Festivals & Events
Epic Games Launches Animation Week Celebrating Unreal Engine Storytelling
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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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Top Stories
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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Television
Big Sales For France Animation
September 5, 2002France Animation has signed a number of major deals with buyers across North America, Europe and...
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Festivals & Events
Effects Reign At SIGGRAPH Meeting
September 5, 2002Effects work on the Touchstone Pictures and Spyglass Entertainment dragon pic Reign of Fire will be...
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People
More Shakeup At RTV
September 5, 2002According to RTV, Peter Hille and Wolfgang Heidrich have stepped down from the Munich-based animation studio’s...
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Video Games
Greece Outlaws Gamers
September 5, 2002CNET News.com reports that all electronic games have been banned by the Greek government. A law...
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Television
SpongeBob Head Gets Kicks With Thunder
September 4, 2002C21media.net reports that Andy Rheingold, former head of development and production for the Nickelodeon’s SpongeBob SquarePants,...
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Television
Egmont Imagination Cuts Production, Assets On Block
September 4, 2002Egmont Imagination, the animation production-distribution subsidiary of Danish media giant Egmont, is scaling back its production...
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Festivals & Events
Digital Hollywood Reloaded
September 4, 2002This year’s Digital Hollywood conference (Sept. 23-25) will focus on the heightened expectations of the cable,...
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Commercials
EyeballNYC Grooves On MTV Hits
September 4, 2002To create a series of fully animated IDs for the new channel MTV Hits, the music...
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Features
Plympton Draws Next Feature As You Watch
September 3, 2002Marking a first in animation history, cartoonist, animator and independent filmmaker Bill Plympton invites the public...
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Features
Runaway Production Bill Killed
September 3, 2002Variety reports that Assembly Bill 2747, which would have provided as much as $650 million in...
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Television
DOT On The Spot At Cartoon Forum
September 3, 2002U.K.-based GSCFilms, the production house responsible for the award-winning series Kipper, Sheeep and Angelina Ballerina, will...
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Festivals & Events
Women in Animation Launches Canadian Chapter
September 3, 2002The first Canadian chapter of Women in Animation will be dedicated with a launch party and...
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Home Entertainment
Horror Classic Doomed Megalopolis Fated For DVD
September 3, 2002ADV Films announced plans to release Director Rintaro’s (Metropolis, Captain Harlock) animated chiller Doomed Megalopolis for...
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VFX
Lone Star VFX House Takes Spy Kids For A Ride
September 3, 2002For the effects-filled opening sequence of Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams, Texan filmmaker...
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Features
Spy Kids Gets The Drop On XXX
August 7, 2002Effects-filled Spy Kids 2: Island of Lost Dreams opens today, getting a jump on the weekend...
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VFX
ComputerCafé Goes Wild For Spy Kids 2
August 7, 2002In Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams, swashbuckling skeletons, a miniature zoo and menacing...
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Schools
MCAD Offers Anime & Manga Workshop
August 7, 2002Why have manga and anime become such an international phenomenon? The Minneapolis College of Art and...
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Licensing
Target On Board With Thomas & Friends
August 7, 2002Target Stores announced a partnership with Gullane Entertainment to carry a line of exclusive Thomas &...
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Festivals & Events
Sophie Heats Up Comic-Con Int’l
August 6, 2002Visitors to Comic-Con Int’l in San Diego got a special treat as Sophie McNievl, star of...
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Home Entertainment
Rings, Simpsons, Titans On DVD
August 6, 2002Directed by Peter Jackson and featuring Oscar-winning CG animation by Randy Cook and the team at...
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Commercials
PSYOP Shoots Straight For LUGS
August 6, 2002To get the latest pitch for LUGZ Footwear up and running, ad agency Avrett Free &...
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Features
Molly Shannon Makes Contact With Good Boy
August 5, 2002The Hollywood Reporter tells us that Saturday Night Live alum Molly Shannon is in negotiations to...
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Festivals & Events
CLU Gets Velocity Up To Speed At Comic-Con Int’l
August 5, 2002Creative Logik Universe (CLU) made its Comic-Con Int’l. debut in San Diego, Calif. with the premiere...
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People
Disney Promotes Tim Kilpin To Exec. VP, Studio Franchise Mgmt.
August 5, 2002Dick Cook, chairman of The Walt Disney Studios, and Andy Mooney, president of Disney Consumer Products...
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VFX
ILM on Trail Of Tears
August 5, 2002According to The Hollywood Reporter, Industrial Light & Magic has won a bid to do visual...
