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Japan’s Toon Business in Slump Says Report
A new doom-and-gloom report from The Media Development Research shows that the animation business in Japan only made $2.24 billion in 2008′that’s a $300 million drop from a record $2.54 billion in 2006. The number reflects both domestic and foreign movies, TV shows and DVDs. Variety‘s Tokyo-based reporter Mark Schilling [...]
Avatar Imax Tickets On Sale
The official release date for James Cameron’s highly hyped Avatar is more than three months away, but the tickets for the movie’s midnight screening on Dec. 18 at roughly 75 AMC theaters (50 of which will show the film in IMAX) are already available for die-hard fans. Last Friday, AMC [...]
Corus TV and LEGO Launch New BIONICLE Games
Beginning this Monday (Aug. 31), Corus TV and LEGO Canada are launching a new BIONICLE videogame campaign on YTV.com. Under the Glatorian Legends banner, this six-weeks-long program will allow kids to play two new video games’Prepare for Battle and Arena Magna. Prepare for Battle uses new augmented-reality technology, which allows [...]
Family Guy’s New Star Wars Spoof Out on DVD in Dec.
Fox Home Ent. has announced plans to release the upcoming Family Guy Star Wars spoof on Blu-ray and DVD on December 22. Seth MacFarlane’s popular series, which holds the record for the best-selling TV on DVD franchise of all time, will probably break a new record with the second installment [...]
TV-Loonland to Distribute WordWorld
Munich and London-based media company TV-Loonland will begin distributing the acclaimed preschool series WordWorld at this year’s MIPCOM market in France in October. The show will be available as a 74 x 11 series, 8 music clips and 52 Build-a-Word Songs. TV-Loonland, which also distributes animated shows such as Raymond, [...]
Weird Al’s Ringtones Toon Debuts
The talented animation crew at SuperNews! recently teamed up with master of song parodies, Weird Al Yankovic, to create the animation for his clever new video Ringtone. Yankovic premiered his music video last Friday during the SuperNews! Weird Al Yankovic Collabo-Jam Super Special on Current TV. A fan of SuperNews!, [...]
11 Million Make Appointment with Glenn Martin DDS
Although many critics found Glenn Martin, DDS as much fun as being under a dentist’s drill, Nick at Nite is reporting that the new stop-motion series reached 11 million viewers and averaged 2.6 million viewers per telecast in its premiere week (August 17-20). The first TV show from Michael Eisner’s [...]
Sony’s PSP Handheld Device to Read Comic Books
Sony will unveil a cheaper, more compact version of its PlayStation 3 console in September and offer a digital device for reading comic-books in December of this year. The new slimmed-down version of the PS3 will have 120 gigabytes of storage, is priced at $299 (that’s $100 less than its [...]
Flickerlab Animates Learn to Read DVDs
New York animation and design house Flickerlab has animated 13 hours of programming for Hooked on Phonics’ Learn to Read DVD series. These nine DVD’s combine character animation, motion graphics and some live-action footage, forming a critical part of a series of entertaining and educational reading programs for children ages [...]
Batman: The Brave and The Bold Leads New DVD Choices
One of Cartoon Network’s hot 2008 titles Batman: The Brave and the Bold makes its DVD debut today. However buyers should be warned that this Vol. 1 release only has four episodes of the first season of the show. Based on a decades-old DC Comics concept, each episode teams Batman [...]
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...
