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Cake Pulls ‘Monkeyface’
Kids’ entertainment specialist CAKE has been appointed worldwide distributor for hit animated gross-out comedy Fleabag Monkeyface (52 x 11, kids 7-12) which will be available at the MIPTV market next month. CAKE can be found at stand R30.18 and will also be offering Let’s Go Pocoyo, Plankton Invasion and Total [...]
‘The Little Prince’ Racks Up 20 New Sales
Brand manager PGS Entertainment reports the animated series The Little Prince has been acquired by more than 20 new broadcasters. Among those picking up the series’ 52 half-hour episodes are: Disney Spain, Televisa Mexico, Discovery Kids Latin America, Knowledge Network Canada, TVO Canada, CTC Russia, Minimax Eastern Europe, E Vision for the [...]
Preview: Darth Maul Returns in ‘Clone Wars’ Season Finale
When audiences last saw Darth Maul, he was plunging down a reactor shaft in pieces at the end of Star Wars: Episode I — The Phantom Menace. But the Dark Side of the Force is strong — strong enough to bring back the popular villain in “Revenge,” the season four [...]
HIT Scores Big Deals for ‘Mike the Knight’
HIT Entertainment reports 10 new TV sales and three licensing agent deals for its CG-animated preschool property Mike the Knight. The series has been sold to Super RTL in Germany, and the broadcaster has also been appointed as the property’s licensing agent in the territory. The other nine deals that [...]
‘Korra,’ ‘Raving Rabbids,’ ‘MvA’ Highlight Nick Slate
Nickelodeon announced at its annual upfront presentation in New York a roster of more than 300 new animated episodes in 2012, including premiere dates the for the highly anticipated series The Legend of Korra, a series based on the Raving Rabbids video game and another collaboration with DreamWorks Animation on [...]
Central, Eastern Europe Buy 350 Hours From Classic Media
Classic Media has completed deals across Central and Eastern Europe that place more than 350 hours of programming — including such hit shows as Tinga Tinga Tales, Postman Pat, Guess With Jess, He-Man and the Masters of the Universe and Voltron: Defender of the Universe — with terrestrial broadcasters, pay-TV outlets, home [...]
‘Adventure Time’ Season 4 Premieres April 2
Adventure Time, Cartoon Network’s hit animated comedy series, returns with its fourth season on Monday, April 2, at 7:30 p.m. ET/PT. In the highly anticipated fourth season, familiar characters return and a new flame heats things up for Finn. Also, Jake and Finn venture into the Nightosphere, Lumpy Space Princess [...]
Disney Channels Unveil Toon-Heavy Program Lineup
New animated programs from Craig McCracken, a new Marvel Universe programming block and preschooler series Doc McStuffins are front and center at Disney, which is unveiling this week its 2012-13 lineups for Disney Channel, Disney Junior and Disney XD. The programs will be presented this week in New York to [...]
Telegael and SupperTime Develop ‘Impossimals’ Show
L.A.-based SupperTime Entertainment (ToddWorld) and Ireland’s Telegael (Teenage Fairytale Dropouts, Chloe’s Closet) are developing a new preschool animated series based on Peter and Jayne Smith’s popular characters Impossimals. Created by Smith and his wife, the colorful, rotund and striped characters have sold over 1.6 million art prints and 2 million [...]
‘Portlandia’ Gets Bent with ‘Zero Rats’
A recent episode of Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein’s IFC skit show Portlandia, which lampoons the city of Portland, Ore. and its colorful denizens, got some extra animated oomph thanks to local studio Bent Image Lab. The nearly three-minute skit is titled Zero Rats and was directed by Rob Shaw. [...]
Dusty Fest Winners Announced
The School of Visual Arts (SVA) in New York City (NYC) has announced the...
‘Rise of the...
As expected, DreamWorks Animation made an early splash at the Cannes Film...
