Mindshow, a CG animation production company, has raised an additional $10 million in funding to expand its content pipeline.
With the new funding, led by SWaN & Legend Venture Partners, MindShow has raised more than $25 million in total. Sugar23, the management production and creative platform founded in Michael Sugar, also participated in the fundraise.
The company’s proprietary animation efforts, used recently on Mattel’s “Enchantimals” series, merge video game technology, visual effects and machine learning. The results produce high-quality graphics in record time.
“We are thrilled at what the team at Mindshow has accomplished over the past year, even more so in light of the challenges 2020 brought to all of us,” said Fred Schaufeld, the SWaN and Legend co-founder. “We couldn’t be more excited for what’s to come in this next chapter of the company’s growth.”
As the company looks to bring new animation projects to the market,...
With the new funding, led by SWaN & Legend Venture Partners, MindShow has raised more than $25 million in total. Sugar23, the management production and creative platform founded in Michael Sugar, also participated in the fundraise.
The company’s proprietary animation efforts, used recently on Mattel’s “Enchantimals” series, merge video game technology, visual effects and machine learning. The results produce high-quality graphics in record time.
“We are thrilled at what the team at Mindshow has accomplished over the past year, even more so in light of the challenges 2020 brought to all of us,” said Fred Schaufeld, the SWaN and Legend co-founder. “We couldn’t be more excited for what’s to come in this next chapter of the company’s growth.”
As the company looks to bring new animation projects to the market,...
- 4/7/2021
- by Rebecca Rubin
- Variety Film + TV
Sharon Bordas has joined Lifetime as VP, Scripted Development. Based in Los Angeles, Bordas will develop and oversee production of scripted series for Lifetime, reporting to Liz Gateley, Lifetime's Evp and Head of Programming. Bordas, who comes from production company MarVista Entertainment, will bolster Lifetime’s scripted series ranks. The network is still looking for a replacement of Svp Nina Lederman, who left last September. Bordas had served as Evp, Production and…...
- 4/28/2016
- Deadline TV
Plus: Lisandro Alonso’s Argentinean film Jauja wins at Cinema Tropical; Dell, Adrien Grenier launch short film contest; and more…
Daisy Ridley From Star Wars: The Force Awakens has joined Morgan Spurlock on the executive producer roster for Sundance selection The Eagle Huntress.
Otto Bell directed the Sundance Kids Premiere selection about Aisholpan, a 13-year old Mongolian girl who strives to become the first female eagle hunter in 2,000 years of male dominated history. Aisholpan plans to attend the festival.
“I was deeply moved by Aisholpan’s story and wanted to be a part of this beautiful film,” said Ridley. “I feel audiences and young girls around the world will be as inspired by her story as I was, and I am so proud to share her journey with the world.”
Lisandro Alonso’s Argentinean film Jauja starring Viggo Mortensen won top honours for best Latin American film of the year at the sixth annual Cinema Tropical Awards...
Daisy Ridley From Star Wars: The Force Awakens has joined Morgan Spurlock on the executive producer roster for Sundance selection The Eagle Huntress.
Otto Bell directed the Sundance Kids Premiere selection about Aisholpan, a 13-year old Mongolian girl who strives to become the first female eagle hunter in 2,000 years of male dominated history. Aisholpan plans to attend the festival.
“I was deeply moved by Aisholpan’s story and wanted to be a part of this beautiful film,” said Ridley. “I feel audiences and young girls around the world will be as inspired by her story as I was, and I am so proud to share her journey with the world.”
Lisandro Alonso’s Argentinean film Jauja starring Viggo Mortensen won top honours for best Latin American film of the year at the sixth annual Cinema Tropical Awards...
- 1/22/2016
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Plus: At Sundance, Dell, Adrien Grenier launch short film contest and Vimeo announces female filmmaker support.
Lisandro Alonso’s Argentinean film Jauja starring Viggo Mortensen won top honoursfor best Latin American film of the year at the sixth annual Cinema Tropical Awards in New York on Thursday night.
Panamanian film Invasion by Abner Benaim was named Best Latin American documentary, while Jayro Bustamante’s Ixcanul was honoured with prize Best First Film.
Chile’s Pablo Larraín was named best director for The Club and Mexico’s Betzabé García best director of a documentary for Kings Of Nowhere. For the full list of awards click here.
Vimeo announced in Sundance an initiative to close the gender-equality gap called Share The Screen. The platform will invest in five projects from women this year and provide marketing support and global distribution via Vimeo On Demand. Saturday Night Live cast member Aidy Bryant’s Darby Forever is the first original short from...
Lisandro Alonso’s Argentinean film Jauja starring Viggo Mortensen won top honoursfor best Latin American film of the year at the sixth annual Cinema Tropical Awards in New York on Thursday night.
Panamanian film Invasion by Abner Benaim was named Best Latin American documentary, while Jayro Bustamante’s Ixcanul was honoured with prize Best First Film.
Chile’s Pablo Larraín was named best director for The Club and Mexico’s Betzabé García best director of a documentary for Kings Of Nowhere. For the full list of awards click here.
Vimeo announced in Sundance an initiative to close the gender-equality gap called Share The Screen. The platform will invest in five projects from women this year and provide marketing support and global distribution via Vimeo On Demand. Saturday Night Live cast member Aidy Bryant’s Darby Forever is the first original short from...
- 1/22/2016
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Mark Myers’ film and television company has set a January start in and around Los Angeles on Matt Eskandari’s thriller.
