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Cartoon Network Picks New Development VP

Alice Cahn has been named VP of development for Cartoon Network’s kids businesses, focusing on original entertainment programming for children 4-7. Cahn will be...

American Splendor Tops Splendid DVD Slate

Fresh off its Academy Award nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay, Fine Line Features' American Splendor makes its way to video shelves today. The HBO-produced...

Distrib. Magic Lantern Boards Magic School Bus

Magic Lantern Group Inc. has become the exclusive Canadian educational distributor of Scholastic Corp.'s VHS and DVD series The Magic School Bus. The award-winning...

Fear Effect Game for Big Screen

Entertainment software publisher/developer Eidos has optioned the film and television rights to its video game franchise Fear Effect to producer and director Uwe Boll...

Van Helsing Bares CG Teeth on Web

Justin Timberlake and Janet Jackson may have stolen the show with their revealing half-time number, but Sunday’s Super Bowl broadcast also featured a first...

Triplets Director’s Letter to Lasseter

With the Oscar race heating up and media outlets making much ado of the showdown between traditional animation and computer wizardry, The Triplets of...

Raven Animation to Make Partners of Disney Discards

If Disney doesn’t want them, plenty of others do. As former Mouse House animators re-enter the job market, growing animation companies are hoping to...

Atomic Betty Zooms to Cartoon Network U.S.

Cartoon Network in the U.S. has picked up the animated series Atomic Betty from co-producers Atomic Cartoons, Breakthrough Animation Inc. and Tele-Images Kids. The...

Nick Jr. to Launch in Australia

Nickelodeon is set to launch Australia's first dedicated channel for preschoolers. Nick Jr. will air on FOXTEL and AUSTAR when the subscription television providers...

MTV Marooned on Monster Island in March

If you bemoan the fact that they just don’t make giant monster movies like they used to, MTV may have your fix. Fans of...

Learn How to "Break Into Video Game Industry" This Weekend

Here’s a reminder to all you considering employment in the video game biz. The Game Initiative’s "How To Break Into Video Game Industry: Conference,...

Pixar & Disney End Talks

Following months of contract negotiation Pixar has decided to conclude its discussions to extend its long-standing partnership with The Walt Disney Company following the...

Disney/Pixar Cast Cars

As the Disney/Pixar partnership races for the Oscar with Finding Nemo, the studios have announced lead voice casting for their upcoming CG-animated feature Cars....

Comic Book: The Movie on DVD

While a lot of comic book properties are becoming feature film franchises, the comic book industry itself is the subject of a new mockumentary...

Triplets, Nemo, Brother Bear, King Up for Oscars

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has just released its list of nominees for the 76th Annual Academy Awards, placing Sony Pictures...

Avid Buys NXN

Avid Technology Inc. has acquired Munich-based NXN Software AG, whose asset management system, alienbrain, has been adopted by Pixar, Sony Pictures Imageworks, LucasArts, Electronic...

Animania HD Beams New Shows to U.S. Satellite

Animania HD, a new HDTV satellite channel for kids, has picked up the 26x30 animated British series Dan Dare: Pilot of the Future, as...

VFX Bakeoff Delivers Sweet Eye Candy

Last night the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences presented the Visual Effects Bakeoff, an annual event that decides the year’s Oscar nominees...

Defunct Web Series Get New Life on DVD

Remember when web-based entertainment was going to put the networks out of business? Okay, so they went bankrupt before they could take on the...

DPS Film Roman Gets Cracked

Look out, Mad TV. Animation company DPS Film Roman is teaming up with Mad Magazine rival Cracked Magazine to produce TV and DVD projects...
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