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CinéGroupe
CinéGroupe is a Canadian animation studio based in Montreal, Quebec. The company was founded in 1974. Its shows and films have been seen in over 125 countries. Notable franchises from CinéGroupe include: '' What's with Andy?'', '' The Kids from Room 402'', and '' Pig City'' (all aired on Fox Family, now known as Freeform); the computer-animated ''Tripping the Rift'' (Sci Fi, now known as Syfy); and PBS' ''Sagwa, the Chinese Siamese Cat''. With Sony Wonder, it has produced ''Mega Babies'' (also aired on Fox Family), as well as a direct-to-video feature, '' Lion of Oz'' (a prequel to both the L. Frank Baum work, and the 1939 movie). In the 2000s, the company produced the animation for a sequel to the 1981 cult classic '' Heavy Metal'' for Columbia TriStar Home Video titled '' Heavy Metal 2000'', premiered on Starz in the United States and on Teletoon in Canada from 2001 onwards. In 2004, it made ''Pinocchio 3000'', a sci-fi retelling of the Italian tale. '' Galidor'', a live-a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pig City (TV Series)
''Pig City'' is an animated television series co-produced by CinéGroupe, AnimaKids, and Red Rover Studios in association with Merchandising München and original networks Teletoon in Canada, ProSieben in Germany, and Fox Kids internationally. The show features a teenage country pig (Mikey) moving to the big city to live with his cousins (Martha and Reggie). Thirty-nine half-hour episodes have been produced. Cast * Thor Bishopric as Mikey *Philip Lemaistre as Reggie *Emma Campbell as Martha * Michael Yarmush as E. Brian *Lindsay Abrahams as Betty *Matt Holland as Dave *Teddy Lee Dillon as Bob *Pier Kohl as Uncle Porter *Jennifer Seguin as Trish * Harry Standjofski as V.P. Larden * Ellen David as Aunt Yardley *Brett Watson as Link *Ricky Mabe as Stig *Pierre Lenior as Principal Hamhock Characters *Mikey – a 15-year-old country pig that goes to the big city to live with his cousins, Reggie and Martha. He can be described as humble. *Reggie – a rocker, complete with his ow ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mega Babies
''Mega Babies'' is an animated children's television series created by the Tremblay brothers, Christian and Yvon, who previously had made the Hanna-Barbera show '' SWAT Kats: The Radical Squadron''. It is produced by CinéGroupe and Landmark Entertainment Group in association with Sony Wonder. The series was broadcast on Fox Family Channel and Teletoon. The show was also aired in UK on Sky One's weekday mornings and later repeated on Channel 5 on weekend mornings between 2001 and 2002. Synopsis The show is about a trio of mutant babies who are three characters that fight off evil monsters and aliens. Their names are Meg, Derrick and Buck and their care-giver's name is Nurse Lazlo. The show takes place in Your City, USA. After their birth, they are brought to an orphanage. When the entire solar system aligned itself, the babies and their nurse were struck by lightning. The babies were given super strength and other powers, and Nurse Lazlo's IQ rose. Voice actors Buck was vo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
What's With Andy?
