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Parmount Animation & Maximum Effort Adapting ‘I Eat Poop’ for the Big Screen With Josh Cooley Directing

Animation Magazine - June 13, 2025

Paramount Animation will be dropping a load of entomological fun into theaters, announcing it is developing a feature film project based on award-winning author/illustrator...

Television

Genndy Tartakovsky Developing ‘Heist Safari’ Animated Series for Adult Swim

Animation Magazine - June 12, 2025

Celebrated animator Genndy Tartakovsky — the tooned-up brain behind the adult-comedy movie Fixed (coming to Netflix on August 13), Sony's Hotel Transylvania franchise, the...

Festivals & Events

Animation Is Film Sets 2025 Dates & Unveils Poster

Animation Magazine - June 11, 2025

Los Angeles festival Animation Is Film, a co-presentation of Annecy International Animation Film Festival (AIF), GKIDS and Variety, has slated its 2025 event for...

Features

Annecy Premiere Feature ‘Another World’ Acquired by GKIDS

Animation Magazine - June 11, 2025

GKIDS has picked up North American rights for another Annecy Festival selection, announcing a deal for the Hong Kong-produced animated feature Another World. The stylish...

Television

Adult Swim’s ‘Smiling Friends’ Announces Two-Season Renewal at Annecy

Animation Magazine - June 11, 2025

During the "Making of" Smiling Friends panel at Annecy Festival today — featuring series co-creators Michael Cusack and Zach Hadel, alongside Adult Swim’s Vice President...

People

WME Signs AI Animation Studio Toonstar & Sets Creator Project with Nigel Ng

Animation Magazine - June 11, 2025

Tech-driven animation studio Toonstar today announced they have signed with WME as their exclusive representation. As one of the first AI animation studio to...

Television

‘Arcane’ Studio Fortiche Teams with ARTE for ‘Miss Saturne’ Animated Mini-Series

Animation Magazine - June 10, 2025

Fortiche, the France and Canarias-based animation studio behind Netflix's award-winning League of Legends series Arcane, has announced a new mini-series project in partnership with ARTE...

Features

‘Incredibles 3’ Suits Up with ‘Elemental’ Director Peter Sohn

Animation Magazine - June 10, 2025

Pixar Animation Studios revealed during Annecy Festival today that Incredibles 3, announced at D23 2024, will be directed by Oscar-nominated Peter Sohn (Elemental, The...

Festivals & Events

Protests Against Artificial Intelligence Use in the Industry Planned at Annecy Animation Festival

Animation Magazine - June 10, 2025

A group of international workers’ union is staging a protest against the dangers of AI in animation at the Annecy Animation Festival on Thursday...

Technology

Toon Boom Animation Bolsters ‘Doodles’ Collab with Golden Wolf

Animation Magazine - June 9, 2025

Production software developers Toon Boom Animation has announced the expansion of its long-standing partnership with award-winning animation house Golden Wolf, with the aim of...

Technology

Generative Video Co. Vidu Sets Collabs for ‘Journey to the West’ Anime, Honor 400 Smartphones

Animation Magazine - June 9, 2025

Japanese generative video tech firm Vidu has launched two strategic initiatives: A partnership with Honor to embed its advanced image-to-video AI technology into the...

Shorts

The Animation Showcase Launches Pride & Diversity Collection

Animation Magazine - June 6, 2025

The Animation Showcase, the free streaming platform for animation and motion picture industry members, has launched a new limited-time collection of animated shorts celebrating...

Features

Josh Greenbaum Tapped to Direct WB’s ‘Care Bears’ Movie

Animation Magazine - June 5, 2025

Award-winning director Josh Greenbaum (Will & Harper, The Short Game, Strays, Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar) is venturing into a nostalgic...

Technology

Wacom Debuts New Line of Cintiq Pen Displays

Animation Magazine - June 4, 2025

Wacom today launched the new Cintiq 16, Cintiq 24 and Cintiq 24 Touch pen displays, empowering creators to break boundaries with professional tools made...

Television

Disney Halts ‘Primos’ Production After Single Season

Animation Magazine - June 4, 2025

Primos, the 2D animated Disney Channel series about the summer misadventures of a large multicultural family, will not be returning for a second season,...

Archives Animation Magazine – #350 May/June 2025

Animation Magazine - June 4, 2025

The team behind Pixar’s new summer movie, Elio, recount the creative journey of the much-anticipated project. The directors of Sony Pictures Animation’s KPop Demon Hunters...

Passings

(UPDATE) Jonathan Joss, Voice of ‘King of the Hill’s John Redcorn, Killed in San Antonio Shooting

Animation Magazine - June 2, 2025

Updated with social media statement from Jonathan Joss's husband, Tristan Kern de Gonzales. Jonathan Joss, an actor well known to animation and comedy fans as...

Passings

‘The Simpsons’ Composer Alf Clausen Dies Age 84

Animation Magazine - May 30, 2025

Two-time Emmy winner and 20-plus-time nominee Alf Clausen, who created pop culture earworms across 27 seasons of FOX's The Simpsons, died Thursday at his...

Features

Inspiring Holocaust Figure Fredy Hirsch Gets Animated Documentary from ‘Call Me By Your Name’ Producers

Animation Magazine - May 28, 2025

Emilie Georges and Naima Abed's production company Paradise City (Call Me By Your Name, Drift) has announced its first animated project: a documentary about...

Features

‘Lilo & Stitch’ Rockets to Memorial Day Box Office Record

Animation Magazine - May 27, 2025

Aloha to the holiday weekend box office champ! Disney's lovable alien invader supplanted Tom Cruise's Mission: Impossible farewell, as Lilo & Stitch came in at No. 1...

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