Kirk DeMicco received an Oscar nomination in 2014 with his co-director Chris Sanders for DreamWorks The Croods. Now DeMicco is the director of Sony Pictures Animation’s first-ever musical Vivo, which debuts this Friday August 6th on Netflix. DeMicco discusses working with songwriter and lead voice actor Lin-Manuel Miranda and the power of music in animation. […]
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INTERVIEW: Megan Nicole Dong On Her Rainbow Road To “Centaurworld”
July 27th, 2021 
Jackson Murphy Centaurworld premieres this Friday July 30th on Netflix. The talented Megan Nicole Dong shares how she brought her life passions together to create a series with heroism, friendship, adventure, music and a key sense of belonging. Jackson Murphy: I’ve enjoyed the series so far. I’ll start right off the bat by saying that Greek Mythology […]
FIRST LOOK: Lin-Manuel Miranda’s “Vivo”
July 21st, 2021 Jerry Beck Netflix announced the morning that its musical feature (picked up from Sony Pictures Animation) Vivo will release globally on Netflix on August 6th, 2021. About the Clip: Vivo, a musically gifted kinkajou (aka a rainforest “honey bear”) embarks on the adventure of a lifetime to deliver a song to his cherished owner’s long-lost love, with […]
INTERVIEW: Creator Chris Nee On “Ridley Jones” And “We The People”
July 7th, 2021 Jackson Murphy Chris Nee, creator of Disney’s Doc McStuffins and Vampirina, is now making a major impact at Netflix. She has several projects in the works for the streamer and two new series premiering this month: music event We the People (which debuted on July 4th) and family adventure Ridley Jones (which starts this Tuesday July 13th). […]
INTERVIEW: Reuniting With Peter Ramsey To Talk “We The People” Episode
July 1st, 2021 Jackson Murphy I first interviewed Peter Ramsey in 2012 for his DreamWorks Animation feature Rise of the Guardians. We met-up at the Critics Choice Awards a couple months later. In 2018, Ramsey co-directed Sony’s Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, which earned him an Academy Award. He’s one of the busiest and most respected guys working in animation today. […]
TEASER TRAILER AND FIRST LOOK: Netflix’s Aardman Holiday Special “Robin Robin”
June 17th, 2021 Jerry Beck Netflix has released the first look and teaser trailer for the upcoming stop-animation musical holiday special, Robin Robin, which will debut on the service on November 27th, 2021. The 30 minute special is produced for Netflix by the Oscar winning studio, Aardman Animation, based in Bristol, UK. The first look and teaser trailer coincides with […]
FIRST LOOK: Jorge R. Gutiérrez’ “Maya and The Three”
June 11th, 2021 Jerry Beck In a fantastical world filled with magic, a Mesoamerican-inspired warrior princess embarks on an epic quest to fulfill an ancient prophecy and save humanity from the vengeful gods of the underworld. So begins Director/Creator Jorge R. Gutiérrez’ Maya and The Three, a new film announced today at the Annecy Festival. Take a look below for […]
FIRST LOOK: Netflix’s newest preschool series “Ridley Jones”
June 8th, 2021 Jerry Beck Ridley Jones is Netflix’s newest preschool series, following six-year-old Ridley who, alongside her mother and grandmother, is a protector of the museum she calls home. Keeping the exhibits safe takes a real hero, especially when the lights go out and the exhibits — from Egyptian mummies to stampeding elephants — come to life! Throughout her […]
INTERVIEW: “Wish Dragon” Director On Dream Movie Coming True
June 7th, 2021 Jackson Murphy Chris Appelhans is the writer and director of the animated adventure Wish Dragon. It’s about Din, a young man who looks to reconnect with an old friend with the help of a special genie dragon named Long. Wish Dragon is a Sony Pictures Animation feature that will be on Netflix this Friday June 11th. Appelhans […]
TRAILER: Netflix “America: The Motion Picture”
June 3rd, 2021 Jerry Beck For, like, thousands of years, the origins of the United States of America have remained shrouded in mystery, lost to the sands of time. Who built this ‘country tis of thee,’ and why? Only the dinosaurs know… until now. For the first time in human history, the incredible, completely true story of America’s origins are […]
FIRST LOOK: Netflix “We The People”
June 2nd, 2021 Jerry Beck Netflix today announced a new series premiering July 4th, We The People. Created by Chris Nee and Executive produced by Barack and Michelle Obama, Kenya Barris, Tonia Davis, and Priya Swaminathan, the series combines music and animation to educate a new generation of young Americans about the power of the people. We the People is […]
New CG Animated Feature Film “Ultraman” in Development at Netflix
May 13th, 2021 Jerry Beck Netflix is developing a CG-animated feature film Ultraman in partnership with Tsuburaya Productions and Industrial Light and Magic. Ultraman joins Netflix’s fast growing original slate of animated features which includes Academy Award nominated Klaus, Kris Pearn’s The Willoughbys, Academy Award Nominated Over the Moon from Glen Keane; as well as the Fall 2021 comedy Back […]
REVIEW: “The Mitchells vs. The Machines”
May 10th, 2021 Martin Goodman 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 […]
“Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Eternal The Movie” will Premiere on Netflix in June
April 27th, 2021 Jerry Beck Netflix today revealed that the latest installment in the hugely successful franchise, Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Eternal The Movie Part 1 & Part 2 will be premiering globally on Netflix (outside of Japan) on June 3, 2021. Created by Naoko Takeuchi and first serialized in Kodansha’s manga magazine ‘Nakayosi’ in December 1991, the stories of […]
Netflix Animated Films Summer Preview
April 27th, 2021 Jerry Beck Netflix is determined to conquer animation with sheer volume of diverse projects. Here is their line up of feature films to be released between now and the end of summer. Check out this rundown with new images and teaser trailers. First up: VIVO From Sony Pictures Animation comes VIVO, an animated musical adventure that follows […]
