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Ice Age Experience at San Diego Zoo

Ice Age: Continental Drift

Over the week­end, The San Diego Zoo, in con­junc­tion with Twen­ti­eth Cen­tury Fox Con­sumer Prod­ucts and SimeEx-Iwerks,unveiled the new Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs — The 4-D Experience.

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Axe Cop” breaking into Saturday late-prime on FOX


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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FOX gives moms a special gift on Sunday

Fox Animation Studios

In cel­e­bra­tion of Mother’s Day, the ani­mated kids of FOX Sun­days reveal what they’re get­ting their moms — Donna Tubbs, Marge Simp­son, Linda Belcher, Lois Grif­fin and Francine Smith.

Plus, FOX promises no regift­ing with all-new episodes of The Cleve­land Show, The Simp­sons, Bob’s Burg­ers, Fam­ily Guy and the sea­son finale of Amer­i­can Dad, air­ing from 7:30 to 10 p.m. ET/PT Sun­day, May 13.

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50 Days of Futurama


Futurama

Com­edy Cen­tral is tak­ing “Futu­rama” fans on a 50 day multi-platform jour­ney lead­ing up to the series’ sev­enth sea­son pre­miere on Wednes­day, June 20 at 10:00 p.m. The “Count­down To ‘Futu­rama’” launches on Face­book on Tues­day, May 1 and for 50 con­sec­u­tive days will pro­vide fans with exclu­sive con­tent includ­ing pre­view clips, char­ac­ter designs, episode stills, story boards and more each day. For the count­down kick-off, Com­edy Cen­tral will post a sneak peek clip from the sea­son pre­miere episode, “The Bots and the Bees.”

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Fox To Save Kingdom

Hero's Guide To Saving Your Kingdom

Fox has announced they have optioned children’s book Hero’s Guide To Sav­ing Your King­dom as a pos­si­ble future ani­mated fea­ture. The book, which comes out today, was writ­ten by Christo­pher Healy.

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SEC probing DWA, Disney over business in China


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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Flintstones Saved From Becoming The Family Guy

The Flintstones

Fox Ani­ma­tion has put ani­ma­tion wun­derkind Seth MacFarlane’s mod­ern update of the stone-age fam­ily on hold. MacFarlane’s reboot of The Flint­stones has been put on indef­i­nite hold, with no word on when (or if) pro­duc­tion will resume.

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IFC heading “Out There” for 2012–13 season

Out There

At IFC’s first-ever Upfront event in New York, the net­work unveiled its 2012–13 orig­i­nal pro­gram­ming lineup, which includes a new scripted com­edy, the ani­mated series Out There.

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Homer The Father” winner of Writers Guild Awards

One Fish, Two Fish, Blowfish, Blue Fish (1991) - The Simpsons

Homer The Father,” writ­ten by Joel H. Cohen, won a Writ­ers Guild Award in the Ani­ma­tion cat­e­gory Sun­day, defeat­ing — among oth­ers — three other episodes of Fox’s The Simp­sons.

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Fox forges new unit for Saturday night animation


Fox Animation Studios

Build­ing on its more than 20 years of ani­ma­tion dom­i­na­tion, Fox Broad­cast­ing Com­pany has cre­ated a new unit to over­see the devel­op­ment and pro­duc­tion of alter­na­tive ani­mated series, shorts and user-adapted mate­r­ial for a brand new late-night ani­mated pro­gram­ming block and new dig­i­tal multi-platform net­work, FOX pres­i­dent of enter­tain­ment Kevin Reilly announced Sun­day.
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Marge Vs. The Monorail (1993) — The Simpsons Cartoon Episode Guide


Marge Vs. The Monorail (1993) - The Simpsons
CotD: In one of the great early Simpsn’s episode titled “Marge Vs. The Mono­rail” has the whole town up in arms when Leonard Nimoy comes to town.
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4 “Simpsons” episodes up for Writers Guild Award


Treehouse Of Horror III (1992) - The Simpsons
Four of six nom­i­na­tions for the Writ­ers Guild Award in the Ani­ma­tion cat­e­gory are for sep­a­rate episodes of Fox’s The Simp­sons.
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Gone Nutty (2003) — Blue Sky Studios Theatrical Cartoon


Gone Nutty (2003) - Blue Sky Studios Theatrical Cartoon

CotD: Nom­i­nated for an Acad­emy Award, “Gone Nutty” was spun off from the pop­u­lar Ice Age film series; some say it is bet­ter than the fea­ture films.

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Treehouse Of Horror III (1992) — The Simpsons Cartoon Episode Guide


Treehouse Of Horror III (1992) - The Simpsons

CotD: Its not quite Hal­loween until we get our yearly dose of Simp­sons Scaries in shows like Sea­sons 4’s “Tree­house Of Hor­ror III
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Simpsons” cast reaches two-year deal with Fox TV

The Simpsons

Voice actors for “The Simp­sons” came to a two-year agree­ment Fri­day with 20th Cen­tury Fox Tele­vi­sion, the stu­dio that pro­duces the long-running ani­mated hit for the Fox network.

Although terms were not dis­closed, the deal ended an impasse of sev­eral days between the two sides. The Simp­sons will run for a total of at least 25 seasons.

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