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Voltron May Have Director

Writer/director Max Makowski, whose credits include independent films and TV shows, is in negotiations to direct Relativity Media's big-screen version of the 1980s animated...

Poltergeist Director Confirmed

The remake bandwagon rolls on as MGM moves forward with plans to make a new version of the Steven Spielberg-produced 1982 chiller Poltergeist. The...

4Kids Announces Saturday Lineups

4Kids Ent. today unveiled its lineup of fall programs to air on Saturday mornings on FOX and The CW Network. Both blocks will kick...

Watchmen Trial Set for January

The fate of one of the most highly anticipated big-screen comic-book adaptations hangs in the balance as 20th Century Fox gets its day in...

Animated Short Walks Tight Rope

Magnolia Pictures' documentary Man on Wire will be accompanied in select theaters by Michael Sporn's 2005 animated short film The Man Who Walked Between...

Happy Tree Friends Explode with Ka-Pow!

Mondo Media to day introduced Ka-Pow!, a new series based on its animated web sensation Happy Tree Friends. The property's millions of fans can...

Peanuts Animator Bill Melendez Dies

Bill Melendez, the Oscar-nominated and Emmy-winning animator best known for bringing Charles M. Schulz's Peanuts characters to life, died on the morning of Tuesday,...

RocketOn, Animax Develop Virtual Worlds

RocketOn Inc., creator of the Parallel Virtual World Platform, and Emmy-winning multiplatform entertainment studio Animax Ent. have formed a strategic partnership to co-develop parallel...

Image Metrics Puts Face on Operation Flashpoint 2

Image Metrics is creating facial animation for key characters appearing in cinematic sequences for Codemasters' upcoming video game Operation Flashpoint 2: Dragon Rising. Slated...

Delgo Finally Gets Release Date

We first became aware of the independently produced CG animated feature film Delgo in 2003, but haven't heard much from the production since the...

Renaissance Producer Spawns Prodigies

Aton Soumache, producer of Christian Volker's 2006 Annecy award-winning animated feature Renaissance, is producing another major French CG feature. According to Daily Variety, he...

Henson’s Blue Elephant Charges to Disc

Once known for The Muppets and other puppet creations, The Jim Henson Co. continues its push into animation with The Blue Elephant, a new...

Batman, Scooby Double Features on DVD

Warner Home Video today released two sets of feature-length animated movies starring two very different cartoon crime fighters. A Batman double feature offers Batman...

TELETOON Fills Marketing Jobs

Canadian broadcaster TELETOON has appointed Russell Ward to the post of VP of marketing, and has promoted Natalie Cunningham to director of marketing. Both...

WWE’s Claims against THQ Dismissed

Video-game maker THQ Inc. today announced that the Connecticut Superior Court has dismissed most of the claims filed against it and THQ/JAKKS Pacific LLC....

Cartoon Tributes Nominees Named

Cartoon Forum, the European Association of Animation Film, has announced this year's nominees for Cartoon Tributes, an award ceremony to be held on Sept...

New Trailer Brings the Payne

Video games have a lousy track record when it comes to big-screen adaptations, but 20th Century Fox is hoping to beat the odds with...

Pink Panther Ultimate Collection Prowls to Disc

MGM Home Entertainment will release the Pink Panther Ultimate Collection on DVD this fall. Slated to hit retail on Nov. 25, the box set...

MyToons Brings Cartoon Classics to Vuze

Online animation community MyToons.com has launched the MyToons Cartoon Classics Channel on Vuze, an Internet video platform that boasts 30 million members worldwide. Featuring...

Abbey Home Media Gets Moore

Abbey Home Media, a British independent distributor, rights owner and producer of children's programs, has appointed Stephen Moore partner and shareholder. Moore previously held...
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