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INTERVIEW: Sylvain Chomet Chronicles “A Magnificent Life”
Four-time Academy Award nominee and BAFTA and Caesar Awards winner Sylvain Chomet (director of The Triplets of Belleville) discusses his latest animated feature, A Magnificent Life.
“Hoodwinked” Franchise Acquired By Content Partners LLC

“Hoodwinked” Franchise Acquired By Content Partners LLC

Haylie Baker|
October 28th, 2025
Arriving ahead of the title’s 20th anniversary, Hoodwinked along with its sequel Hoodwinked Too! have been acquired and rescued by Content Partners LLC with full rights to continue the franchise. The indie success is an atypical reimagining of The Little Red Riding Hood with a wacky sense of humor and powerhouse voice cast, featuring Glenn […]
Director Mamoru Hosoda’s “Scarlet” Heads To The Big Screen

Director Mamoru Hosoda’s “Scarlet” Heads To The Big Screen

Haylie Baker|
August 28th, 2025
Sony Pictures Classics announced that Mamoru Hosoda’s Scarlet will release to North American theatres in early 2026. For audiences outside of North America, Sony Pictures Releasing International is handling distribution. Ahead of its theatrical release, Scarlet will appear at several film festivals, debuting for the first time at the Venice International Film Festival. Scarlet will […]

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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: Bruce Smith on his Sony Short “Hair Love”

Bruce W. Smith is the co-director of Sony Pictures Animation’s heartwarming short Hair Love. It screened theatrically with The Angry Birds Movie 2 this summer and is now available to watch for free on SPA’s YouTube channel. Smith is also the creator of Disney’s beloved animated series The Proud Family, which is returning with new […]
Avatar photoJackson Murphy|December 12, 2019
INTERVIEW: Bruce Smith on his Sony Short “Hair Love”

REVIEW: “Angry Birds 2”

Before reviewing this sequel to Angry Birds (2016), I decided to try an experiment: I would see the movie pretending that I had never seen the original film or, in fact, even seen or heard of Rovio Entertainment’s app-born avian avengers. I pretended that I never played the game (I did, but stopped after they […]
Avatar photoMartin Goodman|August 21, 2019
REVIEW: “Angry Birds 2”

Short Film “Hair Love” to Hit North American Theaters Exclusively with “The Angry Birds Movie 2”

Hair Love is a heartfelt animated short film that centers around the relationship between an African-American father, his daughter Zuri, and the most daunting task a father could ever come across – doing his daughter’s hair. The short, a passion project from Matthew A. Cherry, will be making its theatrical debut in North America on August […]
Avatar photoJerry Beck|August 5, 2019
Short Film “Hair Love” to Hit North American Theaters Exclusively with “The Angry Birds Movie 2”

Sony Pictures Animation Unveils Upcoming Slate at Annecy Festival

Sony Pictures Animation made a splash at Annecy Festival, the animation industry’s largest annual gathering, presenting an exciting lineup of all-new animated features coming off of the success of the Oscar-winning Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse. Sony Animation’s president, Kristine Belson, shared exclusive visuals from the studio’s next major theatrical releases, including The Angry Birds Movie […]
Avatar photoJerry Beck|June 12, 2019
Sony Pictures Animation Unveils Upcoming Slate at Annecy Festival

REVIEW: “The Mitchells vs. The Machines”

Hot dog, especially if it’s a pug! Sony Animation’s The Mitchells vs. The Machines is finally out by way of Netflix, and it’s one of the best animated family films to hit the screens in quite some time. The producing team of Phil Lord and Christopher Miller (Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse) are proving to be […]