For the Festival and the International Animation Film Market, it’s “raise the curtains” on their first hybrid edition! After over a year with no “physical” events, the Annecy Festival appears to be the very first international film festival to be held live and on-site! And the program, in line with Annecy’s DNA, is packed, jam-packed![…..] […]
Studio 100 Film is thrilled to announce that the CGI movie “100% Wolf” has been nominated for an international programme award at this year’s Banff World Media Festival (BANFF). Produced by Flying Bark Productions in association with De-Fi Media and Siamese, with principal investment from Screen Australia, in association with Screenwest, Lotterywest and Screen NSW,[…..] […]
Cursed Castilla, the legendary Medieval arcade adventure by Locomalito and Gryzor87, finally got the long-awaited physical release for the Nintendo Switch. The Collector’s Edition is already up for preorder on the Abylight web shop for 49,95 €. Starting from May 20th, pre-orders will open at Limited Run Games in charge of distribution in the Americas,[…..] […]
Winsing Animation’s Diary of Dinosaurs records a box office collection of $10 million in just 10 days of its initial release. This animated feature hit the theatres on 1 May during the Labour Day holiday, played on over 10,000 screens with 44 million admissions and 2.3 million screenings across China. The film will also premiere[…..] […]
It all started in 1994 – back then Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttemberg decided to host an exchange fair for their students. The “Film and Media Exchange” was born, which would become FMX – Conference on Animation, Effects, Games and Immersive Media in Stuttgart, Germany. Fast forward to 2021, when Filmakademie’s Animationsinstitut hosts the 25th edition of FMX.[…..] […]
While we all understood the crucial role of the nurses fighting on the front lines of the pandemic, ZED looks back at the story of the founder of nursing in a two-hour docudrama produced by Tohubohu for ARTE France and directed by Aurine Crémieu: FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE: NURSING PIONEER. This biopic will follow the footsteps of[…..] […]
On May 12, Autodesk has completed our acquisition of Upchain, a provider of instant-on, cloud-based product lifecycle management (PLM) and product data management (PDM) solutions. The addition of Upchain to the Autodesk portfolio accelerates our mission to deliver the next-generation software platform for design and manufacturing and creates more value for customers by removing collaboration[…..] […]
YouTube announces a $100M fund to reward top YouTube Shorts creators over 2021-2022 YouTube is giving its TikTok competitor, YouTube Shorts, an injection of cash to help it better compete with rivals. The company today introduced the YouTube Shorts Fund, a $100 million fund that will pay YouTube Shorts creators for their most viewed and[…..] […]
WildBrain Spark to co-produce, launch and exclusively manage new digital-first animated series emojitown® to premiere on YouTube WildBrain CPLG to build and manage global consumer products licensing program for the new emoji® brand extension The emoji company GmbH, one of the world’s top-150 licensors, and WildBrain, a global leader in kids’ and family entertainment, have[…..] […]
Xuan-Yuan Sword VII will launch for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One this summer in the west, publisher Eastasiasoft and developers Softstar Entertainment, DOMO Studio, and Yooreka Studio announced. It will support English, French, German, Spanish, and Russian subtitle options. Maximum Games will release physical editions at retailers in North America and Europe. The sequel first[…..] […]
