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Hub Gives ‘Pony’ Fans Pick for Mare-A-Thon
Discovery/Hasbro’s network The Hub is offering fans of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic a very special Valentine this year as they open up online voting for favorite episodes to be run during the My Little Pony Fan Favorites Mare-A-Thon on Valentine’s Day weekend. The five-hour programming marathon—which will debut [...]
TV5MONDE, Dish to Launch French Channel in U.S.
Global digital French-language network TV5MONDE has reached an agreement with Dish Network LLC to launch the first ever French-language channel devoted to children’s programming in the U.S. The channel, called Tivi5MONDE, launched yesterday across the country and will be offered to Dish subscribers as part of its French package, includes [...]
Random House, Sesame Workshop Partner for Digital Pubs
Random House Children’s Books and Sesame Workshop have announced the launch of a new digital publishing initiative focused on early learning and reading readiness. Select titles from Random’s Sesame Street library will be converted to ebooks, beginning January 25 with the launch of Elmo Says Achoo! and Elmo’s Breakfast Bingo. [...]
ShadowMachine Reveals ‘Hell & Back’ Cast Adds
The new stop-motion animated feature being produced by ShadowMachine (Robot Chicken, Mora Orel, Mary Shelley’s Frankenhole) has received some exciting additions to the cast. Joining previously announced stars T.J. Miller and Nick Swardson will be Rob Riggle, Brian Posehn and Kumail Nanjiani. The film, written and directed by Tom Gianas [...]
Leprosy Charities Cause ‘Pirates’ Changes
Aardman Animations, the Bristol, U.K.-based animation powerhouse behind last year’s Arthur Christmas, have announced changes to their upcoming stop-motion 3-D feature The Pirates! Band of Misfits after the film’s trailer raised objections from leprosy charities, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The film, based on the books by Gideon Defoe, is [...]
Oswalt to Host VES Awards
The Visual Effects Society (VES) has announced comedian/actor Patton Oswalt (Young Adult, Ratatouille) as the host for the org’s tenth annual VES Awards ceremony, to be held at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on Tuesday, February 7. This year’s duties will mark the popular funnyman’s third appearance at the event, which [...]
Cartoon Movie Picks Announced
The organizers of the Cartoon Movie event, set to be held March 7-9 in Lyon, France this year, have revealed their animated feature selections. The 50 selected titles will screen for producers and distributors from 17 countries during the event—among them the well hyped Zarafa (Remi Bezancon & Jean-Christophe Lie, [...]
Bruno Bozzetto Plans New Feature
Italian animator Bruno Bozzetto, who earned an Oscar nod in 1991 for his short Grasshoppers and is well known for his politically satiric works and hapless Signor Rossi character, has announced plans for his first feature film project in 36 years, according to The Hollywood Reporter. 73-year-old Bozzetto has revealed [...]
Belle of the Stereo Ball
How Disney Feature Animation blended artistry and technology to bring Beauty and the Beast into 3-D. In the midst of the stereoscopic Renaissance, with technology evolving ever more rapidly as audience demand for bigger and better 3-D features grows, it is not surprising that top studios want to give their [...]
New Nick Toon Episodes for MLK Weekend
This Martin Luther King, Jr. Day weekend, kicking off January 13, tune in to Nickelodeon to catch all-new episodes of top-rated series featuring special guest star appearances! Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness, The Penguins of Madagascar and T.U.F.F. Puppy will offer spanking new laughs and thrills over the three-day [...]
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