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Video Games

VU Games President Resigns

Ryan Ball - April 14, 2004

Interactive entertainment executives seem to be playing musical chairs today. Los Angeles-based Vivendi Universal Games (VU Games) has announced that its North American President...

Video Games

EchoStar Threatens to Drop Cartoon Network

Ryan Ball - April 14, 2004

EchoStar Communications Monday warned Dish Network subscribers that they may lose Turner channels Cartoon Network, CNN, Turner Classic Movies and CNN Headline News due...

Home Entertainment

Tokyo Godfathers: a DVD You Can’t Refuse?

Ryan Ball - April 13, 2004

The fourth film from Quentin Tarantino may be getting the most attention today, but the third film from director Satoshi Kon (Perfect Blue, Millennium...

Home Entertainment

Kill Bill Guns for Vid Sales

Ryan Ball - April 13, 2004

As anime fans drool over talk of an animated prequel to Kill Bill, the first half of director Quentin Tarantino’s two-part revenge opus slices...

Home Entertainment

Paul McCartney’s Toons & Tunes on Disc

Ryan Ball - April 13, 2004

Miramax Home Entertainment and Buena Vista Home Entertainment have teamed up to release Paul McCartney: The Music and Animation Collection on DVD. The disc...

Television

New Company Out to cause RIOT with Tweens

Ryan Ball - April 13, 2004

Freshly minted RIOT Media is making a bid to capture the tween boys market with comic books and animated and live-action productions for TV...

Television

Sundance Abducts Plympton Flicks

Ryan Ball - April 13, 2004

Daily Variety reports that Sundance Channel has picked up two features and nine shorts by indie animator Bill Plympton. The adult-oriented cartoons will air...

Video Games

Saga of Ryzom Enters Open Beta

Ryan Ball - April 13, 2004

Independent online game and software developer Nevrax announced today that its multi-genre, massively multiplayer RPG, The Saga of Ryzom, enters open beta today, April...

Festivals & Events

Studio Ghibli Co-Founder Coming to L.A.

Ryan Ball - April 12, 2004

Isao Takahata, who directed the haunting wartime anime feature Grave of the Fireflies and co-founded Studio Ghibli with Hayao Miyazaki, will be in Los...

Television

Drew Carey Gets Animated for The WB

Ryan Ball - April 12, 2004

The Hollywood Reporter and Daily Variety bring word that sitcom star and improv aficionado Drew Carey is blending animation with elements of his hit...

Television

Discovery Kids Visits ToddWorld

Ryan Ball - April 12, 2004

Discovery Kids Channel is taking its commercial-free preschool programming block to a whole new world this fall–ToddWorld to be exact. The new 26-part animated...

Features

Hellboy Overcome by Passion

Ryan Ball - April 12, 2004

The weekend's box office estimates resemble something from scripture as Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ rose again to conquer the spawn of...

Video Games

Atari Brings Unreal Tournament 2004 to DVD

Ryan Ball - April 12, 2004

In response to the overwhelming success of the DVD release of Unreal Tournament 2004–Special Edition, Atari and Epic Games will put out a two-disc...

Video Games

AOL Takes AIM at The Matrix Online

Ryan Ball - April 12, 2004

America Online Inc. and Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment announced that the popular AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) service will be integrated into The Matrix Online....

Festivals & Events

Seattle Gets First Sci-Fi Museum

Ryan Ball - April 9, 2004

While museums are usually associated with relics from the past, a new one will focus on futuristic societies and technologies as seen through the...

Television

Kill Bill Anime Crew Takes on Divas

Ryan Ball - April 9, 2004

Production I.G., the Japanese animation company behind the lengthy anime sequence featured in Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill Vol. 1, partnered with VH1 creative forces...

Television

Neutron, OddParents Meld

Ryan Ball - April 9, 2004

Worlds and animation styles will collide when Nickelodeon combines two of its most popular cartoon series for the upcoming special The Jimmy/Timmy Power Hour....

Features

Oscar-Nominated Shorts Hit Big Screen

Ryan Ball - April 9, 2004

Laemmle Theatres and Apollo Cinema are teaming up to offer moviegoers in Los Angeles a chance to see this year's Oscar-nominated animated and live-action...

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