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People
Barad Steps Down From Pixar Board
September 16, 2002The Dow Jones Business News reports that Jill Barad is stepping down from Pixar’s board of...
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Gaming
Nintendo Revolutionizes Trading Cards
September 16, 2002In the past, if you wanted to add functionality to your trading cards, you could stick...
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Television
Garfield 25th Anniversary Special Coming
September 13, 2002Having acquired the international television rights to the Garfield & Friends animated series, Tremendous! Ent. has...
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Television
Cartoon Super Saturday
September 13, 2002Kids and many adults will be glued to the set this Saturday, Sept. 14 as a...
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Festivals and Events
SEMAFX Animation Fest Kicks Off In Michigan
September 13, 2002The SEMAFX Network (Southeast Michigan Animation and Special Effects) is holding its Second Annual Film Festival...
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Visual FX and Tech
Buffy FXers Bite Into New Venture
September 13, 2002Producer Steve Schofield and Creative Directors Chris Jones and Loni Peristere from the visual effects team...
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Television
Jimmy Neutron Invents Nick’s Highest-Rated Premiere Ever
September 11, 2002With its 8:30 p.m. debut on Friday, Sept. 6, Nickelodeon’s Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius rocketed to...
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Television
Scribes Mount Hill For Fox
September 11, 2002As Twentieth Century Fox Television’s animated hit King Of The Hill ramps up for its eighth...
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Festivals and Events
State of the Industry: Independent Animation
September 11, 2002To follow up June’s well-attended panel discussion, The State of the Industry, ASIFA-Hollywood, The Animation Guild...
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Schools
Top Creative Director Volunteers At Ex’pression
September 11, 2002Ex’pression Center for New Media, the Emeryville, Calif. digital arts school, announced that award-winning Creative Director...
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Commercials
Happy Hour At Simon Mall
September 11, 2002Happy Hour Ent. teamed with advertising agency Publicis Mid-America to produce four 15-second regional spots for...
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Licensing
American Ent. & Animation Rescinds Acquisition of Cyper Ent.
September 11, 2002American Ent. & Animation Corp., a public shell company seeking acquisitions in the animation industry, has...
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Features
Fire At Disney Studios
September 10, 2002Firefighters were called to a 3-alarm blaze at the Disney Feature Animation building in Burbank, Calif....
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Features
Episode II Goes IMAX
September 10, 2002Lucasfilm Ltd., The IMAX Corp. and Twentieth Century Fox have announced that Star Wars Episode II:...
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Television
Atomic Betty Aims For MIPCOM Breakthrough
September 10, 2002Breakthrough Films and Television announces a partnership with Atomic Cartoons and Phil Roman Ent. to co-produce...
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Television
Farscape Cancelled, Live-Action, Anime Features Planned
September 10, 2002The Sci Fi Channel will not venture into a fifth season of its hit original series...
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People
DIC Names Nancy Bassett Sr. VP Of Licensing
September 10, 2002DIC Entertainment has signed Nancy Bassett to head up all licensing and merchandising sales initiatives worldwide....
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Visual FX and Tech
Intel To Accelerate CG production
September 10, 2002The Hollywood Reporter brings word that chip manufacturer Intel promises to speed up production of high-quality...
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Features
Spirited Away Premieres At Toronto Int’l Film Fest
September 9, 2002Slated for U.S. theatrical release on Sept. 20, Spirited Away (Sen To Chihiro Kamakakushi) follows the...
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Home Entertainment
Krofft, Gumby DVD Box Sets
September 9, 2002Rhino Home Video stirs up nostalgia with the release of two box sets featuring classic episodes...
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Visual FX and Tech
NVIDIA Named Fastest Growing Company in America
September 9, 20023D and visual computing technology company NVIDIA Corporation announces that it has been ranked number one...
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Gaming
Jimmy Neutron Battles Alter Ego On PC
September 9, 2002Following the Sept. 6 debut of The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius on the small...
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Licensing
Connecticut Scratching For Betty Boop
September 9, 2002Connecticut follows on the heels of Kentucky, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and Wisconsin with a...
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Features
Last Chance To See Sleeping Beauty
September 6, 2002If you live in the L.A. area and haven’t had a chance to see the 70mm...
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Television
Cartoon Network Acquires Futurama
September 6, 2002In a deal with Twentieth Television, Cartoon Network has picked up exclusive cable rights for all...
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Television
Past And Future Meet In TV Debuts
September 6, 2002This week sees the launch of two animated series which aim to educate and entertain by...
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Television
Chiodo Bros. Animate Clay For Playhouse Disney
September 6, 2002On Monday, September 16, Disney Channel’s learning-based programming block, Play House Disney, will introduce its first-ever...
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Home Entertainment
Gigantor, Transformers Box Sets On The Way
September 6, 2002Rhino Home Video is getting mechanized with two big robot DVD releases for October and November....
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Internet
Fox, Amazon.com Preview New Ice Age Short
September 6, 2002Amazon.com customers who pre-order Twentieth Century Fox’s CG hit Ice Age on DVD will get an...
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Features
Disney, Shrek Producer Team For CG Features
September 5, 2002Walt Disney Studios has formed an alliance with Shrek producer John Williams’ Vanguard Films to produce...
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