Rainmaker Entertainment

Rainmaker Entertainment

Type	Public
Traded as	TSX: RNK
Industry	computer animation
Predecessor	Mainframe Entertainment
Founded	2006 (as Rainmaker)
Founder(s)	Ian Pearson Phil Mitchell Gavin Blair John Grace
Headquarters	British Columbia, Canada
Key people	Warren Franklin - Chief Executive Officer Catherine Winder - President
Products	TV, film, home video
Divisions	Mainframe Vancouver, Mainframe USA

Rainmaker Entertainment, Inc. (formerly Mainframe Entertainment Inc.) is a Canadian computer animation and design company based in Vancouver, British Columbia and Los Angeles, California. It produces computer animation TV series and movies. They are best known for producing the first ever CGI animated series ReBoot, as well as the acclaimed Transformers spin-off Beast Wars. In recent years they have also become known for producing most of the Barbie (film series) for Mattel.

Rainmaker Income Fund announced on August 29, 2006, that RNK Capital Limited Partnership would acquire the 38% of shares it didn't own by merging with Rainmaker Income Fund. After the merger, Rainmaker announced on January 31, 2007 that Mainframe Entertainment's name would be changed to Rainmaker Animation.

On 2007-11-29, Rainmaker Income Fund announced the sale of Rainmaker Visual Effects and Rainmaker Post to Deluxe Entertainment Services Group, leaving only the animation business.

Productions

Mainframe era

• ReBoot
• Beast Wars: Transformers
• Shadow Raiders/War Planets
• Weird-Oh's
• Beast Machines: Transformers
• Spider-Man
• Action Man (not to be confused with the BKN series)
• Heavy Gear
• Max Steel (season 3 episodes "Endangered Species", "Forces of Nature", "Countdown", and "Dark Rival")
• Scary Godmother
• Hot Wheels Highway 35 World Race
• Hot Wheels AcceleRacers
• Casper's Haunted Christmas
• several Barbie fairy tale movies (continuing into the Rainmaker era):
  • Barbie in the Nutcracker
  • Barbie as Rapunzel
  • Barbie of Swan Lake
  • Barbie as the Princess and the Pauper
  • Barbie: Fairytopia
  • Barbie and the Magic of Pegasus
  • Barbie: Mermaidia
  • Barbie in the 12 Dancing Princesses
  • Barbie Fairytopia: Magic of the Rainbow
  • Barbie as the Island Princess

• Popeye's Voyage: The Quest for Pappy
• the 1985 music video for "Money for Nothing", a song by Dire Straits (prior to Mainframe's founding proper) that won an MTV Video Music Award
• Stuart Little 3: Call of the Wild
• Inspector Gadget's Biggest Caper Ever: The Case Of The Giant Flying Lizard
• Zixx series (Levels One and Two)
• Tony Hawk in Boom Boom Sabotage
• Arthur's Missing Pal
• 2003 MTV Movie Awards
• 2006 MTV Movie Awards
• Atomic Puppet
• Harriet the Spy
• Ghost Hunter Dax
• The Nutty Professor^[1]

Cancelled

• Aliens The Series
• Binomes
• Dot's Bots^[2]
• Tony Hawk's Feasters^[3]
• Beat Freaks/Delores Deadhead^[4]
• Moonsurfers^[5]

Rainmaker era

• Barbie as the Island Princess (animated by former mainframe animators but under the name of Ranimaker Animation)
• The Nutty Professor
• Escape from Planet Earth
• WET (video game trailer)
• Prototype (video game trailer)
• Barbie Mariposa and Her Butterfly Fairy Friends
• 50 Cent: Blood on the Sand (video game trailer)
• Legion of 5^[6]
• Barbie and the Diamond Castle
• Barbie in a Christmas Carol
• Ghostbusters: The Video Game^{[7][dead link]} (Pre-rendered cut scenes)
• Barbie Thumbelina
• Barbie and the Three Musketeers
• Barbie: A Fashion Fairy Tale
• Barbie in A Mermaid Tale

Works outsourced from DisneyToon Studios

• Mickey's Twice Upon a Christmas
• Mickey Mouse Clubhouse
• My Friends Tigger & Pooh
• Tinker Bell
• Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure
• Tinker Bell and the Great Fairy Rescue

References

1. ^ MAINFRAME ENTERTAINMENT AND THE WEINSTEIN COMPANY TEAM UP FOR CG ANIMATED THE NUTTY PROFESSOR
2. ^ Mainframe: Press Release: 2002.05.10 - Bringing Girl Power to Licensing Show 2002 with Dot's Bots
3. ^ Mainframe: Press Release: 2002.05.22 - Tony Hawk and Mainframe at Licensing Show
4. ^ Cosgrove Hall - Spin Entertainment, Mainframe Entertainment and Cosgrove Hall Films Ink Co-Development Deal for ‘BEAT FREAKS’
5. ^ Cynthia Turner's Cynopsis - CynMCE 9/20/06
6. ^ Vancouver Sun - Vancouver-based Rainmaker Animation strikes movie deal
7. ^ [1]

External links

• Rainmaker - home