Italy’s View Conference...
Italy’s popular computer graphics conference View has announced its 2013...
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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 [...]
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 [...]
Sony, ‘Smurfs’ Producer Plan Hybrid ‘ALF’ Movie
The Alien Life Form from the planet Melmac is plotting a comeback. Sony Pictures Animation has acquired the rights to ALF, the iconic 1980s sitcom about a wisecracking alien who lives with a typical suburban family, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Plans are for the studio to develop ALF into [...]
Question for the Week of May 14 2012
How do you feel about the new studio trend of cranking out live-action versions of classic animated fairy tales like Snow White, Sleeping Beauty and Alice in Wonderland?
‘Sabrina’ to Become Sony’s New Superhero
Deadline.com reports that Sony Pictures has plans to give Sabrina the Teenage Witch a live-action superhero revamp. The magically inclined teen heroine designed by artist Dan DeCarlo for Archie Comics in the 1960s will appear in a new film in the vein of recent popular vfx-laden comic-book flicks, focusing on [...]
Hybrid Indie ‘Death of a Superhero’ to Get U.S. Release
Death of a Superhero, a feature film about a teenage cartoonist with cancer that mixes animated sequences with live-action, has been picked up for North American distribution by Tribeca Film. The movie premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival and will get a 2012 release in theaters and on VOD [...]
German Feature ‘Lollipop Monster’ Screens in L.A.
Lollipop Monster, the new live-action/animation hybrid feature from German comic-book artist Ziska Riemann gets its first Los Angeles screening this weekend as the closing night event of the German Currents Showcase (Sunday Oct. 30), presented by the Goethe-Institut and the American Cinematheque. Music videos, Super 16 and animated sequences pepper [...]
TELETOON Unveils Fall Lineup
Canadian cabler TELETOON has revealed its fall broadcast schedule, featuring seven new series (The Looney Tunes Show, Hole in the Wall, Beyond Human, Young Justice) and five returning (Johnny Test season five, Jimmy Two-Shoes season three, Ben 10: Ultimate Alien season two, Adventure Time with Finn and Jake season one [...]
Question for the Week of August 11 2011
How do you feel about the upcoming live-action/CG animated Hong Kong Phooey movie that will feature Eddie Murphy in the lead role?
‘Fairly OddParents’ Movie Mixes Live-action, Animation
The Fairly OddParents is turning 10 years old, and Nickelodeon is celebrating by taking them into the third dimension in a live-action/CG-animated TV movie. The first-ever project of its type for the network, A Fairly Odd Movie: Grow Up, Timmy Turner! airs Saturday, July 9, at 8 p.m. (ET/PT) on Nickelodeon [...]
Amazon’s LoveFilm and...
LoveFilm and Disney have signed a new pact which allows the Amazon subscriber...
CN All About ‘Adventure...
Cartoon Network Enterprises is riding the runaway Adventure Time train...
