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| Company type | Societe anonyme |
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| Predecessor | France Animation (1984–2005) Antefilms Production (1990–2003) |
| Founded | 2003; 23 years ago (2003) |
| Founder | Christophe Di Sabatino Benoît Di Sabatino |
| Defunct | January 24, 2014; 12 years ago (2014-01-24) |
| Fate | Administration French operations acquired byEllipsanime US operations rebranded toSplash Entertainment |
| Successor | Splash Entertainment (American unit) Mediatoon Distribution (French unit) |
| Headquarters | Paris, France |
| Subsidiaries | See§ Subsidiaries |
| Website | moonscoop.com at theWayback Machine (archived 2012-02-06) |
MoonScoop S.A., also known as theMoonScoop Group, was a French television production company and animation company that created and publishedanimated television series. Its corporate headquarters were located inParis, France, along with offices in the United Kingdom and the United States. It was established in 2003 and it is most famously known forCode Lyoko and itsopen-ended sequel series,Code Lyoko: Evolution.
One of MoonScoop's predecessors wasFrance Animation, founded in 1984, and based in Paris.[1] France Animation went on to become the original producers ofSpartakus and the Sun Beneath the Sea. In September 2003, the company was acquired from its then-owner Wanadoo by Antefilms Production—an outfit created by Christophe Di Sabatino and Benoît Di Sabatino in 1990.[2] Both companies' distribution arms were merged in March 2004 to form the present day MoonScoop.[3][4]
On January 24, 2014, the Commercial Court of Paris acceptedDargaud's takeover bid of MoonScoop's library, thus becoming the owner of MoonScoop's complete catalogue and two of the company's last employees[5] and was filed for bankruptcy.
Brothers Christophe and Benoît Di Sabatino were the co-executive chairmen of the MoonScoop Group. Nicolas Atlan and Axel Dauchez were co-CEOs.
MoonScoop was made up of numerous subsidiaries:
Code Lyoko is a Frenchanimated series featuring both conventional animation andcomputer-generated imagery, produced by Antefilms during the first season and MoonScoop during the second, in association with theFrance 3 television network and Canal J.Code Lyoko is about a group of fourboarding school students enrolled at Kadic Junior High School, namedJeremie,Odd,Ulrich, andYumi. 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 highly malevolent and rogueartificial intelligence (also referred to as amulti-agent system, and wrongly as acomputer virus) named X.A.N.A., bent on world domination, has taken over the quantum supercomputer in charge of the virtual reality/world 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 tropical regions, she can neutralize Xana's violently destructive attack on the real world; then the supercomputer canreverse 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 return those killed by X.A.N.A. to life), and deal with the various personality clashes they have with them at the same time.
This rebooted series takes place one year after the events of the original series stated above. Unlike its predecessor, however, it consists of live-action for the real world but still contains the3D computer animation for the virtual world of Lyoko, with the Ice/Polar and Forest Sectors having been deleted.
X.A.N.A. has been mysteriously reborn with even more strength than before. This prompts Jeremie, Ulrich, Odd, Yumi, and Aelita to reactive their well-hidden quantum supercomputer in order to return to Lyoko to obliterate the menacing A.I. once again. They are joined, again, by William Dunbar as the sixth member of their fighting team, and agirl-genius named Laura Gauthier; whom they are unsure to confide in.
Traveling into the digital sea inside their submersible submarine (which they had called the Skidbladnir), the five Lyoko Warriors come across another virtual world near Lyoko called the Cortex. However, as this new virtual region is ever-changing and chaotic, Jeremie programs a secondary vehicle called the Megapod with Odd as its pilot. In the very center, lies the Core/Heart of the Cortex itself and by investigating further, they all discover a new enemy just as dangerous as X.A.N.A. Professor Lowell Tyron − who seems unaware of X.A.N.A.'s existence within his own supercomputer. The Lyoko warriors must deal with constructing a strong enoughvirus to completely exterminate X.A.N.A. and stop Tyron, as well as the powerful team of Ninjas he virtualizes onto the Cortex to battle the five Lyoko avatars.
Even more puzzling is the fact that Aelita's own long-lost mother, Anthea Hopper, appears to be working with their new enemy. The group is determined to discover why she is working alongside Tyron and how to reunite mother and daughter. Jeremie succeeds in developing an anti-virus to eradicate X.A.N.A. once and for all and wipe out Professor Tyron's own data in the process. Unfortunately, Tyron eventually manages to find them at Kadic Academy; due to his connection to Aelita's mother, Anthea, and legality as Aelita's stepfather. Desperate to save his work, Tyron orders that his supercomputer be shut down, which gradually causes the Cortex to disintegrate. Luckily, Odd, Ulrich, William and Aelita all managed to escape permanent virtualization in the digital sea by mere minutes. With professor Tyron's quantum supercomputer shut off, Jeremie shuts off their own supercomputer; therefore rending X.A.N.A. dormant once again;not destroying it, therefore leaving the showopen-ended.
A long time ago humans and animals lived together in harmony. But a wicked trickster named High Roller controlled 2 animals and tricked the other animals into thinking that humans were their enemies. Chaos reigned until a group of warriors, Lin Chung, Jumpy Ghostface, Mystique Sonia, Commander ApeTrully, Mr. No Hands, and Mighty Ray, had joined forces to end the war.
Vinnie Q just got the best birthday present he could ever want! A wise-cracking, gadget packed rocket! With no idea about what Vinnie will get himself into, he sets of for adventure… mostly misadventure.
Creepie was an infant left on the doorstep of the Dweezwold Mansion, which is home to a family of various anthropomorphic insects. The family took her in and raised her as one of their own. She must now adjust to a life surrounded by a society of entomophobic humans as she attends Middlington Middle School and keeps her home life secret in order to protect both herself and her family.
As MoonScoop was the result of a merger between Antefilms and France Animation, this list consists of programming from both catalogs.
| Title | Years | Network | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Code Lyoko | 2003–2007 | France 3 &Canal J | continued from Antefilms Production |
| Fantastic Four: World's Greatest Heroes[7] | 2006–2010 | M6 Cartoon Network Europe Cartoon Network/Nicktoons (United States) | co-production withMarvel Studios |
| Bunny Maloney | 2009 | Canal+ France 2 | co-production with Telegael andFrance 2 |
| Casper's Scare School[8] | 2009–2012 | TF1 Cartoon Network (United States) | co-production withClassic Media and DQ Entertainment Currently distributed byMediatoon Distribution and NBCUniversal Global Distribution |
| My Phone Genie[9] | 2012 | CITV (United Kingdom) KIKA (Germany) | co-production withZDF Enterprises, Talent Television and Telegael Currently owned byMediatoon Distribution |
| Code Lyoko: Evolution | 2013 | France 4 & Canal J | co-production with Back-Up Media |
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