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Fourth Season of Winx Takes Flight
Italian animation producer Rainbow has sold the fourth season of its hit show Winx Club to almost every one of the 100 countries that aired the previous three series. Cartoon Network (Australia, New Zealand, Asia, Latin America, Spain), Nickelodeon (Holland, Germany, Netherlands, Scandinavia), RAI Italy, France 3, Telecinco Spain, and [...]
Calon Takes Full Raft to MIPCOM
U.K. indie shop Calon will be taking six animated projects to the international content market MIPCOM this October. The company recently regained the rights to its back catalogue from S4C International and will be looking for international commercial sales for its award-winning animation as well as unveiling their latest exciting [...]
District 9 Aliens Invade Box Office
After garnering rave reviews and winning over fanboys at Comic-Con, Sony’s thrilling sci-fi epic District 9 delivered the goods with a $37 million opening weekend in 3,049 theaters nationwide. Directed by newcomer Neil Blomkamp and featuring a cast of unknowns, the movie features a high-energy storyline, clever socio-political subtext and [...]
Singer to Direct Battlestar Galactica Movie
After trying his hand at 20th century history with the ho-hum Valkyrie, director Bryan Singer is returning to his sci-fi roots with an upcoming feature adaptation of the popular TV series Battlestar Galactica. Glen Larson is set to produce the Universal project, which Variety says will be a ‘complete re-imagination’ [...]
Disney Unveils Rapunzel Concept Art
While everyone is anticipating Disney’s return to 2D form this holiday season with The Princess and the Frog, there’s an equal amount of interest in the studio’s upcoming 3-D animated version of Rapunzel, slated for a Dec. 2010 release. Disney recently released some stunning concept art from the movie that [...]
MacFarlane: Yup, Stewie’s Gay
After suspecting it all along, we now have confirmation from Family Guy creator that the show’s breakout character Stewart Gilligan ‘Stewie’ Griffin is gay. MacFarlane, who also voices the diabolical child genius, told Playboy recently that the writers had written a whole script in which Stewie does come out of [...]
Vanguard’s Space Chimps 2 3-D Goes into Production
Los Angeles-based Vanguard Animation is producing a sequel to its 2008 CG-animated feature, Space Chimps. Overseen by animation veteran John Williams (Shrek, Valiant, Happily N’Ever After) the studio is working on the 3-D Space Chimps 2 feature with Fox Home Entertainment, The Animation Picture Company and New Market Capital. Plans [...]
Fabrice O. JoubertDirector, French Roast
Fabrice O. Joubert’s charming CG-animated short French Roast has been receiving numerous festival awards and critical attention over the past few months. In August, the short took home the important Best of Show prize at the annual SIGGRAPH confab in New Orleans and it’s also shortlisted for the Best Animated [...]
Books We Love
God of Comics: Osamu Tezuka and the Creation of Post-World War II Manga By Natsu Onoda Power [Univ. of Mississippi Press, $25] For those of us who love to devour anything written about Astro Boy creator Osamu Tezuka, the months leading up to the new CG-animated Astro Boy feature from [...]
Let the Good Bytes Roll
The eclectic sights and sounds of New Orleans add an extra dimension to this year’s SIGGRAPH confab and CG animation festival. It’s a commonly acknowledged fact that the city of New Orleans knows how to throw a good party. Veteran CG fans and professionals who visited the town during previous [...]
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...
