EXCLUSIVE: Amazon MGM Studios has an animated Mad Hatter movie in the works from Clerks producer and actor Scott Mosier, who is set to adapt. Plot details are under wraps. The Mad Hatter is the strange top-hat-wearing guy who Alice runs into in Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland. He holds a tea…

Bob’s Burgers is finally joining fellow 20th Television Animation comedies for Fox The Simpsons and Family Guy in releasing an original installment exclusively on its Disney streaming home. At the Bob's Burgers San Diego Comic-Con panel Saturday, creator and executive producer Loren Bouchard…

President Andre Curtis’ term is not over quite yet. The upcoming animated Rick and Morty spinoff President Curtis has been renewed ahead of its July 26 series premiere, the creative team said Friday during the show’s Comic-Con panel. Keith David, who voices the titular character, is returning as…

UPDATED with latest: With the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences setting its dates for the 2027 and 2028 Oscars (the latter the ceremony’s 100th anniversary), the rest of the awards docket for those two years is falling into place. After the Oscars announcement, SAG-AFTRA’s Actor…

Relax and take a deep breath. Apple TV has set Friday, August 21 for the Season 5 premiere of the Peabody and Daytime Emmy-winning animated kids and family series Stillwater. The new season will launch with all five episodes. Based on Jon J Muth’s bestselling Scholastic “Zen” book series, Stillwa…

Studiocanal is getting behind an animated feature adaptation of Marcus Pfister's children's classic The Rainbow Fish about an arrogant shiny fish who learns there’s more to life than glittering scales. The pan-European studio's German arm Studiocanal Germany is partnering with Claussen + Putz…

Laika President and CEO Travis Knight touched down at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival last week for a special presentation of ambitious upcoming stop-motion opus Wildwood. Strangely, given the mark Laika has made on stop-motion animation with Coraline (2009), ParaNorman (2012), T…

EXCLUSIVE: OuiDo! Productions, the French animation house known for family-friendly fare such as Alvinnn!!! and The Chipmunks and Mickey Mouse Clubhouse+, is moving into the adult animation market. The Paris-based company has announced the creation of joint venture Everybody on Board, with…

The Annecy International Animation Film Festival gets underway this weekend at a time of change, opportunity and retreat for the animation sector as big budget studio fare chases the $1B box office, while indies grapple with funding squeezes, AI and the ever-changing habits of younger audiences…

With three days to go until the world premiere of Minions & Monsters at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival, Universal's Illumination has released an extended trailer for the movie. The latest adventure of the mischievous army of yellow underlings first introduced in 2010 breakout De…

­Natalie Portman and Alfonso Cuarón have been added to the guest list of France's Annecy International Film Festival ahead of its opening this weekend. The pair have been invited to participate in the festival's Carte Blanche, under which they choose an animation which they would like to…

EXCLUSIVE: Steve Dildarian, creator of HBO’s The Life & Times of Tim and HBO Max’s Ten Year Old Tom, has self-produced his next animated series Fred Has Problems, which will premiere on YouTube July 1 with two episodes, followed by a new episode each month. Early access will also be available on…