Italy’s View Conference...
Italy’s popular computer graphics conference View has announced its 2013...
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Ellen Enters Warner’s Dog Show
Ellen DeGeneres has signed on to the voice cast of Dog Show, an animated feature pitch picked up recently by Warner Bros., according to The Hollywood Reporter. DeGeneres, whose animation roles include the dopey fish Dori in Finding Nemo, will produce the project along with John Glenn. Dog Show, about [...]
Street Fighter vs. Jonas Bros., Round One!
Moviegoers this weekend face the difficult choice of fight or sing. In one corner of an otherwise slim week for new movies, is the videogame adaptation Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun Li. The Fox film, which stars Smallville‘s Kristin Kreuk, Chris Klein and Neal McDonough, opens on about a [...]
Funding Gets Astro Boy Back on Track
The CG-animated Astro Boy feature film is back in production, with producer Imagi Entertainment having completed a $25 million financing plan. The company’s U.S. president, Erin Corbett, told Daily Variety that all but 23 of the 120 employees who had been furloughed last month when funding ran dry have been [...]
Warner Bros. Commits to Suicide Squad
Dan Lin will produce a feature film adaptation of the DC Comics property Suicide Squad for Warner Bros., Variety reports. Suicide Squad, created by notable comic-book writer John Ostrander (The Spectre, Star Wars: Legacy), is about a group of incarcerated supervillains sent by the government to execute highly dangerous missions. [...]
Jackson in as Fury for the Long Haul
Samuel L. Jackson has struck a deal with Marvel Studios to reprise the role of Nick Fury in Iron Man 2 and as many as nine future superhero films. Jackson, who played Fury in a post-credits cameo in Iron Man, could play the role in the studio’s planned Thor, Captain [...]
Bandai Acquires Digimon Toy License
Bandai Asia has acquired from Toei Animation the Australian toy license for the animated children’s series Digimon Data Squad. The deal covers the right to sell such toys as a digivice data link, 1.5-inch collectible figures and 3.5-inch lightning digivolving figures. The products are available now in stores. ‘We are [...]
Bakugan Fever Coming to Video Games
The popular animated TV series Bakugan is coming to videogame consoles, thanks to a deal struck between game maker Activision and Corus Entertainment’s Nelvana Enterprises. The deal calls for the first game to be released for the Wii, Nintendo DS, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 2 and PlayStation 3 platforms in [...]
CBS Refills Cookie Jar for Three More Seasons
Canada-based Cookie Jar Entertainment and CBS have extended their deal for a block of Saturday-morning animation for three more seasons. Cookie Jar and its predecessor, DIC Entertainment, have provided programming for the Saturday-morning block since 2006. The lineup for the 2009-2010 season is due shortly and is expected to feature [...]
DreamWorks Falls Short of Q4 Estimates
DreamWorks Animation posted lower-than-expected profits for the fourth quarter of 2008. This quarter saw the studio put out the theatrical release Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa and the DVD of its summer hit Kung Fu Panda, which has sold about 11 million copies to date. Times were tough, however, compared to [...]
VIZ Lays Off Employees in Restructuring
VIZ Media laid off an unspecified number of employees last week as it restructured to face current economic conditions. ‘VIZ Media is in the process of refining its focus and is restructuring to adjust to changing industry and financial market realities. VIZ feels confident that with these changes, the company [...]
Amazon’s LoveFilm and...
LoveFilm and Disney have signed a new pact which allows the Amazon subscriber...
CN All About ‘Adventure...
Cartoon Network Enterprises is riding the runaway Adventure Time train...