''What's with Andy?'' (''Sacré Andy !'' in French) is an animated children's television series loosely based on the semi-autobiographical ''Just!'' book series by Australian author Andy Griffiths. The animated series was primarily produced by Canadian animation studio CinéGroupe and broadcast on Teletoon, with various Disney-affiliated foreign studios and networks involved in the production of individual seasons. The main character is Andy Larkin, a mischievous teen and the self-proclaimed "world's greatest prankster". The show follows him as he tries to perform elaborate practical jokes, or pranks, on people in the fictional town of East Gackle. Andy's best friend, Danny Pickett, helps him out with almost every prank. His antagonists include his older sister, Jen Larkin, and the bullies Peter Lik and Andrew Leech. Andy has a crush on a girl named Lori Mackney and usually tries to impress her. The first season of the series has an American cast of voice actors (except for Ian J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Kids From Room 402
''The Kids from Room 402'' is an animated series produced by CinéGroupe and Saban Entertainment that premiered on October 9, 1999 on the Fox Family Channel in the USA, and on August 29, 2000 on Teletoon in Canada. It consists of 52 half-hour episodes, the last of which aired in 2000, with reruns airing until 2005. The series was also seen in Latin America and Europe on Fox Kids, with the latter region still airing the series after the Fox Kids channels were purchased by Disney and changed their name to Jetix; remaining on their schedule until the Jetix channels were once again rebranded as Disney XD. The series is focused primarily on a group of elementary school students. Miss Graves, their teacher, is usually shown as an interlocutor in the issues and injustices that are inflicted upon the students, whether the dilemmas be internal or external. Each episode usually ends with a substantiated moral or lesson resulting from such aforementioned situations. The series is based ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sagwa, The Chinese Siamese Cat
''Sagwa, the Chinese Siamese Cat'', or simply ''Sagwa'', is a children's animated television series based on the children's book of the same name by Amy Tan which aired on PBS Kids, co-produced by Canada-based animation studio CinéGroupe and ''Sesame Street'' creator Sesame Workshop. In the series, which is set , after the cinematograph was patented and during the late Qing dynasty, Sagwa has fun in her day-to-day life while learning and teaching valuable life lessons. The show is notable for its setting and messages about family obligations and loyalty. The show is also intentionally cross-cultural, with the theme song in both English and Chinese. The series was developed and produced for television by executive producers George Daugherty and Michel Lemire, and producers David Ka Lik Wong and Leon G. Arcand. The series aired from September 3, 2001, to October 5, 2002, running for one season and 40 episodes. The series was cancelled in 2002, ending on October 5 of that ye ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bad Dog (TV Series)
''Bad Dog'' is an animated series produced by CinéGroupe and Saban Entertainment for the Teletoon and Fox Family Channel networks, first airing on Teletoon on March 1, 1999. The cartoon focused on the Potanski family and their dog Berkeley. The show's gimmick was that, whenever Berkeley was told that he was a bad dog, he would freeze and pretend to be dead until someone told him he was a good dog. The show was inspired by the '' After Dark'' screensaver "Bad Dog". The two dogs have a similar appearance, and the "Bad Dog" of the show is named Berkeley, a likely reference to Berkeley Systems, the creators of After Dark. The show was paired with another series called '' Monster Farm''. Internationally, the series did air on Fox Kids (later known as Jetix), being lastly rerun in 2011 on Disney Channel in Netherlands. Characters * Berkeley aka "Barky": The not-so-normal dog owned by the Potanski family who likes having adventures and always gets everyone into trouble. He appears t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tripping The Rift
''Tripping the Rift'' is an adult CGI science fiction comedy television series. It is based on two short animations published on the Internet by Chris Moeller and Chuck Austen. The series was produced by CineGroupe in association with the Syfy network. Following its cancellation by that cable network, CineGroupe continued producing the series for the other North American and International broadcasters. The series aired on the Canadian speciality channel Space in 2004. Canada's cartoon network Teletoon has been airing the series since August 2006. Teletoon participated in the production of the third season, and aired it in 2007. A feature-length movie version was released on DVD in 2008. Setting The universe is modeled largely after the ''Star Trek'' universe, with references to 'warp drive' and 'transporter' beam technology, occasional time travel, the Federation and the Vulcans. The series also includes elements borrowed from other sources such as ''Star Wars'', '' 2001: A Sp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heavy Metal 2000
