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Yabba-Dabbo-Doo! Elizabeth Banks' Flintstones sequel series Bedrock has landed at Fox. The network is developing the primetime animated adult comedy series with the Charlie Angels and Hunger Games star set to voice Pebbles Flintstone in addition to producing. Banks has been developing a Flintstones project for a…

Two-time The Shape of Water Oscar winner Guillermo del Toro handed out a special treat Tuesday on Twitter, revealing the release date and first teaser for his Netflix-DreamWorks Animation movie Trollhunters: Rise of the Titans. Executive produced by del Toro, the pic will hit the service July 21. The movie is set in…

LaKeith Stanfield brings the legend of Yasuke, the real-life Black samurai in feudal Japan, to screen in the trailer for Netflix and MAPAA’s latest anime series that premieres this week. The Oscar-nominated Judas and the Black Messiah actor takes on the titular character, a servant-turned-fierce hero in the series…

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix has licensed all global rights, sans China, to Sony Pictures Animation’s Vivo. The movie, directed by Oscar nominee Kirk DeMicco (The Croods) and co-directed by Brandon Jeffords (Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2) with new songs written and performed by Tony-winning Hamilton creator Lin-Manuel Mira…

Soul picked up its second Oscar win of the night for Original Score and Jon Batiste called out Duke Ellington, Bach and Nina Simone in a stirring celebration speech. Batiste scored the Pixar feature along with Nine Inch Nails founder Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross. "You know what's deep is God gave us 12 notes, it's…

The director and producer of Soul, the first Pixar film to feature an African-American protagonist, paid tribute to music and art teachers and jazz musicians after their Oscars win. Pete Docter and Dana Murray won the Oscar for Best Animated Feature – continuing Pixar's dominance in this category with 11 wins in the…

In the latest consolidation move within WarnerMedia’s TV operations, Adult Swim and HBO Max’s adult animation development teams are being combined into one, led by Suzanna Makkos. Previously EVP Original Comedy and Animation for HBO Max, Makkos is taking an expanded role as EVP Original Comedy and Animation for HBO…

EXCLUSIVE: Triple Oscar nominee Tomm Moore has joined the creative team of The Inventor, the animated film being directed by Jim Capobianco, who was head of story on Ratatouille. Hand-drawn animation master Moore will direct the 2D sequences of the stop-motion film, working aside his frequent collaborator Fabian…

EXCLUSIVE: Oscar-nominated animator and director Michael Thurmeier has inked with Range Media Partners. Thurmeier began his career as an animator at Blue Sky Studios, working on special animation for the film Fight Club and the multi-award winning HBO series The Sopranos.  His work led to being named lead animator on…

EXCLUSIVE: Writer-producer Chris Kula, a co-executive producer on Star Trek: Lower Decks, has signed an overall deal with CBS Studios, the studio behind the Paramount+ animated series. Star Trek: Lower Decks landed an early renewal for a 10-episode third season earlier this month, before the animated series returns…

A new short from Pixar Animation Studios will revisit the skeptical new soul 22 long before she ever met Joe Gardner. Debuting on Disney+ on April 30, the animated 22 vs. Earth returns Tina Fey back to “The Great Before” as the voice of quick-witted and sarcastic soul 22. Set before the events of Soul, the original…

Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers & Justin K. Thompson are directing the sequel to Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, Deadline has confirmed. The film is set to hit theaters on October 7, 2022. While the team has been hard at work on the project from the outset, they have now officially come aboard, joining returning…