This year, DC Comics is celebrating 85 years of Batman, and with the festivities comes this 3D version of the Gotham City skyline. Using a lot of tiny LEGO pieces to deliver some impressively precise building details, this basically amounts to a plastic painting that is chock full of Easter eggs and references from “Batman: The … Read more
Who can’t relate to feeling afraid of the dark? At its heart, however, it wasn’t really the dark itself that troubled our young, developing minds. It was more about the anxieties and complicated thoughts that came along for the ride under the cover of night — concepts that most of us couldn’t even articulate at the … Read more
Where Netflix’s live-action “Avatar: The Last Airbender” series suffers from trying to rejigger a story to a medium that it doesn’t readily lend itself to (read /Film’s review by Jeremy Mathai for more on that), the streamer’s “Scott Pilgrim Takes Off” applies anime aesthetics and tropes to the already-heightened “Scott Pilgrim” universe with much stronger … Read more
Photo: Jesse Grant (Getty Images) The secret’s out of the bag for Mean Girls musical star and original voice of Disney’s Moana, Auli’i Cravalho. After much speculation among fans, the actress confirmed she will be reprising the role that launched her into stardom for Moana 2. Deadline had the exclusive on the Moana 2 casting … Read more
Image: Juan Gedeon/DC Comics Over two years ago, DC Comics revealed a new miniseries titled Jurassic League from Daniel Warren Johnson and Juan Gedeon. The idea is right there in the title—what if the Justice League were anthropomorphic dinosaurs and fought their classic villains, who are also dinosaurs? It sounds like an idea perfect for … Read more
Jennifer Lopez and Anthony Ramos are teaming up to bring the celebrated children’s education show, Bob the Builder, to the big screen. It was announced on Thursday that Lopez’s Nuyorican Productions — which also includes Elaine Goldsmith-Thomas and Benny Medina — is collaborating with Ramos, 32, to develop and produce the project, alongside animation studio ShadowMachine, the minds … Read more
HBO’s House of the Dragon is keeping the Game of Thrones train going along, but it’s not the only spinoff for the fantasy series in the works. In a newly released blog looking back on 2023, author George R.R. Martin revealed he and HBO have a number of animated series in unofficial development—as in, they … Read more
Some of the most beloved and highest-regarded animated movies can find their origin in the 2000s, as it was a decade primarily remembered for its revolution and massive changes in animation. The decade saw the best of the best when it came to 2D animation, releasing films like Spirited Away and Howl’s Moving Castle, as … Read more
T’Challa was on What If season one, and now more Wakandans are coming to animation.Image: Marvel Studios When will Marvel fans get to see more adventures with Shuri as the Black Panther? It’s unclear. But Marvel did just announce when the Marvel Cinematic Universe will be returning to Wakanda, and it’ll be doing it in … Read more
The annual Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade featured tons of animated characters floating through New York City … with balloons for SpongeBob, Baby Yoda and a host of others. Snoopy, an oldie but goodie, made his trek through the skies above the parade route … with Woodstock hitching a ride on Snoopy’s matching green hat. Spongebob … Read more