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Kung Fu Panda Kicks Way into Theaters Today
After many months of anticipation and online fan pro and con debates, DreamWorks Animation’s visually arresting Kung Fu Panda delivers the goods in theaters across the country today. Released by Paramount in 4,114 houses, the movie is tracking to bring in over $50 million, as it’s the expected entertainment of [...]
Vanguard and Platinum Get Graphic
Vanguard Animation has joined forces with Platinum Studios to form Vanguard Comics, a new imprint designed to develop properties that can be introduced both as graphic novels/comic books and feature projects. The venture is headed by Platinum CEO Scott Mitchell Rosenberg and Vanguard Animation chair and founder John H. Williams [...]
TV-Loonland’s Owl Wise About Toy Deals
Kids in the U.K. will be able to get their hands on a new plush toy based on TV-Loonland’s pink animated character, The Owl. Toy outfit Vivid Imagination has signed a deal to produced a range of plush toys based on the hit CG-animated (52 x 1) series. In addition, [...]
Indie Animator PES
This month, Paramount Home Entertainment released the third edition of Mike Judge and Don Hertzfeldt’s anthology series The Animation Show on DVD which features shorts such as Run Wrake’s Rabbit, Bill Plympton’s Guide Dog, Joanna Quinn’s Dreams and Desires and Hertzfeldt’s Everything Will Be OK. One of the highlights of [...]
Sex’s Cattrall Hot for Producing Parker
Forget about her role as Samantha in Sex and the City. Actress Kim Cattrall’s next big role will be on Breakthrough Animation’s hot new show Producing Partner. Slated for a spring 2009 debut on E! network in Canada, the adult animated series offers a satiric behind-the-scenes look at the workings [...]
It’s a Strawberry Shortcake World After All
DIC Entertainment has closed a slate of broadcast deals for many of its hit animated shows in Europe, Middle East and Africa. High on the list of money generators are the company’s evergreen girls’ brand Strawberry Shortcake, which has made over $2.5 billion dollars in retail sales since it was [...]
Flapjack Sets Sail on Cartoon Network Tonight
If you’re in the mood for a beautifully designed and animated new show that doesn’t insult the intelligence and makes you smile, you’ll have to check out the new Cartoon Network series The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack which debuts tonight (June 5) at 8:30 p.m. Created by Thurop Van Orman, [...]
WALL’E Clips Debut on AniMagTV
As Disney and Pixar gear up to release their eagerly awaited new animated feature film, we’re bringing you some behind-the-scenes featurettes, as well as the high-resolution trailer for WALL’E on AniMagTV. Tune in now to see director Andrew Stanton and other members of the Pixar crew discussing the making of [...]
TeamTO Spreads Wings with Hareport
Paris-based animation studio TeamTO has joined forces with Folimage, La Poudriere and L’Equipe to launch a new production entity called La Cartoucherie, based in Bourg-Les-Valence, in the Drome region of France’s Rhone-Alpes region. This new animation studio will begin working on TeamTO’s promising new CG-animated series International Hareport in September [...]
Kahani World Makes A Splash in Cannes
Indian production entities are creating a huge presence at this week’s international film market in Cannes. According to recent figures released by the country’s National Assoc. of Software and Service Companies (NASSCOM), more than 50 animated features are currently in development for India’s domestic theatrical market. “Certainly 12 to 15 [...]
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...
