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Joe Cartoon Puts New Site, DVDs and Deals in Its Blender
Spring is bursting all over for the talented folks at Los Angeles-based Joe Cartoon studios. The popular Internet home of shorts such as Gerbil in a Microwave and Lump: The No-Legged Dog got a killer facelift on Tuesday (same address, new content, faster downloads at www.joecartoon.com). The company is also [...]
Zoo Films and Atomic Cartoons Hit the Bollywood Road
A dysfunctional singing-and-dancing Anglo-Indian family is the focus of Bollywood Road, a new animated series to be co-produced by London’s Zoo Films and Toronto-based Atomic Cartoons. Created by Alastair Swinnerton (The Tale of Jack Frost, The Baskervilles), the new toon follows the adventures of the Mumbi family in a fictitious [...]
Bix Pix’s Miss Twigley’s Tree Branches Out in Cannes
Miss Twigley is ready to take her show on the road. Bix Pix’s beautifully clay-animated adaptation of Dorothea Warren Fox’s classic book, Miss Twigley’s Tree, will be available at the MIPTV market in France next week through Brenda Wooding Media (BW)M). The L.A.-based distributor will handle all domestic and global [...]
Monster Brings Eclectic Selection to MIPTV
There’s a lot of buzz surrounding the shows Andrew Fitzpatrick and his Dublin-based Monster Distributes shingle are taking to the MIPTV market this year. ‘We have a lot of unusual animation,’ he notes. ‘We have three Oscar-nominated shorts (Give Up Yer Aul Sins, Harvey Krumpet, and The Mysterious Geographic Explorations [...]
EM.Entertainment Gets Immersive with Croco Loco
One of the big trends at this year’s MIPTV market in France is the high visibility of shows that mix live-action with CG-animated sequences. German company EM Entertainment GmbH will be exploring the possibilities of the genre as it takes its latest edu-tainment series Croco Loco to the market in [...]
NVIDIA Fixes Up a New Gelato Flavor
Artists looking for ways to create high-quality images in a shorter period of time have a new rendering softwar to turn to. Santa Clara, Calif.-based NVIDA has announced the release of its new Gelato 2.0 which features Sorbetto Lighting Technology. Gelato also comes with the Mango’ plug-in for Maya and [...]
DIC Re-Acquires 20 of Its Animated Shows from Disney
It seems like not a day goes by without some kinds of new development coming out of DIC Entertainment. Yesterday the company’s chairman and CEO Andy Heyward announced that the L.A. toon house has re-acquired 20 of its series from the Walt Disney Company and Jetix Europe for TV, home [...]
The Zula Patrol Rockets Away to MarVista
The scientifically minded aliens of The Zula Patrol have a new home today. MarVista Entertainment has acquired the international distribution rights to the CG-animated children’s show that airs on U.S. public TV stations. The 26 X 30 package will make its international debut at next month’s MIPTV market in France, [...]
Cuppa Coffee Brews Big for MIP
Toronto-based toon shop Cuppa Coffee will be brewed to the max and totally caffeinated at this year’s MIPTV market in France. According to company president Adam Shaheen the shop has more titles targeting older audiences this year. ‘I set out five years ago to build an original library of high-quality [...]
IDT Renames Yankee Irving, Pushes Back Release Date
IDT’s CG-animated feature about a young boy’s heroic cross-country quest has a new name and a new release date. The feature, which was originally directed by the late Christopher Reeve and titled Yankee Irving, is now called Everyone’s Hero and scheduled to premiere on September 15, instead of August 25. [...]
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Universal has released the first clip from Illumination’s eagerly anticipated...
