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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…

Dr. Who alum David Tennant has joined the voice cast of gen:LOCK, Rooster Teeth’s upcoming anime-style 3D series. The animation company announced the casting Friday during the show’s panel at the Television Critics Association summer press tour in Beverly Hills. In gen:LOCK, Earth's last free society is on the losing…

Rooster Teeth revealed today at Anime Expo 2018 in Los Angeles that Dakota Fanning and Cowboy Bebop and Ghost in the Shell veteran Koichi Yamadera have joined the voice cast of gen:LOCK, the animation company’s upcoming anime-style 3D series. Michael B. Jordan is already aboard to lead the cast. gen:LOCK centers on…

Michael B. Jordan, who portrayed the tortured villain Erik Killmonger in Black Panther and will reprise the title role in Creed II, will join Rooster Teeth's animated series gen:LOCK to voice the main character, Julian Chase. The actor, whose star has been on the rise since his critically acclaimed performance in…

EXCLUSIVE: In another sign the blurring lines between tradition and digital media, actor James Buckley has joined Rooster Teeth’s family of gaming channels. Buckley, who’s best known for his role as Jay Cartwright on The Inbetweeners, and more recently for his role in the BBC2 series White Gold on Netflix, has been…

A new horror comedy from Austin-based Rooster Teeth, written and to be directed by Owen Egerton, has lined up a number of young Hollywood actors to take on roles — Jacob Batalon (Spider-Man: Homecoming), Robbie Kay (Heroes: Reborn), Nick Rutherford (SNL, Crunch Time) and Tate Donovan (The Man in the High Castle) with…