Jackson Murphy

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Jackson Murphy is an Emmy-winning film critic, content producer, and author, who has also served as Animation Scoop reporter since 2016. He is the creator of the website Lights-Camera-Jackson.com, and has made numerous appearances on television and radio over the past 20 years.

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DreamWorks

The Tales of Arcadia saga comes to an end this Friday on Netflix with the debut of the 10-episode limited series Wizards. Like Trollhunters and 3Below, this third installment in the series once again comes from Oscar winner Guillermo del Toro. Emmy-winning executive producers and story editors Chad Quandt and Aaron Waltke discuss their time […]

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Netflix

Alexander Bornstein has had a vast career that blends music and entertainment together. His credits include The CW’s Supernatural and film comedies Ride Along, Sausage Party and Pitch Perfect 3. Bornstein is now the composer of the new Netflix special animated series Transformers: War for Cybertron. The first six episodes, SIEGE, debut this Thursday July […]

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Events

The final day of San Diego Comic-Con at Home has brought us two major animation panels. Here are the highlights: On August 21st, Netflix will be debuting the new adult animated sports comedy series Hoops, about a high school basketball coach and his team in Kentucky. Ben Hoffman is the show’s creator. “Hoops was born […]

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Events

These are some of the Saturday animation highlights for SDCC@Home: Appropriately, the first virtual panel of the day was Warner Archive’s “Secret Origins of Saturday Morning Cartoons”. Animation Historian Jerry Beck talked about Saturday Morning’s early days. “First of all, when they made cartoons like Ruff and Reddy in the 1950s, they were actually thinking […]

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Events

San Diego Comic-Con @HOME is in full swing. Here are the highlights of some of the major animation-related virtual panels from Friday: With Warner Bros., Cartoon Network and Adult Swim animation content all under the HBO Max umbrella, the streaming service is assembling quite a lineup. But instead of debuting new clips or making major […]

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