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Although Kendrick Lamar has been on top of the music world for a while now, fresh off headlining the Super Bowl Halftime Show and winning Record of the Year for "Not Like Us" at the Grammys, he'll have to wait a bit longer to take over the film industry. The hip-hop star's yet-untitled movie with South Park duo Trey Parker and Matt Stone, which was initially meant to go head-to-head with Jurassic World: Rebirth on July 4, has officially been pushed back to March 20, 2026. The news comes in advance of Paramount's CinemaCon presentation this week, where the film was teased last year and was likely in line for a preview this year. A reason for the delay has not been given.

First announced in early 2022 under Paramount, with Parker directing from a script written by frequent collaborator and The Shivering Truth creator Vernon Chatman, next to no information about the hotly anticipated project yet.

Adult Swim’s highly anticipated Junji Ito adaptation is animated cosmic and body horror of the highest degree that’s guaranteed to disturb seasoned genre fans.

“Become one with me and the spiral.”

Junji Ito has become one of the manga industry’s most prolific body horror storytellers and Uzumaki: Spiral Into Horror is definitely regarded as one of his strongest works. Uzumaki was originally serialized from 1998 to 1999 and its chapters were collected into three volumes than span nearly 650 pages. Ito’s works have been prone to adaptation — in both animation and live-action — but his style is incredibly hard to replicate, which has only reinforced why he’s become such a mainstream name in horror illustration. Junji Ito Collection, Junji Ito Maniac: Japanese Tales of the Macabre, and the 75-minute Ova, Gyo: Tokyo Fish Attack, have all done their best, but amounted to flawed experiments.

Accordingly, Adult Swim’s Uzumaki...

Stop-motion animation is responsible for some of the most heartwarming moments in the history of film, but even the most ardent fan of Claymation has to admit that there’s something inherently uncanny about puppetry where you can’t see the strings. The very act of bringing an inanimate humanoid figure to life recalls spooky tales of monsters and dark sorcery, so it’s not surprising that stop-motion has also been used as a tool to scare.

And with modern media like The Shivering Truth and Robert Morgan’s Stopmotion reminding us that animation can convey terror just as easily as cartoony laughs, we’ve decided to come up with a list celebrating six of the scariest stop-motion effects in horror.

For the purposes of this list, we’ll be considering any film that utilizes stop-motion to bring a character to life, be it as a brief photo-realistic special effect or traditional animation.

There are some comedians that tell jokes, and then there are those who bring something more than just a string of one-liners to their audiences. Chris Fleming certainly falls into the latter category, albeit with an additional caveat his material is sometimes so out there that you never quite know where it is going to go. For his recent Peacock special, Chris Fleming: Hell, the task of capturing Fleming’s live stand-up routine fell to director Cat Solen, who also worked on bringing to life some surreal puppets that feature in some of the sketches within the special.

In an exclusive interview with MovieWeb, Solen discussed working on the special with Fleming, as well as her inspirations and puppet design techniques.

The Shivering Truth of Hell

First off, here's how the collaboration between Colen and Fleming came to be. “So Chris and I were internet friends first, and then I...

The “1266” pilot set at Onyx Collective has added Karim Diané, Kristin Dodson, and Kassandra Lee Diaz as series regulars to star alongside Gabourey Sidibe, who will executive produce and play the lead role of Gabby. Anna Maria Horsford, Tisha Campbell, and Judy Reyes have been announced as recurring guest stars.

Diané (“One of Us Is Lying”) portrays Posh, a student at the New York Institute of Fashion who’s described as everyone’s favorite, even if they are constantly trying to figure out if he’s straight or gay. They’re Gabby’s best friend who doesn’t put up with her antics and isn’t scared to hold her accountable. Posh’s brutal honesty is always delivered with love, understanding and some attitude. He’s repped by Paradigm and managed by Reed Baker at Legendize.

Dodson plays Jimmy, the youngest of the phone sex workers at Imagine Inc. She’s flighty,...

Grammy-winning rapper Kendrick Lamar’s PGLang company has teamed with Matt Stone and Trey Parker’s Park County banner to produce a new feature film for Paramount Pictures.

The live-action comedy, written by Vernon Chatman, will “depict the past and present coming to a head when a young Black man, who is interning as a slave re-enactor at a living history museum, discovers that his white girlfriend’s ancestors once owned his.”

