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DocumentaryFeature FilmFestivals The Tribeca Festival, which will take place June 4-15 in New York City, announced its feature film line-up today, and among its selections are three animated features. Some major American film festivals, like Sundance and SXSW, are loath to acknowledge feature animation as an art form, so when Tribeca includes three films, it’s worth highlighting.
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Cartoon Brew Pick The Meaning of Bunny’s Dream, a vividly illustrated coming out tale, has been a hit since arriving online at the end of last month, picking up over a quarter-million views on Youtube and 56,000 likes on X (formerly Twitter). In the brief and beautifully illustrated black-and-white short, a fox wakes up a bunny, who begins to recount a bizarre yet occasionally flirtatious dream.
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Feature Film DreamWorks Animation’s announced a new original film today: Forgotten Island. The film will be released by Universal Pictures on September 25, 2026. Forgotten Island is an incredible rarity for Dreamworks Animation, which rarely produces original films that are not based on a franchise, pre-existing IP, or an adaptation of literary material.
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In the 30 years since Walt Disney Television Animation released its critically-rebuffed feature, A Goofy Movie, viewers have since elevated it to beloved millennials cult status. Directed by Kevin Lima (Tarzan), the animated film was always an oddity within the Disney ouevre as it was a contemporary musical that followed the ill-fated road trip between Goofy (voiced by Bill Farmer)and his teen son, Max (voiced by Jason Marsden).
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BusinessStudios After weeks of awful and heartbreaking news in the cg animation industry, we have our first glimmer of hope. Montreal-headquartered Rodeo FX, which is known for its vfx services on projects like Game of Thrones, Stranger Things, The Rings of Power, and the new Dune films, has acquired Mikros Animation, the animation studio behind PAW Patrol: The Mighty Movie, Orion and the Dark, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem.
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Real EstateStudios Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav is continuing his systematic crusade to dismantle WB’s animation legacy and he’s doing it with the kind of thoroughness that borders on obsession. Today, Deadline reported that WB will raze Building 131 on its Burbank studio lot. The building was the last home of the original Warner Bros. Animation studio and housed the unit from 1955 through its closure in the late 1960s.
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4 weeks ago | 
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BusinessStudios Jellyfish Pictures co-founder Phil Dobree has broken his silence on the sudden closure of his U.K.-headquartered studio which had been in operation for 24 years. The studio recently produced the animation for Dreamworks Animation’s Dog Man and Netflix’s series Wolf King, which premiered last week.
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SeriesStreaming Netflix has commissioned the first live-action Scooby-Doo series. The origin tale, based on the Hanna-Barbera series which premiered 56 years ago, is set for an eight-episode first season. The “modern reimagining” takes place during the gang’s final summer at camp. Per Netflix:Old friends Shaggy and Daphne get embroiled in a haunting mystery surrounding a lonely lost Great Dane puppy that may have been a witness to a supernatural murder.
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ClassicStreaming The classic Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies theatrical cartoons are no longer part of Warner Bros. Discovery’s streaming service Max. The company has removed hundreds of cartoons that were produced by its legendary animation studio between the 1930s and 1960s. According to Deadline, Warner Bros.
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Cartoon Brew PickMusic Videos David Bowie meets multiple versions of himself through AI in the new music video directed by Andreas Hykade. In this trippy collaboration between acclaimed animation director Andreas Hykade and AI artist Isabel Kohlhagen, a parade of Bowie personas morph in and out of different phases of the musician’s career, perfectly capturing his ever-evolving identity.
