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2 weeks ago | 
cartoonbrew.com | Vincent Alexander
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2 months ago | 
cartoonbrew.com | Mark Keefer |Vincent Alexander |Chris Robinson
DistributionFeature Film Do you believe in miracles? Ketchup Entertainment has acquired worldwide rights to Coyote vs. Acme from Warner Bros. The deal, which was first reported a couple weeks ago, is reportedly in the range of $50 million, which is the most expensive deal to date for the burgeoning distribution company. Ketchup is planning a worldwide theatrical release in 2026.
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Mar 30, 2025 | 
cartoonbrew.com | Mark Keefer |Vincent Alexander |Chris Robinson
AnimeBox Office Report As live-action films continue to flop at the box office, animation remains one of the few bright spots in domestic theatrical exhibition. Case in point: the new 4K restoration of Hayao Miyazaki’s contemporary classic Princess Mononoke (1997) is tracking to be the highest grossing film in the North American box office top 10 this weekend on a per-theater basis.
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Mar 28, 2025 | 
cartoonbrew.com | Mark Keefer |Vincent Alexander |Chris Robinson
TechTools As generative AI continues to be a contentious point in the animation industry, software developers are staking out positions on whether they intend to add artificial intelligence features into their animation programs.
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Mar 28, 2025 | 
cartoonbrew.com | Mark Keefer |Vincent Alexander |Chris Robinson
Opinion Mark Keefer is a five-time Emmy-winning and three-time Golden Reel-winning film editor whose credits include “The Garfield Movie,” Netflix’s “Over the Moon,” Disney’s “Planes,” and the “VeggieTales” franchise. Recently, Mark penned a social media post about a temporary job that he has taken to tide him and his family over during this exceptionally slow period in the animation industry.
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Mar 28, 2025 | 
cartoonbrew.com | Mark Keefer |Vincent Alexander |Chris Robinson
Cartoon Brew Livestream Cartoon Brew’s bi-weekly Friday livestream returns today after a short hiatus. It’s available on our Youtube channel starting around 11:00am Pacific / 2:00pm Eastern. Today we try to make some sense of recent developments in the animation world including the growing proliferation of generative AI slop and recent animation/vfx studio closures.
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Mar 28, 2025 | 
cartoonbrew.com | Vincent Alexander |Chris Robinson |Tara Bennett
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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Mar 28, 2025 | 
cartoonbrew.com | Vincent Alexander |Chris Robinson |Tara Bennett
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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Mar 26, 2025 | 
cartoonbrew.com | Vincent Alexander |Chris Robinson |Tara Bennett
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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Mar 26, 2025 | 
cartoonbrew.com | Vincent Alexander |Chris Robinson |Tara Bennett
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.
