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Brother Bear Trio Signed For New Animated Feature
Animation World Network reports that Brother Bear’s Aaron Blaise, Robert Walker, and Chuck Williams are now under contract to produce a new animated feature for Walt Disney Feature Animation. While… |
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Johnny Bravo live-action feature moves ahead
According to {{link http://www.variety.com/index.asp?layout=upsell_article&articleID=VR1117894889&categoryID=13&cs=1 Variety.com}}, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson is lined up to become a real-life Johnny Bravo in a live-action feature film based on the Cartoon Network show. Though… |
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Going, going, gone: Big Idea sold for $19.3 million
{{link http://news.awn.com/index.php3?ltype=top&newsitem_no=9527 Animation World Network}} announced that Big Idea Productions had been approved for purchase by Classic Media. The Veggie Tales animation company tried to expand too quickly with the… |
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Hey Rocky, Watch Me Pull A Cell Phone Out of My Hat
Animation World Network updates with a report on Sennari Inc. and Bullwinkle Studios partnering to bring characters such as Rocky and Bullwinkle, Sherman and Peabody, Casper the Friendly Ghost, and… |
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Peace In Animation: A Look Back
Karl F. Cohen over at the {{link http://mag.awn.com/index.php?ltype=pageone&article_no=1909 Animation World Network}} takes a look back at animation’s continuing messages of peace – from the Harman-Ising short Peace On Earth, to… |
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Keane and Sanders confirmed on new CG Disney projects
Master traditional animator Glen Keane’s take on the Rapunzel legend, retitled Rapunzel Unbraided, has been confirmed as being in active production, in a story at {{link http://news.awn.com/index.php3?ltype=top&newsitem_no=9565 Animation World Network}}…. |
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Much, much, MUCH more Duck Dodgers on the way!
The {{link http://forums.toonzone.net/showthread.php?threadid=93944 Toon Zone Forum}} reports that voice work has begun on Season Two of Cartoon Network’s Duck Dodgers animated show. Both Bob Bergen (Dodgers’ “Eager Young Space Cadet”… |
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Star Wars: Clone Wars premieres in Asia
Cartoon Network Asia will premiere the new Star Wars ‘micro-series’ on Monday, November 10 at 6:30pm. Just like in the UK, the wait for Clone Wars won’t be as long… |
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\\The Simpsons\\ apologizes to Fox News over Groening's comments
…Matt Groening, in an interview with the left-wing radio network NPR, said that “Fox News Channel threatened to sue the makers of \\The Simpsons\\ over a parody of the channel’s… |
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More from Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston: website update!
Timing in nicely with the release of the documentary on DVD, {{link http://frankanollie.com/ FrankAnOllie’s personal website}} has had a facelift, courtesy of new hosts Animation World Network! The site, originated… |
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What makes an animated show a hit?
…odds of a primetime animation hit, if there were, the networks would be wall to wall in them. Maybe it’s more of a secret formula, one that isn’t really all… |
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He Does More Than Just Play Bass: Upcoming Paul McCartney Animation
Animation World Network updates with a report that three animated titles by Sir Paul McCartney of Beatles fame (“fame” may be too mild of a word) have been acquired by… |
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More Mickey! 75th Birthday Celebration To Air On ABC…
{{link http://forums.toonzone.net/showthread.php?t=96925 Toon Zone}} is back with more news, this time on the upcoming TV special to air on Disney’s {{link http://www.abc.com/ ABC Network}} which will celebrate the company mascot’s… |
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How do Superheroes spend Christmas, anyway?
