Some Industry Buzz: NEW PROGRAMMING + DEALS Sony Pictures Animation and animator Fred Seibert (The Powerpuff Girls) will launch Go! Cartoons, a new digital platform focused on animated shorts. In the deal, Sony will fund 12 animated shorts, each five minutes long, which debut every month on the Cartoon Hangover YouTube channel as part of Seibert’s Channel Frederator Network (1.3 million subs). Additionally, one of the shorts will become a series on the YT channel. Netflix will debut the original series from DreamWorks Animation, called All Hail King Julien, on Dec. 19. The animated series follows Madagascar movie franchise characters in 22-minute episodes with five episodes to hit the service first, and the rest rolling out in 2015. DreamWorks Animation first original series Turbo Fast debuted on Netflix in 2013, and plans to bring another ten episodes to Netflix in 2016. Nat Geo Wild announced the second annual “Wild To Inspire” filmmaking competition, with the winner getting the opportunity to travel to Africa and document wildlife for the net. Submissions will be accepted on Vimeo through January 16. Thanks Cynopsis
Posted on: Tue, 04 Nov 2014 15:41:27 +0000
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