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BloodRayne In Two-Pack Deal
Fans of Uwe Boll’s BloodRayne won’t need to go to two different aisles when the DVD and video game are released later this year. According to a Hollywood Reporter news item, the May 23rd release from Visual Entertainment and Majesco Entertainment respectively will have both the film and game in [...]
Icon’s Vitaminix Gobbled By MIP B’Casters
Barcelona-based Icon Animation has announced the signing of a raft of programming deals at MIPTV 2006 for its Vitaminix series. Panama free TV channel TV7 (Corp. Medcom), UEA cabsat channel E-Junior, TV Andorra and Digiturk in Turkey are the latest broadcasters to sign up for the animated healthy eating show [...]
Foothill Unveils MIP Pilots
Forget March Madness. How about MIP Madness? It continues apace today as, among other things, Santa Barbara-based Foothill Entertainment, Inc. unveils the two completed pilots it’s bringing to MIP-TV 2006 along with an expanded slate of family entertainment offerings. The company will be looking to close deals with its co-production [...]
Internet Film Sites Up And Running: Now What?
If ever there was a product designed by a committee it’s the major Hollywood studios on-line movie download effort launched Monday. Users can download films to their PC and then watch it ‘ on their PC. They can burn a DVD of the download and watch that ‘ on their [...]
National Geo Launches Toot Straight-To-DVD Release
National Geographic Television and Film’s children’s programming and production unit has started production of Toot & Puddle: I’ll Be Home for Christmas as both a straight-to-DVD and as a one-hour format available to broadcasters worldwide. Based on Holly Hobbie’s Toot & Puddle franchise and animated by Grand Slamm Children’s Films, [...]
Kong King DVD Towers over Competition
It may say something about the nature of the blockbuster mentality of the entertainment business that a film that has grossed $500 million worldwide has garnered so little attention. But the latest remake of King Kong has done that. And now it’s dominating the DVD market as well. King Kong [...]
Nick’s 2006 Kid’s Choice No April Fool
In an era of just way, way, way too many award shows, Nickelodeon’s Kid’s Choice show continues to amaze in scope and the sheer number of A-listers that show up, willing to be doused with goo. On Saturday, take a deep breath: Will Smith, Lindsay Lohan, Chris Rock, Kelly Clarkson, [...]
Ice Freezes Critics, Warms Fox Hearts
With reviews only slightly better than the savaging heaped on Sharon Stone’s return to the screen as a been-around-the-block femme fatale, Fox’s Ice Age 2: The Meltdown took even Fox exec’s by surprise, grossing $68 million this past weekend. The CG-animated sequel left all other freshmen in its frosty wake. [...]
Simpson Movie Set for July 2007
Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa and Maggie are now officially ready for their big-screen close-ups! After years of promising, Fox, Matt Groening and James L. Brookes have finalized plans for the big Simpsons feature movie. So what is the evidence that the big moment is finally here? A Simpsons teaser trailer [...]
Comedy Central Pulls South Park Seg
If you thought that free speech was alive and well in America, think again. It’s not just the FCC that’s trying to have its unelected five-person committee decide for 295 million Americans what constitutes good taste. Now comes word that Tom Cruise and his ever-present legal team have apparently managed [...]
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