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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‘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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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.
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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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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Unpacking the Alien Antics of ‘The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie’
Director Peter Browngardt looked to the films of Ed Wood as he put Daffy Duck and Porky Pig right in the middle of a secret extraterrestrial mind control plot in the all-new animated sci-fi action comedy, coming to U.S. theaters February 28.
‘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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‘The Batman Part II’ Delayed Again… Now Coming in 2027
Previously slated to swoop into theaters in 2025… then in 2026… Matt Reeves’ film will now premiere October 1, 2027; an untitled Alejandro G. Iñárritu and Tom Cruise flick will take the vacated October 2, 2026 slot.
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Peacock Cancels ‘In the Know’ Stop-Motion Series
The adult animated parody, co-created by Zach Woods with Mike Judge and Brandon Gardner, follows NPR’s third most popular host, a well-meaning puppet - and nimrod - interviewing real celebrity guests with no knowledge of what they’ll be asked.
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Studio AKA Reveals ‘Bad Tidings’ Title Sequence
The BAFTA and Emmy award-winning animation studio crafted the main titles for the Sky Studios Christmas feature, utilizing retro typography and visuals inspired by ‘The Pink Panther’ and ‘Home Alone.’
Netflix Drops ‘Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl’ Featurette
Go behind-the-scenes with Ben Whitehead, the voice of Wallace, as he talks elongated vowels, phonetic sounds, and how ‘necessity is the mother-in-law of invention’ in this new video that also features some nifty time-lapse stop-motion production and new character PC Mukhergee, voiced by Lauren Patel; film hits the streamer January 3.
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Disney+ Drops ‘Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man’ Series Trailer
Streaming January 29, the new Marvel Animation show follows Peter Parker on his way to becoming a hero in a style that celebrates his early comic book roots.
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Sony's Beyond Sports, ESPN Team for NBA Real-time Animated Altcast
The Disney-themed Christmas Day program continued the 2024 sports production trend of building immersive viewing events to enhance fan engagement and attract new audiences.
‘Bluey’ to Join Disney’s U.S. Theme Parks and Cruise Line
Beginning January 2025, voyages originating from Australia and New Zealand will feature interactions with Bluey and Bingo, from special meet-and-greets to an interactive and clue-filled game that ends in a dance party.
HBO Renews ‘Dune: Prophecy’ for Season 2
The HBO Original drama, which follows two Harkonnen sisters as they establish the Bene Gesserit 10,000 years prior to the ascension of Paul Atreides, gets picked up for a second season; Season 1 streaming now on Max.
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