Third Time’s The Charm: Warner Bros. Relaunches Its Feature Animation Division Yet Again
Has Warner Bros. finally figured out how to run a feature animation division?
Has Warner Bros. finally figured out how to run a feature animation division?
The show, a “modernized” and “dynamic” reboot of the 1990s live-action series, will debut later this year.
The news of Damaschke’s official appointment came during WBD’s Q1 earnings call led by CEO David Zaslav.
A seventh-season reboot has been picked up by WBD, which will also put the show on Max in EMEA.
Warner Bros. Discovery has given Rogers a one-off licensing deal to wrap up the story he started with the animated series.
Paramount says WBD owes them more than $50 million in back licensing fees for content sent to HBO Max.
Series creators Doc Hammer and Christopher McCulloch (aka Jackson Publick) wrote and executive produced the film, with McCulloch directing.
The prequel series takes place in 1920s Shanghai and will expand the lore of the 1984 live-action cult classic.
Ouwleen believes the growing pains that accompanied the Warner Bros. and Discovery merger are now behind them.
Eight unique and personal animated shorts debut on HBO Max today.
The series is a throwback to the iconic ‘Batman: The Animated Series,’ and that show’s co-creator Bruce Timm is attached.
The newly-restored films will be available May 16 on digital and Blu-ray.
WBD says Paramount used “verbal trickery” to circumvent the terms of their 2019 agreement.
The shorts were produced as part of Warners’ HBO Max x Warnermedia Access Animated Shorts Program.
The duo also unveiled the animated series ‘Creature Commandos,’ explaining its voice actors will play their characters in live action too.
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“With animation, we used to be about staying in-house but now we are doing it on different platforms,” says WBTV chief Channing Dungey.
A look at how animation has been affected by the upheaval since Discovery completed its acquisition of Warner Bros. back in April.
The co-heads will begin their four-year term on November 1 and steer Warner’s DC output across film, tv, and animation.
Cartoon Network Studios and Warner Bros. Animation are consolidating into a single unit, and that’s an ominous sign for the future of new, original Cartoon Network animation.