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Category: Kids

  • Daro Films bags ‘King of the Camp’ TV rights for Eastern Europe, Africa

    MUMBAI: Daro Films has bagged the television rights of Breakthrough Entertainment‘s King of the Camp for the Eastern Europe and African markets.

    “We‘re happy to have signed on our first agreement at MIP and look forward to a long-term working relationship for the next set of movies on our production slate,” says Daro Films head sales and business development (theatrical & TV movies) Marina Cordoni.


    King of the Camp is a hip musical for teens that is set against the backdrop of Camp Wahanowin‘s annual Olympiad, a fierce competition where the final winners are crowned King and Queen of the Camp.

  • Turner acquires DQE’s TV feature Omkar for India

    MUMBAI: Turner International has acquired Hyderabad-based DQ Entertainment‘s Omkar, an Indian mythological TV feature, for showing it on its kids network in India.

    Omkar will premiere on Turner India‘s kids‘ channels in 2010. DQE holds exclusive rights for home video, publishing and global audio visual rights other than Turner‘s exclusive territory.Says DQE chairman and CEO Tapaas Chakravarti, “We have entered the phase of exploring the aura of Indian stories and a partnership with a committed and leading company like Turner is a sure way to fine tune the content for animation lovers and kids.”


    Earlier, Turner had acquired two DQE TV feature titles for the Indian region including Balkand and Ravan.


    Says Turner Entertainment Networks Asia (TENA) VP – content Mark Eyers, “Indian animation is an integral part of our content mix and as the leading kids‘ channels of the country, we have supported the sector consistently by offering homegrown animations a national platform. We are delighted to add ‘Omkar‘ to our Indian animation library, with over 30 animated productions.”


    Omkar revolves around inspiring and educating tales of Lord Shiva and his family comprising Goddess Parvati and their two sons, Kartikeya and Ganesha.

  • ABC’s Pushing Daisies finds new life in DC Comics

    MUMBAI: ABC’s cancelled series, Pushing Daisies has found new life in DC comics with the latter deciding to publish approximately 12 issues of the series initially.

    Says Pushing Daisies series creator Bryan Fuller, “It’s basically Chuck, Ned, Emerson and Olive versus 1,000 corpses. So it becomes a zombie movie, but the zombies are articulate and smart and can do things that no other zombies can do.”



    This is not for the first time that a television series has reincarnated itself into comics. Earlier in 2007, a special one-shot issue of Heroes was also distributed through Comic-Con International in San Diego.

  • CBBC unveils two children’s entertainment shows

    MUMBAI: Continuing the BBC‘s investment in originals, UK children‘s content CBBC controller Anne Gilchrist has announced two entertainment shows for CBBC.


    Putting children through their paces, these entertainment shows will look to test children‘s ability to stay silent while also celebrating the power of friendship.


    Gilchrist says, “High quality and enjoyable entertainment programmes are a key part of CBBC‘s wide range of original and distinctive content for young viewers. These two exciting new shows will definitely keep children up and down the country smiling.”


    Keep Your Enemies Close is a new game show format that partners friends and ‘enemies‘ together. At the start of each show, four sets of best friends are split up and forced to work with their ‘enemy‘. Each round will test the newly united foes‘ patience, co-ordination and co-operation to the limit.


    To win, the players must keep their enemies close, completing several physical and mental challenges and battling to decide which of them will tackle the nice tasks and which of them will face the nasty tasks.


    The pairs of enemies get whittled down until only one duo remain for the final, where they will then be reunited with their best friends and go head-to-head with their rivals.






    The School Of Silence is the place where keeping quiet is an absolute riot. In each episode, four of some of the noisiest kids in the country are sent to the School Of Silence where they are tested to the limit.


    Put through intensive silent training, they will have to keep absolutely silent while carrying out hilarious challenges designed to make them laugh, scream and shout. The slightest sound will mean instant expulsion. But those who can keep it zipped will graduate and win The Golden Gobstopper.

  • Two top Disney Channel execs put in their papers


    NEW DELHI: Michael Cairns, Disney Channel Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) managing director, has put in his papers along with Steve Aranguren, VP – Global Original Programming.


    Boel Ferguson will now head the television business in UK and Ireland as general manager for Jetix and Disney Channels while Marc Buhaj will take on the responsibility to head Disney Channel and Jetix EMEA‘s production division as senior vice president – original production.


    Prior to this, Buhaj was senior VP- programming at Jetix Europe. Disney in a statement said, “We are working through the final stages of the planning and implementation of the Jetix and Disney Channels integration, which aims to create a new organization drawing on the talents and assets of each to achieve new heights of success in the UK and Europe.”

