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The biggest week in the world of animation wrapped up Saturday as the 2025 edition of the Annecy International Animation Film Festival drew to a close with what should have been a…
At this year’s Annecy Animation Festival, Netflix unveiled a first look at its upcoming original animated feature “In Your Dreams,” produced by Kuku Studios. Directed by Alex Woo and…
Walt Disney Animation Studios brought some serious star power to the Annecy Animation Festival this week, as chief creative officer, director and screenwriter Jared Bush offered the…
“It’s a film by Pedro Almodóvar, but animated,” “Women Wearing Shoulder Pads” creator and director Gonzalo Cordova said during an Annecy Work in Progress session on Friday. The influence…
When a Masaaki Yuasa project is announced, a minimum threshold of visual ambition is expected – his upcoming feature “Daisy’s Life” seems even more far-reaching in concept than his last.…
Based on Anthony Bourdain’s graphic novel, the upcoming animated series “Get Jiro” welcomes the audience into a world where people will literally kill themselves to get into good…
One of the more hotly anticipated work-in-progress sessions at this year’s Annecy Animation Festival was for “Viva Carmen,” a new feature from director Sébastien Laudenbach. At the 2023…
Crunchyroll, a global anime brand and streaming service that recently topped 17 million subscribers, is consolidating ever more as a major entertainment player. As its platform now boasts…
French animation powerhouse Miyu Productions has teamed with Tokyo-based upstart Nothing New to co-produce “We Are Aliens,” a coming-of-age tale now in development, and slated for…
There’s a deep melancholy emanating from “The Last Blossom,” Baku Kinoshita‘s anime feature, playing in competition at this year’s Annecy Animation Festival. Kinoshita’s directorial debut…
Paris-based MIAM Animation is bringing back its popular preschool series “Edmond and Lucy” for a second season. Following the success of Season 1, which has been sold in over 50 countries,…
Netflix took center stage early evening at Annecy today with its Bonlieu-hosted presentation Next on Netflix Animation: From “Stranger Things” to “In Your Dreams.” The standing room only…
Latest Warner Bros. Animation offering, “Cat in the Hat” – based on the Dr. Seuss creation – will introduce the audience to three different universes, its team revealed at Annecy. “We have…
Animation powerhouse Passion Paris is joining forces with acclaimed game developer Amplitude Studios to develop a new animated series set in the beloved Endless universe. The announcement…
“Animal Farm” has always been, since its first publication in 1945 by British novelist George Orwell, both a timeless tale and a story of its time. It is no surprise, then, that Andy…
At the Annecy Animation Festival today, Fortiche, the acclaimed French animation house behind the hit series “Arcane,” announced it is diving into original IP with the upcoming miniseries…
BBC Studios Kids & Family is developing a new animated series aimed at 8 to 12-year-olds, in collaboration with Blink Industries. “Children Vs Battle SuperStars” (working title) will be…
A group of international workers’ unions is planning a protest to raise the alarm over the dangers of AI in the field of animation at the Annecy Animation Festival this afternoon. With a…
Chinese streaming giant Tencent has inked a deal with France-based Animation Digital Network (ADN) for its martial arts epic “Blades of the Guardians,” Variety has learned. The agreement…
From the beginning of its Work in Progress session at Annecy’s Pierre Lamy Theatre, directors Sunao Katabuchi and Chie Uratani’s love of history couldn’t be clearer. The session, based…
Crunchyroll and Sony Pictures Entertainment are gearing up to release a new theatrical installment from one of anime’s most commercially successful franchises. Announced at the Annecy…
Between 1989 and 2003, more than 50,000 children were enlisted in the Liberian and Sierra Leonean civil wars. Lives were torn apart, a tragedy Ivorian author Ahmadou Kourouma used as…
During a presentation at the Annecy Animation Festival today, Sony Pictures Animation unveiled the voice cast for its upcoming feature, “GOAT,” an original action-comedy slated to hit…
Animation Is Film (AIF), the acclaimed Los Angeles-based animation sister festival to France’s iconic Annecy Animation Festival, has announced its 2025 return with a run scheduled from…
