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‘GOAT’: How Director Tyree Dillihay Got Animated About Basketball
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.
Sony Classics To Release Sylvain Chomet’s “A Magnificent Life” on March 27th

Sony Classics To Release Sylvain Chomet’s “A Magnificent Life” on March 27th

Avatar photoJerry Beck|
February 2nd, 2026
The film was written and directed by four-time Academy Award nominee Sylvain Chomet (THE TRIPLETS OF BELLEVILLE), and it has since been nominated for “Best Feature (Independent)” at the 2026 Annie Awards.
‘Scarlet’: Mamoru Hosoda Re-Imagines a Gender-Swapped, Trippy, Anime ‘Hamlet’

‘Scarlet’: Mamoru Hosoda Re-Imagines a Gender-Swapped, Trippy, Anime ‘Hamlet’

Avatar photoBill Desowitz|
December 9th, 2025
Mamoru Hosoda had no idea that there were so many Hamlet movies in 2025 until he was asked about it at the Toronto Film Festival. These include Chloé Zhao’s Hamnet, which explores the tragic inspiration for Hamlet, the modern take set in London’s South Asian community, starring Riz Ahmed, King Hamlet, a documentary about Oscar Isaac facing personal grief during his […]

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New Short and New Release Date for Sony’s “Hotel Transylvania: Transformania”

Hotel Transylvania: Transformania the final chapter of the successful franchise from Sony Pictures Animation, will now hit theatres July 23rd, 2021. Franchise creator Genndy Tartakovsky returns as screenwriter and executive producer, alongside Michelle Murdocca and Selena Gomez, who will also reprise her role as Dracula’s daughter, Mavis. Today the studio dropped a new “Hotel Transylvania” […]
Avatar photoJerry Beck|April 9, 2021
New Short and New Release Date for Sony’s “Hotel Transylvania: Transformania”

TRAILER: Sony’s “The Mitchells Vs. The Machines”

Coming to Netflix on April 30th, from the humans at Lord/Miller who brought you Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse and The LEGO Movie comes The Mitchells vs. The Machines, an animated action-comedy about an ordinary family who find themselves in the middle of their biggest family challenge yet… saving the world from the robot apocalypse. Directed […]
Avatar photoJerry Beck|April 3, 2021
TRAILER: Sony’s “The Mitchells Vs. The Machines”

Sony Announces Animated Musical Adventure “K-Pop: Demon Hunters”

Sony Pictures Animation is in development on a feature project, tentatively titled K-Pop: Demon Hunters, from directors Maggie Kang (The Lego Ninjago Movie) and Chris Appelhans (Wish Dragon) and Academy Award-winning producer Aron Warner (Shrek, Wish Dragon). The film is described as a musical action adventure that follows the story of a world-renowned K-Pop girl […]
Avatar photoJerry Beck|March 8, 2021
Sony Announces Animated Musical Adventure “K-Pop: Demon Hunters”

Netflix Acquires Worldwide Rights to Sony Animation’s “The Mitchells vs. The Machines”

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, […]
Avatar photoJerry Beck|January 21, 2021
Netflix Acquires Worldwide Rights to Sony Animation’s “The Mitchells vs. The Machines”

HBO Max Greenlights Sony Animation “Young Love” From Matthew A. Cherry

HBO Max has ordered a 12-episode season of the all-new, 2D animated series, Young Love, based on the characters introduced in the Academy Award-winning short film, Hair Love from director Matthew A. Cherry and Sony Pictures Animation. The new series for HBO Max is created by Cherry, who will showrun with long-time animation creative Carl […]
Avatar photoJerry Beck|July 7, 2020
HBO Max Greenlights Sony Animation “Young Love” From Matthew A. Cherry

TRAILER: Sony’s “Connected”

Sony Pictures Animation’s Connected is an original animated comedy from director Mike Rianda (Gravity Falls) and producers Phil Lord and Christopher Miller (Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, The Lego Movie), about an everyday family’s struggle to relate while technology rises up around the world! It comes out on September 18th – and here’s our first look:
Avatar photoJerry Beck|March 3, 2020
TRAILER: Sony’s “Connected”

INTERVIEW: Here Comes “Peter Rabbit 2” From Director Will Gluck

Will Gluck directed 2018’s box office smash hit Peter Rabbit. Sequel Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway is now in theaters. Gluck is glad families can finally see the film (it was originally set to open around Easter 2020). And he hopes he and Sony can take more trips down the “Peter Rabbit” hole soon. (This […]