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Digital Media

‘Wands’ VR Studio Cortopia Raises $2+ Million Financing

Mercedes Milligan - January 2, 2018

Swedish game developer Cortopia has followed up the successful release of its award-winning title Wands by raising $2.48 million (21M SEK) together with strategic...

Festivals & Events

Bucheon Animation Fest Now an Oscar Qualifier

Mercedes Milligan - January 2, 2018

Organizers of the Bucheon International Animation Festival in South Korea have announced that the event has partnered with the Academy of Motion Picture Arts...

Television

Hasbro Plans ‘Micronauts’ Toon for 2019

Mercedes Milligan - January 2, 2018

On the heels of the announcement that Paramount had set a 2020 release date for a movie adaptation -- along with a few other...

Features

GKIDS Scores Masaaki Yuasa Triple for 2018 Release

Mercedes Milligan - January 2, 2018

Fans of envelope-pushing anime will be excited to hear that indie distributor GKIDS has snagged North American rights for three feature films from acclaimed...

Television

Dentsu, DreamWorks Bringing Medicom’s Be@rbrick to Screens

Mercedes Milligan - January 2, 2018

Japanese advertising giant Dentsu and NBCUniversal's DreamWorks Animation Television have inked an agreement to produce and develop a new animated television project inspired by...

Digital Media

DIFFA Gives Simultaneous Theatrical/Digital Release to ‘Tales of Africa’

Mercedes Milligan - January 2, 2018

DIFFA, a Lagardère Studios company focused on the African market, has simultaneously launched feature-length folktale animation Tales of Africa (Les contes de l'Afrique) in...

Digital Media

Don Hertzfeldt’s ‘World of Tomorrow’ Pt. 2 Arrives on Vimeo

Mercedes Milligan - January 1, 2018

American indie animation icon Don Hertzfeldt has come a long way since his line-drawing schadenfreude shorts like Billy's Balloon and Rejected, delving to new...

Festivals & Events

‘Scooby-Doo! & Batman: The Brave and the Bold’ Premiering in LA Saturday

Mercedes Milligan - January 1, 2018

LA-are fans of mystery-solving dogs and masked heroes are in for a treat as Warner Bros. Home Entertainment hosts the World Premiere of Scooby-Doo!...

Digital Media

Masaaki Yuasa’s ‘Mind Game’ Streams Exclusively on VRV

Mercedes Milligan - December 22, 2017

The acclaimed eclectic Japanese animated feature Mind Game (2004), from award-winning directors Masaaki Yuasa (Lu Over the Wall, Night Is Short Walk on Girl)...

Features

It’s a ‘Jedi’ vs. ‘Jumanji’ Christmas Weekend!

Mercedes Milligan - December 22, 2017

Audiences are expected to flock to movie theaters this holiday weekend to catch up on the latest family movies served up by the studios....

People

Disney XD to Re-Dub Louis C.K.’s ‘Gravity Falls’ Role

Mercedes Milligan - December 22, 2017

The damnatio memoriae of comedian Louis C.K. continues, following his public admission to sexual misconduct spurred by a New York Times reveal of five...

Festivals & Events