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‘Run Amok’ Makes Off with GRAPHIC Prize
Newly formed Australian artist team ZZZ Collective has blitzed the 2011 GRAPHIC Animation Competition with Run Amok. The toon came out on top after three rounds of voting, with new elements being introduced at each round for incorporation into the story. The international animation contest was organized by the Sydney [...]
GKIDS Scores Ghibli Distribution Deal
Distributor of award-winning animated films GKIDS has forged an agreement with Japan’s legendary Studio Ghibli to handle U.S. and Canadian theatrical and non-theatrical distribution for Ghibli’s animated feature film library. The deal includes all 13 titles produced between 1984 and 2002, including the Oscar-winning Spirited Away, which will be distributed [...]
Moonscoop’s ‘SamSam’ Soars in Europe, Australia
Global brand management and entertainment company Moonscoop has signed new deals for their CG-animated preschool series SamSam. Seasons one and two ( 52 x 7 and 39 x 8 ) have been snapped up for Australia’s ABC and Turner Broadcasting in Spain (for its Boomerang and Boing channels), while the [...]
VES Preps for Production Summit
The Visual Effects Society (VES) has announced it will hold its third annual Production Summit for the entertainment industry on October 1 at the Montage Hotel in Beverly Hills. The summit, dubbed Trending the Global Marketplace: You Are Here, will gather leading executives, creatives, technologists and visionaries to discuss the [...]
‘Doong Doong’ Nabs CICDAF Prize
Paris-based international distributor awol animation and Korean producer Sunnyside Imaginary Space are celebrating a Grand Prize win for Doong Doong, which has won top honors at the China International Animation and Digital Art Fair (CICDAF 2011) held in Changzhou recently. Show creator Egirl Kim accepted the award on behalf of [...]
Fox Strives for Flippin’ Good TV
Fox TV’s new animation lineup sees the awkward teens of Napoleon Dynamite get a toon makeover, and Jonah Hill as a sophisticated schoolboy in Allen Gregory. In the next few months, Fox TV audiences will be treated to two new kids on the channel’s animation block: Napoleon Dynamite and Allen [...]
Disney Jr., Guru Nab New Territories for ‘Justin Time’
Guru Studio and Disney have announced a new deal for Guru’s 26 x 11 preschool series Justin Time, which will see the show licensed to Disney Junior channels in Australia, New Zealand, Germany and Italy. Justin Time launched on the new Australia and New Zealand channels this June, with Italy [...]
Target Sets Sights on Monster’s ‘Punky’
Leading rights management company Target Entertainment has nabbed global distribution rights to Monster Animation’s groundbreaking 2D preschool toon Punky, with plans to launch the property at MIPCOM Junior this October. Created by Lindsay J. Sedgwick and produced by Monster’s Gerard O’Rourke, the 20 x 7 series is the first cartoon [...]
Toon Spooktacular at Disney Family Museum
Need to brush up on your skeleton dance? Then mark your calendars for HallowScreen!—a family friendly celebration of the spooky and silly animated shorts of Disney hosted by the Walt Disney Family Museum in San Francisco. An hour-long presentation running in the Museum’s Fantasia-inspired theater October 29-31 will feature nine [...]
‘One Piece’ Pops Up on the Champs-Elysées
Anime fans in France will be cracking open their wallets as Toei Animation sets up shop with the One Piece pop-up store at the Champs-Elysées Virgin Megastore in Paris, open thru September 20. Fans of the popular animation series—adapted from Eiichiro Oda’s manga by Toei Animation—can enjoy an immersive experience [...]
Academy Makes Animation...
The Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has...
Shout! Unleashes...
The Eisner Award-winning comic-book series by Joe Quesada, Paul Jenkins, Bill...
