Animal Logic announces the musical adaptation of ‘Toto: The Dog-Gone Amazing Story of the Wizard of Oz’
Animal Logic (The LEGO Movie franchise, Peter Rabbit, Happy Feet) confirmed that the feature musical adaptation of Toto: The Dog-Gone Amazing Story of the Wizard of Oz will be the next project produced out of their animation studio in Vancouver. The Warner Animation Group movie is based on the book by...
Netflix drops the trailer of the new ‘Pacific Rim’ anime series
Netflix is reentering the world of Legendary’s Pacific Rim franchise with an anime series called Pacific Rim: The Black. It is being produced by Legendary Television Studios with Polygon Pictures providing the animation for the series. The showrunners for this series are Greg Johnson (Transformers: Rescue Bots) and Marvel Comics...
Planeta Junior announces new shows on Kidscreen Summit
Planeta Junior, leading European children’s and youth entertainment company will be actively involved at the Kidscreen Summit, the kids’ entertainment industry’s most important annual event that is taking place virtually from 8 February to 5 March. The company is attending the event with new Planeta Junior Original...
Rainshine Entertainment teams up with Animasia studio to co-produce ‘Young Captian Nemo’
Rainshine Entertainment, a global entertainment company has joined hands with Malaysia-based Animasia Studio, an award-winning animation and digital content production house to co-produce a trilogy of animated feature films adapted from the Young Captain Nemo books trilogy. This film trilogy is the first of a multi-project partnership with the...
‘Black Panther’ Director Ryan Coogler signs 5 year deal with Disney
The Walt Disney Company has expanded its partnership with Black Panther director Ryan Coogler, by signing a five-year television deal with his Proximity Media. Coogler, who is currently working on the Black Panther sequel, will now develop new TV series for the studio. The first offering is...
CAKE partners with Italian broadcaster Rai for a new pre-school series ‘Pablo’
Leading kids’ entertainment specialist, CAKE, has signed a deal with Italian public broadcaster Rai for the first season of ground-breaking pre-school animated series Pablo. The deal finalised by CAKE’s head of sales Bianca Rodriguez sees Rai joining key public broadcasters including TVE Spain, RTP Portugal, Czech TV, NRK...
Crunchy Roll announces a deal with Idris and Sabrina Elba for a dark anime series ‘Dantai’
Crunchyroll announced a deal with Idris and Sabrina Elba, in conjunction with Idris’ Green Door Pictures and Sabrina’s Pink Towel Pictures, to develop Dantai (working title), a dark fantasy animated series. Idris and Sabrina Elba will serve as executive producers. Crunchyroll is also announcing that the global...
Nickelodeon partners with Eye Present, Gigglebug and Nelvana to produce ‘Best & Bester’
London-based Eye Present, Helsinki-based Gigglebug Entertainment and Toronto-based Nelvana have announced that they are partnering on Nickelodeon International bound Best & Bester, a hilarious new animated comedy series created by Joonas Utti and Anttu Harlin. The three-way co-production of the exuberantly energetic series was pre-bought by Nickelodeon International...
Animation writer and director Marc Wilmore dies from COVID-19
Emmy-winning comedy and animation writer, director, performer and producer Marc Edward Wilmore — known in animation circles for his work on The Simpsons and F Is for Family — died January 30 in Pomona, California, due to COVID-19 and ongoing health issues caused by a kidney transplant many years ago. News...
Netflix announces the new ‘Sonic Prime’ series to release in 2022
Netflix, SEGA of America, Inc. and WildBrain announce a new animated Sonic the Hedgehog series, Sonic Prime, set to premiere worldwide in 2022. “Sonic is a beloved character and holds a special place in everyone’s heart, including my own,” said Dominique Bazay, Director of Original Animation, Netflix. “I spent many...