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Television

Dutch Telescreen/PPM Nabs Egmont Imagination’s Catalog

Ryan Ball - March 10, 2003

The Dutch holding company Palm Plus Multimedia BV has acquired all media exploitation rights, outside the Nordic territories, to the Egmont Imagination Catalog. The...

Television

ABC Edits Spider-Man, Others for Post-9/11 Sensitivity

Ryan Ball - March 10, 2003

USA Today reports that Disney-owned ABC Television will be editing popular kids action programming for content relating to terrorist activity. Scenes involving specific imagery...

Festivals & Events

Real-Time Animation to be Demoed At Fla. Fest

Ryan Ball - March 10, 2003

New York-based animation studio The Ill Clan will demonstrate the improvised cartoon process known as Machinima at the Florida Film Festival on March 16....

Festivals & Events

Oscar Shorts Stand Tall

Ryan Ball - March 10, 2003

If you've been looking for a chance to see all the five Oscar-nominated animated shorts on the big screen, the folks at international shorts...

Oscar Hopeful The ChubbChubbs Free to Download

Ryan Ball - March 10, 2003

As part of its Oscar Showcase, Movielink http://www.movielink.com/ will offer a free download of Sony Pictures Imageworks' Academy Award-nominated short, The ChubbChubbs. This is...

Video Games

Empire Interactive Fists Bulletproof Monk Games Rights

Ryan Ball - March 10, 2003

Empire Interactive has licensed interactive videogame rights to the upcoming martial arts flick Bulletproof Monk. The game, which is being developed by U.K.-based Mucky...

Features

Robot a Spitting Image of Tudyk

Ryan Ball - March 7, 2003

Looks like others are following in the footsteps of Andy Serkis and Gollum (The Two Towers) . According to The Hollywood Reporter, actor Alan...

VFX

Turbo Squid and Kaydara Form New FBX Community for 3D Digital Assets

Ryan Ball - March 7, 2003

Turbo Squid and Kaydara Inc. today announced that a new Kaydara FBX Community has been added to Turbo Squid's quickly growing web site. With...

Video Games

Metroid is Game Developers’ Prime Choice

Ryan Ball - March 7, 2003

Retro Studios' Metroid Prime nabbed Game of the Year as the international community of game developers honored their own last night in San Jose,...

Video Games

Next Stop: Holodeck

Ryan Ball - March 7, 2003

Anyone who has seen Star Trek: Next Generation has fantasized about stepping into the virtual reality structure known as the "holodeck" and taking a...

Television

Alliance Atlantis Plunges into Second Season of Henry’s World

Ryan Ball - March 6, 2003

AAC KIDS, Alliance Atlantis' children's label, has begun principal photography on the second season of the stop-motion animated series, Henry's World. Produced in association...

Television

That’s Sir Nigel Thornberry to You

Ryan Ball - March 6, 2003

In an upcoming episode of Nickelodeon's popular series The Wild Thornberrys, patriarch Nigel Thornberry (Tim Curry) receives the highest honor that can be bestowed...

Features

Eyeing Nemo

Ryan Ball - March 6, 2003

On Tuesday March 4, Disney offered Showest (this week's Exhibitors' Convention in Las Vegas) attendees a sneak peek at its much-anticipated summer release Finding...

VFX

Metrowerks Pushes New Nintendo Development Hardware

Ryan Ball - March 6, 2003

Metrowerks, creator of CodeWarrior software for developers, is distributing Nintendo's new GameCube development tool. TDEV, essentially a GameCube unit with network capability, comes bundled...

Video Games

Animators Schooled on Character Movement at GDC

Ryan Ball - March 6, 2003

Day two of the Game Developers Conference in San Jose, Calif. was devoted to day-long tutorial workshops such as Leslie Bishko's and Jana Wilcoxen's...

Video Games

Nokia Launches Game Platform At GDC

Ryan Ball - March 6, 2003

Nokia announced at the Game Developers Conference the launch of its first dedicated games platform. The Nokia N-Gage game deck is a color enabled...

Television

Sony Pictures TV Int’l Launches Astro Boy At MIP-TV

Ryan Ball - March 5, 2003

As program buyers and distributors descend upon MIP-TV in Cannes looking for the hottest new property, Sony Pictures Television Int'l hopes they find it...

Features

Family Guy Creator, Farrelly Bros. Collaborate on CG Feature

Ryan Ball - March 5, 2003

Seth MacFarlane, creator and exec. producer of the Fox animated series The Family Guy, tells Animation Magazine Online that he has teamed up with...

Features

Marvel, Fox Settle X-Men Battle

Ryan Ball - March 5, 2003

Comic book publisher Marvel and 20th Century Fox settled a lawsuit over licensing rights to the X-Men characters, Associate Press reports. Although the terms...

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