Jackson Murphy

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Jackson Murphy is an Emmy-winning film critic, content producer, and author, who has also served as Animation Scoop reporter since 2016. He is the creator of the website Lights-Camera-Jackson.com, and has made numerous appearances on television and radio over the past 20 years.

Articles By Jackson Murphy

Universal

The Secret Life of Pets 2 is set to begin taking a major bite out of the summer box office when it opens on June 7th. Recently, I sat down with several members of the star-studded cast to discuss how voice acting has become an important part of their careers. Kevin Hart has the movie […]

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Illumination

Chris Renaud has been with Illumination Entertainment from the very beginning, serving as co-director (with Pierre Coffin) on the studio’s first film, 2010’s Despicable Me. He also directed 2016’s The Secret Life of Pets and is now back with the sequel, which features a superhero storyline that brought Renaud back to his roots. Jackson Murphy: […]

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DreamWorks

The Harvey Girls are back for Season 2 of the popular DreamWorks Animation series, now streaming on Netflix. Executive Producer Brendan Hay and Supervising Producer Aliki Theofilopoulos discuss the bigger, bolder new season, starting with a title change. Jackson Murphy: The show was called Harvey Street Kids for Season 1. Now it’s called Harvey Girls […]

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Independent

He may just be the top “Director for Hire” in animation today. Over the past 17 years, Kelly Asbury had made “Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron” and “Shrek 2” for DreamWorks, “Gnomeo & Juliet” for Disney, “Smurfs: The Lost Village” for Sony, and now UglyDolls for newcomer STX. And his latest film is another music-driven […]

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Since 2016, Academy Award-winning actress Whoopi Goldberg has been curating the Tribeca Film Festival’s annual animation program. Goldberg has selected six shorts from around the globe for this year’s event, which will be available for attendees of the NYC festival three times. Past shorts screened as part of this program include the two most recent […]

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