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'Warrior Cats' TV Series Lands A. C. Bradley, Rodrigo Blaas
5+ hour, 4+ min ago (264+ words) By Jamie Lang | 06/01/2026 8: 17 am | Be the First to Comment! The long-gestating animated adaptation of Warrior Cats scored a major coup today as Coolabi Group and Tencent Video revealed that the officially licensed series adaptation of the massively popular fantasy book…...
Masaaki Yuasa To Curate New Animation Series For TIFF
6+ day, 5+ hour ago (279+ words) By Jamie Lang | 05/26/2026 8: 00 am | Be the First to Comment! TIFF announced the Yuasa program alongside a major summer retrospective dedicated to Christopher Nolan, which will feature screenings of all 12 of the filmmaker's features on 35mm and 70mm film. Of his program, Yuasa…...
Must Anime Still Be Made In Japan? Toei GM Asama Yosuke Doesn't Think So
1+ week, 3+ day ago (276+ words) By Jamie Lang | 05/22/2026 8: 03 am | Be the First to Comment! For most of its history, to be classified as anime, a work had to be made in Japan. The term didn't describe a specific genre or a general aesthetic, but rather…...
Studio Ghibli Promotes Kenichi Yoda To Company President
1+ week, 3+ day ago (209+ words) By Jamie Lang | 05/22/2026 5: 45 am | Be the First to Comment! In its continued evolution towards a post-founders era, Studio Ghibli has announced that longtime Nippon TV executive Kenichi Yoda will take over as the studio's next president and representative director, effective…...
Mamoru Hosoda's 'Scarlet' Lands At Sony Pictures Classics
9+ mon, 6+ day ago (20+ words) Hosoda's 'Scarlet' will get a limited 2025 awards-qualifying run after festival screenings at Venice, Toronto, and New York....
Ghibli Cinematographer Atsushi Okui On 'Whisper Of The Heart"
1+ week, 6+ day ago (1324+ words) By Blake Simons | 05/18/2026 9: 58 am | Be the First to Comment! Studio Ghibli's coming-of-age gem Whisper of the Heart hit North American IMAX theaters with a stunning 4 K remaster last month, and the iconic Japanese studio will grace American cinemas this week…...
Warner Bros. Animation Adds Four More Webtoon Series
2+ week, 4+ day ago (498+ words) By Jamie Lang | 05/14/2026 6: 00 am | Be the First to Comment! Although we've not yet seen the results of their recently announced joint endeavor, Webtoon Entertainment and Warner Bros. Animation (WBA) are already expanding their partnership with four more webcomic adaptations headed…...
Akira" Creator Katsuhiro Otomo Launches New Anime Studio
2+ week, 5+ day ago (321+ words) By Jamie Lang | 05/13/2026 6: 57 am | Be the First to Comment! Akira creator Katsuhiro Otomo is returning to animation production with the launch of a new Tokyo-based film studio, Oval Gear. The studio launched publicly this week with an official website, recruitment…...
Honami Yano's 'Eri' Debuts Trailer Ahead Of Cannes Premiere
2+ week, 6+ day ago (1135+ words) By Jamie Lang | 05/12/2026 9: 24 am | Be the First to Comment! By her own account, Japanese animator Honami Yano has never been interested in safe emotional territory. Her breakthrough short, A Bite of Bone, introduced the world to a filmmaker drawn to…...
Sh'k" Murase On "Gundam Hathaway's' 5-Year Hybrid Production
3+ week, 3+ hour ago (841+ words) By Tara Bennett | 05/11/2026 9: 52 am | Be the First to Comment! On January 30 in Japan, Mobile Suit Gundam Hathaway: The Sorcery of Nymph Circe, the much-anticipated second chapter of Bandai Namco Filmworks" Mobile Suit Gundam feature trilogy from its Sunrise animation studio,…...