Wa production company Mad Kids has used $70,000 production funding from ScreenWest (via Elevate) to make.The Shapes, their first animated series.
The show, premiering on ABC3 and iview today, is billed as an animated musical comedy series,.in which cartoon band The Shapes, a prefab pre-school entertainment act manufactured by the evil Sludge Records, decide to prove their rock cred in six new songs.
Mad Kids and their creations, The Shapes.
The target audience will no doubt identify with Picking My Nose, a song about the inability to control a socially-impolite urge.
ScreenWest chief executive, Ian Booth, said: .Mad Kids starting conversations with ABC3 at the very beginning of their development has resulted in the team having a network buyer ready and waiting, which is a fantastic outcome of the Elevate initiative..
The Shapes is written and directed by Henry Inglis and Matt Lovkis and produced by Lauren Elliott, with...
The show, premiering on ABC3 and iview today, is billed as an animated musical comedy series,.in which cartoon band The Shapes, a prefab pre-school entertainment act manufactured by the evil Sludge Records, decide to prove their rock cred in six new songs.
Mad Kids and their creations, The Shapes.
The target audience will no doubt identify with Picking My Nose, a song about the inability to control a socially-impolite urge.
ScreenWest chief executive, Ian Booth, said: .Mad Kids starting conversations with ABC3 at the very beginning of their development has resulted in the team having a network buyer ready and waiting, which is a fantastic outcome of the Elevate initiative..
The Shapes is written and directed by Henry Inglis and Matt Lovkis and produced by Lauren Elliott, with...
- 1/4/2016
- by Harry Windsor
- IF.com.au
Co-financing with Us production companies and selling Australian formats internationally will be among the key topics on the agenda at Spaa.s Screen Forever conference.
Among the other sessions at the November 18-21 event in Melbourne will be a focus on deal making in the broadcast, theatrical and online sectors amid fast-changing release windows; an update on international digital distribution and Video-on-Demand; and ABC TV Director Richard Finlayson outlining his vision for the network.
A panel of Hollywood-based executives will explore ways of using the producer offset to raise finance in the Us via equity, distribution guarantees, P&A and debt in the session entitled Working with the USA: The Eagle and The Kangaroo . Co-financing Across The Pacific.
It will also focus on the issues of significant Australian content, copyright and the extent to which the offset can or should be considered equity. Speaking will be Tracey Vieira, Executive Vice President,...
Among the other sessions at the November 18-21 event in Melbourne will be a focus on deal making in the broadcast, theatrical and online sectors amid fast-changing release windows; an update on international digital distribution and Video-on-Demand; and ABC TV Director Richard Finlayson outlining his vision for the network.
A panel of Hollywood-based executives will explore ways of using the producer offset to raise finance in the Us via equity, distribution guarantees, P&A and debt in the session entitled Working with the USA: The Eagle and The Kangaroo . Co-financing Across The Pacific.
It will also focus on the issues of significant Australian content, copyright and the extent to which the offset can or should be considered equity. Speaking will be Tracey Vieira, Executive Vice President,...
- 10/11/2013
- by Staff writer
- IF.com.au
This contest has wrapped up and our congratulations go to David Cook - who wins the Battle Royale: The Complete Collection BluRay set - as well as Ricky Celis and Chris Rose, who each win the standalone BluRay edition of Battle Royale just for liking Twitch on Facebook.------------------------Anchor Bay releases iconic cult film Battle Royale on DVD and BluRay in both stand-alone and collector's editions - including the later sequel - on March 20th and we want to give you a copy of your very own.We have one copy of the Battle Royale: The Complete Collection BluRay set to give away along with two copies of the stand-alone Battle Royale BluRay disc. One Of The Most Controversial Films In History Finally Arrives!Battle ROYALEAvailable for...
- 3/19/2012
- Screen Anarchy
ABC's Children's TV department is in the midst of a restructure, following the resignation of head of commissioning and development Carla de Jong.
