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Maddie Brewer’s ‘BurgerWorld’ Makes World Premiere at Sundance
An extradimensional dietary showdown is heading to Park City this weekend, as the new animated short BurgerWorld makes its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival...
Award-Winning VR Nuclear Threat Doc ‘On the Morning You Wake’ Sets MoMI Exhibition
New York City's Museum of the Moving Image has announced a new exhibition offering a contemporary view of nuclear weaponry, On the Morning You...
The Cat’s Meow: ‘The Amazing Maurice’ Filmmakers Discuss Their Pratchett Passion Project
***This article originally appeared in the February '23 issue of Animation Magazine (No. 327)***
When you set out to adapt an animated feature based on...
New ‘Amazing Maurice’ Trailer Pounces Ahead of Sundance Debut
Terry Pratchett fans of all ages are preparing to enter an animated Discworld adventure when The Amazing Maurice makes its U.S. premiere! Selected to screen at the...
‘The Amazing Maurice’ Makes Its Way to Sundance
The Amazing Maurice, based on the Carnegie award-winning novel by Terry Pratchett, has earned the rare animated feature distinction as a selection for the...
Trailer: ‘We Met in Virtual Reality’ All-VR Doc Logs On to HBO
HBO Documentary Films’ We Met in Virtual Reality, from director Joe Hunting, debuts Wednesday, July 27 (9-10:35 p.m. ET/PT) on HBO and will be...
Global Event Updates: Toei Celebrates ‘One Piece Film Red’ with Steve Aoki at AX — and Much More!
The legendary Toei Animation studio, in collaboration with the Society for the Promotion of Japanese Animation (SPJA) announced an exclusive Anime Expo (anime-expo.org) performance...
Joe Hsieh’s ‘Night Bus’ Makes a Stop at New Yorker Screening Room
The New Yorker has acquired award-winning animated short film Night Bus, and will release it in April as part of the award-winning “Screening Room”...
Award Season Frontrunner ‘Flee’ Launches on The Animation Showcase
Sundance- and Annecy Cristal-winning animated documentary Flee is now accessible to watch worldwide on The Animation Showcase, the industry-only streaming platform, along with most of...
Heavy Metal Teams with Dan Fogler & Daniel Powell on ‘Moon Lake’ Toon
Heavy Metal Entertainment's studio division, Heavy Metal Studios, is teaming up with award-winning actor-writer Dan Fogler to produce an animated TV adaptation of his...
Wyatt Cenac Inks Overall Cross-Studio Deal with Warner Bros. Animation & Cartoon Network Studios
Warner Bros. Animation (WBA) and Cartoon Network Studios (CNS) have set an exclusive, multiyear cross-studio overall deal with Emmy Award-winning producer, writer and performer...
Daniel Powell, Aaron Augenblick form Kids Animation Outfit Future Brain Media
A new kids animation producer is entering the field, with the announcement that Ugly Americans collaborators Daniel Powell and Aaron Augenblick are joining forces...
Whoopi Goldberg Tapped for Lead Role in Apple/Skydance’s ‘Luck’
Legendary performer and EGOT Winner Whoopi Goldberg is set to voice a lead role in the broadly anticipated Apple Original Film/Skydance Animation feature Luck....
Neon Picks Up NorAm Rights to Refugee Story ‘Flee’
The Sundance Film Festival world premiere of Jonas Poher Rasmussen's Flee has proved profitable, with distributor Neon picking up North American rights in a...
Dash Shaw Teases Fantastical Creature Feature ‘Cryptozoo’
Timed to its premiere at the Sundance Film Festival, a first-look clip of new indie animated feature Cryptozoo has debuted, introducing a curious place...
Baobab Teases Erick Oh’s ‘Namoo’ to Celebrate Sundance Premiere
Baobab Studios (Invasion!, Crow: The Legend, Baba Yaga) has unveiled the official teaser trailer for Namoo -- a new immersive animated film from award-winning...
Reliving the Immigrant Experience: Randall Okita’s NFB VR Project ‘The Book of Distance’ Available Free Oct. 8
***This article originally appeared in the November '20 issue of Animation Magazine (No. 304)***
Randall Okita’s powerful The Book of Distance is one of the...
Snapchat Debuts Original Horror-Comedy Toon ‘Death Hacks’ from Augenblick
This week, popular social app Snapchat is premiering a new animated series from indie Brooklyn outfit Augenblick Studios: Death Hacks. The 2D horror comedy...
Major Fests Partner with YouTube for We Are One: A Global Film Festival
Tribeca Enterprises and YouTube jointly announced today We Are One: A Global Film Festival, an unprecedented 10-day digital film festival exclusively on YouTube, bringing...
Tomek Popakul’s ‘Acid Rain’ Launches as Vimeo Staff Pick
Director Tomek Popakul’s Acid Rain – one of this year’s most award-winning animated short films -- premiered on Vimeo as a Staff Pick on...
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