France Animation
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Formerly called
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France Animation (1984–87) Futuroscope (1987–90) Antefilms (1990–2001) Antefilms Production (2001–03) |
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| Fate | rebranded as Splash Entertainment |
| Successor | Splash Entertainment |
| Founded | 2003 |
| Founder | Christophe Di Sabatino and Benoît Di Sabatino |
| Defunct | 2014 |
| Headquarters | Paris, France |
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| Website | web |
The MoonScoop Group was a French animation and production company that creates and publishes animated television series. Its corporate headquarters are located in Paris, France, along with offices in the United Kingdom and the United States. It was established in 2003. It is most famously known for Code Lyoko and its sequel series, Code Lyoko Evolution.
One of MoonScoop's predecessors was France Animation, founded in 1984. France Animation went on to become the original producers of Les Mondes Engloutis ("Spartakus and the Sun Beneath the Sea"). By the early 2000s, it bought Antefilms Production—an outfit created by Christophe Di Sabatino and Benoît Di Sabatino in 1990—to form the present day MoonScoop. MoonScoop's holdings also include Funbag Animation Studios.
As of February 4, 2014, MoonScoop had been 100% acquired by Mike and Liz Young of Ellipsanime who has purchased all of Moonscoop's assets for $820,518 as well as retaining the remaining 27 Employees including the executive producer, Nicolas Atlan. MoonScoop is now re-branded as Splash Entertainment.
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.
The MoonScoop Group is made up of numerous subsidiaries:
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.
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