Aardman announces new global deals for Walker Productions and JAM Media’s “Tilly and Friends.”

Peavey Electronics announces a new line of musical instruments that capture the DC Comics Super Heroes.

VIZ Media releases “My Neighbor Totoro: A Novel” and a new edition of the “My Neighbor Totoro Picture Book” in celebration of the 25th anniversary of the film.

Reel FX announces that Shane Acker will direct their upcoming untitled CG-animated feature based on the comic series “Beasts of Burden.”

RHCSE and Komixx sign a distribution deal with CAKE for “Wanda and the Alien.”

Ballistic issues a call for entries for the latest edition of the premier computer arts annual, “EXPOSÉ 11.”

Syfy plans to develop a 4-hour miniseries adaptation of Philip K. Dick’s “The Man in the High Castle,” with Frank Spotnitz writing and Ridley Scott as executive producer.

Illumination Entertainment is developing Dr. Seuss' How The Grinch Stole Christmas! with Pete Candeland set to direct and Universal to handle worldwide distribution.

Focus Features releases an interactive booklet providing a closer look at Laika’s “ParaNorman.”

Focus Features and Laika reunite for October 2014’s “The Boxtrolls,” based on Alan Snow’s bestseller “Here Be Monsters,” and starring the voices of Ben Kingsley, Toni Collette, Elle Fanning, Isaac Hempstead-Wright, Jared Harris, Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Richard Ayoade and Tracy Morgan.