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Toon Goggles Teams with Southern Telecom

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Toon Goggles partners with Southern Telecom to release a new app for the Polaroid 7” Kids Tablet.

Sanjay Debut Reaps Big Ratings

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Nickelodeon draws nearly four million viewers to Sanjay and Craig animated series debut.

Framestore Steals Secrets for Wikileaks Documentary

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Framestore NY provides rendered effects for Alex Gibney's latest documentary, We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks.

PGS Strikes New Deals for Robin Hood

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PGS Entertainment strikes new deals for Robin Hood: Mischief in Sherwood, bringing the show to Quebec, Belgium, Portugal, Spain, and Finland.

Spiral Graphics Releases Genetica 4.0

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Spiral Graphics releases the latest version of their seamless texture, animation, and HDRI environment map editor, Genetica 4.0.

Gender-Bending SheZow Series Hits The Hub

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Children’s network The Hub is launching the gender-bending animated series, SheZow, from Moody Street Kids & Kickstart Productions.

Nickelodeon Appoints Layla Lewis

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Viacom International appoints Layla Lewis as Vice President, Content Acquisitions for Nickelodeon.

Gentleman Scholar Brings Toyota RAV4 to LA LIVE

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Gentleman Scholar creates a Toyota RAV4 display, showcasing the car moving through a stylized red landscape, for LA LIVE.

Christine Cattano Joins Framestore NY

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Digital Producer Christine Cattano joins Framestore NY to serve as production lead on digital and integrated projects.

Mike Mitchell Set to Direct Trolls Feature

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Comedy director Mike Mitchell And Emmy Award-winning writer Erica Rivinoja are set to bring DreamWorks Animation’s Trolls to the big screen with a release date of November 4, 2016.

Peter Ramsay to Executive Produce Tailchaser’s Song

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Animetropolis and IDA announce the production team and unveil a teaser poster for the animated feature film adaptation of Tad Williams' “Tailchaser’s Song.”

Aronofsky Launches Commercial Production House Chromista

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Academy Award-nominated director Darren Aronofsky launches commercial production house Chromista with partners Ted Robbins and Sandy Haddad.

Shapeshifter Provides Post for Arrested Development

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Shapeshifter provides comprehensive finishing services, including final conforming, final color correction and visual effects for new episodes of Netflix series Arrested Development.

Box Office: Fast 6 No. 1 with $300M

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Universal’s Fast & Furious 6 tops the Memorial Day box office, while Fox Animation and Blue Sky Studios’ Epic places fourth with a $42.6 million opening.

Super RTL and DreamWorks Enter Long-Term Partnership

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German kids channel Super RTL signs a multi-year deal with DreamWorks Animation that will see the animation studio supply the Cologne-based network with around 1,200 hours of programming through 2020.

iartists Celebrates One Year

International business development firm iartists celebrates its first anniversary, launching into its second year with two new clients and the addition of associate agent Sheima Hassanlou.

Cantina Taps Maxon for Iron Man 3

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Cantina Creative relies on Maxon's Cinema 4D software to generate more than 100 2D and 3D visual effects shots that appear throughout the blockbuster Disney/Marvel Studios superhero sequel Iron Man 3.

Method Studios Creates VFX for Dodge

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Method Studios teams up with MJZ and director Nicolai Fuglsig on a new spot for Chrysler’s Dodge brand.

BinWeevils Appoints Henwood as CEO

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BinWeevils, the digital social world for kids 6 to 12, appoints Rod Henwood as its new CEO.

Vertical Entertainment Buys Wizart’s Snow Queen

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Newly-launched distribution company Vertical Entertainment buys the U.S. rights to the Russian 3D animated feature from Wizart.