Category: Business
‘Scooby-Doo! And Kiss: Rock And Roll Mystery’ Available July 21
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment’s original new animated film stars rock group KISS and features six of their classic hit songs.
9 Story’s ‘Wild Kratts’ Swing into APAC
Cartoon Art Museum To Vacate Current Location
Searching for a new long-term home, the Cartoon Art Museum will be closing its doors at 655 Mission Street on Sunday, June 28.
BFI, Film Hub North West & Skwigly Launch ‘This Is Not A Cartoon’
Curated series of short film screenings alongside live director interviews and workshops includes Don Hertzfeldt’s ‘World of Tomorrow,’ Danny Madden’s ‘Confusion Through The Sand' and the Oscar-nominated ‘A Single Life’ by Job, Joris and Marieke.
Cinesite Launches Feature Animation Talent Program
‘iAnimate at Cinesite’ apprenticeship program provides the opportunity of online training and a two year contract as a trainee animator with Cinesite.
Dolby Vision to Launch with Disney’s ‘Tomorrowland ‘and Pixar’s ‘Inside Out’
Disney’s live-action remake of ‘The Jungle Book,’ due out April 15, 2016, will also be presented in Dolby Vision, with more titles to be announced.
DreamWorks Animation Shifts ‘Kung Fu Panda 3’ Release Date
DreamWorks Animation and distribution partner 20th Century Fox move ‘Kung Fu Panda 3’ up from March 18, 2016 to January 29, 2016.
Box Office Report: ‘Furious 7’ Three-peats, Jumps $1B Globally
Universal’s ‘Furious 7’ wins its third consecutive weekend at the North American box office this with $29.1 million; jumps the $1 billion mark globally with $1.153 billion in worldwide ticket sales.
Corus Entertainment and Disney TV Join Forces
Corus secures Canadian licensing rights to Disney Channel’s content and is set to launch Disney Channel TV Network in Canada for the first time on September 1, 2015.
Studio 100 Signs Distribution Deal with FranceTV
FranceTV Distribution to manage channels in France on YouTube and Dailymotion for titles including ‘Blinky Bill,’ ‘Flipper & Lopaka’ and 3D animated preschool series ‘Zigby.’
Warner Bros. Taps Patty Jenkins to Direct ‘Wonder Woman’ Feature
‘Monster’ director previously hired to helm Marvel’s ‘Thor: The Dark World,’ but exited the project over “creative differences.”
Manson Joins Not To Scale Directorial Roster
Directing collective’s latest project -- an animated short that tells the fascinating story of Devo’s Mark Mothersbaugh -- was made in collaboration with BH Los Angeles for Google Play and The California Sunday Magazine.
Jetpack Distribution Signs Broadcast Deal with MBC
Raft of new programming for the Middle East includes ‘Jamie’s Got Tentacles’ and ‘Invisible Network of Kids.’
Studio 100 Extends Multi-Platform Partnership with Sky Deutschland
Agreement extension includes rights for remakes of the classic series ‘Maya the Bee’ and ‘Vic The Viking.’
Toei Animation Introduces ‘Saint Seiya soul of gold’
Latest chapter of Toei’s long-running series launches in Europe following its television and online debut.
Imira Entertainment’s ‘The Aviators’ Flies to North America
Retail licensing deal with Viva Pictures Distribution includes ‘Speed Racer,’ ‘Gaturro’ and ‘Lola & Virginia.’
PlayblastVR Renderer for Maya Released
Renderer for Maya creates hardware rendered panoramic images using OpenGL or DirectX formats, allowing users to create immersive previz renderings of Maya scenes in fulldome, latlong, and cubic panorama formats.
Autodesk Tech Helps Create Immersive Experience for Björk’s ‘Black Lake’
Director Andrew Thomas Huang, Wolf & Crow and xRez Studio use Autodesk Maya, Flame, Mudbox, ReCap and Memento to create a new CG landscape and VFX for short film.
Silverdraft Unleashes Next-Gen Supercomputing Systems at NAB 2015
Devil and Demon computers run 20 percent faster than before and deliver screaming performance for DGx extreme gaming system.
eOne Buys North American Rights to Wizart’s ‘Snow Queen 2’
The sequel to 2012’s ‘The Snow Queen,’ directed by Alexey Tsitsilin and produced by Russia’s Wizart Animation, is set for a late 2015 release in Canada and the U.S.
AJA Releases CION v1.2 Firmware Update at NAB 2015
Free field-upgradeable software update brings additional image improvements and new features to 4K/UltraHD and 2K/HD professional production camera.
Blackmagic Design Delivers Fusion 8 for Mac OS X and Linux
Fusion 8 release opens the door to millions of motion graphic artists, broadcast designers, video editors, visual effects compositors and 3D animators.
The Foundry Delivers NUKE Non-commercial
NUKE Non-commercial is a free, non-watermarked version of the entire NUKE product family, with some light functional restrictions, available to anyone who wants to learn, explore and have fun with NUKE.