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Dominic Gardiner Coming to Jetix UK as Director Of Programming

Dominic Gardiner will join Jetix UK as director of programming in September, with responsibility for overall channel content programming, acquisitions, scheduling and on air promotions with a strong focus on improving channel ratings and share performance.

He will report to Boel Ferguson, Jetix UKs recently appointed md. Gardiner will work closely with both Jetix UKs marketing director Allan Stenhouse and Jetix Europes svp of programming Michael Lekes, to deliver an overall programming strategy and fine tune the channel editorial line.

Comics Headline News

Middle Eastern Superheroes Coming To Comic-Con

AK Comics Jalila, Rakan, Zein and Aya hit Comic-Con via newly published U.S. issues featuring AKs roster of caped Middle Eastern superheroes.

From a booth, attendees will be introduced to pages of four U.S. titles featuring the visually striking superheroes, as well the creative team bringing them to life. The L.A.- and Cairo-based company also will assemble artists, writers and editors for a panel to be presented 10:30 am in Room 8 on Thursday, July 20, 2006.

Animation Headline News

Romantic Comedy Wins Animex Audience Award

Animex Awards has announced that Francisco Alvarez, from Sheridan College, has won his years this years Animex Audience Award. Of the 43 nominated entries posted on the Animex website, Alvarezs romantic comedy entitled LA BALADA DEL CARUPANERO TIMIDO received an average user rating of 4.75 out of a possible 5. Alvarez will receive a prize donated by Viglen Computers.

To view Fransciscos award-winning entry and other works being streamed from the Animex website, visit www.animex.net/audience.

Series Headline News

SCI FI Gives Viewers a Voice in Potential Series Greenlight

SCIFI.COMs broadband channel SCI FI Pulse will premiere two outrageous sci-fi originals on July 13, 2006 a full two weeks prior to their broadcast debuts on SCI FI Channel. Pulse viewers will have the chance to affect the future of the off-beat animated half-hour pilot, AMAZING SCREW-ON HEAD, featuring the voice talents of Paul Giamatti (SIDEWAYS), David Hyde Pierce (FRASIER) and Molly Shannon (SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE).

Media Headline News

DIC Ent. & Thomopoulos Form Promise Media Prods. for Christian & Secular Markets

DIC Ent. and Thomopoulos Prods. have joined forces to launch Promise Media Prods., a new venture focused on developing, marketing and distributing properties for children and families under the positive value-based Promise Media brand for faith-based and secular markets.

Series Headline News

Tintin and I Profiles Comicbook Character & Reclusive Creator on PBS

Anders Østergaards 2004 documentary, TINTIN AND I, about TINTIN creator Hergé, premieres this week as a P.O.V. event on PBS stations in the U.S. In some parts of the country the show starts July 11, in Los Angeles it airs July 15 at 9:00 pm on KCET and in New York City, the doc airs July 13 at 3:30 am and again July 17 at 2:00 am on WNET. For other cities, check your local listings.

Visual Headline News

Patlabor 2 Lands on DVD

Image Ent. Inc. and Bandai Visual USA Inc. have released the 1993 anime masterpiece PATLABOR 2 THE MOVIE on DVD.

PATLABOR 2 was directed by acclaimed director Mamoru Oshii (PATLABOR THE MOVIE, GHOST IN THE SHELL, JIN-ROH, AVALON), written by Kazunori Ito (.HACK//, AVALON), with music by Kenji Kawai (GHOST IN THE SHELL, AVALON, RINGU).

Headline News

THQ Races MotoGP, Gets Juiced on PSP & Launches Titan Quest

THQ Inc. has released three new games, including MOTOGP '06 for Xbox 360, JUICED: ELIMINATOR for PSP and TITAN QUEST for PC.

Developed by Climax, MOTOGP '06 is rated "E" for Everyone and is available worldwide for $59.99.

