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Wild Brain, Miramax in Animation Deal

By Richard Verrier

San Francisco-based animation group Wild Brain Inc. has reached a deal with Walt Disney Co.’s Miramax Film to co-produce computer-animated movies. Under the deal, Miramax and Wild Brain will split the costs of agreed projects, which will be distributed by Miramax and its Dimension Films label over the next three years.

First up is “Opus,” a movie based on the nervous penguin character who appears in the comic strip “Bloom County” by Berkeley Breathed.

The deal comes as Disney is aggressively seeking to strengthen its computer animation business in the wake of its falling-out with longtime partner Pixar Animation Studios.

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Richard Verrier is investigations editor for Arts and Entertainment at the Los Angeles Times. He has been with The Times since 2001 and has run our Company Town since 2016. After stints at the St. Petersburg Times and the Orlando Sentinel in Florida, Verrier joined the paper as a reporter, and for many years covered all aspects of the entertainment industry before turning to editing. He oversees the Company Town coverage while working to guide and edit investigative and enterprise reporting across the entertainment team, collaborating with writers and editors from all departments. He is a native of Montreal and a graduate from the University of Toronto and Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism.

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