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BFC Ready to Pump New Episodes for Three Projects
Due to strong international interest generated at MIPTV, BFC Berliner Film Companie announced yesterday that it will extend the number of episodes for three of their animated kids’ properties: Da Boom Crew, Sherm! and MP4orce. Da Boom Crew, a hip-hopping sci-fi series currently airing on the Kids’ WB! about four [...]
Legendary Toon Designer Gene Hazelton Dies
Famed animation designer/comic strip artist Gene Hazleton passed away on April 6, 2005 at age 85. Born in 1919, Wesley "Gene" Hazelton began an extensive and diverse career in his teens as an assistant to Jimmy Halto, working on the popular newspaper panel They’ll Do It Every Time. He jumped [...]
Nelvana Announces Sales Team Shuffle
Nelvana announced some key changes to its international sales division team on Monday: Emanuel Petry assumes a new role in the company as she will begin overseeing European development and international co-production after spending 13 years as head of international sales. Nelvana has also promoted Lynn Chadwick to VP of [...]
4Kids to License Kappa Mikey
4Kids Entertainment will get to know the ins and outs of Mikey Simon, the star of Animation Collective’s Kappa Mikey, as the company has acquired worldwide licensing rights to the new action-comedy series slated to debut on Nicktoons in the U.S. and on Nickelodeon International Channels in 2006. 4 Kids [...]
PBS KIDS Sprout Planted on Comcast
Finally, Oscar the Grouch and the Teletubbies are willing to work around your schedule now that Comcast Corp., PBS, Sesame Workshop and HIT Ent. are introducing PBS KIDS Sprout On Demand, a new video-on-demand (VOD) service. This fresh development in VOD for kids and their parents debuts this month on [...]
PorchLight Brings Caren Shalek On-Board
PorchLight Entertainment has tapped Caren Shalek to serve as senior VP, consumer products with instructions to build an expanded consumer product representation business focusing on children’s and family brands, COO William Baumann announced. Shalek will open PorchLight’s first New York office, launching from a base of established properties such as [...]
Stash’s GSA Awards to Launch Careers
An interview for a potential dream job and your hard work proudly displayed on the cover of a DVD viewed by some of the industry’s biggest players?! Let’s just say Stash DVD Magazine has something to cushion the fall for student animators and designers gearing up to take the plunge [...]
Animation Co-op Winds Up for Project Pitch
The Animation Co-op has confirmed its annual Project Pitch for the evening of Saturday, April 2, at 2340 Overland Ave. in Los Angeles, Calif. Artists, filmmakers and toon aficionados will gather at 7:30 p.m. to soak up work at varying stages in the game, from project pitches to pieces in [...]
Bejuba!, Snowden Fine Shoot for the Stars with Ricky Sprocket
Tatiana Kober, owner of production and distribution company Bejuba! Ent., announced that her team will join forces with Oscar-winning producers Alison Snowden and David Fine of Snowden Fine Ltd. to produce a new animated children’s show titled Ricky Sprocket, Showbiz Boy. Aimed at kids 6-12, Ricky Sprocket, Showbiz Boy serves [...]
New Flight Plan for Porchlight’s Jay Jay
Fasten your seat belts and get ready for a first-class publicity campaign because Jay Jay Jet Plane, the popular PBS series for preschoolers, is launching its biggest marketing and audience outreach program ever. The creative minds behind the franchise at PorchLight Ent. have crafted three highly interactive promotional programs to [...]
BinWeevils Appoints Henwood...
U.K.-based digital social world BinWeevils, for kids 6-12, has appointed media...
Blue Sky’s...
Epic, the new animated adventure from director Chris Wedge and his gifted team...
