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Tim Minchin announced on his blog that the animated musical Larrikins, which he had been developing for the past four years, has been “shut down.” Sources involved with the film told Deadline that “creatively it just wasn’t working out well.” The movie, which had been pushed around the schedule already had culled…

No surprise here. With Universal absorbing DreamWorks Animation earlier this year, previous pics How to Train Your Dragon 3 and Larrikins originally scheduled to go out via the studio’s 20th Century Fox distribution deal, will now be handled by Uni. Fox announced Larrikins for a February 16, 2018 release and Dragon…

EXCLUSIVE: Larrikins, which is Aussie slang for “maverick” or “rebel,” is digging deep Down Under. DreamWorks Animation has culled together an all-Aussie cast of Hugh Jackman, Naomi Watts, Rose Byrne and Ben Mendelsohn to join previously announced fellow Aussie Margot Robbie as voice actors for its new film. Tim…

EXCLUSIVE: Jennifer Howell, who was Paramount’s Head of Comedy for the past two-and-a-half years, has joined DreamWorks Animation as the company’s new Head of Development. She is taking over for Gregg Taylor who began producing duties last August on DreamWorks’ Larrikins, the animated musical film. Like Taylor (who…