Lamar and PGLang partner Dave Free will produce the project alongside Stone and Parker. Paramount Pictures will handle theatrical distribution, home entertainment and television licensing rights on the project, with Paramount Plus acquiring streaming rights.

Production on the yet-to-be-titled feature begins in the spring.

“On behalf of Paramount Pictures and the wider ViacomCBS family, we look forward to ushering in the first theatrical collaboration from these creative visionaries, and galvanizing audiences worldwide around a powerful storytelling experience,” Paramount...

Grammy-winning rapper Kendrick Lamar, Dave Free and South Park co-creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker have signed on to produce an untitled, live-action comedy for Paramount Pictures.

The film penned by Vernon Chatman will see the past and present come to a head when a young Black man who is interning as a slave reenactor at a living history museum discovers that his white girlfriend’s ancestors once owned his. Lamar and Free are producing for pgLang, with Stone and Parker for Park County. While production is set to kick off this spring, it seems at present that a director has not been attached.

Paramount Pictures will handle theatrical distribution, home entertainment, and television licensing rights, with the film also to stream on Paramount+.

“On behalf of Paramount Pictures and the wider ViacomCBS family, we look forward to ushering in the first theatrical collaboration from these creative visionaries, and galvanizing...

“Teenage Euthanasia,” Adult Swim’s newest coming-of-all-ages comedy series about all things death, family, and accidental resurrection in Florida, premieres Sunday, September 19 at midnight Et/Pt. It features some pretty beloved voice talent, including comedian Maria Bamford, and “I Think You Should Leave” co-creator and star Tim Robinson. Watch the first trailer for the show below.

Here’s the synopsis:

Set in near-future inland Florida, Teenage Euthanasia centers around the owners of Tender Endings funeral home, the Fantasy Family: Grandma Baba, her adult children Uncle Pete and Trophy, and Trophy’s teenage daughter, Euthanasia (“Annie”), a name accidentally given to her during the time of Trophy’s own unbearable suffering. Back when Trophy was a teen herself; she ran away from home after giving birth to Annie, leaving her newborn to be raised by Baba and Uncle Pete.

Now, 15 years later, Trophy returns to Tender Endings…as a corpse, for burial.

Kristin Dodson has been cast as a series regular in the upcoming Kevin Iso and Dan Perlman co-created comedy series for Showtime, “Flatbush Misdemeanors,” Variety has learned exclusively.

The premium network made a straight-to-series order of the 10-episode half-hour comedy from the “High Fidelity” and “That’s My Bus!” comedians and writers last October. The show, which hails from both Showtime and Avalon, has already begun production in New York City.

“Flatbush Misdemeanors,” starring Iso and Perlman, centers on “a raw comedy of city life following Dan and Kevin, who play characters struggling to thrive in their new surroundings in Flatbush, Brooklyn,” looking to “climb out of their heads and connect with others,” per the logline. Dodson will play the recurring role of Zayna, one of Dan’s outspoken high school students.

“’Flatbush Misdemeanors’ is a funny, audacious and inventive series that rips the artisanal sheen off of Brooklyn and mines comedy from the diverse,...

Have we ever been in more need of a laugh than in 2020? Amidst a historic global pandemic, a tumultuous American political election, civil unrest, wildfires, Murder Horne… alright, you get the picture. 2020 has been the pits, man. Thankfully, this year from hell featured some bright spots on television, even if rays of sunshine were sorely lacking in reality.

If the shows on our list weren’t making us laugh, we would have been ugly-crying since March. While we were all locked in our homes, we got reacclimated with the Warner Brothers (and sister), said goodbye to BoJack Horseman, and met regular human bartender Jackie Daytona, making quarantine a bit more bearable, if only in 30 minute increments. From brand new series like How To with John Wilson, to swan songs for Den of Geek favorites like Schitt’s Creek, TV comedies in 2020 kept us cackling through the chaos.

To determine the best...

