Singer Says Quicksilver...
Just in time for the Memorial weekend, fanboy favorite Bryan Singer announced...
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Garfield 25th Anniversary Special Coming
Having acquired the international television rights to the Garfield & Friends animated series, Tremendous! Ent. has announced plans to produce and distribute a 25th anniversary TV special. Production on the special is slated to begin in Jan. 2003 for broadcast in June 2003. Classic clips will be combined with behind-the-scenes [...]
American Ent. & Animation Rescinds Acquisition of Cyper Ent.
American Ent. & Animation Corp., a public shell company seeking acquisitions in the animation industry, has rescinded its offer from last October to acquire Korean animation house Cyper Ent. Inc. Cyper, a private company, was in negotiations to go public through American, in order to penetrate the North American market [...]
Happy Hour At Simon Mall
Happy Hour Ent. teamed with advertising agency Publicis Mid-America to produce four 15-second regional spots for Indianapolis-based Simon Mall. The commercials involve a paper gift certificate that folds and transforms itself into a shirt, a purse, a nutcracker and a rocking horse. charged with creating the CG animation and developing [...]
Top Creative Director Volunteers At Ex’pression
Ex’pression Center for New Media, the Emeryville, Calif. digital arts school, announced that award-winning Creative Director Todd Godwin will volunteer as an instructor for the center’s Digital Graphic Design program including the Web Business and Advanced Conceptual Thinking courses. Godwin began his career at the boutique agency Levine, Huntley, Schmidt [...]
State of the Industry: Independent Animation
To follow up June’s well-attended panel discussion, The State of the Industry, ASIFA-Hollywood, The Animation Guild Local 839 and Women In Animation, Inc. will look to the arena of independent production. State of the Industry: Independent Animation will be presented on Thursday, Sept. 19 at the Burbank Realty Association Auditorium. [...]
Scribes Mount Hill For Fox
As Twentieth Century Fox Television’s animated hit King Of The Hill ramps up for its eighth season, showrunner-exec. producer responsibilities will go to series writers Dave Krinsky and John Altschuler, according to Variety. Krinsky and Altschuler have been scripting adventures for Hank, Bobby, Peggy and the rest of the Arlen [...]
Jimmy Neutron Invents Nick’s Highest-Rated Premiere Ever
With its 8:30 p.m. debut on Friday, Sept. 6, Nickelodeon’s Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius rocketed to a first place win with kids in the galaxy of broadcast and basic-cable television. Based on the Oscar-nominated 2001 CG feature of the same name, the series pulled in a 9.3/33 rating and share, [...]
Intel To Accelerate CG production
The Hollywood Reporter brings word that chip manufacturer Intel promises to speed up production of high-quality computer graphics created on Intel-based systems by 25%-40% via a new technology unveiled at its annual hardware and software developer forum in San Jose, Calif. The “hyperthreading” technology reportedly makes PCs think they are [...]
DIC Names Nancy Bassett Sr. VP Of Licensing
DIC Entertainment has signed Nancy Bassett to head up all licensing and merchandising sales initiatives worldwide. The announcement was made by DIC President Brad Brooks. Bassett comes to DIC from Viacom Consumer Products where she was VP of worldwide sales for Paramount Pictures’ licensing division. During Bassett’s tenure with Viacom, [...]
Farscape Cancelled, Live-Action, Anime Features Planned
The Sci Fi Channel will not venture into a fifth season of its hit original series Farscape. The remaining fourth season episodes, set to begin airing in January, will see the series finale of the outer space fantasy/adventure from The Jim Henson Co. and Hallmark Ent. The series stars Ben [...]
A Real-Life Replica of...
Cowabunga, dude! A real-life replica of Simpsons’ hometown of Springfield is...
Blue Sky’s...
Epic, the new animated adventure from director Chris Wedge and his gifted team...
