the public television service's current inventory of children's programming. The final episode of Regular Show airs.

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February

February 4: 44th Annie Awards. February 26: 89th Academy Awards: Piper by Alan Barillaro and Marc Sondheimer wins the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film. Zootopia by Byron Howard, Rich Moore, and Clark Spencer wins the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature.

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April

April 21: PBS Kids launched "PBS Kids Family Night," a weekly block on Friday evenings (with encore airings on Saturday and Sunday evenings) that showcase themed programming, premieres or special "movie-length" episodes of new and existing PBS Kids children's programs.

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June

June 16: The Walt Disney Company/Pixar film Cars 3 is released. The second sequel to the 2006 Pixar film draws closer to the original Cars movie (due to negative reception from the previous sequel) and dedicates the tribute to Paul Newman’s final character Doc Hudson.

July

July 28: Tony Leondis' The Emoji Movie, produced by Sony Pictures Animation is released. It grossed more than $217 million, but was widely panned for its poor script, product placement, and lack of originality and plot, and was named by several major outlets as one of the worst films of 2017.

August

August 12: DuckTales, a reboot of the original 1987 series premiered on Disney XD. August 19: The first episode of Michael Pitts' independent webseries Sheriff Hayseed, titled "Strategically Stupid", is released on YouTube.

September

September 9: Sprout rebrands to Universal Kids which caters to children aged 2–11 in primetime, and features content from NBCU-owned DreamWorks Animation as well as child-specific reality TV shows. However, Sprout's preschool-specific programming will remain a major part of the schedule, as a programming block airing from 3:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m..

October

October 6: My Little Pony: The Movie a film based on My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic is released in theaters. October 17: Animator Chris Savino is fired by Nickelodeon due to allegations of sexual harassment. October 30: Two Balloons, a stop-motion animated short film written and directed by Mark Smith is released.