2026 Oscars Short Film Contenders: ‘Snow Bear’ Director Aaron Blaise
Aaron Blaise’s heartfelt, hand-drawn short ‘Snow Bear’ is a moving Arctic tale of loss, hope, and love, now qualified for the 2026 Oscars.
Aaron Blaise’s heartfelt, hand-drawn short ‘Snow Bear’ is a moving Arctic tale of loss, hope, and love, now qualified for the 2026 Oscars.
Ellipse Animation and Belvision are teaming with Nickelodeon to launch the new CG ‘The Marsupilamis’ series worldwide this fall.
Sony’s ‘KPop Demon Hunters’ is the longest-running English-language film in Netflix’s Global Top 10, sitting at or near the top of the charts for 15 weeks.
Rising global anime demand lifts ‘Infinity Castle’ past Western superheroes, reshaping box office trends and studio franchise strategies.
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Oscar-winning filmmaker and story artist Mark Andrews wowed Comic-Con Málaga with an improvised storyboarding masterclass.
OpenAI has revealed it will freely incorporate copyrighted material into its Sora model unless rights holders formally opt out.
Disney’s 20th Century Studios will send the Simpsons back to the silver screen in July 2027 with a sequel to the franchise’s half-billion 2007 feature.
Animation legend Wes Archer unveils Tinseltown in the Membrane, a solo show of LA-inspired paintings at Pauhaus Gallery, Oct. 4–31.
Announced in 2018 after ‘Hotel Transylvania 3,’ the darker medieval action film stalled at Sony, but Tartakovsky hopes fan buzz can revive it.
Canadian gem ‘The Girl Who Cried Pearls’ and other standout shorts, features, and student films were also celebrated as this year’s festival wrapped things up.
Spike & Mike’s cult-favorite Animation Extravaganza returns Oct. 31–Nov. 2 with new shorts, rare vault gems, and timeless offbeat animated chaos.
Writer and producer Jessica Conrad and director Gabriel DeFrancesco explain what goes into making an episode of TV’s most iconic animated sitcom.
French creators’ groups oppose OpenAI’s reported plan to debut an AI-generated animated film at Cannes, urging protection of human-led artistry.
Rasoul T. Zarrin’s hand-drawn holiday special, ‘Crickhopper the Musician,’ pitches this weekend at the Festival of Animation Berlin.
The company stopped short of saying anything meaningful in its statement while denying involvement with the mean-spirited video.
Production workers overwhelmingly voted in favor of ratifying their new union contract, while 75 remote workers on L.A.-based projects have unionized with TAG.
Discover the 2025 Manchester Animation Festival lineup full of premieres, project previews, retrospectives, and industry panels.
‘Demon Slayer – Infinity Castle’ shattered records with $555M worldwide, proving anime’s mainstream power as Sony and Crunchyroll eye awards.