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Tezuka Plans Localized Re-Versions of ‘Astro Boy’

Astro Boy is in talks to go local. Tezuka, the anime studio that owns the famous manga and anime character, has entered talks to create...

Mediatoon Picks Up ‘The Crumpets’ at Annecy

Mediatoon has signed a worldwide distribution agreement for the new animated children's series The Crumpets, with French production company 4.21 productions. Comprised of 52 11-minute episodes,...

Nick Global Shorts Program Draws Hundreds of Entries

Nickelodeon has launched a global animated shorts program to identify and develop new animation creative talent from around the world, receiving more than 100...

Fox Skeds Five Animated Features a Year for 2017-2018

20th Century Fox has upped the ante in the animated feature film game, announcing Monday plans to release five animated movies a year in...

Distribution Deals Make the Scene at Annecy

Deals for animated features have been heating up at the Annecy Film Festival. Among the major announcements made in the trades around or during the...

Exclusive Promo for New ‘Fairly OddParents’

The Fairly OddParents creator Butch Hartman is one of our favorite people in animation. And we're even more excited about the upcoming new season...

Teletoon Order Includes New ‘Inspector Gadget’ Series

Teletoon Canada is resurrecting Inspector Gadget. A new CG version of the beloved series from DHX Media was one of two new series commissioned by...

Nelvana Announces Three New ‘Beyblade’ Series

Nelvana Enterprises and d-rights, Inc. have announced production on three new series of Beyblade. Beginning this fall, Beyblade: Shogun Steel will launch with 26  half-hour...

New ‘Hobbit: Desolation of Smaug’ Trailer Hits

Bilbo Baggins, get ready for round two! The trailer has finally arrived for The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, the middle part in Peter Jackson's...

Lights! Camera! Summer Eye Candy!

How two of this season's biggest blockbusters Iron Man 3 and Star Trek: Into Darkness delivered their spectacular CG visuals. Time was the biggest challenge...

NARR8 Releases Interactive Creative Tool StoryBuilder

Mobile app and digital publisher NARR8 has announced the release of StoryBuilder, a multimedia-editing tool that lets anyone create their own interactive story on iOS,...

Comic-Con Sets Drawing for Limited Badge Resale

If you're one of the many who wants to join the annual celebration that is Comic-Con International, but missed out on getting passes when...

Atlantyca Spins Off IP Sales Agency

Atlantyca Entertainment, the Italian entertainment company behind the hit animated series Geronimo Stilton, launched Atlantyca IP Agency, a new branch that will focus on...

Updated Fairy Tales ‘Oz’ and ‘Hansel’ Come Home

Updated re-imaginings of fairy tales have been all the rage of late, with two of the year's highest-profile features arriving this week on home...

Ringling Duo Nab Toon Gold Medal at Student Oscars

Ringling College of Art and Design students Lindsey St. Pierre and Ashley Graham won the gold medal in the animation category at the 40th...

South Korean Company Bids for Rhythm & Hues

JS Communications Co., a South Korean media company, has signed a letter of intent to buy financially-troubled VFX studio Rhythm & Hues, asking the...

Summer Debuts on Disney XD for New ‘Hulk,’ ‘Avengers’

Two new Marvel animated series will premiere this summer on Disney XD, with Hulk and the Agents of S.M.A.S.H. to debut Aug. 11 and...

Peters Named to VES Board for Northern California

Jon V. Peters, CEO and founder of Athena Studios, has been named to the board of directors for the Visual Effects Society’s Northern California...

Will ‘Oz’ Prove Great and Powerful at the Box Office?

Disney is looking to heat up a so-far tepid year at the box office with its VFX-heavy reimagining Oz: The Great and Powerful. Directed by...

Iger: No 2D Features in Disney’s Immediate Future

An overall strong year for Disney did little to quell questions at the company's annual shareholders' meeting this week, including the future of 2D...
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