Sony Animation partners with Gotham Group

Sony Pictures Animation has signed a first-look production deal with Ellen Goldsmith-Vein's the Gotham Group. Gotham Group is a leading management firm for toon and kids content creators, and have produced films as "The Spiderwick Chronicles. Gotham represents some of the top animation directors and writers as well as a broad range publishing houses and comicbook companies including Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing, Harper Collins Children's Books (U.S. & U.K.), Houghton Mifflin/Harcourt and Dark Horse Entertainment. Gotham is currently in production on "Dead Space," an animated feature for Starz channel and the 3-D CGI film "Quantum Quest," the first film ever initiated by NASA/JPL. The company also recently linked with the Chungnan Techno Park, Chungam province of South Korea and several South Korean corporations in a pubic-private partnership to form an animation fund totaling more than $300 million for the purpose of financing, producing and distributing six to eight animated and live-action/animated hybrid feature films.