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Showing posts with label anime industry. Show all posts
Showing posts with label anime industry. Show all posts
Navarre: finis FUNI
Navarre Corporation1. Gen Fukunaga sells FUNI to Navarre for $142 million in 2005
Monday April 4, 2011, 5:54 pm EDT
Navarre Corporation today announced that it has sold FUNimation Entertainment for $24 million in an all cash transaction. Purchasers in the transaction are a group of entities that were newly formed by an investment group that includes Gen Fukunaga, FUNimation Entertainment's chief executive officer, as a minority stakeholder. In connection with the sale, the Company has entered into an agreement to act as FUNimation Entertainment's exclusive distributor in the United States on a continuing basis, and will also act as FUNimation Entertainment's logistics and fulfillment services provider.
MOAR
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3. Gen Fukunaga buys FUNI back from Navarre for $24 million in 2011
= ($118 million) PROFIT!
THAT'S SHOWBIZ, FOLKS!
Worth repeating but not worth paying a living wage
L.A. Times picks up the story about the Anime Industry implosion.
We've heard it before, here it is again. To recap, Anime Industry in a nose dive, nobody seems to be doing anything to stop it, and they'll do it for less in China.
We've heard it before, here it is again. To recap, Anime Industry in a nose dive, nobody seems to be doing anything to stop it, and they'll do it for less in China.
Yoshinori Kanada Tribute
Director Yoshinori Kanada, whose approach to effects animation in key scenes and filmic composition was considered by many in the industry as instrumental, passed away on July 21 of 2009. The link below is from a broadcast recently following his passing, in which his technique is broken-down by panelists including Toshio Okada. Hattip to Mari's Tokyo Diary.
