Animation Phenomenon Goes to TV Tokyo Broadband Ent.
The rights to remake the story of the wildly popular Russian animated character Cheburashka have been acquired by TV Tokyo Broadband Ent. Inc. in partnership with Frontier Works Inc.
The rights to remake the story of the wildly popular Russian animated character Cheburashka have been acquired by TV Tokyo Broadband Ent. Inc. in partnership with Frontier Works Inc.
Casual gaming leader gameLab has entered into an agreement with Curious Pictures to partner on the creative development and production of downloadable online games. Their first joint project will be a game tentatively titled BRENDAS BRAIN, which combines a playful and contemporary visual look with the more adult subject matter of neuroses and psychological quirks.
Carrere Group has obtained the international distribution rights to COTOONS. This animated series of 26 episodes is produced by Zone 3 in Canada and Film en Stock in France. Carrere Group will handle all television sales in the world, excluding the co-production territories Canada and France.
The weather is lovely in Cannes, the spring flowers are in bloom, lots of animation abounds, but many MIP-goes may not experience any of this due to an air traffic controllers strike in France that has cancelled most flights coming into Nice, the closest airport to the MIP market.
Those entered the Palais convention hall on Monday, April 3, 2006, saw a handwritten list of affected flights. While expected to be over before the weekend, this presents a hardship to those expecting to arrive and leave mid-market.
American kids on the AOL KOL service will now get the chance to watch Nelvana's JACOB TWO-TWO. As its first English-language U.S. distribution deal for this property, Nelvana took an unconventional approach by tapping the growing online medium to showcase its popular cartoon.
Dargaud Distribution has signed a deal with French production company Croqueplume to represent CANOPUS (52x4:30), a new 2D/3D cartoon about tolerance. Dargaud has acquired television, home entertainment and licensing rights to the show.
Based on an original idea by Jacqueline de Rosnay, developed by Francis Nielsen and designed by Valerie Rindoff Petroff, CANOPUS is a Martine Ventura and Helene Fatou animated series co-produced by France 5, Croqueplume and Spirit Prods.
7th International Bitfilm Festival for Digital FilmHamburg, GermanyNovember 2006Deadline: June 1, 2006
TELETOON highlights for April include Easter eggs and telekinesis.
On Sunday, April 16, TELETOON will feature the following Easter themed specials:
* BUGS BUNNYS EASTER FUNNIES @ 8:00 am and 3:00 pm* DAFFY DUCKS EASTER EGG-CITEMENT @ 9:00 am and 4:00 pm* EASTER FEVER @ 9:30 am and 2:30 pm.
Blue Sky Studios exclusively used Angstrom Titan64 SuperBlade rendering servers and Titan64 Creator workstations for ICE AGE: THE MELTDOWN. Blue Sky is using the Angstrom Titan64 computers to enable significantly more complex imagery and faster generation of animated features.
fmx/06, the 11th International Conference on Animation, Effects, Realtime and Content, will take place May 3-6, in Stuttgart, Germany.
Topics include the latest animated movies and vfx features, the convergence of games and movies, new fields of work for animators, the latest use of realtime graphics and current trends from the Far East. There is also new cooperation with the Stuttgart International Festival of Animated Film, with overlapping programs, in addition to the festival award ceremony coinciding with the opening of fmx/06 on the evening of May 2.
THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA: THE LION, THE WITCH AND THE WARDROBE makes its DVD debut April 4, 2006 in a two-disc collectors edition (Buena Vista Home Ent., $34.99). For the first time at Disney, the DVD production team was allowed to work onset and the bonus materials are extensive for this CGI-intensive epic that earned an Oscar nomination for best visual effects. There are two audio commentaries (director Andrew Adamson and the filmmakers and Adamson and the young cast members).
Joining the Gnomon School of Visual Effects advisory board are visual effects supervisor Richard Kidd and Patricia Beckmann, manager of artistic and professional development for Disney Feature Animation. As board members, they will help guide development, curriculum and direction for the school.
AMD announced the availability of the AMD Geode LX EPIC Reference Design Kit (RDK). This RDK will help developers quickly and efficiently create low-power, high-performance singleboard computer (SBC) products. This versatile, industry-standard design supports a wide range of rugged industrial SBC applications, including data acquisition, video processing, point-of-sale terminals, telecommunications, global positioning satellite (GPS) devices and motion control.
Baraka Post Production completed the post-production on the new debut music video for SEWN by The Feeling directed by Caswell Coggins of Draw Pictures. The treatment called for the lead singer to be literally sewn and stitched up by long living threads that have an ominous life of their own. Baraka created the sinister animated threads by a mixture of 3D effects, with the rest of the film shot in-camera.
New Regency's upcoming sci-fi adventure JUMPER has signed actors Thomas Sturridge (VANITY FAIR), Teresa Palmer (THE GRUDGE 2) and Jamie Bell (BILLY ELLIOT, KING KONG), reports VARIETY. Set to be a trilogy, MR. AND MRS. SMITH director Doug Liman will helm with Lucas Foster and Simon Kinberg producing.
Based on a 1992 novel by Steven Gould, Jim Uhls is rewriting an adaptation by David Goyer.
On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court, without comment, refused to hear an appeal in the case over the sales of VEGGIETALES DVDs and other products.
In the case, Lyrick Studios sued Big Idea Prods., claiming that Big Idea had breached their agreement giving Lyrick exclusive license to distribute the children's cartoons. In 2003, a Dallas jury agreed with Lyrick, stating that the companies had an agreement and a two-year working relationship that was in effect a contract, even though a contract wasn't formally signed.
Surprising theater-goers who went to see ICE AGE: THE MELTDOWN with a teaser trailer, Twentieth Century Fox has announced details about the highly-anticipated SIMPSONS MOVIE.
The film will open worldwide in theaters on July 27, 2007. David Silverman, THE SIMPSONS supervising animation director, who also co-helmed Pixars MONSTERS, INC., is directing.
KING KONG provided blockbuster numbers in its first six days in release, selling more than 6.5 million DVDs, generating $100 million in consumer spending, the largest six-day performance in Universal Studios history.
KING KONG ranks as the studio's fourth-highest grossing film in the studio's 94-year history. To date, the film has amassed approximately $550 million in ticket sales worldwide, following on the heels of JURASSIC PARK, E.T. and THE LOST WORLD: JURASSIC PARK.
Slime and stars were featured at the 19th Annual Nickelodeon's Kids' Choice Awards, televised live from the UCLA campus on Saturday night. Will Smith, Lindsay Lohan, Chris Rock, Kelly Clarkson, Drake Bell, Jamie Lynn Spears, Lance Armstrong, Jesse McCartney, Green Day, SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS, HARRY POTTER were among those who captured the coveted Kids' Choice Blimp Award.
This week in AWN's Forums, the members are abuzz with the release of THE SIMPSONS MOVIE teaser trailer. In more SIMPSONS debate, theres a poll asking whether the Simpsons kids should grow up. A member needs soft shading help. A CG fan is looking for the name of an elusive CG film. A member from Europe is curious about the 2D prospects in the U.S. Theres also a thread collecting the worlds funniest cartoon quotes.