Viborg Animation Festival 2023 is open for film submissions! The Danish based animation festival is looking for a broad variety of animation, for all audiences, and from all over the world. This year there are nine categories – all with prizes awarded – and 2023 sees the launch of a new category “VAF Diversity Film[…..] […]
Newen Connect, the distribution arm of Newen Connect, tapped former RMCD, FRANCE TV DISTRIBUTION and NBC UNIVERSAL executive Camille Serra to reinforce the Factual Distribution activity, in line with Newen Connect’s development strategy. Reporting to Newen Connect’s SVP Factual Distribution Chloé Persyn, Serra will be in charge of developing the sales activity in US, English[…..] […]
BAFTA announced the winners of this year’s BAFTA Children & Young People Awards. Hosted by TV and radio presenter Lindsey Russell, the awards ceremony is a celebration of U.K. and international content for children and young people spanning film, games and television. Magic Light Pictures’ charming 2019 special The Snail and the Whale, another of[…..] […]
Key Speakers Announced for SIGGRAPH Asia 2022 DThe 15th ACM SIGGRAPH Conference and Exhibition on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques in Asia will take place in Daegu, South Korea, at the Daegu Exhibition & Convention Center (EXCO). The annual event, which rotates around the Asian region, attracts the most respected technical and creative people from[…..] […]
Renowned director Shinkai Makoto’s newest anime film, Suzume no Tojimari, has achieved the biggest box office opening numbers of all of his films! It has surpassed Shinkai Makoto’s previous “Your Name” and “Weathering with You” of the same period of box office “Suzume no Tojimari” is Shinkai’s third film related to disaster after “Your Name” and[…..] […]
NG22 Helsinki Executive Summit: After-hours chat with the hosts On 15 November and as part of our debut in Helsinki, Nordic Game organised an Executive Summit and several other activities for invited participants, moderated by Sonja Ängeslevä, CEO & co-founder of Phantom Gamelabs (FI) and Anette Ståløy, CMO at Dirtybit (NO), with special guest Housemarque[…..] […]
Global Sales of Pokémon Scarlet and Pokémon Violet for Nintendo Switch Surpass 10 Million in First Three Days Nintendo has announced that global sales of the Pokémon Scarlet and Pokémon Violet games for the Nintendo Switch family of systems have surpassed 10 million combined units in the first three days since their worldwide launch on[…..] […]
From April 25 to 30, 2023, the Stuttgart International Festival of Animated Film (ITFS) will celebrate its 30th anniversary. For six days and nights in spring, the Stuttgart region becomes the global centre of animated film: the festival presents the entire spectrum of current animation filmmaking with interfaces to visual effects, architecture, art, design, music[…..] […]
United Media and RTL continue their successful cooperation: BEST MEN is already the third series to be adapted in Hungary after the great success of NO MATTER WHAT (Kud puklo da puklo) and ON THE BORDER (Na granici) on their market United Media, a leading media company in Southeast Europe and a leading content producer,[…..] […]
SERIES MANIA ANNOUNCES CREATION OF “SERIES MANIA’S CREATIVE CAMPAIGN AWARD” Laurence Herszberg, Founder and General Director of Series Mania (March 17-24, 2023), today announces the creation of the first annual “Series Mania’s Creative Campaign Award”, a prize awarded by Series Mania to a series’ promotion for the viewing audiences. This new initiative responds to the[…..] […]
