'Kung Fu Panda 2' leads Annie noms

Check out the whole report on nominations''Kung Fu Panda 2'' leads a very mixed area inside the 39th annual Annie Honours nominations. The DreamWorks Animation follow-up acquired 12 bids, including best feature, adopted carefully by stablemate ''Puss in Boots'' and Vital/Nickelodeon's ''Rango,'' with nine each. The nominating committees of ASIFA-Hollywood opened up up within the best pic area for 10 nominees, including Steven Spielberg's motion-capture toon ''The Adventures of Tintin.'' It's just the second motion-caption film being nominated with an Annie Award. Columbia's ''Monster House'' was nommed in 2006.Furthermore to ''Panda 2,'' ''Puss,'' ''Rango'' and ''Tintin,'' best pic nominees are: ''A Cat in Paris'' (Fromage), ''Arthur Christmas'' (The brand new the new sony Pictures Animation), ''Wrinkles'' (Perro Verde Films), ''Cars 2'' (Pixar), ''Chico and Rita'' (Chico and Rita Distrib'n) and ''Rio'' (Blue Sky Art galleries).The Annie Honours will probably be held on Saturday, Feb. 4, at UCLA's Royce Hall.Disney does skip the honours (Variety, August. 25, 2010).Check out the whole report on nominations Contact Terry Flores at terry.flores@variety.com