In the wake of civil unrest throughout the United States following the police killing of George Floyd this summer, many streaming services announced the removal of racially problematic episodes of series like 30 Rock, Community, and Scrubs. It turns out that Adult Swim removed some episodes of its shows from streaming as well…but in a less public, more discreet fashion

As first discovered by some ultra observant Redditors and subsequently reported on by The Daily Beast, episodes of three Adult Swim series, The Boondocks, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, and The Shivering Truth are missing on Adult Swim streaming platforms and HBO Max. The missing episodes include:

Aqua Teen Hunger Force Season 5 Episode 1 “Boston” – This is the infamous episode of the series that caused a real-life bomb scare in Boston with its viral advertising campaign. This episode never actually aired and was therefore unlikely to make it to HBO Max in the first place.

Adult Swim has "permanently retired" certain episodes of Aqua Teen Hunger Force, The Boondocks, and The Shivering Truth "due to cultural sensitivities."

Per The Daily Beast, fans on Reddit noticed that several episodes of the shows were absent from HBO Max, where both Aqua Teen Hunger Force and The

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Several episodes of the popular Adult Swim series Aqua Teen Hunger Force and The Boondocks have been “permanently retired due to cultural sensitivities,” according to a statement obtained by The Daily Beast.

When the shows became available to stream on HBO Max this summer, fans noticed that several episodes — Aqua Teen‘s “Shake Like Me,” in which Master Shake becomes Black, and The Boondocks‘ “The Story of Jimmy Rebel,” which tells the story of a racist country musician — were mysteriously unavailable.

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Several episodes of Adult Swim series have been “permanently retired due to cultural sensitivities,” according to the network, including those from “Aqua Teen Hunger Force” and “The Boondocks.”

The Daily Beast, which first reported the news, noted that Reddit users had pointed out “Aqua Teen Hunger Force” episode “Shake Like Me” and “The Boondocks” episode “The Story of Jimmy Rebel” could not be found — or were only briefly found — on HBO Max, the streaming service launched by WarnerMedia in the spring. In “Shake Like Me,” a reference to the John Howard Griffin book “Black Like Me,” Shake “learns what it’s like to be a stereotype” after being bitten by a radioactive Black man, according to the IMDb description of the episode. In the site’s description of “The Story of Jimmy Rebel,” Ruckus “finds his musical soul mate in famed racist country-western singer Jimmy Rebel.”

According to a source,...

Adult Swim has “permanently retired” an episode of “Aqua Teen Hunger Force” and an episode of “The Boondocks,” making them unavailable for streaming on the Adult Swim site and WarnerMedia’s HBO Max, “due to cultural sensitivities,” a representative for the cable channel told TheWrap Tuesday.

“The Boondocks” installment in question is Season 3’s “The Story of Jimmy Rebel,” which focuses on Uncle Ruckus’ relationship with a country singer whose albums have titles like “Real N****** Never Die, They Just Smell That Way.”

The “Aqua Teen Hunger Force” episode that was removed is Season 6’s “Shake Like Me,” which is titled in reference to John Howard Griffin’s “Black Like Me,” and sees Shake become “stereotypically” Black in his behavior and physical appearance after being bitten by a Black man infected with toxic waste.

These episodes are not available on HBO Max because they are not part of Adult Swim...

How do you review a nightmare? That's basically the question in front of me as I try to sum up the first three episodes of Season 2 of The Shivering Truth. Adult Swim's sophomore season of the stop-motion animated series returns tonight at midnight (just after Rick and Morty's new episode) to show off creator Vernon Chatman's latest batch of unfiltered, stream-of-semi-consciousness thought brought to life through meticulous craft and a creative team possessed of surprisingly strong stomachs. It's part nightmare, part philosophical pondering, and all mind-melting enigmatic entertainment. You …...

https://youtu.be/fGbBUUFlcWM Listen / download here: Adult Swim's haunting yet thought-provoking stop-motion series The Shivering Truth returns for Season 2 this Sunday at midnight, right after a new Rick and Morty. To celebrate that fact, we had a chance to chat with director/executive producer Cat Solen in a rather unique interview experience. We stepped into the simulated world of Second Life to carry out the interview in a uniquely designed venue tailormade for the series itself, complete with crawling ants, dangling swords, and plenty of avatar accessories to suit the mood. You can actually check …...

In addition to premiering JJ Villard's Fairy Tales this month, Adult Swim is also inviting viewers to experience the surreal horror of and bizarre comedy of another animated anthology, The Shivering Truth, which will kick off its second season on May 10th right before JJ Villard's Fairy Tales.

