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How Disney Bought
Lucasfilm

Good long-read in Businessweek about how Disney bought the Star Wars
franchise and Lucasfilm. The article is short on major …

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Business

The Big Question: How To Make Money From Short Films
by Amid Amidi   Tuesday March 5, 2013   1:20 pm
New perspectives and ideas on the age-old question.
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Business

DreamWorks Will Layoff 350 Employees
by Amid Amidi   Wednesday February 27, 2013   10:06 am
DreamWorks Animation announced yesterday that they will layoff
350 employees by the end of 2013. The news of the layoffs …
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What is the Biggest Animation Project on Kickstarter Right Now?
by Amid Amidi   Tuesday February 26, 2013   6:26 am
The answer may surprise you.
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Business

Reel FX To Rhythm & Hues Artists: We Want You!
by Amid Amidi   Tuesday February 12, 2013   4:33 pm
If there’s any silver lining to yesterday’s awful news about
Rhythm & Hues, it’s that other companies hunger for the services …
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Business

Rhythm & Hues To File For Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Today [UPDATED]
by Amid Amidi   Monday February 11, 2013   12:33 am
Animation studio Rhythm & Hues began informing its employees tonight that they will file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on Monday …
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Business

BREAKING: Big Layoffs Looming at DreamWorks
by Amid Amidi   Wednesday February 6, 2013   7:33 am
Developing story…Some unfortunate news this morning. An
anonymous source at TheLayoff.com wrote about an all-hands …
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aronwarner

Business

Reel FX Hires “Shrek” Producer Aron Warner As President of Animation
by Amid Amidi   Sunday February 3, 2013   12:59 pm
Dallas-based ReelFX is getting serious about feature animation.
Last week, they named Aron Warner as the studio’s President …
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Business

Stephen Silver: “Stop Working For Free!”
by Amid Amidi   Sunday February 3, 2013   11:52 am
Character designer Stephen Silver is mad as hell, and he’s not going to take it anymore.
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Business

Technicolor Options Rights to Graphic Novel Series “The Deep”
by Amid Amidi   Tuesday January 22, 2013   11:26 am
This press release was interesting to me because I wasn’t aware that Technicolor is making a push into original content …
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machinimasite

Business

YouTube-Funded Channels Are Under Fire For Mistreatment of Content Producers
by Amid Amidi   Monday January 14, 2013   10:16 am
Well, that didn’t take long. The entertainment companies that took millions of dollars from YouTube to operate content channels …
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Business

Animation Dominates the Top 20 Highest Grossing Features of 2012
by Jerry Beck   Friday January 11, 2013   1:00 am
All told, it was an incredible year at the box office. The top six animated features contributed over $1 billion dollars gross …
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Business

Why Kickstarter is a No-Win Situation for Independent Filmmakers
by Amid Amidi   Friday December 14, 2012   9:26 am
If you think using Kickstarter is the heaven-sent solution for independent artists, this article may make you reconsider.
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Box Office Report

Did Guardians “Underperform”?
by Jerry Beck   Monday November 26, 2012   12:33 am
First the good news: Dreamworks’ Rise of The Guardians opened
this holiday weekend, grossing over $32 million dollars in five …
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goon-main-record

Business

“The Goon” Kickstarter Sets New Crowdfunding Record For An Animated Project
by Amid Amidi   Tuesday November 13, 2012   12:06 am
Last Sunday, Blur Studio completed its crowdfunding effort for
the proposed animated feature, The Goon, based on Eric …
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