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Television

EM.Entertainment Sold to Studio 100

Ryan Ball - May 30, 2008

EM.Sport Media AG has sold its entertainment division, previously known as EM.Entertainment, to Belgian media company Studio 100. A major provider of children's and...

Features

Cameras Roll on the Wachowskis’ Ninja Assassin

Ryan Ball - May 30, 2008

As their live-action adaptation of the anime series Speed Racer flounders in theaters, Matrix creators Larry and Andy Wachowski have begun filming a new...

Home Entertainment

Disney Mints Kingdom Comics

Ryan Ball - May 29, 2008

Disney is starting up Kingdom Comics, a new label that will develop graphic novels for eventual film adaptations, according to Daily Variety. The studio...

Home Entertainment

Lionsgate Adopts MGA’s Little Tikes

Ryan Ball - May 29, 2008

Lionsgate has signed on as the North American home entertainment distributor for the Little Tikes brand from MGA Ent., the company behind the girls...

Licensing

VeggieTales Program Expands

Ryan Ball - May 29, 2008

Big Idea Inc., an Entertainment Rights group company, is celebrating the 15th anniversary of its animated VeggieTales franchise this year by expanding its licensing...

VFX

NVIDIA Gives Away Gelato Pro 2.2

Ryan Ball - May 29, 2008

NVIDIA Corp. today released its NVIDIA Gelato Pro 2.2 GPU-accelerated rendering software as a no-cost download at www.nvidia.com/gelatozone. Replacing the basic Gelato package, Gelato...

Television

Disney Channel Set Free in Spain

Ryan Ball - May 29, 2008

Kids throughout Spain will be able to watch the country's most popular children's programming outlet for free starting July 1, when Disney Channel Spain...

Television

Triggerfish Animates Studio 125’s Jessie D

Ryan Ball - May 29, 2008

Triggerfish Animation in Cape Town, South Africa has informed us that it has completed a 14-minute episode of Me and Jessie D, a new...

Licensing

Robosapian Creator Licenses FOX Sports Robot

Ryan Ball - May 28, 2008

WowWee Group Ltd., the Optimal Group company behind the popular Robosapian consumer robot, has been granted worldwide rights to market the CG-animated FOX Sports...

People

Kid Show Creator David Mitton Dies

Ryan Ball - May 28, 2008

We're saddened to hear of the sudden passing of children's television veteran David Mitton, who wrote and directed more than 180 episodes of Thomas...

People

Harry Potter Actor Murdered

Ryan Ball - May 28, 2008

The young British actor playing Ravenclaw student Marcus Belby in the upcoming Warner Bros. production Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince was stabbed to...

VFX

Toon Boom, FableVision Debut Animation-Ish

Ryan Ball - May 28, 2008

Toon Boom Animation Inc. and educational publisher FableVision today announced the release of Animation-Ish, an innovative software program that allows people of all ages...

Television

Geronimo Stilton Jumps to Radio-Canada

Ryan Ball - May 28, 2008

Radio-Canada has pickes up Geronimo Stilton, the new animated kids' television series produced by Atlantyca Ent. and Moonscoop Prods., in association with Mike Young...

Television

qubo Has Turbo Dogs, Story Shop for Fall

Ryan Ball - May 28, 2008

Multilingual and multimedia programming platform qubo will debut the Scholastic series Turbo Dogs and Sammy's Story Shop as part of its new fall lineup....

Features

Sony Acquires Bashir for U.S.

Ryan Ball - May 28, 2008

Leave it to Sony Pictures Classics to bring poignant and award-winning foreign animated feature films to North American audiences. The label that recently brought...

Home Entertainment

He-Man, Super Heroes Arrive from BCI

Ryan Ball - May 27, 2008

Navarre Corp.'s BCI Eclipse debuts two heroic new DVD box sets today with He-Man and the Masters of the Universe: Volume Two and Advantage:...

Home Entertainment

Persepolis Gets Disc Date

Ryan Ball - May 27, 2008

The Academy Award-nominated animated feature Persepolis from filmmakers Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud is coming this summer to DVD and Blu-ray Disc. Following a...

Home Entertainment