Jermaine Fowler partners with Fox for his next animated film
Actor-comedian Jermaine Fowler is working on a semi-autobiographical animated comedy, which is being developed by Fox Entertainment. The Untitled Jermaine Fowler project is loosely based on Fowler’s formidable years growing up in a working-class town in Prince George’s County, Maryland, with his family. Fowler will be serving...
Netflix unveils the new trailer of Emmy-award winning series ‘The Last Kids On Earth’
Netflix has unveiled the first official trailer for the third season of its Emmy-award winning animated series, The Last Kids on Earth. Based on the New York Times’ best-selling book series of the same name by author and executive producer Max Brallier, the series is a highly-anticipated one....
Global Mechanic partners with Alt Animation to co-develop ‘Class Clown’
Vancouver-based animation studio, Global Mechanic (Scribbles & Ink) has joined forces with Northern Ireland-based animation studio, ALT Animation to co-develop Class Clown (11mins x 52 episodes). The series is a concept imagined by veteran Canadian writer Ian Boothby. “When looking for the ideal collaborator for Class Clown, it was...
Warner Bros. to create animated feature series of ‘Black Mask’ comic books
Studio 8 announced that Warner Bros. has greenlit Black, a feature adaptation of the Black Mask comic series from co-creators Kwanza Osajyefo and Tim Smith 3. The comic is set in a universe where only Black people have superpowers. Osajyefo has worked for both Marvel and D.C. and wanted to...
Warner Bros. Animation to partner with Dr. Seuss for the new animated franchise
Warner Bros. Animation is launching an interconnected cinematic universe in partnership with Dr. Seuss Enterprises with a new animated franchise based on the works of the legendary children’s author Theodor Seuss Geisel. J.J. Abrams has teamed up with Warner Animation group for a big-screen adaptation of the...
Barack and Michelle Obama’s Higher Ground Productions partners with Netflix for pre-school series
Barack Obama and Michelle Obama’s production company Higher Ground Productions has announced an animated preschool series Ada Twist, Scientist with creator Chris Nee and Netflix. Kerri Grant (Mira, Royal Detective and Nella the Princess Knight) will serve as showrunner, co-executive producer and story editor. Wonder Worldwide (The Christmas Chronicles)...
Netflix announces the cast of anime series ‘ Army of Dead: Lost Vegas’
Netflix has announced the cast for its upcoming anime series, Army of the Dead: Lost Vegas. The series is a spin-off prequel of Zack Snyder’s in-development zombie-action heist film Army of the Dead. The story is set during the early stages of the zombie outbreak in Las Vegas and...
Disney announces lay offs of around 28,000 theme park employees
Walt Disney Company is slashing 28,000 workers at its US theme parks. Even the Magic Kingdom can’t ward off the coronavirus. The move affects the company’s theme-park, cruise-line and retail businesses, Disney said on Tuesday. “We have made the very difficult decision to begin the process of...
Legendary comic artist KC Sivasankar passes away at 97
Legendary comic artist KC Sivasankar passed away on 29 September at the age of 97 at his Chennai residence. Well known for his illustrations in the popular children’s magazine ‘Chandamama’, especially those of the Vikram and Vetala series, Sivasankar was last of the original team of Chandamama. Born in...
Warner Bros. unveils new Batman interactive storytelling opening scene
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment has unveiled the opening title sequence to Batman: Death in the Family — the company’s first venture into interactive storytelling that lets fans choose where the story goes, with innovative remote control navigation. Anchoring the upcoming home video anthology of the same name, this short...