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Hulu Inks First-Look Deal with Former Adult Swim Exec Nick Weidenfeld

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Hulu is looking to step up its adult-targeted toon offerings, having signed a first-look deal with Nick Weidenfeld, to develop and executive produce new...
Features

FILMART: 108 & Aurora Announce ‘Schirkoa’ Feature Based on Award-Winning Short

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Singapore-based 108 Media and co-production partner Aurora Media Holdings revealed a varied multi-title slate of films at the Hong Kong FILMART, including an animated...
Features

Daily News Bytes: First Look at ‘Nightflyers,’ ‘Adventure Time’ Trailers Finale, SIGGRAPH 2018 & More

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Registration Now Open for SIGGRAPH 2018 Don’t miss out on the preeminent interdisciplinary computer graphics conference, coming to Vancouver, BC for its 45th edition August...
Features

China Lion & HB Wink Team with Cinesite for David Silverman’s ‘Extinct’

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China Lion Film and HB Wink Animation have given the greenlight to their first CG animated family feature, Extinct, being directed by David Silverman...
People

Disney Director John Musker Retires After Four Decades

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Writer and director John Musker, a Disney Animation icon whose neary 40-year career saw him at the helm for major titles from the 1980s...
Features

Tokyo Anime Awards Fest Winners; Grand Prize Feature Gets Euro Pick-Ups

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Winners of the Tokyo Anime Award Festival 2018 (animefestival.jp/en) were announced last week at Toshima Center Square. The competition aims to spotlight “unique animation...
People

Rai Kids’ Luca Milano Elected to EBU Kids Media Experts Group

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Luca Milano, Director of Rai Regazzi (the children’s division of the Italian public broadcaster RAI), has been elected as the new chairperson of the...
Festivals & Events

Annecy Announces French Premiere of ‘Incredibles 2,’ Cristal for Brad Bird

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The Annecy International Animated Film Festival (June 11-16) has revealed that its Friday will be turned over to honoring the animation powerhouse Pixar, with...
Television

Grab Your Guitars! New ‘FLCL’ Smashes into Adult Swim This Summer

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More than 15 years after its original launch in Japan, two new seasons of arguably the craziest anime ever FLCL are coming to screens...
Features

‘Stolen Princess’ Kicks Off International Release in Romania

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Animagrad and FILM.UA Group’s animated feature The Stolen Princess is commencing its international theatrical roll-out, beginning with 79 screens across Romania through local distributor...
Features

Wizart Announces ‘Snow Queen 3’ Release Date to Follow FILMART

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Just as the annual Hong Kong Film & TV Market (FILMART) kicks off in the bustling seaport city this week, Russian animation powerhouse Wizart...
Features

‘LEGO Ninjago’ Helmer Charlie Bean Leashed to ‘Lady and the Tramp’

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Toon Town veteran Charlie Bean, who most recently directed The LEGO Ninjago Movie, has signed on to helm a new live-action/CGI hybrid reimagining of...
Digital Media

Big Bad Boo’s ‘1001 Nights’ Hops a Magic Carpet to GAS Region

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Big Bad Boo Studios and BWO TV and Licensing announced that hit animated series 1001 Nights will be streaming on German-language online platform kinderkino.de,...
Television

CAKE Secures International Sales for ‘My Knight and Me’

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London-based CAKE has scored a slate of sales for the animated chivalric comedy series My Knight and Me, created by French toon powerhouse TeamTO...
Digital Media

VIZ & Verizon Strike Anime Content Deal for go90

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VIZ Media and Verizon Communications have forged a content distribution agreement that will bring some of the anime/manga powerhouse’s titles to streaming platform go90....
Festivals & Events

‘Theory of Sunset,’ ‘Highway Rat’ Score NY Children’s Film Fest Prizes

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The 2018 New York International Children’s Film Festival has wrapped up after four jam-packed weekends of features and shorts from 30-plus countries, premiere screenings,...
People

‘Your Name.’ Producer Launches New Label STORY Co.

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Genki Kawamura -- who produced Makoto Shinkai’s multi-award-winning feature Your Name. (ComiX Wave) and Nobuyuki Takeuchi’s Fireworks (Shaft), recently picked up by GKIDS --...
Festivals & Events

March Madness Gets Animated with “Boomerang Best Cartoon” Bracket

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Turner is getting hyped for the March Madness men's basketball tournament, pitting its own spin on the NCAA tradition with the Boomerang Best Cartoon...
Features

Daily News Bytes: DuVernay Directing ‘New Gods’, Brad Bird’s ‘The Spirit’ Pencil Test, an Animated Nod to Dementia Nurses & More

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Ava DuVernay to Direct DC's Superhero Epic 'New Gods' Fresh off the release of her $100 million A Wrinkle in Time adaptation's release, the acclaimed...
Digital Media

Pics: 8 New ‘Star Wars Forces of Destiny’ Adventures Debut Monday

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On Monday, March 19, Star Wars Forces of Destiny returns with eight all-new animated adventures, launching at 10 a.m. PT on Disney’s YouTube channel....
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