At C21's Social Media Forum at BAFTA on Monday June 22 producers, channels and rights owners will learn how to work best with Bebo, MySpace, YouTube, Joost, Dailymotion and many more to create new revenue-generating content and build audiences fast. Don't miss this unique one-day networking event for just GBP 299 per delegate.
NEW YORK, NY (June 2, 2009) -- Classic Media, a global media company and home to popular Halloween, Christmas and Easter brands, announced today that it will launch new consumer products programs for its seasonal portfolio: SANTA CLAUS IS COMIN' TO TOWN, an original Christmas classic; CASPER THE FRIENDLY GHOST, the official Ambassador of Halloween; and #1 Chief Easter Bunny, PETER COTTONTAIL.
THE WRONG DOOR, a CGI enhanced distinctly adult British sketch comedy created by Jack Cheshire (NOT TONIGHT WITH JOHN SERGEANT) and Ben Wheatley (MODERN TOSS) is coming to IFC beginning June 9 at 11:30 p.m. ET/PT. Thirty-minute episodes of this six-part series will air as part of IFC's Tuesday night AUTOMAT programming block.
Munich, May 11, 2009 -- Belgian media company Studio100 has merged its German subsidiaries Studio100 Media N.V. & Co. KG, EM.Entertainment GmbH and Junior.TV GmbH & Co.KG. Since April 19, 2009 all three companies are now trading under the name of Studio100 Media GmbH. In July 2008 Studio100 took over the children's and youth entertainment unit of EM.Sport Media AG (now known as Constantin Medien AG) when it acquired EM.Entertainment and Junior.TV GmbH & Co.KG.
European Conference on Visual Media Production 2009London, U.K.November 12-13, 2009
C21 MEDIA reports that what was formerly Entertainment Rights will operate as Classic Media. Subsidiaries Classic Media and Big Idea were acquired last month by Boomerang Media and private equity group GTCR.
Big Idea, owner of the VEGGIE TALES line, will continue to operate under its own name. Boomerang is under the management of Eric Ellenbogen and John Engelman, who founded Classic Media.
Boomerang plans to invest $200 million in equity capital into ER's franchises, which include CASPER THE FRIENDLY GHOST and HE-MAN.
SANTA MONICA, Calif. -- Digital Intermediate (DI) Colorist Scott Gregory, whose credits include such films as TWILIGHT, LAKEVIEW TERRACE, DISTURBIA and THE BUCKET LIST, has joined Ascent Media's Company 3. Gregory will be based out of Company 3's facility on Arizona Avenue in Santa Monica, where he will focus exclusively on DI work for feature films. His first project will be THE MAD COW, an independent feature from directors Jamie Bradshaw and Alexander Doulerain.
San Francisco, CA, APRIL 24, 2009 -- VIZ Media, LLC (VIZ Media), one of the entertainment industry's most innovative and comprehensive publishing, animation and licensing companies, brings the latest action-packed English dubbed episodes of BLEACH to Adult Swim. Beginning with episodes 110 and 111 of the Arrancar story arc, Adult Swim premiered two new BLEACH episodes back-to-back on Saturday, April 18th and will continue air two new back-to-back episodes each week.
San Francisco, CA April 20, 2009 -- VIZ Media, LLC (VIZ Media), one of the entertainment industry's most innovative and comprehensive publishing, animation and licensing companies, continues to expand the global audience base for its successful NARUTO animated series with a continuing terrestrial broadcast partnership with SBT (Sistema Brasileiro de Televisao), one of the largest television networks in Brazil.
F5 is a new two-day creativity festival coming to New York City April 16 and 17. F5's eclectic lineup is built around "creative collisions" -- moments of lasting insight and inspiration that come from venturing outside your comfort zone and smashing into other ?elds.
Munich, April 14, 2009 -- Studio100 Media GmbH, a subsidiary of Belgium's leading family entertainment group Studio100 and the BBC children's channel CBeebies announced today that they have secured a deal for the pre-school animation series ZIGBY.
Real Media recently completed post-production on an extended video promotion for author Julie Garwood's new novel FIRE AND ICE. Garwood has more than 35 million books in print and has been on the NEW YORK TIMES Best Sellers List more than thirty-five times. One of her previous novels, FOR THE ROSES, was turned into a Hallmark Hall of Fame movie of the week starring Jennifer Garner.
C21MEDIA is reporting that Entertainment Rights is now going into administration, selling its U.K. and U.S. subsidiaries to Boomerang Media. Boomerang is a U.S.-based group founded by the founders of its subsidiary, Classic Media.
ER said in a statement, "Despite the financial support of the group's lender, the group has been unable to achieve a solvent restructuring of the company," and has appointed administrators Nicholas Guy Edwards and Carlton Malcolm Siddle of Deloitte, effective immediately.
The Media Summit New York, the definitive international conference for media, entertainment, advertising and technology leaders, will be held March 18-19, 2009, at The McGraw-Hill Companies' headquarters, 1221 Avenue of the Americas in New York City.
Michael Jantze's master class will feature a complete examination of the past, current and future markets for new media. Michael will show examples of animation and motion graphic work and walk attendees through Jantze Studios' process of converting traditional comic strips and comic books into attention grabbing new media shorts known as "Audio Comics." There will be plenty of time for questions and answers with the intent of creating a conversation about the future of new media.
Instructor: Michael Jantze Date: Saturday, March 7, 2009 Time: 1-4 p.m. Age: Adults
Michael Jantze, creator of “The Norm,” will be at the Cartoon Art Museum in San Francisco on March 7th to teach a three-hour class on “the past, current and future markets for new media.” Michael take students through the process of converting traditional comics into new media shorts using his “Audio Comics” product. Register at Cartoonart.org
Avid Technology has addressed customer requests for native support of the Sony XDCAM format, a groundbreaking 3-D stereoscopic workflow and the "death of the dongle," with the release of Avid Media Composer (v3.5), Symphony (v 3.5) and NewsCutter (v 7.5) software. In addition to an innovative new architecture designed to make these Avid solutions more open, the latest version of the software delivers a variety of new features that enable customers to take advantage of:
-- More streamlined and efficient HD audio and video workflows
If you are itching to create your own website or you already have one but are looking for a way to improve it, come join WIA for an evening with Richard Carey. This meeting is produced by Masako Kanayama.
C21 MEDIA reports that U.K. global entertainment media company Entertainment Rights is in advanced negotiations with bidders to sell the company's subsidiaries and assets.
