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Fresh Market Fare: A MIPCOM 2023 Animation Sampler

This month, many of the world’s top animation producers, streaming execs, buyers and creators will be heading over to the MIPCOM market in Cannes...

Toon2Tango Scores Major Funding for Pre-K Toon ‘Hey Fuzzy Yellow!’

Toon2Tango GmbH & Co. KG., the kids and family entertainment venture headed by long-time television and movie industry experts Ulli Stoef and Jo Daris,...

Curiosity Ink Media Goes Ape for Dustin Ellis Sci-Fi Comedy ‘Heston of the Apes’

Grom Social’s Curiosity Ink Media — a  creator of original multiplatform family entertainment — today announced an expanded relationship with screenwriter Dustin Ellis (Laugh...

Curiosity Ink Enlists Dustin Ellis for Animated Originals

Grom Social Enterprises, Inc.’s Hollywood-based original storytelling division, Curiosity Ink Media, today announced that it has enlisted the diverse writing and producing talents of...

Iranian-American Comic Maz Jobrani Teams with Curiosity Ink for ‘Laugh on Lorb’

Grom Social Enterprises, Inc.’s family entertainment shingle Curiosity Ink Media announced a partnership with comedian and Descendents actor Maz Jobrani (Pandemic Warrior, Superior Donuts,...

Grom Social’s Top Draw Inks $950K in Animation Assignments

Grom Social Enterprises announced its wholly-owned subsidiary, To -Draw Animation (TDA), has executed an agreement with an international programming supplier that will generate an...

YouTuber Honoka Katayama Teams with Curiosity Ink for ‘Aloha Hoku’

YouTube sensation Honoka Katayama will bring her celebrated blend of ukulele music, positive messages and Hawaiian spirit to preschoolers everywhere in Aloha Hoku, a...

Curiosity Ink Developing First Theatrical Release ‘The Pirate Princess’

Grom Social Enterprises, Inc.'s Curiosity Ink Media — an emerging pipeline for original multiplatform family entertainment — today announced that it is in development...

Former Nick Exec Russell Hicks to Succeed Wayne Dearing at Top Draw Animation

International animation veteran Wayne Dearing, who is best known as the founder of Manila-based Top Draw Animation, will step down in 2022. He has...

Grom’s Curiosity Ink Adapting Cepia Toy Franchise ‘Cats vs. Pickles’ to Series

Grom Social Enterprises, Inc. which recently entered into an agreement to acquire Curiosity Ink Media – a producer of original multiplatform family entertainment –...

Animation Dingle Sets 2017 Speakers

Animation Dingle and JAM Media are preparing to welcome high-profile international media companies to the Irish coastal town for the fifth edition of the...

Nick Content Prez Russell Hicks Exits

Russell Hicks has stepped down as President, Content Development and Production for the Nickelodeon Group, Deadline reports. Hicks had been at Nickelodeon for 18...

Viscardi to Oversee Nick Franchises; ‘Hey Arnold!’ TV Movie Planned

Nickelodeon has named Chris Viscardi, co-creator of The Adventures of Pete and Pete, to the newly created role of senior VP, content development, Nickelodeon...

James Stephenson Named Nick SVP Animation & Games

Nickelodeon has appointed James Stephenson to the newly created position of Senior Vice President, Animation and Games -- adding animation production and development to...

Three Top Toon Execs Depart Nick

Three top execs exited Nickelodeon Animation Studio last week: Rich Magallanes, senior VP, current series; Jenna Boyd, senior VP, animation development; and Jill Sanford,...

Nickelodeon Launches Animation Scholarship

Nickelodeon has partnered with national non-profit Get Schooled -- co-founded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Viacom -- to award one skilled,...

Nick Greenlights Fourth ‘Ninja Turtles’ Season

The ever popular heroes in a half shell are getting a lovely gift for their 30th anniversary this year as Nickelodeon has opted for...

Nick Greenlights ‘Sanjay and Craig’ Season Three

Nickelodeon has greenlit a third season of its global hit toon Sanjay and Craig with a 20-episode order, per president of content development and...

‘Breadwinners’ Graduates to Nick Series Feb. 17

Breadwinners, a new animated series that sprang from Nickelodeon's 2012 Animated Shorts Program, is set to premiere as a half-hour series Feb. 17 on...

Top Toon TV Execs Added to Kidscreen Summit

Top children's TV execs from Nickelodeon, DreamWorks Animation, Hulu and Disney have been added to the speakers lineup for next month's 2014 edition of...
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