Mickey Mouse is an cartoon character co-created in 1928 by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks.
Today on National Panda Day, Jack Black has announced on his Tik Tok that he will reprise his role as the ‘Kung Fu Panda’, Po, in the animated series Kung Fu Panda: The Dragon Knight. When a mysterious pair of weasels set their sights on a collection of four powerful weapons, Po must leave his […]
For the first time in more than a decade, DreamWorks Animation presents a new adventure in the Shrek universe as daring outlaw Puss in Boots discovers that his passion for peril and disregard for safety have taken their toll. Puss has burned through eight of his nine lives, though he lost count along the way. […]
From the delightfully wicked minds of Henry Selick and Jordan Peele, comes WENDELL & WILD, an animated tale about scheming demon brothers Wendell (Keegan-Michael Key) and Wild (Peele) – who enlist the aid of 13-year-old Kat Elliot – a tough teen with a load of guilt – to summon them to the Land of the […]
Sony Pictures Animation was a big winner Saturday evening during the 49th Virtual Annie Awards. The Mitchells vs The Machines received eight Annies including Best Feature, Best FX (Christopher Logan, Man-Louk Chin, Devdatta Nerurkar, Pav Grochola, Filippo Maccari), Character Design (Lindsey Olivares), Direction (Mike Rianda, Jeff Rowe), Production Design (Lindsey Olivares, Toby Wilson, Dave Bleich), […]
I interviewed the talented Jack Thomas in 2019 for Dragons: Rescue Riders. Now he’s back as executive producer and showrunner of another fun DreamWorks series for families. Team Zenko Go, about a group of kids doing good deeds for others, premieres this Tuesday March 15th on Netflix. Jackson Murphy: How did the core theme speak […]
For Smiling Friends co-creators Zach Hadel, 31, and Michael Cusack, 34, the animated sitcoms they watched growing up in the 1990s played a significant role in shaping their sense of humor and their animation sensibilities. “I grew up with ‘Beavis and Butt-Head,’ ‘South Park,’ ‘The Simpsons,’ – they’re pretty much ingrained in my DNA,” Cusack […]
One of the most anticipated animated features of 2022 is Richard Linklater’s Apollo 10 1/2: A Space Age Childhood – and today Netflix dropped the trailer. The film tells the story of the first moon landing in the summer of 1969 from two interwoven perspectives – the astronaut and mission control view of the triumphant […]
Academy Award winning director Domee Shi (short “Bao”) and producer Lindsey Collins team-up for Pixar’s new feature Turning Red. It debuts this Friday March 11th on Disney+ and in **three** select U.S. theaters. Shi and Collins discuss this, as well as specific scenes and core themes in this Animation Scoop Q&A. Jackson Murphy: Domee, congratulations […]
For a full two decades, there were no new visual media installments in the Blade Runner franchise. Following the well-received 1997 point-and-click computer game for Microsoft Windows, there were only some novels and comic books set in the universe established by the seminal 1982 film, but nothing new for the screen until 2017 – which […]
Live-action superhero series The Boys has been a massive success for Amazon since its Summer 2019 debut. Now there’s a new eight-episode spinoff show premiering this Friday March 4th on Prime Video. The Boys Presents: Diabolical consists of eight distinct 12-15 minute stories involving characters in and around The Boys universe. Each episode showcases a […]
