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Média-Participations Franchises
Média-Participations () is a French media concern, controlled by a Belgian holding concern, specialized in Franco-Belgian comics. It has some forty publishers in its portfolio, including Dupuis, Dargaud, Le Lombard, Fleurus (publisher), Fleurus, La Martinière Groupe, La Martinière, and Abrams Books, Abrams. History Média-Participations was created in 1986 by Rémy Montagne, a politician who had been a member of the French Parliament for three decades before starting in the publishing business. After his death in 1991, he was succeeded by his son Vincent. The company was first called Ampère and focused on the acquisition of a number of struggling Christian publishing houses like Fleurus. In 1986, the group changed its name to Média-Participations and focused more on Franco-Belgian comics, which started when they acquired Le Lombard in 1986 and Dargaud in 1988. In July 2003, Média-Participations alongside their publishing house Dargaud announced they had acquires Paris-based ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Media Participations
Media may refer to: Communication * Means of communication, tools and channels used to deliver information or data ** Advertising media, various media, content, buying and placement for advertising ** Interactive media, media that is interactive ** Media adequacy, specific aspects important for a successful transfer of information ** MEDIA sub-programme of Creative Europe, a European Union initiative to support the European audiovisual sector ** New media, the combination of traditional media and information and communications technology ** Print media, communications delivered via paper or canvas ** Recording medium, devices used to store information * Mass media, the institutions and methods of reaching a large audience ** Broadcast media, communications delivered over mass electronic communication networks ** News media, mass media focused on communicating news ** Published media, any media made available to the public * Electronic media, communications delivered via elec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Forbes
''Forbes'' () is an American business magazine founded by B. C. Forbes in 1917. It has been owned by the Hong Kong–based investment group Integrated Whale Media Investments since 2014. Its chairman and editor-in-chief is Steve Forbes. The company is headquartered in Jersey City, New Jersey. Sherry Phillips is the current CEO of Forbes as of January 1, 2025. Published eight times per year, ''Forbes'' feature articles on finance, industry, investing, and marketing topics. It also reports on related subjects such as technology, communications, science, politics, and law. It has an international edition in Asia as well as editions produced under license in 27 countries and regions worldwide. The magazine is known for its lists and rankings, including its lists of the richest Americans (the Forbes 400, ''Forbes'' 400), of 30 notable people under the age of 30 (the Forbes 30 Under 30, ''Forbes'' 30 under 30), of America's wealthiest celebrities, of the world's top companies (the Fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Syberia III
''Syberia 3'' is a graphic adventure video game developed by Microïds and published by Anuman for macOS, PlayStation 4, Windows, Xbox One, and Nintendo Switch. It is the third entry of the ''Syberia'' series and follows the adventures of American lawyer Kate Walker as she travels to various locations in the former Soviet Union. Plot After abandoning the island of Syberia, Kate Walker finds herself adrift on a makeshift boat, rescued by the Youkol people. Determined to escape their common enemies, she decides to help the nomads fulfill their odd ancestral tradition, as they accompany their snow ostriches on their seasonal migration. Development and release On 1 April 2009, Microïds announced that ''Syberia 3'' was being developed and aimed to be released on PlayStation 3 and Windows in June 2010 as a real-time 3D game. The company had stated that the game would miss its original June 2010 release date because negotiations with Benoît Sokal were under way and Microïds was then ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Syberia II
''Syberia II'' is a 2004 graphic adventure game developed and published by MC2-Microïds. As the direct sequel to 2002's ''Syberia'', it is a third-person puzzle-solving game. Although it is stylistically identical, ''Syberia II'' improves upon the first game by introducing more realistic character animation. The game includes a recap of the first chapter, so it does not require the player to have experienced the first game. ''Syberia II'' achieved global sales of 600,000 units by early 2006. The game was received favorably by critics. Gameplay Like its predecessor, ''Syberia II'' is a third-person, mouse-driven adventure game in which the player must solve various puzzles and follow certain procedures in order for the linear storyline to proceed. As a pure graphical adventure game, ''Syberia'' follows the guidelines first introduced by LucasArts: it is impossible to die or to get stuck at any moment in the game, which allows the user to become fully immersed in ''Syberia' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Syberia
''Syberia'' is a franchise of graphic adventure games created by Belgian comic artist and video game developer Benoît Sokal. Set within an alternate universe designed by Sokal and introduced in the 1999 video game ''Amerzone'', the series is currently developed and published by French video game company Microids. The central focus of the franchise, beginning with the Syberia (video game), eponymous 2002 video game, follows the experiences of Kate Walker (Syberia), Kate Walker, an American adventurer who originally worked as a lawyer in a prominent New York City law firm. In each installment, Walker travels to various fictional locations in continental Europe and former Soviet states during the 2000s, where she encounters fantastical creatures as well as highly advanced automatons powered by intricate clockwork mechanisms. The first ''Syberia'' centers on Walker's efforts to locate and deal with the eccentric inventor Hans Voralberg on behalf of her firm to secure the purchase ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Famille Chrétienne
