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Ottawa Int’l Animation Fest 2018 Winners: ‘Solar Walk’ Wins Grand Prize
The Ottawa International Animation Festival (OIAF), North America’s leading animation film festival announced the winners of its 2018 competition today at an awards ceremony...
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’Portlandia’s Jonathan Krisel to Direct ‘Sesame Street’ Movie at Warner Bros.
Deadline confirms the news that the three-time Emmy nominee will be helming the new...
The Force Is Alive (and Animated) in ‘Star Wars Resistance’
***This story originally appeared in the November ‘18 issue of Animation Magazine (#284)***
This year, Christmas comes early for Star Wars fans as the fantastic-looking...
Brazilian Pop Star Anitta Takes to the World Animation Stage with Globo
Award-winning Brazilian pop music artist and actress Anitta (one of the hosts of Mexico’s The Voice) is trying on a new look in her...
Watch: Del The Funky Homosapien Guests on ‘Craig of the Creek’ Oct. 1
Hip hop icon Del The Funky Homosapien arrives from the future to kick it old school in an all-new episode of Cartoon Network’s Craig...
TAC Panel Goes Behind the Scenes of Nick’s ‘Loud House’
Some of the key creative forces behind Nickelodeon’s popular animated series The Loud House offered insights into the making of the show at a...
Jeron Braxton, Bronwyn Maloney Receive 1st GLAS Animation Grants
The worthy recipients of the first annual GLAS Animation Grant have been announced, with Jeron Braxton and Bronwyn Maloney each to receive $2,500 to...
Watch: New NorAm Trailer for Hosoda’s ‘Mirai’
Mirai, the latest heartstring-tugging and charmingly bizarre film from acclaimed director Mamoru Hosoda (Summer Wars, The Girl Who Leapt Through Time) and Studio Chizu,...
Marge Dean Discusses Ellation’s Pipeline at TAC Panel
One of the highlights of this week’s The Animation Conference (TAC) held in conjunction with the Ottawa Intl. Animation Festival, was an informative panel...
LAIKA Hires Michael Waghalter to Head Biz Dev Ahead of Brand-Building Boost
Oregon-based stop-motion specialist LAIKA has brought on Michael Waghalter as it prepares to ramp up its brand-building efforts across museum exhibitions, pop culture cons...
Ameba TV Inks Content Deal with Distributor FilmRise
Canada-based kids’ on-demand platform Ameba has secured a new content partnership deal with New York-based film and TV distribution company FilmRise, to bring a...
Watch: New ‘MFKZ’ English Cast Trailer from GKIDS
Prepare for a hallucinatory, hyper-violent and utterly wild ride when GKIDS brings French-Japanese graphic novel adaptation MFKZ to select theaters starting October 12. In...
Visual Effects Society Announces 2018 Fellows
The Visual Effects Society (VES), the industry’s global professional honorary society, has announced the 2018 class of VES Fellows. The distinction, bestowed by the...
PBS KIDS Gets Spooky with Halloween Specials
This October, kids and families can catch the premiere of the all-new, one-hour movie Wild Kratts: Creepy Creatures on October 22, as well as...
Nick’s Halloween Tricks & Treats Kick Off Monday
All October long, viewers can tune in to Nickelodeon for a spooktacular assortment of Halloween themed premieres from the network’s popular animation, preschool and...
YouTube Star Denis Kopotun Gets Animated with Headspinner
Headspinner Productions and showrunner/producer Diana Moore have struck a development deal to make an animated kids’ series with popular YouTuber Denis Kopotun (formerly known...
Hulu Greenlights ‘Crossing Swords’ from Stoopid Buddy
Hulu has OKed a 10-episode order for a new, star-studded animated comedy titled Crossing Swords, from Emmy-winning Robot Chicken exec producers John Harvatine IV...
GKIDS Acquires Miyazaki Doc ‘Never-Ending Man’
GKIDS has picked up North American distribution rights for the documentary feature that goes behind the doors of the famed Ghibli studio and peers...
Watch: Extended Sneak Peek at ‘Star Wars Resistance’
Star Wars fans better buckle up and prepare for the high-speed, high-stakes and humor-filled new series Star Wars Resistance, if the newly release extended...
Federation/Cottonwood’s ‘Squish’ on the Move
Kids’ content distributor Federation Kids & Family and its production studio Cottonwood Media have scored more pre-sales for their animated comedy on a microscopic...
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