Mickey Mouse is an cartoon character co-created in 1928 by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks.
MTV Entertainment Studios announced today a new and expansive deal with co-creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone which includes extending South Park on Comedy Central through 2027 and taking cable’s longest-running scripted series – 2022 marks the franchise’s 25th – through an unprecedented 30th season.
Animated superhero show staple Harrison Wilcox (Ultimate Spider-Man, Avengers Assemble) is now the executive producer of Marvel’s Spidey and his Amazing Friends. Its one-hour premiere is this Friday August 6th at 9am on Disney Junior. Wilcox takes me inside the complex but fun production web of his first CG series. Jackson Murphy: Early on in […]
Disney+ and Walt Disney Animation Studios present two new Original Series this month: Season 2 of “Short Circuit Experimental Films” launches on August 4, 2021, and the all-new, hand-drawn “Disney Presents Goofy in How to Stay at Home” trio of shorts on August 11, 2021.
Kirk DeMicco received an Oscar nomination in 2014 with his co-director Chris Sanders for DreamWorks The Croods. Now DeMicco is the director of Sony Pictures Animation’s first-ever musical Vivo, which debuts this Friday August 6th on Netflix. DeMicco discusses working with songwriter and lead voice actor Lin-Manuel Miranda and the power of music in animation. […]
Before there was the term “fandom,” there was The Great Piggy Bank Robbery. In this classic Warner Bros cartoon short, which celebrates its 75th anniversary this month, none other than Daffy Duck proves to be a comic book “fanboy’ (or is it “fanduck?”). As The Great Piggy Bank Robbery opens, Daffy is on the farm […]
WarnerMedia Kids & Family revealed a first look at Cartoonito’s upcoming preschool block launching this fall on HBO Max and Cartoon Network. The newly released trailer features an original mnemonic, “Oh! Oh! Oh! Cartoonito!” created for the block and gives a sneak peek at the burgeoning Cartoonito slate that includes preschool staples Sesame Street and […]
GKIDS’ latest feature from celebrated director Masaaki Yuasa (Mind Game, Ride Your Wave) Inu-Oh, is an Official Selection of the 2021 Venice Film Festival and Toronto International Film Festival. The film will make its world debut at the Venice Film Festival in the Horizons section, followed by its North American premiere in the Toronto International […]
Academy Award winner Sam Rockwell (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri), Awkwafina (The Farewell and Marvel’s Shang-Chi), Marc Maron (Glow), Craig Robinson (Hot Tub Time Machine), Anthony Ramos (In the Heights), Richard Ayoade (Paddington 2), Zazie Beetz (Joker), Lilly Singh (Bad Moms) and Emmy Award winner Alex Borstein (The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel) have rounded out the […]
We are gearing up for the second batch of episodes for Wonderful World of Mickey Mouse on D+ (debuting today) – and here’s an exclusive clip! In “Once Upon An Apple”, Mickey’s quest to make everyone smile hits a snag when he meets a Wicked Witch bent on delivering poison apples to the fairest one […]
For a film that is so pure, quiet, and earnest, The Fox and the Hound arrived at Disney during one of the studio’s most tumultuous times. In what has become a well-documented and pivotal moment in animation history, during production on The Fox and the Hound in September of 1979, Don Bluth led a walkout […]
