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Press Release: Nickelodeon and DreamWorks Animation, two of the world’s most prolific producers of television and feature film animation, today announced plans to join forces on a new, 26-episode, CG animated comedy series tentatively titled The Penguins of Madagascar, based on the beloved penguin brothers in DreamWorks Animation’s hit feature film, “Madagascar” ($532 million worldwide gross) and upcoming sequel, “Madagascar, the Crate Escape.” The series, which tells the story of a group of penguins who believes it leads an elite strike force from its Central Park Zoo headquarters, will be produced at the Nickelodeon Animation Studio in Burbank, California and is scheduled to premiere on Nick in early 2009.
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Worldwide Biggies, a digital studio recently opened by longtime Nickelodeon and Spike exec Albie Hecht, has acquired all rights to Simon & Schuster's long-running Tom Swift book series.
The company plans to introduce the franchise with a feature film and vidgame and follow with episodes for TV and the Web. Hecht used a similar pattern for "Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius," which opened as a film while he was head of Nick Movies and soon segued into an estimable run as a TV skein.
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New Line is venturing into the animation business for the first time in its 40-year history by acquiring Ilion Animation Studios' $60 million feature "Planet 51" from Handmade Films International. Written by Joe Stillman the story is set on a planet whose inhabitants live in fear of an alien invasion. Their paranoia is realized when astronaut Capt. Charles "Chuck" Baker arrives from Earth. Befriended by a young resident, the astronaut has to avoid capture in order to recover his spaceship and return home. The film is directed by Jorge Blanco and co-directed by Javier Abad and Marcos Martinez, who worked with Blanco on the worldwide best-selling video game "Commandos." "Planet 51" is scheduled for completion in March 2009. New Line plans to release the movie in 2009, backed up with a merchandising push that will involve a video game from Pyro Studios.
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The Ask The Pro forums are now open. As mentioned in previous posts, we are welcoming Mike Belzer from Disney Feature. This is a great opportunity to ask a question of this Walt Disney Feature animator and animation supervisor. Please visit the forums here .
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DreamWorks Animation’s Shrek the Halls, a half-hour of entertainment starring America’s favorite ogre and his friends and featuring the voices of Mike Myers, Eddie Murphy, Cameron Diaz and Antonio Banderas. “Shrek the Halls” airs WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 28 (8:00-8:30 p.m., ET) on the ABC Television Network.
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