Tag Archives: In Production

Bron Studios Steps Up To Produce CG Sole Mates

Sole Mates

Vancouver-based Bron Stu­dios announced Tues­day that it is mak­ing its first CG-animated fea­ture film, Sole Mates.

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Hayao Miyazaki to Release First Animated Movie in 5 Years

Kaze Tachinu (The Wind Rises)

Japan­ese ani­ma­tor Hayao Miyazaki’s first film in five years will come out next year, dis­trib­u­tor Toho announced Thurs­day. Miyazaki will release wartime romance Kaze Tach­inu, based on the novel of the same name, usu­ally trans­lated as The Wind Has Risen.

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Former Digital Domain Team Seeks to Revive “Tembo”

The Legend Of Tembo

Despite being “dev­as­tated” by the sud­den clo­sure of Dig­i­tal Domain Media Group’s new Florida stu­dio, director-producers Chuck Williams and Aaron Blaise are bid­ding for the rights to ani­mated fea­ture The Leg­end of Tembo, a film can­celed when Dig­i­tal Domain went belly-up.

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Saving Mr. Banks Tells Story Behind Mary Poppins Adaptation

Saving Mr. Banks Tells Story Behind Mary Poppins Adaptation

Dis­ney began pro­duc­tion Wednes­day on “Sav­ing Mr. Banks,” the account of Walt Disney’s 20-year pur­suit of the film rights to P.L. Tra­vers’ pop­u­lar novel Mary Pop­pins, and the testy part­ner­ship that the upbeat film­maker devel­ops with the uptight author dur­ing the partly ani­mated film’s pre-production in 1961.

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Total Drama Revenge of the Island” coming to CN

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


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

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

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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Summer Production Date for Zig and Zag

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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Clements, Musker developing drawn Disney feature

Ron Clements and John Musker

Co-directors Ron Clements and John Musker are work­ing to develop Dis­ney Animation’s next hand-drawn fea­ture film, an offi­cial divi­sion of the Mouse House has confirmed.

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Plans building for theatrical LEGO feature film


LEGO Movie

The first-ever full-length the­atri­cal LEGO movie will open across the United States on Feb­ru­ary 28, 2014, it was announced Mon­day by Dan Fell­man, pres­i­dent of domes­tic dis­tri­b­u­tion for Warner Bros. Pictures.

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Disney Drives Mr. Toad on wild ride to Movies

Mr. Toad's Wild Ride

The House of Mouse plans to adapt “Mr. Toad’s Wild Ride,” a theme park ride that started when Dis­ney­land opened in 1955, into a live-action/CGI hybrid fea­ture film.

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Laika Takes On Reeve’s Goblins

Goblins

Stop-motion ani­ma­tion stu­dio Laika Enter­tain­ment has put the grabs on Philip Reeve’s book Gob­lins for a pos­si­ble new film. The British novel has yet to be released in the United States. Reeve also wrote the award-winning book Mor­tal Engine.

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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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Jeff Foxworthy, friends voice CMT’s Bounty Hunters

Bounty Hunters

CMT has picked up the network’s first-ever ani­mated project, Jayson Dins­more, exec­u­tive vice-president of pro­gram­ming and devel­op­ment, announced Wednes­day dur­ing the network’s annual upfront presentation.

Exec­u­tive pro­duc­ers Jeff Fox­wor­thy, Bill Eng­vall and Larry the Cable Guy will voice char­ac­ters on the series Bounty Hunters, sched­uled to debut on CMT in 2013.

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