EXCLUSIVE: Mark Wahlberg and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows actor Jason Isaacs are tooning up for Warner Bros’ animated Scooby-Doo movie Scoob from director Tony Cervone. Wahlberg will play the Blue Falcon, a superhero from the Hanna-Barbera canon who teamed with Scooby-Doo and the Mystery Gang to fight against…

EXCLUSIVE: After hatching a promotional niche with The Angry Birds Movie on the eve of the Cannes Film Festival in 2016, Sony will be back on the Croisette next week to launch the global campaign for its sequel, The Angry Birds Movie 2. Taking place on Monday, this year’s stunt is the latest in a savvy move Sony began…

Look! Up in the sky! It’s Birdgirl, Adult Swim’s new toon series starring Paget Brewster that’s a spinoff from its Harvey Birdman franchise. The WarnerMedia network today announced the half-hour comedy created and executive produced by ME Productions. Here’s how its nest is feathered: After being named CEO of the…

Gkids has acquired North American distribution rights to Another Day of Life, the adult-targeted animated feature that played at last year’s Cannes Film Festival and won the European Film Award for Best Animated Film. A 2019 U.S. theatrical release is planned. Based on author and journalist Ryszard Kapuściński's book…

EXCLUSIVE: T.O.T.S. doesn’t premiere until next month, but Disney Junior today ordered a second season of the children’s toon and added Vanessa Williams and Megan Hilty to the voice cast. Aimed at ages 2-7, the comedy follows the adventures of best friends Pip and Freddy, a tenacious penguin and a kind-hearted…

It’s the last TV party on Earth and it’s pretty twisted. Welcome to Hell Den, the new, animated post-apocalyptic comedy series from Shout! Studios that debuts this Friday on the DrinkTV streaming platform. The show’s first trailer, exclusive to Deadline, is below but it contains coarse humor and is intended for…

Netflix’s new animated series Tuca & Bertie follows two gal pals and their experiences as women in the world. More specifically, a bird world. Created by Lisa Hanawalt (BoJack Horseman), the series follows the friendship between two 30-year-old bird women who live in the same apartment building. Tiffany Haddish lends…

Nickelodeon has given a green light to an animated Star Trek series from Emmy-winning writers Kevin and Dan Hageman (Trollhunters, Ninjago), CBS TV Studios and Alex Kurtzman’s studio-based Secret Hideout. Penned by the Hageman brothers, the original CG-animated series is targeted at younger audiences. It follows a…

Netflix has ordered Inside Job, an adult animated comedy series from Shion Takeuchi (Gravity Falls), the first project under her overall deal with the internet television network. Inside Job is a workplace comedy set in the shadow government, where every conspiracy theory — from the Illuminati to Reptoids — is true…

Netflix has picked up an original African animated series. Mama K’s Team 4 is a superhero show from Cape Town-based Triggerfish Animation Studios and London’s CAKE. The series was created by Zambian writer Malenga Mulendema and designed by Cameroonian artist Malcolm Wope. In Mama K’s Team 4,  four teen girls live in…

Can two birds share the same apartment building without driving each other crazy? We’ll soon find out, as Tuca & Bertie, the tale of two 30-year-old bird women, bows at the Tribeca Film Festival and via Netflix. Tuca & Bertie is an animated comedy series about the friendship between Tuca (Tiffany Haddish), a cocky…

EXCLUSIVE: 20th Century Fox TV is developing Gerald’s World, an animated comedy from DJ, producer and actor Dillon Francis and writer Spencer Porter (Family Guy, We Bare Bears), with McG’s Wonderland Sound and Vision attached to produced. Co-created by Francis and Porter, Gerald’s World is based on fan favorite…