Lauren Ashton

Managing Editor

Lauren Ashton is a Los Angeles-based writer. She has also taught stop-motion animation and film history since 2020, and holds a BFA in Acting from The California Institute of the Arts. Lauren has previously worked with Walt Disney Imagineering, and since graduating from CalArts, she has worked at Spellbound Inc. (a YouTube Production Company), Gnomon School of Animation, and written plays and sketch comedy for various theaters.

Articles By Lauren Ashton

Netflix

At this year’s upcoming AFI FEST, presented by Canva, the highly anticipated Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl is set to make its world premiere. Aardman’s Academy Award-winning director Nick Park and Emmy-nominated director Merlin Crossingham are back with another exciting adventure in the “Wallace & Gromit” franchise. In this latest installment, Gromit fears that […]

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Hanna-Barbera is best known for its popular animated characters and numerous TV series. But the studio also created iconic sound effects and music that have become the soundtrack of our lives – powerful sounds that were created to guide the studio’s visual storytelling. These incredible elements added to their remarkable success – not to mention […]

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Disney

In honor of Donald Duck’s 90th birthday, Hot Ones released a special episode featuring the beloved Duck himself. On the show, he shares that Daisy challenged him, and Mickey Mouse is backstage to offer support as he tries different Disney-themed flavors of hot sauce (with cauliflower wings, of course.) The host of the hit show, […]

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Events

In collaboration with Maxwell DeMille, Puppetoon Productions is set to host a specialized presentation of George Pal’s The Time Machine (1960) as well as three beautifully restored “Puppetoons”. George Pal’s Puppetoons (also known as “Madcap Models”) were a series of stop-motion puppet films made between 1932 and 1947. This exclusive cinematic event is scheduled to […]

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Viva Kids

The upcoming animated feature film, HITPIG! is to be released exclusively in theaters in the United States on November 1st of this year. With animation by Cinesite (The Addams Family 2, Iwájú, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem), the film is produced by Aniventure (Animal Farm, Stitch Head) and distributed by Viva Pictures (2023 Sundance […]

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