The official Japan-based Pokémon Kids TV YouTube Channel took the franchises’ popular characters in a new direction with the Thursday launch of the first “PokéToon: The Pokémon Cartoon Animation” — a dialogue-free, classic cartoon-inspired 2D short complete with rubbery trains, off-the-wall physicality and raucous slapstick action. The first instalment, Chase...

After being put on hold in March, with many other films, due to the pandemic lockdown, Marvel’s WandaVision is all set to resume filming in July, reportedly. This report comes in a week where the impending series also announced the addition of the American Horror Story mainstay Evan Peters to the...

Netflix will premiere Novel Entertainment’s first animated feature-length Horrid Henry special in the UK on 6 June. Featuring the voices of UK presenters Dick and Dom, it reprises the starring roles they played in the live-action Horrid Henry: The Movie. The official synopsis follows – Horrid Henry’s Wild Weekend is the story...

Netflix has announced the release of the fourth season of Bill Burr’s hilarious animated comedy, F is for Family, on 12 June 2020. The streaming giant has also dropped the trailer for the upcoming season. Considered to be one of the best-animated shows at the moment, there’s no dearth...

Columbia Pictures has acquired the rights to develop Geoff Rodkey’s middle-grade comedy sci-fi novel We’re Not from Here as a hybrid live-action/animated feature film. The project was picked up from Will Gluck’s Olive Bridge Entertainment. Director Mike Mitchell (The LEGO Movie 2, Trolls, The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of...

Paramount Pictures and SEGA SAMMY are limbering up for a sequel to hybrid live-action/CG video game adaptation Sonic the Hedgehog. Oscar-nominated animator Jeff Fowler (Gopher Broke) will return to direct, as will scriptwriters Pat Casey and Josh Miller (Golan the Insatiable). The project is currently in development, so...

Marvel is going to re-release The Avengers and Iron Man 3 in Hong Kong theatres from today, 28 May till 10 June. This decision is taken by the industry to attract wary audiences after the COVID-19 lockdowns were lifted earlier this month. As reported by The Hollywood Reporter, Marvel has joined...

Gaelstone Media Group, the studio known for the upcoming Amazon Prime Original Series Action Mice, announced its full acquisition of the classic ’80s character Panda Khan — well-known to nostalgia lovers who remember him as a regularly featured character in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles comic book crossovers. Toy...

Cosmos-Maya has announced its next animation magnum opus to be inspired by Chulbul Pandey, the iconic cop popularised by Salman Khan in the Dabangg film franchise, produced by Arbaaz Khan. Announced yesterday on Eid, the series will feature the lead character as his own self and not...