…Cartoon Network’s popular animated series based on the the joining up of DC Comics’ biggest guns, reports {{link http://news.awn.com/index.php3?ltype=top&newsitem_no=9822 AWN}}. The half-hour Comfort And Joy, which premieres at 10pm on… |
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Belleville spreads…
…beating Finding Nemo for the top award of Best Animated Feature from the New York Film Critics Circle. {{link http://news.awn.com/index.php3?ltype=top&newsitem_no=9828 Animation World Network}} also announces that “the French import also… |
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Noodlesoup's \\The Venture Brothers\\ wins Cineme TV Series award
…the series is scheduled to premiere on Cartoon Network this spring. \\The Venture Brothers\\ “parodies the 1960’s favorite \\Jonny Quest\\, featuring brothers Hank and Dean, their top-notch scientist father and… |
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Howl's Moving Castle hits another delay
…time to complete the movie (rumored to be his last, though he’s been saying that for a while now)! The {{link http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/ Anime News Network}} has a link to the… |
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Animation across the pond…
…http://forums.toonzone.net/showthread.php?t=98545 Toon Zone}} links to an article featured over at {{link http://mag.awn.com/index.php?ltype=pageone&article_no=1959&page=1 The Animated World Network Magazine}} that looks at the burgeoning European animated market, its past, and its future…… |
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New Looney commercial
Jerry Beck, at his {{link http://www.cartoonresearch.com/ Cartoon Research}} site, links to a story at {{link http://www.adweek.com/aw/national/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=2059770 Adweek}} which reports that Bugs and Daffy are appearing in a new TV commercial… |
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Parent Trap set for television twins
Walt Disney’s 1961 live-action feature The Parent Trap (which featured a classic stop-motion animated opening sequence) is being lined up to appear on the Mouse’s ABC Network as a new… |
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Success With Troll TV and a Little "Formula"
…coproduction activities, having developed a number of successful projects with international broadcasters including TF1, M6 and Televisa over the past few years. With its new DIC Kids Network, set to… |
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Clone Wars returns for Round Two…
…the first series, which debuted last November, the ten new episodes, each again between three and five minutes long, are slated to begin on March 26 on the Cartoon Network…. |
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Disney and Fox merge for new Toon channel
…Fox Kids Europe, which was sold to Disney two years ago, will be totally re-designed as Jetix, while Jetix branded program blocks will also play on ABC Cable Networks and… |
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Documentary about South Park creators to air in March
Cable network Trio will be airing a documentary called \\Shocked\\ about \\South Park\\ creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker on March 7th according to \\{{link http://www.animationmagazine.net/article.php?article_id=1959 Animation Magazine}}\\. “The show… |
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Academy Sends Animation Teaching Kits To 18,000 Schools
{{link http://www.awn.com/index.php Animation World Network}} {{link http://news.awn.com/index.php?ltype=date&newsitem_no=10043 reports}} The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has produced its fifth high school teaching kit to promote understanding and appreciate the… |
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Finding Santa
According to the Animation World Network, the computer animated In Search of Santa, co-produced by Tundra Productions and Colorland Animated Productions, will be distributed in North America by Miramax Home… |
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\\Howl's Moving Castle\\ storyboarding complete
According to the {{link http://www.ntv.co.jp/ghibli/diary_g/index.html Studio Ghibli Production Diary}} (English translation available from {{link http://www.nausicaa.net/miyazaki/howl/diary.html Naussica.net}}), storyboarding for \\Howl’s Moving Castle\\ has been completed. {{link http://www.animenewsnetwork.com Anime News Network}} reports… |
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Animax Asia launched!
Animax Asia (Asia’s first 24 hour anime channel) started broadcasting last January 19 to several Asian territories including Hong Kong, Taiwan, and the rest of South Asia. The network is… |
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Disney Loses Federal Appeal in Pooh Copyright Case
Animation World Network {{link http://news.awn.com/index.php?ltype=top&newsitem_no=10093 reports}} The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has denied an appeal by Clare Milne and Disney to recapture the rights under… |
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UPDATED! Finding Nemo earns nine Annie Awards, \\The Simpsons\\ earns four
…Andrew Stanton and Lee Unkrich took home Best Directing honors. Among the other winners: the Fox Network’s The Simpsons, which won for Best Animated Television Production, and The Animatrix, a… |
