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Marvel Animation
Marvel Animation Inc. is an American animation production company. It was incorporated on January 25, 2008, to direct Marvel's efforts in animation and home entertainment markets. The incorporated Marvel Animation included then ongoing animation efforts by Marvel Studios with Lionsgate and Nickelodeon. Marvel Animation operates under Marvel Studios, a subsidiary of The Walt Disney Studios, a division of Disney Entertainment, itself a division of The Walt Disney Company. Background Marvel Comics Group first entered the animation field through licensing to Grantray-Lawrence Animation for ''The Marvel Super Heroes'' anthology series in 1966–1968, '' The Fantastic Four'' from 1967 to 1968, and ''Spider-Man'' from 1967 to 1969. Marvel worked with Grantray-Lawrence, Hanna-Barbera, and DePatie–Freleng Enterprises on other animated series until 1980. In 1980, Cadence Industries would purchase the remainder of DePatie–Freleng Enterprises to form Marvel Productions. Marvel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Glendale, California
Glendale is a city located primarily in the Verdugo Mountains region, with a small portion in the San Fernando Valley, of Los Angeles County, California, United States. It is located about north of downtown Los Angeles. As of 2024, Glendale had a Census-estimated population of 187,823, down 8,720 (–4.4%) from the 2020 United States census count of 196,543, which in turn was up from 191,719 at the 2010 United States Census, 2010 census, making it the 4th-most populous city in Los Angeles County and the List of largest California cities by population, 24th-most populous city in California. Glendale—along with neighboring Burbank, California, Burbank and nearby Hollywood, Los Angeles, Hollywood—has served as a major production center for the Cinema of the United States, American film industry, and especially animation, and is home to Disneytoon Studios, Marvel Animation, and DreamWorks Animation. It is also home to educational and cultural institutions, including Glendal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Disney Entertainment
Disney Entertainment is one of the three major divisions of the Walt Disney Company created on February 8, 2023. It consists of the company's entertainment media and content businesses, including its motion picture film studios, television divisions and streaming services. Background and history On November 20, 2022, the Walt Disney Company announced the dismissal of then-CEO Bob Chapek and the return of his formerly-retired predecessor Bob Iger. The following day, Iger announced that Kareem Daniel would step down as chairman of Disney Media and Entertainment Distribution (DMED), which would be later reorganized into a new unit with Alan Bergman, Dana Walden, James Pitaro and Christine McCarthy being involved in its creation. Iger reasoned that the move was intended to return "more decision-making back in the hands of our creative teams and rationalizes costs". On February 8, 2023, Disney announced a corporate restructuring that included the establishment of Disney Entertainm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marvel Films
Marvel Studios, LLC, formerly known as Marvel Films, is an American film and television production company. Marvel Studios is the creator of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), a media franchise and shared universe of films and television series produced by the studio, based on characters that appear in Marvel Comics publications. The studio was founded in 1993 by Avi Arad as part of Marvel Entertainment Group and has been led by producer Kevin Feige, who serves as its president since 2007. The studio originally licensed the film rights for several Marvel characters before beginning to produce its own films in 2004, and has since regained many of those rights. The Walt Disney Company acquired Marvel Studios' parent company, Marvel Entertainment, in 2009. Marvel Studios was transferred in 2015 to Walt Disney Studios (division), the Walt Disney Studios, which has been a part of the Disney Entertainment division since 2023. Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures has distributed most ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
MacAndrews & Forbes
