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Kyle Baker Talks About Showtime’s Dexter Toon
Considering that the fourth season premiere of Dexter, Showtime’s popular drama about everyone’s favorite serial killer, generated 1.5 million viewers, it’s not surprising that the cabler has launched a web prequel of sorts to provide fans with more backstory. What’s interesting about this online series, which premiered last Sunday on [...]
Demme to Direct Animated Katrina Pic
Jonathan Demme (Silence of the Lambs, Rachel Getting Married) will be venturing into the world of animation with an upcoming adaptation of Dave Eggers’ Zeitoun. The Oscar-winning director announced this week that he plans to direct an animated film based on the non-fiction book which chronicles the real-life tale of [...]
Win Free Coraline Halloween Screening Tickets!
If you and your family are looking for the perfect way to celebrate Halloween this Saturday (and you live in the Los Angeles area), we have the perfect treat for you. The good people at LAIKA and Focus Features have given us 50 free tickets for a special 3-D screening [...]
OddBot Serves Sweet Candy
Just in time for Halloween, L.A.-based animation house OddBot Studio is serving up a cool new short about a lovesick Corn Kernel which comes up with a clever way to win the affections of an out-of-his-league Candy Corn! A Candy Affair is the directorial debut of one of Oddbot’s talented [...]
Mary and Max Wins Top Movie Prize at Ottawa
Adam Elliot’s emotionally charged stop-motion movie Mary and Max won the Ottawa International Animation Festival’s Grand Prize for Best Animated Feature this weekend. Elliot’s feature also received the top prize at Annecy earlier this year and was picked as Sundance Film Festival’s opening feature in January. The movie recently completed [...]
Comet and Toonzip Hire Alien Babysitters
Korean studio Toonzip has teamed up with Toronto-based Comet Entertainment to produce a new animated series titled Dodopam: Alien Babysitters. The 52 X 13 animated series follows the adventures of five aliens who find themselves in modern-day Manhattan and have to take care of human babies until they can return [...]
Groening Is Toast of the Town in Cannes
Forget about all the content sale hustle and global TV business deals. Matt Groening’s appearance at the 2009 MIPCOM market in Cannes was the biggest news in town this past week. Sure, Jerry Seinfeld, Lisa Kudrow and Joan Rivers were also here promoting their latest reality/game shows, but it was [...]
Angelo Rules Is Most-Screened Show at MIPJunior
Cake Entertainment and TeamTO’s unique-looking new animated show Angelo Rules (formerly titled How To Drive Everybody Crazy) was the buyers’ most-watched program at this past weekend’s MIPJunior event in Cannes. Based on the French books Comment Fair Enrager by Sylvie de Mathuisieulx and Sebastien Diologent, the series is slated for [...]
MIPCOM Day One: Sweet Deals and Discoveries
We got the usual flurry of news about series pickups, acquisitions and exec shuffles on the first day of the 25th edition of the MIPCOM market, which is taking place this week at the Palais de Festival in Cannes (Oct. 5-8). The official word from organizers is that over 12,000 [...]
MIPJunior Wrap: A Weekend Postcard from Cannes
It could have been the perfect sunny weather or various reports that the global economic woes would be slowly lifting by the time the new year rolls around. Whatever the reason, the kids programming and animation professionals attending MIP Junior at Cannes’ glam Carlton hotel this weekend (Oct. 3-4) seemed [...]
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...
