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Licensing

Galleon to Rep Xilam’s Magic, Oggy, Rahan

Ryan Ball - August 18, 2008

Galleon Ent., a U.K.-based intellectual property owner and developer of family entertainment properties, has signed an agreement to represent all licensing rights to French...

Features

Relativity Eyes Voltron Movie

Ryan Ball - August 18, 2008

Ryan Kavanaugh's Relativity Media is in talks to pick up film rights to the giant robot anime series Voltron: Defender of the Universe, which...

Home Entertainment

Polar Express Bound for Disc in 3-D

Ryan Ball - August 18, 2008

Stereoscopic animation will come to the home theatre on Oct. 28 when Warner Home Video releases The Polar Express in 3-D on Blu-ray and...

Top Stories

Yair Discusses Mass Animation

Ryan Ball - August 18, 2008

We reported last week (www.animationmagazine.net/article/8752) that Yair Landau, former vice chairman of Sony Pictures Entertainment and president of Sony Pictures Digital, has been tapped...

Features

Knight Vanquished by Thunder

Ryan Ball - August 18, 2008

After four weeks atop the North American box office chart, Warner Bros.' The Dark Knight has finally been knocked down a peg by the...

Features

Cryptozoo Discovered by Hollywood

Ryan Ball - August 18, 2008

Cryptozoo Crew from Jerry Carr and Allan Gross is the latest graphic novel series to get a big-screen deal. Daily Variety reports that Andrew...

Video Games

Scholastics Horrible Histories Going Interactive

Ryan Ball - August 15, 2008

Chorion has signed a worldwide licensing agreement with computer games publisher Slitherine Strategies to develop video games based on the Scholastic book series Horrible...

Festivals & Events

Adobe Design Winners Announced

Ryan Ball - August 15, 2008

Adobe Systems Inc. today announced the winners of its eighth annual Adobe Design Achievement Awards, a competition that honors the most talented and promising...

Television

Pink Slips to Fly at DIC

Ryan Ball - August 15, 2008

Following its acquisition by Canada's Cookie Jar Ent., DIC Ent. could be facing job cuts, according to The Hollywood Reporter. DIC's corporate office in...

Television

Warner Bros. Brings Back Banana Splits

Ryan Ball - August 15, 2008

Over hill and highway the Banana buggies come again. Warner Bros. Consumer Products is re-launching the classic '60s Hanna-Barbara TV property The Banana Splits,...

Features

Animated Space Race in Theaters

Ryan Ball - August 15, 2008

Two animated movies set in outer space compete at the North American box office this weekend as Lucasfilm Animation's Star Wars: Clone Wars squares...

Features

New Release Dates for Bolt, Potter

Ryan Ball - August 15, 2008

Disney's upcoming CG-animated family flick, Bolt, will hit the screen sooner than anticipated, while Warner Bros. will leave Harry Potter fans waiting a bit...

Festivals & Events

Oktapodi Takes Top Prize at SIGGRAPH

Ryan Ball - August 15, 2008

Two octopi escape from the grasps of a stubborn and determined restaurant cook in Oktapodi, a student film from France's Gobelins, l''cole de l'image...

Top Stories

Happy Tree Friends Go to the Olympics

Ryan Ball - August 14, 2008

Lip-syncing and fake fireworks are the least of China's worries as Mondo Media's calamity-prone Happy Tree Friends make their way to the Olympic Games...

Television

Rough Draft Enrolled in Sit Down, Shut Up!

Ryan Ball - August 14, 2008

Indie animation house Rough Draft Studios will be producing animation for the upcoming animated FOX series Sit Down, Shut Up! The network has ordered...

Top Stories

Intel, Landau Launch Mass Animation

Ryan Ball - August 14, 2008

Intel Corp. today announced a new collaborative animation project to produce a computer-generated animated short film for theatrical release. Open to established and aspiring...

Features

Madagascar, Kung-Fu Panda Sequels Likely

Ryan Ball - August 14, 2008

During a presentation of footage from the upcoming Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa, DreamWorks Animation CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg said Wednesday that fans can expect at...

VFX

Maya Turns 10

Ryan Ball - August 14, 2008

Autodesk is celebrating the 10th anniversary of Maya, its widely used modeling, animation and rendering software. The company has dedicated an area of its...

Video Games

Cryptic Beams Up Star Trek Online

Ryan Ball - August 14, 2008

Cryptic Studios, a independent developer and publisher of massively multiplayer online role-playing games, revealed the first details and gameplay trailer for Star Trek Online...

Top Stories

Peanuts Characters Rock the Vote

Ryan Ball - August 14, 2008

McCain and Obama aren't the only candidates wooing American voters. Iconic Peanuts characters Snoopy, Charlie Brown, Linus, Lucy and Sally are all running for...

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