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Anime

‘Angel’s Egg,’ Rehatched

Kambole Campbell - November 18, 2025

Mamoru Oshii’s 1985 feature Angel’s Egg — technically an Original Video Animation (or OVA) — has made many a cinephile’s list of anime’s greatest...

Festivals & Events

Insights from the Tokyo Int’l Film Festival Animation Symposium

Kambole Campbell - November 3, 2025

An 'Animation Symposium' was held during the 38th edition of the Tokyo International Film Festival, involving a number of directors from different disciplines and...

Streaming

Return to Samurai Roots: Inside ‘Star Wars: Visions’ 3rd Volume Anime Redux

Kambole Campbell - October 29, 2025

The Star Wars universe continues to grow with the animated anthology Star Wars: Visions, the third volume of which was released October 29. Untethered...

Festivals & Events

Market Vision Quests: European Animation Execs Reflect on the State of the Industry & Fall Content Markets

Kambole Campbell - October 6, 2025

With fall TV events such as Cartoon Forum, MIPJunior and MIPCOM on the horizon, many producers are taking stock of the state of the...

Features

‘I Am Frankelda’: The Ambriz Bros. Discuss the Making of Their Pioneering Mexican Stop-Mo Feature

Kambole Campbell - October 1, 2025

It’s been a busy few years for Cinema Fantasma. The Mexico City-based stop-motion studio, founded by brothers Roy and Arturo Ambriz, is straddling multiple...

Television

‘Tim Rex in Space’ Introduces a Curious Dino Family to Nickelodeon’s Preschool Lineup

Kambole Campbell - August 22, 2025

Combining two obsessions of every young child — dinosaurs and space — the preschool series Tim Rex in Space looks to use its adventures...

Festivals & Events

Future Gems: The Best of Annecy’s Work-in-Progress Spotlights

Kambole Campbell - June 16, 2025

The work-in-progress section of the Annecy Festival felt as diverse as ever in the 2025 edition, with a wealth of upcoming series and features...

Festivals & Events

Annecy: Cartoon Network’s Iconic Creators Reflect on Studio’s Past and Present at Special 25th Anniversary Panel

Kambole Campbell - June 11, 2025

Though it’s been a hard couple of years for Cartoon Network — between the continual culling of animation across Warner Brothers Discovery and last...

Features

‘Lost in Starlight’ Director Han Ji-won Charts Her Cosmic Animated Romance

Kambole Campbell - May 23, 2025

Set in a futuristic Seoul, the new Korean animated film Lost in Starlight is a romantic intergenerational, interplanetary story that feels fascinatingly optimistic about...

Features

How the ‘Night of the Zoopocalypse’ Directors Created a Kid-Friendly Horror Pic Packed with Laughs (EXCLUSIVE CLIP)

Kambole Campbell - March 4, 2025

“With a lot of hard work and introspection you will find your adult self being entertained by childish things and your child self is...

Features

The Creative Forces Behind ‘The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim’ Reveal the Lore of Their New Take on Tolkien

Kambole Campbell - November 29, 2024

'As you bring it more and more into realism, it kind of becomes boring If you try to basically imitate the realistic movements.' — Director...

Streaming

‘Arcane’ Returns with a Vengeance: The Netflix Show’s Leads Discuss the Powerful Final Season

Kambole Campbell - October 28, 2024

The word “outlier” might quickly come to mind when thinking about Arcane. No one quite expected the series to transform into the runaway hit...

Features

Magnificent Misfits: ‘Memoir of a Snail’ Director Adam Elliot Details the Making of His Acclaimed Stop-Motion Feature

Kambole Campbell - October 2, 2024

Almost 15 years after Mary and Max, Australian stop-motion artist Adam Elliot has made a striking return to feature film directing with Memoir of...

Festivals & Events

Works in Progress at Annecy: Four Projects to Keep an Eye On!

Kambole Campbell - June 17, 2024

Though Annecy Festival has become rather large scale and increasingly star-studded in recent years — take this year’s Wes Anderson masterclass or The Lord...

Festivals & Events

‘Rohirrim,’ ‘Gumball’ and ‘Creature Commandos’: A Closer Look at Warner Bros.’ Upcoming Slate

Kambole Campbell - June 17, 2024

As the Annecy Festival has grown in scale so has the lavishness of the presentations, with so many streamers taking to the Bonlieu’s biggest...

Festivals & Events

Annecy: What We Learned at the ‘Arcane’ Season 2 Session

Kambole Campbell - June 12, 2024

Probably the most hotly-anticipated panel at this year’s Annecy Festival — allegedly, people were camping out to get in the queue — Fortiche’s presentation...

Anime

Hitting the High Notes: ‘Blue Giant’ Director Yuzuru Tachikawa Discusses His Anime Riff on Tokyo Jazz

Kambole Campbell - April 25, 2024

In its explosive, almost impressionistic approach to musical sensation and its often-punishing viewpoint of the grit required of artistic success, you couldn’t call Blue...

Streaming

‘Scott Pilgrim Takes Off’ Creators Discuss Their Super Cool Netflix Remix

Kambole Campbell - November 17, 2023

Although many fans believe that the new animated take on Bryan Lee O’Malley’s beloved Scott Pilgrim comic-book series is a more faithful adaptation than...

Features

‘Chicken for Linda!’ Directors Malta & Laudenbach Give Us the Recipe for Their Acclaimed Movie

Kambole Campbell - August 31, 2023

After taking home the Cristal for best feature film and Grand Foundation Award at this year’s Annecy International Animation Film Festival, not long after...

Features

Annecy Festival: Four Rare Gems from the WIP Sessions

Kambole Campbell - June 16, 2023

The Annecy Festival work-in-progress (WIP) sessions continue to show off a wealth of projects in early or mid-production. Tucked away in the cozier and...

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