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Apple Acquires Luck & Spellbound in Overall Deal With Skydance Animation In a new overall deal with Skydance Animation, Apple has acquired the upcoming animated movies Luck and Skydance, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The deal covers feature films and TV series for the company’s streaming service, Apple TV+. Luck and Spellbound in addition to a two-season order given for The Search for WondLa series. The animated features were originally set up at Paramount. The outlet reports the d...

Apple and Skydance Animation Formally Announce Multi-Year Partnership Matt Donnelly, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail Following Variety‘s exclusive report in December, Apple is officially announcing its multi-year content partnership with David Ellison’s Skydance Animation. The agreement, which includes the previously announced feature films “Luck” and “Spellbound,” will also include what Apple billed as “first-ever theatrical-quality animated television series” for Apple TV P...

Ryan Murphy will be honored with the Cinematic Imagery Award at the 25th annual Art Directors Guild Awards on April 10.

Plus more hot streaming premieres this week Premieres Wednesday: Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel — Acclaimed documentarian Joe Berlinger presents a new series about notorious American locales. Season 1 takes us to the titular hotel, the site of everything from homicides to abductions. Worse yet: no 2-in-1 shampoo in the rooms! ( Netflix) Premieres Thursday: After Midnight — This original horror flick invites us to ponder which is worse: your spouse leaving you unexpectedly ...

I love animation, all kinds of animation. When I first started reviewing films in 1987, there were many different animation anthologies floating around, shows like “Animation Celebration” and the annual “Animation Tournees.” There were collections distributed by Spike and Mike, Mike Judge and others. These programs showcased animated shorts in many different styles from around the globe, and the variety of media and personality was astonishing; I got my first look at artists...

Hilaria Baldwin is apologizing for not being clearer about her cultural identity a month after social media users accused her of pretending to be Spanish even though she was born in Boston. After responding to the controversy in an Instagram video last December, Baldwin returned to the social media site on Friday to say shes spent the last month "listening, reflecting, and asking myself how I can learn and grow." Though she reiterated she was raised with both American and Spanish cultures a...

Pixar Celebrates Their 35th Anniversary With Adorable Montage ✖ February 3 is a major day for the Disney owned Pixar Animation Studios, as it marks the anniversary of their founding as an independent company. First a division of Lucasfilm Pixar branched off into its own company in 1986 and eventually caught the eye of Steve Jobs who became a majority investor in the years before they even collaborated with Disney for the first time. Even after the release of films like Toy Story and A Bugs Li...

mtv Earwig And The Witch Conjures New Possibilities Its first feature-length film in years finds the celebrated animation house in the midst of transformation By Erica Russell For nearly four decades, Studio Ghibli has captured the hearts and imaginations of global moviegoers. Co-founded by celebrated Japanese auteur Hayao Miyazaki in 1985, the Tokyo-based studio has produced dozens of iconic films, including 1988’s beloved My Neighbor Totoro and 2001’s ...

Pixar head Pete Docter discussed the studio's much-criticized "sequel era"—and how that, even as the studio re-pivots to a focus on original animated movies, there'll always be at least some sequels in its future.

January 11, 2021 296 Today is Tuesday, Jan. 12, the 12th day of 2021. There are 353 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On Jan. 12, 2000, in a 5-4 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court, in Illinois v. Wardlow, gave police broad authority to stop and question people who run at the sight of an officer. On this date: In 1773, the first public museum in America was organized in Charleston, South Carolina. In 1828, the United States and Mexico signed a Treaty of Limits defining the bou...