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WordWorld Inks Three New International Licensing Deals
Emmy-winning PBS KIDS series WordWorld has signed three new international licensing deals. Among the deals are a three-year DVD pact with Innoform for Singapore, Malaysia and Hong Kong; a deal covering three years of TV and five years of home video in Korea with EBS; and a three-year pact giving [...]
Iron Man, Bolt Top VES Noms
Iron Man fought his way to the top of the nominations for the seventh annual Visual Effects Society Awards. The film, whose effects were supervised by John Nelson, was nominated for outstanding visual effects in a visual effects driven movie, best single visual effect of the year, outstanding animated character [...]
Toons Open Sundance; Doc Pair Eyes SpongeBob SquarePants
Animation is making waves at this year’s Sundance Film Festival. First, the Australian claymation feature Mary & Max from writer/director Adam Elliot (Harvie Krumpet) opened the festival and has earned plenty of attention even as reviews are mixed. On the pro side, Jeffrey Wells of Hollywood Elsewhere says the film [...]
Sit Down, Shut Up Premiere Set
Long-delayed animated series Sit Down, Shut Up will finally air as part of Fox’s Sunday lineup starting April 19, Variety has reported. The show was hobbled over the summer when the writers stopped working after they learned the show would be under the jurisdiction of the IATSE Animation Guild instead [...]
PBS KIDS Celebrates Valentine’s Day
PBS KIDS will celebrate Valentine’s Day a day early this year. Airing on Friday, Feb. 13, the channel presents a lineup of heartwarming programs that includes a new episode of WordWorld and a special hour of Clifford the Big Red Dog. The new episode of WordWorld will feature two tales, [...]
CN Offers Kids’ Advice to Obama
Cartoon Network will celebrate the inauguration Tuesday of President-elect Barack Obama with a series of 30-second spots in which kids from a Boys & Girls Club in Atlanta give the new president advice. The kids were also asked their thoughts on other presidential matters, such as their favorite president and [...]
Holiday Weekend Box Office ‘Cops’ Big Increase
Sony’s Kevin James comedy Paul Blart: Mall Cop topped a strong Martin Luther King Jr. holiday weekend at the box office, earning a whopping $33.8 million. The Friday-Sunday gross was up more than 30 percent from last year, with Monday’s holiday expected to bring more good news to the studios, [...]
Emmerich Scores Asimov’s Foundation
Roland Emmerich, director of 10,000 B.C. and the forthcoming 2012, won the screen rights to adapt Isaac Asimov’s Foundation trilogy’an epic sci fi series revolving around Asimov’s invented concept of ‘psychohistory’ which takes place during the collapse of a Galactic Empire. In addition to directing, Emmerich will produce the film [...]
Happiness Factory, Zune Nab Animation Webbys
The winners of the 2008 Webby Awards have been announced, giving out honors in more than 70 categories for excellence on the Intenenet. In the best use of animation or motion graphics category, the Webby went to Happiness Factory’s Now Hiring Coke ad created by AKQA. The people’s choice winner [...]
Sit Down, Shut Up Shuts Down
Writers and writer-producers of Sony’s new animated series Sit Down, Shut Up! have walked off the show to dispute whether WGA or ITASE has jurisdiction over the writing staff according to Nikki Finke’s Deadline Hollywood website. The toon, which is scheduled to join Fox TV’s animation block this fall, is [...]
Jon Vitti to Pen ‘Angry...
Emmy-winning writer Jon Vitti, who has worked on hit toons The Simpsons and...
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