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Business:
"Independent" Disney's First Quarter Results, CINAR
Settles Wimzie Lawsuit, Funkmation Floats Into Brooklyn Navy Yard,
Disney's Go.Com Goes In A New Direction, Nick's Net Nozzle Closes,
Fox Kids Fires Up In Italy, digitalCHARACTERgroup Celebrates Anniversery,
Animation World Network Gets More Creative, Entertaindom Has A New
Pulse, Macromedia Gains Time4 Development, Pixar's 4th Quarter Flies
To Infinity & Beyond, Disney Will Close Canadian Doors, Fox
Cuts 70% Of Its Animation Staff, DreamWorks Picks Up Pacific Data
Images, French Ellipse & Expand Form New Euro TV Company, AtomFilms
Broadcasts USC Alumus' Films, Mondo Money For Mondo Media, AtomFilms'
Blockbuster Partnership.
People: Disney Promotes Iger,
Forms Exec Committee, Letter Campaign To Honor Bergman At Oscars,
Musical Chairs: PDI Promotes Denise Minter, CINAR Entertainment
Fills President Seat With Peter Moss, Edward Adler Has Stepped Up
To Senior VP At Time Warner, Ed Galton New Head Of Distribution
At Igel Media AG, Ring Of Fire Expands The Flames With Six New Artists,
Riot Names Alix Eglis New Visual Effects Producer And Claus Hansen
Visual Effects Artist, Radium Expands With New Head Of Production
Jonathan Whitehead And Visual Effects Artists Mark Holmes And Christine
Rivard, Marcom Is Atomfilms' New Senior VP, Former Senior VP And
General Manager At Fox Animation Studios Joins Stan Lee Media, Breier
Promoted To Senior VP, Special Events, At Walt Disney, Lucas Licensing
Appoints Kerry Phelan As Director Of Domestic Licensing & Marketing.
In Passing: Disney TV's Pioneer
Webster Passes, Much Grief, Charles Schulz Passes, Voice Of Slinky
Dog, Jim Varney, Dies.
Films: AWN Animated Box Office Report, Raining
Cats & Dogs At Warner, Imax Delivers Simpsons In 3D,
Stuart Little Set For Sequel.
Television: Simpsons'
Scandal Set For Sweeps, Johnny Bravo Live On Cartoon Net, Nick Jr
Comes To CBS Saturday Mornings, TV Tidbits: Home Movies, The
Dick And Paula Celebrity Special, Cartoon Campaign 2000, The Ripping
Friends, Good Grief, Charlie Brown: A Tribute To Charles Schultz,
Wunschpunch, Treasure, Sagwa, The Chinese Siamese Cat, NASCAR Racers,
The Weekenders, Mimi And Mr. Bobo, Brak Presents The Brak Show Starring
Brak, The Tick, Angela Anaconda Marathon, Digimon:
Digital Monsters Marathon, Los Kitos.
Home Video: Main Street Dates:
Pokemon: The First Movie And An Extremely Goofy Movie.
Commercials: Seeing Spots:
TOPIXMad Dog Clears The Air For Ricola Ads, Attik Brings Home Test
Drive 6 Spots, Quiet Man Souped Up Two Spots For Campbell's Soup,
Ring Of Fire Roasts With Two New Spots For The Washington Apple
Commission, Passion Pictures Pops Open Four 10-Second Spots For
Cadbury's Giant Button Chocolates, National Football League's "Thank
You" From Charlex, Buckley Of Flying Tiger Film And Seiden
Of Cyclotron@Post Perfect N.Y. Round-Up The E-Cowboy's For Lastminutetravel.Com
Spot, Ring Of Fire Makes The Crippled Walk In Nuveen & Co.'s
Super Bowl Spot, A. Film Raps On New Kellogg's Cereal Spot.
Internet & Interactive: Tim Burton To Stain
Shockwave.Com, Joe Cartoon Co. Vs. Joescartoon.Com, CartoonNetwork.Com
Plans To Expand, Class In Session At Eruptor.Com, LucasArts Brings
Their Far, Far Away Galaxy To Dreamcast, Sammy Sosa Hits For 3DO.
Licensing: Pokemon Ball
Kills Second Child, Harvey Fashions A New Product Deal.
Technology: CHROME Imaging
Releases Photonyx 1.5, RE:Vision Effects Announced ReelSmart Motion
Blur, BOXX Delivers RenderBOXX, Artbeats Releases Lifestyles, Toon
Boom Releases USanimation 5.0, Macromedia Introduces Freehand 9,
Interactive Effects Releases Piranha HD 3.1, Corel And Adobe Get
Flashy, Intergraph Cuts Zx10 Prices.
Awards: Toy Story 2
Grabs The Globe, Imagina Makes Toy Story 2 Grand, Oscar Nominations
Announced.
Events: Ongoing Events: Folimage
Screening, Cartoon Noir in L.A., Brussels Cartoon and Animated
Film Festival. Upcoming Events: WIA Production Management Group
Meeting, ASIFA-Hollywood's 7th Annual Animation Expo, "Art
of Directing 3D Computer Animation," Tampere International
Short Film Festival, 3rd Annual British Animation Awards,
Santa Clarita International Film Festival, Acting for Animators
Workshop, 10th International Trickfilm Festival, Third Brisbane
International Animation Festival, Comic Book Legal Defense Fund
Cruise, Iowa State Festival.
Last Month In Animation: The Art of Charles M. Schulz Exhibit,
"Animation Dreams: Millennium Nightmares" Exhibit, Canadian
Drawn Screening, TAIS' "Creating Appealing Cartoon Characters,"
Rotterdam International Film Festival, Art In Motion, Stan Brakhage
Screening, 22nd International Short Film Festival of San Roque,
Clermont-Ferrand Short Films Festival, Norman McLaren Screening,
"Round-Up: Recent International Gems," "Careers in
Animation." Lecture Series, WIA Writers' Group, 29th Mobius
Advertising Awards, The Adventures Of Prince Achmed Screening,
American International Toy Fair, TEAM Awards, Kirikou And The
Sorceress U.S. Premiere, Monte-Carlo Television Market, Futurama
at the AFI's Writers' POV, Cinequest San Jose Film Festival, Women
In Animation, Inc. Annual Meeting.