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‘Tree Fu Tom’ Debut Scores Big on CBeebies
Animated preschooler series Tree Fu Tom is a hit in the United Kingdom, becoming CBeebies’ No. 1 show of the year since its debut last month. The show for kids 4-6 attracted 330,000 kids ages 6 and under for its first 11 episodes, with a 25 percent audience share. It [...]
Sprout Brings ‘Justin Time’ to U.S. April 22
Justin Time, Guru Studio’s first original animated adventure series for preschoolers, will premiere April 22 in the United States on the Sprout channel. Sprout has acquired two seasons of the series, which is produced by Toronto-based Guru and has aired overseas on such network as Discovery Kids Latin America and Disney [...]
‘Regular Show,’ ‘Danny Phantom,’ Elmo Hit DVD
Mordecai and Rigby are finally arriving on DVD with the release this week of Regular Show: Slack Pack (Warner Bros., $14.97), collecting 12 episodes of the series from the first and second seasons of its run on Cartoon Network. Meanwhile, Danny Phantom, Season 2, Part 1 (Shout! Factory, $19.93) gives fans [...]
Animation Block Party Spotlight on ‘Ledo and Ix’s’ Carmichael
Animation Block Party (www.animationblock.com) is the premier animation festival of the East Coast. In this interview series, the founder of ABP, Casey Safron will be introducing Animation Magazine readers to some of the award winning animators who have screened at past ABP festivals. Emily Carmichael’s recent live-action short, The Hunter [...]
Kidvid Site Kidobi Adds Animasia’s ‘ABC Monsters’
Malaysia-based Animasia Studios has granted digital preschool platform Kidobi the subscription video-on-demand rights for the animated preschool series ABC Monsters in Canada and the United States. The educational preschool series will be available to subscribers on Kidobi.com later this spring. “The deal with Kidobi is a great step forward for [...]
Kidobi Secures New Kids Content
Canadian online preschool video platform Kidobi has picked up the subscription VoD rights to five animated shows from German media outfit m4e/Telescreen. Kidobi’s new acquitisions are Anton (26 x five-minute), Brothers Flub (26 x 22-minute), Plonsters (52 x three-minute), Rudi & Trudi (26 x 11-minute) and Salty’s Lighthouse (40 x [...]
Breakthrough to Develop Animated Atwood Tale
Toronto-based content distributor and producer Breakthrough Entertainment has optioned Wandering Wenda & Friends, the critically acclaimed children’s book series written by celebrated Canadian author Margaret Atwood, for development as an animated series for preschoolers. “Margaret Atwood is celebrated worldwide for her extensive portfolio of award-winning children’s literary works,” says Joan [...]
WIA Seeks Phyllis Craig Scholarship Applicants
The Phyllis Craig Scholarship Award Committee of Women In Animation International is still taking applications for the 2012 Scholarship Award. Every year a $1000 scholarship is given to one deserving animation student, along with a one-year membership in Women In Animation. For details on how to apply and to get an application [...]
Connery’s ‘Sir Billi’ to Premiere at Sonoma Fest
The new CG-animated feature Sir Billi, which features the voice of Sir Sean Connery will premiere at The Sonoma International Film Festival (April 11-15). Billed as the first animated feature produced entirely in Scotland, the movie is directed by Sascha Hartmann from a script by Tessa Hartmann and exec produced [...]
‘Pocahontas,’ ‘Rescuers,’ ‘Aristocats’ Make Blu-ray Slate
Pocahontas, The Rescuers and The Aristocats are among the classic Disney animated features coming to Blu-ray in 2012 as part of a year-long campaign to grow the studio’s high-definition catalog. Here are the animated films and their expected release dates: Treasure Planet Pocahontas The Rescuers Lady And The Tramp 2: [...]
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