Mainframe Entertainment
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Mainframe Entertainment, Inc. is a Canadian computer animation and design company based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada and Los Angeles, California, USA. It produces children's computer animation TV series. They are most famous for creating the music video for the Dire Straits song Money for Nothing. and producing the first ever CGI animated series Reboot. As well as the acclaimed Transformers spin-off Beast Wars
On September 16, 2003, IDT Media announced that its animation unit, Digital Production Solutions, signed a binding Letter of Intent to acquire a controlling interest in Mainframe Entertainment, Inc. The acquisition was completed in December 2, 2003, making it part of IDT Entertainment. On May 16, 2006, IDT sold its IDT Entertainment division to Liberty Media.
On 2006-7-20, Mainframe Entertainment, Inc. announced RNK Capital Limited Partnership, a wholly owned subsidiary of Rainmaker Income Fund, has entered into an agreement to purchase 62% of the outstanding common shares of Mainframe Entertainment, Inc. from IDT Entertainment Inc. and its affiliates. The acquisition was expected to close on 2006-7-31.[1]
On 2006-8-29, Rainmaker Income Fund and Mainframe Entertainment, Inc. announced Mainframe and RNK Capital Limited Partnership had entered into a definitive agreement under which RNK Capital Limited Partnership will acquire the balance of the 38% of the outstanding shares of Mainframe which are not owned by RNK Capital LP by way of an amalgamation. Upon completion of the acquisition by RNK Capital LP, the businesses of Mainframe and Rainmaker Animation & Visual Effects will be fully integrated under the corporate name 'Rainmaker Entertainment Inc.'[2]
[edit] Works
- ReBoot
- Beast Wars Transformers
- Shadow Raiders/War Planets
- Weird-Oh's
- Beast Machines Transformers
- Spider-man
- Action Man (not to be confused with the BKN series)
- Heavy Gear
- Max Steel (season 3 TV, Endangered Species, Forces of Nature, Cowntdown)
- Scary Godmother
- Hot Wheels Highway 35 World Race
- Hot Wheels AcceleRacers
- Casper's Haunted Christmas
- several Barbie fairy tale movies:
- Barbie in The Nutcracker
- Barbie as Rapunzel
- Barbie of Swan Lake
- Barbie as the Princess and the Pauper
- Barbie and the Magic of Pegasus
- Barbie: Fairytopia
- Barbie: Mermaidia
- Barbie in the 12 Dancing Princesses
- Barbie Fairytopia: Magic of the Rainbow
- Popeye's Voyage: The Quest for Pappy
- the 1985 music video for "Money for Nothing", a song by Dire Straits (prior to Mainframe's founding proper) that won an MTV Video Music Award
- Stuart Little 3: Call of the Wild
- Inspector Gadget's Biggest Caper Ever: The Case Of The Giant Flying Lizard
- Zixx series (Levels One and Two)
- Tony Hawk in Boom Boom Sabotage
- Arthur's Missing Pal
- 2003 MTV Movie Awards
- 2006 MTV Movie Awards
- Atomic Puppet
- Harriet the Spy
- Ghost Hunter Dax
[edit] Cancelled
- Aliens The Series
- Binomes
- Dot's Bots [3]
- Tony Hawk's Feasters [4]
- Beat Freaks/Delores Deadhead [5]
ReBoot (last 1/3 of Season 4)
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