Netflix Drops ‘Castlevania: Nocturne’ Season 2 Trailer, Key Art, and Images
The Vampire Messiah animated thriller series gets another go at enslaving humanity when new episodes hit the streamer on January 16, 2025.
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Andrew Whitehurst Recreates the WWII Bombing of London for ‘Blitz’
The Oscar-winning VFX supervisor helped plan, design and deliver 500 visual effect shots for the Steve McQueen period drama about a 9-year-old evacuee who tries to journey back home to find his mother, turning back the clock to depict the devastating effects on the city and its people of the Nazi aerial attacks on England.
‘Kinnikuman Perfect Origin Arc’ Season 2 Coming to Netflix January 12
Watch the trailer for the sequel series, based on the original manga ‘Kinnikuman’ and 1983 anime, about the galaxy's fragile peace under the Three-Faction Treaty that is jeopardized by the sudden rise of the Perfect Large Numbers Corps, an elite group intent on overturning the accord.
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Ryan Gillis and Sunil Hall Talk ‘StuGo’ and the Weird Wonders of Nature
New 2D kids’ series features 6 middle-schoolers, a mad scientist, and summer camp adventures filled with mind-reading manatees, fashion forward mutants, and other crazy critters; premieres January 11 on Disney Channel.
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Crunchyroll Updates Winter 2025 Anime Season Lineup
Highlights of the slate include ‘Dr. STONE SCIENCE FUTURE,’ ‘Dragon Ball DAIMA,’ ‘The Apothecary Diaries’ Season 2, and more.
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‘In This Corner (and Other Corners) of the World’: A Story Rethought
AWN’s anime columnist Andrew Osmond discusses the much-extended version of Sunao Katabuchi’s acclaimed 2016 war drama film, ‘In This Corner of the World,’ now available on Crunchyroll; but first he asks, ‘When did animated films get so long?’
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CBeebies Unveils ‘Wonderblocks’ Animated Educational Series
Following the success of ‘Numberblocks,’ ‘Alphablocks,’ and ‘Colourblocks,’ the Blue Zoo Animation project is designed to ignite essential pre-coding skills in young viewers, training their brains through adventure and problem-solving fun.
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‘Apple Hills’ Animated Series Headed to Cartoon Network’s YouTube Channel
The Danish 2D animated series produced by Nice Ninja and co-produced with DR will begin streaming January 12.
Art Directors Guild Awards Nominations Released
Nominees for the 29th Annual Excellence in Production Design awards, covering film / animated film, TV, commercials, and music videos, were just announced; ceremony set for February 15.
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Netflix Drops ‘Sakamoto Days’ Final Trailer, Names English Voice Cast
The upcoming anime series, which follows a legendary assassin who falls in love, marries, has kids, falls out of shape, but must resume old fighting ways, streams January 11.
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Masaki Watanabe Talks ‘Sakamoto Days’
The director breaks down the unique and challenging animation production on his new Netflix anime series about a legendary assassin who falls in love, marries, has kids, and falls out of shape, but must resume old ways to ensure his peaceful new life, streaming January 11.
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NVIDIA Expands Cloud Gaming with GeForce NOW App
Debuting later this year, app for the Steam Deck will allow gamers to play their favorite PC titles at GeForce RTX quality; GeForce NOW cloud gaming will also be available on Apple Vision Pro spatial computers, Meta Quest 3, and 3S and Pico virtual/mixed-reality devices.
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Sony Announces ‘The Last of Us’ Season 2 Premiere
The upcoming season of the hit series, based on Naughty Dog’s PlayStation video game franchise, will debut this April on HBO, also streaming on Max.
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‘Ghost of Tsushima: Legends’ Anime Series Coming to Crunchyroll in 2027
Takanobu Mizuno will helm the project, with animation by KAMIKAZE DOUGA; the anime platform is teaming with Aniplex, Sony Music, Playstation Productions to produce.
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Crunchyroll Announces ‘Crunchyroll Manga’ App
The standalone app for iOS and Android, debuting later this year as a membership add-on, will feature manga from top Japanese publishers.
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Disney to Merge Hulu + Live TV With Fubo
The deal, still subject to regulatory approvals, will form a combined virtual MVPD company; Fubo’s existing management team, led by David Gandler, will operate the newly combined Sports & Broadcast services.
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Bizaar Studios Launches, George R.R. Martin and Conrad Vernon Named to Advisory Board
New company bets on future of adult animation, will offer development, marketing and distribution across TV and films, as well as free streaming services.
Disney Sets ‘Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir’ Season 6 Premiere
The animated series, which follows the adventures of two seemingly typical teens with secret identities, debuts January 25 in the U.S. on Disney Channel and Disney XD with episodes airing in simulcast at 11am ET/PT.
Scanline VFX Shares ‘Senna’ VFX Breakdown Reel
The leading visual effects company handled both client side and vendor side production on Netflix’s limited series that tells the story of the late Brazilian Formula 1 driver Ayrton Senna.
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Getty Images to Merge with Shutterstock
Combined company expected to be ‘well-positioned to meet the evolving needs of creative, media, and advertising industries through combined investment in content creation, event coverage, and product and technology innovation.’
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‘Flow,’ ‘Wicked,’ and ‘Shōgun’ Notch Golden Globe Wins
The awards season kicked off last night with films by Latvian director Gints Zilbalodis and Jon M. Chu taking home awards for Best Motion Picture – Animated and Cinematic and Box Office Achievement, respectively, along with Justin Marks and Rachel Kondo’s historical drama set in 1600s Japan winning for Best Television Series - Drama, at the Hollywood Foreign Press Association’s 82nd Annual awards.
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2025 BAFTA Longlists Revealed
‘Despicable Me 4,’ ‘Flow,’ ‘Inside Out 2,’ ‘Memoir of a Snail,’ ‘Moana 2,’ ‘That Christmas,’ ‘Wallace and Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl,’ and ‘The Wild Robot’ advance in the Best Animated Film category as voting begins for the coveted British film awards; nominations announced January 15, with awards revealed at February 16 ceremony.
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‘Regular Show: The Complete Series’ Coming to DVD February 4
All 245 episodes of JG Quintel and Cartoon Network’s Emmy Award-winning animated comedy starring Mordecai, Rigby, and their collection of pals will be released for the very first time, along with special features and a movie… 50 hours of animated joy in all.
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Joseph Game (Chogrin) and Ichi Aguilar’s ‘Lucky Brave’s Sunshine’ Now on YouTube
The 3DCG short, a coming-of-age space Western based on an original story and characters by Chogrin, was animated in Quito, Ecuador by Matte CG & Inti Fx, and produced by Jorge R. Gutierrez.
‘Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl’ Debuts on Netflix
Aardman’s all-new stop-motion comedy adventure, nominated for a Golden Globe and Critics Choice Award for best animated feature, follows Wallace’s new invention - Norbot, a ‘smart’ gnome that seems to develop a mind of its own; film hits the streamer today, January 3.
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