Italy’s View Conference...
Italy’s popular computer graphics conference View has announced its 2013...
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Amazon and Viacom Strike Streaming Deal
Amazon has announced a spate of new content acquired for its Prime Instant Video streaming service, many of which are children’s series from Viacom’s family of networks including Nickelodeon, Nick Jr., MTV and Comedy Central. The new multi-year, multi-national licensing agreement with Viacom will boost Amazon Prime’s video catalog by [...]
Netflix May Say Buh-Bye to SpongeBob
Remember a few years ago when Nickelodeon was blaming its diminished ratings on Netflix and the popularity of its animated series SpongeBob SquarePants on the disc/streaming service? Well, the absorbent yellow dude might have to find a new culprit soon as Netflix announced that it plans to let its deal [...]
Mondo TV to Sell Home Plate Ent.’s Shows
Italian distributor and producer Mondo TV has become the exclusive agent and rep for TV rights of a slate of shows by Home Plate Entertainment across Africa and the Middle East. The company will hold the non-exclusive rights for on-demand. Among the various titles up for grabs is Wild Grinders, [...]
TIFF Presents Eclectic Animation Package
If you are in Toronto next week and feel like checking out a wonderful evening of cool animated music videos, TV ads and narrative shorts, we recommend TIFF’s Packaged Goods: Artful Animation, scheduled for Feb. 20th at 7 p.m. at TIFF Bell Lightbox. Curated by Rae Ann Fera, the show [...]
Leningrad Cowboys and Anima Vitae Offer Xmas Short
Leningrad Cowboys together with Anima Vitae, one of the leading animation studios in Nordic countries have released an animated holiday short film titled Dog’Y’Dog Christmas. This short centers on the busy days leading to Christmas Eve and how Christmas spirit is best found by working together with others. “It felt [...]
Yvette Kaplan Looks Back at ‘Beavis and Butt-Head’
Over the weekend I had the opportunity to come face to face one of the many, many people I knew only over the telephone, having conducted interviews with them from afar. In this case it was animation director Yvette Kaplan. I introduced myself by saying, “If I’m not mistaken, you [...]
Comedy Central Hungry for More ‘Brickleberry’
It looks like the dysfunctional rangers of Comedy Central’s Brickleberry show are going to be around for a second season. We just got word that the cabler has ordered a new 13-episode of the show, which is produced by Fox 21 and Comedy Central. The irreverent toon is exec produced [...]
Surprise Bag Announces Joint Venture with marblemedia
Toronto-based entertainment producer marblemedia has joined forces with L.A.-based exec producer, writer and director Frank Saperstein and his newly launched entertainment development company Surprise Bag to develop new TV animated comedy series. Saperstein, who was most recently senior VP of family television at eOne, launched the Surprise Bag banner to [...]
Platform Animation Festival Comes to L.A.’s REDCAT
We were thrilled to learn that the acclaimed Platform International Animation Festival, which took place in Portland in 2007, is scheduled to arrive in Los Angeles in October. Curated by the talented Irene Kotlarz, the event will take place at Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater in downtown Los Angeles on [...]
Comedy Central’s ‘Brickleberry’ Debuts on Sept. 25
Comedy Central’s new animated series Brickleberry will premiere on Tuesday, Sept. 25 at 10:30 p.m., following the fall premiere of Tosh.0. The show is exec produced by Daniel Tosh and created, written and exec produced by comics Waco O’Guin and Roger Black (MTV’s Stankervision). Co-produced by Fox 21 and Comedy [...]
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...
