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.

CGI adventure series to mirror broad appeal of Tom Taylor and James Brouwer’s worldwide hit property, “The Deep.”

The company that creates mythological and superhero characters for the Indian youth market hopes to produce future hit franchises.

9 Story Entertainment signs a publishing deal for the hit animated comedy “Almost Naked Animals” with Scholastic.