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The MoonScoop Group is a French company that creates and publishes animated television series. It was established in 2003. Its predecessors are Antefilms Production, which was created by Christophe Di Sabatino and Benoît Di Sabatino in 1990, and France Animation, the original producers of Les Mondes Engloutis ("Spartakus and the Sun Beneath the Sea"). Its corporate headquarters are located in Paris.

Important people

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.

Subsidiaries

The Moonscoop Group is made up of numerous subsidiaries:

  • Antefilms Production - Antefilms Production is a French company that makes TV shows. It was established by Christophe Di Sabatino and Benoît Di Sabatino in 1990;
  • XANA Post-Production - The XANA Post-Production company is a part of MoonScoop. It does the post-production for their various shows;
  • Taffy Entertainment - Handles worldwide Distribution, Marketing and Consumer Products Licensing for nearly all of the shows made by MoonScoop.[1]
  • Moonscoop Digital Entertainment (formerly known as Queen Bee Interactive) - French developer of interactive applications and broadcast services for Television, Mobile and the Internet.
  • Mike Young Productions - Moonscoop owns a controlling stake in this independent animation studio based in Los Angeles and Wales, UK.
  • Kabillion - the Multi-platform Kids Network which runs kids programming and online global community in 20 million US Cable households and almost 60 million US broadband households, as well as around the world.

Notable shows

Code Lyoko is a French animated series featuring both anime-style 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.

A megalomaniac digital entity named Xana, bent on world domination, has taken over the supercomputer in charge of Lyoko. If the group is able to get Aelita to the activated tower(s) out of the more than forty scattered about four of Lyoko's five regions, she can neutralize Xana's attack on the real world; then the supercomputer can reverse time to just before the attack, leaving no one except the group to remember any of the events that transpired. To complicate the situation, they must do this while ensuring that their classmates and teachers are not killed (because going back in time cannot bring back those killed by Xana), and deal with the various personality clashes they have with them at the same time.

List of MoonScoop shows

(Note: As Moonscoop was the result of a merger between Antefilms and France Animation, this list consists of programming from both catalogs.)

References