MacAndrews & Forbes Incorporated is an American diversified holding company wholly owned by billionaire investor Ronald Perelman. Current investments include leading participants across a wide range of industries, from cosmetics and entertainment to biotechnology and military equipment. The principal interests of MacAndrews & Forbes include AM General, Harland Clarke, Merisant, RetailMeNot, Revlon, Scantron, Scientific Games Corporation, SIGA Technologies, Valassis and vTv Therapeutics. History Group MacAndrews & Forbes & Co. was founded in 1850 by Edward MacAndrews and William Forbes, a distributor of licorice extract and chocolate. In 1978, Perelman purchased a 40% stake in Cohen-Hatfield Jewelers, and in 1980, Perelman, through Cohen-Hatfield Jewelers, bought MacAndrews & Forbes & Co. Through the purchase, Cohen-Hatfield Jewelers was merged into what became MacAndrews & Forbes Group Inc. Holdings In 1983, Perelman formed MacAndrews & Forbes Holdings, Inc. Perelman s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marvel Entertainment Group
Marvel Entertainment, LLC (formerly Marvel Entertainment, Inc. and Marvel Enterprises, Inc.) was an American entertainment company founded in June 1998 and based in New York City, formed by the merger of Marvel Entertainment Group and Toy Biz. The company was a wholly owned subsidiary of the Walt Disney Company from December 31, 2009 until its dissolution on March 29, 2023, and was mainly known for consumer products, licensing, and comic books by Marvel Comics, as well as its early forays into films and television series, including those within the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). In 2009, the Walt Disney Company acquired Marvel Entertainment for ; it had been a limited liability company (LLC) since then. For financial reporting purposes, Marvel was primarily reported as part of the Disney Consumer Products segment ever since Marvel Studios' reorganization from Marvel Entertainment into Walt Disney Studios. Over the years, Marvel Entertainment entered into several partnersh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New World Pictures
New World Pictures (also known as New World Entertainment, New World Communications Group, Inc., and New World International) was an American independent production, distribution, and (in its final years as an autonomous entity) multimedia company. It was founded in 1970 by Roger Corman and Gene Corman as New World Pictures, Ltd., a producer and distributor of motion pictures, eventually expanding into television production in 1984. New World eventually expanded into broadcasting with the acquisition of seven television stations in 1993, with the broadcasting unit expanding through additional purchases made during 1994. 20th Century Fox (then solely-owned by News Corporation), controlled by Rupert Murdoch, became a major investor in 1994 and purchased the company outright in 1997; the alliance with Murdoch, specifically through a group affiliation agreement with New World reached between the two companies in May 1994, helped to cement the Fox network as the fourth major U.S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cadence Industries
Cadence Industries Corporation, formerly known as Perfect Film & Chemical Corporation, was an American conglomerate owned by Martin S. Ackerman. From 1968 through 1986, Cadence Industries was the parent company of Marvel Comics Group (formerly known as Magazine Management). History Perfect Film Perfect Film & Chemical Corporation (Perfect Film) was formed in 1962 by Martin S. Ackerman from parts of his first four acquisitions: United Whelan Corporation, Hudson National, Perfect Photos, and Equality Plastics Inc. Hudson was a mail-order pharmaceuticals firm, and Equality Plastics, a consumer-products distributor. Perfect Film sold off Whelan drugstores and the Pathé motion picture laboratory. In early 1968, Perfect Film purchased Popular Library, a paperback book company. In 1968, Perfect Film loaned $5 million to Curtis Publishing Company, publisher of the ''Saturday Evening Post'', at the request of Curtis' primary loan holder, First National Bank of Boston. In June and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
DePatie–Freleng Enterprises
DePatie–Freleng Enterprises, Inc. (also known as Mirisch-Geoffrey-DePatie-Freleng Productions when involved with the Mirisch brothers and Geoffrey Productions, and DFE Films) was an American animation studio founded by former Warner Bros. Cartoons employees in May 1963, before being acquired by Marvel in 1981 and renamed Marvel Productions. Based in Burbank, California, DFE produced animation for film and television. Notable among the productions that the studio produced are the opening titles for ''The Pink Panther'' (1963), its first, second, and fifth sequels, and an associated series of animated theatrical shorts featuring the Pink Panther character, as well as entries in the ''Looney Tunes'' and ''Merrie Melodies'' series from 1964 to 1967, the Dr. Seuss television specials from 1971 to 1982, the lightsaber effects in the original ''Star Wars'' (1977), and the '' Bod Squad'' and '' Time for Timer'' series of public service announcements for ABC in the mid 1970s. H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hanna-Barbera