''Heavy Metal 2000'' (also known as ''Heavy Metal: F.A.K.K.²'' outside North America) is a 2000 Canadian adult animated science fiction film produced by Jacques Pettigrew and Michel Lemire, and directed by Michael Coldewey and Lemire. Starring the voices of Michael Ironside, Julie Strain, and Billy Idol, the film is the follow-up to the 1981 animated cult film '' Heavy Metal'', which is based on the fantasy magazine of the same name. The story is based on the graphic novel, '' The Melting Pot'', written by Kevin Eastman, Simon Bisley and Eric Talbot. The film was made by CinéGroupe, a studio based in Montreal, Quebec. Plot In ages past, the Arakacians, a malevolent race, discovered a place where space-time leaked a type of fluid. This fluid granted immortality to anyone who consumed it. The Arakacians built an empire and enslaved the known universe for centuries. They were finally vanquished after the fountain chamber (where they gathered the water of life) was sealed by freedo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Galidor
''Galidor: Defenders of the Outer Dimension'', sometimes shortened as ''Galidor'', is a 2002 television series that ran on YTV in Canada and Fox Kids in the United States in 2002 with a total of 26 half-hour episodes. The series was created by Thomas W. Lynch, the creator of ''The Secret World of Alex Mack'' and ''The Journey of Allen Strange''; and funded and owned by the Lego Group. It was the final series to launch on Fox Kids, as the brand folded in the United States only 7 months after its debut. Plot The show is centered upon Nick Bluetooth, a 15-year-old boy led (with his best friend Allegra Zane) by an extraterrestrial map to a spacecraft nicknamed the Egg, which moves them into an "Outer Dimension" threatened by Gorm. They are now there to protect the story's eponymous dimension. To defeat Gorm, Nick must find all the pieces of a key that will unlock the sealed gates to the kingdom of Galidor, one of many realms comprising the dimension. Characters Heroes * Nicholas "N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lion Of Oz
''Lion of Oz'' is a 2000 animated film set before the 1900 children's novel '' The Wonderful Wizard of Oz''. It tells the story of how the Cowardly Lion, formerly part of the Omaha Circus, came to be in Oz and how he stopped the Wicked Witch of the East from getting the Flower of Oz. It is based upon the 1995 book ''Lion of Oz and the Badge of Courage'' by Roger S. Baum (great-grandson of L. Frank Baum, the original author of the Oz books). Plot A lonely lion is shown in a circus, where everyone is afraid of him apart from his friend, the eccentric and virtuous balloonist Oscar Diggs. One evening, Oscar Diggs takes Lion up on his balloon and gives him a Badge of Courage. A thunderstorm drags them to the Land of Oz and Lion falls from the balloon. Lion comes across a living Oak Tree being harassed by flying monkeys. Lion frightens them off and the Tree thanks him. The Wicked Witch of the East appears, claiming that Oscar Diggs is her prisoner. She demands Lion find the F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pinocchio 3000
''Pinocchio 3000'' (or ''P3K -'' ''Pinocchio 3000'') is a 2004 computer-animated science fantasy film directed by Daniel Robichaud and distributed by Christal Films. The film is a futuristic science fiction interpretation of the classic 1883 novel ''The Adventures of Pinocchio'' by Carlo Collodi, with Pinocchio (voiced by Sonja Ball) being a robot brought to life by tapping into a city's power surge, rather than a puppet animated by Magic (paranormal), magic. The film centers on the basic story of Pinocchio attempting to fit into living with humans in the town of Scamboville, a futuristic city constantly under development under the reign of its namesake, Mayor Scamboli. Plot Geppetto, an old inventor, creates Pinocchio, a robot, as his son. Meanwhile, evil mayor Scamboli is building the technological city "Scamboville" to get rid of nature. He also hates all children, except for his beloved daughter, Marlene. When Marlene expresses concerns to Scamboli about there being no space f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Britney Spears
Britney Jean Spears (born December 2, 1981) is an American singer. Often referred to as the "Princess of Pop", she is credited with influencing the revival of teen pop during the late 1990s and early 2000s. After appearing in stage productions and television series, Spears signed with Jive Records in 1997 at age fifteen. Her first two studio albums, '' ...Baby One More Time'' (1999) and '' Oops!... I Did It Again'' (2000), are among the best-selling albums of all time and made Spears the best-selling teenage artist of all time. With first-week sales of over 1.3 million copies, ''Oops!... I Did It Again'' held the record for the fastest-selling album by a female artist in the United States for fifteen years. Spears adopted a more mature and provocative style for her albums ''Britney'' (2001) and '' In the Zone'' (2003), and starred in the 2002 film '' Crossroads''. Spears was executive producer of her fifth studio album '' Blackout'' (2007), often referred to as her be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