To get viewers ready for the insane scares to come, we've been provided with the official trailer for The Shivering Truth Season 2, featuring a voice cast that includes Kyle Mooney, Chris Elliott, and Alia Shawkat:

Synopsis: "The Shivering Truth" is a delicately crafted, darkly surreal anthology comedy. Each episode is a miniature propulsive omnibus cluster bomb of painfully riotous daymares all dripping with the orange goo of dream logic. A series of loosely linked emotional parables about stories within tales that crawled out of the deepest caverns of your unconscious mind and became lovingly animated in breath-slapping stop motion -- in other words,...

Way back in the simpler times of December 2018, Adult Swim brought The Shivering Truth into our lives, a stop-motion animated show that pushed even their brand of adult-oriented insanity to its limits. I loved it, of course, comparing it to yesteryear's avant garde animation in MTV's Liquid Television and Oddities, something that's definitely not for everyone but is absolutely spot-on for a select few. So it's with great pleasure that we bring you the exclusive debut of the trailer for The …...

“Rick and Morty” are back with another April Fools Day gift for fans.

Adult Swim released a new trailer and premiere date of May 3 for the second half of Season 4 on Wednesday, featuring new adventures and “unnecessarily badass” suits of armor. “This is what you’ve been waiting for,” the narrator of the clip reminds fans, in cast anyone’s forgotten in the five months since the first half of the season aired.

April Fools Day has become something of an anniversary for Adult Swim and “Rick and Morty” fans. Back in 2017, Adult Swim surprise-released the first episode of Season 3 on April 1 as part of the network’s annual April Fools prank. The episode, titled “The Rickshank Redemption,” aired on the network every half hour for four hours.

Also Read: 'Rick & Morty' Co-Creator Justin Roiland Brings New Claymation Series to Quibi

This year, as part of the...

April Fool’s Day looks to be Christmas morning for fans of the popular Adult Swim animated series “Rick and Morty.” The adventures of the two dynamic characters is set to continue with Adult Swim announcing the premiere date for the back half of Season 4 on May 3.

In a new trailer to accompany the announcement fans see Rick and Morty fighting off bizarre creatures in “unnecessarily badass” suits of armor and arguing over whether to wear squid creatures on their face. We also get glimpses of a light saber battle involving Morty’s sister Summer and more awkward family dinner table conversations. There isn’t any particular discussion of a larger arc, which is par for the course; the big announcer voice emphasizes that this season looks to have everything you need and it will all be available on May 3 — five months after the premiere of the most recent half season.

Lazor Wulf is all set to premiere on Adult Swim with back-to-back quarter-hour episodes this Sunday, April 7th at Midnight Et/Pt. The series, pitched as being about "finding the inner strength to buy your own cereal, not dying, and the art of the scam," is colorful and full of unique characters but rather aimless and ultimately kind of pointless. I'm all for Adult Swim series experimenting with animation styles (see Tigtone and The Shivering Truth), anthropomorphic animal absurdities (see Squidbillies and their inky ilk), and late-night, bizarro takes like Too Many Cooks, but Lazor …...

Vimeo has announced the winners for its 2018 Best of the Year Staff Picks Awards. Unlike previous years, Vimeo brought in a distinguished jury to screen the nominees in each category and decide the winner. Jury members included actor Alan Cumming, Oscar-winning documentarian Roger Ross Williams, “Monsters and Men” breakout director Reinaldo Green, “21 Jump Street” co-director Phil Lord, and more.

All seven award recipients below will receive a cash prize and a physical trophy, in addition to the Best of the Year badge. The winning films will also be screened at Nitehawk Cinema in Williamsburg, Brooklyn on January 17. To decide the nominees, which were announced January 7, Vimeo’s in-house curation team chose 93 titles with the Staff Picks badge from 2018 in seven categories. Last year alone, there were over 1,200 Staff Picks.

The 2018 categories include Best of Action Sports, Best of Animation, Best of Comedy, Best of Documentary, Best of Drama, Best...

Vimeo has announced its 2018 nominees for the Best of the Year Staff Picks Awards. Vimeo has recognized the best Staff Picks of the year by calling out the winners on its blog since 2016, but the company is elevating its end-of-the-year celebration this year by revealing nominations and bringing in a distinguished jury for each category to decide the winner. Each award recipient will receive a cash prize and a physical trophy, in addition to the Best of the Year badge, and the winning films will be screened at Nitehawk Cinema in Williamsburg, Brooklyn on January 17th.

