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‘Ralph’ Ready to Rock for Home Video Release
Wreck-It Ralph is ready to fix up your home video collection. The hit Disney animated feature leads this week’s homevid releases, arriving in multiple formats for fans to choose from, including DVD ($29.99), Blu-ray and DVD combo pack ($39.99) and the ultimate combo pack with 3D Blu-ray, Blu-Ray, DVD and [...]
‘Strawberry Shortcake’ Welcomes New Boy to the Patch
An all-new season of Strawberry Shortcake’s Berry Bitty Adventures is set to launch on The Hub on Saturday, February 23 with two brand new back-to-back episodes airing at 8 and 8:30 a.m. ET (encores Mondays at 11:30 a.m.) Beginning Saturday, March 2, the series will premiere new episodes at 8:30 [...]
‘Snow White’ Gets Extended; Complete ‘Terra Nova’ on DVD
What’s old is new again this week, as hot home video releases re-imagine the classics and take a high-tech trip to prehistoric times. Getting the extended edition treatment is the hit fantasy movie Snow White and the Huntsman (Universal, $29.98 Extended Edition DVD, $34.98 Blu-ray-DVD-Digital Copy Combo Pack). The re-take [...]
DHX Media to Buy Cookie Jar for $112 Mil
Canadian children’s entertainment giant DHX Media will buy rival animation giant Cookie Jar in a deal worth $112 million. Halifax-based DHX Media, which is headed by Michael Donovan, will take over Cookie Jar’s library of over 6,5f00 half hours of programming like Arthur, Caillou and Care Bears by offering 36 [...]
Cookie Jar Signs Distrib Deal with Dish
Cookie Jar and Dish Network have signed a deal to provide CJ’s library of animated an live-action shows on the pay-TV provider in the U.S. Subscribers to the Blockbuster @Home package by DISH can watch nearly 400 episodes of children’s entertainment from several of Cookie Jar Entertainment’s television shows on [...]
Animator Vincent Cafarelli Dies
Vincent Cafarelli, a noted figure in the New York animation scene for over 60 years and co-founder of Buzzco Associates studio, died of natural causes December 1 in Brooklyn, NY. He was 81 years old. Cafarelli got his start as a teenager at Paramount’s Famous Studios back in 1948, working [...]
‘Cars 2′ Discs Ready to Roll on Home
Cars 2 crosses the home video finish line this week, bringing the most-recent feature from Pixar home in multiple formats and with plenty of extras. The first Pixar film to be released in the 3D Blu-ray format, Cars 2 (Disney-Pixar, $39.99 Blu-ray-DVD combo pack, $39.99 two-disc DVD, $49.99 five-disc Blu-ray [...]
New Season of ‘Strawberry Shortcake’ Sweetens The Hub
The half-hour animated series Strawberry Shortcake’s Berry Bitty Adventures is set to return for another season on The Hub beginning, Saturday, November 5 at 9 a.m. The CG-animaed series features Strawberry Shortcake and her friends (Blueberry Muffin, Raspberry Torte, Plum Pudding, Orange Blossom and Lemon Meringue) in Berry Bitty City [...]
The Hub Invests in Animated Warren Buffett
A Squared Entertainment’s animated money series Secret Millionaires Club will premiere on The Hub TV network on October 23 at 1 p.m. The show was created in partnership and voiced by famed investor Warren Buffett. Andy Heyward, former CEO of DIC Entertainment, and the veteran producer of toons such as [...]
Ziggy Creator Tom Wilson Dies at 80
Tom Wilson, the talented illustrator who created the optimistic Ziggy character for American Greetings, passed away Friday from complications due to pneumonia at a hospital in Cincinnati. He was 80. Wilson first published Ziggy in 1969 in a cartoon collection titled When You’re Not Around. The strip, which was launched [...]
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