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CAKE Hatches New ‘Angry Birds’ Series at Annecy
Brand-new character designs have come out of the shell for the much-anticipated new Angry Birds (52 x 11’) animated series. A CAKE production developed...
Cartoon Network Plans Panels, Picnic & Scholarship Announcement for Annecy
After recently announcing a slate of new and returning series, Cartoon Network is preparing for another stellar presence at this year’s Annecy Animation Festival...
Women in Animation Announces Global Fund with Million Dollar Goal
Women in Animation (WIA) announces the launch of The WIA Global Fund, recently established to broaden the organization’s international reach by developing and expanding...
Xilam Enters Negotiations to Acquire Cube Creative
Independent animation producer-distributor Xilam Animation has entered exclusive negotiations for the acquisition of 50.1% of the shares and voting rights in Cube Creative, a...
‘Pokémon Sword’ & ‘Shield Release Date, Legendaries and More Revealed
New game features and the launch date for Pokémon Sword and Pokémon Shield -- the newest additions to the main series of the smash...
eOne Powers Up Fourth Season of ‘PJ Masks’
Entertainment One (eOne) is kicking off production on a fourth season of global hit superhero show for preschoolers, PJ Masks, with a new batch...
FunimationNow Debuts ‘Your Name’, ‘Shin Godzilla’ & Two ‘Dragon Ball’ Movies
Summer is starting early for Japanese cinema fans! Starting June 10, paid subscribers can now enjoy Shin Godzilla, Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods,...
Everything You Need to Know About Annecy ’19
Nothing says animation festival season is officially upon us like the arrival of the biggest event of the year, the glorious Annecy International Animated...
Platinum, BRON Team for Bear Grylls Movies; Epic Story Media Is Global Licensing Agent
U.K.-based kids content producer Platinum Films has formed a joint venture (YBG Films) with globally renowned survivalist and adventurer Bear Grylls and is developing...
5th Bridging the Gap Animation Lab Selects 13 Projects
Organizers of the fifth Bridging the Gap Animation Lab have selected 13 animated series and feature film projects from Latin America, Spain and the...
Jared & Jerusha Hess Adapting ‘Thelma the Unicorn’ into Netflix Musical
Husband-and-wife filmmaker team Jared Hess and Jerusha Hess are adapting the spunky fantasy novel Thelma the Unicorn by Aaron Blabey into a musical animated...
Nickelodeon Adopts Pinkfong’s ‘Baby Shark’
Nickelodeon and SmartStudy, the global entertainment company behind beloved children’s brand Pinkfong, are teaming up to develop a new original animated series based on...
Dazzling Visions: 8 Directors Discuss the Making of Their Annecy-Selected Shorts
If you needed more proof that brevity is the soul of wit, you need to check out some of the animated shorts selected to...
A Few Minutes with Annecy Festival Director Marcel Jean
Who is better fit to tell us about the global animation scene than Marcel Jean, the brilliant director of the Annecy International Animated Film...
Licensing News Bytes
Catch up with part 1 and part 2; of our Licensing Expo news roundups!
Activision Blizzard Consumer Products Group (Licensing Expo booth #U202) returns to...
Juan Antin Discusses Directing the Acclaimed Pic ‘Pachamama’
Last year, French animation studio Folivari produced a beautiful CG/2D animated feature about a young boy living in a remote village in the Andes...
‘SpongeBob’ Spin-Off ‘Kamp Koral’ Greenlit for 13 Episodes
The underwater world of Bikini Bottom will get a new wave of animated adventures, with the news that Nickelodeon has greenlit Kamp Koral (working...
‘Pocoyo’ Makes New Broadcast Friends Ahead of Licensing Expo
Independent content creation and distribution company Epic Story Media Inc. and Brands & Rights 360 are ramping up activity on Zinkia Entertainment’s animated preschool...
‘Game of Thrones’: Looking Back at the Final Battle
Now that the final episode of Game of Thrones has aired on HBO, and fans have stopped analyzing every detail of the series’ concluding...
Courtney Arumugam Named VP Creative Development for Gaumont Animation & Family
Gaumont has appointed Courtney Arumugam to the post of Vice President, Creative Development, Animation & Family, based in London. The appointment is part of...
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