''Famille chrétienne'' () is a French Roman Catholic weekly magazine published in France since 1978. History The magazine was started in January 1978,Laure Jaulerry, Jean-Paul Labourdette, Véronique Hunsiger, ''Séjours spirituels en France'', Paris: Le Petit Futé, 2008, p. 25/ref> as the sister publication of '' Famiglia Cristiana'', an Italian Catholic magazine.Michel Dubost, Stanislas Lalanne, ''Le nouveau Théo - Livre 6 - L'Église d'aujourd'hui: L'Encyclopédie catholique pour tous'', Fleurus, 201/ref> In 1981, the magazine was acquired by Rémy Montagne. In 1992, it was merged with Média-Participations Média-Participations () is a French media concern, controlled by a Belgian holding concern, specialized in Franco-Belgian comics. It has some forty publishers in its portfolio, including Dupuis, Dargaud, Le Lombard, Fleurus, La Martinière, a .... In 2008, it had a circulation of 63,000. Content The magazine covers national and international news, individual fait ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spirou (magazine)
''Spirou'' () is a weekly Belgian comics magazine published by the Dupuis company since April 21, 1938. It is an anthology magazine with new features appearing regularly, containing a mix of short humor strips and serialized features, of which the most popular series would be collected as albums by Dupuis afterwards. History Creation With the success of the weekly magazine '' Le Journal de Mickey'' in France, and the popularity of the weekly '' Adventures of Tintin'' in '' Le Petit Vingtième'', many new comic magazines or youth magazines with comics appeared in France and Belgium in the second half of the 1930s. In 1936, the experienced publisher Jean Dupuis put his sons Paul and the 19-year-old Charles in charge of a new magazine aimed at the juvenile market. First appearing 21 April 1938, it was a large format magazine, available only in French and only in Wallonia. It was a sixteen-page weekly comics magazine composed of a mixture of short stories and gags, serial com ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
MoonScoop
MoonScoop S.A. also known as the MoonScoop Group was a French television production company and animation company that created and published animated series, animated television series. Its corporate headquarters were located in Paris, France, along with offices in the United Kingdom and the United States. It was established in 2003. It is most famously known for ''Code Lyoko'' and its Cliffhanger, open-ended sequel series, ''Code Lyoko: Evolution''. History One of MoonScoop's predecessors was France Animation, founded in 1984, and based in Paris. France Animation went on to become the original producers of ''Spartakus and the Sun Beneath the Sea''. In September 2003, the company was acquired from its then-owner Wanadoo by Antefilms Production—an outfit created by Christophe Di Sabatino and Benoît Di Sabatino in 1990. Both companies' distribution arms were merged in March 2004 to form the present day MoonScoop. On January 24, 2014, the Commercial Court of Paris accepted Darg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ellipsanime
Ellipsanime Productions (formerly known as Le Studio Ellipse and Ellipse Programme) is a French animation studio that produces television programs. It was founded in 1987. In February 2000 it merged with Expand SA; Expand sold the company to Dargaud in 2003, and it became Ellipsanime in 2004. In 2014, Ellipsanime bought the assets of Moonscoop SA. Ellipse has worked with many other animation companies, with the most reputable being Nelvana and Nickelodeon. Ellipse was best known in North America for co-producing seasons 2-4 of Nickelodeon's '' Doug''; it did not return to the series after The Walt Disney Company bought the ''Doug'' intellectual property and Jumbo Pictures. On the occasion of the Annecy International Animation Film Festival in June 2022, the Média-Participations group announced the creation of an umbrella brand Ellipse Animation which brings together its production labels in France Ellipsanime Productions, Dargaud Media and Dupuis Edition & Audiovisual. Histo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dargaud Media
Dargaud Media is a French production company and animation studio that produces animation, documentaries and feature-length films. It was created in 1984 by the French-Belgian comic book publishing house Dargaud. It is one of the production labels of Ellipse Animation of the Média-Participations group. History In 1967, Dargaud entered the animation production services with the movie '' Asterix the Gaul''. Subsequently, the company produced or co-produced several Asterix, Lucky Luke and Tintin feature films. By 1972, Dargaud announced that they've teamed up with American production and distributor United Artists to produce the movie '' Le Viager'' which was directed by Pierre Tchernia. Two years later in 1974, Dargaud announced that they had joined forces with René Goscinny and Albert Uderzo. In June 1997, Dargaud announced that they've acquired French animation and production company Marina Productions which was founded by Claude Berthier expanding Dargaud's animation output ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ellipse Animation
Ellipse Animation is a French entertainment group and animation production studio that is a subsidiary of media publishing and entertainment conglomerate Média-Participations whom brings together all of their animation production activities under one group and owns four animation production units (Dargaud Media, Dupuis Edition & Audiovisuel, Ellipsanime Productions) alongside their own in-house animation production studio Ellipse Studio based in both Paris and Angoulême. Across all their production labels, Ellipse Animation produced more than 1,982 animated series and films. History Ellipse Animation had its beginnings as a production name for Ellipse Programme's animation division until 2003 when Canal+ sold Ellipse to French media entertainment conglomerate Média-Participations under the latter's French-Belgian comic book publishing division Dargaud through its animation production division Dargaud Media, Dargaud Marina renaming it to Ellipsanime one year later in 2004. I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blake Et Mortimer
''The Adventures of Blake & Mortimer'' is a Belgian comics series created by writer and comics artist Edgar P. Jacobs. It was one of the first book series to appear in the Franco-Belgian comics magazine ''Tintin'' in 1946, and was subsequently published in book form by Belgian comic book publisher Le Lombard. The main protagonists of the adventures are Philip Mortimer, a leading British scientist, and his friend Captain Francis Blake, of MI5. The books' recurring antagonist is the sworn enemy of the heroes, Colonel Olrik, who appears very frequently throughout the series, in almost every book. Their confrontations take them into the realms of detective investigation and science fiction, dealing with themes of time travel, historical events, and espionage. Since Jacobs' death, many new titles of the series have been published by other authors, mainly two separate teams of artists and writers, with the amount of these new editions significantly dwarfing Jacobs' contributions. A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |