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Rooster Teeth, a unit of WarnerMedia, has promoted Doreen Copeland to VP, Head of Production and Joe Clary and Sean Hinz to co-heads of animation. Copeland will now oversee all physical production at Rooster Teeth. Clary and Hinz will co-lead day to day operations across all of Rooster Teeth's animated productions…

The Netflix original series Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts from DreamWorks Animation has unveiled their voice cast for the forthcoming coming-of-age animated series which includes Karen Fukuhara, Deon Cole, Coy Stewart, Sydney Mikayla and Dee Bradley Baker. The series will also feature an all-star roster of guest…

Quibi has added the animated series The Andy Cohen Diaries from the titular Bravo pop culture guru to its rapidly growing slate of programming. The new series will chronicle the iconic and untold moments from Cohen’s daily life. The series will be the next installment of the New York Times best-sellers, “The Andy…

Netflix will turn a cast of characters made popular by Japanese messaging app into an original animated series. The streamer is working with Line Friends, the character brand that started as Brown & Friends stickers on the Line messaging service, to create the non-verbal, computer-animated series. Los Angeles-based…

EXCLUSIVE: Fox has put in development an animated comedy about twin siblings, from Animals creators Mike Luciano and Phil Matarese. Fox Entertainment’s SideCar Content Accelerator is the studio. Written by Luciano and Matarese, Untitled Twins Animated Comedy is about two identical twin brothers with nothing in common…

Taking on the English voice role for an original French language film isn't as simple as just dubbing it American-style, says Alia Shawkat. As the voice of Gabrielle in the Jérémy Clapin-directed animated feature I Lost My Body, Shawkat carefully considered the sensibility of the French language version from the…

Annie Potts has been voicing Bo Peep in the Toy Story franchise since its first incarnation in 1995. Back then, Potts' character was far from front and center though, as she mostly aided the exploits of Tom Hanks' Woody from the background. But in this year's Toy Story 4, Potts enjoys a much-deserved major role. This…

As the voice of everybody's favorite talking Jack Russell terrier Max in The Secret Life of Pets 2, Patton Oswalt not only brought his own unique, edgy humor and laugh-out-loud sardonic tone, but he was also stepping into Max's paws following Louis C.K.'s removal from the role—a situation Oswalt graciously doesn't…

Netflix has come aboard Sir Paul McCartney’s long-gestating animated film High In The Clouds, which is based on the children's adventure novel of the same title written by the iconic Beatles musician as well as Geoff Dunbar and Philip Ardagh. The project hails from French company Gaumont, which optioned the book back…

Sao Paulo went Onward at CCXP on Saturday as director Dan Scanlon of the forthcoming Pixar film featuring the voices of Tom Holland, Chris Pratt, Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Octavia Spencer took the dais at the pop culture confab. The animated pic may be set in a visually stunning fantasy world where unicorns roam the…

Marvel animated series Tigra & Dazzler is searching for a new showrunner and writers following a shakeup on the series. Sources close to the production confirm to Deadline that Hulu has parted ways with showrunner Erica Rivinoja due to creative differences, but the show is still moving forward at the streamer. In…

An acclaimed French director who has also been acting since age four, Zabou Breitman made her first animated feature with 2020 awards contender The Swallows of Kabul—a film that came about, and was crafted, in an unusual and unexpected way. Set in a Taliban-occupied Kabul in the summer of 1998, the drama centers on…