EXCLUSIVE: Ben Mendelsohn (Rogue One: A Star Wars Story), Karen Gillan (Doctor Who), Rashida Jones (Parks and Recreation), DJ and music producer DJ Khaled and Masi Oka (Hawaii Five-0) have joined Will Smith and Tom Holland in the voice cast of Fox’s animated film Spies In Disguise. Directed by Epic animator Nick Bruno…

EXCLUSIVE: Karen Rupert Toliver has been hired by Sony Pictures Animation as SVP Development, bringing aboard the exec who has spent the past decade at Fox Animation and before that Disney. Most recently at Fox she helped spearhead development of Ferdinand, the next pic in the animation pipeline that hits theaters…

EXCLUSIVE: Fox Animation has acquired the Michelle Cuevas  middle grade book The Care and Feeding Of A Pet Black Hole. The studio is finalizing a deal for its War For The Planet of the Apes helmer Matt Reeves to produce through his 6th and Idaho  banner. Cuevas authored Confessions of An Imaginary Friend, which Fox…

EXCLUSIVE: They're already working together on a Bone screenplay for Warner Bros and now Mark Osborne and Adam Kline have two new projects in the hopper with 20th Century Fox Animation. The Little Prince director and the Artemis Fowl scribe have sealed deals with the studio to develop films based on Kline's books Esca…

The Memory Thief, a live-action/animated feature based on the novel written by Bryce Moore, is being planned at Fox Animation, which acquired the novel for its hybrid initiative. Working to create a slate of family films, Fox Animation’s hybrid strategy was launched last year, and Nate Hopper was hired to spearhead…

20th Century Fox Animation is teaming with Tonko House to develop a feature film based on The Dam Keeper, last year’s Oscar-nominated animated short written and directed by Tonko House founders and former Pixar art directors Robert Kondo and Daisuke "Dice" Tsutsumi. The pair, who worked on Toy Story 3, Monsters Univers…

EXCLUSIVE: Fox Animation has acquired the rights to acclaimed children's novel The Girl Who Drank the Moon, an epic coming-of-age fairy tale written by Kelly Barnhill. Marc Haimes, who recently co-wrote the script for Laika and Focus Features' Kubo and the Two Strings, has been set to adapt the script.     Veteran…

Fox Animation has acquired the Zita The Spacegirl trilogy of books from award-winning author Ben Hatke for Chernin Entertainment to produce. Screenwriting duo Morgan Jurgenson and Alex Ankeles will adapt the books that follow Zita as she leaps to the rescue when her best friend is abducted by an alien doomsday cult…

EXCLUSIVE: Fox Animation is moving again on animated adaptation Cardboard. I’m hearing Dance of the Dead‘s Joe Ballarini has been tapped to adapt the graphic novel written by Earthworm Jim creator Doug TenNapel, which the studio optioned in 2012 with Epic‘s Chris Wedge attached to direct. Story tracks a young boy and…

EXCLUSIVE: 20th Century Fox Animation and Blue Sky Studios have set its voice cast for Epic, the new 3D CG-animated film by the makers of Ice Age and Rio. The Dan Shere-scripted film, which had been developed under the title Leafmen, will star Beyonce Knowles as Queen Tara, Colin Farrell as Ronin, The Hunger Games…