Animation Updates

When Warner Bros.’s hybrid feature Tom & Jerry came out earlier this year, many critics lamented that there wasn’t much of Tom and Jerry themselves in it. That was very much by design, according to writer Pat Casey. Speaking on The GHZ Podcast (listen here), Casey, co-writer of Paramount’s Sonic the Hedgehog movie and its...

The subtitle of the fourth Hotel Transylvania film is “Transformania,” but perhaps it should be “The Search for a Release Date.” The fourth and final installment of the franchise, Transformania is currently scheduled to be released on October 1st, but Deadline is reporting that Sony may move its release date, or even possibly shift...

The deadline for submitting animated features is November 1. Nominees will be announced on February 8, 2022, with the awards to follow on March 27. Belle Director: Mamoru HosodaCountry: JapanU.S. distribution: GKIDS A teenager slips into a teeming virtual world and assumes the identity of a popstar in Hosoda’s techno-utopian take on the Beauty and the Beast...

The feature was finally greenlit after a collaborator suggested that motion capture be used for the whole production. Fougea was sold, as was Pathé. Jamel Debbouze, probably France’s most bankable comedian at the time, came onboard. Debbouze was initially hired just to voice the lead character. After doing a script rewrite, he was talked into...

While the director has yet to release an animated film, she has been attached to a couple of animated projects in the past. In 2011, it was announced that she was developing Mumbai-set musical Monkeys of Bollywood at Dreamworks. In 2019, she was revealed to be directing an animated musical adaptation of the graphic...

A few plot twists later, Vivo embarks on a quest across Florida with Gabi (newcomer Ynairaly Simo), Andrés’s Pollyannaish great-niece. She wants to help him, despite knowing zilch about music. They meet colorful characters along the way, including a lovesick spoonbill and a trio of overzealous eco-warriors. I recently wrote that climate activists are...

A kinkajou sings songs penned by Lin-Manuel Miranda as he voyages from Cuba to Miami with a little girl. Sony Pictures Animation’s Vivo, which debuts on Netflix on August 6, is every bit as offbeat as that sentence suggests. Vivo the kinkajou (a monkey-like animal) is a mammal on a mission: he has to deliver...

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Teasers for two highly anticipated animated features have dropped ahead of the films’ world premieres. Masaaki Yuasa’s Inu-Oh will premiere at Venice Film Festival (September 1–11), in the Horizons section. The feature is a musical period piece set in 14th-century Japan, starring a cursed Noh performer and a blind biwa lute player. It will come...

Among the slim lineup of animation premieres at Cannes was Where Is Anne Frank, the latest feature from Israel’s Ari Folman. The director, whose Waltz With Bashir debuted at the festival in 2008, has reimagined the well-known story of the young Holocaust victim for his new film. Anne Frank appears alongside her imaginary friend Kitty,...