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Television

Family Guy Proceeds Sans MacFarlane

Ryan Ball - November 14, 2007

FOX may have severely damaged its relationship with toon mogul Seth MacFarlane by deciding to continue producing new installments of Family Guy without his...

Features

Quinta Boss Has Stake in Rainbow

Ryan Ball - November 13, 2007

Daily Variety reports that Franco-Tunisian film producer Tarak Ben Ammar has acquired a 2% stake in Rainbow, the Italian animation house behind the popular...

Licensing

Cartoon Net Plays with KellyToy

Ryan Ball - November 13, 2007

Cartoon Network Enterprises has signed with KellyToy USA to create plush, sporting goods and novelty items based on the network's portfolio of hit animated...

Festivals & Events

5 Centimeters Lands Asia Pacific Award

Ryan Ball - November 13, 2007

The Japanese film 5 Centimeters Per Second (Byosoku 5 Centimeters) from writer/director Makoto Shinkai won Best Animated Feature Film at the inaugural Asia Pacific...

Home Entertainment

Shrek the Third Swamps Retailers

Ryan Ball - November 13, 2007

DreamWorks Animation can expect to see a lot of green as the summer blockbuster Shrek the Third arrives on DVD and HD DVD today...

Home Entertainment

South Park, SpongeBob Specials on Disc

Ryan Ball - November 13, 2007

All of the holiday episodes of Comedy Central's South Park have been packaged together in one DVD that hits retail today, along with a...

Home Entertainment

Flux Celebrates 10th with DVD Debuts

Ryan Ball - November 13, 2007

Having enjoyed global exposure with animation for the hit environmental documentary An Inconvenient Truth, Auckland-based Flux Animation is celebrating its tenth anniversary with three...

Features

Bee Movie Stings Claus

Ryan Ball - November 12, 2007

In a game of box-office leapfrog, DreamWorks Animation's Bee Movie overtook Universal's American Gangster and outperformed newcomer Fred Claus from Warner Bros. to win...

Video Games

Fosters’ Home DS Game Ships

Ryan Ball - November 12, 2007

Craig McCracken's Emmy Award-winning animated series Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends makes its Nintendo DS debut with today's release of Midway Games' Foster's...

Commercials

Aardman Creates ‘Discomforts’ for Charity

Ryan Ball - November 12, 2007

Playing on its hit British television series Creature Comforts, Aardman Animations is hoping to challenge and change attitudes about disabled persons with 'Creature Discomforts,'...

Television

Bardel Begins Production on Zeke’s Pad

Ryan Ball - November 12, 2007

Bardel Ent. in Vancouver, British Columbia announced that it has gone into production on 26 half-hour episodes of a new 3D-animated series titled Zeke's...

Features

Why Beowulf is Good for Animation

Ryan Ball - November 9, 2007

Robert Zemeckis' performance-capture adaptation of the epic poem Beowulf has had a handful of press screenings and is generally being embraced by attendees, myself...

Features

Imagi Greenlights Fluorescent Black

Ryan Ball - November 9, 2007

Hong Kong- and Los Angeles-based Imagi Animation Studios has picked up rights to a sci-fi screenplay titled Fluorescent Black from Matt Wilson. According to...

Festivals & Events

ASIFA-Hollywood Exhibits Grim Natwick

Ryan Ball - November 9, 2007

The ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive is presenting an exhibit of material from the collection of legendary animator Grim Natwick starting today, Nov. 9. Natwick's illustrious...

Video Games

Warner Bros. Picks Up Traveler’s Tales

Ryan Ball - November 9, 2007

Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Group has entered into an agreement to acquire TT Games, which encompasses Traveller's Tales, developer of the smash hit video-game...

Home Entertainment

NBC, Xinhua Animate Ring Force

Ryan Ball - November 9, 2007

As the 2008 Olympic Games gears up in Beijing, NBC Universal has teamed with Chinese media conglomerate Xinhua Finance Media to create an animated...

Television

Starz Expands Anime Programming

Ryan Ball - November 9, 2007

In addition to this week's launch of the Tuesday night Animidnight block on Starz Edge, the Starz premium cable network is raising its animation...

Features

Simpsons Good for News Corp.

Ryan Ball - November 8, 2007

The box office success of 20th Centruy Fox's The Simpsons Movie contributed largely to a 23% spike in media conglomerate News Corp.'s first quarter...

Licensing

Chorion Acquires Copyrights Group

Ryan Ball - November 8, 2007

Leading U.K. literary-based brand owner and manager Chorion Ltd. today announced the acquisition of independent licensing company The Copyrights Group Ltd. Neither side has...

Television