There are three jurors for each Staff Pick category, including the 2017 winners for each respective category. Categories include: Best of Action Sports, Best of Animation, Best of Comedy, Best of Documentary, Best of Drama, Best of Eye Candy and Best of Travel. Jury members include Alan Cumming, Roger Ross Williams, Reinaldo Green, and Sarah Schneider,...

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Our staffs, readers, and some celebrity friends come together to select the Best TV comedies of the year!

How does TV comedy keep getting better?

Dramas hit a bit of a plateau on television in 2018. The likes of Breaking Bad, Mad Men, and even The Leftovers are now distant memories. Better Call Saul lives on, and The Americans concluded in fine fashion but the landscape after that isn’t as nearly as impressive as years’ past.

More than ever, it is comedy that is the driving force behind the most daring, creative, and fun storytelling on television. Perhaps that’s because comedy is more context-dependent than drama and therefore must be more adaptable and change with the times. Or maybe it’s simply because we all just want to laugh? Whatever the reason,...

Adult Swim has long been the go-to outlet for bizarre, mind-twisting shenanigans, picking up where its forebears like MTV's Liquid Television and Oddities left off years ago. Cartoon Network's mature programming block has also been both a haven and an incubator for the more avant-garde storytellers out there, especially when it comes to animation. (I still think about Too Many Cooks on an almost weekly basis.) Now, with Adult Swim's latest head-scratching series The Shivering Truth, the platform is once again pushing the envelope of the subjective when it comes to what is …...

Adult Swim’s dark, disturbing new anthology series will swallow you whole and reshape your mind. We are not worthy.

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“And that’s my message to you: No one cares.”

There's an iconic episode of It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia where the gang is about to put on a risky performance. "Laughs are easy," a character remarks. "I'm going for gasps." There are many shows on Adult Swim that have made me laugh, but The Shivering Truth is one of the extreme few that has made me gasp. It also made me involuntarily moan, "Dear Lord." It made me actually sick to my stomach and groan. It also made me cry a whole bunch. The Shivering Truth is the kind of television that you'd use to break someone's mind and we are so very fortunate to have it in our lives.

It’s upsetting how good this show is.

Reason is a lie in Adult Swim’s stop-motion animated “The Shivering Truth”, which hails from Wonder Showzen and The Heart, She Holler creator Vernon Chatman. Adult Swim recently shared the first nightmarish and hallucinatory trailer for the series that is described as “a miniature propulsive omnibus clusterbomb of painfully riotous daymares, all dripping with the orange goo of dream logic” that will […]...

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We chat with ‘The Shivering Truth’s’ Vernon Chatman about his surreal, brilliant new anthology series on Adult Swim.

Few shows grab your attention as hard as The Shivering Truth. It’s a twisted anthology series from the likes of Vernon Chatman, Cat Solen, and Pffr that is one of the most unusual, unnerving programs to ever air on Adult Swim. The show gracefully navigates between ridiculous stories that serve a common theme, but it’s incredible to see the many tangents and directions that this quarter-hour program will visit. It’s a startling hybrid of comedy and horror that impressively taps into existential dread while still making you laugh. It’s a series where anything is possible and we fortunately got the opportunity to talk with the show’s writer, director, and co-creator, Vernon Chatman, about how a show like this comes together.

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“The Shivering Truth” premieres next week, as part of the Sunday night block on Adult Swim. But for anyone adventurous enough to take a chance on a stop-motion descent into some dark territory of the human psyche, IndieWire is presenting the first episode in advance of the series premiere.

This quarter-hour creation comes from Vernon Chatman, the co-creator of “Wonder Showzen” who also helped bring “The Heart, She Holler” to Adult Swim back in 2011. Chatman also voices characters in the series, joining a voice cast for this debut episode that also includes Jon Glaser, Kevin Breznahan, Miriam Tolan, and Ivy Chatman.

As part of a certain amount of due diligence, this intro is the time to reiterate that this is an episode of TV that will likely make some viewers uncomfortable. Anyone expected a traditional heartwarming stop-motion special is in for a deep, profound surprise. (To wit: A flipbook sent...

