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Video Games

Game Sales Hit $9.5 Billion

Ryan Ball - January 24, 2008

The Entertainment Software Association (ESA) has announced that computer and video game software sales reached a record-breaking $9.5 billion in 2007, a 28% gain...

Home Entertainment

Flux, Butt-Head Hit UMD

Ryan Ball - January 24, 2008

Peter Chung's anime series Aeon Flux and Mike Judge's Beavis and Butt-Head make their way to the PSP on UMD (Universal Media Disc) via...

Television

Studio 100 Media Nabs Baloontoons

Ryan Ball - January 23, 2008

Newly formed Studio100 Media NV & Co. KG, a subsidiary of Studio100 in Belgium, has acquired extensive distribution rights to the animated series Balloontoons...

Television

Starz Extends Disney, Sony Deals

Ryan Ball - January 23, 2008

Starz Ent. will continue to offer cable subscribers access to first-run films from The Walt Disney Studios and Sony Pictures well into the next...

People

Surf’s Up Director, Writer React to Oscar Nom

Ryan Ball - January 23, 2008

When the Academy Awards nominations came out on Tuesday morning, no one in the animation industry was more pleasantly surprised than the folks at...

People

Pitt Named Content VP at Cartoon, Boomerang

Ryan Ball - January 23, 2008

Adina Pitt has been named VP of content acquisitions and co-productions for Cartoon Network and Boomerang. Reporting to Robert Sorcher, chief content officer for...

Festivals & Events

Cartoon Movie Celebrates 10th Anniversary

Ryan Ball - January 23, 2008

More than 500 animation professionals are expected to visit the German city of Potsdam to view 47 new projects from 16 European countries as...

Home Entertainment

Frisky Dingo Bound For DVD

Ryan Ball - January 23, 2008

The entire first season of the Adult Swim animated series Frisky Dingo is set to arrive on DVD for the first time on March...

Television

Saban Eyeing ER Buyout?

Ryan Ball - January 22, 2008

Daily Variety reports speculation that Haim Saban and private equity firm 3i, parent company of British rights manager Chorion, are among a number of...

People

No Joking as Ledger Dies

Ryan Ball - January 22, 2008

After turning in a performance as The Joker in director Christopher Nolan's Batman Begins sequel, The Dark Knight, Heath Ledger was found dead in...

VFX

Zoic Animates Terminator

Ryan Ball - January 22, 2008

One of the driving forces behind the successful new FOX action series Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, visual effects outfit Zoic Studios was charged...

Festivals & Events

Three Pics, Five Shorts Deemed Oscar Worthy

Ryan Ball - January 22, 2008

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences today unveiled its nominees for the best films of 2007, naming among them the three releases...

Festivals & Events

DreamWorks Goes to Dubai

Ryan Ball - January 22, 2008

DreamWorks Animation is laying the foundation for an amusement park in Dubai, according to Daily Variety. Working with real estate company Tatweer, the studio...

Video Games

Warcraft Takes 10 Million Prisoners

Ryan Ball - January 22, 2008

Blizzard Ent. Inc. announced today that subscribership for its massively multiplayer online role-playing game World of Warcraft has passed the 10 million mark worldwide...

People

Zinkia Names New CEO

Ryan Ball - January 21, 2008

In a move designed to drive the company through its next phase of growth and consolidation, Spanish animation company Zinkia has hired business strategist...

People

Ratatouille Cooks with Golden Tomatoes

Ryan Ball - January 21, 2008

Disney/Pixar's Ratatouille bested all other wide-release films in this year's Golden Tomato Awards at Rotten Tomatoes (www.rottentomatoes.com), Fox Interactive Media's website devoted to compiling...

Features

Monster Weekend for Cloverfield

Ryan Ball - January 21, 2008

Paramount Pictures' giant monster movie, Cloverfield, scared up an estimated $46 million domestically since opening on Friday, scoring the biggest Martin Luther King holiday...

Features

Cruz Lends Voice to G-Force

Ryan Ball - January 21, 2008

Though many may consider it a waste to have Penelope Cruz heard but not seen in a movie, the actress has signed on to...

Video Games

Eidos Preps Highlander Game

Ryan Ball - January 21, 2008

Eidos Interactive is capitalizing on the popularity of the Highlander series of films and TV shows with a Highlander video game set to hit...

Features

Cloverfield Rampages on Screen

Ryan Ball - January 18, 2008

Months of speculation and internet rumors come to an end today as producer J.J. Abrams' well-guarded CG creature is finally revealed in Cloverfield, Paramount...

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