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Walt Disney announces to adapt musical ‘Hamilton’ into a film

Walt Disney has announced the theatrical adaptation of the widely popular musical, Hamilton, slated to be released next year. The House of Mouse is also reportedly spending a huge amount on it. The film will feature the original cast of the musical and will be shot on...

Australian pre-school series ‘Bluey’ launched on Disney+

Season 1 of Bluey, the popular Australian animated preschool series from BBC Studios, has just launched on Disney+. The series also continues to air each weekday on the Disney Channel and Disney Junior. The series debuted in Australia in 2018 and immediately became the most popular children’s show...

Dublin based distributor Monster Entertainment to launch a new slate of shows at Kidscreen Miami

Dublin based distributor, Monster Entertainment will launch a slate of new programming at Kidscreen in Miami next month. Koyaa and The Annoying Objects, 13 x 3.5 mins for four to eight-year-olds, is a fantastic, energetic stop motion animation series from Slovenia and was commissioned by RTV Slovenia....

Netflix animated film ‘Klaus’ wins BAFTA Award for Best Animated Feature

Sergio Pablos’s Klaus has won the British Academy Film Award (BAFTA) for best-animated feature. The awards were presented on 2nd February in London at the Royal Albert Hall. The Netflix-produced feature was up against Walt Disney Animation Studios’s Frozen 2, Disney-Pixar’s Toy Story 4, and Aardman Animation’s A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon....

Priyanka Chopra Jonas in talks to join the latest Matrix film

Reportedly, Priyanka Chopra Jonas is in final talks to join the cast of the fourth film in the Matrix saga, the Wachowskis’ game-changing action franchise, insiders close to negotiations said. The Warner Bros. and Village Roadshow film is being directed by series co-creator Lana Wachowski. She’ll join...

Newcomer Amelie Bea Smith to be the voice of ‘Peppa Pig’ in the upcoming episodes

Entertainment One (eOne) and animation studio Astley Baker Davies announced that a new voice artist has been cast in the role of Peppa Pig in the popular preschool animated TV series. Nine-year-old Amelie Bea Smith will make her debut as the title character in new episodes of...

Netflix to remake live-action series ‘One Piece’

Netflix has ordered a live-action series of one of the most famous manga/anime, One Piece. The project will be coming from One Piece publisher Shueisha and Tomorrow House. Steven Maeda (The X-Files, Lost) is reportedly the writer and executive producer along with Matt Owens (Luke Cage) joining...

Maya Rudolph and Natasha Lyonne partnered Animal Pictures to produce ‘The Hospital’ animated series

Animal Pictures, the banner run by Maya Rudolph and Natasha Lyonne, is teaming with writer-producer Cirocco Dunlap on ‘The Hospital’, a sci-fi themed animated series for Amazon. Dunlap, who has worked with Lyonne as supervising producer on Lyonne’s acclaimed Netflix comedy Russian Doll, is writing and executive producing. Lyonne,...

One Take Media refreshes its library: adds 100 new Kids movies

One Take Media Co. (OTMC) is continuously refreshing its content library and adding newer titles at regular intervals. These content acquisitions have kept the customer engaged, satisfied and maintaining stickiness to the platform. OTMC has been adding newer titles to its library, and most recently acquired 100...

CAKE announces ‘Kiri and Lou’ to be launched in the UK after its success in NZ

CAKE has announced the U.K. premiere of award-winning stop-motion preschool series Kiri and Lou. The 52 x 5’ show will air on CBeebies following a strong performance last year on TVNZ in New Zealand and CBC Canada, who commissioned the series. “Kiri and Lou has already won...