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This weekend, movie buffs, animation fans and former employees lined up down the street outside Tippett Studio in Berkeley, California, to hunt for treasures at an everything-must-go liquidation sale before the storied VFX shop shuts down. Founded by cele

Russian director Kirill Sokolov (Why Don't You Just Die!, They Will Kill You) has boarded the adaptation of Alone in the Ocean, marking his first animated feature. Hailing from Lazy Sunday and The Media Company, the film is based on the true story of Stan

Award-winning actors Willem Dafoe, Jonathan Bailey and Peter Dinklage have joined the voice cast of Starburns Industries' Lincoln in the Bardo, based on author George Saunders' New York Times bestseller and 2017 Booker Prize winner. Saunders adapted the s

A talking balsam flower invites an elderly yakuza to examine his life of violence and good deeds in Japanese director Baku Kinoshita's poetic and contemplative new feature The Last Blossom. The movie, which was part of Annecy's feature competition in 2025

An ambitious indie animated series project will soon mark a major milestone, as 2D dramedy The Swines approaches its Season 2 finale on Friday, September 11. The show is a comedy-soap opera set in the eccentric town of Oinkersfield - populated entirely by

Disney+ has announced a global distribution deal with The Pokémon Company International, including the new stop-motion series Pokémon Tales: The Misadventures of Sirfetch'd & Pichu. Created by the acclaimed animation studio Aardman, the series will debut

Hasbro Music today unveiled "Click Clash," a reimagined take on the battle-of-the-bands anthem from Jem and the Holograms, bringing the rivalry between Jem and the Holograms and The Misfits to a new generation of fans. Adding an extra connection to the or

The official trailer has arrived for Moonfish - an American animated indie exploring the existential impact of grief one a lone space-farer, featuring the voices of Morgan Spector (The Gilded Age) and Lucy Liu (Kill Bill). The monochrome, 2D piece is slat

iam8bit and WaterTower Music have joined forces to celebrate Coyote vs. Acme's long-awaited theatrical release with the Coyote vs. Acme 2xLP, available now through September 29 for pre-order, and shipping in Q1 2027. Available in four editions, each featu

This week, Odd Kid studio's animated series Junkyard King released its second episode online. Show creator and studio founder Henry Daubrez tells us that the show's 15 minutes of continuous narrative demonstrates how generative AI tools can be pushed to a