Animation
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Robins’ Origin Story ‘Dynamic Duo’ In The Works With DC Studios, WBPA & 6th & Idaho; Movie To Be Made With Puppetry Animation
deadline.com 'Dynamic Duo': DC & Matt Reeves Animated Movie About the Robins In WorksDC Studios and Warner Bros Pictures Animation are making animated movie about the Robins - Dynamic Duo- with puppetry CGI studio Swaybox
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‘Inside Out 2’ Clocks Near 31M Global Views In First Five Days On Disney+; No. 1 Film Premiere For Streamer YTD
deadline.com 'Inside Out 2' Clocks 30.5M Global Views In First Five Days On Disney+Disney's Inside Out 2, drew 30.5 million views worldwide on Disney in its first five days, not only becoming the No. 1 film premiere YTD, but even more.
- animecorner.me Frieren: Beyond Journey's End Announces Season 2 - Anime Corner
Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End anime is officially getting a season 2 with studio Madhouse…
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‘Uzumaki’ Review – A Suffocating Spiral of Cosmic Body Horror Perfection
bloody-disgusting.com ‘Uzumaki’ Review - A Suffocating Spiral of Cosmic Body Horror PerfectionAdult Swim's highly anticipated Junji Ito adaptation is animated cosmic and body horror of the highest degree that's guaranteed to disturb seasoned genre
- www.thewrap.com 'The Wild Robot' Looks for Box Office Riches by Taking the 'Elemental' Route
With DreamWorks Animation's "The Wild Robot" tracking to open at $25 million, the film aims to leg out at the box office like Pixar's "Elemental."
> Last year, the original Pixar film “Elemental” looked doomed with the worst opening weekend in studio history, but turned into the box office comeback of the year. DreamWorks Animation’s latest film, “The Wild Robot,” hopes to chart a similar path to theatrical success. > > Despite rave early reviews, projections for the Universal release remain very low, with most projecting a start in the $20 million range similar to the $25 million start last weekend for Paramount’s “Transformers One.” > > As an adaptation of Peter Brown’s book series, “The Wild Robot” is not strictly speaking an original film. It’s in the vein of literary adaptations DreamWorks has picked up dating back to its first big CG-animated hit, “Shrek,” which was loosely based on a children’s book by William Steig. > > The most recent DreamWorks book adaptation, “The Bad Guys,” opened to just under $24 million in 2022 and grossed $97 million domestic and $250 million worldwide, prompting Universal and DreamWorks to greenlight a sequel for next year. > > With its beautiful animation style and moving tale of a robot stranded in a forest that adopts an orphaned gosling, “The Wild Robot” has the potential to win over audiences and show similar legs to “The Bad Guys.” If audiences embrace it as much as the critics, it could go even further, taking advantage of a lack of competing family titles in October and early November for a run similar to the $154 million domestic/$496 million global total of “Elemental.” > > But the fact that “The Wild Robot” must take the long road to box office success compared to instant hit sequels to films like “Inside Out” and “Despicable Me” shows how much familiar characters and narratives have come to dominate the family market since the pandemic shutdown. > > And sometimes even that is not enough, as Paramount is looking for “Transformers One” to leg out based on strong buzz from franchise fans, hoping that will win over moviegoers who weren’t originally sold on an origin story movie from the long-running series. > > “The cost-driven selectivity that families bring into whether or not they see a movie is playing out in real time. Something like ‘Despicable Me’ which families already know and enjoy can get people in easily. In this case, familiarity breeds confidence that it’s worth the time, energy and money to go out to the theater,” said Comscore analyst Paul Dergarabedian. > > Pixar’s “Coco,” the last original animated film to gross over $500 million worldwide, opened to $72 million over five days on Thanksgiving weekend in 2017. “Shrek” opened to $42 million before inflation adjustment back in 2001 while another children’s book adaptation, “How to Train Your Dragon,” opened to $43 million in 2010. Both cleared $200 million in domestic grosses. > > “The Wild Robot” is earning critical acclaim as strong or perhaps stronger than any installment of the franchises spawned by those films, yet could very well have to settle for an opening below $30 million. The wild success of “Inside Out 2” and “The Super Mario Bros. Movie” shows that families have not abandoned theaters in the slightest, but such tracking for “Wild Robot” perhaps suggests that parents are less likely to try out something new unless they’re convinced they and their kids will enjoy it, making post-release word-of-mouth even more crucial. > > “It used to be that theatrical and home video were the clear metrics with sometimes merch being taken into account, but now with streaming it just makes the formula so different,” said Dergarabedian. “Now it takes months and months to really see how much an animated film makes an impact on audiences, and it takes everyone in the room at a studio from different departments to sort it all out.” > > Further complicating matters for both “The Wild Robot” and “Transformers One” is that Warner Bros.’ “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice” has found considerable traction with families and young adults. According to data from exhibition sources, the audience share of moviegoers age 13-24 has increased by 16 points in the second and third weekend of the Tim Burton sequel’s run compared to its Gen X driven opening weekend. > > This is part of the reason why “Beetlejuice 2” has been able to hold so well, approaching $250 million domestically after holding on to the No. 1 spot last weekend against “Transformers One.” > > With three well-reviewed, family friendly yet tonally unique films now on offer and with the R-rated “Joker: Folie a Deux” being the top new release next weekend it will be curious to see how audience interest shakes out this weekend and whether “Transformers One” and “The Wild Robot” will be able to have lengthy and profitable theatrical runs without cannibalizing audience interest in each other. > > Meanwhile, cinephiles will at long last get a chance to see Francis Ford Coppola’s long-gestating and critically polarizing “Megalopolis,” as Lionsgate brings it to theaters this weekend. > > It has been a long road for this movie starring Adam Driver and Giancarlo Esposito as a brilliant architect and a corrupt mayor clashing over humanity’s future. The film was first conceived by Coppola in 1977 shortly after completing “Apocalypse Now,” but was shelved after a string of box office failures until Coppola decided to fund the film himself, selling his Sonoma wineries to fund the film’s $120 million budget. > > Upon its premiere at Cannes, “Megalopolis” sharply divided critics, carrying a 52% Rotten Tomatoes score. Screenings for the film for Hollywood’s top studio execs led to the movie largely being passed on until Lionsgate reached a distribution-only deal in June, with Coppola covering the marketing costs. > > How much Coppola, who has voiced his plans for other filmmaking projects, needs “Megalopolis” to make to keep bringing his cinematic visions to reality is unclear. But what is clear is that “Megalopolis” is likely to do worse than than “Horizon: An American Saga — Chapter 1,” the first of a planned four-part series partially self-funded by writer-director Kevin Costner that had the release of “Chapter 2” indefinitely put on hold after it only made $29 million in the U.S. from an $11 million opening. > > “Megalopolis” is tracking to open to roughly half that at $5-7 million, and given the mixed reception is unlikely to find an audience outside of Coppola’s devoted fans and the most fervent of cinema lovers. > > For Lionsgate, this will be the fifth straight wide release for the studio with an opening weekend of below $10 million. But unlike some past recent misfires like “Borderlands,” Lionsgate holds no expenses beyond what it paid to acquire the distribution costs along with a percentage of the box office. With such a low bar, insiders tell TheWrap that Lionsgate should recoup its costs on “Megalopolis” within a week of theatrical play.
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Justice – Neverender (Starring Tame Impala) (Official Video)
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80s anime-style music video.
The song is decent too!
- www.engadget.com Apple TV will make three classic Peanuts specials free to stream
All three Peanuts holiday specials will be streaming for free on Apple TV.
- deadline.com Disney Layoffs Underway: Hundreds Of Corporate Staffers Impacted
Disney is in the middle of a new wave of cuts as part of a "cost-saving initiative," sources tell Deadline.
- www.thewrap.com ‘Transformers One’: Sleeper Box Office Hit in the Making or Franchise in Decline? | Analysis
Paramount/Hasbro's latest "Transformers" film "Transformers One" could leg out like "IF," or it could be abandoned by non-fans like "Furiosa."
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Animation Discussion: What Are You Watching And Recommending This Week? (September 23, 2024)
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Official poster for "The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim"
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LVCD: Reference-based Lineart Video Colorization with Diffusion Models
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>We propose the first video diffusion framework for reference-based lineart video colorization. Unlike previous works that rely solely on image generative models to colorize lineart frame by frame, our approach leverages a large-scale pretrained video diffusion model to generate colorized animation videos. This approach leads to more temporally consistent results and is better equipped to handle large motions. Firstly, we introduce Sketch-guided ControlNet which provides additional control to finetune an image-to-video diffusion model for controllable video synthesis, enabling the generation of animation videos conditioned on lineart. We then propose Reference Attention to facilitate the transfer of colors from the reference frame to other frames containing fast and expansive motions. Finally, we present a novel scheme for sequential sampling, incorporating the Overlapped Blending Module and Prev-Reference Attention, to extend the video diffusion model beyond its original fixed-length limitation for long video colorization. Both qualitative and quantitative results demonstrate that our method significantly outperforms state-of-the-art techniques in terms of frame and video quality, as well as temporal consistency. Moreover, our method is capable of generating high-quality, long temporal-consistent animation videos with large motions, which is not achievable in previous works. Our code and model are available at this https URL.
Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.12960
Project Page: https://luckyhzt.github.io/lvcd
Code: (coming soon)
Supplementary Demo clips: https://luckyhzt.github.io/lvcd/supplementary/supplementary.html
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Box Office: ‘Transformers One’ Makes $3.4 Million in Previews
variety.com Box Office: 'Transformers One' Makes $3.4 Million in Previews'Transformers One' has made $3.4 million in previews at the box office.
- www.rogerebert.com Zack Snyder's Animated Netflix Epic "Twilight of the Gods" Aims for Valhalla, Lands at Mediocre | TV/Streaming | Roger Ebert
Whatever you’re looking for from your next adult animation binge—profundity, thrills, shock—you’re not likely to find it from Zack Snyder.
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Tomb Raider: The Legend of Lara Croft | Official Trailer | Netflix
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> >Tomb Raider: The Legend of Lara Croft, set after the events of the Tomb Raider Survivor Trilogy video games, is coming to Netflix on October 10.
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Jennifer Lee Steps Down as Disney Animation’s Chief Creative to Make ‘Frozen’ Sequels
variety.com Jennifer Lee Out at Disney Animation to Make 'Frozen' SequelsJennifer Lee steps down as Disney Animation's chief creative to make "Frozen" sequels.
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Powerhouse Animation Studio Workers Ratify First Union Contract In Historic Move For Right-To-Work States
deadline.com Powerhouse Animation Studio Workers Ratify First Union ContractPowerhouse Animation Studio artists and production workers are the first animation workers in a right-to-work state to have union representation
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'Castlevania: Nocturne' Season 2 Premieres January 2025 on Netflix
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- www.ign.com Inside Out 2 Was the Hit Pixar Needed, but the Laid-Off Employees Who Crunched on It Are Still Hurting - IGN
Inside Out 2 is the highest-grossed animated film ever. But behind the scenes, Pixar workers grappled with crunch, layoffs, and an avoidance of LGBTQ+ themes. Our report of the tumultuous making of the sequel to one of the most beloved Pixar films ever.
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Animation Discussion: What Are You Watching And Recommending This Week? (September 16, 2024)
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- deadline.com Lilly Wachowski Developing 'Hell Followed With Us' Into Animated Movie
Lilly Wachowski's Anarchists United & Trustbridge Entertainment and more developing NY Times Bestseller 'Hell Followed With Us' Into Feature Film
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Animation Discussion: What Are You Watching And Recommending This Week? (September 9, 2024)
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- indie-cinema.com Interview with film director and animation legend John Musker | Indie Cinema Magazine
We are thrilled to present an exclusive interview with one of the most celebrated figures in animation, John Musker! Known for his legendary work at Disney on films like The Little Mermaid, Aladdin, and Moana, John has helped shape the landscape of animated cinema for decades. As he sits down with f...
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'Blue Eye Samurai' wins for Outstanding Animated Program at the 2024 Emmys
www.emmys.com Outstanding Animated Program Nominees / Winners 2024Outstanding Animated Program Nominees / Winners 2024 - The 2024 Television Academy Emmy Awards Nominee and Winners. See all the nominees and winners!
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The Overanimation of Zenless Zone Zero
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> This entire channel is great if you're interested in video game animation in general.
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‘Twilight’ Animated Series ‘Midnight Sun’ Lands at Netflix
variety.com 'Twilight' Animated Series 'Midnight Sun' Lands at NetflixThe animated series based on Stephanie Meyer's "Twilight" novel "Midnight Sun" has given a straight-to-series order at Netflix, Variety has learned.
- www.polygon.com The Gravity Falls resurgence reminds me how great the show is
The Book of Bill prompted a Gravity Falls renaissance with an influx of Billford shipping art. But it’s also a great way to remember how fantastic the show is.
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Creature Commandos: Release Date Set for Official Launch of James Gunn’s New DC Universe
tvline.com 'Creature Commandos': Release Date Set for New DC Universe Series'Creature Commandos,' which will be the first title to kick off the new DC Universe, now has a release date at Max — find out when it premieres.
Max has set Thursday, December 5 for the premiere of Creature Commandos