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PGS Sells Method/DQE’s ‘Robin Hood’ to Key Broadcasters
Global distributor and brand management company PGS has announced the sale of Method Animation and DQ Entertainment’s new CG-animated series Robin Hood: Mischief in Sherwood, to Tele-Quebec in Quebec, VRT in Belgium, Canal Panda in Portugal, RTVE in Spain and MTV3 in Finland. The 52 X 11 series was commissioned [...]
Casting a Visual Spell
The new adaptation of young adult best-seller Beautiful Creatures aims for magical effects that don’t remind viewers of other movies about teens with special powers. If you’re plugged into the booming interest in young adult books, you’ve surely got Feb. 14 marked on your calendar as the day to show [...]
Australia’s ABC Nabs Two DQ Series
DQ Entertainment International has announced an exclusive deal with Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) to broadcast two of the studio’s 3D animated series, Iron Man: Armored Adventures season 2 and Casper’s Scare School season 2. The deal allows ABC exclusive broadcasting rights across Australia for both shows. ABC is Australia’s national public [...]
Method Launches ‘Little Prince’ Drawing Contest
In conjunction with the launch of the third season of the new animated adaptation of The Little Prince, producer Method Animation and distributor PGS are kicking of a global children’s drawing competition. The winners of the contest will have their pictures integrated into the episodes of the new season, which [...]
PGS Announces Global Sales for ‘Chaplin & Co.’
Brand manager PGS Ent. has announced a new raft of sales for the CG-animated 104 x 6’ 3D series Chaplin & Co. Produced by Method Animation, MK2 TV, DQ Entertainment Limited, Fabrique d’Images and commissioned by France Télévisions and RAI Fiction, the new comedy series follows the adventures of the irrepressible [...]
10 Shows to Write Home About
The beginning of April may signal the arrival of spring in the natural world, but for TV execs and animation producers, it only means one thing: Yup, it’s time to fight the crowds and sell your goods at the MIPTV content market (April 1-4) in Cannes. Here are some of [...]
MIPTV: PGS Offers 4 New Seasons of Hit Toons
Leading international brand managers PGS Entertainment have revealed their toon slate for the MIPTV market, which kicks off in Cannes next week. Four new seasons of popular and award-winning shows total 81 half-hours of new programming available for broadcasters. “The fact that the majority of the properties represented by PGS [...]
DQ Ent. Wins Top Kudos at Cartoons on the Bay
Indian animation studio and distributor DQ Entertainment was the winner of this year’s International Studio of the Year award at the 16th edition of Italy’s Cartoons on the Bay this weekend. The company’s animated series Iron Man (co-produced with France’s Method Animation) also won the Pulcinella for Best Animated Series [...]
‘The Little Prince’ Racks Up 20 New Sales
Brand manager PGS Entertainment reports the animated series The Little Prince has been acquired by more than 20 new broadcasters. Among those picking up the series’ 52 half-hour episodes are: Disney Spain, Televisa Mexico, Discovery Kids Latin America, Knowledge Network Canada, TVO Canada, CTC Russia, Minimax Eastern Europe, E Vision for the [...]
ZagToon Launches 3D Film Division
Paris-based French animation production company Univergroup is launching a film division, Zagtoon Pictures, and is partnering with leading Korean studio SamG, reports Variety. Headed by Jeremy Zag, Zagtoon Pictures will focus on producing high-profile stereo 3D animated features, budgeted above €20 million ($26.4 million), and will hire European and Anglo-American [...]
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