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Disney Channels Lifts Programming, Acquisitions Exec Miller
Disney Channels Worldwide has promoted Karen K. Miller to executive director of worldwide programming strategy, acquisitions and co-productions. Miller joined the company last year as director of acquisitions and co-productions. She will be responsible for directing the development of overall scheduling strategies to ensure regional and local programming plans are [...]
Hub to Premiere ‘Kaijudo: Rise of the Duel Masters’ June 2
The animated action-fantasy series Kaijudo: Rise of the Duel Masters is scheduled to premiere June 2 on The Hub. Kaijudo: Rise of the Duel Masters is follows the adventures of a young hero, Ray, who possesses the rare ability to befriend and duel alongside fantastical creatures from a parallel dimension. Evil forces [...]
Adult Swim’s ‘Metalocalypse’ Returns April 29
Get set for more Dethklok. Animation’s deadliest metal rockers are set to return with its fourth-season premiere April 29 at 12:15 a.m. ET/PT on Adult Swim. Here is how the network describes the new season: Brutality wields its uncomfortable deth-hammer in the fourth season of Metalocalypse. Excruciating horrors loom, waiting [...]
Rare Pixar Items Auctioned to Help Japan Tsunami Recovery
It’s been a year since an earthquake and resulting tsunami caused tremendous damage to Japan, and the animation community and Pixar are here to remind fans that there’s still plenty of work to be done on the recovery by offering an anniversary benefit auction. The auction, hosted on eBay under [...]
Illumination Taps Altschuler, Krinsky for ‘Woody Woodpecker’
Illumination Entertainment’s proposed Woody Woodpecker feature has a pair of writers. John Altschuler and Dave Krinsky have been tapped by Illumination chief Chris Meledandri and Universal Studios to write a script for the proposed feature, reports Deadline.com. The pair have extensive animation and comedy credits, including long runs on the TV [...]
Blue Collar Comedy Toon ‘Bounty Hunters’ Coming to CMT
Cable network CMT has picked up its first-ever animated series, a comedy from Blue Collar Comedy stars Larry the Cable Guy, Jeff Foxworthy and Bill Engvall called Bounty Hunters. Lisa Lampanelli also provides a voice as a series regular for the series’ 13 half-hour episodes. The trio of comedy stars [...]
Animation Block Party Spotlight on Mari Jaye Blanchard
Animation Block Party (www.animationblock.com) is the premier animation festival of the East Coast. In this interview series, the founder of ABP, Casey Safron will be introducing Animation Magazine readers to some of the award winning animators who have screened at past ABP festivals. Mari Jaye Blanchard’s film Craft won the Audience [...]
Sneak Peek at ‘Astonishing X-Men: Dangerous’
Marvel’s merry mutants face an unexpected threat from within in Astonishing X-Men: Dangerous, an animated motion comic feature coming to DVD April 10 from Shout! Factory. Based on the popular comic book storyline by writer Joss Whedon (co-writer and director of this summer’s Avengers live-action movie) and artist John Cassaday, [...]
Zodiak Kids Signs Partners for ‘Quick, Quack, Duck!’
Zodiak Kids has secured a three-way international co-production deal for the 3D animated preschool series Quick, Quack, Duck! The 52 x 11 min. series is created and produced by Zodiak Kids’ production company The Foundation, in partnership with Korean animation studio High 1 Entertainment and Tel Aviv-based QQD Limited, the [...]
DQE Seals Three Co-Production Deals at MIP
DQ Entertainment International has announced at MIP-TV three new co-production contracts for its animated series. The India-based animation company revealed two co-production deals for its Robin Hood series, one with TF1 in France and another with Minika ATV in Turkey. TF1 will co-produce Robin Hood and hold the broadcast rights for [...]
A Real-Life Replica of...
Cowabunga, dude! A real-life replica of Simpsons’ hometown of Springfield is...
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