MoonScoop Group

The MoonScoop Group is a French company that creates and publishes animated television series with offices in U.K. and U.S.A.. It was established in 2003. Its predecessors are Antefilms Production, which was created by Christophe Di Sabatino and Benoît Di Sabatino in 1990, and France Animation, the original producers of Les Mondes Engloutis ("Spartakus and the Sun Beneath the Sea") as well as Funbag Animation Studios. Its corporate headquarters are located in Paris, France.

Important people

Christophe Di Sabatino and Benoît Di Sabatino (brothers) are the co-executive chairmen of the Moonscoop Group. Nicolas Atlan and Axel Dauchez are co-CEOs.

Subsidiaries

The Moonscoop Group is made up of numerous subsidiaries:

• Antefilms Production - Antefilms Production is a French company that makes TV shows. It was established by Christophe Di Sabatino and Benoît Di Sabatino in 1990;
• XANA Post-Production - The XANA Post-Production company is a part of MoonScoop. It does the post-production for their various shows;
• Taffy Entertainment - Handles worldwide Distribution, Marketing and Consumer Products Licensing for nearly all of the shows made by MoonScoop.^[1]
• Moonscoop Digital Entertainment (formerly known as Queen Bee Interactive) - French developer of interactive applications and broadcast services for Television, Mobile and the Internet.
• Mike Young Productions - Moonscoop owns a controlling stake in this independent animation studio based in Los Angeles and Wales, UK.
• Kabillion - the Multi-platform Kids Network which runs kids programming and online global community in 20 million US Cable households and almost 60 million US broadband households, as well as around the world.

Notable shows

Code Lyoko

Main article: Code Lyoko

Code Lyoko is a French animated series featuring both conventional animation and computer-generated imagery, produced by Antefilms during the first season and MoonScoop during the second, in association with the France 3 television network and Canal J. Code Lyoko is about a group of four boarding school students enrolled at Kadic Junior High School, named Jeremie, Odd, Ulrich, and Yumi. The students try to help a virtual girl named Aelita leave the virtual world of Lyoko (found inside a supercomputer housed in the basement of an abandoned factory near their school), and enter the real world.

A megalomaniac digital entity named Xana, bent on world domination, has taken over the supercomputer in charge of Lyoko. If the group is able to get Aelita to the activated tower(s) out of the more than forty scattered about four of Lyoko's five regions, she can neutralize Xana's attack on the real world; then the supercomputer can reverse time to just before the attack, leaving no one except the group to remember any of the events that transpired. To complicate the situation, they must do this while ensuring that their classmates and teachers are not killed (because going back in time cannot bring back those killed by Xana), and deal with the various personality clashes they have with them at the same time.

Hero 108

Main article: Hero 108

A long time ago humans and animals lived together in harmony. But a wicked wizard named High Roller controlled 2 animals and tricked the other animals into thinking that humans were their enemies. Chaos reigned until a group of warriors, Lin Chung, Jumpy Ghostface, Mystique Sonia, Commander ApeTrully, Mr. No Hands, and Mighty Ray, had joined forces to end the war.

List of MoonScoop shows

(Note: As Moonscoop was the result of a merger between Antefilms and France Animation, this list consists of programming from both catalogs.)

• Air Academy
• Albert le 5ème Mousquetaire
• Alfred
• Aquakids
• Arsène Lupin
• Au Coeur des Toiles
• The Babaloos On Vacation
• The Babaloos
• The Birds
• C.L.Y.D.E.
• Chloe's Closet
• Chip et Charly
• Code Lyoko
• The Christmas Pirates
• The Jungle Book (TV Serise)
• Cybergirl
• Dr. Dog
• En Attendant Noël
• Fantastic Four (French: Les Quatre Fantastiques)
• Fred des Cavernes
• Funky Cops
• Garage Kids (Pilot of Code Lyoko)
• Geronimo Stilton (TV series)
• Horace et Tina
• Hero: 108
• Insectoscope
• The Invisible Man
• The Legend of White Fang
• Les Mondes Engloutis (Spartakus and the Sun Beneath the Sea)
• Lionelville
• Little Vampire
• Mr Roger
• Night Hood
• Nobeard The Pirate
• Nothing But Monsters
• Patrol 03
• Pet Alien (French: Alién Bazaar)
• Quick & Flupke
• Robinson Sucroe
• (Stop) The Smoggies
• Tara Duncan
• Titeuf (Tootuff)
• Toad Patrol (current distributor)
• The Twisted Whiskers Show
• Urmel
• Vampires, Pirates & Aliens
• Waiting For Christmas
• Wheel Squad
• Zevo-3 (with Skechers Entertainment)

List of MoonScoop films

• Harry

References

1. ^ Taffy Ent. Animation Continues to Travel

External links

• The official site, can be viewed in French or English.