Hanna-Barbera Cartoons, Inc. ( ; formerly known as H-B Enterprises, Hanna-Barbera Productions, Inc. and H-B Production Co.), simply and commonly known as Hanna-Barbera, was an American animation studio and production company, which was active from 1957 until its absorption into Warner Bros. Animation in 2001. Founded on July 7, 1957 by ''Tom and Jerry'' creators and former MGM Cartoons employees William Hanna and Joseph Barbera along with George Sidney, it was headquartered in Los Angeles at the Jim Henson Company Lot, Kling Studios from 1957 to 1960, then on Cahuenga Boulevard from 1960 to 1998, and subsequently at the Sherman Oaks Galleria in Sherman Oaks, Los Angeles, Sherman Oaks from 1998 to 2001. Notable among the cartoons that the company produced include ''The Huckleberry Hound Show'', the incarnations, feature films and other media of ''The Flintstones'', ''The Yogi Bear Show, Yogi Bear'' and ''Scooby-Doo'' and ''The Smurfs (1981 TV series), The Smurfs''. With the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spider-Man (1967 TV Series)
''Spider-Man'' is a 1967 American superhero animated television series that was the first television series based on the Spider-Man comic book series created by writer Stan Lee and by artist Steve Ditko. It was jointly produced in Canada (animation for season 1 and voice acting for all seasons) and the United States (animation for seasons 2 and 3). The show starred Paul Soles as the voice of Peter Parker, also known as Spider-Man. The first two seasons aired on the ABC television network, and the third was distributed in syndication. Grantray-Lawrence Animation produced the first season, and seasons two and three were produced by Krantz Films in New York City. The series aired Saturday mornings from September 9, 1967 to June 14, 1970. The series gained a variety of internet memes and is also remembered for its theme song containing the iconic phrase "Spider-Man, Spider-Man, does whatever a spider can." Synopsis The series revolved around teenager Peter Parker, a high sch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Fantastic Four (1967 TV Series)
''The Fantastic Four'' is an American animated television series produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions and based on the Marvel Comics superhero team of the same name. The program, featuring character designs by Alex Toth, originally aired on Saturday mornings on ABC from September 9, 1967, to September 21, 1968. It lasted for 20 episodes, with repeat episodes airing on ABC for three years until the network cancelled the program. It was also rerun as part of the continuing series '' Hanna–Barbera's World of Super Adventure''. The show was followed by another ''Fantastic Four'' cartoon produced by DePatie–Freleng Enterprises, ''The New Fantastic Four'', in 1978. Plot In the show, the super-family go on many adventures. They cross paths with various figures and have battles against their comic book rogues, including Dr. Doom, the Mole Man, Galactus and Diablo. Voice cast Credited cast * Gerald Mohr - Mister Fantastic / Reed Richards * Jo Ann Pflug - Invisible Girl / Susa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Marvel Super Heroes
''The Marvel Super Heroes'' is an American animated television series starring five comic book superheroes from Marvel Comics. The first TV series based on Marvel Comics, Marvel characters, it debuted in broadcast syndication, syndication on American television in 1966. Produced by Grantray-Lawrence Animation, headed by Grant Simmons, Ray Patterson, and Robert Lawrence, it was an umbrella series of five segments, each approximately seven minutes long, broadcast on local television stations that aired the show at different times. The series ran initially as a half-hour program made up of three seven-minute segments of a single superhero, separated by a short description of one of the other four heroes. It has also been broadcast as a mixture of various heroes in a half-hour timeslot, and as individual segments as filler or within a children's TV program. The segments were "Captain America", "Hulk, The Incredible Hulk", "Iron Man", "Thor (Marvel Comics), The Mighty Thor" and "Namo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
