Festivals and Events
Juried Emmy Winners: ‘Love, Death & Robots,’ ‘Age of Sail’ & ‘Carmen Sandiego’ Animators Honored
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Gaming
Ex-Scream Gaming
September 18, 2002In conjunction with the home video release of Disney/Pixar’s Monsters, Inc., THQ Inc. announced the availability...
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Features
Disney Fools With Animation Pitch
September 17, 2002According to The Hollywood Reporter, Disney has acquired the proposed animated family feature The Fool’s Errand,...
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Television
Comet Ent. Scales Up To Do Lizard Show
September 17, 2002Canadian-based animation production and content development group, Comet Ent. Inc., has entered into an agreement with...
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Home Entertainment
Chuck Jones Remembered On DVD
September 17, 2002While the recent passing of legendary animator Chuck Jones was a huge blow to the world...
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Home Entertainment
Monsters Unleashed On Home Video
September 17, 2002Disney/Pixar’s Monsters, Inc. hits video shelves today with plenty of extra features for the DVD consumer....
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Licensing
Animation Hits The Radio Waves
September 17, 2002Animation will soon have a regular spot on the radio dial. Fans and industry professionals will...
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Licensing
JAKKS Pacific Jacks Into Disney Gaming
September 17, 2002JAKKS Pacific Inc. has entered into a licensing agreement with Disney Interactive to develop and market...
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Television
IBM Brings Supercomputing To Animation
September 16, 2002To facilitate collaboration, editing and animation rendering, IBM has made its General Parallel File System (GPFS)...
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Television
Bazley Animates Vixen For BBC2
September 16, 2002Bazley Films will direct, animate and produce a section of High Eagle Prods’ animated film for...
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Television
Phil Roman Designs Howdi Gaudi
September 16, 2002Phil Roman, president/CEO of Film Roman and a former producer of The Simpsons, is back with...
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Television
Futurama Takes Emmy
September 16, 2002The 2002 Primetime Creative Arts Awards portion of the 54th Annual Emmy Awards was held on...
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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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Television
‘Mao Mao, Heroes of Pure Heart’: Parker Simmons’ Loveable Trio Hits the Road
June 30, 2019***This story was written for the August ’19 issue of Animation Magazine (No. 292)*** If you...
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Features
Watch: New English-Language Trailer for ‘Maquia’
August 16, 2018Eleven Arts Anime Studio has announced the English dub cast and English dubbed trailer for Maquia:...
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