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YooHoo & Friends Toys to Arrive This Fall
L.A-based animation producer Toonzone Studios has announced that it will release a new line of YooHoo & Friends plush toys, light-up dolls and playsets in stores this fall. Just Play and Aurora World are the property’s toy partners. YooHoo & Friends is a comedy-adventure 2D show, which follows five furry-tailed [...]
Cookie Jar and Fremantle Stomp with ‘Ella the Elephant’
Cookie Jar Entertainment and FremantleMedia Enterprises have joined forces to launch the 26 X half-hour animated preschool show Ella the Elephant. The series is award-winning Ella The Elegant Elephant books created, illustrated and written by Carmela D’Amico and Steve D’Amico. Ella the Elephant will make its U.S. debut in 2013 [...]
New Daffy Short to Debut with ‘Journey 2′
The new Looney Tunes 3-D toon Daffy’s Rhapsody will premiere before screenings of Warner Bros.’ Journey 2: The Mysterious Island. Directed by Matthew O’Callaghan (Coyote Falls, I Tawt I Taw a Puddy Tat, Curious George), the new short will debut in theaters on Feb. 10 and will be presented in [...]
‘Fullmetal Alchemist’ Comes to NY, LA
Eleven Arts and FUNimation Entertainment are bringing the feature film sequel to the popular Fullmetal Alchemist anime franchise, Fullmetal Alchemist: The Sacred Star of Milos, to big screens in theaters across North America starting in January. Animated by Japanese studio BONES, the 2D film follows the Elric brothers as they [...]
Boomerang Adopts Mondo TV’s ‘Puppy in My Pocket’
MEG Toys and Mondo TV’s Puppy In My Pocket: Adventures in Pocketville has found a good home on Boomerang. The 2D-animated series, which is based on a popular toy brand, already airs across Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Pan-Asia on Turner outlets. The show will begin its U.S. Boomerang [...]
Film Independent Offers Miyazaki Program at LACMA
Film Independent has planned a special night of programing devoted to the films of Japanese master Hayao Miyazaki on Saturday, Nov. 26 at the L.A. County Museum of Art. The program begins at 4:30 p.m. with a screening of a new 35 mm print of the 1986 classic Castle in [...]
BAAs Seek Favorite Brit Toon of All Time
The British Animation Awards (or BAAs) today launched its final call for entries for the U.K.’s top toon production awards and announced the search for the Favourite Ever British Animated Character! The winner will be announced at next years BAA ceremony to be held March 15 in London at the [...]
‘Nos Amis’ Across the Sea
How the French government is bolstering international animated co-productions, plus a whirlwind tour of top toon houses. As a country renowned for its artistic temperament, fans of French animation are used to marveling at the work of toon auteurs like Sylvain Chomet, Bibo Bergeron, Michel Ocelot or turn-of-the-century effects pioneer [...]
GKIDS Dances With ‘Chico and Rita’
New York-based indie distributor GKIDS has acquired the U.S. distribution rights to Fernadno Trueba and Javier Mariscal’s acclaimed 2D animated feature Chico & Rita. The film made its world premiere at Telluride Film Festival, was an official selection at Toronto International Film Festival, and has been released to wide acclaim [...]
Three 2D Toons Up for Euro Film Awards
Three artistic and beautifully drawn 2D animated features will be competing for the Best Animated European Film Awards this December. The nominees are Antoine Delesvaux and Joann Sfar’s adaptation of Sfar’s graphic novel The Rabbi’s Cat, Alain Gagnol and Jean-Loup Felicioli’s A Cat in Paris and the bolero-infused Chico and [...]
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