Apple TV+ Drops ‘Strange Planet’ Sneak Peek
Streamer gives ‘Wednesday’ best day of the week status ahead of Dan Harmon and Nathan W. Pyle’s new adult animated comedy global debut, kicking off with the first 3-episodes… you guessed it, this ‘Wednesday’ August 9!
NIM Labs Launches NIM 6.0 Studio Management Platform
All-in-one system gets redesigned for speed and efficiency to help studios and freelancers bid for jobs of any size while keeping track of their bottom line.
Academy Software Foundation Launches OpenPBR MaterialX Subproject
The new open source shading model succeeds Autodesk Standard Surface and Adobe Standard Material; Open Source Days ‘23 event kicks off August 6.
DreamWorks Drops ‘Kung Fu Panda: The Dragon Knight’ Season 3 Trailer
Jack Black’s Po and Rita Ora’s Wandering Blade head to England for an all-new epic adventure in the new season, premiering on Netflix September 7.
Movella Launches OBSKUR All-in-One Livestream Broadcasting System
Leading mocap tech company’s new application is the first such product built on UE5; OBSKUR Mocap Box, a mocap suit redesigned especially for streaming, also launches.
Crayola Getting Drawn into Animation - Launches Crayola Studios
The venerable Crayon purveyor’s new kids and family-dedicated studio announces its first animated series, ‘The Alien Adventures of Finn Caspian,’ a co-development with Mimo Studios based on the award-winning kid’s podcast.
‘The Disney Revolt’ Coming in Paperback this September
Jake S. Friedman’s seminal book, 'The Disney Revolt: The Great Labor War of Animation’s Golden Age,' about an important, mostly unreported piece of Disney studio history, the 1941 animator’s strike led by the famed Art Babbitt, now available in hardbound, will arrive in a softbound version this Fall.
Lionsgate Acquires Hasbro’s eOne for $500 Million
The sale includes almost 6,500 titles, but notably omits popular franchises such as ‘Peppa Pig,’ ‘Transformers,’ ‘Dungeons & Dragons,’ ‘Magic: The Gathering,’ ‘My Little Pony,’ ‘Power Rangers,’ ‘Play-Doh,’ ‘Monopoly’ and ‘Clue,’ which will receive ‘significant development, production and financing capabilities.’
‘My Love Affair With Marriage’ Gets U.S. Theatrical Release
Signe Baumane’s award-winning animated feature about a spirited young woman determined to find love in a bewildering world will begin its U.S. cinema run at the Quad in NYC on October 6 and the Laemmle Glendale in LA on October 13.
CoreWeave Completes Conductor Cloud-Based Rendering Service Integration
Customers can now access expansive compute resources including NVIDIA RTX A5000-A6000 graphic cards for VFX, animation, and motion graphics workloads; check out the demo at SIGGRAPH 2023, running August 6-10 in LA.
NVIDIA GTC 2024 Announces Call for Submissions
The conference, taking place March 18-21, 2024 in San Jose, California, seeks submissions for talks, posters, and training labs by September 8, 2023.
Nick and Spin Master Celebrate ‘PAW Patrol’s 10th Anniversary with Season 11 Greenlight
The hugely popular preschool franchise gets the new season nod, while its spin-off series, ‘Rubble & Crew,' snags a Season 2 renewal; new 6-part special ‘PAW Patrol: Moto Pups’ hits Paramount+ August 11 with ‘PAW Patrol: The Mighty Movie’ arriving in theaters September 29.
Exclusive Clip: ‘Praise Petey - Barn Wedding’
In the all-new episode, Petey and Eliza scheme to bring an honest income to New Utopia by renting out barns as wedding venues for the Manhattan elite – what could go wrong? Watch it on Freeform August 4, the next day on Hulu.
Podcast EP 219: Stop-Motion Animator Blake Derksen and His Film ‘The Other Space’
The LA-based animator discusses the challenges of running his own studio and dives into the realities of self-producing a stop-motion short inspired by his journey through cancer treatment.
AMD Announces New AMD Radeon PRO W7600 and W7500 Graphics Cards
The new cards, designed to enable top performance for mainstream professional workflows, leverage breakthrough AMD RDNA 3 technology to deliver 2X higher TFLOPS performance and 1.5X higher maximum total data rate for displays than previous generation.
Hollywood Execs, Actors Donate to Support Strikers
Many big-name execs and actors have now contributed to the Entertainment Community Fund, formerly the Actors Fund, to lessen the hardships of the work stoppage on actors and writers, with Seth MacFarlane most recently dropping a $1 million donation.
Cinesite Adds ‘Monstrous’ VFX to ‘The Witcher’ Season 3
The award-winning visual effects studio creates the huge-jawed Aeschna sea monster, the deadly Flesh Monster, and a huge Ring of Fire, in the hit fantasy adventure’s latest season; watch the final S3 episodes now on Netflix.
Moonbug Wins $23.5 Million in ‘CoComelon’ Copyright Case
A California jury made the award after unanimously finding BabyBus’ ‘Super JoJo’ YouTube series willfully infringed dozens of registered copyrights and knowingly submitted fraudulent counter notifications.
Apple TV+ Drops ‘Snoopy Presents: One-of-a-Kind Marcie’ Trailer
Marcie steps into the spotlight and learns to buck other people’s expectations in her first-ever ‘Peanuts’ special premiering August 18.
Watch: ‘The Last Voyage of the Demeter’ Featurette
Take ‘A Look Inside’ the new film, based on a single chilling chapter from Bram Stoker’s ‘Dracula,’ that tells the terrifying story of the merchant ship ‘Demeter,’ which was chartered to carry private cargo and one infamous vampire, in theaters August 11.
DNEG Adds Academy Award Winner Tim Burke as VFX Supervisor
The visual effects veteran brings 20+ years’ experience to his new role, including an Oscar win on Sir Ridley Scott’s ‘Gladiator’ and a BAFTA win on ‘Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2.’
‘Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse’ Heads Home
Catch the second chapter of the Spider-Verse, as Miles Morales meets a team of Spider-People charged with protecting the Multiverse, coming on Digital August 8, and 4K UHD & Blu-ray September 5.
Netflix Drops ‘Disenchantment’ Part 5 Teaser and Images
The 5th and final chapter of Matt Groening’s 2D animated comedy fantasy about the misadventures of hard-hitting, hard-drinking Queen Bean, hits the streamer in September.
Universal Drops Official ‘The Exorcist: Believer’ Trailer
Ellen Burstyn reprises her iconic role as Chris MacNeil, an actress who has been forever altered by what happened to her daughter Regan five decades before in the newest installment of the ‘Exorcist’ franchise, haunting theaters starting Friday, October 13.
Trixter Announces New Leadership
Christina Caspers-Roemer and Christopher Hantel takes the helm of the high-end visual effects studio; co-founder and former Chief Creative Officer Simone Kraus Townsend returns to creative leadership as Animation Supervisor.
