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Boomerang Presents 24-Hour Looney Tunes in Hollywood Marathon

Cartoon Network's Boomerang, a commercial-free network devoted exclusively to classic cartoons, will present Looney Tunes in Hollywood, a 24-hour tribute showcasing every Warner Bros. short that featured a celebrity caricature, starting at 8:00 am on June 25, 2004.

Warner Bros.' immortal Looney Tunes, produced by legendary animators Tex Avery, Chuck Jones and others at the fabled "termite terrace" on the studio lot, earned a riotous reputation for parodying popular movies of the day by creating hilarious caricatures of well-known actors and actresses.

Disney Headline News

Toon Disney Expands JETIX Block On Weekends, Adds Spider-Man

Toon Disney expands its action/adventure evening block, JETIX, to four hours on Saturdays and Sundays, 7:00-11:00 pm, starting June 26, 2004, coinciding with the Toon Disney premiere of the 1990s animated series SPIDER-MAN.

Animation Headline News

Spectra Animation Hopes to Draw Viewers to New Site

Spectra Animation, a subsidiary of LÉquipe Spectra, has launched its Internet site, which can be accessed at www.spectra-animation.ca, featuring info on the company, its history, creations and development projects, plus the latest news on its activities.

Television Headline News

David L. Simon Joins Noodlesoup Productions Board of Directors

Former Disney, DreamWorks and FOX TV exec David L. Simon joins the Noodlesoup Productions Inc., board of directors to held guide the privately held, full-service animation studio based in New York City.

Film Headline News

Dodgeball Star Up For Racer X in Speed Racer

DODGEBALL star Vince Vaughn has put Warner Bros. back in gear on a live-action version of SPEED RACER, reports VARIETY. Vaughn pitched his take on the film to producers Joel Silver and Richard and Lauren Shuler Donner, which would put the actor in the role of Racer X. The actor will serve as an exec producer on the project along with David Lane Seltzer.

Framestore Headline News

Framestore Creates Illusions for Audi A6

Framestore CFC has wrapped work on a new spot titled ILLUSIONS for the Audi A6. The spot features an Audi A6 traversing a cityscape that seems at first to be normal, but gradually warps and transformations of the streets and buildings that create impossible paths and spaces form.

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Acclaim Unleashed Legends of Wrestling

Acclaim Ent. has unleashed the ultimate wrestling game SHOWDOWN: LEGENDS OF WRESTLING for the PlayStation 2 and Xbox. Developed by Acclaim Studios Austin, the game was designed in conjunction with professional wrestling experts and features 73 of the greatest wrestlers in history, including Hulk Hogan, Sting, Andre the Giant, Ultimate Warrior, Randy "Macho Man" Savage, Bret "Hitman" Hart, Diamond Dallas Page, Jake "The Snake" Roberts, "Rowdy" Roddy Piper, Eddie Guerrero and "The American Dream" Dusty Rhodes.

Interactive Headline News

2.5M Units of DRIV3R Race Into Stores

Atari Inc. has announced that it has shipped 2.5 million units of its highly anticipated DRIV3R to retails outlets worldwide. Since DRIV3R hit store shelves on June 21, 2004 in the U.S. and June 22 in Europe and Australia, consumer demand has been extremely strong.

"Our worldwide shipment is right in line with our plan for DRIV3R," said Bruno Bonnell, chairman/ceo of Atari. "The global DRIVER fan base is as robust and passionate as ever, as indicated by retail reaction in the U.S., the U.K., Germany, France and other key territories."

Headline News

DAZ Buys 3D Bryce Package

DAZ Prods. has acquired Bryce, Corel's award-winning 3D landscaping and animation package.

Widely used by designers seeking to integrate 3D technology into their creative workflow, Bryce complements existing DAZ software packages and further strengthens DAZ's presence in the digital graphics market.

Design Headline News

V12 + Panopoly Pictures design = Full Circle

V12 and Panopoly Pictures are merging their respective design and production departments to form Full Circle, a the new company that will provide live-action production, branding motion graphic design and animation to clients in the feature film, commercial and broadcast arenas. Leading the joint venture are V12 founder David Hwang and Panopoly Pictures co-founder Kathryn Peaslee.

Production Headline News

Digital Musings From the Editor:

VES 2004, held last weekend in beautiful San Rafael, California, was a sheer delight. The sixth annual festival of the Visual Effects Society, in which the baton was symbolically passed from founder Tom Atkin to new executive director Eric Roth, offered the latest in vfx creativity and technology (Mars and MYTHBUSTERS were two favorites). But the buzz was all about how games are catching up to movies in vfx quality, which is now being stressed in schools, the inevitable acceptance of outsourcing and the need to unionize.

