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‘Adventure Time’ Season 3 Arrives with Extras

If you love cartoons, odds are you love Cartoon Network's surreal and hilarious Adventure Time series. That makes this week's release of Adventure Time:...

Shout! Distributing ‘Jack and the Cuckoo-Clock Heart’

Shout! Factory will distribute the animated film Jack and the Cuckoo-Clock Heart (Jack et la Mécanique du Coeur) in the United States and Canada...

Moonbot Revives Lessmore for ‘Silent’ Dolby Short

Morris Lessmore, the star of 2011's Oscar-winning animated short The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore, is back in Silent, a new short...

Tex Avery’s Hometown Honors His Legacy

Tex Avery holds a special place in the hearts of most animation fans for the fantastic comedy shorts he directed for the likes of...

New ‘Dora’ Special Pays Homage to ‘Alice’

Nick has announced a new hour-long Dora the Explorer primetime special, Dora in Wonderland, will premiere March 10 at 7 p.m. ET/PT. In the hour-long...

‘LEGO’ Assembles its Third Winning Weekend

Everything was awesome once again for The LEGO Movie, which was the nation's top-grossing film for a third weekend in a row with an...

‘Frozen,’ ‘Gravity’ Sound Great to CAS Awards

Frozen and Gravity continued their awards-season runs with victories in the Cinema Audio Society Awards, held Saturday at the Millennium Biltmore Hotel in downtown...

‘LEGO’ Sequel Due May 26, 2017

As if everything wasn't already awesome enough for Warner Bros.' The LEGO Movie, the studio has made official a release date for a sequel:...

Diehl Named Nick’s VP Animation Development

Audrey Diehl has been promoted to VP of animation development for Nickelodeon Group, the network announced today. Diehl's promotion from executive director of development to...

Pixar’s Catmull to Speak on ‘Creativity, Inc.’

Pixar co-founder Ed Catmull will give a talk April 16 called "Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True...

EXCLUSIVE: Anderson Dishes on ‘Pompeii’ VFX

Great disasters have long been popular settings for moviemaker looking to tell human and even intimate stories, and Pompeii certainly follows in that tradition. The...

Fox Finds its New ‘Fantastic Four’

It has a director and now a cast — can Fox's reboot of the self-proclaimed World's Greatest Comic Magazine restore to glory Marvel's first...

Genius Takes ‘Edison’s Secret Lab’ into Production

Genius Brands International has begun production on its new animated children's series Thomas Edison's Secret Lab. The pilot episode, titled "If the Fossil Fits," has...

Dentsu Brings Anime ‘LBX’ to Nicktoons

The popular Japanese anime series LBX is coming to the United States with a deal to air on Nicktoons later this year. LBX (a.k.a. "Little...

Wildseed Unveils Kidson-Based Web Series

U.K.-based Wildseed Studios has released the first episodes of a new animated series based on the work of underground comic-strip artist Ralph Kidson on...

Ubisoft Montreal Adopts OpenStage 2 Markerless Mo-Cap

Video game studio Ubisoft Montreal is going markerless, striking a deal with Organic Motion to use its OpenStage 2 motion-capture system. OpenStage 2 is designed...

‘Frozen,’ ‘Gravity’ Top BAFTA Awards

Frozen walked away with another cool honor this weekend, nabbing the BAFTA for Best Animated Film at a ceremony in London. Directors Jennifer Lee and...

‘LEGO’ Builds $50M Second Weekend

It was another great weekend for The LEGO Movie, which built on its already impressive debut last weekend with a $50 million domestic gross...

Irish Animation Icon Murakami Dies

Jimmy Murakami, one of the founding fathers of Irish animation, died Sunday morning after a brief illness, according to a report from the Irish...

‘Mr. Fox’ Returns in Criterion Edition

One of the most-acclaimed indie animated films of recent years gets the Criterion treatment this week with the release of Fantastic Mr. Fox: Criterion...
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