The MoonScoop Group
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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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| Founded | 2003 |
| Founder | Christophe Di Sabatino and Benoît Di Sabatino |
| Defunct | January 24, 2014 |
| Headquarters | Paris, France |
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.
On January 24, 2014, the Commercial Court of Paris accepted Dargaud's takeover bid of MoonScoop's library, which thus becomes the owner of the complete catalogue of MoonScoop and 2 of the company's last employees.
Christophe Di Sabatino and Benoît Di Sabatino (brothers) were the co-executive chairmen of the MoonScoop Group. Nicolas Atlan and Axel Dauchez were co-CEOs.
The MoonScoop Group was 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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