Author Archives: Paul Anderson

About Paul Anderson

Paul is an old-timer here at BCDB- his contributions go back to before the site! Paul is widely regarded as a Disney historian, and is also on staff at the Disney Museum in San Francisco. Paul is also a contributing historian for D23, the Disney Club. Paul has published several books and magazine articles on Disney history, too. You are welcome to drop Paul a line here.

“Total Drama Revenge of the Island” coming to CN

Posted on May 11, 2012 by Paul Anderson

Total Drama: Revenge of the Island

The con­tention, the rival­ries, the ten­sion, the money and… Chef are all com­ing back to Car­toon Net­work at 7:30 p.m. on Tues­day, June 5 for the ani­mated real­ity com­pe­ti­tion series Total Drama Revenge of the Island, pro­duced by Fresh TV and dis­trib­uted by Cake Entertainment.

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“Axe Cop” breaking into Saturday late-prime on FOX

Posted on May 10, 2012 by Paul Anderson


Axe Cop

Ani­ma­tion Dom­i­na­tion HD, the new ani­ma­tion unit cre­ated by Fox Broad­cast­ing Com­pany, has acquired the rights to the hit comic phe­nom­e­non Axe Cop, Nick Wei­den­feld, head of Ani­ma­tion Dom­i­na­tion HD, announced Tuesday.

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Third season of “LazyTown” goes into production

Posted on May 9, 2012 by Paul Anderson

LazyTown

Award-winning children’s TV series Lazy­Town is back in pro­duc­tion for a third sea­son of brand new 13 half-hour shows fol­low­ing its acqui­si­tion by Turner Broad­cast­ing last September.

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Casting A New Animated Tarzan

Posted on May 4, 2012 by Paul Anderson

Tarzan

Con­stan­tin Film has announced cast­ing of their pend­ing pro­duc­tion of the clas­sic Edgar Rice Bur­roughs story of Tarzan. Kel­lan Lutz, late of the Twi­light saga, has been cast to star as the title char­ac­ter. Spencer Locke, most recently appear­ing as K-Mart in Constantin’s Res­i­dent Evil movies, will star as the new Jane Porter.

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Warner Bros. Announces Cartoon Universe

Posted on May 3, 2012 by Paul Anderson

Cartoon Universe

Warner Bros. Inter­ac­tive Enter­tain­ment announces Car­toon Uni­verse, a free-to-play, online world that will pro­vide a safe, social envi­ron­ment for young kids to go on adven­tures, solve puz­zles and play games with their favorite Looney Tunes and Scooby-Doo! char­ac­ters. Car­toon Uni­verse is being devel­oped by WB Games Mon­tréal, a Warner Bros.-wholly owned stu­dio devoted to devel­op­ing games based on Warner Bros.’ key brands.
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Summer Production Date for Zig and Zag

Posted on May 1, 2012 by Paul Anderson

Zig and Zag

Dou­ble Z Pro­duc­tions and Flick­er­pix are set­ting up for full pro­duc­tion on their new series Zig and Zag, cre­ated by Cia­ran Mor­ri­son and Mick O’Hara. Both CBBC and RTÉ are help­ing to fund the project along­side North­ern Ire­land Screen and the Irish Film Board. The IFB awarded Dou­ble Z Pro­duc­tions a pro­duc­tion loan of €150,000 in their last round of fund­ing last month.

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“Rango,” “Archer” win at 2nd annual Comedy Awards

Posted on April 30, 2012 by Paul Anderson

Rango

“Rango” has won for Ani­mated Com­edy Film and “Archer” for Ani­mated Com­edy Series on Sat­ur­day night at the Com­edy Awards 2012, the sec­ond annual block­buster event ded­i­cated to cel­e­brat­ing all that is funny.
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SEC probing DWA, Disney over business in China

Posted on April 27, 2012 by Paul Anderson


DreamWorks Animation SKG

Dream­Works Ani­ma­tion and Dis­ney have received let­ters of inquiry from the United States Secu­ri­ties and Exchange Com­mis­sion over their busi­ness activ­i­ties in China, accord­ing to an unnamed per­son famil­iar with the mat­ter.
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“Persepolis” trial resumes amid heavy security

Posted on April 23, 2012 by Paul Anderson

Persepolis

Tight secu­rity marked Thursday’s resump­tion in the trial of a Tunisian TV sta­tion direc­tor charged with vio­lat­ing sacred val­ues and dis­turb­ing pub­lic order for hav­ing screened the Franco-Iranian ani­mated fea­ture film Perse­po­lis.

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Trailer To Hotel Transylvania

Posted on April 20, 2012 by Paul Anderson


Hotel Transylvania

Sony Pic­tures Ani­ma­tion trou­bled pro­duc­tion of the 3D ani­mated Hotel Tran­syl­va­nia has some­thing to show for the nearly 10 years in pro­duc­tion it has seen. A first trailer. A first look at Adam Sandler’s Drac­ula as he parades around his styl­ish resort for over­worked monsters.

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