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

MONDO Acquires English-Language Rights to French Animated Series “LastMan”

MONDO has acquired exclusive worldwide English-language television rights to the action/sci-fi animated series LastMan, which will debut on MONDO’s SVOD channel on VRV, adding to its growing slate of action and drama animated series geared toward audiences 18 to 34. The traditionally animated LastMan, which recently debuted on France4 in France, is produced by feature-film […]

EXCLUSIVE CLIP: “Dawn of the Croods” Season 3

Thank you Dreamworks TV Animation and Netflix for this hilarious, exclusive clip from Dawn of the Croods Season 3 – which comes to Netflix this Friday, April 7th. Eep has to act fast as she and her crush get chased by a Big Chikuna! Can she escape in time to finally get her first kiss? […]

Maki Terashima-Furuta has been promoted to the role of President of PRODUCTION IG USA.

Production I.G, one of the world’s leading animation production houses, inspiring Hollywood creators with works such as Ghost in the Shell, Blood: The Last Vampire, Kill Bill: Vol. 1, A Letter to Momo, Attack on Titan, and many more, announced today that Maki Terashima-Furuta has been promoted to the role of President of PRODUCTION IG […]

Jhonen Vasquez Returns to “Invader Zim” For New Nickelodeon TV Movie

It’s for real. Nickelodeon officially announced today the greenlight for an all-new, 90-minute Invader Zim TV movie from original creator Jhonen Vasquez, marking the network’s third animated property from its library of content to be reimagined for today’s audience. The 2D-animated TV movie, produced by Nickelodeon in Burbank, will show the latest and greatest ridiculous […]

TCM Fest Salutes Classic Animation with “Beyond The Mouse: The 1930s Cartoons of Ub Iwerks”

The most important cartoonist and animator in the early days of the Disney studio was Ub Iwerks, the “hand behind the mouse.” The TCM Festival this week in Hollywood will honor Iwerks with a retrospective program featuring recent restorations of Iwerks’ greatest and rarely seen shorts, including Oswald the Lucky Rabbit in Hungry Hobos (1928), […]

Jerry Beck

Publisher Editor

Articles By Jerry Beck

MONDO Acquires English-Language Rights to French Animated Series “LastMan”

EXCLUSIVE CLIP: “Dawn of the Croods” Season 3

Maki Terashima-Furuta has been promoted to the role of President of PRODUCTION IG USA.

Jhonen Vasquez Returns to “Invader Zim” For New Nickelodeon TV Movie

TCM Fest Salutes Classic Animation with “Beyond The Mouse: The 1930s Cartoons of Ub Iwerks”

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