Series Headline News

Nick Says “Action!” to Ricky Sprocket – Showbiz Boy

Bejuba! Ent. Inc., Snowden Fine Prods. and Studio B Prods. Inc. have announced that RICKY SPROCKET SHOWBIZ BOY will air on Nickelodeon channels in the U.K., Australia, Latin America, Germany, Italy, France, Spain and Scandinavia in the fall of 2007 and Nicktoons Network in the U.S. The series, created by Alison Snowden and David Fine, the Oscar-winning team behind BOB AND MARGARET, will be co-produced with Vancouvers Studio B Prods. Inc. and distributed by Bejuba! Ent. Inc.

Headline News

Atari & Playlogic Set Sail With Age Of Pirates: Caribbean Tales

Atari Inc. announced the company has signed a deal with Playlogic Ent. to distribute the new action-adventure role-playing game AGE OF PIRATES: CARIBBEAN TALES throughout Europe, the U.S. and Asia. The game is scheduled for release for the Windows platform in September 2006.

Effects Headline News

2005-2006 Primetime Emmy Award Nominations

Nominations for the 58th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards were announced on July 6, 2005 and FOX and Cartoon Network won the most primetime Emmy nominations for animated shows with two each, FAMILY GUY is in the primetime Emmy race again with SOUTH PARK and THE SIMPSONS, with new nominees FOSTERS HOME FOR IMAGINARY FRIENDS and CAMP LAZLO, which are nominated for Outstanding Animated Program (For Programming Less Than One Hour).

Animated Programs, one hour or more, nominees are BEFORE THE DINOSAURS and ESCAPE FROM CLUSTER PRIME.

Imax Headline News

Superman Returns Smashes IMAX Box Office Records

IMAX Corp. and Warner Bros. Pictures announced that SUPERMAN RETURNS grossed $108 million at the domestic box office in 4,065 locations over the extended fourth of July weekend, and that SUPERMAN RETURNS: AN IMAX 3-D Experience contributed $6.83 million, representing a record seven-day per-screen average of $89,804. The film shattered every opening week record for an IMAX Hollywood simultaneous release, playing to sell-out crowds and strong audience satisfaction. The film also opened on 11 IMAX screens internationally and will launch on 24 more in coming weeks.

Films Headline News

Nexus Produces Series Of Short Films For Animal Planet

Nexus Prods. has completed a series of animated short films for Animal Planet, Italy.

The films, written and directed by Bessy & Combe, Carolina Melis and Celyn, range from one to three minutes and feature a break dancing cat, a snake-impersonating giraffe and some stampeding mammoths.

The three episodes of MAGIC CAT, directed by Celyn, each tell a tale of a little boy, Paulo, and his sometimes surreal adventures with a mysteriously appearing cat who seems to be able to bend space and time at will.

Film Headline News

Aubagne Int’l Film Fest Beckons!

Aubagne International Film Festival 2007 Aubagne, France March 26 31, 2007Deadline: October 30, 2006

The Aubagne Interational Film Festival supports the young cinematographic creation and the musical creation. It organizes two competitions:

* Feature films: first and second works of any cinematographic genre (fiction, documentary, experimental, animation), having imperatively an original music, are accepted.

Mobile Headline News

MTV Int'l’s First Made-for-Mobile Animations Debut Globally

MTV Networks International (MTVNI) debuted its first animated series of made-for-mobile shorts, WULFFMORGENTHALER. A co-production between MTVNI and the "Danish Duo" Mikael Wulff and Anders Morgenthaler, the series of 20 short animations is inspired by the famous WULFFMORGENTHALER comic strips of the same name. The witty, compelling animations are the perfect "snack-size" for mobile users wanting more.

WULFFMORGENTHALER underscores MTVNIs commitment to creating and providing users with breakthrough, original mobile content.

Films Headline News

Neptuno Films Celebrates Its 15th Birthday At The Barcelona Aquarium

With sharks, manta rays and seahorses on all sides, the Barcelona Aquarium was the setting chosen by Neptuno Films to celebrate 15 years of animation production. Almost 200 guests attended a spectacular "Fiesta" for a company that began its career with a mischievous mouse called Balin, and whose characters Connie the Cow, Dougie in Disguise, The Ugly Duckling, Tork and many more can now be seen on TV all over the world.

