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Hyperion cooks up Jambalaya
NEWSThe Proud Family, a black animation pilot pitched by Glendale, California-based Hyperion Studio’s new multicultural toon entity, Jambalaya Studio, was purchased by Nickelodeon and is under consideration for a half-hour series. The pilot was created by Bruce Smith, director of the…
Spumco toons into Web & Fox
NEWSHarvey Entertainment will license its characters for the creation of short toons for the Internet, thanks to a deal with Spumco. Starting in late Q1 2000, Webisodes based on Harvey characters Spooky, Little Dot, Little Audrey and Herman & Catnip will…
SPFE gears up
NEWSVideo game spin-off series Heavy Gear, slated for a fall 2000 debut on BKN, is the latest Sony Pictures Family Entertainment (SPFE) series to receive a 40-episode order from the kids net, following an equivalent BKN order for Roughnecks: Starship Troopers….
Troopers trips up
NEWSThe 40 half hours of CG-animated series Roughnecks: Starship Troopers Chronicles ordered by BKN from Sony Pictures Family Entertainment (SPFE) have been delayed in their delivery, resulting in episode repeats during the show’s weekday 7:30 a.m. time slot. ‘We’ve increased our…
Warner wrestlers to power-bomb the big screen
NEWSIt didn’t take long for the movie biz to tap into World Championship Wrestling’s 35 million weekly viewers with a feature designed to cash in on the franchise’s broad fan base. On September 27, Warner Bros. began filming an untitled wrestling…
ITE makes feature foray with Hugo
NEWSDenmark’s Interactive Television Entertainment is making the leap to features with a 3-D animated movie starring flagship troll Hugo. The co-pro between ITE and Denmark’s Sandrew Metronome, called Hugo and the Diamond Moon, is in early development with a budget set…
CBS/Nick join forces
NEWSA recently loosened regulatory environment spurred Viacom’s merger with CBS last month, providing Viacom’s youth-oriented cable holdings (Nickelodeon, TV Land and MTV) with the company’s first sister broadcast outlet. Paramount Pictures, Spelling Television, Showtime, Blockbuster and Simon & Shuster are additional…
PossibleWorlds revolutionizes toon production with ‘live’ animation technique
NEWSUsing a Macintosh-based animation technique in which traditional cel drawings are scanned into a computer, then used to create a database wherein animated characters can be digitally manipulated like puppets, PossibleWorlds Real Time Animation studio has drastically shortened the time it…
Roman’s live-action syndie block for teens & up
NEWSHoping to ride the burgeoning teen programming bandwagon and fill an early fringe programming void, Film Roman is currently producing a live-action, young adult-targeted package called Max Degree TV for fall 2000 broadcast in syndication. Aimed at 12- to 34-year-olds, Max…
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