Nikkatsu, the oldest major movie studio in Japan, is stepping up its animation operation. The company has set up an anime department within its video business division. The new department will be responsible for investing in anime productions — an area into which Nikkatsu has made inroads in recent years. It will aim “to accelerate[…..] […]
LG will shut down smartphone business in July to focus on smart home, robotics It’s the end of an era for the one-time phone giant, which has struggled to compete with Apple, Samsung and Chinese brands. LG on Sunday became the latest legacy phone-maker to exit “the incredibly competitive mobile phone sector” as it struggles[…..] […]
Disney is all set to launch the second season of popular animated mystery adventure Mira, Royal Detective on Disney Junior and DisneyNOW, from 5 April onwards with new episodes every Monday for eight consecutive weeks. The season two will include an episode highlighting the festival of Eid-al-Fitr debuting on Monday, 3 May (5:00 p.m. EDT),[…..] […]
A new report from Bloomberg says Nintendo’s next Switch, or Switch Pro as it’s been dubbed, will house a new Nvidia chip with DLSS capabilities, meaning some games could be played in 4K when docked. Modern gaming GPUs aren’t efficient enough to drive AAA titles at native 4K on handheld power budgets, so it[…..] […]
Super Mario Bros. auction breaks record with $660K sale. That’s a lot of gold coins. Retro games can fetch a hefty price at auctions, but a pristine, never-opened copy of Super Mario Bros. for the NES raised the bar. A game that cost $25 when it first came out in 1985 sold for more than[…..] […]
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Sony Pictures Animation’s The Mitchells vs. The Machines has released a trailer under its new distributor Netflix. It will launch on the streaming platform on April 30. When it was set for theatrical release via Sony’s Columbia Pictures, the film was known as Connected, but Netflix opted to revert back to the working title. Like[…..] […]
Sometimes there’s no better way to escape life’s challenges than by turning off your brain and watching two giant monsters battle it out.It’s all right there in the title: In Godzilla vs. Kong, the two titans will finally face off on the big screen (or whatever sized screen you have at home), with the promise[…..] […]
Former DreamWorks exec Doug Schwalbe is launching the US-based The Co-Production Company, a production firm specialising in finance and distribution arrangements for high end international productions. Schwalbe, who served as SVO of co-production for Dreamworks Animation Television, has forged a partnership with Hannah Montana creator Michael Poryes to develop kids and family programming for the[…..] […]
Moonbug Entertainment Ltd., one of the largest digital media companies in the world, announced that it has brought the biggest kids’ program, CoComelon, to China through broadened and newly established partnerships with the country’s leading streaming platforms — iQIYI and ByteDance/Xigua Video. With these agreements, Moonbug has extended the reach of CoComelon, which is already[…..] […]
