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Sony and THU Announce Talent League Finalists

Sony and THU just announced the three finalists of Sony Talent League by THU, a challenge made to discover the next generation of creative...

AT&T Selling Crunchyroll to Sony’s Funimation Global Group

Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc. and AT&T Inc. announced that AT&T has agreed to sell its Crunchyroll anime business to Funimation Global Group, LLC. Funimation...

Sony Reportedly Close to Billion Dollar Crunchyroll Acquisition

Global entertainment giant Sony is in final negotiations to acquire U.S.-based anime streamer and producer Crunchyroll, according to a Friday report from Nikkei Asia. The...

Fonda Snyder Joins Battat Co. as EVP of New Entertainment Division

Prominent global toy company Battat Co. is launching a new entertainment division. Company President and Owner Joe Battat announced that award-winning literary producer and...

Mike Flavin Named SVP, Head of Development at Cartuna Studio

Brooklyn-based animation studio Cartuna has tapped Mike Flavin as its new SVP, Head of Development. He joins the studio behind Comedy Central's improvised animated...

‘Meet the WalkerZ’ the Vegan Zombies Nextdoor

Shadow Valley Productions, LLC, a creative-driven branded entertainment company, today introduces a delightful, but highly-unusual, vegan zombie family to young audiences in a newly...

Stoopid Buddy Stoodios Names Steve Bastien Head of Buddy Spots

Stoopid Buddy Stoodios, founded by Seth Green, John Harvatine IV, Matthew Senreich and Eric Towner, announced Tuesday that advertising veteran Steve Bastien has been...

Canine Casting: Sony Adopts Doug The Pug as ‘Connected’s Monchi

Sony Pictures Animation's upcoming feature Connected is really coming together now, with the news that snub-nosed celebridog Doug The Pug (@itsdougthepug) has been cast...

ABC Australia Orders ‘The Strange Chores’ S2

The eerie adventures of animated series The Strange Chores will continue into a second 26 x 11' season thanks to a commission from ABC...

Sony Makes Major Investment in Epic Games

Sony has made a $250 million investment in Epic Games, the two companies announced yesterday. Under the new arrangement, Sony gets a 1.4 percent...

(Updating) Comic-Con@Home Animation Schedule

Updated 7/15/20 with SYFY's TZGZ panelists. Just because you won't be sweatily lugging swag bags up and down the San Diego Convention Center this...

Kelebek Unwraps ‘How Winston Delivered Christmas’ Rights, Rob Minkoff Attached

Independent production house Kelebek Media, founded by creative entrepreneur Deborah Thorpe, has optioned the rights to the much-loved How Winston Delivered Christmas book written...

Cinedigm Announces Global CONtv Anime Network

Following Cinedigm’s acquisition of global streaming service Viewster, and the recent surge of anime viewership on its flagship platform CONtv, Cinedigm announced the launch...

Game of Toys: John Harvatine IV & Tom Root Herald the Hilarious ‘Crossing Swords’

***This article originally appeared in the June-July issue of Animation Magazine (No. 301)*** John Harvatine IV and Tom Root love playing with toys! The two...

All You Have to Do Is Dream

How Media Molecule’s hot new Dreams title for PlayStation 4 is changing the animation game for at-home enthusiasts. When first-person shooter game Doom hit the...

Pixelatl Festival Names Exodo Animation Studio Creative Partner for 2020

Pixelatl has announced that the studio selected as a creative partner for its 2020 edition is Exodo Animation Studio. The animation, comics and video...

News Bytes: HBO Max Launch Date, Abigail Disney Goes Off, DEG’s Most-Watched Movies List & More

LISTEN: New Directors in Animation Podcast U.K.-based helmer Avgousta Zoureidi (Moominvalley, Monster High, Angry Birds) speaks to colleagues about the ups and downs of animation...

Sony Hops ‘Peter Rabbit 2,’ ‘Morbius’, ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife’ and More to 2021

Having already rescheduled its Easter relese Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway for later this year, the ongoing coronavirus pandemic has lead Sony Pictures to...

Coronavirus Fears & Theater Closures Batter Box Office

It was a bleak weekend at the box office both at home and overseas, as cinemas continue to shutter and social distancing leads to...

CBS All Access Orders Stephen Colbert, Brad Neely Originals & Toon Reboots

CBS All Access is ramping up its animation slate under the newly merged ViacomCBS umbrella, announcing orders for a new topical variety show from...
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