Series Headline News

ADV Launches This Ugly Yet Beautiful World & More

On July 4, 2006, ADV Films will release four new titles, including the launch of THIS UGLY YET BEAUTIFUL WORLD, the third volume of UFO ULTRAMAIDEN VALKYRIE, and a new thin-pack collections of GANTZ SEASON 2 and CYBERTEAM IN AKIHABARA. Additionally, other recent releases include: SHADOW SKILL: TIMOR MORS MORTIS, GATCHAMAN and SISTER PRINCESS COMPLETE COLLECTION.

THIS UGLY YET BEAUTIFUL WORLD: FALLING STAR, first volume in the new anime series from Studio Gainax (NEON GENESIS EVANGELION, FLCL), makes its North American premiere.

Animation Headline News

UTV Signs $14 Million From PorchLight & Mike Young Prods.

UTV Software Communications Ltd.s Animation division in India has signed up new deals worth $14 million, which includes a co-production with PorchLight on new animated feature film, as well as an animation services and a co-production agreement with Mike Young Prods. and Taffy Ent.

Effects Headline News

Red Carpet Rolled Out for the Movies: Stunts & Effects Expansion Pack

Activision Inc. and Lionhead Studios have shipped THE MOVIES: STUNTS & EFFECTS EXPANSION PACK to retail stores nationwide. Building on THE MOVIES' critically acclaimed gameplay, THE MOVIES: STUNTS & EFFECTS EXPANSION PACK gives players the tools to turn ordinary scripts into blockbuster films with the addition of stuntmen, visual effects, a variety of dangerous stunts, a movie-making toolset, impressive new sets and an innovative "Freecam Mode" that allows players to adjust the camera location, angle, field of view and path.

Headline News

Geneon Releases Kannazuki No Miko, Strawberry Marshmallow, Elemental Gelade

In the past month, Geneon Ent. has released new volumes of KANNAZUKI NO MIKO, STRAWBERRY MARSHMALLOW and ELEMENTAL GELADE on DVD.

Love, loss and friendship collide with spectacular and devastating results as three young students imbued with heavenly powers struggle to realize their own potential in KANNAZUKI NO MIKO VOLUME TWO: LUNAR PRIESTESS. As the prophecy reveals itself, the three friends feel the strain of their destinies more and more, as their burgeoning gifts and world-shaking powers conflict with the emotional rollercoaster of adolescence.

Disney Headline News

Walt Disney Co. Picks John Pepper to Succeed Sen. Mitchell as Chairman

The Walt Disney Co. board of directors today (June 28, 2006) elected independent Disney director and former Procter & Gamble chairman/ceo John E. Pepper, Jr., to serve as non-executive chairman of the board, effective Jan. 1, 2007. Pepper succeeds Senator George J. Mitchell, who has served as Disney chairman since March 2004.

Film Headline News

Golden Compass to Start Sept. 4

New Line Cinema has officially greenlit production on THE GOLDEN COMPASS, the highly anticipated adaptation of the first of author Philip Pullman's bestselling HIS DARK MATERIALS trilogy. Production on the $150 million film is scheduled to begin Sept. 4, 2006, in the U.K., with Oscar-nominated writer/director Chris Weitz (ABOUT A BOY, ANTZ) at the helm. Digital Domain reportedly will handle vfx with Oscar nominee Mike Fink (CONSTANTINE, X-MEN, X-2) serving as visual effects supervisor.

Headline News

Sojitz Corp. Invests in A.D.Vision

A.D.Vision Inc. announced a substantial investment in the company today (June 27, 2006) by Japanese Contents Investment LPS (JCI), an investor group led by Sojitz Corp., in exchange for a minority equity stake. Additionally, was made by ARM Corp., a subsidiary of JCI, made a separate capital commitment for the acquisition of new filmed content.

Through its home video, broadcast, licensing, theatrical and publishing divisions, Houston-based A.D.Vision is the leading producer/distributor of Japanese animation and anime-related content outside Japan.

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