The second HELLBOY animated feature, HELLBOY: BLOOD AND IRON, premieres on March 17, 2007, at 7:00 pm on Cartoon Network, during Toonami. Hellboy and his fellow agents defend the world from a wicked vampires resurrection in the sequel featuring the star-studded voice cast of Ron Perlman (Hellboy), Selma Blair (Liz Sherman), Doug Jones (Abe Sapien) and John Hurt as (Professor Broom).
Warner Bros. has paid a high-six-figure against $1 million amount for the film rights to the Newbery Award-winning novel THE GIVER, written by Lois Lowry, VARIETY reports. Red Wagon partners Douglas Wick and Lucy Fisher are producing. The repressive future set tale follows a 12-year-old boy as he is picked to bear all the feelings of his society.
Having just emerged from bankruptcy protection on Dec. 6, 2006, Stan Lee Media, today (March 15, 2007), filed suit against Marvel Ent. worth $5 billion. In the suit, Stan Lee Media is claiming co-ownership of all Stan Lee's co-creations for Marvel, including Spider-Man, X-Men and the Incredible Hulk. Stan Lee Media requests half of Marvel's earnings derived from those creations, in addition to damages and legal fees.
Digital Media Summit, now in its fourth year, is the leading show about digital media commerce and delivery -- the business of monetizing digital music, videos, games, video-on-demand, peer-to-peer and much more. The event talks about the cutting-edge and the near future, not pie-in-the-sky projections. Digital Media Summit brings Hollywood, Silicon Valley, Wall Street and Madison Ave. executives together. Hear them in keynotes and panels, then make deals with them over lunch or cocktails. For more information, visit www.iHollywoodForum.com.
Dan Fawcett returns to Fox as president of Digital Media for Fox Ent. Group (FEG) after spending the past three years as evp of programming and business & legal affairs for DIRECTV.
In this new role, Fawcett will further the growth and evolution of digital media strategy, including exploiting Fox content across all digital platforms, pursuing long-term tactical initiatives with major technology players and developing additional revenue streams for Fox product.
STAPLE! The Independent Media Expo is an event to promote independent media: comics, art, animation, and self-published literature. We have over 60 exhibitors and a schedule of panels and featured speakers. This year we also have a great panel of independent animators to discuss their work and screen animated short films.
For more details visit: http://www.staple-austin.org/
VIZ Media announced a bevy of activities, events and new anime and manga offerings at the 2007 New York Comic-Con show, including an expansive booth filled with a photo sticker booth that will allow visitors to pose with their favorite anime and manga characters from popular series like BLEACH, NARUTO, ABSOLUTE BOYFRIEND, INUYASHA and with the SHOJO BEAT mascot Moko. A series of interactive videogames and activities including Mattels Ninja Academy Game, based on NARUTO, and TOMYs NARUTO: NINJA COUNCIL 3 for the Nintendo DS, will also be available for fans to play.
VIZ Media, Llc. has licensed from Nippon Television Network Corp. (NTV) the Download to Own (DTO) and Download to Rent (DTR) rights for the U.S. for DEATH NOTE anime series, a big hit currently airing in Japan.
This marks the first time a well known Japanese anime property will be made legally available to domestic audiences for download to own while the title still airs on Japanese television. VIZ Media will seek to make the series available to consumers through a number of online providers in order to reach the widest audience possible.
We Media Miami explores and fosters the use of digital media to build and improve real communities in a connected society.
In Miami, the conference will focus on two connected themes:
* Community: How can media and communications in a multitude of forms, produced or influenced by an ever-expanding multitude of sources, serve and strengthen the communities where people live?
The 2007 Media Summit New York is the definitive international conference for media, entertainment and technology leaders. The event is presented by The McGraw-Hill Companies, co-sponsored by BusinessWeek and Standard & Poor
First Annual Global Children
Kent Rice, ceo of Starz Media's animated feature film division takes on the additional post of president/coo of the company. John W. Hyde, president/coo of Starz Media, has been appointed to the created position of vice chairman of the company.
What do producers, writers, and directors of children's programming need to know to take advantage of the wide range of marketing opportunities that exist today in children's television?
NYWIFT has assembled a panel of experts on animation programming to discuss how content providers can make the most of their properties. They'll show you how to create multimedia strategies that take television shows to publishing, the Internet and the toy merchandising, as well as provide advice on marketing and licensing agreements. The panel includes:
Scheduled sessions, an additional partnership and the appointment of an advisory board for the third annual NATPE Mobile++ summit presented by InfoSpace, Inc. were announced by Rick Feldman, president/ceo of the National Association of Television Program Executives (NATPE). The day-long event, produced and organized by Achilles Media, kicks off NATPE's annual Conference & Exhibition being held Jan. 15-18, 2007, at the Mandalay Bay Resort in Las Vegas.
