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

Independent

Here comes The Lego Movie’s younger cousin — PlayMobil: The Movie takes audiences on an epic comedy adventure through a sprawling imaginative universe in the first-ever feature film inspired by the award-winning German Playmobil role-play toys. Directed by Lino DiSalvo (head of animation on Disney’s Frozen), It is currently scheduled for a August 16th, 2019 […]

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DreamWorks

DreamWorks Animation Television has released the full trailer for Guillermo del Toro’s highly anticipated Netflix original series 3Below: Tales of Arcadia, bringing an out-of-world experience exclusively to Netflix December 21st. Featuring an all-star voice cast including Diego Luna (Narcos: Mexico), Tatiana Maslany (Orphan Black), Nick Offerman (Parks and Recreation), Glenn Close(The Wife) and more, 3Below: […]

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Independent

It’s close encounters of the herd kind in the brand new Shaun The Sheep movie from Aardman Animation. Shaun The Sheep Movie: Farmageddon is directed by Richard Phelan and Will Becher, Written by Jon Brown and Mark Burton, Produced by Paul Kewley with Executive Producers Mark Burton and Richard Starzak, Peter Lord, Nick Park and […]

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Ghost in the Shell is going to reborn by changing itself into a new form — 3DCG. This time, Kenji Kamiyama and Production I.G will join forces with Shinji Aramaki and SOLA DIGITAL ARTS, who brought Japanese 3DCG animation to the whole world in series like Appleseed. This will be “a next-generation animation film” and […]

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The infamous Hollywood Foreign Press Association announced their nominees today – and included in the mix were their choices for Best Animated Feature. As expected, Disney’s Ralph Breaks The Internet (Rich Moore and Phil Johnston ) and Pixar’s The Incredibles 2 (Brad Bird) made the grade; Sony’s Spider-Man: Into The Spiderverse (Peter Ramsey, Robert Persichetti […]

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