Cookie Jar Ent. today announced that its television shows will be made available for download via a licensing agreement with CinemaNow Inc. Starting this...

Festivals & Events

Tek Takes Sedelmaier to Ottawa

Ryan Ball - August 17, 2007

Regular viewers of Comedy Central's The Colbert Report should be familiar with Tek Jansen, a series of short, animated segments produced by New York-based...

Festivals & Events

PopVox Wants Digital Media Entries

Ryan Ball - August 17, 2007

New Media BC has issued a call for entries for the first annual PopVox Awards, a celebration honoring excellence in digital media. Awards will...

Television

Nick Gives Tak Scheduling Upgrade

Ryan Ball - August 17, 2007

Nickelodeon has informed us that it has made a scheduling change for its new animated series, Tak and the Power of Juju. Previously slated...

Television

Cartoon Network Sets Health Guidelines

Ryan Ball - August 17, 2007

In continuing its efforts to promote health and wellness among children and families, Cartoon Network today announced newly formalized food and beverage-related guidelines for...

Features

Augenblick Animates The Ten

Ryan Ball - August 17, 2007

Most moviegoers seeking goofy fun this weekend will most likely flock to Universal Pictures' teen sex comedy Superbad, but I encourage you to also...

Features

King of Kong Debuts

Ryan Ball - August 17, 2007

A critically acclaimed video-game documentary arrives to entice the geek set to theaters this weekend as Picturehouse opens The King of Kong: A Fistful...

People

Hamm Developing at Starz Media

Ryan Ball - August 16, 2007

Following a turn as exec VP of TV at Sam Raimi's Ghost House Pictures, William Hamm has been joined the Starz Media team as...

VFX

Softimage Offers Free Game Mod Tool

Ryan Ball - August 16, 2007

Avid Technology's Softimage Co. today unveiled the SOFTIMAGE|XSI 6 Mod Tool, a free 3D modeling and animation software application for non-commercial game content creation...

Features

Emmerich Injected Into Fantastic Remake

Ryan Ball - August 16, 2007

Daily Variety reports that Spectacle filmmaker Roland Emmerich (The Day After Tomorrow, Independence Day) has signed on to direct 20th Century Fox's remake of...

Wang You to Stream GDH in China

Ryan Ball - August 16, 2007

Leading anime company GDH, parent company of animation house Gonzo, plans to increase its delivery in China via Shanghai-based Wang You Media's video streaming...

McFarlane Online with Google

Ryan Ball - August 16, 2007

Family Guy and American Dad creator Seth McFarlane has inked a deal to create exclusive animated content for Google Inc. and Media Rights Capital,...

Television

Cartoon Network Serves Up Fried Dynamite

Ryan Ball - August 15, 2007

Cartoon Network is set to launch a new Friday night primetime and Saturday morning block dubbed Fried Dynamite at the end of the month....

Television

U.S. Creature Comforts Gets Disc Date

Ryan Ball - August 15, 2007

The CBS primetime series Creature Comforts America from Aardman Animations is set for release on DVD this fall and will offer all seven half-hour,...

Television

Warner Nabs U.K. Skunk Fu! Rights

Ryan Ball - August 15, 2007

Warner Music Group has licensed the U.K. DVD rights for the first season of the animated series Skunk Fu! from U.K.-based intellectual property owner,...

Features

Zombie Focuses on El Superbeasto

Ryan Ball - August 15, 2007

With trailers for his remake of Halloween now in heavy rotation, rocker-turned-filmmaker Rob Zombie (Devil's Rejects, House of 1,000 Corpses) is again taking time...

Features