Tag: Michelle Raimo-Kouyate
‘Spider-Verse’ Studio SPA Plans NBA Collab Movie ‘Goat’ for 2026
Sony Pictures Animation, the studio behind the Oscar-winning Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse and the smash-hit Hotel Transylvania film series, has announced an animated feature collaboration with...
Sony Studios Team with Kevin Love Fund to Launch ‘The Spider Within’ Animated Short & Mental Health Initiative
Sony Pictures Animation (SPA) and Sony Pictures Imageworks (SPI) have partnered with the Kevin Love Fund (KLF) to digitally release the animated short film,...
Dynamic New ‘Spider-Man’ Short Premieres at Annecy
After Disney’s World Premiere of centenary short Once Upon a Studio during the opening night ceremony, Annecy hosted on Monday the World Premiere of...
Sony Pictures Animation & Imageworks Launch Empowering Shorts Program
Sony Pictures Animation and Sony Pictures Imageworks have partnered to develop a new leadership training program intended to provide high-potential candidates from underrepresented groups...
Capacitor Studios Launches with Full TV & Film Slate
Former Covert Media CEO, Annapurna Productions COO and QED co-founder Paul Hanson has partnered with Elan Freedman of Surge Licensing, development executive Ian McGloin...
‘The Emoji Movie’: A New Dimension
This story originally appeared in the August-September issue of Animation Magazine. Columbia Pictures releases The Emoji Movie in theaters Friday, July 28.
Emojis are smiling,...
Sony Pictures Animation Reveals Slate through 2018
Sony Pictures Animation is forging ahead with its plans to increase its release output while creating a distinctive mix of titles, evidenced by the...
Sony Teases ‘Emoji Movie’ with Steven Wright as “Meh”
Sony Picture Animation has launched a first mobile teaser trailer for its upcoming 21st century comedy The Emoji Movie, featuring new voice talent Steven...
Sony Wins Bid War Over Emoji Project
Sony Pictures Animation has triumphed in a three-studio auction for an animated feature pitch inspired by those lovable 21st century pictographs: the Emoji. SPA...
Raimo Kouyate Leaving as Sony Animation Exec
Sony Pictures Animation production president Michelle Raimo Kouyate is stepping down from her post to take on a first-look producing deal for both live-action...
Sony Preps Animated Nativity Flick ‘The Lamb’
Sony Pictures Animation is hopping on to the recent rising trend of faith-based flicks by developing The Lamb -- an animated take on Christianity's...
Sony Confirms Stop-Mo/Live Action Hybrid Flick ‘Superbago’
Sony Pictures Animation has confirmed plans for a new stop-motion/live-action hybrid feature project titled Superbago. Superbago will be directed by Robot Chicken's John Harvatine...
SPA Buys ‘Medusa’; Lauren Faust to Director
Sony Pictures Animation has acquired an original animated comedy feature pitch by Todd Alcott and Holly Golden, titled Medusa, which will tell an all-new...
Animation Summit to Spotlight ‘Rise of the Guardians’
DreamWorks Animation’s eagerly anticipated feature Rise of the Guardians has been generating huge buzz and emerged as one of the major frontrunners of this year’s...
The World Animation Feature Films & VFX Summit
Toons’ Top Talent and Producers to Converge and Converse on the Future of international Co-production at the World Animation Feature Films & VFX Summit
Set...
Sony Launches 10th Anniversary Screening Series
The 10th anniversary celebration of Sony Pictures Animation (SPA) continues with a five-week series of special screenings featuring SPA’s collection of animated and hybrid...
Sony Announces Full Cast for ‘Cloudy 2'
Sony Pictures Animation has reassembled the all-star, comedy voice cast of the animated hit Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs for Cloudy 2: Revenge...
Tartakovsky Signs Overall Deal with Sony Animation
Acclaimed animation veteran Genndy Tartakovsky has inked an overall deal with Sony Pictures Animation. The overall agreement goes beyond his current role as director...
Tartakovsky to Direct Sony’s 3D ‘Popeye’ Movie
Hotel Transylvania director Genndy Tartakovsky won’t be slowing down any time soon. The much-respected animation veteran (Dexter’s Laboratory, Samurai Jack, Clone Wars) will be...
Sony Tackles Hasbro’s ‘Tonka’
Now that the Battleship hype-fest has wound down, a new addition to the unfolding onslaught of Hasbro toy and game properties coming to the...
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