Rainmaker Entertainment
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| Public (TSX: RNK) | |
| Industry | Computer animation |
| Predecessor | Mainframe Entertainment |
| Founded |
1991 (as Mainframe) 2007 (as Rainmaker) |
| Founders |
Ian Pearson Phil Mitchell Gavin Blair John Grace |
| Headquarters | Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada |
Key people |
Craig Graham, CEO[1] Michael Hefferon, President[1] |
| Products | Television, motion pictures, home video |
| Divisions |
Rainmaker British Columbia Rainmaker Los Angeles |
Rainmaker Entertainment, Inc. (formerly Mainframe Entertainment Inc.) is a Canadian computer animation and design company based in Vancouver, British Columbia. They are best known for producing the first ever CGI animated series ReBoot, as well as the Transformers spin-off Beast Wars: Transformers and Transformers: Beast Machines. In recent years they have also become known for producing most of the Barbie film series for Mattel. They are also best known for the music video for Dire Straits' "Money for Nothing", which was also referenced in ReBoot.
Rainmaker Income Fund announced on August 29, 2006, that RNK Capital Limited Partnership would acquire the 38% of shares it didn't own by merging with Rainmaker Income Fund. After the merger, Rainmaker announced on January 31, 2007 that Mainframe Entertainment's name would be changed to Rainmaker Entertainment. On November 29, 2007, Rainmaker Income Fund announced the sale of Rainmaker Visual Effects and Rainmaker Post to Deluxe Entertainment Services Group, leaving only the animation business.
The current Rainmaker name and insignia was adopted from an older division, the DVD encoding company Rainmaker Digital Pictures, which encoded DVDs as early as 1997.
Productions
Mainframe era
| Title | Release Date |
|---|---|
| Casper's Haunted Christmas | October 31, 2000 |
| Barbie in the Nutcracker | October 23, 2001 |
| Max Steel (2000 TV series) | 2002 |
| Barbie as Rapunzel | October 1, 2002 |
| Barbie of Swan Lake | September 30, 2003 |
| Hot Wheels World Race | December 2, 2003 |
| Max Steel: Endangered Species | 2004 |
| Barbie as the Princess and the Pauper | September 28, 2004 |
| Popeye's Voyage: The Quest for Pappy | November 9, 2004 |
| Max Steel: Forces of Nature | 2005 |
| Hot Wheels AcceleRacers | January 8, 2005 |
| Max Steel: Countdown | 2006 |
| Stuart Little 3: Call of the Wild | February 21, 2006 |
| Barbie: Mermaidia | March 14, 2006 |
| Tony Hawk in Boom Boom Sabotage | September 12, 2006 |
| Barbie in the 12 Dancing Princesses | September 19, 2006 |
- ReBoot (1994–2001)
- Beast Wars: Transformers (1996–1999)
- Shadow Raiders/War Planets (1998–2000)
- Weird-Oh's (2000–01)
- Beast Machines: Transformers (1999–2000)
- Spider-Man: The New Animated Series (2003)
- Action Man (not to be confused with the BKN series) (2000)
- Heavy Gear (2001)
- Max Steel (season 3 episodes "Endangered Species", "Forces of Nature" and "Countdown") (2000)
- Scary Godmother (2003)
- Scary Godmother: The Revenge of Jimmy (2005)
- several Barbie fairy tale movies (continuing into the Rainmaker era):
- Barbie: Fairytopia (2005)
- Barbie and the Magic of Pegasus (2005)
- Barbie Fairytopia: Magic of the Rainbow (2007)
- the 1985 music video for "Money for Nothing", a song by Dire Straits (prior to Mainframe's founding proper) that won an MTV Video Music Award
- Inspector Gadget's Biggest Caper Ever (2005)
- Zixx series (Levels One and Two) (2004–2006)
- Arthur's Missing Pal (2006)
- 2003 MTV Movie Awards
- 2006 MTV Movie Awards
- Harriet the Spy
- Ghost Hunter Dax
Cancelled
- Aliens: The Series
- Barbie as the Sleeping Beauty
- Binomes
- Dot's Bots[2]
- Gatecrasher[3]
- Tony Hawk's Feasters[4]
- Beat Freaks/Delores Deadhead[5]
- Moonsurfers[6]
Rainmaker era
| Title | Release Date | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Barbie as the Island Princess | September 18, 2007 | Animated by former Mainframe animators but under the name of Rainmaker Animation |
| Barbie Mariposa | February 26, 2008 | |
| Barbie & the Diamond Castle | September 9, 2008 | |
| The Nutty Professor | November 25, 2008 | [7] |
| Barbie Thumbelina | March 17, 2009 | |
| Barbie and the Three Musketeers | September 15, 2009 | |
| Barbie in A Mermaid Tale | March 9, 2010 | |
| Barbie: A Fashion Fairytale | September 14, 2010 | |
| Barbie: A Fairy Secret | March 15, 2011 | |
| Barbie: Princess Charm School | September 13, 2011 | |
| Barbie in A Mermaid Tale 2 | March 6, 2012 | |
| Barbie: The Princess and the Popstar | September 11, 2012 | |
| Escape from Planet Earth | February 15, 2013 | First theatrically released film |
| Open Season: Scared Silly | March 8, 2016 | Produced for Sony Pictures Home Entertainment [8] |
| Ratchet & Clank | April 29, 2016 | Video game-to-film adaptation |
| Sly Cooper | TBA 2016 | Video game-to-film adaptation |
| Bob the Builder | 2015–present | |
| ReBoot: The Guardian Code | 2017 | Sequel series to ReBoot |
- WET (video game trailer)
- Prototype (video game trailer)
- Barbie Mariposa and Her Butterfly Fairy Friends
- 50 Cent: Blood on the Sand (video game trailer)
- Legion of 5[9]
- Barbie in a Christmas Carol
- Ghostbusters: The Video Game[10] (Pre-rendered cut scenes)
References
- 1 2 "Rainmaker Entertainment Names Michael Hefferon President". Deadline. November 14, 2012. Retrieved November 15, 2012.
- ↑ "MAINFRAME ENTERTAINMENT BRINGS GIRL POWER TO LICENSING SHOW 2002 WITH NEW ANIMATED SERIES DOT'S BOTS" (Press release). Mainframe Entertainment, Inc. May 10, 2002. Archived from the original on July 23, 2002. Retrieved April 20, 2014.
- ↑ Mainframe Entertainment and MTV To Develop Gatecrasher Animated Series - Creative Mac 7/19/01
- ↑ Mainframe: Press Release: 2002.05.22 - Tony Hawk and Mainframe at Licensing Show
- ↑ Cosgrove Hall - Spin Entertainment, Mainframe Entertainment and Cosgrove Hall Films Ink Co-Development Deal for ‘BEAT FREAKS’
- ↑ Cynthia Turner's Cynopsis - CynMCE 9/20/06
- ↑ MAINFRAME ENTERTAINMENT AND THE WEINSTEIN COMPANY TEAM UP FOR CG ANIMATED THE NUTTY PROFESSOR
- ↑ http://www.awn.com/news/open-season-scared-silly-lands-retail-march-8
- ↑ Vancouver Sun - Vancouver-based Rainmaker Animation strikes movie deal
- ↑ "Work - Ghostbusters". Rainmaker. Archived from the original on February 24, 2009. Retrieved April 20, 2014.
External links
- Official website
- Rainmaker Entertainment at the Internet Movie Database
- Mainframe Entertainment at the Internet Movie Database
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