After practically 1 / 4 century in international youngsters and household leisure, Toonz Media Group has introduced the launch of a brand new devoted function movie division, which will probably be concerned in a full spectrum of actions throughout the group, translating its in-house created content material in addition to titles from different companions and third social gathering productions to the massive display screen.
Veteran leisure government Ariel Veneziano has been named President of Toonz Function Movie Division. A number one skilled in worldwide distribution, Veneziano beforehand served as President of Icon Leisure Worldwide, the place he oversaw gross sales of probably the most profitable unbiased movie of all time, Mel Gibson’s The Ardour of the Christ.
Throughout his tenure at Alliance Atlantis Communication as Director of Gross sales and Distribution, Veneziano dealt with worldwide distribution on Michael Moore’s award-winning documentary Bowling for Columbine, and America’s most watched tv present, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. He has additionally served as President of Gold Valley Movies Worldwide, the place he helped organize partnerships with high theatrical distributors.
“Having firmly established Toonz because the worldwide chief in animation and child’s leisure, I really feel that is the precise time to launch the function movie division headed by a dynamic chief,” stated P. Jayakumar, CEO of Toonz Media Group. “Submit Berlin, Ariel will announce additions to his crew together with new initiatives presently beneath improvement. He’s tasked with making Toonz a world power within the function movie world.”
Veneziano added, “Toonz is a extremely recognizable model within the youngsters and household area, having established relationships with distinctive creators of content material. I stay up for serving to the group capitalize on the various alternatives within the function movie world, with an preliminary concentrate on excessive finish animated motion pictures for the theatrical market.”
The brand new Toonz Function Movie Division is now in manufacturing on the animated function Little Emma, a co-production between Toonz and Gold Valley Leisure, China. Directed by Isabella Blanco, the household journey is a couple of miniature human woman adopted by animal dad and mom who’s craving to seek out the reality about her human roots.
Toonz is already concerned in animated function movie productions together with The Canterville Ghost, a 3D CGI adaptation of the Oscar Wilde traditional of the identical identify. The theatrical function is being co-produced by Toonz together with Robert Chandler’s Area Age Movies (whose The Superb Maurice was lately chosen on the Sundance Movie Competition) and Los Angeles-based Align Footage U.S. Inc. The movie will probably be distributed globally by the American movie distributors Cinema Administration Group (CMG).
Toonz is making ready to make additional key bulletins about new function movie initiatives within the lead as much as the Cannes pageant and movie market in Might.