Trailers are an under-appreciated art form insofar that many times they’re seen as vehicles for showing footage, explaining films away, or showing their hand about what moviegoers can expect. Foreign, domestic, independent, big budget: What better way to hone your skills as a thoughtful moviegoer than by deconstructing these little pieces of advertising? This week […]

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And so the calendar closes on yet another TV year. As critics start to assemble year-end best lists and look forward to what the next 12 months might have in store, there’s still a final flurry of new original programming to sift through before 2018 fades away.

Per usual, these are spread out across broadcast, cable, and subscription services, this time with an extra peppering of original films debuting on TV airtime. With plenty of other options to juggle as 2018 closes, allow this one final collection to cap off the bunch.

(We do this roundup of new shows pretty much every month — if you missed any of those previous picks, here are some notable TV premieres from February, March, April, May, June, July, August, October, November, and our giant fall preview.)

“Nightflyers”

Joining the ever-growing sci-fi subgenre of “Hey, space is probably not the best place to go with people you don’t completely know!

Reason is a lie in Adult Swim’s stop-motion animated “The Shivering Truth”, which hails from Wonder Showzen and The Heart, She Holler creator Vernon Chatman. Adult Swim just released the first nightmarish and hallucinatory trailer for the series that is described as “a miniature propulsive omnibus clusterbomb of painfully riotous daymares, all dripping with the orange goo of dream logic” that […]...

A year after his Best Picture-winning fantasy/romance drama The Shape of Water, Guillermo del Toro is gearing up to re-enter the realm of fantasy, this time with a remake of a beloved classic. His long-gestating passion project, a stop-motion musical adaptation of Pinocchio, is finally moving ahead at Netflix. The project will be his next film with production beginning this fall, also backed by The Jim Henson Company and ShadowMachine.

Known most commonly for its 1940 Disney adaption, Pinocchio tells the story of a wood-carver who creates a puppet, who after being brought to life by a fairy, wishes to be a real live boy. However, del Toro’s version looks to be a darker version of the fairytale as it is set in Italy during the 1930s, at the rise of Mussolini and fascism. The director is certainly no stranger to combining whimsical fantasy with harsh reality, following The Devil’s Backbone,...

Following his Oscar-winning The Shape of Water, Guillermo del Toro will write, direct, and produce a stop motion animated Pinocchio musical for Netflix (the same streaming service that is home to del Toro's Trollhunters animated series), with The Jim Henson Company also on board the ambitious production.

Press Release: Hollywood, Calif. — Academy Award winning filmmaker Guillermo del Toro is making his animated feature film directorial debut at Netflix with his lifelong passion project, Pinocchio, which he will also write and produce as a stop motion musical. Pinocchio will be del Toro’s first feature film since The Shape of Water, which garnered four Academy Awards last year, including for Best Director and Best Picture.

Del Toro has set his retelling of the classic tale of Pinocchio in Italy during the 1930s. This marks an expansion of Netflix’s existing relationship with Guillermo del Toro, who created their Emmy award-winning television series DreamWorks’ Trollhunters,...

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Guillermo del Toro strings together his first animated feature project as Pinocchio comes to Netflix, and that's no lie.

"Woe to those who lead slothful lives," Carlo Collodi wrote in his 1880s children's stories The Adventures of Pinocchio. "Sloth is a dreadful illness and must be cured at once, in childhood." Guillermo del Toro has always used childhood as an inoculation against any kinds of laziness. His last film, The Shape of Water, won four Academy Awards last year, including Best Director and Best Picture Oscars. His next movie marks his animated feature film debut. Del Toro will direct, write and produce a stop-motion musical adaptation of Pinocchio for Netflix. He's wanted to do this all his life, and that's no lie.

“No art form has influenced my life and my work more than animation and no single character in history has had as deep of a...

In his first feature deal to direct since The Shape of Water won him Oscars for Best Picture and Best Director, Guillermo del Toro has made a deal with Netflix to co-direct his stop-motion animated passion project Pinocchio. Del Toro has pined to make a darker version of the wooden boy tale for the past decade. He has written the script with Patrick McHale (Over the Garden Wall and Adventure Time), and will co-direct with Mark Gustafson (Fantastic Mr. Fox). Guy Davis will serve as co-production designer, taking inspiration for the Pinocchio character from Gris Grimly’s original designs drawn from Carlo Collodi’s 1883 novel The Adventures of Pinocchio.

