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Children Fighting Cancer Create Allegorical Animation ‘ZOUA’
Artistes Pour Rêver (Artists for Dreams) and Toronto-based Switch VFX & Animation have wrapped production of a unique animated short, titled ZOUA. This first...
Country Music Star Blake Shelton Joins STX’s ‘Uglydolls’ Cast
STXfilms has lassoed country music superstar Blake Shelton to its upcoming animated feature film, Uglydolls. The multi-award winner joins co-stars Kelly Clarkson, Nick Jonas,...
Trailer: ‘Ralph Breaks the Internet’ Goes Off the Track
In a revved up new trailer for Disney’s upcoming pop-culture-fueled sequel Ralph Breaks the Internet (November 21), we follow the bulky former baddy Ralph...
eOne Speeds to BLE & MIPCOM with All-New ‘Ricky Zoom’
Entertainment One (eOne) is putting some gas in its preschool properties tank with the addition of new animated TV series Ricky Zoom, which it...
News Bytes: Ryan Coogler Boards ‘Space Jam 2’, TV Toon V.O. Strike Averted, Marvelous Music Videos!
LeBron James Sets ‘Black Panther’s Ryan Coogler to Produce ‘Space Jam’ Sequel
Also: Terence Nance (creator of HBO’s Random Acts of Flyness) is on board...
Mondo TV Escorts ‘Sissi the Young Empress’ to New Broadcasters
Leading European animation producer-distributor Mondo TV has secured two major new broadcast agreements for its popular animated series aimed at kids 4-8, Sissi the...
Atomic Cartoons Options Savannah Guthrie’s ‘Princesses Wear Pants’ for Series
On NBC’s Today Show on Wednesday, Savannah Guthrie and Drew Barrymore announced that Atomic Cartoons (a Thunderbird Company) has optioned the rights to develop...
Nelvana Greenlights Three New Pre-K Series Pre-MIPCOM
Corus Entertainment’s Nelvana has greenlit three new preschool-targeted productions, including the animated series P.U.R.S.T. Agent Blinky and The Remarkable Mr. King based on the...
Imagine Dragons Fire Up ‘Ralph Breaks the Internet’ End-Credit Song
Grammy-winning group Imagine Dragons (“Natural,” “Whatever It Takes”) wrote and recorded the end-credit song “Zero” for Disney’s upcoming Ralph Breaks the Internet: Wreck-It Ralph...
Animation Is Film Prelim Line-Up, Jury Members Announced
Organizers of the second annual Animation Is Film festival (Oct. 19-21 at the TCL Chinese Theatre in Hollywood) have revealed the preliminary competition selection...
NFB Bares ‘Skin for Skin’ on Streaming
Kevin D.A. Kurytnik and Carol Beecher’s multi-award-winning short Skin for Skin, produced by the National Film Board of Canada and Fifteen Pound Pink Productions,...
‘Becca’s Bunch’ from JAM Gets Nick Jr. US Premiere
Becca’s Bunch, an innovative new mixed-technique animated series from award-winning Irish producer JAM Media, is taking wing across the Atlantic to a new US...
Shion Takeuchi Inks Multi-Year Overall Deal with Netflix
Emmy and Annie Award-nominated animation writer Shion Takeuchi, currently a staff writer on Netflix’s recently premiered Disenchantment, has signed a multi-year, overall deal with...
New ‘TMNT’ Toys Rise to Retail Shelves October 1
The freshly redesigned heroes on a half-shell of Nickelodeon’s Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (premiered Sept. 17!) are taking their cool new...
Rokoko Partners with Unity to Bring Mo-Cap to Developers Around the World
Rokoko (rokoko.com), the company behind the popular Smartsuit Pro motion-capture suit, announced a partnership with Unity Technologies (unity3d.com), creator of the world’s most widely...
Tutu Du Monde, Hasbro Pair Up for ‘My Little Pony’ Collection
Tutu Du Monde -- makers of exquisitely crafted tutus, whimsical dresses and more for young fashionistas -- has teamed up with Hasbro to announce...
‘Grinch’ Adds Pharrell Williams, Tyler the Creator Tune with 3rd Trailer
Oscar-nominated hitmaker Pharrell Williams returns to the Illumination Entertainment/Universal Pictures fold with the news that he has boarded The Grinch as the film’s narrator....
Flash Film Works Crafts ‘Alpha’ VFX with Fusion Studio
Blackmagic Design today announced that Los Angeles-based visual effects company Flash Film Works used its VFX and motion graphics software, Fusion Studio, on Studio...
MINI USA Taps Kirsten Lepore, Nix + Gerber for Countryman Campaign
Automaker MINI USA has launched the new “Created in a Countryman” campaign, which shows off the 2019 MINI Countryman’s cargo capacity in an innovative...
Cloudco Expands with U.K. Office, Exec & Sales Hires
Cloudco Entertainment (formerly American Greetings Ent.) is growing its senior executive team, adding a third hub in London to join its existing Los Angeles...
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