Tag: Animation
Thunderbird, Flux, Telegael Team on ‘Wiki the Kiwi’
Vancouver’s Thunderbird Films is joining forces with New Zealand’s Flux Animation Studios and Ireland’s Telegael on a new CGI preschool series called Wiki The...
Digital District, Aveillan Give Grand Life to Cartier Spot
Few brands are more revered, influential, stylish and historic than that of the renowned jeweler Cartier — and it was the brand's unique qualities...
#219 March 2012
March '12 Highlights - Issue 219
Arrietty: A Tale Twice Borrowed
How Disney brought Studio Ghibli's take on The Borrowers to U.S. audiences.
Saving the Truffula Trees...
Animation Block Party Spotlight on Mike Hollingsworth
Animation Block Party (www.animationblock.com) is the premier animation festival of the East Coast. In this interview series, the founder of ABP, Casey Safron will...
‘Dennis and Gnasher’ Goes Back Into Production
Australian production house Sticky Pictures and Red Kite Animations, a subsidiary of global media enterprise August Media Holdings, announced a new series of Dennis...
‘Tree Fu Tom’ Debut Scores Big on CBeebies
Animated preschooler series Tree Fu Tom is a hit in the United Kingdom, becoming CBeebies' No. 1 show of the year since its debut...
Sprout Brings ‘Justin Time’ to U.S. April 22
Justin Time, Guru Studio's first original animated adventure series for preschoolers, will premiere April 22 in the United States on the Sprout channel.
Sprout has...
‘Regular Show,’ ‘Danny Phantom,’ Elmo Hit DVD
Mordecai and Rigby are finally arriving on DVD with the release this week of Regular Show: Slack Pack (Warner Bros., $14.97), collecting 12 episodes of...
Animation Block Party Spotlight on ‘Ledo and Ix’s’ Carmichael
Animation Block Party (www.animationblock.com) is the premier animation festival of the East Coast. In this interview series, the founder of ABP, Casey Safron will...
Kidvid Site Kidobi Adds Animasia’s ‘ABC Monsters’
Malaysia-based Animasia Studios has granted digital preschool platform Kidobi the subscription video-on-demand rights for the animated preschool series ABC Monsters in Canada and the...
Kidobi Secures New Kids Content
Canadian online preschool video platform Kidobi has picked up the subscription VoD rights to five animated shows from German media outfit m4e/Telescreen. Kidobi’s new...
Breakthrough to Develop Animated Atwood Tale
Toronto-based content distributor and producer Breakthrough Entertainment has optioned Wandering Wenda & Friends, the critically acclaimed children’s book series written by celebrated Canadian author...
WIA Seeks Phyllis Craig Scholarship Applicants
The Phyllis Craig Scholarship Award Committee of Women In Animation International is still taking applications for the 2012 Scholarship Award.
Every year a $1000 scholarship...
Connery’s ‘Sir Billi’ to Premiere at Sonoma Fest
The new CG-animated feature Sir Billi, which features the voice of Sir Sean Connery will premiere at The Sonoma International Film Festival (April 11-15)....
‘Pocahontas,’ ‘Rescuers,’ ‘Aristocats’ Make Blu-ray Slate
Pocahontas, The Rescuers and The Aristocats are among the classic Disney animated features coming to Blu-ray in 2012 as part of a year-long campaign...
Illumination Eyes More Seuss with CG ‘Cat in the Hat’
The animation studio behind the hit movie The Lorax is returning to the Dr. Seuss library, this time for a 3D CG-animated feature based on...
Updated: ‘Superman vs. The Elite’ Premieres at WonderCon
Attendees at this weekend's WonderCon in Anaheim will have a chance to see the world premiere screening of Superman vs. The Elite, the most-recent...
‘The Little Prince’ Racks Up 20 New Sales
Brand manager PGS Entertainment reports the animated series The Little Prince has been acquired by more than 20 new broadcasters.
Among those picking up the...
Preview: Darth Maul Returns in ‘Clone Wars’ Season Finale
When audiences last saw Darth Maul, he was plunging down a reactor shaft in pieces at the end of Star Wars: Episode I —...
Rodriguez’s New Quickdraw Animation Preps ‘Heavy Metal’
Director Robert Rodriguez is getting into animation, announcing he's formed a new company called Quickdraw Animation and that it is already working on a...
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