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Henry Selick, the stop motion animation director that made it big with Nightmare before Christmas, is heading back to the big screen with a new film - Neil Gaiman's Coraline!

It was first released with Disney's Enchanted theatrical release, but How to Hook Up Your Home Theater with the Goof is a positive return to traditional animation. And with some of the industry legends animating the short!

Amy Winfrey has been animating mainly online but was picked up by Nickelodeon after its three year web debut.

Animation Magazine's Pitch Party '08 is over and the results are in!

Okay so I'm going to need your help on this one, I'm participating in the annual Animation Magazine Pitch Party 2008!

My kids TV show I've been developing is Evil Genius Academy (as you can see on the left) and I need your help to spread the word and get the votes. The winners of the Pitch get to nominate the Studio Executive of their choice!

Voting closes soon, please point your browser to the voting page:

http://www.animationmagazine.net/pitch_party_08_vote.html

And spread the word to your friends, global domination!

Thank you !

It appears what was once known as Yoram Gross Studios (now known as Flying Bark) in Camperdown (Sydney) then bought in error by EM (Germany) are now to be owned by Studio 100 (Belgium). A company that actually has a focus on children's entertainment!

The transaction is subject to the approval of the antitrust authorities in Germany and Austria, as well as the Bavarian Regulatory Authority for Commercial Broadcasting (BLM) and the Commission on Concentration in the Media (KEK).

Incredible that EM are the group who bought the Jim Henson Company for $680 million and the Henson family later bought it back for $78 million three years later.

In a supreme case of "oh, we get it now!" it seems that the hierarchy at the mouse house have spawned a new demon it seems. May be it will be something we can all look forward to rather than with the anticipation we all have for direct to DVD sequels of their animated features. Original stories would be great to read, if only they'd initiate what they used to do so well.