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EXCLUSIVE: Frederator Studios, the Wow! Unlimited Media entity behind the animated hit Adventure Time, is developing a new series based on Catbug, a property with demonstrated appeal in the Gen Z realms of TikTok and animated GIFs. The company has begun shopping a Catbug series to streaming and linear networks…

With their awards-contending animated short The Opposites Game, filmmakers Lisa LaBracio and Anna Samo faced the challenge of bringing a compelling visual representation to a brief yet powerful poem by Brendan Constantine—a poem they considered perfect. Packing an array of sumptuous and imaginative stop-motion imagery…

Disney’s uber-successful franchises are the ones to look out for at the 47th annual Annie Awards with Frozen 2 and Toy Story 4 earning eight and six nominations respectively. Laika’s stop-motion animated feature Missing Link nabbed eight nods, matching the aforementioned icy animated sequel, while DreamWorks Animation…

There must have been some magic in that old silk ratings hat they found, as the annual CBS airing of the animated Frosty the Snowman topped the night’s ratings wars. The 50th airing of the Rankin-Bass animation special, based on the Walter E. Rollins and Steve Nelson song and featuring the voices of Jimmy Durante…

Amazon has renewed its rotoscope animation series Undone for a second season and inked an overall deal with co-creator Kate Purdy. Undone follows the cosmic journey of a young woman named Alma (Rosa Salazar), who treks across time, space, and beyond to solve the mystery of her father's death. It is the first episodic…

Over the last decade, writer/director Dean DeBlois has dedicated himself to one fantastical world with a trilogy of How to Train Your Dragon films, always striving to push creative boundaries—not least with the final film of the bunch, The Hidden World. The film picks up with Viking Hiccup (voiced by Jay Baruchel)…

With his second stop-motion feature, Missing Link, writer/director Chris Butler took on a story with colorful characters, massive environments and a variety of complex action sequences, striving to bring a live-action quality to an animated world, which would be put together through a painstaking physical process, one…

The Fast & Furious franchise is speeding to Netflix with the new original animated series Fast & Furious: Spy Racers, and Universal Pictures and DreamWorks Animation have released the first images and the cast of the new series that debuts December 26. Keeping it in the Fast & Furious family, Spy Racers features…

Approached by DreamWorks Animation about the prospect of helming a "Yeti movie," writer/director Jill Culton seized what she saw as both an opportunity and a challenge, "to reinvent and define a mythical creature in a new way for audiences," she says. Premiering at the Toronto International Film Festival in September…

The new Disney+ is also Disney-, as the studio’s streaming service apparently is being cautious about what it will showcase, keeping some materials in the vault while warning of sensitive content in other cases. The new subscription service debuted Tuesday and already has caused fans and media to notice what isn’t…

Universal Filmed Entertainment Group’s Global Talent Development & Inclusion division is expanding its search for new voices with the launch of the Universal Animation Writers Program, which will feature a combination of both film and TV. The submission period opens today and continues through December 16. The program…

Just a day after CBS chief Joe Ianniello noted the addition of children’s programming to CBS All Access, Viacom has exercised a different strategic option, setting a multi-year licensing deal for Nickelodeon kids fare with Netflix. The output arrangement will yield original animated feature films and TV series based…