  • Nickelodeon partners with CalArts to roll out scholarship programme

    MUMBAI: Nickelodeon has announced the roll out of ‘The Nickelodeon Endowed Scholarship in Animation‘ in honour of Jules Engel at the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) School of Film/Video.”CalArts has helped shape some of the most creative minds in the animation business, including many of our Nicktoon creators, directors, designers and writers. We believe that our partnership with this institution will create a greater collaboration between our studio and the industry,” says Nickelodeon (animation) and MTV Network (kids‘ & family group) President Brown Johnson.


    Nickelodeon also plans to partner with CalArts for learning and development initiatives. This includes inviting animators from the Nicktoons studio to teach and attend classes at CalArts, hiring interns from the CalArts student pool and creating programmes to share experimental animation techniques.

  • DQE gets Rs 465 mn service contract for Little Prince






    MUMBAI: Hyderabad-based DQ Entertainment, which inked a co-production agreement with Europe-based Method Animations for television series The Little Prince, will receive €7.13 million ( Rs 464.7 million) for delivering specialised CGI work. Part of this work may take place in Europe based on the pipeline necessities.

    The 3D animation series, inspired from the books written by Antoine de Saint-Exupery, will be built on a global budget of approximately €18 million (Rs 1.31 billion) and will take 65 weeks to get executed completely. Says Method Animation Group CEO Aton Soumache, “We are confident that the synergies from our joint efforts will continue to produce such global brands that will entertain children across all boundaries and help us to keep up with healthy growth.”


    DQE will own additional global backend rights to The Little Prince, which, the company claims, has estimated substantial global sales over the following five to seven years along with the other European co-producers and is investing in co-production.


    Says DQE Group chairman & CEO Tapaas Chakravarti, “We are producing successful brands which have a track record globally including sales of millions of copies of books and successful licensing. In continuation to this strategy is our deal on ‘The Little Prince‘ as a co-production by DQ Entertainment group with Method Animation.”


    On the broadcasting front, while France 3, LLPTV (France), WDR (Germany) and Rai (Italy) have been signed in as broadcast partners for The Little Prince, Sony BMG will hold the home video rights.

  • Viz Media launches five animation series on Funimation

    MUMBAI: Viz Media, the comprehensive publishing, animation and licensing company, will launch five of its animation series on Funimation Channel, the premiere 24-hour anime network from Funimation Entertainment and Olympusat.

    They will be broadcast in late spring and summer. The titles include Buso Renkin, Honey and Clover, Hunter X Hunter, Monster and Nana.






    “The multi-faceted plots and dynamic characters that made all these titles successful as manga translates wonderfully with depth and color to their anime counterparts, adding a captivating new visual dimension to the storylines. We look forward to fans taking full advantage of all the flexibility and convenience of VOD to explore these new series on the FUNimation Channel,” says Viz Media director programming and music sales Bill Germain.

  • CBBC orchestrates introduction of classical music to children






    MUMBAI: Classical music meets pop head on in Clash, a new six-episode series for CBBC which sees BBC Radio 1 DJs Bobby Friction and Nihal join forces with musically-talented children to revamp two well-known classical pieces into pop tracks which will appeal to people who don‘t normally enjoy classical music.
     

    Classical musician former pop star and TV presenter Myleene Klass provides the voice over for the series.Executive Producer



    Elaine Bancroft says, “Clash will be a rollercoaster ride right across the musical spectrum taking in everything from Mozart to the Noisettes.”


    Whether they‘re beat-boxers, bassoonists or buskers, the children will form two teams headed by the DJs to deconstruct and re-work a classical piece, mixing musical styles and blending beats before finally going head-to-head against each other with their new orchestrated musical piece.


    Each team will be mentored over the course of the six-week run. Cellist, pianist, composer and conductor Jason Lai, last seen mentoring Sue Perkins to victory in Maestro will head one team while composer and creative director of I‘d Do Anything, Tim Steiner will head the other.


    During the course of the series, the two teams will face a series of fun technical challenges and get advice from musical professionals as they immerse themselves in music to create the mother of all mash-ups.


    For the grand finale, the teams can use dancers, decks and audio-visual extras to enhance their finished orchestral piece. In order to win, they must impress a live audience who aren‘t fans of classical music.

  • Mononoke to be showcased in Nippon Connection film festival

    MUMBAI: Toei Animation‘s Mononoke is set to be screened at this year‘s Nippon Connection Film Festival. The event will take place in Frankfurt, Germany from 15-19 April.

    The festival, showcasing broad scope of current Japanese film productions


    , is divided into the following categories: Nippon Cinema, Nippon Digital, Nippon Retro, Nippon Culture and Nippon Connection Festival.


    Mononoke is the story of a mysterious medicine vendor who faces a dangerous spirit named Mononoke as he travels on the roads of Japan.