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Netflix's The Mitchells vs the Machines, produced by Sony Pictures Animation, received an Oscar nomination for Best Animated Feature this morning. Along with Flee, Mitchells is one of only two animated films nominated that aren't made by Disney. Co-writer-director Mike Rianda, along with producers Phil Lord and Chris…

As Mike Rianda and Jeff Rowe were writing the story for The Mitchells vs the Machines, they realized that all of the people they knew who inspired Katie Mitchell were queer. In discussing this with LGBTQ+ members of their crew, the decision to make Katie open about her queerness was obvious. This Netflix sci-fi family…

Editors note: Deadline's Read the Screenplay series debuts and celebrates the scripts of films that will be factors in this year's movie awards race. The generation gap has inspired many an animated movie. From Ariel defying her father to explore dry land to Moana leaving her family's island, animated movies often…

As the Annecy International Animation Film Festival starts up online today, Connected director Mike Rianda showed off some sneak peek work-in-progress footage of Sony Pictures Animation’s upcoming release. He also discussed the inspirations for the movie, which include Spiderman: Into The Spider-Verse, his own “insane…

Sony Pictures Animation on Tuesday released the first trailer for Connected, the team-up produced by the studio’s Oscar-winning Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse duo of Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, and Mike Rianda, known for his work on Gravity Falls. The pic hits theaters on September 18, 2020. With a definite…