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ASIFA Now Accepting Winsor McCay Award Recommendations
ASIFA-Hollywood is now accepting recommendations for the 2009 Winsor McCay Award recipient. This honor may be awarded to a maximum of three individuals in recognition of lifetime or career contributions to the art of animation in producing, directing, animating, design, writing, voice acting, sound and sound effects, technical work, music, [...]
Amberwood’s Rollbots Glides Over to CW4Kids
Amberwood Entertainment’s RollBots will be making its U.S. debut this fall on the new CW4Kids Saturday morning lineup. The CG-animated series, which has been airing in Canada on YTV since February 2009, was recently nominated for three Gemini Awards for Best Animated Program or Series, Best Direction in an Animated [...]
Osmond and Kristofferson Help Handy Manny
Disney Channel’s popular CG-animated preschool show continues to attract top-notch guest stars to do voice duties. Kris Kristofferson, Donny Osmond and L.A. band Los Lobos are joining series regular Wilmer Valderrama (Manny) for a new fall special titled Handy Manny Motorcycle Adventure, which airs Sunday, Oct. 4 at 7 p.m. [...]
NASSCOM Releases 2009 Figures for Indian Animation Industry
India’s National Association of Software and Services Companies (NASSCOM) has released its animation and gaming report for 2008-2009. The report provides a detailed insight on the growth drivers, business models, issues and challenges for the country’s industry in the next few years. It also provides recommendations to the government, charts [...]
Tokyo Onlypic Is Critics’ Pick at Korea’s CinDi
Japanese director’s Mashima Riichiro’s 2008 movie Tokyo Onlypic has received the Green Chameleon Award from a jury of international critics at the third edition of Korea’s Cinema Digital Seoul (CinDi). This anthology-style movie centers on a fictitious and hilarious alternative sporting event using a clever mix of animation, CG and [...]
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, [...]
BinWeevils Appoints Henwood...
U.K.-based digital social world BinWeevils, for kids 6-12, has appointed media...
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Epic, the new animated adventure from director Chris Wedge and his gifted team...
