News EditoSaturday, January 25, 2020, was an evening to remember for the French production company Xilam and for director Jérémy Clapin, who collected three Annie Awards from five nominations.
News Edito“I lost my body” is nominated three times in the categories Best Animated Film (Jérémy Clapin), Best Adapted Screenplay (Jérémy Clapin and Guillaume Laurant) and Best Original Score (Dan Levy).
These announcements occurred just after the Lumières Awards ceremony, during which “I lost my body” was awarded the prestigious 25th Lumières Award for Best Animated Feature Film.
News CorpoAnd above all, Xilam’s brand new series Lupin’s Tales which follows the adventures of an impetuous wolf-cub.
More information about the series here.
And to organize a meeting to discuss during the fair:
Capucine Humblot
Head of Licensing & Merchandising
Tel: 331 4018 7251 / Mob: +336 8463 3970
Email: chumblot@xilam.com
News CorpoAward-winning French animation studio Xilam Animation has secured a deal with DreamWorks Animation’s Classic Media for its hilarious new animated series, Mr Magoo based on the hugely successful classic cartoon of the same name. DreamWorks has exclusively picked up all US TV, home video and VOD rights to season one (78 x 7’). Mr Magoo will then be available from 17/01/2020 on CBS All Access streaming service.
News FilmsSee you on February 9, at the Dolby Theatre, Hollywood & Highland Center (Los Angeles) for the ceremony.
Full list of nominees is available at this link.
News EditoAward-winning French animation studio Xilam Animation has appointed Caterina Gonnelli, Disney’s former Director of Acquisitions and Co-Productions for the Disney Channels EMEA, as EVP, Content for the company’s rapidly growing slate of projects. Joining the company on Monday 13 January, Gonnelli will work alongside Xilam’s EVP, Content Jean Brune to oversee all editorial aspects of Xilam’s content and will be responsible for increasing the company’s slate, as well as conducting development to address the market needs. Caterina’s expertise of the fast-changing worldwide market of kids’ content will help Xilam strengthen its reach across all distribution channels and platforms in the five continents. Gonnelli will be based in Xilam’s head office in Paris and will report to CEO Marc du Pontavice.
News CorpoOn December 16, Santa, Un Cadeau Pour La Vie along with life-sized Zig and Sharko visited young patients from Hôpital Robert Debré (Paris), to bring Christmas gifts and a lot of hugs!
News CorpoXilam enters the Production top-10 for the first time, as the category’s lone French representative. In other firsts, the studio started production on Oggy Oggy, its first-ever CGI series and preschool spinoff of classic 2D comedy Oggy and the Cockroaches. Xilam moved further into CGI animation with Jérémy Clapin’s feature film I Lost My Body, which won best film in the independent International Critics’ Week portion of the 2019 Cannes Film Festival, and is also in production on a Disney+ non-verbal reboot of Chip ‘n’ Dale.
See the complete list of this year’s Hot50 companies on Kidscreen’s dedicated microsite.
News CorpoXilam Animation’s flagship property Oggy and the Cockroaches has taken up residence at the famed Grévin Museum in Paris. Created at Grévin’s workshop, wax works of Oggy and the three pesky cockroaches – Joey and Deedee and Marky – were unveiled at a ceremony last night and are now open to the public.
This installation follows a raft of brand activity which has been held throughout the year including the opening of the brand’s first escape room in Paris, museum partnerships, exhibitions, a roadshow, street marketing and more.
News CorpoCéline Carenco, our SVP Media Distribution Asia-Pacific, Canada, Northern & Eastern Europe will attend ATF from December 4th to 6th. Meet with her on booth F10 to discover our highlights!
News Corpo¡Nos vemos al MIP Cancun! Safaa Benazzouz, our SVP Media Distribution Latin America, Middle East, Africa and Southern Europe will attend Mip Cancun from November 20th to 22nd. Meet with her on table 180 to discover our highlights!
News CorpoThe 2D/3D, 78 x 7’ series is the newest preschool series produced by Xilam Animation: Lupin dreams of being like the storybook heroes he admires, and goes from one tale to the next to live out their adventures. But the impetuous wolf-cub is far from perfect, and it’s not easy getting to that “happy ending”! Luckily, he can count on the Narrator’s help to learn from his mistakes.