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Animation Block Party Goes Online, Expands to Boston
Animation Block Party is building up to its annual summer festival in Brooklyn with a new series on new media platform MyDamnChannel.com and a show planned for the Boston area March 27-29. Submissions are now open for the 2009 festival, which will be held July 24-26 at Rooftop Films and [...]
Brolin, Malkovich to Face Off in Jonah Hex
Josh Brolin and John Malkovich have been confirmed as headlining Jonah Hex, an adaptation of the popular DC Comics Western series, Variety reports. Brolin, nominated for a best supporting actor Oscar for his role in Milk, has long been rumored for the lead role, a grotesquely scarred gunslinger. Malkovich will [...]
Dentsu Moves to Chub City for TV Series
Tokyo-based Dentsu Inc. has acquired all rights to the Chub City toys brand, and plans to develop the property into an animated TV series. The series will be developed by the company’s Los Angeles-based subsidiary, DCI-LA, with Mitsuharu Inoue, whose credits include the hit Cartoon Network series Bakugan Battle Brawlers, [...]
Crunchyroll Joins Assn. of Japanese Animation
Crunchyroll, an anime-focused content and social networking site based in San Francisco, has become the first non-Japanese company to join the Association of Japanese Animation. Crunchyroll will be an associate member of the industry group, alongside such companies as Columbia Music Entertainment, Geneon Entertainment, Sony and Bandai. The AJA works [...]
Duty 4 Leads GAME Award Nominations
Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare leads the pack of nominees for the GAME British Academy Video Games Awards. The game, developed by Activision, earned nominations in seven of the awards’ 15 categories, followed by six for Rockstar’s Grand Theft Auto IV. Boom Blox earned creator Steven Spielberg his first [...]
Sega Reports Losses, Layoffs
Gamemaker Sega became the latest tech company to be hit the struggling economy, announcing Tuesday a 15 percent year-on-year loss for 2008, forcing it to close 110 amusement facilities and layoff 560 staff members, reports GameDaily.com. Sega also will cut back its research and development costs by about 20 percent [...]
Rhythm & Hues Plans Feature Expansion
Visual effects house Rhythm & Hues is moving to make and co-own its own CG features, hiring an in-house development exec and planning a production facility in Malaysia. Venecia Duran, formerly of Vanguard, has joined the company as director of development and is taking submissions, reports Variety. Executives say they [...]
Rodanthe, W. and Soul Top DVD Releases
Romance, comedy and politics dominate the major DVD and Blu-ray releases for Feb. 10. Leading the way for recent studio movies is Nights in Rodanthe (Warner Bros., $28.98 on DVD, $39.98 on Blu-ray), the Oliver Stone-directed biopic W. (Lionsgate, $29.95 for fullscreen or widescreen DVD and $39.99 for Blu-ray), and [...]
Eloise in Africa Feature Coming to DVD
Animation Collective will produce the direct-to-DVD animated feature Eloise in Africa, based on the classic children’s series and due for release in conjunction with the upcoming live-action movie, Eloise in Paris. Directed by Sergei Aniskov, who also worked on Animation Collective’s Kappa Mikey, Eloise in Africa will be the first [...]
Tech Oscars Honor Pixar Co-Founder Catmull
Ed Catmull, who co-founded Pixar and currently serves as president of Pixar and Walt Disney Animation Studios, was awarded the Gordon E. Sawyer Award at the Oscars’ SciTech Awards on Feb. 7. Computer scientist and motion picture technologist Mark Kimball received the academy’s John A. Bonner Medal at the event, [...]
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Cowabunga, dude! A real-life replica of Simpsons’ hometown of Springfield is...
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