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Nick Soars to Comedic Heights with ‘Sanjay and Craig’
Sanjay and Craig, Nickelodeon’s eccentric and hilarious new animated series, is exactly the kind of show we love to see on the kids cabler. Forget about all those heart-warming tales of friendship between kids and their pet cats, dogs and ponies. This month, Nickelodeon is going to break the mold [...]
Nick Releases ‘Sanjay and Craig’ Featurette on iTunes
Nickelodeon has released a nine-minute featurette about its new animated series Sanjay and Craig available exclusively on iTunes free of charge. Titled The Adventures of Sanjay and Craig, the bonus featurette provides a behind-the-scenes look at the series ahead of its on-air premiere, set for May 25. The full 20-episode [...]
Focus, LAIKA Reunite for ‘Boxtrolls’ in 2014
Focus Features and Oregon-based animation house LAIKA, the companies behind the Oscar-nomninated stop-motion film ParaNorman, have announced their third collaborative project is set to begin with the kick off of production on The Boxtrolls. The new movie will be released nationwide by Focus on October 17, 2014, Focus CEO James [...]
Amazon Studios Greenlights Six Original Pilots
Amazon Studios has announced that it plans to produce pilots for six original comedy series. The series come from a diverse set of writers including newcomers to Hollywood and industry veterans with notable credits and awards. This marks the studios’ first pilot production since expanding into original programming development earlier [...]
Sony Sets New Release Date for ‘Cloudy’ Sequel
Sony has set September 27, 2013 as the release date for its much-anticipated sequel, Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2. This is roughly the same weekend that the studio released its blockbuster hit Hotel Transylvania this year. Directed by Genndy Tartakovksy, the light-hearted spookfest has made over $152.3 million [...]
Tina Fey to guest on ‘The Simpsons’
30 Rock’s creator and star Tina Fey will have her animated moment this spring on The Simpsons. According to ew.com, Fey will voice the role of Ms. Cantwell, an otherwise nice substitute teacher who does not warm to Lisa for some mysterious reason and bullies her. “She gives Lisa a [...]
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 of the Leftovers, set for release in 3D on February 7, 2014. The sequel is directed by Cody Cameron (whose story artist credits include Shrek, Madagascar, [...]
Additions to ‘Wreck-It Ralph’ Cast Are Announced
Disney’s much-anticipated holiday feature Wreck-It Ralph has added several new cast members to its roster of voice talent. The pic, which stars John C. Reilly has an 8-bit video game villain trying to prove to be a hero in other arcade games, also stars comedian Sarah Silverman as Vanellope von [...]
Sony Animation Eyes ‘Kazorn & the Unicorn’ Movie
Gnomeo and Juliet and Shrek 2 director Kelly Asbury is going to have a very busy year. Not only is he writing Sony’s upcoming Pooch Café project, he is also in talks to direct Kazorn & The Unicorn, says Deadline.com. Produced by Sam Raimi, Josh Donen and Russell Hollander, Kazorn [...]
NBC Animated Three ’30 Rock’ Online Shorts
NBC’s comedy series 30 Rock airs its 100th episode tonight, and to celebrate the networks is releasing a trio of animated shorts. The first short is up on NBC.com (and debuted on EW.com), and features the animated adventures of Jack Donaghy, Executive Superhero. The short features Alec Baldwin as Donaghy [...]
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U.K.-based digital social world BinWeevils, for kids 6-12, has appointed media...
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