The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences today announced the shortlist for the 93rd Oscars in the category of Animated Short Film. Ten films were selected out of 96 films qualified in the category. Members of the Short Films and Feature Animation Branch vote to determine the shortlist and the nominees. The films, listed […]
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Shout! Factory Gets Distribution Rights to Laika Feature Films
February 8th, 2021 
Jerry Beck Shout! Factory and animation studio LAIKA announced today a new entertainment distribution alliance to bring the studio’s first four award-winning legacy films to the home entertainment marketplace in the U.S. The announcement was made today by Melissa Boag, Shout’s Senior Vice President of Family Entertainment, and David Burke, LAIKA’s Chief Marketing Officer and SVP, Operations.
Rainshine Entertainment and Animasia Studio to adapt ‘Young Captain Nemo”
February 4th, 2021 Jerry Beck Rainshine Entertainment, a global entertainment company that nurtures, creates and develops content studios that create fabulous content aimed at audiences worldwide, and Malaysia-based Animasia Studio, an award-winning animation and digital content production house, have teamed up to co-produce a trilogy of animated feature films based on the Young Captain Nemo books, an Amazon.com chart-topping fiction […]
2020 Golden Globe Nominees
February 3rd, 2021 Jerry Beck The infamous Hollywood Foreign Press Association announced their nominees today – and included in the mix were their choices for Best Animated Feature. As expected, Pixar’s Soul (Pete Docter and Kemp Powers) and Onward (Dan Scanlon) made the grade; Over The Moon (Netflix/Pearl; Glen Keener) and The Croods 2: The New Age (Dreamworks; Joel Crawford) […]
Paramount+ to Debut “Spongebob” Movie and Prequel Series “Kamp Koral” March 4th
January 28th, 2021 Jerry Beck Paramount+, the highly anticipated streaming service from ViacomCBS, today announced that both The Spongebob Movie: Sponge On The Run and all-new Paramount+ Original Series KAMP KORAL: SPONGEBOB’S UNDER YEARS will premiere on the service on Thursday, March 4th. The Spongebob Movie: Sponge On The Run will also be released by Paramount Home Entertainment for Premium […]
Netflix Announces Animated Feature: Minkyu Lee’s “The Witch Boy”
January 28th, 2021 Jerry Beck Netflix’s newest animated musical feature was announced today, and it is The Witch Boy. Directed by Oscar-nominated director Minkyu Lee (Adam and Dog), the film is based on the NYT best selling graphic novel series of the same title by Molly Knox Ostertag. Three-time Grammy Award nominated band Haim is attached to write music for […]
INTERVIEW: Cartoon Curator Bill from MeTV’s “Toon In With ME”
January 25th, 2021 Jerry Beck Since January 4th, the cable network (and over-the-air broadcast sub-channel) MeTV has been running a weekday hour of classic cartoons from the MGM, Warner Bros. and Paramount Popeye and Betty Boop libraries. Telecast at 7am and formatted as a vintage kids show, hosted by “cartoon curator” Bill Leff and his puppet companion “Toony, the Tuna”, […]
Netflix Acquires Worldwide Rights to Sony Animation’s “The Mitchells vs. The Machines”
January 21st, 2021 Jerry Beck Netflix has acquired worldwide rights (excluding China) to The Mitchells vs. The Machines (formerly Connected) from Sony Pictures Animation. The original animated comedy is produced by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller whose film, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, won the 2019 Academy Award for Best Animated Feature. The film stars Danny McBride, Abbi Jacobson, Maya Rudolph, […]
TRAILER: “Pixar Popcorn” for Disney+
January 19th, 2021 Jerry Beck In honor of National Popcorn Day, Disney+ shared the trailer for Pixar Popcorn, which premieres Friday, January 22nd exclusively on Disney+. The collection of 10 mini shorts features characters from Pixar favorites like “Toy Story,” “Finding Nemo,” “Cars” and “The Incredibles” in all-new, bite-size stories created by Pixar Animation Studios’ talented animators. Here’s the first […]
New “Looney Tunes Cartoons” Drop on HBO Max Thursday, Jan. 21st
January 14th, 2021 Jerry Beck Get ready for more mayhem because the Looney Tunes are back at it again with their newest batch of episodes premiering on HBO Max Thursday, Jan. 21st. Taz stars in his first full-length Looney Tunes Cartoons short when he takes on Bugs Bunny in a Roman coliseum. If Bugs makes it out of the arena, […]
TRAILER: Dreamworks “Go, Dog, Go!”
January 7th, 2021 Jerry Beck Based on PD Eastman’s best-selling, classic children’s book (over 8 million copies sold!), Go, Dog. Go! follows 6-year-old Tag Barker on her adventures in the city of Pawston, a fun-loving community of dogs on the go. Tag is a skilled mechanic and loves anything that goes. With her ingenuity and creativity, Tag can go as […]
Annie Awards ‘Call For Entries’ Open Today
January 4th, 2021 Jerry Beck ASIFA-Hollywood announced its ‘Call for Entries’ today for the 48th Annual Annie Awards. For submission rules and information, please visit submissions.annieawards.org. The deadline to submit projects is Monday, February 1st, 2021 at 5 p.m. PST. Honoring excellence in the field of animation, the 48th Annual Annie Awards will be presented in 10 Production categories (Best […]
Asifa-Hollywood Announces It’s Juried Award Recipients for the 48th Annual Annie Awards
December 21st, 2020 Jerry Beck ASIFA-Hollywood announced today its selection of Juried Awards recipients for the 48th Annual Annie Awards. The Juried Awards honor career achievement and exceptional contributions to animation. The Winsor McCay Award for career contributions to the art of animation are being presented to three recipients – Willie Ito, animation designer whose career began at Warner Bros., […]
CROWD FUNDING: Let’s Support Bill Plympton’s “Slide”
December 16th, 2020 Jerry Beck The king of the independent animators – Bill Plympton – has started a Kickstarter campaign to raise funding for his next ani aged feature-in-progress: Slide. It looks great to me – but I’ll let Bill tell you himself in the video below and his letter to me below that: Plympton’s New Feature SLIDE is running […]
Gkids Announces Release Plans and Voice Cast for Ghibli’s “Earwig and The Witch”
December 16th, 2020 Jerry Beck GKIDS, the acclaimed distributor of multiple Academy Award-nominated animated features, has announced the voice cast of the upcoming English language dub for legendary animation house Studio Ghibli’s latest feature Earwig and The Witch. The film is directed by Goro Miyazaki (From Up on Poppy Hill, Tales from Earthsea) and produced by studio co-founder Toshio Suzuki, […]
