The housing and homelessness charity Shelter and popular children’s brand ‘Bob the Builder’ – whose licensor is HIT Entertainment, one of the world’s leading independent children’s producers and rights owners, today announce an exclusive three-year partnership. The cartoon character ‘Bob the Builder’ will bring the power of his positive ‘can-do’ spirit to support Shelter in their [...]
Continue reading...Friday, December 4, 2009
Astral Media’s Family Channel presents the Canadian premiere of the third season of Handy Manny on Saturday, December 5 at 7:30 a.m. ET/PT. The premiere of the third cartoon animation season of this viewer favourite starring Wilmer Valderrama airs as part of a Handy Manny marathon, beginning at 6:10 a.m. ET/PT, and will be available [...]
Continue reading...Friday, October 2, 2009
The well-loved stop-motion cartoon character for kids Thomas the Tank Engine is now heading out to the silver screen through the screenwriting efforts of Josh Klausner. Created by the Rev. w. V. Awdry, Thomas the Train will be produced by Julia Pistor of HIT Movies. This same franchise is in charge of other giant children [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, July 14, 2009
While everyone is still in the middle of the euphoria of UFC 100 last July 11 after the heavyweight clash of Brock Lesnar and Frank Mir, we here in our 3D animation studio Mediafreaks would like to think how some of the icons of cartoon animation will do here. After all, one of the other [...]
Continue reading...Monday, June 22, 2009
Bob the Builder, the lovable claymation cartoon character for pre-schoolers will be getting its first game for the Nintendo Wii. BOB THE BUILDER: FESTIVAL OF FUN targets young Bob fans and is designed to encourage interactive play between parent and child. Launched earlier this month, BOB THE BUILDER: FESTIVAL OF FUN on Wii is now [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, April 29, 2009
Cartoons have always been about children and one of the most dedicated niches of animation to target this substantial demographic are pre-school cartoons. By niche, it means these cartoons are really catered to young minds’ sensibilities. So don’t go blurting out that a pre-school cartoon sucks if it does not measure up to your standards [...]
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