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For Netflix’s The Mitchells vs. the Machines, produced by Sony Pictures Animation, the idea of "Katie Vision" was bounced around for a bit, until production designer Lindsey Olivares got her hands on one of their animation tests. Director Mike Rianda said, "One weekend without telling anyone, she just stole some…

Netflix had a big night at the 49th annual Annie Awards on Saturday, with the streamer’s The Mitchells vs. the Machines on the feature film side and the video game adaptation Arcane on the TV side dominating the major categories. Mitchells, from Sony Pictures Animation, won Best Feature among a film-side-leading eight…

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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…

Every year the same question is asked about the Best Animated Feature category: can anyone beat Disney? Walt Disney Studios, along with subsidiary Pixar, has won 14 Oscars in the Best Animated Feature category since the category began two decades ago, followed in a distant second by DreamWorks Animation's two wins. 26…

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…

EXCLUSIVE: Let the race begin. On the eve of the fall film festivals that signify the official start of Oscar season (just as Emmy final voting is prepared to wrap up Monday evening), the Academy Screening Room this week put up their first four films in the section labeled FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION — and all of them are…

The Mitchells vs. The Machines, featuring the voices of Danny McBride and Olivia Colman, has become Netflix's biggest animated film to date. The streamer said that the sci-fi comedy, which comes from Sony Pictures Animation, director Mike Rianda and Lord and Miller, was watched by 53M member households in its first 28…

Netflix’s The Mitchells vs. the Machines took the top spot on Nielsen’s weekly U.S. streaming chart for May 3 to May 9, the first animated movie to notch a win since Soul last December. The well-reviewed Sony Pictures Animation title had been gaining momentum, charting the previous week with only a couple of days of…

Netflix fantasy series Shadow and Bone edged out the fourth season of The Handmaid’s Tale on Hulu to top Nielsen’s weekly ranking of streaming viewership in the U.S. Shadow and Bone, an 8-episode series based on Leigh Bardugo's bestselling novels, is produced by Stranger Things outfit 21 Laps Entertainment. Nielsen…

Phil Lord and Chris Miller have found a way to put their unmistakable stamp on the animated feature world with such out-of-the-box fresh hits as Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs, The Lego Movie, The Lego Batman Movie and their Oscar-winning Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, not to mention pitch-perfect live-action…