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EXCLUSIVE: Crunchyroll is joining Korean K-pop supergroup BTS’s animated superhero adventure Bastions. The anime-focused international streamer has a struck a deal with producer Thymos Media for worldwide rights to the show, excluding China, Japan, Hong Kong, Taiwan, North Korea and South Korea. It…

Barney’s back. The iconic purple dinosaur is returning to the small screen for a new generation. Warner Bros. Discovery has picked up new CG-animated series Barney’s World for Cartoon Network’s preschool block Cartoonito and streaming on Max. The series, announced earlier this year as part of Mattel's…

Comedy is back; Super Mario Bros has proved that laughs are good for a half billion dollars. The antihero business is intact. Both Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3 and John Wick: Chapter 4 hit their marks. But affairs of the heart are still suffering at the movie box office. Love Again is the…

Australia’s Emmy-winning kids’ show Bluey is at the center of a row after the ABC and BBC Studios edited an episode to address concerns about fat shaming. The Season 3 episode, titled Exercise, featured Bluey’s father Bandit embarking on a fitness regime after he stands on the bathroom scales and…

EXCLUSIVE: Disney’s live-action take of two-time Oscar-nominated animated feature The Little Mermaid officially landed on tracking today for what looks to be a $110M 4-day opening over Memorial Day weekend. That will land the movie among the top eight openings for the holiday frame, with last year…

EXCLUSIVE: Paris-based sales and production company Charades and London-based production and financing studio Anton are partnering on the worldwide sales of Oscar-winning Australian director Adam Elliot's upcoming stop-motion drama Memoir Of A Snail. The poignant tale of a young lonely misfit is the…

The recently launched Toonz Feature Film and China's Golden Valley Films have struck a co-production and co-financing deal for six animated pictures over the course of the next three years. The companies will also jointly oversee the sale and distribution of the titles, kicking off at the upcoming…

Oscar-nominated Xilam Animation will serve as animation studio for Zack Snyder’s upcoming epic 2D animated action series Twilight of the Gods. Set in the world of Norse mythology, the series is created by Snyder, who directs two episodes, Jay Olivia, who also directs, and Eric Carrasco. Series is…

Gkids has snapped up North American rights to Toei Animation’s film The First Slam Dunk, an adaptation of the hugely popular Takehiko Inoue manga, which Inoue wrote and directed for the screen. The film which has already proven a smash hit in other territories, grossing over $212M globally, will hit…

The prestigious Visions du Réel film festival in Nyon, Switzerland wraps up this weekend, after hosting the world premiere of dozens of documentaries. One of those world premieres, the feature documentary Amany, Behind the Lines, centers on Amany Al-Ali, considered to be the first female cartoonist…

EXCLUSIVE: The viral gaming sensation Vampire Survivors is in the works for television. Story Kitchen is partnering with the game’s developer, poncle founder Luca Galante, to adapt the comedic gothic horror video game into a premium, animated television series. In the game described as Vox Machina…

EXCLUSIVE: Scott Greenberg, co-founder and CEO of Fox's animation studio Bento Box Entertainment, the company behind Dan Harmon's Krapopolis and Apple TV+'s Central Park, is leaving. Greenberg, who is also CEO of Fox's Web3 media and creative technology company Blockchain Creative Labs, is leaving on…