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Fantasy and animation are a perfect match that, for whatever reason, Hollywood has yet to fully tap into. Sure, there are plenty of animated fairy tale movies; they used to be Disney's bread and butter, after all. However, when it comes to more serious, high fantasy animated films, they are severely lacking, with "The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim" being the rare exception (one that married the epic "Lord of the Rings" universe with anime).

This is not to say there aren't other examples, but they are rare enough that any announcement involving a new animated fantasy movie is exciting. Case in point, Warner Bros. Animation and Locksmith Animation are working to bring Marissa Meyer's best-selling book series "The Lunar Chronicles" to the big screen as a trilogy of animated features — and the first book already has a release date.

This is an interesting move on behalf of Warner Bros.

​In the vibrant world of Apple TV+’s new animated series Be@Rbrick, music isn’t just background noise—it’s a transformative force. At the helm of this sonic journey is none other than legendary producer Timbaland, who serves as the show’s Executive Music Producer.

We had a chance to catch up with Timbaland to shed some insight into his work on the new series​, how music continues to speak to him and just what he may look like as a “Be@Rbrick” himself!

1. What attracted you to working on the Be@Rbrick series?

“The creativity, man. Be@Rbrick is about breaking boundaries, about art, music, and storytelling coming together. That’s exactly what I do in music, so it felt like the perfect fit.”

2. What challenges did you face with creating the music for the series? Did you have a lot of creative freedom with the songs?

“The challenge was making...

Exclusive: Fox’s The Cleaning Lady has added Patricia De Leon, Robert Cicchini (Dreamgirls) and Lea Salonga for Season 4. The series returns on Tuesday, March 25 at 8-9 Pm Et/Pt.

The series follows Thony De La Rosa (Élodie Yung), a Cambodian-Filipino former surgeon who makes a living as a cleaning service worker alongside her sister-in-law, Fiona (Martha Millan). After witnessing a murder, Thony is offered a job both as a cleaner and a doctor within a criminal organization that could pay well enough to help her son and her family.

Cicchini will appear as a recurring guest star as Assistant District Attorney ‘Joel Herman,’ a thorough investigator with a disarming, easy-going personality. He catches Thony off-guard at the hospital, but Joel insists that he is here to help, believing her to be under pressure from the cartel.

De Leon will appear as...

Apple TV+ has announced the programming that will be added to the streaming service next month. The Apple TV Plus March 2025 lineup includes the kids & family series Be@Rbrick, the crime drama series Dope Thief, the Mythic Quest spinoff Side Quest, and the comedy series The Studio.

Apple TV+ offers drama and comedy series, feature films, documentaries, and kids and family entertainment. It is available on the Apple TV app on the iPhone, iPad, Apple TV, Apple Vision Pro, Mac, smart TVs from Samsung, LG, Sony, Vizio, Tcl and others, Roku and Amazon Fire TV devices, Chromecast with Google TV, PlayStation and Xbox consoles, and at the Apple site.

The Studio Apple TV Plus March 2025 Schedule

Available March 14

Dope Thief (Crime Drama Series)

“Dope Thief” is an eight-episode crime drama executive-produced by Academy Award nominee Ridley Scott, who also directs the first episode.

The series is created and executive produced...

Apple TV+ has revealed a first look at Be@Rbrick, a new CG animated comedy series for kids and families set to debut globally on Friday, March 21.

Based on the iconic Be@Rbrick figures from Medicom Toy, the 13-episode series, produced and animated by DreamWorks Animation and Dentsu Inc., features upbeat, original songs and aims to empower kids and families to embrace their true selves through the universal language of music.

Be@Rbrick follows Jasmine Finch and her bandmates as they pursue their dreams and inspire others to do the same. But it won’t be easy to do when living in a world where everyone’s role is chosen for them and where the painted-on look you receive when you graduate from high school determines who you’ll be for the rest of your life.

Jasmine realizes that in order for her world to change, she and her friends...

Queer cinema has come a long way since the Hays Code, which prevented genuine stories from being told under the false guise of moral decency. While gender-bending movies fall into an even more niche subgenre, it's slowly gathering an impressive catalog of films. Films about cross-dressing, drag queens, the transgender community, and even fantasies that involve body-swapping and magical transformations are available under this category.

The best films on this gender-swapping side of cinema are unusual, challenging, and smart. They take on concepts that most films aren't willing to tackle, introducing new ideas and highlighting old prejudices in ways their fans didn't expect. Ranging from one of the first to introduce cross-dressing positively in Some Like it Hot to honest explorations of drag culture in Paris is Burning, movies that include the subversion of gender stereotypes are varied and valuable in a multitude of different ways.

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2024 has been a surprisingly fruitful year for the musical genre. While some movie musicals like Joker: Folie a Deux may have missed the mark with audiences, others like Wicked have been drawing in massive crowds to theaters and being met with high praise. Even Prime Video's animated series, Hazbin Hotel, has become a worldwide phenomenon, sparking a massive fan base and a soundtrack of songs that make it irresistible to sing along. It's a rare thing when musical stories find their way to the realm of TV, but when they do, the results are just as, if not more engaging. For anyone itching to find another musical to get themselves into, they need not look any further than a certain animated Netflix series.

A decade after How I Met Your Mother concluded, Cobie Smulders has expressed her willingness to potentially return to the show. The actress portrayed Robin Scherbatsky, a role that brought her significant recognition before she took on the role of the S.H.I.E.L.D. agent Maria Hill in the MCU, where her character met an unexpected end.

