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‘All Wishes Come True!’ Tops China’s Box Office As Local Animation Boom Continues
Pearl Studio’s animated fantasy had a $43.8 million weekend as locally produced animation continues its historic run at China’s box office.
Amazon MGM Developing Animated Mad Hatter Feature Based On Lewis Carroll’s Character
Venice-Bound Short ‘Rock, Paper, Scissors’ Turns An Amusement Park Into A Coming-Of-Age Nightmare (EXCLUSIVE TRAILER)
Manchester Animation Festival Launches U.K.’s First Feature Animation Market Accelerator
SDCC 2026 Weekend Roundup: ‘Futurama’ Specials, Fan-Favorite Holiday Episodes, And ‘American Dad!’ No. 400
‘Toy Story 5’ Passes $1 Billion At Global Box Office, 2026’s Highest-Grossing Film So Far
‘The Great Mouse Detective’ Turns 40: A History Of Animation’s Best Investigators
For The Great Mouse Detective’s 40th anniversary, Vincent Alexander investigates animated sleuths from silent shorts to modern anime.
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SDCC 2026: New Looks At ‘Common Side Effects’ S2 And ‘Regular Show,’ Plus Three Early Renewals
Adult Swim offered fresh footage while Cartoon Network, Hasbro, and Warner Bros. revealed renewals, new episodes, and series plans.
Re:Anima Joint Master In Animation Has Opened A New Call For Applications
The program offers an intensive two-year exploration of animation from an artistic perspective in Ireland, Belgium, or Portugal.
Rintaro Working On New ‘Galaxy Express 999’ Feature At Toei Animation
Toei Animation will produce the new film, based on an original story concept by the director of the franchise’s classic 1979 original feature.
Audiences Will Finally Get To See ‘Star Wars Detours,’ But Only At The Lucas Museum
Shelved after Disney acquired Lucasfilm, the animated parody has 39 completed episodes, but only a curated selection will be shown.
‘Avatar: Seven Havens’ Gets First Teaser And October Premiere Date
‘The Legend of Korra’ follow-up series follows Earthbender Pavi through a shattered world where the new Avatar is feared as humanity’s destroyer.
Former Pixar Story Artist Matt Jones Turned A Pandemic Zoom Class Into A Feature-Length Animatic
The ‘YOKAi’ project gave aspiring story artists studio-style experience while testing a collaborative model for online animation education.
‘Black Slide’ Turns A Terrifying Waterslide Into A Powerful Metaphor For Childhood Grief
The deeply personal short, set in a 1990s water park, draws on Lotan’s own loss, pairing stylized CG with impressive lighting and VFX.
Paramount-Warner Bros. Merger Delayed By Federal Judge
A multistate antitrust lawsuit has delayed David Ellison’s $110 billion deal this week, with a preliminary injunction hearing set for August 3.
‘Swapped’ Becomes Netflix’s No. 10 Original Movie Of All Time With 11 Days To Climb Higher
With 139.8 million views and 11 days still to climb, Nathan Greno’s Skydance feature gives animation two films in Netflix’s all-time top ten.
Booyaka! ‘Rey Mysterio Vs. The Darkness’ Drops First U.S. Trailer Ahead Of SDCC, YouTube Premieres (EXCLUSIVE)
¡Viva Calavera!’s popular lucha libre action series will screen at Comic-Con before its first episode arrives on YouTube in both English and Spanish.
After A $1.4 Billion Box Office Year (So Far), Pixar Hit By Disney Layoffs Amid ‘Long And Lean’ Shift
The studio is reportedly among the divisions hardest hit in Disney’s third major round of job cuts under new CEO Josh D’Amaro.
‘Brave’ Director Mark Andrews Boards ‘John Carter, Warlord Of Mars’ Animated Series
The Oscar-winning ‘Brave’ director will serve as supervising director and co-showrunner on the first animated adaptation of Edgar Rice Burroughs’ saga.
‘To The Woods,’ ‘My Good Boy,’ ‘Paradaïz’ Score Top Honors At Anibar 2026
The Kosovo-based festival’s 17th edition screened 217 films across 11 program categories and hosted the Pitch It competition for emerging filmmakers
Spain’s Weird Market Partners With Sitges For Its 18th Edition
After four years in Valencia and some local uncertainty, Spain’s key animation networking event has found a suitably weird new home at Sitges.
Three Tiny TV Stars Face A Grim Fate In Nina Gantz’s Oscar-Nominated ‘Wander To Wonder,’ Now Online
The BAFTA and Annie-winning dark comedy short follows three TV miniature actors who keep performing after their creator dies and their food runs out.
Netflix Used GenAI Workflows On Nearly 300 Titles This Year So Far
Most of the work occurred in post-production, as Netflix increasingly turns to AI to create complex shots faster and at a lower cost.
Pearl Studio’s ‘All Wishes Come True!’ Trailer Turns The Eight Immortals Into A Heist Crew
The former Oriental DreamWorks and its parent company, CMC Pictures, unveils a Chinese mythological comedy about eight mortals attempting to rob the gods.