Atomic Cartoons and Australia’s Sticky Pictures start production on 26 half-hour episodes of the original animated television comedy series Pirate Express, set for broadcast on Canada’s TELETOON in the fall of 2014 and Nine Network Australia in 2015.
Following a 15-year career at Disney, veteran executive Patricia Hidalgo joins Turner International as its SVP and chief kids content officer for Europe, the Middle East, and Africa.
twofifteenmccann taps Ntropic to create a new trailer, Explosion, for game title RYSE: Son of Rome.
Method Studios completes 185 shots, comprising four sequences, for Columbia Pictures’ White House Down.
Zoic Studios creates a photo-real talking dolphin, turning a friendly, silent creature into an overeager aquatic friend in Aquarium, a new spot for Dynamics ePlate.
CAKE launches the stop-motion animated Clay Kids in Brazil, featuring the voice of local rapper/songwriter Gabriel O Pensador.
Psyop creates an unstoppable force of bees looking for Jack Daniel’s Tennessee Honey in Swarm.
After joining Tiger Aspect in 2001, and working across all the company’s programming, Tom Beattie is appointed the new Head of Animation and Children’s Programming.
The executive, who was to have stepped down as CEO in March 2015, will retain that title until the end of his current contract as executive chairman expires.
Ahead of its North American debut, Universal and Illumination Entertainment’s Despicable Me 2 climbs its way up the international box office chart.
Pixar’s Monsters University stays at number one in its second weekend with $46.2 million to cross the $300 million mark worldwide.
Visual effects house Cinesite completes over 430 shots on Paramount’s World War Z, as well as stereo conversion of the visual effects.
Canadian media regulator the CRTC approves a revised bid by Bell Media-parent BCE to acquire Astral Media for $3.4 billion.
Mark Gordon, Don Murphy and Susan Montford are producing the film adaptation of the 1990s TV series.
Digital distribution company Cinedigm and Mondo Media, the Internet's leading multi-platform distributor of animation for teens and young adults, enter into a strategic content distribution partnership.
A mid-year report shows that the first six months of 2013 have been good to Hollywood stocks, with Disney overtaking Comcast – for now – as the most valuable media company.
Toon Boom Animation announces a reorganization of its product line with Animate 3, ideal for for frame-by-frame animation, and Animate Pro 3, ideal for cut-out rigging animation.
Blacklist takes a historical journey through the Santa Ynez Valley in an elegant spot for the Chumash Casino Resort.
Visual effects company MPC provides more than 450 shots for the Marc Forster-directed World War Z.
Amazon Studios is now accepting short concept videos for feature development options.
Amazon announces an expanded multi-year licensing agreement with PBS Distribution giving Prime members access to PBS KIDS programs such as Caillou, Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood and Wild Kratts.
Digital animation and motion graphics company SquareZero appoints Natalie Harvey senior producer.
Practical effects company 32TEN Studios expands its capabilities with the installation of a ventilated paint booth, 10 x 15-foot green screen, and a PROJECT HD 3000 3D printing system.
IncrediBuild, an all-in-one solution, allows faster development time and reduction in build time for all game consoles.
Pixar Animation announces the release of RenderMan Pro Server 18, setting a new standard in rendering technology.
