Rainmaker Entertainment
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| Type | Public |
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| Traded as | TSX: RNK |
| Industry | computer animation |
| Predecessor(s) | Mainframe Entertainment |
| Founded | 2006 (as Rainmaker) |
| Founder(s) | Ian Pearson Phil Mitchell Gavin Blair John Grace |
| Headquarters | Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada |
| Key people | Warren Franklin - Chief Executive Officer Catherine Winder - President |
| Products | TV, film, home video |
| Divisions | Mainframe Vancouver, Mainframe USA |
Rainmaker Entertainment, Inc. (formerly Mainframe Entertainment Inc.) is a Canadian computer animation and design company based in Vancouver, British Columbia and Los Angeles, California. It produces computer animation TV series and movies. They are best known for producing the first ever CGI animated series ReBoot, as well as the acclaimed Transformers spin-off Beast Wars. In recent years they have also become known for producing most of the Barbie film series for Mattel.
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 Animation. 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.
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Productions
Mainframe era
| Title | Release Date |
|---|---|
| Casper's Haunted Christmas | October 31, 2000 |
| Barbie in the Nutcracker | October 23, 2001 |
| Barbie as Rapunzel | October 1, 2002 |
| Barbie of Swan Lake | September 30, 2003 |
| Hot Wheels World Race | December 2, 2003 |
| Popeye's Voyage: The Quest for Pappy | November 9, 2004 |
| Hot Wheels AcceleRacers | January 8, 2005 |
| 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
- Beast Wars: Transformers
- Shadow Raiders/War Planets
- Weird-Oh's
- Beast Machines: Transformers
- Spider-Man
- Action Man (not to be confused with the BKN series)
- Heavy Gear
- Max Steel (season 3 episodes "Endangered Species", "Forces of Nature", "Countdown", and "Dark Rival")
- Scary Godmother
- several Barbie fairy tale movies (continuing into the Rainmaker era):
- 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: The Case Of The Giant Flying Lizard
- Zixx series (Levels One and Two)
- Arthur's Missing Pal
- 2003 MTV Movie Awards
- 2006 MTV Movie Awards
- Atomic Puppet
- Harriet the Spy
- Ghost Hunter Dax
Cancelled
- Aliens The Series
- Binomes
- Dot's Bots[1]
- Tony Hawk's Feasters[2]
- Beat Freaks/Delores Deadhead[3]
- Moonsurfers[4]
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 and the Diamond Castle | September 9, 2008 | |
| The Nutty Professor | November 25, 2008 | [5] |
| Barbie Thumbelina | March 17, 2009 | |
| Barbie and the Three Musketeers | September 15, 2009 | |
| Barbie in A Mermaid Tale | March 9, 2010 | |
| Barbie: A Fashion Fairy Tale | 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 | |
| Escape from Planet Earth | February 14, 2013 |
- 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[6]
- Barbie in a Christmas Carol
- Ghostbusters: The Video Game[7][dead link] (Pre-rendered cut scenes)
Works outsourced from DisneyToon Studios
- Mickey's Twice Upon a Christmas
- Mickey Mouse Clubhouse
- My Friends Tigger & Pooh
- Tinker Bell
- Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure
- Tinker Bell and the Great Fairy Rescue
- Pixie Hollow Games
- Secret of the Wings
References
- ^ Mainframe: Press Release: 2002.05.10 - Bringing Girl Power to Licensing Show 2002 with Dot's Bots
- ^ 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
- ^ Vancouver Sun - Vancouver-based Rainmaker Animation strikes movie deal
- ^ [1]
External links
- Official website
- Rainmaker Entertainment at the Internet Movie Database
- Rainmaker Entertainment at the Internet Movie Database
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