Tag: Annecy Festival
Custom Nuts & Baboon Animation Greenlight ‘Battuta’ Cartoon for 2 Seasons
Production partners Custom Nuts and Baboon Animation have greenlit Ibn Battuta, a new family-friendly comedy adventure for a 5–7 co-viewing audience. The companies have...
Future Gems: The Best of Annecy’s Work-in-Progress Spotlights
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...
‘Arco,’ ‘ChaO’ and ‘The Night Boots’ Win Top Prizes at 49th Edition of Annecy Festival
The 2025 Edition of the Annecy Animation Festival drew to a close on Saturday night with the big Cristal awards ceremony during which French...
Industry Guilds Unite in Anti-AI Demonstration at Annecy Animation Fest
“The technology is a vehicle for exploitation. It’s a vehicle to extract data that people have worked their entire lives to create, they put...
Annecy Festival Announces Special Prize Winners of 2025
Ten prizes and two distinctions were awarded Friday at the Special Prizes Ceremony of the Annecy International Animation Film Festival. Presented by partners of the...
Annecy: Disney & Pixar Announce ‘Gatto,’ Sneak Peek ‘Zootopia 2,’ ‘Toy Story 5’ & ‘Hoppers’
Disney and Pixar shared an abundance of news, images and special presentations with the an excited audience of fans at Annecy on Friday.
In the...
LAIKA’s ‘ParaNorman’ Returns to Theaters for Halloween in Remastered RealD 3D with New Short Film
From Annecy today, LAIKA announced that its award-winning stop- motion animated film ParaNorman will once again haunt the big screen this Halloween for a...
Genndy Tartakovsky Developing ‘Heist Safari’ Animated Series for Adult Swim
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...
Animation Is Film Sets 2025 Dates & Unveils Poster
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...
Director Celia Catunda Offers a Sneak Peek at Pinguim’s New Movie, ‘My Grandfather Is a Nihonjin’
Among the many international animated features being unveiled at this year's Annecy Festival is My Grandfather Is a Nihonjin, a beautiful 2D-animated feature about...
Annecy: Netflix Teases ‘Stranger Things’ Animated Show and Alex Woo’s ‘In Your Dreams’ Feature
Celebrating over 10 years of animated series and features, the Next on Netflix showcase at this year’s Annecy Festival looked to the past as...
Annecy Premiere Feature ‘Another World’ Acquired by GKIDS
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...
Animation in Europe Expands to 27 Countries & 30 Associations, Launches New Support Initiatives
Animation in Europe, the Federation of Animation Producers in Europe, has welcomes Austria, Latvia, Croatia, Hungary, Slovakia and Armenia as new members. With these...
Adult Swim’s ‘Smiling Friends’ Announces Two-Season Renewal at Annecy
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...
Annecy: Cartoon Network’s Iconic Creators Reflect on Studio’s Past and Present at Special 25th Anniversary Panel
Though it’s been a hard couple of years for Cartoon Network — between the continual culling of animation across Warner Brothers Discovery and last...
‘Steven Universe: Lars of the Stars’ in Development for Prime Video; ‘Teen Titans Go!’ Gets 10th Season on CN
From the Studio Showcase presented by Warner Bros. Animation, Cartoon Network Studios and Hanna-Barbera Studios Europe at Annecy Festival today, two major announcements promised...
Family Snapshots: Michel Gondry on the Creative Journey of ‘Maya, Give Me a Title’ & Its Sequel
Those who have been following the interesting career of French writer-director Michel Gondry know that he easily switches between the worlds of music videos,...
‘Incredibles 3’ Suits Up with ‘Elemental’ Director Peter Sohn
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...
BBC Studios Kids & Family Developing ‘Children Vs Battle SuperStars’ Animated Series with Blink Industries
BBC Studios Kids & Family is developing a new animated series for eight- to 12-year olds as the primary title in its first-look deal...
Animotion’s Sci-Fi/Sports Toon ‘Shooting Stars’ Debuts Teaser Trailer (Exclusive)
Animotion Media Group, a U.A.E.-based production and distribution company specializing in family animation, is ready to launch Shooting Stars — a 2D-animated adventure comedy that...
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