Cable outlet Starz Kids & Family won’t be putting any turkeys on the table this year as it airs a Thanksgiving Day marathon of popular Disney films. Among the treats on the menue are the animated features The Incredibles and Chicken Little, as well as Disney and Walden Media’s vfx-laden adaptation of C.S. Lewis’s fantasy classic The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.
Chicken Little will kick off the marathon at 7 a.m., followed by The Incredibles at 8:30 a.m. Narnia will have its first airing at 12 p.m. and all three features will be repeated throughout the day. Also joining the fun are the live-action Mouse House efforts SpyMate and Herbie: Fully Loaded, which air at 10:30 a.m. and 6 p.m., respectively.
In addition to showing animation, Starz is getting into the production side as well. The newtork’s parent company, Liberty Media Corp., recently acquired rising animation powerhouse IDT Ent. and combined it with its Starz Entertainment Group to crate Starz LLC. The unit released the CG feature Everyone’s Hero through 20th Century Fox on Sept. 15 and has a full slate of animated theatrical features on the way. Upcoming productions include Rob Zombie’s The Haunted World of El Super Beasto for 2007 and Space Chimps and Sheepish for 2008. For television, the group is producing the animated series Wow! Wow! Wubbzy for Nick Jr., Eloise for Starz Kids & Family and DVD release, Hellboy Animated and Stan Lee Presents. In addition, Starz on Demand is home to Angry Alien Prod.’s Bunnies Theater, a series of 30-second, animated versions of major motion pictures starring rabbits.
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