Lauren Alexa

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Take-Two Interactive Reveals Sale of Private Division Label

Nov 7, 2024 | awn.com | Lauren Alexa

This week, Take-Two Interactive Software (Take-Two) reported its fiscal 2025 second-quarter earnings results, also revealing it had sold the Tales of the Shire developer Private Division. Details surrounding the sale were not disclosed. “We recently made the strategic decision to sell our Private Division label so we could focus our resources on growing our core businesses for the long term,” Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick told Variety.
CEO Stefan Danieli Resigns from Goodbye Kansas Group

Nov 7, 2024 | awn.com | Lauren Alexa

Goodbye Kansas Group CEO Stefan Danieli has announced his resignation. Over the past two years, Danieli has successfully completed a strategic transformation, bringing comprehensive change in the strategic direction, financial structure and cost management of the Group. The Board has begun recruiting a new, growth-focused leader to assume his responsibilities. Danieli will remain in his position to support the transition, and will be available during the notice period of nine months.
Manchester Animation Festival Announces 2024 Program

Nov 7, 2024 | awn.com | Lauren Alexa

Manchester Animation Festival (MAF), the only Oscar-qualifying animation festival in the UK, has revealed its program for 2024, which runs November 10-14. Now also a BAFTA-qualifying festival, MAF brings together the animation industry's top talent, leading professionals, and a wide-ranging program with fans of animation in mind.
Boat Rocker Greenlights ‘Dino Ranch: Island Explorers’ Animated Series

Nov 7, 2024 | awn.com | Lauren Alexa

Boat Rocker, an independent, integrated global entertainment company, has greenlit Dino Ranch: Island Explorers, a spin-off of its preschool animated series Dino Ranch, with CBC/Radio-Canada and Warner Bros. Discovery onboard as broadcast partners. The new series (52 x 11 mins) will air on CBC, CBC Gem, CBC Kids YouTube, ICI TÉLÉ, ICI TOU.TV, Radio-Canada.ca in Canada, and Cartoonito across Europe, Middle East, and Africa in 2026.
Hulu Drops ‘The Night Before Christmas in Wonderland’ Official Trailer

Nov 6, 2024 | awn.com | Lauren Alexa

Hulu has dropped the official trailer for The Night Before Christmas in Wonderland, the animated feature based on Carys Bexington’s bestselling book which combines Lewis Carroll’s “Alice in Wonderland” and Clement Clarke Moore’s poem “Twas the Night Before Christmas,”The film follows St. Nick as he goes down the rabbit hole and meets a host of familiar characters who help him save Christmas.
‘Pinkfong & Hogi Mini Movie: The Tricky Three Cars’ Hits Netflix

Nov 6, 2024 | awn.com | Lauren Alexa

Pinkfong & Hogi Mini-Movie: The Tricky Three Cars, a 40-minute special adventure based on the YouTube Originals TV series Pinkfong Wonderstar, is now streaming on Netflix worldwide having debuted November 3 in both English and Korean dubbed versions. The spin-off showcases Hogi in his first starring role as he embarks on a mission to rescue Pinkfong and their friends from the Tricky Three Cars, a mysterious trio who have invaded the peaceful town of Wonderville.
Oscar Winner Torill Kove Honored at Spark Animation

Nov 6, 2024 | awn.com | Lauren Alexa

Oscar-winning animator Torill Kove (The Danish Poet) was recently honored in Vancouver by Spark Animation, Western Canada’s largest celebration of animation, presented by the Spark Computer Graphics Society. Kove received the festival’s Lifetime Achievement Award in recognition of her contributions to the field of animation, as well as this year’s Canadian Film Prize for her new short film, Maybe Elephants, co-produced by Mikrofilm and the National Film Board of Canada (NFB).
Autodesk’s Wonder Dynamics Debuts New Wonder Studio AI Tool

Nov 6, 2024 | awn.com | Lauren Alexa

Wonder Dynamics, an Autodesk company, has launched the beta version of Wonder Animation, a Wonder Studio tool which uses Video to 3D Scene technology to accelerate animated film production by turning any video sequence into a 3D-animated scene via AI reconstruction. The tool is now available to all Wonder Studio users. Check out the Wonder Studio introduction video:The tool can film and edit sequences with multiple cuts and various shots (wide, medium, close-ups).
Autodesk’s Wonder Dynamics Debuts New Wonder Studio AI Tool

Nov 6, 2024 | flipboard.com | Lauren Alexa

19 hours agoAutodesk is a global leader in design, engineering, and entertainment software, empowers industries from architecture and manufacturing to media and entertainment, with solutions aimed at fostering creativity and productivity. The company’s CIO for the past seven years, Prakash Kota, is excited …
HBO Drops First Look at Spooky Drama Series ‘IT: Welcome to Derry’

Nov 6, 2024 | awn.com | Lauren Alexa

HBO has released first look images from the upcoming IT prequel series It: Welcome To Derry, from Warner Bros. Television and developed for television by filmmakers Andy Muschietti & Barbara Muschietti (IT, IT Chapter Two) and Jason Fuchs (IT Chapter Two, Wonder Woman). The series stars Taylour Paige, Jovan Adepo, Chris Chalk, James Remar, Stephen Rider, Madeleine Stowe, Rudy Mancuso, and Bill Skarsgård. Produced by HBO and Warner Bros.