Commissioning will now be separated into two areas: live action and animation.
Current vice president of programming and development at the UK's Hit Entertainment Chris Rose will take up the position of head of animation in May.
Rose has previously worked in acquisitions for BBC's Children and CBeebies. He has also served as exective producer on a number of animated series aimed at pre-schoolers, including Hit Entertainment's Mike the Knight, which he developed.
Commissioning and development editor Simon Hopkinson will oversee the live action children's TV department after three years commissioning drama and animation for ABC's children's channels under the direction of de Jong.
Both Rose and Hopkinson will report to ABC Children's controller Tim Brooke-Hunt.
De Jong will depart the ABC at the end of March and relocate to Toronto,...
Commissioning will now be separated into two areas: live action and animation.
Current vice president of programming and development at the UK's Hit Entertainment Chris Rose will take up the position of head of animation in May.
Rose has previously worked in acquisitions for BBC's Children and CBeebies. He has also served as exective producer on a number of animated series aimed at pre-schoolers, including Hit Entertainment's Mike the Knight, which he developed.
Commissioning and development editor Simon Hopkinson will oversee the live action children's TV department after three years commissioning drama and animation for ABC's children's channels under the direction of de Jong.
Both Rose and Hopkinson will report to ABC Children's controller Tim Brooke-Hunt.
De Jong will depart the ABC at the end of March and relocate to Toronto,...
- 2/21/2012
- by Amanda Diaz
- IF.com.au
ABC's Children's TV department is in the midst of a restructure, following the resignation of head of commissioning and development Carla de Jong. Commissioning will now be separated into two areas: live action and animation. Current vice president of programming and development at the UK's Hit Entertainment Chris Rose will take up the position of head of animation in May. Rose has previously worked in acquisitions for BBC's Children and CBeebies. He has also served as exective producer on a number of animated series aimed at pre-schoolers, including Hit Entertainment's Mike the Knight, which he developed. Commissioning and development editor Simon Hopkinson will oversee the live action children's TV department after three years commissioning drama...
- 2/21/2012
- by Amanda Diaz
- IF.com.au
This is regarding the Your Highness: Swords & Sorcery Supreme event we posted on Facebook. If you’re just hearing about it now, the RSVPs are closed and counted and we will not be taking anymore. Thanks for your understanding.
Wow. We had quite a day trying to get this event set up, and due to some miscommunication, things got… well.. miscommunicated. Let’s start from the beginning! We get a lot of opportunities to bring you guys advanced promotional screenings for soon-to-be-released films. These opportunities usually come in the form of a studio request and are usually promoted via Facebook. Facebook isn’t necessarily the strongest system for managing the sheer volume of excited people RSVPing to these events, however, and this became very clear today.We are already moving forward on a new system that will allow us to announce RSVPs to our loyal Facebook followers but use...
Wow. We had quite a day trying to get this event set up, and due to some miscommunication, things got… well.. miscommunicated. Let’s start from the beginning! We get a lot of opportunities to bring you guys advanced promotional screenings for soon-to-be-released films. These opportunities usually come in the form of a studio request and are usually promoted via Facebook. Facebook isn’t necessarily the strongest system for managing the sheer volume of excited people RSVPing to these events, however, and this became very clear today.We are already moving forward on a new system that will allow us to announce RSVPs to our loyal Facebook followers but use...
- 3/24/2011
- by Caitlin Stevens
- OriginalAlamo.com
We finally have the first Treme mystery. When New Orleans musician Kermit Ruffins asks the TV version of Davis if Elvis Costello is "That cat who writes for the Times Picayune," the newspaper's Keith Spera weighed in with a column today titled, "Who was that geeky white guy with glasses in the first episode of Treme?" He theorizes, "I'm pretty sure that's a reference to me." Is Spera in error? Is it something Chris Rose knows? Rose, who was a Times Picayune columnist when Simon first researched HBO's Treme, has not yet commented about whether or not he thinks the Treme team scripted Ruffins mistaking Costello for him. Support seems split between Team Spera and Team Rose. For a Chicago comparison, it would be similar to columnists Greg Kot of the Chicago Tribune versus Dave Hoekstra of the Chicago Sun...
