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Bruckheimer and Yeatman Talk Guinea Pig VFX
Uber-producer Jerry Bruckheimer and Oscar-winning vfx supervisor-turned-director Hoyt Yeatman (The Abyss) led an informative behind-the-scenes press session about the making of Disney’s upcoming guinea-pigs-as-secret-agents movie G-Force on Wednesday. Held at Sony’s Imageworks facility in Culver City, where the bulk of the film’s vfx work is done, the panel also included [...]
Winx Creator Offers Darker Teen Property
Italian creator of the popular animated Winx series and Rainbow CEO Iginio Straffi has created a new girl-skewing franchise called Maya Fox, featuring a 17-year-old girl character who speaks with the dead. Co-created by Silvia Brena, former director of Cosmopolitan, Italy, Maya Fox began its life as a full-length novel [...]
Bakugan Back in Business on Cartoon Network
Dan, Marucho, Drago and the rest of the gang from Bakugan have kicked off their new season of adventures on Cartoon Network Saturdays at 9 a.m. in grand style. The second season, which contains 26 half-hour episodes is titled Bakugan Battle Brawlers: New Vestoria and follows the team as they [...]
Galactik Football to Score on GMTV
Alphanim’s popular animated series Galactik Football will begin airing on U.K.’s free-to-air GMTV block on CITV Channel and ITV4 simultanously. The half-hour toon, which originally premiered on Jetix in the U.K. in 2006, follows the story of a futuristic soccer team (The Snow Kids) as they try to win the [...]
Fishtronaut Makes Huge Splash in Latin America
The Brazilian animated series Fishtronaut was the most-watched kids TV show (age group four to 11) in its broadcasting time (7:30 p.m.-8 p.m.) during its first week of broadcast on Discovery Kids Channel Latin America. Created by TV PinGuim’s talented founders, Kiko Mistrorigo and Celia Catunda, the charming 52 X [...]
Classic CrawlersJohn Lasseter Discusses the New Bug’s Life Blu-ray
Fans of Pixar’s 1998 holiday movie A Bug’s Life had reason to rejoice this week as Disney released a new Blu-ray High-Def edition of the movie on Tuesday. Directed by John Lasseter and Andrew Stanton, Pixar’s second feature was a follow-up to the hugely popular Toy Story and was often [...]
Kevin Eastman, Co-Creator, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
It’s hard to believe that it’s been 25 years since Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird introduced the world to the timeless sewer-dwelling, pizza-munching quartet of crime-fighters known as the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles in the pages of their Mirage Studio comic books. We were lucky enough to chat with the [...]
Daytime Emmy Noms Announced
The National Academy of TV Arts and Sciences has released the list of nominees for the 36th Annual Daytime Awards. Judging for the category of Individual Achievement in Animation will be conducted in late June. Hosted by Vanessa Williams, the Daytime Emmys will be telecast August 30th on the CW [...]
New One Piece Episodes to Stream Online
Fans of One Piece will be able to watch new English-subtitled episodes of the popular pirate manga series online within an hour of the weekly broadcast in Japan. FUNimation, Toei Animation, Shueish and Fuji TV announced that the free streaming of the new segs will begin on May 30 with [...]
Studio 37 Forges Animated Alliances
The two-year-old French telecom Orange film subsidiary Studio 37 is making a lot of news at the Cannes Film Festival and market this week. The Paris-based company announced several animation partnership in addition to its rich live-action slate at the film market. ‘We’re really focusing on diversity,’ Studio 37 president [...]
Jon Vitti to Pen ‘Angry...
Emmy-winning writer Jon Vitti, who has worked on hit toons The Simpsons and...
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+ Canadian indie Guru Studio and publishing partner Immedium have released a...
