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Television

Danny & Daddy Draws Intrest in New Markets

Ryan Ball - March 11, 2004

The 104x3 CG pre-school series Danny & Daddy is making its way around the globe. Distributed worldwide by Neptuno Films and produced by Danny...

Television

Viewers Not Too Game for Game Over

Ryan Ball - March 11, 2004

Apparently, getting young people to put down the game controllers and tune in to primetime TV isn’t as simple as putting on a show...

Home Entertainment

Foothill, Phuuz Form Strategic Alliance

Ryan Ball - March 11, 2004

Newly established, Hollywood-based content creation house phuuz ent. inc. and Santa Barbara, Calif.-based production/distribution company Foothill Ent. Inc. have partnered up to extend the...

Video Games

UPN Offers Free Game Over PC Game

Ryan Ball - March 11, 2004

If you enjoyed the premiere of UPN’s new CG-animated series, Game Over, last night, you can now get into the action with a free...

Commercials

Ring of Fire Gets Physical for Tropicana

Ryan Ball - March 11, 2004

To help Tropicana promote its new Light & Healthy brand of orange juice, digital effects studio Ring of Fire took citris to the gym...

Television

Game Over Boots up on UPN

Ryan Ball - March 10, 2004

With video games stealing adult male audiences away from broadcasters during primetime hours, it was a smart move for UPN to bring the world...

Home Entertainment

Jetsons, Jonny Quest Collector Sets Coming

Ryan Ball - March 10, 2004

Warner Home Video wants you to get reacquainted with George Jetson, Jane his wife and the rest of the family when it releases two...

Features

Axed Animators in New Deal with Raven, MG

Ryan Ball - March 10, 2004

Since Disney shuttered its Orlando, Fla. animation studio late last year a number of up-and-coming toon houses have been eager to swoop in and...

Features

Warner Flexes Home Vid Muscle in Courting Pixar

Ryan Ball - March 10, 2004

Daily Variety reports that Time Warner Entertainment and Networks chairman Jeffrey Bewkes is boasting that the company’s home video distribution strength makes it a...

Video Games

BAM! to "Do It" with Starsky & Hutch Game

Ryan Ball - March 10, 2004

Bam! Ent. Inc. has signed on as the exclusive North American distributor of the video game based on the Starsky & Hutch big-screen comic...

People

Imageworks Ups Digital Production VP Szymanski

Ryan Ball - March 10, 2004

Sony Pictures Imageworks President Tim Sarnoff announced today that Stan Szymanski has been promoted to Sr. VP of digital production for the Company. The...

Television

Cartoon Network Takes Crack at Code Lyoko

Ryan Ball - March 9, 2004

Moonscoop, the newly launched distributor for Antefilms Production and France Animation, has inked its first major U.S. deal with the sale of Code Lyoko...

Television

DIC Kid’s Network Adds New Lineup

Ryan Ball - March 9, 2004

Independent children's entertainment company DIC Ent. is set to launch the second season of its top-rated DIC Kids’ Network with an all-new kid’s line-up....

Home Entertainment

Futurama Vol. 3 Leads DVD Delivery

Ryan Ball - March 9, 2004

Fry, Bender and the rest of the Planet Express crew are back for another box set release from Fox Home Entertainment. Futurama Vol. 3...

People

Hari Varma joins Toonz

Ryan Ball - March 9, 2004

Hari Varma, visual effects animation director for the hit Tamil feature film, Boys, has joined Toonz Animation India as director of computer graphics and...

VFX

Imageworks Paints Maxon’s Cinema 4D into Pipeline

Ryan Ball - March 8, 2004

Sony Pictures Imageworks, the digital effects and animation studio behind Spider-Man, the Stuart Little movies and the Oscar-winning short The ChubbChubbs, will integrate Maxon’s...

Television

SCI FI’s Tripping Doesn’t Stumble

Ryan Ball - March 8, 2004

SCI Fi Channel’s new Thursday night lineup drew big numbers for the cable network last week. According to Daily Variety, the new CG animated...

VFX

Animo Inks with Plastic Animation Paper

Ryan Ball - March 8, 2004

The forthcoming version 6.0 of Cambridge Animation Systems' Animo software will feature compatibility with Plastic Animation Paper (PAP), the tablet-based animation application from Krogh...

Television