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CUMBERLAND — The Sen. George Edwards Fund will receive an installment of $10 million for 2024, bringing the total state investment designed to improve the Western Maryland economy to $30
Genius Brands Announces US $56 Million Acquisition of Vancouver's WOW! Unlimited Media, Creating a Global Animation & Digital Media Powerhouse. Vancouver, BC, October 27, 2021--Genius Brands International, Inc. (NASDAQ: GNUS) and WOW! Unlimited Media (TSX-V: WOW), parent company of Vancouver-based animation company Mainframe Studios, announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement whereby Genius Brands will acquire WOW! for approximately US$53million in cash and stock.
Steven Wendland to head up its new US office as president. Based in LA, Wendland officially starts today and is charged with developing and producing original content based on the company’s existing IPs, as well as building a new slate of proprietary concepts. He will also be responsible for expanding the company’s animation service capabilities across family-skewing TV, films and apps. The US office is planning to staff up in the coming months, according to a spokesperson for the company. Discreet Arts is primarily a work-for-hire studio specializing in 2D and 3D animation. It has coll...
India's Discreet Arts Sets Steven Wendland as Head of U.S. Operations (EXCLUSIVE) Patrick Frater, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail Veteran animation executive Steven Wendland has been appointed as president of Discreet Arts USA, the newly-launched offshoot of Indian animation firm Discreet Arts. The new unit is based in Burbank, California. He is expected to expand the company’s work-for-hire business while also developing a slate of original productions. These may be based on Discreet Arts’ existing IP and new properties. More from Variety Until last year, Wendland was VP of animation a...
Veteran Executive Fred Seibert Launches Animation Production Company Fredfilms Six months after stepping down from Frederator, the animation company he founded in 1997, Fred Seibert has launched another namesake venture: Fredfilms. The new production company will develop long- and short-form animated series for linear tv and streaming. Fredfilms has struck a first-look deal with VIS Kids, ViacomCBS Networks International’s new children’s content division. VIS Kids was set up to create content for ViacomCBS brands and platforms, like the streaming service Paramount+, as well as third parti...