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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, [...]
Copernicus, Kavaleer Team for Garth and Bev
Copernicus Studios and Kavaleer Productions will co-produce 52 11-minute episodes of the animated series Garth and Bev. Copernicus, based in Halifax, Canada, will create the 2D animation based on an idea by Andrew Kavanagh of Dublin-based Kavaleer. Story is about a brother and sister living in the Bronze Age who [...]
Pat & Stan to Air in Multiple Euro Markets
TV-Loonland has signed deals that will bring the comedy series Pat & Stan to audiences across Europe. Broadcasters who picked up the series of 39 seven-minute episodes plus specials include NRK Norway, YLE Finland, Icelandic Broadcasting Corp., TV3 Catalunya, S4C Wales, Jetix Europe in Benelux, TSR Switzerland and TV5 Monde [...]
Csupo Brings Immigrants to TV
Gabor Csupo is returning to animated TV with a six-episode commitment for an expanded version of his feature film Immigrants (La Dolce Vita). With interest in the feature rising ‘ it sold to Germany’s Savoy Film and Turkey’s Ozen Film at the European Film Market ‘ HungariCom will represent the [...]
Ratner to Direct Youngblood
India-based financier Reliance has secured the rights to adapt Rob Liefeld’s Image Comics superhero series Youngblood to the big screen and has set Brett Ratner to direct. This would be Ratner’s second dip into the superhero pool, having directed X-Men: The Last Stand. Youngblood, a tale of government-sanctioned celebrity superheroes, [...]
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...
