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Television

First Disney Junior Movie ‘Lucky Duck’ Names Lead Quackers

Mercedes Milligan - May 12, 2014

Stars of stage (that's Broadway, people) and screen Christian Borle, Megan Hilty and Tom Cavanagh will be leading the voice cast of the first...

Festivals & Events

Cynopsis Names 2014 Animation Innovators

Mercedes Milligan - May 12, 2014

Steve Borst and Gary "Doodles" Di Raffaele, co-creators of Nickelodeon's Breadwinners; DreamWorks Animation's head of TV development Peter Gal; Blue's Clues creator and Yummico...

Television

‘Frozen’ Coming to Life In ‘Once Upon a Time’

Mercedes Milligan - May 12, 2014

ABC Television's fairy tale drama Once Upon a Time will be welcoming a new Disney princess into its live-action (and a bit more bad-ass)...

Television

‘Breadwinners’ Gets Second Season on Nick

Mercedes Milligan - May 8, 2014

Nickelodeon will be baking up a second season of its popular new animated comedy Breadwinners from creators Steve Borst and Gary "Doodles" Di Raffaele....

Features

WB Plans ‘Flintstones’ Feature

Mercedes Milligan - May 8, 2014

Warner Bros. will be taking theater goers back to the Stone Age with a full-length animated feature adventure starring everyone's favorite caveman clan: The...

Features

Cinedigm Picks Up ‘Bunyan and Babe’

Mercedes Milligan - May 8, 2014

Cinedigm has acquired all North American rights to the indie animated feature Bunyan and Babe: A Giant Adventure. The Exodus Film Group/Toonz Entertainment co-production...

Television

‘My Little Pony’ Gets Fifth Season on Hub

Mercedes Milligan - May 7, 2014

Yes, the unstoppable rainbow-hued juggernaut that is My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic just keeps rolling on, to the delight of fans of all...

Festivals & Events

Film Forum Celebrates John Hubley

Mercedes Milligan - May 7, 2014

New York City's Film Forum will commemorate the centennial birthday anniversary of animation pioneer John Hubley with a double shot of special programming to...

Features

WB Extends Animation Slate to 2018

Mercedes Milligan - May 7, 2014

Warner Bros., buoyed by the box office smash hit The LEGO Movie, has announced plans to up its animated features game, with two as-yet...

Mobile Games Outfit Boomlagoon Explodes with $3.6M Investment

Mercedes Milligan - May 6, 2014

Finnish mobile games company Boomlagoon has announced it has secured $3.6 million USD in its latest Series A investment round. The new investors were...

Digital Media

Viddiverse Offers Kid-Friendly Social Video Network

Mercedes Milligan - May 6, 2014

A brand new COPPA-compliant social network called Viddiverse has hit the digital media scene, officially premiering today with a raft of tween-targeted video content...

Festivals & Events

ToonSeum Celebrates Little Golden Books

Mercedes Milligan - May 6, 2014

The ToonSeum, a.k.a. Pittsburgh's Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art, will be celebrating seven memory-making decades of Little Golden Books on Saturday, May 17...

Television

Clip: NFL Stars Get Animated in Nick Special

Mercedes Milligan - May 5, 2014

In honor of NFL Draft Day, Nicktoons is presenting a one-hour animated special of NFL Rush Zone: Guardians Unleashed, "Knights of the Sky." Premiering...

Television

9 Story Sells 75+ Half-Hours to CSC

Mercedes Milligan - May 5, 2014

Canada's 9 Story Entertainment has signed licenses with the U.K.'s CSC Media for over 75 half-hours of new programming to be aired on the...

Television

Stephen Hawking Develops Kids Cartoon

Mercedes Milligan - May 5, 2014

Nerd Corps Entertainment has begun development on a new computer-animated kids' series based the George Greenby book series created by Stephen Hawking and his...

People

Efrem Zimbalist Jr., Voice of Animated Alfred, Dies

Mercedes Milligan - May 5, 2014

Actor Efrem Zimbalist Jr., best known as a suave leading man of 1950s-1970s television who also provided the voice of Alfred in Bruce Timm's...

Features

‘Untitled Smurfs Movie’ Pushed to 2016

Mercedes Milligan - May 1, 2014

Director Kelly Asbury (Gnomeo & Juliet, Shrek 2, Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron) announced on his official production blog this morning that the franchise-remodeling...

Digital Media

DreamWorks Launching YouTube Channel

Mercedes Milligan - May 1, 2014

DreamWorks Animation is stepping deeper into the streaming game by launching a new, family-oriented YouTube channel called DreamWorksTV that will feature original, live-action and...

Festivals & Events