Jerry Beck

Publisher Editor

Writer, cartoon producer and author of more than 15 books on animation history. A former studio exec with Nickelodeon and Disney; currently on the faculty at both CalArts in Valencia and Woodbury University in Burbank, California.

Articles By Jerry Beck

Nickelodeon

Nickelodeon has greenlit a third season of The Casagrandes, which will find Ronnie Anne and her family members on a variety of adventures while exploring different areas of the city. A spinoff of Nickelodeon’s top-rated animated series The Loud House, Emmy Award-winning The Casagrandes has ranked as the number two animated property across television with […]

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Asifa

What could you animate in 24 hours? That’s the question students will be asking themselves for this year’s 24 HOURS: Animation Contest for Students. The 2020 contest will be hosted online, from Friday October 2nd to Saturday October 3rd. This free event challenges students around the world to compete in teams of five to produce […]

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HBO Max

Warner Bros. Animation (WBA) has signed an exclusive, multi-year overall deal with Emmy Award–winning writer/actor/producer Hugh Davidson (Nobodies, Mike Tyson Mysteries, Robot Chicken). Under the terms of the pact, Davidson will develop, write and produce original animated projects — at WBA across all platforms, including premium/pay and basic cable channels, streaming/on-demand and digital platforms, and […]

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DreamWorks

Universal Pictures and DreamWorks Animation’s The Croods: A New Age will move up from December 23th, 2020, to Wednesday, November 25, 2020 in a wide release. Will it play theaters – or go to streaming? No one can say – but the studio is determined to go head to head with Pixar’s Soul and become […]

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Anime

As you may already know, B: The Beginning, the gripping and edgy crime procedural series, is Shout Factory’s top priority home entertainment release this fall. The series is recognized for its distinctive genre-bending storytelling, B: The Beginning, packed with bonus content, arrives on national home entertainment shelves at Walmart and digital download to own on […]

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