{"id":1683,"date":"2012-06-29T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-06-29T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvcanada\/2012\/06\/29\/canadas-rainmaker-offloads-animation-studio\/"},"modified":"2012-06-29T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-06-29T00:00:00","slug":"canadas-rainmaker-offloads-animation-studio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvcanada\/canadas-rainmaker-offloads-animation-studio\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada&#8217;s Rainmaker Offloads Animation Studio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: small\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana\">VANCOUVER: Rainmaker Entertainment, whose first feature film, <em>Escape from Planet Earth<\/em>, is due to be released by The Weinstein Company next year, has reached a deal to sell off its Canadian animation studio assets to Beijing-based Xing Xing Digital Corporation.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana\">Through a new subsidiary, Rainmaker Studios Inc., Xing Xing is acquiring the Canadian studio assets by assuming C$7 million in debt and taking over the real-estate leases.  Xing Xing has worked on a number of animated series, including <em>Fireman Sam<\/em>, <em>Wild Animal Baby Explorers<\/em> and <em>Secret Millionaire&#8217;s Club.<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana\"><em>Escape from Planet Earth<\/em> is slated for release in February. Rainmaker is also working on several DVD&nbsp;films for Mattel and is producing its own IP.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VANCOUVER: Rainmaker Entertainment, whose first feature film, Escape from Planet Earth, is due to be released by The Weinstein Company next year, has reached a deal to sell off its Canadian animation studio assets to Beijing-based Xing Xing Digital Corporation. 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