EXCLUSIVE: IMDb announced its first-ever scripted series You’re Not a Monster featuring the voices of Kelsey Grammer, Eric Stonestreet, Aparna Nancherla, Ellie Kemper, Patton Oswalt and others. The animated series is set to premiere this fall, but IMDb will give a sneak peek of the new show featuring iconic movie…

Netflix is kicking it really old school with its next kids series. The streamer is teaming with King Features for The Cuphead Show! an animated take on the globally popular video game from Studio MDHR that deploys 1930s-style animation. Famous for its wild boss-brawls, challenging gameplay and especially its retro…

It’s official. After a long gestation, LeSean Thomas's Cannon Busters is coming to Netflix. The highly anticipated adaptation of the comic book created by Thomas will be released on August 15 on the streaming giant. The announcement was made Sunday during Los Angeles’ Anime Expo via Netflix’s sci-fi and fantasy…

A new anime film will be available for purchase using blockchain tokens. The film, Vevara In Your Dream, is distributed by Singapore entertainment tech startup BlockPunk, indie anime studio Studio Arch, and film director syo5, the latter self-producing it at the Tokyo University of the Arts. The ten-minute film…

EXCLUSIVE: Saturday Night Live co-head writer and Weekend Update anchor Colin Jost has boarded Warner Bros’ live-action/animation hybrid Tom and Jerry.  He joins Chlöe Grace Moretz and Michael Peña who have already been announced. Tim Story is directing and executive producing the update of the 1940 cartoon shorts…

Gkids has acquired the North American distribution rights to Ride Your Wave, the latest pic from director Masaaki Yuasa, which premiered last month at the Annecy International Animated Film Festival. A 2020 theatrical release is planned. The film tells the complicated love story of a surf-loving college student named…

Filmmakers and actors Tommy Wiseau and Greg Sestero are going from the confines of the cult hit The Room to intergalactic adventures in the new animated pilot SpaceWorld. Wiseau and Sestero are lending their voice to the loosely serialized animated sci-fi series. Wiseau stars as the mysterious bounty hunter known as…

An episode of the long-awaited fourth season of Adult Swim’s Rick and Morty will get an exclusive, never-before-seen screening at the second annual Adult Swim Festival in November. The two-day event in Los Angeles runs Friday, Nov. 15-Saturday, Nov. 16, with the Rick and Morty screening set for Day 2. Adult Swim had…

It’s been 20 years since Family Matters star Jaleel White last portrayed iconic nerd Steve Urkel. Now, he’s bringing the character back in a new animated Scooby-Doo that’s airing on the Boomerang streaming service. White posted a first-look at the animated version of Urkel on Instagram today. His character will bow on…

It seems only fitting that musician and songwriter Jonathan Coulton began his relationship with Robert and Michelle King, married co-creators of CBS' The Good Wife—and its CBS All Access spinoff, The Good Fight (with Phil Alden Robinson)—because of a legal dispute. A 2014 Good Wife episode drew inspiration from a…

Disney announced this morning that its Pixar film for next summer is Soul. The studio already had June 19 RSVP’ed on the 2020 calendar for an untitled Pixar movie, and this is it. Soul will be the second original Pixar film next year after Onward, which bows March 6. The tagline for Soul: Ever wonder where your…

No, that's not a typo in the title of Amy Winfrey's Making Fiends. The multifaceted Winfrey (animator, screenwriter, songwriter, director and voice actor) created a children's horror web series about a murderous little girl whose friends are monsters and whose nemesis is Pollyanna on steroids that was madly delightful…