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Mickey Mouse is ready for his major comeback. On Friday, June 28 at 8:30 p.m.,...
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Good News/Bad News/Expensive News for HD Disc Fans
While format wars of the past have been good in the long run for innovation, they’ve been hell on consumer wallets. The latest example? Because of format wars in the bright new world of high definition DVDs, manufacturers have announced plans to make players capable of playing multiple formats’Blu-ray and [...]
TV2 Adds Lola & Virginia to Roster at MIP
On the heels of a number of similar recent deals, Spanish indie Icon Animation has sold its popular girl-skewed show Lola & Virginia to TV2 Norway at this year’s MIPTV in Cannes. ‘We are very happy to work with TV2 to bring (the show) to a new audience in Norway,’ [...]
Animal Logic Takes On Joy
Booming Aussie vfx and CG animation house Animal Logic has announced that Karin Joy has joined the company as head of film visual effects production. She will be responsible for overseeing the production of feature film f/x projects. Joy started her career at Boss Film Studios as a coordinator on [...]
Nick Gets Creepie
Taffy Entertainment and Nickelodeon International have reached a comprehensive agreement that will see the Emmy-nominated Growing Up Creepie on Nickelodeon schedules in early 2008 in Asia-Pacific, Europe and Latin America. In a first-ever multi-business unit deal, the agreement also names Nickelodeon as Taffy’s licensing and merchandising agent in specified territories [...]
Hunger Bombs, Robinsons Strong
The Gen-Y quasi re-make of the Alfred Hitchcock classic Rear Window took first place in this weekend’s box office derby. But it was the holdovers that made the bigger headlines.While the Shia LaBeouf vehicle Disturbia was taking in $23 million in North America, the Will Farrell comedy Blades of Glory [...]
HIT Buys Worldwide Magic. Plans TV, Toy Roll-out
For most parents of a three year old, HIT Entertainment basically rocks. HIT allows parents to assuage their guilt at planting their child in front of the TV for a twenty minute respite knowing that HIT properties Kipper, Barney, Thomas, the Wiggles et. al. can entertain/transfix while actually respecting the [...]
TiVo and Amazon Launch Video Download Service
Marketing synergy can only happen if the basic laws of introducing a new consumer product are followed. The new product has to look and feel like something consumers already have and then improve upon it on three fronts’quality, convenience and price. That being said, Amazon’s new partnership with TiVo on [...]
Pokemon in Battle for Wi-Fi Wii
Wii has been one of the biggest surprises in the game industry in recent memory. Last November in the run-up to Christmas 2006, Nintendo sold 476,000 units of the Wii video game console, more than twice the number of PlayStation 3s sold by rival Sony Corp., according to research group [...]
New Home is Where Your PS3 Is
When it finally got its production-delayed PlayStation 3 to market late last year, Sony got pasted in the Christmas sales derby by Nintendo’s Wii and Microsoft’s Xbox. At the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, the company announced new initiatives to bump up sales and try to reverse the flagging [...]
45 Million U.S. Households Got Game
The good folks at Nielsen Media Research, who seem to count everything, are saying that over 45 million US households now have a video game system of some kind. That represents an 18 percent increase from the year before. “The video game console has become a major player in the [...]
Adobe’s Creative Cloud...
Adobe announced that a major update to Adobe Creative, the company’s flagship...
‘Kung Fu Panda 3'...
Production on DreamWorks Animation’s late-2015 release Kung Fu Panda 3...
