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How to Conquer the World of Animation

“Long Beach Comic Con is a celebration of the creative arts,” said Long Beach Comic Con Executive Director and Co-Founder Martha Donato. “In addition to panels devoted to DC Entertainment, Marvel Entertainment, Aspen Comics, Image Comics and Dark Horse Comics, we have amazing, family-friendly programming dedicated to animation, tv, film and novels …
How to Conquer the Animation World with James Ganiere (CEO at Rio Vista Universal), Dean DeBlois (writer and director of “How to Train Your Dragon 3”), Mike Morris (Animator for “The Simpsons”), Terran Gregory (Project Director at Blizzard Entertainment) and Forrest Whaley (ForrestFire101 – Maker Studio/YouTube).

Alien Civilizations

Award winning science fiction authors, a scientist/futurist, screenwriters, SFX artists, and actors talk about alien civilizations and how to design alien species, ships, and societies for use in storytelling. Join David Brin (The Uplift War, Existence), Marc Scott Zicree (Star Trek TNG, Space Command), Geoff Mark (Babylon 5, Battlestar Galactica), Jimmy Diggs (Star Trek: Voyager, Star Trek: Beyond he Stars), Gigi Edgley (Farscape, Jim Henson’s Creature Shop Challenge), Rebekah R. Ganiere (author at Kensington & Fallen Angel Press, The Society Series, Fairelle Series, Skyward Bound), and James Ganiere (CEO & creative, Rio Vista Universal, chief editor, Fallen Angel Press). Moderated by Mark O’Bannon (The Dream Crystal, Aia the Barbarian).

‘Gear Heads’ Go Internation

Montreal-based CMJ Distribution has acquired international rights to motorsport and automotive series from Chet Burks Productions and Rio Vista Universal.

… picked up the series Gear Heads (five x 30 minutes) from Rio Vista Universal. The show stars Nick Field and Rick Ford, a pair of performance racing shop owners in Houston, Texas staffed by a team of young, horsepower-obsessed mechanics.

Must-see book trailers: …’Red The Were Hunter’

Holy smokes — this week was chockfull of amazing videos, and the last is so, so good. The trailer for Rebekah Ganiere’s Red The Were Hunter is sexy and epic in its delivery, with a sweeping soundtrack and Hollywood-style imagery. Take a look and then add it to your TBR like I did.

Life is Good in the Fast Lane

Hollywood, California-based RIO VISTA UNIVERSAL, whose recent success with season 1 of the new weekly tv series, “Gear Heads,” recently prompted an immediate season 2 order which will go into production later this year, announces an exclusive deal with the International Hot Rod Association to produce the IHRA’s Nitro Jam Drag Racing Series for broadcast exclusively beginning October on MAVTV. The deal was cemented this week between Jason Rittenberry, CEO, IRG Sports + Entertainment, Raymond Iddings, Show Creator, and James Ganiere, CEO of Rio Vista Universal.

Dead Awakenings by Rebekah Ganiere Book Trailer

Struggling to pay her bills in New York, theater student Evaine Michaels sees an opportunity to make money by taking part in an unsanctioned clinical trial for a new drug. But things don’t go as planned. She wakes up in a derelict hospital, chained to a bed with no memory of who she is or how she got there. Then a band of pale-skinned men, led by the gorgeous Luca, bursts in and rescues her. Evaine is instantly attracted to Luca, but he’s so hell-bent on stopping the experiments, he has no time for the feelings she’s awakening within him.

Rio Vista Seals Exclusive Deal with IHRA for ‘NITRO JAM’

(Los Angeles, CA May 1, 2014) — Hollywood, California-based RIO VISTA UNIVERSAL, whose recent success with season one of the new weekly tv series, “Gear Heads,” recently prompted an immediate additional season order headed for production this fall, announces an exclusive deal with the International Hot Rod Association to produce the IHRA’s “Nitro Jam”

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