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.

Silver Dolphin Books launches kids’ app publishing business and acquires app publishing rights to evergreen brands Little Critter and Richard Scarry.

Nickelodeon acquires the rights to eOne Family’s BAFTA award-winning film “Lost and Found.”

Coming Saturday, December 1, Gallery Nucleus is hosting an artist panel and book signing for DreamWorks Animation’s “Rise of the Guardians.”

Beatrix Potter’s iconic character Peter Rabbit makes its return to television next month in a new holiday special, "Peter Rabbit’s Christmas Tale."

Acamar Films has acquired the rights to award-winning author and illustrator Ted Dewan’s hugely popular pre-school book property “Bing Bunny.”

The UK’s Penguin Children’s Puffin imprint, Irish animation production company Cartoon Saloon and Irish media company Dog Ears join forces to co-produce new multi-platform kids property Puffin Rock.

TwoMorrows Publishing releases “Lou Scheimer: Creating The Filmation Generation,” the new autobiography of the co-founder of the renowned Filmation animation studio.

Michel Gagné launches a Kickstarter campaign to finance the first four minutes of a proposed animated feature film based on his graphic novel, “The Saga of Rex.”

: VIZ Media announces the release of the “Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind” Deluxe Box Set.

Atlantyca Lab partners with Forge Reply to develop videogames based on award winning fantasy author Joe Dever’s hugely popular “Lone Wolf” series of game books.