Production will begin this fall on a version of the classic story that is less romanticized than the 1940 Disney animated classic. Del Toro’s film will be a musical set in Italy during the turbulent 1930s. This collision of innocence in...

During a chat on “The Ellen DeGeneres Show,” Jonah Hill openly discussed his fluctuating weight and how it has inspired him to seek messages of community and acceptance in his directorial debut, “Mid90s. “

In the interview with DeGeneres, Hill shared a magazine he created to compliment his coming-of-age film. In the magazine he reflects on his past self as being “this 14 year old kid, being overweight wanting to fit in with these skaters and hip hop kids… not understanding (his) own worth.”

Hill read from his magazine: “I became famous in my late teens and then spent most of my young adult life listening to people say that I was fat and gross and unattractive.”

Also Read: 'Mid90s' Film Review: Jonah Hill Scores Solid Directorial Debut With Coming-of-Age Indie

Hill said it was only in writing and directing “Mid90s” that made him begin to realize “how much...

Jonah Hill’s directorial debut is an homage so faithful to its titular era, you’d be hard-pressed to pinpoint the year in which it was actually made. The giveaway, though, is in the intense sense of nostalgia that suffuses every frame of “Mid90s.”

Hill, currently starring in Netflix’s “Maniac,” was 13 in 1996, the same age as his protagonist, Stevie, who’s struggling to make sense of his unhappy life. His older brother, Ian, has a lot of rage issues, most of which he takes out on Stevie in violent fashion. And his young single mom, Dabney, is just trying to hold things together.

Facing down a summer with nothing to do and no one to do it with, Stevie finds a new family among the teens who hang out at a nearby L.A. skate shop. Ray (Na-kel Smith) works there, but he seems to be the only...

In today’s roundup, NBC cast David Schwimmer as a recurring character in the second revival season of “Will & Grace,” and CBS secured the rights to the European reality series “Love Island.”

Acquisitions

CBS has acquired the U.S. format rights to the U.K. reality show “Love Island” from ITV2. Hosted by English TV personality Caroline Flack, “Love Island” gathers vying bachelors and bachelorettes on one isle to fall in love and get voted out on a weekly basis. “Love Island” is ITV2’s most popular program of all time, with almost half of the network’s adult viewers under 34 keeping up with the series.

Behind The Scenes

National Geographic has released behind the scenes footage from its biopic series “Genius: Picasso.” The featurette includes interviews with stars Antonio Banderas, Alex Rich, Clemece Poesy, and Samantha Colley, showrunner Ken Biller, and costume designer Sonu Mishra, as they offer...

Adult Swim has ordered two new original animated comedy series with very different styles, The Shivering Truth and Tigtone.

Created and written by Vernon Chatman, The Shivering Truth is described as a delicately crafted, surreal anthology comedy, a miniature propulsive omnibus clusterbomb of painfully riotous daymares, all dripping with the orange goo of dream logic. It is a series of loosely-linked emotional parables about stories within tales that crawled out of the deepest caverns of your unconscious mind and became lovingly animated in breath-slapping stop motion — in other words, it is the Truth.

Chatman also directs with Cat Solen. The series is executive produced by Pffr (Neon Joe, Werewolf Hunter, Xavier: Renegade Angel) with Solen. The animation studio is Shadow Machine. The Shivering Truth is currently in production and will premiere later this year.

Adult Swim goes medieval with Tigtone, a new quarter-hour animated series created by Andrew Koehler and Benjamin Martin.

If you’re looking for a trip down memory lane, the first trailer for Jonah Hill’s directorial debut “Mid90s” will do the trick.

In the trailer, we follow Stevie (Sunny Suljic), a 13-year-old boy who balances his home life with his new group of friends while growing up in Los Angeles in the 1990s.

The film also stars Lucas Hedges, Katherine Waterston and Jerrod Carmichael. Hill also wrote the screenplay for the film.

Also Read: That Time Jonah Hill Was Approached by Real-Life Arms Dealers (Exclusive Video)

“You think you’re tough and s—,” says Hedges, who plays Stevie’s abusive older brother in the film. “You’re just a little f—ing kid.”

Scott Rudin, Ken Kao and Eli Bush are producing for A24. Apart from writing and directing “Mid90s,” Hill will next star in “The Beach Bum” and “The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part.” He...