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EXCLUSIVE: Slam!, a graphic novel series set in the world of all-female roller derby, is being adapted as an animated series for HBO Max. Pamela Ribon, who co-created the comic with Veronica Fish and co-wrote feature films including Moana and Ralph Breaks the Internet, is adapting her book, with WarnerMedia-owned Roost…

Silent Witness Star Emilia Fox To Host True Crime Podcast Emilia Fox, the star of long-running BBC crime drama Silent Witness, is to host a true crime podcast with leading criminologist, Professor David Wilson. If It Bleeds It Leads will see the pair tackle topical true crime stories dominating headlines and will take…

Spotify is rolling out video podcasts, with a feature that allows listeners to switch to audio-only mode when on the go, following a successful test of the service. Both free and subscription tiers of service will offer video. The company’s watershed, $100 million deal with Joe Rogan reached this spring will make his…

Rooster Teeth, a unit of WarnerMedia, has promoted Doreen Copeland to VP, Head of Production and Joe Clary and Sean Hinz to co-heads of animation. Copeland will now oversee all physical production at Rooster Teeth. Clary and Hinz will co-lead day to day operations across all of Rooster Teeth's animated productions…

Michael B. Jordan-voiced animated series gen:LOCK has been handed a second season via HBO Max. The first season of the half-hour series premiered on Rooster Teeth, the WarnerMedia digital brand, but the second season will premiere on HBO Max before becoming available to subscribers of Rooster Teeth's subscription…

WarnerMedia-owned digital video outlet Rooster Teeth has tapped Jordan Levin as General Manager, shifting co-founder and former CEO Matt Hullum to the newly created post of Chief Content Officer. Levin, an industry veteran known for his executive stints at the WB network and, more recently, Awesomeness, Xbox and the…

In the latest round of belt-tightening to hit WarnerMedia, subsidiary Otter Media’s online video network Rooster Teeth has laid off 13% of its total workforce, or about 50 employees. CEO Matt Hullum relayed the news to the staff Thursday, calling it “a tough day … unlike any moment of organizational change we have…

With his latest animated series gen: Lock, Gray G. Haddock looked to build on the previous successes of Rooster Teeth, the Austin-based studio where he serves as Head of Animation, while presenting an experience that pushed boundaries, in a number of ways. A viral hit in 2012 that was then expanded with four…

Netflix is getting set to explore the origins of the battle between Autobots and Decepticons. The streamer is teaming with Hasbro and Rooster Teeth on War for Cybertron, an original animated series from the Transformers universe that will premiere worldwide next year. Produced by Rooster Teeth with Polygon Pictures…

The just-arrived trailer for the new Rooster Teeth series gen:LOCK suggests that the American anime movement is gathering steam deep in the heart of Texas. The Austin-based Rooster Teeth already created an international stir among anime fans with RWBY and now, with gen:LOCK, it has a potent-looking follow-up effort…

Maisie Williams, best known for her role as face changing assassin Arya Stark in Game of Thrones, will voice "Cammie MacCloud," a mischievous Scottish hacker, in the gen:LOCK anime series. The casting was announced at RTX London, an annual UK-based fandom convention for the Rooster Teeth entertainment company…

AT&T has acquired the remainder of The Chernin Group’s controlling stake in Otter Media, with the plan to fold the subscription, advertising and content company the two formed in 2014 into AT&T’s WarnerMedia, the new content company created after the telco giant’s acquisition of Time Warner. Tony Goncalves, who was…