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10-18-2005, 03:39 PM
Marvel Joins Hands With Indian Animation Co for TV Series
NEW DELHI, Oct 17 Asia Pulse- Global entertainment and licensing company Marvel Entertainment entered into an agreement with Indian animation company First Serve Toonz (FST) to produce a brand new animated television series based on Marvel's popular X-Men character.
Under the terms of the agreement, FST, which operated its animation studios in India, will begin pre-production immediately on 26 episodes in a 2D-3D combination of characters and background and the initial episodes are expected to be ready for worldwide distribution by summer 2007, its CEO P Jayakumar said in a release here.
FST will produce the series while both Marvel Studios and FST will oversee the creative direction, it said adding international TV and DVD distribution rights will be managed by FST whereas Marvel retains distribution rights for the United States. FST is a newly created joint venture between First Serve International whose chairman is tennis legend turned entertainment entrepreneur Vijay Amritraj and Toonz Animation India Pvt Ltd headed by Jayakumar.
Source: http://asia.news.yahoo.com/051017/4/290y4.html
NEW DELHI, Oct 17 Asia Pulse- Global entertainment and licensing company Marvel Entertainment entered into an agreement with Indian animation company First Serve Toonz (FST) to produce a brand new animated television series based on Marvel's popular X-Men character.
Under the terms of the agreement, FST, which operated its animation studios in India, will begin pre-production immediately on 26 episodes in a 2D-3D combination of characters and background and the initial episodes are expected to be ready for worldwide distribution by summer 2007, its CEO P Jayakumar said in a release here.
FST will produce the series while both Marvel Studios and FST will oversee the creative direction, it said adding international TV and DVD distribution rights will be managed by FST whereas Marvel retains distribution rights for the United States. FST is a newly created joint venture between First Serve International whose chairman is tennis legend turned entertainment entrepreneur Vijay Amritraj and Toonz Animation India Pvt Ltd headed by Jayakumar.
Source: http://asia.news.yahoo.com/051017/4/290y4.html