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Television

Spanish Tooth Fairy Sweetens TV Deal

Ramin Zahed - June 11, 2007

A Spanish mouse version of the Tooth Fairy will be getting its own animated TV show soon. Variety reports that The Hairy Tooth Fairy,...

Television

Monster Sails Away with Lifeboat Luke

Ramin Zahed - June 11, 2007

Monster Distributes has picked up an animated children's series about a lifeboat and a magical seaside town . Targetting kids 4-7, the 52 x...

Television

Decode’s Urban Vermin Invades VOOM Animania

Ramin Zahed - June 11, 2007

Decode Ent.'s CG animated series about two fighting raccoon brothers is getting ready for its High Def close-up. The Canadian shop has announced that...

Features

An $18 Million Weekend for Sony’s Surfing Penguins

Ramin Zahed - June 11, 2007

The animated penguins of Sony's Surf's Up caught a relatively mellow tide at the box office this weekend as the pic landed in at...

Features

Sony Rides Penguin Wave with Surf’s Up

Ramin Zahed - June 9, 2007

DreamWorks' green ogre and Disney's ghoulish pirates will get some killer competition today in theaters in the shape of cute, CG-animated surfing penguins. Sony...

Television

Vooz Goes Green with Myo & Ga

Ramin Zahed - June 8, 2007

Korean outfit Vooz, the creator of the popular Pucca character, will be spreading an environmental message with its new children's animated series Myo &...

Features

Persepolis and TekkonKinkreet Get U.S. Dates

Ramin Zahed - June 8, 2007

Two well-received indie animated features have announced their U.S. opening dates. Michael Arias' anime/CG hybrid hit Tekkonkinkreet will be distributed by Sony on July...

Features

Buddha Toon to Aid Thailand’s Poor

Ramin Zahed - June 8, 2007

Thailand's MonoFilm will donate profits from the sales of its animated movie The Life of Buddha to charity, according to a recent Variety story....

Festivals & Events

Humanitas Toasts Three Kids’ Toons

Ramin Zahed - June 8, 2007

Congratulations are in order for the writers of three great children's animated series which are up for the prestigious Humanitas Prize this year. Nominated...

Festivals & Events

Win a Pair of Tickets to a Special Screening of Shrek the Third!

Ramin Zahed - May 8, 2007

DreamWorks Animation and ASIFA-Hollywood have kindly give us 50 tickets to special screenings of Shrek the Third on Tuesday, May 15 in Los Angeles...

Features

Winx Fairies Spread Movie Wings

Ramin Zahed - May 3, 2007

The fashion-conscious fairies of Rainbow's Winx Club are ready for their big-screen close-up. It was announced this week that the Rome, Italy-based Rainbow is...

Festivals & Events

Ark, Dreammaker, En Tus Brazos Nab SIGGRAPH ’07 Honors

Ramin Zahed - April 24, 2007

Grzegorz Jonkajtys and Marcin Kobylecki's CG-animated eye-popper Ark, Leszek Plichta's Dreammaker and Supinfocom students Francois-Xavier Goby, Edouard Jouret and Matthieu Landour's En Tus Brazos...

Television

Americanized Creature Comforts Premieres on CBS in June

Ramin Zahed - April 19, 2007

The U.S. version of Aardman's acclaimed Creature Comforts series is finally set to make its debut on CBS Monday, June 4 at 8 p.m....

People

Miereanu Gets Animated for Warner

Ramin Zahed - April 16, 2007

Warner Bros. Animation has tapped veteran entertainment and sports communications exec Gary Miereanu as director of publicity. Miereanu will oversee all publicity activities for...

Festivals & Events

Ugly Duckling and Me! Helmers Win Cartoon Movie’s Top Prize

Ramin Zahed - March 9, 2007

Michael Hegner and Karsten Kiilerich were awarded Cartoon Movie's Directors of the Year prize at the annual event held at Potsdam, Germany today (Friday,...

People

Don Hertzfeldt Acclaimed Indie Animator (Rejected, Meaning of Life, Everything Will Be OK)

Ramin Zahed - February 27, 2007

For the past 12 years, Santa Barbara, Calif.-based indie animator Don Hertzfeldt has created a series of inspiring, quirky hand-drawn shorts which have...

Festivals & Events

VIZ Takes Bite out of Big Apple Comic-Con

Ramin Zahed - February 26, 2007

San Francisco-based manga and anime powerhouse VIZ Media had a high profile at the New York Comic-Con show this past weekend. Offering an interative...

Features