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To commemorate the double-header of the new Speed Racer cartoon on the Nicktoons network and the live-action movie by the Wachowski brothers, the staff of Toon Zone News has put together our list of the top iconic animated cars. [read more]
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There's no use complaining that vampires today aren't what they used to be. The days when they were just rat-faced reprobrates or metaphors for the degenerate central European aristocracy are long gone. Nowadays, pretty much any character type can be a vampire. [read more]
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With more and more anime coming over to the US, it becomes more and more important that a series be highly original and run on all cylinders. Otherwise, we get rather generic titles that try to be awesome and original, but fall far short. Case in point: Innocent Venus.
The year is 2010 and most of the planet has been ravaged by ultra-violent storms (think The Day After Tomorrow but with less ice and more general destruction). [read more]
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Bandai Visual plans to stream the first episodes of Galaxy Angel Rune and Super Robot Wars OG: Divine Wars for free on their website in a few weeks. Currently, Haruka's first episode is streaming, and there are plans to stream Shigofumi, Sola, and True Tears once those titles are no longer delayed.
[Source: Dot-Anime.us ]
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Cartoon Network's newest animated series The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack will be premiering on June 5, 2008, at 8:30 PM (Eastern/Pacific). The series centers on young Flapjack, an impressionable young boy who lives in the mouth of a whale named Bubbie. [read more]
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"The Uncertainly Principle" will pit Peter Parker and Spider-Man against Halloween this Saturday on the newest episode of The Spectacular Spider-Man, Kids WB said yesterday.
The episode, penned by Kevin Hopps and directed by David Bullock, will pit the Green Goblin against Spider-Man, Hammerhead and Tombstone, even as Colonel John Jameson tries to land a damaged space shuttle. [read more]
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A two-minute trailer for Star Wars: The Clone Wars will debut simultaneously across five Time Warner networks on Thursday, May 8, Warner Bros. announced today.
The theatrical trailer will air at 7:58pm in all US time zones on Cartoon Network, TNT, TBS, CNN, and Boomerang, and then be made available for viewing at www.starwars.com. [read more]
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The Kohl's department store chain will donate all net profits from its sales of a special Kung Fu Panda storybook and set of plush characters to its Kohl's Cares for Kids philanthropic program, the company said yesterday.
The items, which will retail for $5.00 each, will be available through June.
[Source: Business Wire]
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THQ has licensed and will publish video games based on DreamWorks Animation's upcoming animated feature Master Mind under a deal announced by the two companies yesterday.
The film, a satirical superhero movie about a supervillain who accidentally kills his archrival and then must find a different motivation, is scheduled for release in the fall of 2010. [read more]
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DreamWorks Animation will be added to Standard & Poor's MidCap 400 price index after the close of trading on Thursday, CNN Money reports. The studio will replace Millennium Pharmaceuticals in the line up after the drug maker is acquired by Takeda Pharmaceutical.
Indian actor Dileep has filed a copyright infringement against the maker of an animated movie, Galatta.com reports.
The lawsuit concerns CID Moosa 007, an animated adaptation of a 2003 live-action film starring Dileep. The actor claims it was produced without his permission; the toon's director, Binu Sasidharan, denies the allegation.
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Cartoon Network New Media has launched Ben 10 Alien Force: Game Creator, a free online game that gives players tools and animations to build their own Ben 10 games, the company said earlier this week.
Completed games can be shared or sent to CartoonNetwork.com's game gallery.
[Source: Business Wire]
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Warner Home Video will release Ben 10: Season 4 to DVD on August 5, the company said yesterday.
The two-disc set will feature the episodes "Perfect Day"; "Divided We Stand"; "Don't Drink the Water"; "Big Fat Alien Wedding"; "Ben Four Good Buddy"; "Ready to Rumble"; "Ken Ten"; "Goodbye and Good Riddance" and "Ben 10 Vs. [read more]
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Chris Wedge is the latest animator to get a gig directing a live-action film.
The Ice Age director will helm an adaptation of Brian Selznick's The Invention of Hugo Cabret for Warner Bros, Variety reports. John Logan will write the script.
The book is about an orphaned boy who is caught up in a mystery when he tries to repair a mechanical man.
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Animated clips featuring He-Man, She-Ra, Rocky & Bullwinkle, Fat Albert, and other characters will appear on YouTube, Joost, and Babelgum on Retro Heroes, a new free-to-view channel being launched by Entertainment Rights, the company said yesterday.
The clips will run between two and five minutes in length and will be selected from the Entertainment Rights catalog.
[Source: Entertainment Rights]
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Animalia: Welcome to the Kingdom, will be released to DVD in the US on September 23, World Screen reports.
The DVD, which collects four episodes of the series based on Graeme Base book, will feature four episodes. It will be the first in a series of releases by PorchLight Home Entertainment, which recently picked up US DVD rights to the series.
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Shemaroo Entertainment will screen Ghatothkach: Master of Magic at the Cannes Film Festival, AnimationXpress reports.
The 90-minute, 2D-animated film is about the adventures of a prince and an elephant fighting evil forces determined to thwart their destiny. [read more]
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* The American Ballet Theater will host an appearance of Angelina Ballerina at its May 31 performance of Swan Lake. [HIT Entertainment.]
* Plus Licens will act as merchandising and publishing agent to Strawberry Shortcake in central and eastern Europe under a just-announced deal with DIC Entertainment. [read more]
The Walt Disney Company had net income of $1.1 billion in the quarter ended March 29, up from $931 million in the same quarter a year ago, the company announced today. Quarterly revenues rose to $8.7 billion from $8.0 billion
For the six months ended March 29 revenues rose to $19.1 billion from $17.5 billion, but net income fell to $2.4 billion from $2.6 billion. [read more]
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The Hollywood Reporter has provided some details for Marvel Super Hero Squad, a new animated series from Marvel Entertainment aimed at 6- to 8-year olds. The series will be produced by Film Roman, and feature top Marvel superhero icons living in a caricatured Super Hero City. [read more]
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It was 1942. After the unprecedented success of Snow White and the Seven Dwarves in 1937, Disney had put out three further feature-length films: Pinocchio, Fantasia and Dumbo. Although these films garnered critical acclaim at the time – and went on to become all time classics of animation – they struggled to break even at the box office. [read more]
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Marvel.com has made available the trailer for the trailer to the upcoming animated series Wolverine and the X-Men.
As we've previously reported, the series will be debuting on the Nicktoons Network in 2009.
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Independent animator Bill Plympton will be receiving this year's MoCCA Art Festival Award, presented annually to "a creative figure whose work has elevated the cartoon arts." The award will be given at the MoCCA Art Festival in New York City on Saturday, June 7, 2008. [read more]
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The World's Finest Online has confirmed that DC Comics' The Batman Strikes! comic book will be ending with issue #50, shipping in October 2008. The comic book was a tie-in for The Batman animated series, and is being cancelled to make way for a new tie-in comic book to link with the new Batman: The Brave and the Bold TV series.
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The Screamscape website is reporting that a life-sized animatronic version of WALL•E, the lead robot character in the upcoming Disney/Pixar movie, will begin appearing at Disney theme parks in the United States. The 3-foot tall robot should be joining Disney's iconic characters in time for the release of WALL•E in late June 2008. [read more]
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