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"It's really happening. I promise. For real." Those are the first words from Roy Graham, Head of Story at Magic: The Gathering, in a video posted yesterday announcing Planeswalker, the animated series heading to Netflix in 2027. An animated Magic: The Gathering series was first teased back in 2019 with Joe and Anthony Russo at […]

More than 46 years after his big-screen debut in the slasher classic “Friday the 13th,” hulking horror icon Jason Voorhees is about to prove that his machete cuts just as deep in animation. The hockey-masked killer returns in “Never Hike Alone: Ghosts in the Fog,” a new 10-minute animated film from independent production company Womp […]

Netflix has released a first-look photo (see above) and premiere year for now-titled Planeswalker, its long-in-the-works animated series based on Wizards of the Coast’s Magic: The Gathering. It’s set to launch in 2027. Created in partnership with Hasbro Entertainment and Wizards of the Coast, Planeswalker is billed as a fresh adaptation of the massively popu

Netflix has unveiled the first-look image from its upcoming animated series based on “Magic the Gathering.” The series, titled “Planeswalker,” is set to debut in 2027, with an exact release date to be announced later. The official description of the series states: “‘Planeswalker,’ an epic fantasy saga from the world of ‘Magic: The Gathering,’ chronicles […]

Kai Cech, who starred opposite Jack Black in “Dear Santa,” has been cast as the lead voice in “Lost in Mandala,” the first animated feature film from Incessant Rain Studios, which is in pre-production. Cech will voice Shanti, a lonely 12-year-old who grew up in an isolated monastery in the Himalayas. Shanti and her friends […]

Pixar has let the cat out of the bag with a new trailer for its the upcoming original animated feature “Gatto,” about the scrappy black feline Nero who lives in Venice, Italy. “Avengers” star Mark Ruffalo voices Nero, who is indebted to local feline mob boss Rocco, voiced by “Matrix” star Laurence Fishburne. The story […]

Gkids has acquired all U.S. rights to “Julian, the new feature directed by Louise Bagnall and executive produced by Zoe Saldaña. The animated feature is produced by Cartoon Saloon, Melusine Studios, Aircraft Pictures and Sun Creature. Gkids will release “Julián” in theaters in the United States beginning March 26, 2027. The film will be released […]

EXCLUSIVE: Eddie Murphy is set to voice animated family fantasy M’Tali: The Everlasting Spring alongside South African actress Ama Qamata (Blood & Water). The original story, which is being written by Eddie Murphy’s daughter Bria Murphy and Michael Xavier, “follows Princess Selani of the African kingdom of M’tali who longs for adventure but quietly dreads […

Jordan Firstman, Matteo Lane, Nicole Byer and John Cameron Mitchell lead the English voice cast of the adult animated comedy about a mysterious virus turning gay men straight.

EXCLUSIVE: Magnolia Pictures has taken U.S. rights to the Cannes Midnight animated comedy Jim Queen from filmmakers Marco Nguyen and Nicolas Athané and featuring a voice cast led by Club Kid‘s star and director Jordan Firstman. A summer theatrical release for the English-language version is planned. Also starring are Matteo Lane (Chicago on Broadway), Nicole

An animated film takes time to make. An animated film based on a funny-but-deeply-moving graphic memoir about a family’s experience with early-onset Alzheimer’s disease can take a bit longer. Lauren Miller Rogen, wife of Seth Rogen and one of the producers of the film Tangles, told the crowd at Monday night’s special screening of the […]

The deal includes three books from 'Dear Dumb Diary' author Jim Benton, a three-book series expanding digital creators Rock Squad's Bloodsuckers universe and YA graphic novel 'Dead F'ing Cheerleaders From Calabasas' from comedians Kylie Brakeman and Patrick McDonald.

Composers Haim Mazar and Grace Fisher are set to score Disney’s upcoming animated short, “Lilo & Scratch.” The new short will play ahead of Walt Disney Animation Studios’ “Hexed.” It follows Stitch, who may havefinally met his match in Scratch, a mischievous and mysterious cat who Lilo introduces as thenewest member of their ‘ohana. While […]

Netflix and Skydance’s animated film Swapped is set in a world like our own but different. A bird and a forest creature swap places, and the voices of Michael B. Jordan, Juno Temple, Tracy Morgan and more bring an alternate world to life. At Deadline’s Sound & Screen Film, composer Siddhardtha Khosla explained how he […]

Maggie Kang and Chris Appelhans join Stephen P. Neary's documentary about a poet’s 50-year marriage to an art curator grappling with Parkinson’s, which is narrated by James Cromwell.

An alien cat sent to seize Earth’s catnip supply gets sidetracked by a cozy couch and a steady diet of canned tuna in “Operation Maomao,” an animated sci-fi comedy series from Shaogao creator Jonathan Yu that is at the Taiwan Creative Content Fest (TCCF) in Taipei. The planned 26-episode series, with seven-minute installments, follows Agent […]

Break out the nunchucks because Keanu Reeves has officially closed a deal to return as John Wick in Lionsgate’s animated prequel movie about the legendary hitman. As previously announced, the story recounts the origins of Wick as he completes the Impossible Task — the killing of all of his rivals in one night — to […]

Lionsgate said Thursday that it has greenlit its anticipated John Wick animated film, with Keanu Reeves inking a deal to reprise his signature role as the iconic assassin in the billion-dollar franchise. The feature will be produced by the John Wick producing team of Thunder Road’s Basil Iwanyk and Erica Lee, 87Eleven Entertainment’s Chad Stahelski, […]

