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Earl Meets the Chipmunks
NBC’s My Name is Earl star Jason Lee is set to star as David Seville in the CG/live-action hybrid film Alvin and the Chipmunks for Fox 2000 and Fox Animation. The script is written by Jon Vitti. Tim Hill will direct. The film is based on the 1950s cartoon series [...]
Captain America 1941-2007
Birthed onto comic book pages and into the imaginations of 10 year-old boys worldwide when America was getting ready to push Adolf Hitler onto the dust heap of history, Captain America has finally been laid to rest. Daily Variety reports that Captain America has undertaken his last mission. In the [...]
The Heat Is On: NVIDIA Unveils Next Generation Game Development Platform
Unlike most trade shows, the Game Developers Conference often delivers actual news daily. Topping today’s activity from this year’s iteration currently underway in San Francisco: Graphics kingpin NVIDIA will soon ship what the company is calling its most advanced game development package to date. With electronic game industry revenues outstripping [...]
Xbox to Rock With Mucho Memory
As much a Scotty always needed more dilithium crystals, gamers can always use more memory. To that end, Microsoft has announced plans to sell a 512MB memory unit for the wildly popular Xbox 360 video game and entertainment system. This will be coupled with an increase in the official size [...]
Fox Family Voicetones A Big Hit
While it’s still not as a big a part of the cell phone business as once hoped for, revenue from the sale of ringtones and voicetones has been a nice boost to a number of content providers. Case in point: Fox Mobile Entertainment, who has a mobile device hit with [...]
Gotham Gets New Anime Channel 24/7
Anime fans in New York City have a whole new reason to call in sick or develop a job they can do at home. Texas-based FUNimation Entertainment has announced that the FUNimation Channel is now available on WRNN-TV, delivering 24-hour digital programming of anime to New York City area viewers [...]
Roy Disney Feted at Cartoons on the Bay
It’s been a mixed few years for Roy Disney, nephew of the legendary Walt Disney. He was unceremoniously kicked off the Disney board, later to see his nemesis Michael Eisner publicly rebuked by shareholders and pressured to finally retire. But things are certainly going his way now that Eisner is [...]
CG Snails and Rat Slither to SIGGRAPH
Animated shorts about a New York city rat and two lovelorn mechanical snails have received the top honors for SIGGRAPH 2006. The Computer Animation Festival’s content as well as Best of Show Award and Jury Honors were revealed yesterday.The animation jury selected 97 films and two award winners from 726 [...]
Ubisoft/Viz Media To Box Naruto
One of the world’s largest video game publishers, Ubisoft, has signed a licensing agreement with VIZ Media, LLC, to develop video games based on VIZ’s popular Shonen Jump’s Naruto animation series for Xbox 360. The game is scheduled to hit stores in North America, South America, Central America and Mexico [...]
New Casper Film Scares Up A-List Voice Cast
These days it seems, all people want to really do in Hollywood isn’t direct, it’s to voice a character in an animated feature. The latest case in point: Casper producer Classic Media has just added Bob Saget, Jim Belushi, Phyllis Diller and Dan Castellaneta (the voice of Homer Simpson) to [...]
Wiig and Cooper Guest Voice...
The parade of stars stopping by The Simpsons office to do guest voice stints on...
Boinx Unveils New Features of...
German software producer Boinx has unveiled some special upgrades the 3.1...
