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EXCLUSIVE: Deadline has learned that Emily Dean, a vet of such animated pics as The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part and The Lego Batman Movie, is set to make her feature directorial debut on Sony Pictures Animation’s Tao. The project is in early development with Tonya Kong attached to write. Tao is described as a…

The birds are back in town, and this time it’s personal. Well, that also was the case in 2016’s The Angry Birds Movie, which slingshotted to $352.3 million worldwide, but the sequel has the irked avians and the scheming hogs taking their pork, er, beef to the next level. Check out the trailer for The Angry Birds Movie…

EXCLUSIVE: Film critics have hailed the animation in Sony’s Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse as unique, innovative and undeniably inventive. Now the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office will judge whether they agree with those reviews. Deadline has learned that Sony has applied for patent protection for the animation…

There’s a scene in Sony Animation’s new Peter Rabbit in which the title bunny and his critter buddies try to take down their human rival by weaponizing blackberries — knowing he is allergic to them. Parents and advocacy groups were not amused, some alleging “food allergy bullying” and crowing for a boycott, and now an…

This party animal is sportin’ a blue jacket but no pants. He treats fellow woodland creatures to an “all you can eat” in a garden, even the fox who tried to make hasenpfeffer out of him. He hosts a swingin’ bash — well, “hosts” is not the correct verb, as the place clearly isn’t his. Then again, neither is the garden…

It’s the story of the first Christmas told from “an entirely different perspective.” Here is the first trailer for The Star, a holiday entry in which the animals run the asylum — or village, in this case. The Walking Dead‘s Steven Yuen stars as Bo, a donkey who years for a life beyond his daily grind. When finally he…

EXCLUSIVE: Sony Pictures Animation has booked Hotel Transylvania 3 on a new prime summer release date of July 13, 2018. The pic previously was scheduled on September 21 that year. The series’ first two titles have harvested the fall time frame, combining to earn $830M worldwide and owning the top two September…

Sony Animation today announced that T.J. Miller is set for the lead role in Emojimovie: Express Yourself, and released a humorous “audition tape.” The Anthony Leondis-directed pic, produced by Michelle Raimo Kouyate, “reveals the Secret World inside your phone. It's a world where Emojis come alive (when they're not…

Another toon feature has its eye on the small screen. This time, it’s Hotel Transylvania, which Sony Pictures Animation and Nelvana are developing as a TV series ahead of the feature sequel’s fall debut. Focusing on the teenage years of Dracula's daughter, Mavis, and her friends, the series will be developed and…

Sony Pictures Entertainment today named Oscar nominee Kristine Belson as President, Sony Pictures Animation in the wake of Michelle Raimo Kouyate’s departure from the post last week.  Belson comes from DreamWorks Animation where she spent nearly a decade, specifically serving as executive producer on the studio’s…