Belvision Studios

Belvision Studios also known as Belvision is a Belgian audiovisuel production company and animation studio that was founded in 1954 by Raymond Leblanc who previously founded publishing company Le Lombard that is currently owned by Média-Participations through its Belgian publishing company Dupuis. Although the studio is best known for producing animated films and animated television series based on Franco-Belgian comics series such as Tintin, Asterix and Lucky Luke, they also develop live-action film & television series productions.

Belvision Studios

Company type	Subsidiary
Industry	Animation
Founded	1954; 71 years ago (1954)
Headquarters	Brussels, Belgium
Products	Television programs and movies
Parent	Raymond Leblanc (1954–1986) Dupuis (1986–)
Website	www.belvision.be

History

Near the end of 1970s, Belvision decided to abandon their production of feature animated films in exchange for devoting to produce commercials and pilots for its television series.

Eventually in 1986, it was announced that Belgian publishing house and former rival of Lablanc's French publishing house Le Lombard which is called Dupuis had acquired animation production studio Belvision and had it restructured as Dupuis' new animation production studio under them.

By June 2004, Belvision and its Belgian parent & publishing company Dupuis had been acquired French media publishing & entertainment company Média-Participations who also owns French publishing house Dargaud and Dupuis's former rival publisher Le Lombard for €300 million, effectively giving Média-Participations a Belgian animation production studio and reuniting Belvision alongside its parent company Dupuis with Lablanc's former publishing house and rival French publishing company Le Lombard.^[1]

Selected works created and produced by Belvision

Animated TV series

Title	Years	Network	Notes
Journey to the Heart of the World	1993–1994	Canal+ (France)	co-production with Dargaud Films and Saban International Paris
Kitou, The Six Eyed Monster	2002	TF1 Vrak TV (Canada)	co-production with Dargaud Marina and Tooncan Productions
Yakari	2005–2017	France 3 WDR (seasons 3–5)	co-production with Storimages, Ellipsanime Productions (seasons 3–5), Les Cartooneurs Associés (season 4), Dargaud Media (season 5), ARD (seasons 3–5) and 2 Minutes
Kinky and Cosy	2014	OCS (France)	co-production with Ellipsanime Productions
Boule et Bill	2016–2019	France 3 & Piwi+	co-production with Dargaud Media and Ellipsanime Productions
Little Furry	2017–2021	La Trois & Ketnet Piwi+ (France)	co-production with Dupuis Edition & Audiovisuel and Dargaud Media
Kid Lucky[2]	2020	M6 Rai Gulp (Italy)	co-production with Dargaud Media, Ellipsanime Productions and Rai Ragazzi
Living with Dad[3]	2022–present	La Trois M6, Canal J & Gulli (France)	co-production with Dupuis Edition & Audiovisuel and Ellipsanime Productions Based on the comic book series Dad by Nob
Monster Loving Maniacs[4]	2023–present	Ketnet[5] Nickelodeon Italy (Italy)[6] Super RTL (Germany) DR (Denmark) SVT (Sweden) NRK (Norway)	co-production with Toon2Tango, Mondo TV, Ja Film and Ginger Pictures
Chimera Keepers: Adventures with Incredible Creatures	2024–present	La Trois & Ketnet France 4 (France)	co-production with Monello Productions
Belfort & Lupin[7]	2025–present	Auvio Kids TV & Ketnet France 4 (France) Radio-Canada (Canada) SWR (Germany)[8]	co-production with Ellipsanime Productions, Dargaud Media and RTBF

• Chlorophylle (1954)
• Suske en Wiske (1955)
• Hergé's Adventures of Tintin (1957-1964)

Animated feature films

• Pinocchio in Outer Space (1965)
• Tintin and the Temple of the Sun (1969)
• I, Tintin (1975) – documentary
• Gulliver's Travels (1977)
• Asterix: Mansions of the Gods (2014)

Films

Title	Release date	Distributor	Notes
Asterix the Gaul	December 20, 1967 December 23, 1967 (Belgium)	Athos Films	co-production with Dargaud Films
Asterix and Cleopatra	December 19, 1968 December 21, 1968 (Belgium)	Pathé	co-production with Dargaud Films and Edifilm
Daisy Town	December 20, 1971	Les Artistes Associés	Based on the comics Lucky Luke co-production with Dargaud Films
Tintin and the Lake of Sharks	December 13, 1972
The Smurfs and the Magic Flute	December 24, 1975	Mercury Films	co-production with Editions Dupuis, Lafig S.A and IMPS
The Red Turtle	June 29, 2016 September 17, 2016 (Japan)	Wild Bunch Toho (Japan)	co-production with Studio Ghibli, Wild Bunch, Prima Linea Productions, Why Not Productions, Arte France Cinéma and CN4 Productions
Zombillenium[9]	October 18, 2017	Gebaka Films	co-production with Dupuis Edition & Audiovisuel, Maybe Movies and 2 Minutes
Gaston Lagaffe	April 4, 2018	UGC Distribution	co-production with Les Films du Premier, Les Films du 24, UGC Images and TF1 Films Production
Vic the Viking and the Magic Sword[10]	18 December 2019 (France) 2 September 2021 (Germany)	SND Films Leonine Distribution (Germany)	co-production with Studio 100 Animation, Studio 100 Film, Studio 100 Media, SND Films and ZDF
Yakari, A Spectacular Journey[11]	August 12, 2020	BAC Films Leonine Distribution (Germany)	co-production with Dargaud Media, Dupuis Edition & Audiovisuel, Le Lombard, BAC Films Production, Leonine Production, WunderWerk, Gao Shang Pictures, WDR and France 3 Cinema

Animated shorts

• Cubitus (1977)
• Clifton (1984)
• Oumpah-pah
• Spaghetti à la Romaine