Singer Says Quicksilver...
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Bardel’s Orange Picked by Leo
Bardel‚s Vancouver-based toon house Bardel’s first proprietary in-house production, The Christmas Orange nabbed four Leo Awards sweeping the animation category at this year’s event. The animation awards include Best Animated Progam or Series, Best Musical Score, Best Direction and Best Children’s and Youth Program where it was up against live [...]
Cinégroupe Distribution and HOLA Sign New Latin Deal
CinéGroupe Distribution, a division of CineGroupe, a leader in 2D, 3D and CGI imaging, signed a distribution agreement with HOLA Entertainment for Latin America and the Caribbean. The deal includes such series as Sagwa, The Chinese Siamese Cat produced by CinéGroupe in association with the Sesame Workshop; and Pig City, [...]
Anime Shaman King Casts Spell on FOX BOX
This fall, FOX BOX will debut Shaman King, the Japanese anime series based on Hiroyuki Takei’s multi-million selling graphic novels. 4Kids Entertainment will produce 26 episodes for U.S. broadcast on Fox beginning September 2003. Regarded as one of Japan’s top creators and artists, Takei released the first volume of his [...]
Digital Production Solutions to Acquire Interest in Film Roman
Newark, New Jersey-based IDT Media announced that its animation production unit, Digital Production Solutions (DPS) will acquire a 51% interest in toon shop Film Roman, through the purchase of newly issued shares of Film Roman common stock. Film Roman is known for its production work on TV series such as [...]
Pelling Exits Cosgrove Hall
Iain Pelling, Cosgrove Hall’s managing director announced today that he’ll be leaving the Manchester, England-based animation company. Pelling’s time at the toon house has seen the company increase its production of traditional animation and also open a CGI unit, Cosgrove Hall Digital. Since he joined CHF in 1996, the 27-year-old [...]
Conan Goes Clay
Late night talk show host Conan O’Brien is about to get more animated than ever. In a TV first, NBC will broadcast an entirely clay-animated episode of Late Night with Conan O’Brien on Thursday, May 15 from 12:35 a.m. to 1:35 a.m. “This may be the best show we’ve ever [...]
Daytime Emmys for Rugrats, Teacher’s Pet
Nickelodeon’s Rugrats and ABC’s Disney’s Teacher’s Pet took top honors at The National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences’ 30th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards for the creative arts over the weekend. Simultaneous black-tie ceremonies were held on Saturday at the Marriott Marquis Hotel in New York City and the Sheraton [...]
Animation Artists Pegged for Daytime Emmys
Gary Baseman, production designer for the ABC series Disney’s Teacher’s Pet and Peter Sluszka, animator on the HBO kids show I Spy will receive Emmy awards for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Animation tomorrow. The awards will be presented during a black-tie ceremony recognizing the Creative Arts categories of the 30th [...]
Nickelodeon Chalks Up More Chalkzone
Nickelodeon will kick off season two of the hit animated series ChalkZone on May 30 at 8 p.m. (ET/PT). The show will move from Saturday afternoon to rejoin heavy hitters SpongeBob SquarePants, The Fairly OddParents and The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius in the channel’s Friday primetime lineup. Chalkzone [...]
BBC Three Casts Net for U.K. Talent
BBC Three, the channel that brought you Monkey Dust, Angry Kid and the BBC Three Blobs, is accepting entries for the BBC Three New Animation Award. The six best animations will be shown on BBC Three and the overall winner will be funded to develop a series of their animation [...]
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...
