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On Your DVD Wish List Today:Chronicles of Narnia, Tripping the Rift
C. S. Lewis’ magnificent lion Aslan is finally ready to roar on DVD today. Directed by Shrek helmer Andrew Adamson, Disney/Walden Media’s The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and The Wardrobe is out in stores in both widescreen and full-screen formats. This popular fantasy centers on four English [...]
Laika Snaps Up Snow’s Monsters
Portland-based Laika Entertainment is developing an animated feature based on author/illustrator Alan Snow’s best-selling children’s book series, Here be Monsters. The book, which is currently a best-seller in the U.K. will be published Stateside this July by Simon and Schuster rights. The first volume in a trilogy called The Ratbridge [...]
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, [...]
A Real-Life Replica of...
Cowabunga, dude! A real-life replica of Simpsons’ hometown of Springfield is...
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Epic, the new animated adventure from director Chris Wedge and his gifted team...
