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Netflix has unveiled a packed line-up of animated feature films and series that it will be taking to France's Annecy International Animation Film Festival in June. Riding high on the Best Animated Feature Film Oscar win for Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio and the Primetime Emmy for Arcane, the…

Alaric McAusland Tapped For MD Role At DNEG’s New Sydney HubTop Australian film exec Alaric McAusland has joined VFX and animation company DNEG's new Sydney hub as managing director and will take up the role in January 2023. McAusland has held a number of significant entertainment industry leadership…

Serge Bromberg, a former artistic director of the Annecy International Animation Film Festival, is facing a four-year prison sentence for his role in a deadly fire involving nitrate film reels. The case, which was tried in the courthouse of Creteil on the outskirts of Paris this week, relates to a…

EXCLUSIVE: Here’s a trailer for genre-bending, award-winning animation Quantum Cowboys. Starring the likes of Lily Gladstone, David Arquette and Howe Gelb and featuring 12 different animation styles, the film tells of a western road with two hapless drifters, Frank and Bruno, who team up with Linde to recover her land…

Directors Amandine Fredon and Benjamin Massoubre take home the top prize for their animated film Little Nicholas–Happy as Can Be at the annual Annecy International Animation Film Festival in France.  Co-produced French/Luxembourg film takes place towards the end of the1950s in Paris, René Goscinny (voiced by Alain Chab…

As part of the Annecy International Animation Film Festival, Reel FX has debuted a first look trailer for their animated series Super Giant Robot Brothers! The 10-episode series will have it’s Netflix debut on August 4, 2022. Super Giant Robot Brothers! is a 3D animated action-comedy series, directed by Mark Andrews (B…

EXCLUSIVE: Illumination founder and CEO Chris Meledandri will today unveil the world premiere of Minions: The Rise of Gru at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival. The latest chapter in the $3.7B+ Despicable Me franchise (the biggest-ever animated series globally) was originally scheduled for…

EXCLUSIVE: New York-based filmmaker Signe Baumane's My Love Affair With Marriage will have its world premiere at Tribeca which kicks off on Wednesday this week. The adult animation then travels to the Annecy International Animation Film Festival which begins June 13. Check out the first trailer above. The story…

Universal/Illumination's Minions: The Rise Of Gru has been set to open the Annecy International Animation Film Festival in a world premiere on June 13. The fest is returning to a fully in-person event after last year's hybrid edition. Annecy and the Minions franchise have a long history, going back to 2010's Despicable…

A refugee finds solace in literature in Lamya's Poem, a Syria-set, English-language feature which premiered at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival. Written and directed by Alex Kronemer, it stars Millie Davis (Wonder) as the voice of Lamya, a spirited 12-year-old who lives with her mother in war-torn…

Disney EMEA Animation Studio this morning unveiled a group of new and returning animated kids projects out of Europe and Africa. Among the new titles is Kizazi Moto: Generation Fire, a 10-part sci-fi anthology executive produced by Oscar-winning Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse co-director Peter Ramsey. The short…

"Men are all the same," tuts the midwife delivering the titular Snotty Boy at the start of this animated biopic of cult cartoonist Manfred Deix, showing at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival. But Snotty Boy is not the same as anyone else in his small, conservative Austrian town. He's a talented artist…