Eskandari (pictured) and Michael Hultquis co-wrote The Deep End, about two sisters who become trapped under the fiberglass cover of a public pool.
Manson Family Vacation and Experimenter executive producer Myers will be overseeing the production along with executive producers Fernando Szew, Sharon Bordas and Hannah Pillemer.
Eskandari directed IFC Midnight feature Victim and Lionsgate’s Game Of Assassins. He is represented by Gerry Pass of Chrome Artists and Hultquist with Zero Gravity, who helped broker the deal.
Eskandari (pictured) and Michael Hultquis co-wrote The Deep End, about two sisters who become trapped under the fiberglass cover of a public pool.
Manson Family Vacation and Experimenter executive producer Myers will be overseeing the production along with executive producers Fernando Szew, Sharon Bordas and Hannah Pillemer.
Eskandari directed IFC Midnight feature Victim and Lionsgate’s Game Of Assassins. He is represented by Gerry Pass of Chrome Artists and Hultquist with Zero Gravity, who helped broker the deal.
- 11/23/2015
- ScreenDaily
The trailer recently dropped for The Funhouse Massacre, and it kicks off this morning's round-up. Also: a Kickstarter launch for Zombie Mouth Bubblegum, acquisition news for Terrordactyl, and Horror Hotel Season 2 premiere details.
The Funhouse Massacre: "The film, directed by Andy Palmer, stars Robert Englund, Jere Burns, Scottie Thompson, Clint Howard and Courtney Gains. The Funhouse Massacre, which was produced by Warner Davis, President of Petri Entertainment, will hit theaters in 15-20 U.S. markets on Friday, November 13th.
On Halloween night, a gruesome group of the United States' most notorious and colorful serial killers escape from Statesville Asylum and descend on a giant funhouse whose theme is based on their different reigns of terror. The unsuspecting carnival goers think that the carnage created is just part of the show, that is, until they become part of the main attraction. The only people left to stop them are a ragtag group of college kids,...
The Funhouse Massacre: "The film, directed by Andy Palmer, stars Robert Englund, Jere Burns, Scottie Thompson, Clint Howard and Courtney Gains. The Funhouse Massacre, which was produced by Warner Davis, President of Petri Entertainment, will hit theaters in 15-20 U.S. markets on Friday, November 13th.
On Halloween night, a gruesome group of the United States' most notorious and colorful serial killers escape from Statesville Asylum and descend on a giant funhouse whose theme is based on their different reigns of terror. The unsuspecting carnival goers think that the carnage created is just part of the show, that is, until they become part of the main attraction. The only people left to stop them are a ragtag group of college kids,...
- 10/31/2015
- by Tamika Jones
- DailyDead
Set to premiere tonight at the 2015 Los Angeles Film Festival, Caught is a darkly comedic thriller centered around a desperate housewife who discovers that her husband is having an affair and as a mean-spirited prank, she kidnaps his unsuspecting mistress. But things begin to spin wildly out of control once her perfect plan starts to fall apart.
Written by Marcy Holland and directed by Maggie Kiley, Caught stars Anna Camp (True Blood), Stefanie Scott (Insidious: Chapter 3), Amelia Rose Blaire (True Blood), and Sam Page (Mad Men). Daily Dead recently had the opportunity to speak with Kiley as well as with producer Jennifer Westin and co-executive producer Hannah Pillemer about their experiences collaborating together on the film, how important getting the tone right was for Kiley, their thoughts on representing female genre filmmakers at the Laff and much more.
Caught began with an idea from MarVista Entertainment’s Sharon Bordas...
Written by Marcy Holland and directed by Maggie Kiley, Caught stars Anna Camp (True Blood), Stefanie Scott (Insidious: Chapter 3), Amelia Rose Blaire (True Blood), and Sam Page (Mad Men). Daily Dead recently had the opportunity to speak with Kiley as well as with producer Jennifer Westin and co-executive producer Hannah Pillemer about their experiences collaborating together on the film, how important getting the tone right was for Kiley, their thoughts on representing female genre filmmakers at the Laff and much more.
Caught began with an idea from MarVista Entertainment’s Sharon Bordas...
- 6/12/2015
- by Heather Wixson
- DailyDead
Exclusive: The Help’s Ahna O’Reilly and The Hobbit’s Richard Armitage are in the midst of filming Sleepwalker, a psychological thriller from writer Jack Olsen and director Elliott Lester (Nightingale). O’Reilly leads the cast as a grad student who goes to a campus sleep clinic to treat her insomnia and nightmares, but instead starts experiencing unsettling changes in her waking reality every time she wakes up. With the help of a doctor, she attempts to find her way back to normalcy by unraveling the tangled knot of her dreams, reality, and shockingly tragic past.
English actor Armitage is hot off of ruling Middle Earth under heavy beard and armor in Peter Jackson’s nearly-completed Hobbit trilogy. He stars in Sleepwalker as the handsome sleep researcher who develops a unique relationship with O’Reilly. After leading New Line’s summer disaster actioner Into The Storm, Armitage returns to...
English actor Armitage is hot off of ruling Middle Earth under heavy beard and armor in Peter Jackson’s nearly-completed Hobbit trilogy. He stars in Sleepwalker as the handsome sleep researcher who develops a unique relationship with O’Reilly. After leading New Line’s summer disaster actioner Into The Storm, Armitage returns to...
- 11/18/2014
- by Jen Yamato
- Deadline
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