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‘GOAT’: How Director Tyree Dillihay Got Animated About Basketball

February 12th, 2026

For director Tyree Dillihay (Bob's Burgers), GOAT began as an animal basketball concept in 2018 at Sony Pictures Animation. It grew into his passion project about roarball.

FIRST LOOK: Illumination’s “Minions & Monsters”

Jerry Beck|

February 9th, 2026

Here's the trailer and poster for the next Minions masterpiece - from Illumination via Universal on July 1st.

Breaking Down the Bathhouse Battle in ‘KPop Demon Hunters’

Bill Desowitz|

February 2nd, 2026

It's not surprising that the bathhouse battle is the third most popular scene from KPop Demon Hunters: the Netflix phenom and Best Animated Feature frontrunner from Sony Pictures Animation/Imageworks. It's colorful, funny, chaotic, and action-packed.

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BOOK REVIEW & INTERVIEW: “The Lego Animation Book”

“Everything is Awesome” about The LEGO Animation Book. This is an in-depth and entertaining manual for becoming a filmmaker (or rather, a “brickmaker”) and bringing LEGO videos to life. Beginners and expert LEGO “Master Builders” (both kids and your average AFOL – Adult Fan of LEGO) will find the content extremely valuable. Co-authors David Pagano […]

Jackson Murphy|February 15, 2017

TRAILER: “The Lego Ninjago Movie”

As long as these Lego movies are as funny as this looks – I’m cool with it. Warner Bros. dropped the first official trailer for The Lego Ninjago Movie today. Directed by Charlie Bean, Paul Fisher and Bob Logan – and with a cast including Jackie Chan, Olivia Munn and Dave Franco – the latest […]

Jerry Beck|February 8, 2017

BLU-RAY REVIEW: Disney’s “Pinocchio” Signature Collection

No less than three of this year’s Oscar- and Annie-nominated animated features boast spectacular action sequences set upon roaring oceans: Moana, The Red Turtle and Kubo and the Two Strings. Astonishing as those sequences are, a look at the Monstro sequence on the new “Signature Collection” Blu-ray still takes one’s breath away over 75 years […]

Greg Ehrbar|February 2, 2017

Disney Channel Announces Dates for “Tangled: The Series” and Movie “Tangled Before Ever After”

Set between the stories told in Walt Disney Animation Studios’ acclaimed film Tangled and its short film Tangled Ever After, the Disney Channel Original Movie Tangled Before Ever After makes its debut on Friday March 10th (8:00 p.m. EST) leading to the highly anticipated premiere of Tangled: The Series on Friday March 24th (7:30 p.m. […]

Jerry Beck|January 31, 2017

INTERVIEW: Gina Shay, Producer of “Trolls”

Producer Gina Shay fell in love with animation not long after she graduated from Pratt Institute, moved to LA and worked on Ralph Bakshi’s Cool World as a PA. Since then, she amassed production credits on features with DreamWorks, Disney, Nickelodeon and others. “For a while, I thought I might take the artist route,” she […]

Greg Ehrbar|January 27, 2017

Interview: Joby Talbot, Composer of “Sing”

Scoring a film that contains upwards of 100 songs—either in part or complete—in addition to a background score, calls for the kind of composer who can turn with ease from classical to jazz to rock to hip-hop and so on. For Sing director Garth Jennings, the task fell to a longtime collaborator with astonishing versatility […]

Greg Ehrbar|January 23, 2017

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SERIES REVIEW: Dreamworks “Trollhunters”