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Rainmaker Entertainment
Fonda Snyder joins Rainmaker
The former Disney Channel and Cookie Jar exec is named VP creative development and sales at the Vancouver-based animation studio.
Animation trade forum explores U.K.-B.C. copros
In the wake of the U.K.’s new animation tax credit, animators and broadcasters representing B.C. and the U.K. will meet this month in London and Manchester.
Rainmaker partners on second game-based film
Rainmaker has entered production on Sly Cooper, its second film project based on a PlayStation video game franchise.
Rainmaker reboots ReBoot with launch of TV division
The Vancouver company names its TV division Mainframe Entertainment, and announces an updated ReBoot series and animated series Tiger’s Apprentice as its first two projects in development (original ReBoot pictured).
Rainmaker Entertainment partners on Ratchet and Clank film
The Vancouver animation studio and Blockade Entertainment say their animated feature film, based on a video game franchise, will be released in 2015.
Rainmaker eyes five-film pact with China partner
Work on the first project from the possible deal is expected to begin “immediately,” with the project to be released by the third quarter of 2014.
Rainmaker Entertainment names Michael Hefferon as president
The film and TV vet moves over from Vancouver-based animation company Bardel Entertainment, where he was VP business development and exec producer.
Sale of Rainmaker’s animation studio to Xing Xing Digital collapses
The maker of the big-budget sci-fi Escape from Planet Earth (pictured) says in a statement it will focus on existing business and explore alternative transactions.
Shareholders OK Rainmaker sale to Xing Xing Digital
The deal, unveiled in June, includes possible revenue from Escape from Planet Earth (pictured), Rainmaker’s current big budget project.
Vancouver unveils ultrafast server farm for digital animation and FX work
RenderCloud aims to bolster the city’s digital economy by enabling local studios and Hollywood to produce the next Shrek or Avatar in British Columbia.
Rainmaker’s Luna named Best Animated Short at CISF
The award is the first festival circuit win for the film, which will screen at the CISF on Dec. 17.
Rainmaker hires Circle of Confusion for digi platform expansion
The U.S. management company will mine the Canadian animation studio’s current slate of characters and storylines to develop new properties for online, mobile, gaming and social media.
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