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FOX Debuts Trailers for New Sunday Toons
This week, Fox-TV unveiled the latest plans for its Sunday Night Animation Domination block. In September, the cabler will premiere Allen Gregory at 8:30 p.m., right after The Simpsons. Created by Jonah Hill, Jarrad Paul and Andrew Mogel and exec produced by David Goodman, the show follow the adventures of [...]
Digital Domain’s Parent Co. Seeks to Raise $115M
Vfx studio Digital Domain’s parent company is hoping to raise up to $115 million through an initial public offering to take place this summer. Digital Domain Media Group Inc. said in a regulatory filing that it plans to use the proceeds to pay down and finance its operations. In addition [...]
Curious Hires Reilly as Exec Producer
New York-based animation and mixed-media studio Curious Pictures has hired veteran exec producer Bill Reilly (owner of Space Program) as exec producer of commercials and advertising content. Reilly will merge Space Program, his live action production house, into Curious Pictures, bringing with him directors Zach Braff and Scott Duncan. The [...]
Crater’s CTP 2.0 Hits the Market
Germany’s Crater Software has released the 2.0 version of its CTP animation software today. Designed to create broadcast and film-quality animation, CTP requires only a standard Windows XP, Windows Vista or Windows 7 computer, a simple scanner and a graphics tablet. The new version offers new English or German user [...]
Universal Forges Deal for ‘Metal Hurlant’
Universal Pictures Germany has acquired home video and VOD rights to French sci-fi TV series Metal Hurlant Chronicles. According to Variety, the deal which was made with The Licensing Machine, the licensing arm of the Panini Group, includes rights for Germany and German-speaking Europe for the first two seasons of [...]
MacFarlane to Reboot ‘The Flintstones’
According to a story in Deadline.com, Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane has acquired the rights to reboot Hanna Barbera’s iconic series The Flintstones both on TV and in features. Nikki Finke reports that the deal was ironed out after years of tough negotiating between Fox TV and Warner Bros TV, [...]
‘SeeFood’ Whets Appetites at Cannes
Golden Network Asia Ltd. has announced that Malaysian-produced animated feature SeeFood has signed multiple worldwide distribution deals, worth over $2 million US. The sales were reported Monday during the Marche de Film in Cannes, France to the Malaysian Pavilion – hosted by the National Film Development Corporation in association with [...]
New Deals Announced for eOne Family Series
Entertainment One (eOne) Family has announced a slew of deals following their successful attendance of MIPTV last month. The family brand management arm of the globally recognized production and distribution house has signed on international agreements for new broadcast deals, renewals and in-flight sales for its children’s portfolio—which includes hit [...]
Animated ‘Thor’ to Hammer DVD Competition
Thor, Marvel’s powerful God of Thunder is sitting on top of the new animated DVD releases list of the week. The new direct-to-DVD Thor: Tales of Asgard is the eighth in series of animated films produced by Marvel Animation and distributed by Lionsgate Entertainment. Timed to coincide with the release [...]
Create & phuuz Ready to Deliver ‘Iconicles’
Create Media Ventures and phuuz entertainment are close to wrapping the first season of Iconicles, their new animated/live-action series produced for the preschool set. The 26 x half hour High Def series, which will be ready for CBeebies this summer, features a live-action host named Nat (played by Gavin Stenhouse) [...]
A Real-Life Replica of...
Cowabunga, dude! A real-life replica of Simpsons’ hometown of Springfield is...
Blue Sky’s...
Epic, the new animated adventure from director Chris Wedge and his gifted team...
