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Icon Creative Studio has tapped European sales and finance outfit Global Constellation to handle international sales on its upcoming CG-animated family feature “Charlie the Wonderdog,” which is voiced by Owen Wilson.

The superhero adventure has already racked up an impressive slate of pre-sales across major territories, including the U.S., Canada, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Benelux, Spain, Portugal, Greece, Poland, Romania, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Ex-Yugoslavia, Ukraine, the Baltics, Cis, Turkey, Israel, Middle East and North Africa, South Africa, Mongolia and Vietnam.

Global Constellation will handle sales in the remaining territories including U.K. and Ireland, France, Scandinavia, Hungary, Latin America and Asia (excluding Mongolia and Vietnam), as the film readies for a Q4 2025 delivery.

“Charlie the Wonderdog” follows nine-year-old Danny and his dog Charlie (voiced by Wilson), who gains superpowers after an alien abduction. Together, they must thwart a diabolical plan by the neighbor’s cat Puddy and his canine sidekick...

Owen Wilson has joined the voice cast in the lead role on Icon Creative Studio’s Charlie The Wonderdog, which Cinema Management Group will continue to sell at the AFM next month.

Director-producer Shea Wageman and producer Carson Loveday, who previously collaborated on Young Jedi Adventures and Monsters At Work, bring Wilson into a cast that includes Canadian voice-over actor Tabitha St. Germain, Ruairi McDonald, Dawson Littman, and Zac Bennett-McPhee.

The animated superhero adventure centres on nine-year-old Danny and his dog Charlie, who is endowed with powers following an alien abduction and must thwart a diabolical plan by the neighbour...

Icon Creative Studios feature scheduled for delivery Q2 2025.

Cmg has boarded worldwide rights from Canada’s Icon Creative Studio to Charlie The Wonderdog and will launch pre-sales at AFM.

Steve Ball and Shea Wageman are directing the feature and Wageman produces with Carson Loveday.

Icon Creative Studio is Canada’s largest CG animation company and has collaborated with Pixar, Disney+, Nickelodeon (Transformer’s EarthSpark), and Netflix.

Charlie The Wonderdog follows timid nine-year old Sasha as he teams up with his beloved family dog Charlie, who gets abducted by aliens and returns with superpowers, to thwart a plan by the neighbour...

BigGameHunter reports that Vancouver-based Rainmaker Entertainment are the Canadian team that created/produced the game trailer for Ubisoft.s Tom Clancy.s Splinter Cell: Conviction, the fifth video game in the Splinter Cell series. The action 'stealth' game is based on author Tom Clancy's novels, following lead character 'Sam Fisher'. "We approached this project as storytellers," said Catherine Winder, Rainmaker's President. "When the Splinter Cell: Conviction development team at Ubisoft Montreal came to us and wanted a 'wow' factor for this trailer, we totally immersed ourselves in the game and developed the overall concept and script. We then edited together various footage with character tests, and when we pitched the concept and reel, Ubisoft liked what they saw..." "Ubisoft wanted to give 'Sam Fisher' more character and emotional depth", said Shea Wageman, Rainmaker's Director, Producer on the project. "They wanted us to create a fully realized cinematic...

Jon Cooksey has been signed to write the script for the first feature based on "ReBoot", one of the earliest computer-animated episodic TV series.

"ReBoot" is being redeveloped as a trilogy of feature-length films by Rainmaker Animation. Originally produced in 1994, the series was created by MainFrame Entertainment, which was acquired by and renamed Rainmaker in 2006.

Meanwhile, as part of a marketing campaign that was developed in conjunction with Zeros 2 Heroes Media, a "ReBoot" relaunch began with a series of writers pitching ideas with one selected to work with Rainmaker's animation team to create a comic that would evolve with the help of fans via the Web.

The new comic, "Paradigms Lost", was the brainchild of writer Jeff Campbell, producer Shea Wageman, artist Shaun Martens and designer Kelly Schmidt. In the story, two mortal enemies, the heroic Guardians and merciless Codemasters, set aside their differences to battle a viral outbreak that threatens the stability of cyberspace.

The creative team of writer Jeff Campbell, producer Shea Wageman, artist Shaun Martens and designer Kelly Schmidt were chosen to develop a Web comic book property for Zeros 2 Heroes and Rainmaker Animation's Reboot franchise.

Reboot, one of the earliest computer-animated episodic TV series, is being redeveloped as a trilogy of feature-length films by Rainmaker. The company partnered with comics and genre entertainment social networking site Zeros 2 Heroes to create an online contest where fans selected the plot line they wanted to see develop.

The winning concept's story line centers on the idea of a self-aware program called Gnosis that uses the power of the supercomputer to conquer and enslave the entire Net.