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Features

Tron Gets 70mm Revival in Hollywood

Ryan Ball - April 29, 2004

If you think the symbiosis between video games and movies is something new, you need only look to Disney's 1982 feature Tron. Decades ahead...

Television

Comcast Drops Mouse Merger Bid

Ryan Ball - April 28, 2004

Comcast Corp. today withdrew its proposal to merge with Disney, effective immediately. Brian L. Roberts, president and CEO of Comcast, said "We have always...

Television

Disney Completes Kermit Purchase

Ryan Ball - April 28, 2004

The Walt Disney Co. has completed its previously announced acquisition of The Jim Henson Co.’s Muppets and Bear in the Big Blue House. The...

Features

DVX Ent. Reveals Geppetto’s Secret in CG

Ryan Ball - April 28, 2004

Independent animation studio and entertainment company DVX Ent. is in full production on its first CG animated feature film, Geppetto's Secret. Based on an...

People

Eisner Gets Disney Board Support

Ryan Ball - April 28, 2004

Embattled Disney CEO Michael Esiner remains leader of the band following Tuesday’s conclusion of the Walt Disney Co. Board of Directors’ annual retreat. Board...

People

Ewing to Head Distribution for Cookie Jar Ent.

Ryan Ball - April 28, 2004

Sam Ewing will replace Louis Fournier as head of distribution at Cookie Jar Ent., the programming and licensing arm of newly minted The Cookie...

VFX

VES Appoints New Director

Ryan Ball - April 27, 2004

The Visual Effects Society (VES) today announced the appointment of Eric Roth as the organization's new exec director. Roth replaces founding exec director Tom...

Home Entertainment

Big Fish Reels in FX on DVD

Ryan Ball - April 27, 2004

Tim Burton’s Oscar-nominated whopper, Big Fish, arrives on home video today, frying up a smorgasbord of extra features and visual effects by MPC and...

Home Entertainment

TV Popeye Muscles in on DVD

Ryan Ball - April 27, 2004

Also in stores today is the new Popeye 75th Anniversary Collector's Edition DVD, put out by Koch Vision Ent. This three-disc set ($29.98) features...

Television

Comedy Central Stands Up for Shorties

Ryan Ball - April 27, 2004

Comedy Central, home of the foul-mouthed kids of South Park, is giving birth to a couple more animated tykes with some pretty outrageous things...

Licensing

Mattel in Toy Box with Winx Club

Ryan Ball - April 27, 2004

Toymaker Mattel has signed a multi-year licensing agreement to serve as master toy licensee for 4Kids Ent.'s The Winx Club, an animated series set...

Video Games

THQ to Acquire Relic Ent.

Ryan Ball - April 27, 2004

THQ Inc. today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Vancouver-based PC development studio Relic Ent. THQ expects the acquisition...

Television

Frog Jumps from Page to Screen

Ryan Ball - April 26, 2004

Dutch companies Telescreen and Kids at Work have teamed up to produce the animated series Frog, based on the books by author/illustrator Max Velthuijs....

Features

Home on the Range Still Riding in Top 5

Ryan Ball - April 26, 2004

According to preliminary box office estimates, Disney’s animated Western, Home on the Range, is riding high in the saddle with a top-five finish in...

Features

3D Hoodwinked Rides to Cannes

Ryan Ball - April 26, 2004

Among the films screening at this year’s Cannes Film Market is a 3D-animated family feature titled Hoodwinked: The True Story of Red Riding Hood....

Features

Klasky Csupo Throws Global Tantrum

Ryan Ball - April 26, 2004

Klasky Csupo Animation Studio is introducing the toon community to Global Tantrum, its new adult animation arm, with the launch of the website www.globaltantrum.com....

Video Games

EyeToy to see SuperStars from SEGA

Ryan Ball - April 26, 2004

SEGA game properties Sonic the Hedgehog, Samba de Amigo and Virtua Fighter are coming together for a new brand of interactive fun in a...

Video Games

Bungie Studios Founder Pulls Wideload Games

Ryan Ball - April 26, 2004

Alexander Seropian, founder of Bungie Studios (Halo, Myth, Marathon) has announced the formation of Wideload Games Inc. (www.wideload.com), a new compnay dedicated to producing...

Festivals & Events

ASIFA Pays Tribute to UPA

Ryan Ball - April 23, 2004

ASIFA-Hollywood will salute the independent toon studio behind Mr. Magoo, the Oscar-winning short Gerald McBoing-Boing and other animated classics from the 1950s and ’60s...

Festivals & Events

Harryhausen Book Signing at Ex’pression College

Ryan Ball - April 23, 2004

Emeryville, Calif. based Ex’pression College for Digital Arts will host an afternoon with stop-motion animation legend Ray Harryhausen on April 27 at 3 p.m....

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