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Shorts

Save the Children Short ‘Margarita’s Story’ Dramatizes a Young Girl’s Flight from Mariupol

Jeff Spry - June 21, 2023

Hoping to shine the light of hope on the disastrous effects of the Ukraine War, Save the Children has teamed up with BAFTA award-winning...

Home Entertainment

Watch: New Trailer for ‘Metalocalypse: Army of the Doomstar’ Summer Movie

Jeff Spry - June 21, 2023

Adult Swim’s rowdy Rock n’ Roll adventure series, Metalocalypse, is back with a vengeance in Metalopocalypse: Army of the Doomstar, an all-new, feature-length animated...

Festivals & Events

Steven Spielberg’s Rare Animation Collection Added to Motion Picture Academy’s Archives

Jeff Spry - June 20, 2023

The bountiful film archives at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) just received an impressive infusion of desirable items donated to...

Festivals & Events

Tonic DNA Joins Creative Forces with Éric Gervais-Després’ nGenious Studio

Jeff Spry - June 20, 2023

Montreal’s award-winning studio Tonic DNA has absorbed all assets and intellectual property belonging to Éric Gervais-Després’ indie entertainment company, nGenious Studio. Éric Gervais-Després will come...

Digital Media

BuzzFeed Animation and Frederator to Serve Up a ‘Chikn Nuggit’ Show

Jeff Spry - June 20, 2023

Ordered straight from the menu of digital IPs delivered by the folks at BuzzFeed Animation Lab, Genius Brands Intl.’s Frederator Network and BuzzFeed are...

Features

‘Nimona’ Directors Discuss Their Celebration of Shape-Shifters and Rule-Breakers (New Trailer)

Jeff Spry - June 14, 2023

Rescued from the perilous halls of abandoned animation projects by those shining knights at Netflix, the queer-coded fantasy-adventure feature Nimona will ride onto the streaming...

Shorts

Disney Legend Andreas Deja Discusses His Directorial Debut, the 2D Fable ‘Mushka’

Jeff Spry - May 25, 2023

Humans interacting with nature's animals has been a mainstay in the history of animation. Now, Disney Legend and animation master Andreas Deja has drawn...

Television

‘Young Jedi Adventures’ Delivers a Colorful ‘Star Wars’ Series for Preschoolers (NEW ARTWORK)

Jeff Spry - May 4, 2023

George Lucas’ original Star Wars trilogy was conceived as a nostalgic, family-friendly space opera appealing to 12-year-old kids, or at least the sci-fi-loving child...

Streaming

‘Star Wars: Visions’ EP James Waugh and Rodrigo Blaas Discuss Vol. 2’s Global Tour de Force

Jeff Spry - May 2, 2023

With its makers untethered by canonical restrictions, Lucasfilm and Disney+’s exhilarating anthology series Star Wars: Visions is back for a second season of bite-sized...

Streaming

‘Agent Elvis’: The King of Rock ’N’ Roll Fights Supervillains in Netflix’s New Animated Series

Jeff Spry - March 17, 2023

With a Tarantino-like swagger and twisted sense of humor that Elvis was apparently known for, Netflix’s adults-only animated series Agent Elvis lands on the...

Features

‘The Super Mario Bros. Movie’ Directors Detail Their High-Stakes Mushroom Kingdom Adventure

Jeff Spry - March 7, 2023

Plumbing the depths of gaming nostalgia in a candy-colored CG landscape, The Super Mario Bros. Movie is joyously sprinting toward a spring theatrical release...

Features

Scaling Fantastic Heights for Upcoming Spanish-Chinese Feature, ‘Dragonkeeper’

Jeff Spry - February 6, 2023

Amid the flight patterns of popular entertainment, fans have an insatiable appetite for dragons — whether they’re scaled or feathered, fire-belching or water-spouting, airborne...

Features

Adventures in the Retro Future World of ‘Legion of Super-Heroes’

Jeff Spry - February 2, 2023

Back in the waning years of the 1950s when the Soviet Union’s Sputnik satellite ominously orbited Earth, a colorful team of teen superheroes emerged...

Features

‘The Son of the Stars’: Rediscovering a Romanian Space Odyssey

Jeff Spry - January 20, 2023

***This article originally appeared in the February '23 issue of Animation Magazine (No. 327)*** Every so often, cosmic tumblers align and the sci-fi universe gifts...

Features

Ruh-Roh! Director Michael Kurinsky Talks about the Shelving of ‘Scoob! Holiday Haunt’

Jeff Spry - January 18, 2023

***This article originally appeared in the February '23 issue of Animation Magazine (No. 327)*** We interrupt your mid-winter malaise to offer up a melancholy fireside...

Features

How ‘Puss in Boots: The Last Wish’ Filmmakers Put the Cavalier Cat Back in Action

Jeff Spry - December 2, 2022

***This article originally appeared in the January '23 issue of Animation Magazine (No. 326)*** Hide the catnip and pass the leche when that swashbuckling fairy...

Streaming

Jeff Malmberg Dives Down the Mouse Hole for ‘Mickey: The Story of a Mouse’

Jeff Spry - November 14, 2022

***This article originally appeared in the December '22 issue of Animation Magazine (No. 325)*** Representing both the acme of corporate consumerism and a white-gloved hero...

Publishing

Disney Legend Andreas Deja on Writing ‘Walt Disney’s The Jungle Book: Making a Masterpiece’

Jeff Spry - October 31, 2022

***This article originally appeared in the December '22 issue of Animation Magazine (No. 325)*** As The Jungle Book’s fun-loving sloth bear Baloo wisely proclaims in...

Digital Media

News Bytes: ‘Krusty Cook-Offs,’ ‘Studio Ghibli Cookbook’ and ‘House of the Dragon’ Drinks!

Jeff Spry - October 21, 2022

SpongeBob: Krusty Cook-Off's new land, a Studio Ghibli Cookbook, and Google's House of the Dragon cocktail animation make our Friday food and drink news roundup! Popular...

Europe

Ten Animation Studios Score Screen Ireland Funding for Immersive Projects

Jeff Spry - October 21, 2022

The luck of the Irish is with ten Ireland-based animation and interactive content companies that will split up a €350,000 ($345,000) funding stash distributed...

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