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INTERVIEW: A Glowing Journey “Into The Wonderwoods”

June 16th, 2025

Vincent Parannoud is the Oscar nominated co-director of Persepolis and now (with Alexis Ducord) the charming, sweet and quite funny animated feature Into the Wonderwoods. It’s available on VOD and Digital from Shout! Studios starting Tuesday June 24th. (This Animation Scoop Q&A is edited for length and clarity.) Jackson Murphy: It’s about a 10 year […]

INTERVIEW: “The Canterville Ghost” Adapts A Classic Into Animation

Jackson Murphy|

October 16th, 2023

Oscar Wilde’s legendary short story The Canterville Ghost becomes an animated feature, with a couple of surprises up its sleeves. It opens in theaters this Friday October 20th. Co-Director Robert Chandler joins me for this spooky good Animation Scoop Q&A. (This interview was edited for length and clarity.) Jackson Murphy: Oscar Wilde is an icon. […]

Shout Factory Releasing “Ainbo: Spirit Of The Amazon” in U.S. in November

Jerry Beck|

August 29th, 2022

An official selection of the 2021 Annecy International Animation Film Festival and recently nominated for Best Feature, Best Sound Design, and Best Original Music at the Ibero-American Animation Quirino Awards in Madrid, Ainbo: Spirit Of The Amazon smashed the box office in Spain and garnered international box office successes in France, Australia, New Zealand, and […]

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INTERVIEW: Bill Plympton Discusses his Animated Features

Shout! Factory has acquired the film library of independent animator Bill Plympton in a deal that encompasses all seven of the Plympton feature films (The Tune, I Married a Strange Person!, Mutant Aliens, Hair High, Idiots and Angels, Cheatin’, and his latest feature, Revengeance) – as well as over 50 of his shorts, including the […]

Jerry Beck|October 30, 2019

GKids to Release China’s “White Snake” in November

GKIDS will open White Snake in Los Angeles on November 15 and in New York and select theaters November 29. From Light Chaser Animation, one of China’s premiere animation studios, comes a visually stunning new take on a classic legend. One day a young woman named Blanca is saved by Xuan, a snake catcher from […]

Jerry Beck|October 8, 2019

Shout! Factory Announces Acquisition of Bill Plympton Library

Shout! Factory has acquired the library of acclaimed animator and cartoonist Bill Plympton. The deal encompasses all seven of the Plympton feature films (The Tune, I Married a Strange Person!, Mutant Aliens, Hair High, Idiots and Angels, Cheatin’, and his latest feature, Revengeance) as well as over 50 of his shorts, including the Academy Award-nominated […]

Jerry Beck|July 10, 2019

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