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Take-Two Shares Profits with Rockstar Games
Under new management, Take-Two Interactive Software has established an incentive compensation program for the Rockstar Games label that is primarily based on a profit-sharing arrangement. The publisher has also entered into new, long-term employment agreements with members of the creative team of its wholly-owned Rockstar Games publishing label, and has [...]
VIZ Pacts with Warner Home Video
Anime distributor VIZ Media has signed a home entertainment distribution agreement with Warner Home Video (WHV) for the United States and Mexico. Effective April 1, 2009, WHV will be the exclusive home entertainment distributor for new and catalog DVD content based on well-known animated franchises such as Naruto, Bleach, Death [...]
Dogstar wins Asian Television Award
The Australian children’s series Dogstar was named Best Animation at the Asian Television Awards (ATA) in Singapore. The kudo fest recognizing television programs and production excellence attracted more than 1,200 entries from 12 Asian countries. Still, the Austrailian production managed to beat out submissions from Japan, Hong Kong, Korea and [...]
WALL’E, Bashir, Persepolis Nominated by London Critics
Critical darling WALL’E from Disney and Pixar is among the five films nominated for Film of the Year by the London Film Critics’ Circle. The acclaimed animated doc Waltz with Bashir from Israeli filmmaker Ari Folman is up for Best Foreign Language Film of the Year, along with Marjane Satrapi [...]
4Kids Has New Plan for CW Saturdays
Children’s entertainment company 4Kids Ent. has announced its new lineup of programs for The CW4Kids, its five-hour program block airing Saturday mornings from 7 a.m. to noon on The CW television network. Starting Jan. 3, 2009, the lineup will include the hit action shows Chaotic: M’arrillian Invasion and Sonic X. [...]
TV-Loonland’s Penelope Set for CBeebies
British broadcaster BBC has acquired full TV rights to TV-Loonland’s is animated show, Penelope. The series of 54 five-minute cartoons will begin airing on digital preschool channel CBeebies in the spring of 2009. TV-Loonland is handling multi-territory distribution for the program, a co-production of Nippon Animation, NHK Enterprises and Shirogumi [...]
Director Sets Sails for Sinbad
After trolling the waters of development hell for a few years, Columbia Pictures’ new Sinbad movie appears closer to actually being made. The studio is in talks with Adam Shankman to develop and direct its fantasy epic The 8th Voyage of Sinbad, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Neal Moritz of [...]
Tron Sequel Goes 3-D
Disney’s return to the video game world known as Tron will be a three-dimensional journey, according to Ain’t It Cool News. The fanboy web destination cites a trusted source that says Disney is shooting the sequel TR2N entirely in 3-D. The project will be one of many 3-D efforts for [...]
Despereaux’s Tale Told in Theaters
Kate DiCamillo’s Newberry Medal-winning children’s book The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread comes to life on the big screen this weekend with a mercifully truncated title. Animated by vfx studio Framestore for Universal Pictures, The Tale of [...]
WALL’E Wins Over Chicago Critics
Disney/Pixar’s WALL’E has been honored by yet another group of movie reviewers as end-of-the year picks continue to roll in from around the country. The film garnered four 2008 Chicago Film Critics Association Awards, including Best Picture. It also took Best Animated Film, Best Original Screenplay for the script by [...]
‘Star Trek’ Beams...
Paramount’s Star Trek Into Darkness landed on top of the domestic box office...
Universal Releases New Clip...
Universal has released the first clip from Illumination’s eagerly anticipated...