Headline News

ASIFA-Hollywood Presents 2D Expo Pencils Not Pixels

ASIFA-Hollywood's 2D Expo Pencils Not PixelsBurbank, California, USAJune 26, 2004

ASIFA-Hollywood presents 2D Expo Pencils Not Pixels, a one-day symposium and conference for traditional animators. The events will feature meetings, screenings, panels, filmmakers, networking, grants, sketchbooks, inspiration, discussion, drawing and painting. Guests and Panelists include:

* Eric Goldberg (director, LOONEY TUNES: BACK IN ACTION, FANTASIA 2000)* Shane Glines (designer, BATMAN BEYOND, CartoonRetro.com)

Headline News

Aspyr Media Says Build It in Space

Building on the idea behind the wildly popular SIMS' series, Aspyr Media is shipping SPACE COLONY for the Mac, which was developed by Trihedron LLC. SPACE COLONY adds a new dimension to people simulation and building strategy games.

The player must create a successful space colony by harvesting space resources and fend off manic aliens, as well as baby-sit a team of outer space misfits.

Television Headline News

Levinsohn Appointed Digital Media/Pay TV Pres for Fox

Fox Filmed Ent. upped Peter Levinsohn to president, Digital Media and Worldwide Pay Television. In this new role, Levinsohn will be responsible for managing digital media strategy for Fox, including leading the effort to establish robust content protection measures in the digital media marketplace; identifying content distribution opportunities; pursuing long-term strategic initiatives with major technology players; and developing opportunities to maximize the value of film and television product in emerging digital platforms. In this capacity he will work closely with the Fox Ent.

Software Headline News

SOFTIMAGE|XSI v.4.0 to Demo in N.Y. and L.A.

Softimage Co. announced that it will premiere its SOFTIMAGE|XSI version 4.0 software at industry events in New York and Los Angeles on June 28 and July 13, respectively. The events - sponsored by HP and Intel Corp., and part of Softimage's "i am 4 power" campaign - will feature product demonstrations of SOFTIMAGE|XSI v.4.0 software running on the latest technology from HP, Intel and NVIDIA Corp.

Film Headline News

Mt. Head Wins Zagreb

Wrapping up its run on June 19, 2004, Zagreb: 16th World Festival of Animated Films awarded its Grand Prix to Koji Yamamura's Oscar-nominated short, MT. HEAD. Virgil Widrich's FAST FILM was a three-time winner, taking home the Zagreb Award, Jury Of The Croatian Filmmakers Guild (Animation Section) Grand Competition and Jury Of The Croatian Film Critics prizes. The top audience award went to WARD 13 by Peter Cornwell.

Below is complete list of winners:Grand Prix ATAMA YAMA (MT. HEAD) by Koji Yamamura, Yamamura Animation

Zagreb Award

Festival Headline News

International Festival of Cinema & Technology Announces Winners

The International Festival of Cinema and Technology 2004 has announced its winners. The tour was launched this past February in Orlando and festival screenings took place in London, Toronto, New York, Sydney and Brisbane. Festival locations this year included Universal Studios in Orlando, The Fox Studios Screening Room in Sydney, The Canadian Broadcast Centre in Toronto, the Horse Hospital in London among others. In each city, extensive judging took place in each city to determine the award winners.

Headline News

Jumanji Sequel Now Stands Alone with Tim Robbins

Once viewed as a sequel to Columbia's JUMANJI, ZATHURA, also written by novelist Chris Van Allsburg, is now being produced as a stand alone film with Tim Robbins as star. Lensing will begin in August with ELF helmer Jon Favreau in the director's chair. David Koepp, John Kamps and Eric Fogel wrote the screenplay. Michael De Luca and Bill Teitler will produce.

The story follows two brothers whose house is transported into space and wrapped up into an intergalactic adventure Robbins will play the boys' father.

Games Headline News

Vivendi Universal Game for Robot

Vivendi Universal Games has announced that ROBOTS is currently in development by Eurocom Entertainment Software for a first quarter 2005 launch to coincide with the theatrical release of the Blue Sky-produced ROBOTS film. The game will be on the PlayStation 2, Xbox and PC. Based upon Twentieth Century Fox's CG animated feature film releasing on March 11, 2005 -- directed by Academy Award-winner Chris Wedge -- the game will place players in the role of the film's hero Rodney Copperbottom.

Dark Headline News

Image & Dark Horse Team on Distribution Deal

DVD producer/distributor Image Ent. and comicbook-based media company Dark Horse Ent. have partnered to produce and distribute live-action and animation genre movies, music and other entertainment programming. John Landis has signed on to write and direct a horror film for the jointly owned Dark Horse Home Ent., whose film will initially be direct-to-DVD films. In addition, Bruce Campbell and novelist and graphic novel writer Neil Gaiman have agreed to be involved in several upcoming productions.

Anime Headline News

Geneon To Bring Appleseed to the World

Geneon Ent. has acquired worldwide theatrical and home video rights from Micott & Basara to anime feature APPLESEED. The pact excludes Japan and South Korea. North American theatrical distribution is scheduled for late summer. The film will mark the debut of Geneon Films, which will focus on marketing and distributing Japanese and Asian live-action and animated features around the globe.

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