The Agency for Cultural Affairs in Tokyo will offer financial backing to discover and promote overseas young talent in animation, computer graphics and videogame programs in fiscal 2007, according to a report in JAPAN TODAY.COM
The agency seeks 440 million yen in budgetary allocations, awaiting approval. Funding would begin April 1 2007, to commission new work for around three million yen by artists who win contests or are recommended by experts, the officials said. Other efforts include improving websites on media arts.
VIZ Media Llc. Has relocated its European operations from Amsterdam to Paris. The new European company will be called VIZ Media Europe, S.A.R.L (VME) and officially opens on Jan. 15, 2007. John Easum has been appointed president/gérant of VME and will oversee all of VIZ Media's European, Middle Eastern and African operations from Paris.
In response to several Montreal newspapers reporting that Autodesk will cut 30 jobs at its Montreal office in order to put greater emphasis on its 3D software products, the company released the following statement:
"Autodesk Inc. made proactive changes to its Media & Ent. systems business in order to optimize that business' performance and long-term growth. Autodesk Media & Ent. vps Marc Petit and Stig Gruman led the effort...
Starz Home Ent., in co-production with Stan Lees POW! Ent. Inc., will release on DVD the first of two brand new, full-length, animated feature films, STAN LEE PRESENTS: MOSAIC, on Jan. 9, 2007. Created by fantasy maestro Stan Lee, STAN LEE PRESENTS: MOSAIC (suggested retail is $14.98) should make for an adventurous new year.
VIZ Media Llc. has announced a variety of anime offerings for the 2006 holiday season. These DVD volumes include new and recently released installments from series like SHONEN JUMP NARUTO, INUYASHA, FULL MOON, ZATCH BELL! and FLAME OF RECCA.
DEMMX Conference offers a wide view of the rapidly evolving digital entertainment, media and marketing landscape. Attendees will learn and network with thought leaders in digital entertainment and media. From music and movies to videogames, sports and electronic media, DEMMX will give you a complete view of digital and mobile entertainment with insights, analysis and predictive information. Attendees will learn about the latest trends from recognized experts and be the first to get the inside track on new product launches. For more information, visit www.demmx.com.
News Corp. has appointed 18-year Fox veteran Peter Levinsohn, 40, president of Fox Interactive Media (FIM), following the resignation of the unit's current president, Ross Levinsohn, effective Nov. 27, 2006.
Digital Coast Roundtable hosts a discussion about user generated content (UGC), social networks, personal videos, TV shows, etc. -- how they are changing the way consumers acquire their entertainment. UGC is impacting traditional media distribution, advertising and content creation and the panelists will share insights into this rapidly changing cultural phenomenon.
Host will be Tim Sarnoff, president of Sony Pictures Imageworks. The panel will be moderated by Andrew Wallenstein, digital media and TV features editor at THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER. Panelists include:
Starz Llc. has formed a new motion picture studio, Overture Films, which will produce, acquire and distribute eight to 12 full-length feature films a year.
Overture Films is headed by ceo Chris McGurk and coo Danny Rosett. McGurk and Rosett were key execs at Metro Goldwyn Mayer Studios Inc. prior to MGM's 2005 sale to a group of investors led by Sony Corp. Most recently, McGurk served as senior advisor, new ventures, to Starz Media.
iParenting Media, a media company focused on parents, has announced the winners of its iParenting Media Awards.
Animation related winner include:
WebsitesAOL Learning GamesAOL Step by Step MathAOL Writing WizardStudyBuddy.comBy AOL Llc.
UrbaniacsBy Urbaniacs
www.whyville.netBy Whyville.net (Numedeon, Inc.)
TelevisionBy BabyFirstTV By BabyFirstTV
BIGFOOT PRESENTS: METEOR AND THE MIGHTY MONSTER TRUCKSBy Discovery Kids
Entertainment Asia Network (EAN) presents Asia Pacific Entertainment and Media Summit 2006 for the first time in Los Angeles.
EAN will be bringing together worldwide production and distribution decision makers under the roof of the Sofitel Los Angeles to exchange information and learn about the entertainment needs of the fastest growing consumer population in Asia. KOCCA, (Korea Culture and Content Agency) will be co-hosting event.