- 4/16/2010
- by Karen Dalton-Beninato
- Huffington Post
New York's throwing a heck of a party next week to honor Yankee Stadium's last year as well as the Major League Baseball All-Star Game -- and Fox is planning lots of coverage.
The network will provide exclusive coverage of Tuesday's parade up Sixth Avenue of current All-Stars and what is being billed as the largest collection of living Hall of Famers ever. It won't be live, but this year, it won't be on Fsn, either. Fox Sports plans to begin its telecast on the broadcast network at 7 p.m. Edt, an hour earlier than previous years.
Chris Rose and Mark Grace will anchor the parade coverage, which Fox Sports president Ed Goren said will be something to see. It will include Hank Aaron, Yogi Berra, Whitey Ford and Cal Ripken Jr. Following the coverage of the parade will be a ceremony, beginning at 8 p.m. Edt, from the field at Yankee Stadium. It will feature the All-Stars and Hall of Famers taking the field at their positions. The ceremony is even grander than what Mlb did in 1999 for a ceremony that honored Red Sox slugger Ted Williams when the All-Star Game was at Fenway Park.
"The program that Major League Baseball has put together will even outdo that magnificent evening," Goren said.
The game itself will be called as usual by Joe Buck and Tim McCarver. Yankees great Yogi Berra will be joining McCarver and Buck in the booth for at least part of the game, McCarver said Wednesday. The ceremony will last until the first pitch, scheduled around 8:40 p.m. There won't be any pregame show other than the ceremony.
"This is just a great, great celebration of baseball for all baseball fans," Goren said.
There are plenty of innovations on the field, too. Yankee Stadium will be outfitted with 21 HD cameras, including HD "diamond cams" in front of home plate and around the foul lines. And there are 80 microphones around the stadium and more on players, managers and umpires.
There's even a blimp for the aerial shots, provided by DirecTV.
The network will provide exclusive coverage of Tuesday's parade up Sixth Avenue of current All-Stars and what is being billed as the largest collection of living Hall of Famers ever. It won't be live, but this year, it won't be on Fsn, either. Fox Sports plans to begin its telecast on the broadcast network at 7 p.m. Edt, an hour earlier than previous years.
Chris Rose and Mark Grace will anchor the parade coverage, which Fox Sports president Ed Goren said will be something to see. It will include Hank Aaron, Yogi Berra, Whitey Ford and Cal Ripken Jr. Following the coverage of the parade will be a ceremony, beginning at 8 p.m. Edt, from the field at Yankee Stadium. It will feature the All-Stars and Hall of Famers taking the field at their positions. The ceremony is even grander than what Mlb did in 1999 for a ceremony that honored Red Sox slugger Ted Williams when the All-Star Game was at Fenway Park.
"The program that Major League Baseball has put together will even outdo that magnificent evening," Goren said.
The game itself will be called as usual by Joe Buck and Tim McCarver. Yankees great Yogi Berra will be joining McCarver and Buck in the booth for at least part of the game, McCarver said Wednesday. The ceremony will last until the first pitch, scheduled around 8:40 p.m. There won't be any pregame show other than the ceremony.
"This is just a great, great celebration of baseball for all baseball fans," Goren said.
There are plenty of innovations on the field, too. Yankee Stadium will be outfitted with 21 HD cameras, including HD "diamond cams" in front of home plate and around the foul lines. And there are 80 microphones around the stadium and more on players, managers and umpires.
There's even a blimp for the aerial shots, provided by DirecTV.
- 7/9/2008
- by By Paul J. Gough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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