Monthly Archive: October 2020

MeTV Network announces an original morning show ‘Toon In With Me’

The MeTV Network, America’s #1 classic television network, announces the launch of the new original morning show Toon In With Me. The weekday one-hour hosted series will feature original comedy sketches, special guests, interviews, games and more, produced to lead into many of the greatest classic cartoon shorts...

Netflix releases the official trailer of new animated series ‘The Liberator’

Netflix has released an official trailer and key art for their upcoming highly anticipated series, The Liberator. The four-part animated miniseries, based on the true story of World War II infantry commander Felix “Shotgun” Sparks, who led the 157th Infantry Battalion of the 45th Division, an integrated, Oklahoma National...

China’s Tencent Video signs co-production deals with three European studios

Tencent Video, the leading online video streaming platform in China, today announced that it has agreed co-production deals with leading European studios Zeilt Productions, Sixteen South, and Silvergate Media to develop and produce innovative and exciting new kids properties with global appeal. The three deals mark the...

Lena Headey and Luke Wilson to voice new Marvel-based sci-fi ‘New- Gen’

Lena Headey and Luke Wilson have joined the cast of the sci-fi animation series NEW-GEN, currently in pre-production. The show is being produced by J.D. and Chris Matonti and Julia Coppola of APNG Enterprises and is based on the superhero comic book series distributed by Marvel Comics....

Bombay High Court reserves judgement regarding NTO 2.0

The Bombay High Court (HC) bench reserved its judgement on the NTO 2.0 (New Tariff Order) hearing yesterday. After listening to the arguments from both parties, the court has restricted the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) to take any coercive action against the broadcasters for non-implementation...

Cosmos Maya to partner with Dear Will and Piranha Bar for new 3D animated series

Cosmos-Maya has joined hands with Irish animation studios Dear Will and Piranha Bar to co-produce a new 3D animated series, The Incredible Monsta Trucks. Piranha Bar is developing the 52 x 11’ series using the Unreal Engine technology by Epic Games which is used in best-selling games such...

Black Panther actor Michael B. Jordan to produce DC Comics’ ‘Static Shock’

Michael B. Jordan (Black Panther, Creed) is set to produce DC Comics’ superhero movie, Static Shock. Jordan will join Milestone Media’s Reginald Hudlin, who revealed in August at DC FanDome that serious conversations about developing a theatrical feature film on Static Shock were taking place. According to Hollywood...

Disney+ Hotstar to launch in Singapore through StarHub Plus

Hotstar is now foraying into Singapore and is slated to launch on Singapore’s StarHub Plus service on 1 November. Customers in Singapore will be able to access the Disney-owned streaming platform in two ways/methods – an annual subscription costing S$69.98 ($51.56), available directly through the Hotstar website;...

Children’s Media Conference announces one-day Virtual event

After a successful virtual Children’s Media Conference (CMC) in July, CMC has announced Animation Business Conference 2020 (ABC 2020) – its inaugural brand-new day-long webinar on the business of animation: exploring the development and financing of the UK and international animation projects. The event will run November...

Oscar-winning short ‘Hair Love’ director to debut with a feature film with Sony

Matthew A. Cherry, director of the widely acclaimed, Oscar-winning short Hair Love, will be making his feature animation debut with a new Sony Pictures Animation project. The project, dubbed Tut for now, will be an afro-futurist coming-of-age story centred on the Egyptian boy-king Tutankhamun. The original story, created by Cherry...