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Animated People

Sanders, DeMicco Receive Original Vision Award

Mercedes Milligan - November 4, 2013

The opening night party for the World Animation & VFX Summit not only offered industry professionals from around the globe the chance to meet,...

Features

‘Walking with Dinosaurs’ Signs on John Leguizamo, Justin Long

Mercedes Milligan - November 4, 2013

The upcoming 3D feature take on BBC Earth's Walking with Dinosaurs has tacked on four new voice cast members for the Fox release. Narrating...

Features

‘Stan Lee’s Mighty 7’ Gets All-Star Cast

Mercedes Milligan - November 4, 2013

To the cheers of fan boys and girls in attendance at Stan Lee's Comikaze Expo in Los Angeles, A Squared Entertainment, POW! Entertainment and...

Television

‘Simpsons’ Pays Tribute to Marcia Wallace

Mercedes Milligan - October 31, 2013

To honor the memory of recently deceased The Simpsons actress Marcia Wallace, who provided the voice of teacher Edna Krabappel, Fox is making a...

Television

‘Space Dandy’ to Air Simultaneously in Japan, North America

Mercedes Milligan - October 31, 2013

The hotly anticipated new toon Space Dandy, from the creative team behind Cowboy Bebop, will be the first ever anime series on Adult Swim...

Television

Global TV News Bytes

Mercedes Milligan - October 31, 2013

+ PGS Entertainment has secured a raft of sales for season 3 of Method Animation's The Little Prince. The popular series has been pre-sold...

Features

‘Despicable Me 2’ Plumps Up Uni’s Bottom Line

Mercedes Milligan - October 30, 2013

In reporting their third quarter profits, Comcast noted improvement in its entertainment arm NBCUniversal, handily bolstered by the success of the Illumination Entertainment toon...

Home Entertainment

‘Pinky, Elmyra & The Brain’ DVD Set Arrives in January

Mercedes Milligan - October 30, 2013

Warner Bros. Home Entertainment will be offering a sensational treat for fans of '90s cartoons as they release Steven Spielberg Presents: Pinky, Elmyra &...

People

FremantleMedia Kids Welcomes Rick Glankler

Mercedes Milligan - October 29, 2013

FremantleMedia has appointed Rick Glankler, previously of Mattel/Fisher-Price where he was in charge of HIT Entertainment brands, to the role of EVP/General Manager of...

Television

First Animated StoryCorps Special Premieres on Thanksgiving

Mercedes Milligan - October 29, 2013

The first ever animated special from StoryCorps, the CPB-funded documentary series drawn from oral history archives, will premiere on PBS on Thursday, November 28...

Television

Moonscoop Catalog Sweeps Asia

Mercedes Milligan - October 28, 2013

Paris-based Moonscoop will be schlepping off to Singapore this December for the Asia Television Forum, following a series of successful deals for its library...

People

Chris Meledandri to Receive PGA Visionary Award

Mercedes Milligan - October 28, 2013

The Producers Guild of America will be honoring Illumination Entertainment founder and CEO Chris Meledandri with its 2014 Visionary Award, which will be presented...

Television

‘Cloudbabies’ Soar to Germany

Mercedes Milligan - October 28, 2013

Following a successful tour of the MIPCOM market in Cannes, Hoho Rights has announced a key sale for its CG animated preschool property, Cloudbabies...

Television

Fox ADHD Welcomes ‘Lucas Bros.’ and ‘Golan’ in January

Mercedes Milligan - October 25, 2013

Fox has revealed season and series premiere dates for January 2014, including launches for new Animation Domination High-Def (ADHD) toons Lucas Bros. Moving Co....

Festivals & Events

‘Doctor Who’ Rings in 50th Anniversary with Special Screening

Mercedes Milligan - October 24, 2013

BBC America will be celebrating Doctor Who's 50th anniversary in style, with two special theatrical screenings of the planned milestone special Doctor Who: The...

Festivals & Events

Country-wide Halloween ComicFest Kicks Off

Mercedes Milligan - October 24, 2013

Good news, comic fans: all across the country, participating comic-book shops will be celebrating Halloween ComicFest (this means free comics are on offer)--the second...

Redboard Arms Itself with Shotgun

Mercedes Milligan - October 23, 2013

Redboard, a pre-production tool currently used in U.K. toons Tree Fu Tom (Blue Zoo, BBC), Chuggington (Ludorum), Q Pootle 5 (Snapper Prod.) and Fireman...

Television

DQ Details Q2 Deals

Mercedes Milligan - October 23, 2013

Entertainment producer/distributor DQ Entertainment has released a summary of its raft of co-production and licensing deals completed during its second fiscal quarter and at...

Television

PGS Makes Playdate with ‘Super Four’

Mercedes Milligan - October 23, 2013

Programming distributor/brand manager PGS Entertainment has secured media rights to a new CG-animated series inspired by the popular Playmobil brand, Super Four. PGS will...

Features

Andy Serkis’ Imaginarium to Produce ‘Bone Season’

Mercedes Milligan - October 23, 2013

The Imaginarium, a U.K.-based production company founded by actor Andy Serkis and producer Jonathan Cavendish, has inked a one-year, first-look deal with 20th Century...

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