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Television

YTV Catches The Imp

Ryan Ball - June 29, 2007

Canadian kids' channel YTV has acquired English-language television, video-on-demand and online pay-platform rights to The Imp, an animated series co-produced by Red Kite Animations,...

Features

Ratatouille Served in Theaters

Ryan Ball - June 29, 2007

Sandwiched between the big summer action flicks Live Free or Die Hard and Transformers, Disney/Pixar's Ratatouille dishes out a tale food and friendship as...

Astro Boy Director Spills Beans

Ryan Ball - June 29, 2007

Imagi Studios has posted an exclusive interview with Colin Brady, director of the upcoming CG-animated Astro Boy feature film. Marking the first time Brady...

Costner, Chiodos Form Explorers Club

Ryan Ball - June 29, 2007

Actor Kevin Costner is getting into the animation biz with a new web toon, according to Daily Variety. The Mr. Brooks star will produce,...

Festivals & Events

Animator Salute Woody Woodpecker in Hollywood

Ryan Ball - June 28, 2007

On July 11, StoryMakers Studio will bring several of the biggest names in the cartoon world to the Grauman's Chinese Theatres Complex in Hollywood...

Festivals & Events

Transformers Convention Hits Rhode Island

Ryan Ball - June 28, 2007

As DreamWorks and Paramount get set to release their live-action Transformers movie next week, fans of the toys and animated series will be descending...

People

Helmintoller Heads Creative at S4 Studios

Ryan Ball - June 28, 2007

Thomas Helmintoller has been hired to the newly created post of creative director at S4 Studios, a design and production studio specializing in 3D...

Television

Cookie Jar, TVN Ink VOD Deal

Ryan Ball - June 28, 2007

Cookie Jar Ent. signed a multi-year Video-On-Demand (VOD) licensing deal with TVN Ent., one of the country's largest television on-demand companies. TVN will distribute...

Features

Dohenny, Gotham Making Franny K. Stein

Ryan Ball - June 28, 2007

Independent production company East of Doheny has optioned film rights to Jim Benton's Franny K. Stein: Mad Scientist series of children's books and has...

Features

Weinstein, Gotham Ink Toon Pact with Korea

Ryan Ball - June 28, 2007

The Weinstein Co. (TWC), The Gotham Group and the Chungcheongnam-do government of South Korea have formed an extensive, strategic relationship to produce and distribute...

VFX

Digital Dimension Raises Stakes in Die Hard

Ryan Ball - June 27, 2007

As a sign of the times, police officer John McClane (Bruce Willis) takes on cyber terrorists in the fourth installment in the blockbuster Die...

Television

Jakers! Wins Humanitas Prize

Ryan Ball - June 27, 2007

The CG-animated PBS series Jakers! The Adventures of Piggley Winks was honored Tuesday afternoon as more than 350 writers, directors, producers and entertainment execs...

Television

Comedy Central, CTV Pact for Programs

Ryan Ball - June 27, 2007

Viacom's Comedy Central has inked a multi-year content deal that gives Canadian broadcaster CTV exclusive broadcast and digital rights to the entire Comedy Central...

Television

Icon Fortifies Vitaminix with Int’l Sales

Ryan Ball - June 27, 2007

Barcelona-based Icon Animation has inked a raft of international television, home video and publishing pacts for the animated, healthy-eating series Vitaminix, while also sealing...

Features

Iran Cans Persepolis in Bangkok

Ryan Ball - June 27, 2007

Daily Variety reports that the Cannes-winning animated feature Persepolis was pulled from the schedule at the Bangkok International Film Festival at the request of...

Festivals & Events

ILM Talks Transformers at SIGGRAPH

Ryan Ball - June 26, 2007

The VFX wizards at Industrial Light & Magic (ILM) will reveal how they brought mercurial, 30-foot-tall robots to life for DreamWorks/Paramount's Transformers at this...

Home Entertainment

Vintage Superman, Batman on Disc

Ryan Ball - June 26, 2007

This week's batch of DVD releases is highlighted two Warner Home Video offerings of classic animated superhero action. Available for the first time on...

Television

Noggin Gets Toot & Puddle

Ryan Ball - June 26, 2007

After airing the holiday special Toot & Puddle: I'll Be Home for Christmas last winter, NOGGIN, Nickelodeon's commercial-free preschool network, has picked up the...

Television

Franny’s Feet Walks to Germany

Ryan Ball - June 26, 2007

Kids in Germany will be introduced to DECODE Ent.'s popular animated children's series Franny's Feet through a pay TV rights deal with The Disney...

Television

Nick Nicks BRB’s Angus & Cheryl

Ryan Ball - June 26, 2007

Nickelodeon has acquired cable and satellite TV rights to BRB Internacional's new animated series, Angus & Cheryl,for Belgium, France, Holland, Italy, Latin America, Luxembourg,...

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