Max Sets ‘The Boy and the Heron’ Streaming Date
The Oscar-winning film’s debut is part of a multiyear deal extending U.S. streaming rights of award-winning Studio Ghibli’s catalog, including ‘Spirited Away,’ ‘Howl's Moving Castle,’ ‘The Wind Rises,’ ‘The Tale of The Princess Kaguya,’ and ‘When Marnie Was There.’
‘Camp Snoopy’ Renewed for Second Season at Apple TV+
Based on the beloved ‘Peanuts’ comic strip, the series finds Snoopy and the Beagle Scouts, along with Charlie Brown and friends, enjoying an adventure-filled summer outdoors.
Matt Reeves Talks Failed ‘The Batman’ Spinoffs ‘Arkham Asylum,’ ‘Gotham PD’
‘The Batman’ director attributes the downfall of both series to HBO exec expectations, stating they said, ‘We like what you’re doing, and we want to lean harder into the marquee characters.'
FOX Renews ‘Krapopolis’ for Fourth Season
More ‘Kraptastic’ news… creator Dan Harmon revealed the renewal to fans at San Diego Comic-Con on Thursday; the animated adult comedy series follows the dysfunctional humans, gods and monsters in Ancient Greece, with Season 2 premiering September 29.
NVIDIA Launches NVIDIA AI Foundry
New platform and service allows enterprises and sovereign nations to build custom generative AI models with domain-specific knowledge.
Michael Bay, Adam Goodman Team for Potential ‘Skibidi Toilet’ Film, TV Adaptations
The duo is currently considering developing a franchise surrounding the cultural sensation, and ‘are absolutely in talks right now, both on the television side and the earliest conversations right now on the film side.’
Paramount Drops ‘Transformers One’ Trailer #2
Every Transformer has an origin... including Badassatron! Otherwise known as B. And for Optimus Prime and Megatron... who were once the closest of friends; the newest entry in the ‘Transformers’ franchise hits theaters September 20.
BLINKINK Crafts Coldplay ‘feelslikeimfallinginlove’ Lyric Video
Led by Raman Djafari, 15 artists bring visual life to the group’s new single, blending unique styles seamlessly to tell the story of two souls who repeatedly find each other in many different forms.
DreamWorks Animation Drops ‘The Wild Robot’ Featurette
Go behind the scenes with Oscar-nominated writer/director Chris Sanders, production designer Raymond Zibach, and many other artists, along with stars Lupita Nyong’o, Pedro Pascal, and Catherine O’Hara, to see how storyboards, sketches, concept art, models, layout and animation came together to tell the story of a domestic robot shipwrecked on an uninhabited island who becomes the adoptive parent of an orphaned gosling while protecting the animals 'she' encounters; coming to theaters September 27.
Aardman Academy Names Will Becher Stop-Motion Lead
Academy Award-nominated director to oversee all stop-motion teaching, learning activities, and development, plus lead academy’s premium courses ‘In-Studio Stop Motion’ and ‘Stop Motion Professional.’
Corvus Belli Drops ‘Infinity: Paradise Lost’ Trailer
New animated series, based on the popular tabletop game, is set 200 years in the future in a universe where humanity has abandoned Earth, colonized star systems and achieved a tenuous unity, but conflicts still exist; fans get 1st look at Comic-Con panel July 27.
Pixar’s ‘Inside Out 2’ Now the Highest Grossing Animated Film in History
Now standing at a global cume of just over $1.46 billion, Kelsey Mann’s sequel to Pete Docter’s Oscar-winning 2015 ‘Inside Out’ takes us back inside the mind of newly minted teenager Riley as a new set of emotions, led by Anxiety, arrive to take over operations.
‘Zima,’ ‘Our Uniform’ Lead Winners at Anibar 2024
15th festival edition wraps up with announcement of films awarded in 6 categories; shorts by Tomek Popakul and Kasumi Ozeki, and Yegane Moghaddam among 11 honored in the competition.
Powerhouse VFX Expands to Vancouver
Emmy-nominated ‘Shōgun’ VFX supervisor Michael Cliett to lead new effort in the growing BC market, adding to the studio’s presence in Toronto, Los Angeles, Georgia, and New York HQ.
Warner Bros. Drops ‘Joker: Folie à Deux’ Official Trailer #2
2 years ago, he hit Gotham like a hurricane... and now he's back to 'give the people what they want!' The gritty ’80s jukebox musical about the deadly, romantic relationship between Joaquin Phoenix’s Joker and Lady Gaga’s Harley Quinn, dances into theaters October 4.
Warner Bros. Games Acquires Player First Games
Known for its free-to-play platform fighting game ‘MultiVersus,’ the developer will continue to be run by co-founders Tony Huynh, head of Player First Games, and Chris White, head of technology.
RADiCAL Adds Habib Zargarpour, Joe Marks and Dane Allen Smith to Advisory Board
The three industry leaders bring decades of shared experience to the AI mocap and real-time 3D creation tools developer as it ramps up its product expansion.
Emilia Clarke, Gerard Butler, Simone Ashley Join ‘The Night Before Christmas in Wonderland’
The new animated feature, based on Carys Bexington’s bestselling book, follows St. Nick (Butler) as he goes down the rabbit hole and meets a host of familiar characters who help him save Christmas.
The Juice is Loose Again in ‘Beetlejuice Beetlejuice’ Official Trailer #2
Are Lydia Deetz and her rather difficult daughter, Delia, shrunken heading to disaster? Care to ask Bob? Tim Burton and Michael Keaton team up once more in the highly-awaited ‘Beetlejuice’ sequel that finds 3 generations of the Deetz family unexpectedly reunited with the mischievous demon and his particular type of mayhem, hitting theaters September 6.
Call for Entries: Annie Awards 2025
Submissions will be accepted for animated productions that were released in the United States between January 1, 2024, and December 31, 2024; entries now being accepted through October 30, 2024.
Samurai Jack, Beetlejuice to Headline ‘MultiVersus’ Season 2
From the Cartoon Network and Adult Swim animated series of the same name, the katana wielding warrior joins the new game season launch on July 23. The troublesome ghost Beetlejuice (a.k.a. Betelgeuse) will arrive in time for the ‘Beetlejuice Beeltjuice’ release in September.
Multiple Seasons of ‘The Venture Bros.’ Headed to Netflix
One of Adult Swim's longest-running, award-winning original adult animated series will be available to stream starting August 16; all seven seasons also stream on Max and the AdultSwim website.
‘Halo’ Cancelled After Two Seasons
The fight against the Covenant ends for now; both seasons of the live-action series, which follows Pablo Schreiber’s Master Chief as he leads his team of elite Spartans against the alien threat, stream now on Paramount+.
NVIDIA Studio Blog: Next-Gen Video Editing Upgrades
Wondershare Filmora adds NVIDIA RTX Video HDR support and RTX-Accelerated AI features; content creator Kevin Stratvert shares how AI is a crucial part of his creative toolkit.
‘Yumi’s Cells: The Movie’ Now Streaming on Rakuten Viki
Animated feature, based on the popular Webtoon and live-action K-Drama, just debuted on the U.S. Asian content streamer; also released are new anime series ‘Mom, I'm Sorry’ and ‘Rakshasa Street’ Seasons 1-3 from BILIBILI.
