Tag: Scholastic
Cirrina Studios Unearths First Feature ‘The Extincts’
Recently launched entertainment finance, development and production outfit Cirrina Studios has announced its first animated feature project: The Extincts. Based on the popular middle-grade...
WB Builds Out ‘LEGO Batman’ Licensing Program
Warner Bros. Consumer Products has been busy constructing a multi-tiered licensing program for the upcoming animated comedy-adventure The LEGO Batman Movie -- swinging into...
WB Throws Director Mark Osborne ‘Bone’
The feature animation adaptation of Jeff Smith’s Bone is finally picking up steam, with Warner Bros. tapping Oscar-nominated Kung Fu Panda and The Little...
Fox & Blue Sky Adapting ‘Frogkisser!’ as Hybrid Flick
Fox Animation and Blue Sky Studios will be producing a live-action/animation musical feature based on Garth Nix’s upcoming book, Frogkisser! -- a tongue-in-cheek take...
Magic Light Producing ‘The Highway Rat’ for BBC One
Magic Light Pictures -- the Oscar nominated and BAFTA award-winning production company behind The Gruffalo, The Gruffalo’s Child and Stick Man -- has announced...
Animation Vets Form Astro-Nomical Entertainment
Animation industry veterans Jay Ahn and Chris Henderson have partnered to form Astro-Nomical Entertainment, a full-service development and production company geared for high-quality, independent,...
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Disney and DreamWorks Animation Want Appeals Court to Stop Fight with 10,000 Animation Workers
With Sony and Blue Sky dealing out, other heavyweights in the...
DHX and Mattel Creations Ink Content Deal for ‘Rainbow Magic’
DHX Media has licensed much-loved children’s publishing property Rainbow Magic from Mattel, Inc., in a long-term, exclusive, worldwide agreements managed under the Mattel Creations...
Rachel Bader Named Licensing Director for Random House
Random House Children's Books has appointed industry veteran Rachel Bader as its new Licensing Director. The new role tasks her with building and managing...
9 Story Partners with Netflix, Scholastic on ‘Magic School Bus’ Reboot
9 Story Media Group has partnered with Netflix and Scholastic to produce a new version of the Emmy Award-winning 1990s animated children’s series The...
‘Saga,’ ‘Lumberjanes,’ ‘Nemo’ Top Eisner Award Winners
Saga, Lumberjanes and various incarnations of Winsor McCay's Little Nemo were the top honorees at the 2015 Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards, presented July...
Softline Licensees Cozy Up to ‘Little Charmers’
Corus Entertainment's Nelvana has signed on five industry-leading softline licensees to its growing roster of partners for the CG preschool series Little Charmers, which...
‘Little Charmers’ Casts Spell on Licensees
Nelvana Enterprises -- the sales, brand-management and consumer products arm of Corus Entertainment’s Nelvana -- has won over several notable licensees with its new...
Universal Home Unpacks ‘Boxtrolls’
Last fall, LAIKA's third stop-motion feature The Boxtrolls proved once again that there is room for all genres of animation on the box-office charts....
‘Clifford’ Creator Norman Bridwell Dies
Norman Bridwell, who achieved incredible success with his seminal children's book creation Clifford the Big Red Dog, has died at age 86. According to...
Sales Report: Raft of Global Sales Precede MIPCOM
With MIP Junior and MIPCOM looming in Cannes, reports of sales of animated programs around the world are stacking up.
Here's the latest:
Genius Brands International...
Ask a Baboon – Issue #241
Baboon Animation's newest shining star, the accomplished Susan Kim, has written for more than three dozen children's TV series, including PBS's runaway hit Peg+Cat,...
‘Magic School Bus’ Returns in Netflix Series
Netflix and Scholastic Media have announced that a new original series based on iconic kids' show The Magic School Bus will be hitting the...
Teletoon to Debut ‘Butt’ Import June 12
Teletoon has set June 12 as the Canadian premiere date for the Australian animated comedy series The Day My Butt Went Psycho.
The Day My...
Oscar-Nominated Animator Michael Sporn Dies at 67
We are sad to report the passing of Oscar-nominated American animator Michael Sporn at the age of 67 from pancreatic cancer. The influential New...
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