Tuesday, July 06, 2010

Toronto's Starz For Sale

Variety is reporting that Starz Media, which consists of Overture, Anchor Bay Entertainment, Film Roman and Starz Animation are for sale. The companies are available as a group or separately.

Starz was formerly owned by IDT and before that was Dan Krech Productions. It is one of the larger employers in the Toronto animation business.

5 comments:

Andrew Murray said...

what could this potentially mean for animators in Toronto? Anything or just new owners?

Mark Mayerson said...

When a company's up for sale, it all depends on whether there's a buyer and who that buyer is.

Anonymous said...

We'll they begun laying off people because their current project is just finishing up right now.

Anonymous said...

This is old news. Starz has been for sale for months now. Employees have known it for quite awhile.

M Kitchen said...

I can't help but to think of this article: STARZ ANIMATION GETS MULTI-MILLION CASH INFUSION

http://www.starzanimation.com/Press/Articles/studio