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Monster Ent.’s ‘Jungle Beat’ Sells to More Outlets
Monster Entertainment has signed new deals with Cartoon Network Japan, Cartoon Network Latin America, Disney Taiwan (including Hong Kong and Macau), Nickelodeon India and B Channel in Indonesia for animated series Jungle Beat. The 26×5 minute dialog-free animation is family friendly CGI series focusing on different animals and the bizarre [...]
‘Battlestar’ Spin-Off ‘Blood & Chrome’ Out in February
Universal Cable Productions and the much lauded producing team behind hit sci-fi series Battlestar Galactica will offer home audiences a new franchise spin-off feature titled Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome Unrated Edition on DVD and Blu-ray next year. The film is packed with vfx and CGI magic and stars Luke [...]
Michael Hefferon Named President of Rainmaker Ent.
Vancouver-based Rainmaker Entertainment has appointed veteran feature film and television executive Michael Hefferon as president and executive producer, it was announced by Craig Graham, newly appointed chair and CEO of the CGI animation studio. The appointment of Hefferon reflects Rainmaker’s expansion into both areas of client CGI animation services as [...]
‘Matt Hatter Chronicles’ Finds a Home on TVNZ
New Zealand’s national broadcaster, TVNZ has ordered the first season of the new adventure comedy series Matt Hatter Chronicles for its free commercial channel TV2. The 26 x 30-minute HD CGI animation, which targets five to 10-year-olds, will premiere in 2013 as part of TV2’s Spring line-up on 2Kids weekend [...]
Network Ten Dons ‘Matt Hatter’ for Spring 2013
Australia’s Network Ten has nabbed boys’ animated adventure-comedy Matt Hatter Chronicles for its digital free-to-air channel, ELEVEN, series producer Platinum Films has announced. The 26 x 30 HD CGI show will premiere in 2013 as part of ELEVEN’s Toasted TV line-up. Produced by leading U.K. indie Platinum Films and Toronto-based [...]
Waterman Options ‘Brave Little Toaster’ for Remake
Waterman Entertainment is bringing back The Brave Little Toaster. The company has acquired the rights to the property with plans to make it into CGI and live-action hybrid feature. Brave Little Toaster was a novel for children by Thomas Disch first published in 1980. An animated feature was released in [...]
eOne Nabs U.K Licensing for ‘Knights of Valour’
Entertainment One (eOne) has secured the U.K. licensing rights to the new 3D animated feature Justin and the Knights of Valour which the firm’s theatrical division will distribute in U.K. cinemas in August 2013. “We’re extremely excited to be presenting licensing opportunities for Justin and the Knights of Valour which [...]
Breakthrough’s ‘Dino Dan’ to Roar in Finland
YLE in Finland has picked up the the hit children’s series Dino Dan, it was announced by Nat Abraham, Breakthrough’s president of distribution. Targeting 4-7-year-olds, Dino Dan is a CGI and live-action adventure series that centers on a 10-year-old boy whose every waking moment is taken up with dinosaurs, using [...]
New TMNT Toys Arrive in Stores
Cowabunga, dudes. Check out the awesome new Teenage Mutant Ninja toys available at Toys “R” Us this summer. Only a couple of months prior to the premiere of the new CG-animated version of the popular characters created by Fred Wolf, Kevin Eastman and Peter Laid on Nickelodeon (Sept. 29), the [...]
Alphanim’s ‘Calimero’ to Hatch on Italy’s RAI
Alphanim and Studio Campedelli’s new CG-animated Calimero series will air on RAI in Italy. Created in 1963 by Nino Pagot, Toni Pagot and Ignazio Colnaghi, Calimero originated as a series of animated advertisements part of the “Carosello” advertising show broadcast on RAI through the 1960s and 70s. More than 70 [...]
Academy Makes Animation...
The Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has...
Shout! Unleashes...
The Eisner Award-winning comic-book series by Joe Quesada, Paul Jenkins, Bill...
