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‘Futurama’ Makes Final Voyage, Again
This summer’s all-new season on Comedy Central will mark the (second) final chapter of Matt Groening’s sci-fi animated comedy, Futurama. The 13-episode run, which will bring the series total to 140 episodes, will premiere on the channel with back-to-back episodes Wednesday, June 19 at 10 p.m. ET/PT, with the series [...]
Maggie Simpson Short Crawls Back to Theaters
Maggie is back! Fox has brought back the Oscar-nominated short Maggie Simpson in “The Longest Daycare”, to select theaters this month to increase awareness of the project, directed by David Silverman and written by Matt Groening, James L. Brooks, Al Jean, David Mirkin, Joel H. Cohen and Michael Price. Maggie Simpson [...]
First Look: ‘Futurama’ Returns This Summer
Comedy Central has unveiled a sweet mash-up video of clips from the second half of Futurama season 7, set to begin airing this summer. All of Matt Groening’s beloved Planet Express crew will return for even more space-faring hijinks, battles with crazy monsters and questionable science experiments. Check it out!
Animated People: Matt Groening & David Silverman
The Simpsons creator and long-time director/producer discuss crafting the property’s first theatrical short. Last summer, family audiences settling down in theaters to enjoy Fox/Blue Sky’s 3-D CG blockbuster Ice Age: Continental Drift got an extra treat to enjoy with their $12 popcorn: the first-ever Simpsons theatrical short, The Longest Daycare, [...]
Hey, Arnold… Where Have You Been?
Not every successful animated series goes on to become an enduring classic. To put it another way, anyone remember when Rugrats was the hottest thing on TV and one of the hottest licensing properties around? Later this month Shout! Factory will release its third season-based DVD set of Hey, Arnold!, [...]
Matt Groening to Receive WGA’s Writing Award
Matt Groening, animation icon and the creator of The Simpsons and co-creator of Futurama (with David X. Cohen), will receive the Writers Guild of America, West Animation Writers Caucus’ (AWC) 15th Annual Animation Writing Award on Wednesday (Nov. 28). The animation icon is behind honred for his outstanding contributions to [...]
Disney’s ‘Wreck-It Ralph’ Set to Win B.O. Game
Inspired by many of our favorite videogames, Disney’s Wreck-It Ralph delivers a funny, original and heartwarming tale about an 8-bit bad guy in search of a new life. Nobody could have predicted that one of Disney Animation’s best features of the past few years would unfold in the world of [...]
Comickers Pay Tribute to Groening’s ‘Life in Hell’
In case you haven’t been keeping tabs on your local alternative weekly rag, Simpsons creator Matt Groening pulled the plug on his long-running homage to angst Life in Hell this summer. To pay tribute to this seminal indie strip, 22 of Groening’s cartoonist cohorts and admirers banded together to create [...]
Groening Launches ‘Futurama’ Head-in-a-Jar App
Just in time for Comic-Con, the new, free Futurama Head-In-A-Jar Creator app will open a new world of cool digital possibilities to iPhone, iPod Touch and Android fans all over the world. Today (Wednesday, July 11) at 10:30 p.m., during a live post-show streamed on cc.com, series creator Matt Groening [...]
Can’t Miss ‘Futurama’ Live Chat Wednesday!
For the first time ever, the creators and cast members of Comedy Central’s hit sci-fi/comedy toon Futurama will participate in a live-stream chat to discuss all the behind-the-scenes mayhem on this subversive series. The half-hour discussion, dubbed Futurama Live!, will feature creator/exec producer Matt Groening, exec producer David X. Cohen [...]
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