ChatGPT can now create GIFs using a prompt or a photo uploaded to the AI chatbot. The update, which is rolling out alongside OpenAI's new Images 2.6 model, allows you to adjust the GIF's animation speed, edit individual frames, and share it with others. Before this change, ChatGPT couldn't natively generate GIFs in a single […]

Bill Nighy (“Living,” “Love Actually”), Hayley Atwell (“Mission: Impossible,” “Captain America”) and Maisie Williams (“Game of Thrones”) have joined the English-language voice cast of “The Last Dino,” the upcoming CG-animated family feature directed by Federico Milella. The film will make its market premiere at the American Film Market next week, ahead of it

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I was among the many little kids whose first introduction to literature was the Dr. Seuss classic The Cat In The Hat. The book was first introduced in 1957, and it is hard to believe it has been nearly 70 years since the chaotic but cool cat came into our lives, but it is even […]

The new "Cat in the Hat," it goes without saying at this point, makes no attempt to be a faithful adaptation of Dr. Seuss’s most fabled books. That would simply be too quaint for our buzzy, mercurial, attention-crashing, video-games-on-Ritalin era. Yet even as the movie departs all too eagerly from the innocent wildness of the Seuss books, it devotes itself,

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Viva Pictures is courting exhibitors with a promise to release 26 animated family films next year in an effort to fill in the gaps between studio releases. Viva Pictures is vowing to offer exhibitors flexible booking terms to run the films on weekdays during morning and afternoon time slots, leaving the more lucrative evening and […]

Chinese artist and filmmaker Sun Xun never expected “Magic Atlas” to become the first animated feature selected for the Tokyo International Film Festival’s competition. “I never thought of ‘Magic Atlas’ as an animated film. To me, it brings together many art forms. Animation is simply the label we use for its form. I’m glad people […]

Nintendo, and especially developer emeritus Shigeru Miyamoto, have been keen to make Pikmin a franchise on par with its other top-tier names like Mario and Zelda. To that end, it has declared November 1 will serve as Pikmin Day, a branding holiday of sorts to serve as a launching point for yearly announcements.  The debut Pikmin Day Direct surprise-aire

Ahead of the book’s 70th anniversary celebration in 2027, Susan Brandt, CEO of Dr. Seuss Enterprises, and creatives behind the new film from Warner Bros. Pictures Animation talk about bringing the author's colorful, hatch marked universe to the animated feature space.

Sales agency The Playmaker Munich has closed distribution deals for the animated movie “The Unicorn That Said No” in several territories, ahead of its market premiere at the American Film Market in Los Angeles. The feature has been sold to Unlimited Media for the Baltic states, WWE Rights for Benelux, KMBO for France, Grand Entertainment […]

EXCLUSIVE: Celine Dion will perform original songs written and composed by Paul McCartney for the upcoming 3D animated feature High in the Clouds, adapted from his children’s novel, with the soundtrack to be released worldwide by Universal Music Group. Dion already has been announced as member of the voice cast topped by Himesh Patel and […]

EXCLUSIVE: Riley Voelkel and Shiva Negar will lend their voices to adult animated comedy series Above Average. The show, which is in late-stage development, comes from creators Andrew Deutsch and Cailin Walker-Bent at Canadian animation collective Red Pants Productions and Josh Harris at JVH Media in the UK. Above Average is billed as an irreverent […]

Following the creative lead of the likes of KPop Demon Hunters and Into the Spider-Verse, Forgotten Island, from DreamWorks Animation, offers energetic and inventive entertainment against a rarely seen cultural backdrop.

Epsilon Film has acquired worldwide rights to “Apple Cadabra – I Shrunk Myself,” an animated family adventure movie based on “Petronella Applesauce,” one of Germany’s most successful children’s book series. Epsilon Film will launch international sales on “Apple Cadabra – I Shrunk Myself” at the American Film Market, which runs Nov. 10-15 in Los Angeles, […]

<p>KARACHI: A court on Saturday remanded over a dozen suspects in the custody of the National Cyber Crime Investigation Agency (NCCIA) in the cases pertaining to alleged online sale and production of animated child sexual abuse and pornographic material and deceptive social media activities. </p> <p>The NCCIA Karachi Zone claimed to have arrested the suspect

Deborah Cook, costumer designer at stop-motion animation studio Laika, discusses creating tiny costumes for puppets in a fantastical world set in the forests of Portland, Oregon

The Gotham Group and Toonstar are partnering to produce up to 12 new original animated series for kids. The partnership aims to create quality animation and family entertainment that will be launched on direct-to-audience platforms. Toonstar is a tech-powered animation studio building entertainment franchises. Founded by Disney, Warner Bros. and DreamWorks v

Sony Pictures Television has sealed a multiyear, first-look deal with content creator Thea Von Engelbrechten, who’s behind the popular “Moletown Drama” social platforms — which boast 2.5 million TikTok followers and 1 million Instagram followers. As part of the deal, Sony has the first-look rights to develop and produce original series from Von Engelbrechten

EXCLUSIVE: An animated feature of Aaron Blabey’s middle-grade book series, Game of Pets, is being let off the leash as Lilo & Stitch producer Rideback and Foundation Media Partners are teaming to bring the IP to the big screen for Amazon MGM Studios. A New York Times bestseller, Game of Pets: The Boy Who Knew […]