Tag: Rainmaker Entertainment
Fourth ‘Open Season’ Title Set For 2016
The backwoods hijinx continue as Sony Pictures Animation announces the upcoming home entertainment release of Open Season: Scared Silly -- the fourth installment of...
Focus Picks Up ‘Ratchet & Clank’
Rainmaker Entertainment and production partners Blockade Ent. and CNHK Media announce that Focus Features has been appointed the U.S. theatrical distributor for the CG...
Rainmaker Reveals ‘Ratchet & Clank’ Voice Cast
Rainmaker Entertainment and production partner Blockade Entertainment, together with China’s CNHK Media, have revealed the impressive voice cast roster for their upcoming CG feature...
HIT Greenlights Second Season of New ‘Bob the Builder’
HIT Entertainment, a subsidiary of Mattel, Inc., has greenlit a second season plus a 60-minute special for its new CG-animated Bob the Builder series....
Kylie Ellis Upped to VP Production at Mainframe
Vancouver-based animation studio Rainmaker Entertainment has promoted its Director of Production, Kylie Ellis, to the newly created position of Vice President of Production at...
Rainmaker Ups Tara Kemes to VP Culture & Talent
Vancouver studio Rainmaker Entertainment has promoted Director of Talent Development Tara Kemes to the newly created position of Vice President, Culture & Talent. Kemes,...
MGM Vet Steve Hendry Joins Rainmaker Board
Vancouver's Rainmaker Entertainment has appointed former Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer executive Steve Hendry to its board of directors. The decision was announced by Rainmaker's chairman and CEO...
Mainframe to Animate HIT’s New ‘Bob’ Series
HIT Entertainment has tapped Vancouver-based Rainmaker Entertainment's Mainframe division to animate a new CG-animated Bob the Builder series.
Now in production, the series is being...
Sales Set for ‘Ratchet,’ ‘Sly Cooper’
Rainmaker Entertainment and independent production company Blockade Entertainment have closed distribution deals for its CG-animated feature films Ratchet & Clank and Sly Cooper.
Cinema Management...
Rainmaker, Blockade Re-team for ‘Sly Cooper’
Animation studio Rainmaker Entertainment and independent production company Blockade Entertainment have announced they will follow up their animated feature Ratchet & Clank with another...
CMG to Pitch ‘Ratchet & Clank’ Film Abroad
Cinema Management Group has signed on as the international sales agent for Ratchet & Clank, a 3D CG animated feature from Rainmaker Entertainment and...
Rainmaker Launches Mainframe Ent. TV Division
Vancouver-based Rainmaker Entertainment today announced that it is launching its television division and naming it Mainframe Entertainment.
"We are excited to focus our television production...
‘Adventure Time’ and More Mathematical Toons on DVD
If you're anything like us here at Animag, the first tastes of summer have left you with an itchy sunburn and vicious allergies. Luckily...
Jon Vitti to Pen ‘Angry Birds’ Flick
Emmy-winning writer Jon Vitti, who has worked on hit toons The Simpsons and King of the Hill in addition to live-action series like The...
Rainmaker, Blockade Team for ‘Ratchet and Clank’ Film
Rainmaker Entertainment, who earlier this year brought us Escape from Planet Earth, has joined forces with indie production company Blockade Entertainment to produce a...
A Zany Return to Area 51
Director Cal Brunker stresses strong visuals and iconic imagery in the new, sci-fi comedy movie Escape from Planet Earth.
If luck happens when preparation meets...
Michael Hefferon Named President of Rainmaker Ent.
Vancouver-based Rainmaker Entertainment has appointed veteran feature film and television executive Michael Hefferon as president and executive producer, it was announced by Craig Graham,...
‘Escape From Planet Earth’ Gets a Weinstein Screening
The case of writer-director Tony Leech and producer Brian Inerfeld against the Weinstein company over the studio’s handling of the CG-animated movie Escape From...
China’s Xing Xing Digital Buys Canada’s Rainmaker Ent.
Only a couple of days after the departure of president Catherine Winder from Vancouver’s Rainmaker Entertainment, the company was sold to China’s Xing Xing...
Winder to Leave Rainmaker Entertainment
Catherine Winder, the president and exec producer at Vancouver’s Rainmaker Entertainment is expected to leave her post on June 30, says The Hollywood Reporter....
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