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"Hey, kids! Let's go to the multiplex and check out that animated movie about a moderately talented teenage girl trying out for a place in a slightly older ice-hockey team," said practically no American parent to the delight of their children ever. Yet this…

After the success of the pilot episode of Hazbin Hotel in 2019, Vivienne Medrano showed the potential that an adult animated musical series could offer. A potential that saw A24 joining into the animation space, with Fox’s Bento Box Entertainment as producer, leading to an eight episode season on Prime…

UPDATED with latest: The Oscars, strike-delayed Writers Guild Awards and the 2023-24 awards season are history, and it’s time to look at what’s ahead trophy show-wise. Here is a list of awards shows, events and the like ahead as we cruise into Emmy season and look ahead to Cannes, the fall film…

It's been nearly a decade since the original film came out, so the animation required some updates before Inside Out 2 would be ready to go. For this, Pixar had a team of both new and returning craftspeople working tirelessly to rework the world and introduce a new set of emotions to tell a new story for…

Arcane will end with the upcoming second season. Netflix has released a teaser trailer and some of the first images for the second and final chapter of its animated series. Season 2 premieres in November on the streamer. Related Stories …

EXCLUSIVE: A key principle underpinning DreamWorks Animation’s The Wild Robot — directed and written by Chris Sanders, produced by Jeff Hermann and starring Lupita Nyong’o as the voice of Roz the robot — is that kindness matters, say the filmmakers. Based on Peter Brown's 2016 bestseller, the movie…

Oscar-winning Australian director Adam Elliot is at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival with his long-awaited second stop-motion feature Memoir of a Snail, which world premieres in the main competition. Set in 1970s Australia, the movie gathers a starry cast led by Succession star Sarah…

After 20 years, a graphic novel series, a feature film and a video game, it’s no wonder that Bryan Lee O’Malley was hesitant to dive into another adaptation of his Scott Pilgrim series. After what he describes as a “jokey” conversation with BenDavid Grabinski, the two decided to flip the script and take…

Director Josh Cooley took to the stage at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival on Monday to introduce a packed screening of a work-in-progress version of Transformers One. "I've got that feeling you get when you're giving a present and you know they're going to be excited about it," he…

As we near the 40th anniversary of the original Gremlins film on June 8, Max has revealed a new title for Season 2 of the animated prequel series. It will be called Gremlins: The Wild Batch and is set for premiere this fall. Max also released a teaser, which you can watch above. Season 2 follows…

The egotistical, aggressive, evil and power-hungry planktonic copepod –Plankton– from SpongeBob fame is getting his own Netflix movie as unveiled as part of the streamer’s Next on Netflix Animation press drop. In the Dave Needham-directed animated feature, Plankton's world is flipped upside down…

A new season of Jurassic World: Chaos Theory is lurking. Netflix announced Thursday that Season 2 of the animated series will launch this fall. The announcement was made as part of the streamer’s “Next on Netflix: Animation” campaign, which also included first look photos from the upcoming…