Animal Logic has launched Truant Pictures, a new production company that will act as a subsidiary of the successful Aussie animation outfit with a focus on live-action genre films for the Australian market. Truant will be headquartered at Animal Logic's Sydney-based studios and also operate out of its Los Angeles…

EXCLUSIVE: In a move that puts Toby Emmerich’s Warner Bros film division in position to inject more animated/family fare into its film slates, the studio has joined forces with Imagine chairmen Brian Grazer and Ron Howard and Animal Logic Group CEO Zareh Nalbandian to form a five-year partnership to co-produce and…