Popeye is coming back. Variety reports a new TV show based on the character is coming to YouTube.The animated series comes from WildBrain and will draw stories from "shows including 'Popeye,' 'Popeye and Son,' and 'The Continuing Adventures of Popeye.'" This will be the first Popeye series in nearly 15 years. In 2004, a TV special titled Popeye's Voyage: The Quest for Pappy, aired on Fox.Read More…...
- 5/29/2018
- by TVSeriesFinale.com
- TVSeriesFinale.com
Popeye, the 89-year-old spinach-powered mariner, will be launching his first new adventures in more than a decade in new animated originals slated to debut on the brand’s YouTube channel.
The new material will come under a pact between WildBrain, a digital kids’ network and studio, and Hearst’s King Features Syndicate, which handles licensing for the Popeye franchise. WildBrain will create new animated content in the “squash-and-stretch” animation style of Popeye, in collaboration with King Features.
Also under the agreement, WildBrain will take over management of the “Popeye and Friends Official” channel on YouTube, launched in January 2017, with an eye toward boosting its audience. Initially, WildBrain plans to produce new compilations of Popeye classic cartoons, drawing from shows including “Popeye,” “Popeye and Son,” and “The Continuing Adventures of Popeye.”
It’s worth noting that King Features is focusing on YouTube and digital platforms to serve as Popeye’s anchor — not TV.
The new material will come under a pact between WildBrain, a digital kids’ network and studio, and Hearst’s King Features Syndicate, which handles licensing for the Popeye franchise. WildBrain will create new animated content in the “squash-and-stretch” animation style of Popeye, in collaboration with King Features.
Also under the agreement, WildBrain will take over management of the “Popeye and Friends Official” channel on YouTube, launched in January 2017, with an eye toward boosting its audience. Initially, WildBrain plans to produce new compilations of Popeye classic cartoons, drawing from shows including “Popeye,” “Popeye and Son,” and “The Continuing Adventures of Popeye.”
It’s worth noting that King Features is focusing on YouTube and digital platforms to serve as Popeye’s anchor — not TV.
- 5/22/2018
- by Todd Spangler
- Variety Film + TV
Director Genndy Tartakovsky is back in the animator’s chair with the new video test from his upcoming film, Popeye.
Popeye the Sailor Man was created by Elzie Crisler Segar and first appeared in the daily King Features comic strip Thimble Theatre on January 17, 1929 and hit the silver screen first in 1934 in a series of Paramount animated shorts produced by the Fleischer Brothers and later with a live-action feature film, Popeye, directed by Robert Altman with Robin Williams in the lead role in 1980.
Sony Pictures Animation’s film is the CG adaptation of the famous sailor man’s origin story.
In addition to Popeye, Tartakovsky is also returning to the director’s chair for Hotel Transylvania 2, scheduled for September 2015, which will bring back Adam Sandler’s Dracula.
Tartakovsky himself says, “It’s good to be back at the Hotel Transylvania, and I’m very excited to work on Popeye,...
Popeye the Sailor Man was created by Elzie Crisler Segar and first appeared in the daily King Features comic strip Thimble Theatre on January 17, 1929 and hit the silver screen first in 1934 in a series of Paramount animated shorts produced by the Fleischer Brothers and later with a live-action feature film, Popeye, directed by Robert Altman with Robin Williams in the lead role in 1980.
Sony Pictures Animation’s film is the CG adaptation of the famous sailor man’s origin story.
In addition to Popeye, Tartakovsky is also returning to the director’s chair for Hotel Transylvania 2, scheduled for September 2015, which will bring back Adam Sandler’s Dracula.
Tartakovsky himself says, “It’s good to be back at the Hotel Transylvania, and I’m very excited to work on Popeye,...
- 9/18/2014
- by Jim Batts
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
These days, most of the public likely relates the name Popeye with a fast food chicken franchise more than a comic strip character. The sailor has been around since 1929 but isn't seen as much these days.
The daily Popeye comic strip ended in 1994 and only Sunday strips are produced these days for a limited number of newspapers. Popeye was once a staple of kids' TV schedules but a new TV series hasn't been produced since CBS' Popeye and Son back in 1988. A CGI special, Popeye's Voyage: The Quest for Pappy, was released in 2004 for Popeye's 75th anniversary but that's been it for new material.
Until now. There's a new animated music video for Wilco's "Dawned on Me" that incorporates Popeye, Olive Oyl, Bluto, Wimpy, and even baby Swee'Pea.
The cartoon is done in the style of...
The daily Popeye comic strip ended in 1994 and only Sunday strips are produced these days for a limited number of newspapers. Popeye was once a staple of kids' TV schedules but a new TV series hasn't been produced since CBS' Popeye and Son back in 1988. A CGI special, Popeye's Voyage: The Quest for Pappy, was released in 2004 for Popeye's 75th anniversary but that's been it for new material.
Until now. There's a new animated music video for Wilco's "Dawned on Me" that incorporates Popeye, Olive Oyl, Bluto, Wimpy, and even baby Swee'Pea.
The cartoon is done in the style of...
- 2/1/2012
- by TVSeriesFinale.com
- TVSeriesFinale.com
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