Emily the Weird is getting the feature film treatment from Warner Bros. Pictures Animation. The studio announced Wednesday that it is teaming with producer Bad Robot to adapt the illustrated character created 30 years ago by artist Rob Reger and the Cosmic Debris team. The multimillion-dollar universe of Emily the Weird and her four cats … Read more
Netflix is planning a new adventure series for its version of Lara Croft. The streamer has renewed its animated series Tomb Raider: The Legend of Lara Croft for a second season. The recovery was relatively quick, coming just two weeks after the eight-episode first season premiered. Based on the long term tomb Raider video game … Read more
Barbie the giant Mattel is collaborating with the award-winning animation studio Aardman (Chicken race, Shaun the sheep, Wallace and Gromit) to co-develop a new animated stop-motion Pingu television series. The series is inspired by Mattel's beloved cheeky penguin who lives at the South Pole and has remained on our screens for decades, famous for his … Read more
That Christmas begins with a familiar dilemma: it's Christmas Eve and Santa Claus faces treacherous weather while delivering his long-awaited gifts. We meet the benevolent legend, voiced here by Brian Cox, as he rides through a nasty winter storm with high winds and poor visibility. A terrible illness left him with only one reindeer (Guz … Read more
The European Film Academy on Wednesday revealed the 5 nominees for Best Animated Feature Film for this year's European Film Awards. 2024 animation nominees include Gints Zilbalodis Flowa dialogue-free eco-fable about a cat who teams up with other animals to try to survive a catastrophic flood; Living largea coming-of-age story by Kristina Dufková about a … Read more
The cards are back on the table. Netflix is trying another attempt with an animated series based on Magic: The Gatheringthe wildly popular role-playing game. The streamer began producing a series based on the game in 2019, with Joe and Anthony Russo serving as showrunners. The Russo brothers later left the series due to creative … Read more
There's certainly nothing more basic a critic could do than describe a show with “base” in its name as a base. But it's hard to find a more fitting word to describe Fox. Universal Basic Guysa cartoon that, at least initially, seems to be rooted in all the most overused clichés of 90s sitcoms. The … Read more
The 51st Telluride Film Festival officially kicked off Friday afternoon with the world premiere of Piece by piecean animated documentary about the innovative singer, songwriter and record producer Patrick Williamsas a Patron Preview screening at the Werner Herzog Theatre. And the consensus of those present was that the film is a truly original, unconventional, fun … Read more
The continuing, now animated, story of Chris Rock’s life will return to TV in September. Comedy Central has set the air date for September 25th Everyone still hates Chrisan animated series based on the UPN/CW sitcom Everybody hates ChrisThe cable network also released a preview of the animated Rock family (found at the top of … Read more