French Animation Company Marathon to be sold off.

[danieleebutler]

FUNimation distributes all of the 4Kids DVDs (save for Pok?mon, which was done through Viz) - that's all they do. 4Kids still does the episodes, extras, menus, promotional materials, etc, etc...

 

[Kunmui]

I spotted these French articles about Marathon, there 4 companies who eye Marathon studios: the Gaumont group, De Agostini, an italian press edition and the private equity firms Georges Soros and Apax

http://breves.rsfblog.org/archive/2007/06/21/marathon-production-rachat.html
http://www.lemonde.fr/web/article/0,1-0@2-3236,36-926536@51-926647,0.html
http://bourse.lerevenu.com/newsdepe...19_20239253&numligne=2&date=070619&source=FPS

 

[Memnoch]

Isn't SIP Animation majority owned by Disney, anyway?

And, while I'm at it, Marathon would be better off if Vincent Chalvon-Demersay and David Michel were axed. The company needs some serious new talent, new writers, new character designers... a coup, if you will.