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Max Drops Trailer for Original Animated Short ‘Peter & the Wolf’

By Dan Sarto | Thursday, September 28, 2023 at 3:59pm

Coming October 19, the film, featuring music and narration by Gavin Friday and artwork based on original illustrations by Bono, transforms and retells the classic fairytale and Sergei Prokofiev’s famed symphony.

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‘Young Love’ Looks at Millennial Parents, Afro-Puffs, and Sun-Kissed Chicago Overpasses

Matthew A. Cherry’s new animated series, based on his Oscar-winning ‘Hair Love’ short, offers an honest, heartfelt, and comedic take on a millennial couple and their young daughter as they juggle careers, parenthood, social issues, and multi-generational dynamics while working to make a better life for themselves; show debuts September 21 on Max.

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Max Drops ‘Young Love’ Official Trailer

By Dan Sarto | Tuesday, September 12, 2023 at 10:10am

Based on Matthew A. Cherry’s Oscar-winning ‘Hair Love’ short, the new series stars Kid Cudi, Issa Rae, and Brooke Monroe Conaway as a tight-knit Chicago family juggling careers, parenthood, social issues and multi-generational dynamics while working to make a better life for themselves; show debuts September 21.

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‘Tiny Toons Looniversity’: Like Your College, But with More Anvils

Co-EPs / Co-showrunners Nate Cash and Erin Gibson’s revived ‘Tiny Toon Adventures’ series, set at Acme Looniversity, famed institution of higher hijinks learning, sports a visual facelift where the characters ‘move in a cool 3D way, but it's all hand-drawn;’ Season 1 debuts today, September 8 on Max, tomorrow on Cartoon Network.

Down Boy!

The Bewitching Victorian Era VFX of ‘The Nevers’

VFX supervisor Johnny Han, working with Scanline VFX, EDI Effetti Digitali Italiani, Mackevision, MR. X, BUF, and Jellyfish Pictures, produced 2,000 shots for Season 1A and 2,500 for Season 1B – including the ‘Shockdog’ - on the Emmy nominated HBO series, set in an 1896 London rocked by a supernatural event that gives certain people – mostly women – abnormal abilities.

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Cartoon Network Drops ‘Tiny Toons Looniversity’ Trailer

Meet the students of ‘Acme Looniversity;’ the all-new animated series, based on the original ‘Tiny Toon Adventures’ series, hits MAX in September with all Season 1 episodes. 

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Wētā FX Flexes its Cordyceps in ‘The Last of Us’ VFX

Visual Effects Supervisor Simon Jung and Animation Supervisor Dennis Yoo talk clickers, bloaters, giraffes, and fungi, some of the captivating and ghastly visuals they helped produce for HBO’s critically acclaimed and wildly popular series, nominated for 25 Emmys including Outstanding Visual Effects in a Season or Movie.

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‘Wonder Woman 3’ Not Currently in Development After All

Despite heavy teasing by golden lasso-wielding actress Gal Gadot, James Gunn and Peter Safran have no current plans for a ‘Wonder Woman 3’ project, and her chances of joining the new DCU are slim. 

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Leslie Iwerks’ ‘Superpowered: The DC Story’ Now Streaming on Max

The Academy Award and Emmy-nominated filmmaker discusses her 3-part DC docuseries that features over 60 new and archival interviews with the industry’s most prolific creators.

It’s Going to Get ‘Looney’ Headline News

Watch and Listen: ‘Tiny Toons Looniversity’ Theme Song Revealed at SDCC

The all-new animated series, based on the original ‘Tiny Toon Adventures’ series, honors its iconic musical heritage with a remix of the original arrangement; the show comes to Cartoon Network and Max this Fall. 

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Max Originals Reveals ‘Fionna and Cake’ and Other First Looks at SDCC 2023

Check out the trailers - new animation coming to the streamer includes the next chapter in the ‘Adventure Time’ universe, ‘Young Love’ based on the characters from the Oscar-winning animated short, ‘Hair Love,’ and the Season 4 mayhem of ‘Harley Quinn.’ 

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‘Ricky and Morty: The Complete Seasons 1-6’ Heads to Blu-ray, DVD

All six seasons of Adult Swim’s award-winning sci-fi comedy, plus special features, audio commentary, deleted scenes, featurettes, animated sketches, and more, will be available on Blu-ray and DVD September 12.

Who is the Man of Steel? Headline News

‘My Adventures with Superman’ Episode 1 Now on YouTube

Warner Bros. Animation and DC’s serialized coming-of-age story follows Clark Kent as he builds his secret identity and falls for Lois Lane; first two episodes now streaming on Max.

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Tom is Still 10, Grown-Ups Still Dysfunctional in ‘Ten Year Old Tom’ Season 2

Creator Steve Dildarian discusses the past, present, and future of his acclaimed animated sitcom about a kid trying to make sense of the world and the less than helpful adults in his life, whose new season premieres today, June 29, on Max.

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Lion Forge Entertainment and BWA Team Up on ‘Iyanu’ for Cartoon Network and Max

The ‘Hair Love’ producers, along with Black Women Animate Studios, have begun recruiting a diverse group of artists for pre-production of LFE’s upcoming Nigerian animated fantasy series.

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Animation in Europe Federation Expands to 20 Countries

Estonia, Greece, and Portugal join member countries collectively calling on streamers to invest more heavily in European animation; new board members/advocates elected at a general meeting last week in Annecy.

It’s Going to Get ‘Looney’ Headline News

Cartoon Network and Max Reveal ‘Tiny Toons Looniversity’ Voice Cast

The animated reboot of Emmy Award-winning ‘Tiny Toon Adventures’ welcomes back ‘Toon’ alumni, including Jeff Bergman, Bob Bergen and Candi Milo; freshman talent joining the ‘Looney’ crew includes Emmy Award-Winner Eric Bauza and Ashleigh Hairston – coming Fall 2023.

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Adult Swim Greenlights ‘Common Side Effects’ from Mike Judge and Greg Daniels

Announced at Annecy 2023, the new animated comedy series from the famed ‘King of the Hill’ creators looks at big pharma’s secret knowledge of the ‘elixir of life;’ the show is produced by Bandera Entertainment.

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Max Greenlights ‘Hop’ Kids’ Animated Series

Based on ‘Arthur’ creator Marc Brown’s children’s book, the new show is grounded in emotional reality but soars into a fantasy world populated by dragons, trolls, talking banjos, and magic crayons.

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From Hate Mail to Heroes: ‘Harley Quinn’s ‘Looney’ Journey to Fame

For Justin Halpern, Patrick Schumacker, and Dean Lorey, their show’s path to critical acclaim first navigated through some rather vicious fan backlash - which soon turned to accolades - over what eventually became unfounded fears the long-promised romance between the titular character and Poison Ivy was not to be.

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WGA Strike Hits ‘Game of Thrones’ Spinoff Series ‘Snow’

Max's head of drama Francesca Orsi reveals not all projects will continue in development due to the strike, and while the series starring Kit Harington could ‘go either way,’ the actor and executive producer is still attached.

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After a Brief 20-Year Hiatus, ‘Clone High’ Is Back in Session!

Supervising Director Anna Hollingsworth talks about the resurrection of the beloved adult animation sitcom, whose first two episodes premiered May 23 on HBO Max, with two new episodes dropping every Thursday, beginning June 1.

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