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Television

Chiodo Bros. Animate Clay For Playhouse Disney

Ryan Ball - September 6, 2002

On Monday, September 16, Disney Channel’s learning-based programming block, Play House Disney, will introduce its first-ever host — a lump of clay appropriately named...

Television

Past And Future Meet In TV Debuts

Ryan Ball - September 6, 2002

This week sees the launch of two animated series which aim to educate and entertain by transporting young viewers back to the past and...

Television

Cartoon Network Acquires Futurama

Ryan Ball - September 6, 2002

In a deal with Twentieth Television, Cartoon Network has picked up exclusive cable rights for all 72 episodes of Matt Groening’s hit animated series...

Fox, Amazon.com Preview New Ice Age Short

Ryan Ball - September 6, 2002

Amazon.com customers who pre-order Twentieth Century Fox’s CG hit Ice Age on DVD will get an exclusive online look at the new short Scrat's...

Video Games

Greece Outlaws Gamers

Ryan Ball - September 5, 2002

CNET News.com reports that all electronic games have been banned by the Greek government. A law went into effect in late July that imposes...

People

More Shakeup At RTV

Ryan Ball - September 5, 2002

According to RTV, Peter Hille and Wolfgang Heidrich have stepped down from the Munich-based animation studio’s board of directors. Hille had previously announced his...

Features

Disney, Shrek Producer Team For CG Features

Ryan Ball - September 5, 2002

Walt Disney Studios has formed an alliance with Shrek producer John Williams' Vanguard Films to produce as many as four computer animated features. The...

Festivals & Events

Effects Reign At SIGGRAPH Meeting

Ryan Ball - September 5, 2002

Effects work on the Touchstone Pictures and Spyglass Entertainment dragon pic Reign of Fire will be the subject of discussion at the L.A. Chapter...

Television

Big Sales For France Animation

Ryan Ball - September 5, 2002

France Animation has signed a number of major deals with buyers across North America, Europe and Asia. The programs Cybergirl, Cosy Corner, Wheel Squad,...

Festivals & Events

Digital Hollywood Reloaded

Ryan Ball - September 4, 2002

This year’s Digital Hollywood conference (Sept. 23-25) will focus on the heightened expectations of the cable, satellite, broadband and entertainment industries as they ramp...

Television

Egmont Imagination Cuts Production, Assets On Block

Ryan Ball - September 4, 2002

Egmont Imagination, the animation production-distribution subsidiary of Danish media giant Egmont, is scaling back its production and development infrastructure in anticipation of an asset...

Television

SpongeBob Head Gets Kicks With Thunder

Ryan Ball - September 4, 2002

C21media.net reports that Andy Rheingold, former head of development and production for the Nickelodeon’s SpongeBob SquarePants, has been tapped by Broadway Video Enterprises to...

Commercials

EyeballNYC Grooves On MTV Hits

Ryan Ball - September 4, 2002

To create a series of fully animated IDs for the new channel MTV Hits, the music television network looked to SOHO-based EyeballNYC. Led by...

Features

Runaway Production Bill Killed

Ryan Ball - September 3, 2002

Variety reports that Assembly Bill 2747, which would have provided as much as $650 million in tax credits to encourage producers to keep productions...

Features

Plympton Draws Next Feature As You Watch

Ryan Ball - September 3, 2002

Marking a first in animation history, cartoonist, animator and independent filmmaker Bill Plympton invites the public to watch him draw his next feature, Hair...

VFX

Lone Star VFX House Takes Spy Kids For A Ride

Ryan Ball - September 3, 2002

For the effects-filled opening sequence of Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams, Texan filmmaker Robert Rodriguez turned to Dallas-based Reel FX Creative...

Festivals & Events

Women in Animation Launches Canadian Chapter

Ryan Ball - September 3, 2002

The first Canadian chapter of Women in Animation will be dedicated with a launch party and membership drive on Wednesday, Sept. 18, 2002 in...

Home Entertainment

Horror Classic Doomed Megalopolis Fated For DVD

Ryan Ball - September 3, 2002

ADV Films announced plans to release Director Rintaro's (Metropolis, Captain Harlock) animated chiller Doomed Megalopolis for the first time on DVD. Set in 1923, Doomed...

Television

DOT On The Spot At Cartoon Forum

Ryan Ball - September 3, 2002

U.K.-based GSCFilms, the production house responsible for the award-winning series Kipper, Sheeep and Angelina Ballerina, will debut DOT, its new pre-school pilot at this...

VFX

ComputerCafé Goes Wild For Spy Kids 2

Ryan Ball - August 7, 2002

In Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams, swashbuckling skeletons, a miniature zoo and menacing mutant animals await siblings Carmen and Juni Cortez,...

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