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From fully-animated features to vfx-driven live-action films, animation is an integral part of the theatrical marketplace today.
Director Kenji Iwaisawa talks about his new film ‘100 Meters,’ touching up his cult hit ‘On-Gaku: Our Sound,’ and what he’s working on next.
From anime upstarts to international indies and the absence of stop-motion, the 2026 Animated Feature race looks anything but predictable.
Studio 100 Film will unveil the CG family feature ‘The Last Dodo’ at AFM 2025 in Santa Monica, spotlighting the market’s growing focus on indie animation.
Sugar will write and direct the first U.S.-produced ‘Moomin’ film, marking her feature debut and bringing Tove Jansson’s beloved characters to theaters.
From the creators of ‘Loving Vincent,’ ‘Cave of Dreams’ is a hand-painted horror film diving into Francisco de Goya’s haunting late-life Black Paintings.
Quentin Tarantino’s ‘Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair’ hits theaters December 5 with a never-before-seen 7.5-minute animated sequence.
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.
Discover how DreamWorks reimagined ‘Gabby’s Dollhouse’ with richer textures, tactile details, smart scaling, and feature-level animation.
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.
Announced in 2018 after ‘Hotel Transylvania 3,’ the darker medieval action film stalled at Sony, but Tartakovsky hopes fan buzz can revive it.
‘Zootopia 2’ grew bigger as directors Jared Bush and Byron Howard stayed “free to fail,” taking risks to push story and world-building while keeping its heart.
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.
French creators’ groups oppose OpenAI’s reported plan to debut an AI-generated animated film at Cannes, urging protection of human-led artistry.
Netflix dropped a new trailer for its upcoming original ‘In Your Dreams,’ so we sat down with Pilcher to find out how his team created the film’s dreamscapes.
‘Demon Slayer – Infinity Castle’ shattered records with $555M worldwide, proving anime’s mainstream power as Sony and Crunchyroll eye awards.
Hideo Kojima reveals ‘Death Stranding: Mosquito’ (working title), a new feature directed by Hiroshi Miyamoto with a script by Aaron Guzikowski.
‘Infinity Castle’ tops $555 million worldwide to become the highest-grossing anime film and Japanese film ever. It also took the top lifetime anime spot in the U.S.
Framestore’s VFX team brought Krypto the Superdog and Superman’s Fortress of Solitude to life, contributing over 590 shots.
OpenAI’s AI-backed ‘Critterz’ is sold as a test of ‘democratizing’ animation, a framing that feels disingenuous in today’s industry context.