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And, while the actress has expressed that she would love to reunite with her former castmates of the Emmy-winning sitcom, the prospect of it could be hindered by one particular issue.

Cobie Smulders is Open to Returning to How I Met Your Mother

Alyson Hannigan recently shared an idea for a potential spin-off to the hit sitcom How I Met Your Mother. The actress, who portrayed Lily Aldrin, envisioned a new show, where Lily and Marshall Eriksen (Jason Segel) would retell how Ted Mosby meets the mother.

No medium gives artists as much runway creatively as animation. Sure, projects focusing on real people can be aided by things like inventive storytelling and special effects, but no movie or show has the ability to portray truly whatever the creators have in mind as much as an animated one. This art form has led to many iconic projects, with animators using their skills to create some of the most beautiful stories imaginable — or, in the case of Centaurworld, the most monstrous. Audiences who've only seen the trailers for Megan Nicole Dong's Netflix series may be confused by that statement; focusing on a war horse transported into a world filled with different kinds of centaurs, the series' slapstick comedy and sickeningly sweet hues seem the complete opposite of scary.

Deborah Frances-White – of the Guilty Feminist podcast – has penned a comedy called Bad Fairies, the songwriters of the hit musical Six are onboard.

Deborah Frances-White is best known as the creator and host of the hugely successful Guilty Feminist podcast. She previously wrote the screenplay for 2018 comedy Say My Name as well.

Now, she’s written Bad Fairies, an animated musical comedy film for Locksmith Animation.

Bad Fairies will follow “a badass gang of fairies who break every rule in the land”.

Megan Nicole Dong, creator and director of Netflix animated musical series Centaurworld is directing.

According to Deadline, Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss, who co-created the hit musical Six, are onboard as songwriters, with Grammy nominated composer Isabella Summers writing the score. Marlow and Moss won a Tony for Best Original Score for Six. Their new musical Why Am I So Single will open on Broadway this autumn.

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Warner Bros. Pictures Animation and London and LA-based Locksmith Animation said on Tuesday that the upcoming musical feature from Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss is called Bad Fairies.

Grammy-nominated composer Isabella Summers (aka The Machine of Florence & the Machine) is writing the score and producing the songs. The film will be the first to be released under the first-look deal between the companies and is scheduled to open on July 23, 2027.

The subversive musical comedy is set in contemporary London and follows a gang of fairies who break every rule in the book. Bad Fairies is currently in production in London...

Warner Bros. Pictures Animation and Locksmith Animation have set Six musical co-creators Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss as the songwriters for the new animated musical Bad Fairies. Grammy nominated composer Isabella Summers (aka The Machine of Florence & The Machine) is penning the score and producing the songs.

The studio has set a theatrical release of July 23, 2027. The pic is currently in production in London with Dneg Animation as the digital partners. We first told you about the project last June which follows a badass group of fairies in contemporary London who break all the rules. Megan Nicole Dong, creator and director of Netflix’s animated musical series Centaurworld, is directing and Deborah Frances-White, creator and host of popular podcast “The Guilty Feminist,” is writing the screenplay.

“Warner Bros. Pictures Animation and Locksmith Animation are excited to welcome this extraordinary dream team of musical talents, Toby Marlow, Lucy Moss and Isabella...

Bad Fairies is flying toward a 2027 release from Warner Bros.

The studio announced Tuesday that the animated feature hailing from Warner Bros. Pictures Animation and Locksmith Animation is set to hit theaters July 23, 2027. The movie from director Megan Nicole Dong, known for creating and directing the Netflix animated musical series Centaurworld, is currently in production in London.

Warner Bros. Pictures Animation and Locksmith Animation also announced that Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss — who co-created the Tony-winning musical Six and the new musical Why Am I So Single, premiering on London’s West End next month — will write the songs for Bad Fairies. Additionally, Grammy-nominated musician Isabella Summers (Florence and the Machine) will compose the score and produce the songs.

Bad Fairies is billed as a subversive musical comedy set in present-day London and focusing on a rule-breaking group of badass fairies. Dong directs the feature from a script by Deborah Frances-White,...

Exclusive: Warner Bros. Motion Picture Group has signed a first-look deal with London- and Los Angeles-based Locksmith Animation to develop and produce animated features for worldwide distribution.

Locksmith is an independent producer of animated features and series and was behind the 20th Century Studios feature Ron’s Gone Wrong. That pic was released theatrically and on Disney+ in 2021.

‘Ron’s Gone Wrong’

The first of Locksmith’s two properties being developed under the new deal is Bad Fairies, a subversive musical comedy set in contemporary London. It focuses on a badass gang of fairies who break every rule in the book. Deborah Frances-White, creator and host of podcast The Guilty Feminist, is writing the screenplay. Megan Nicole Dong, creator and director of Netflix’s animated musical series Centaurworld, is attached to direct.

The second project is The Lunar Chronicles, based on Marissa Meyer’s bestselling novels. A sci-fi twist on Grimms’ Fairy Tales,...

Disney Branded Television is ready to put a little more pep in its step with Kiff, and Screen Rant is thrilled to offer an exclusive first look at the adorable trailer. The new animated series, premiering March 10 on Disney Channel, is billed as a buddy comedy that follows the adventures of an overly optimistic squirrel named Kiff and her much less excitable bunny bestie named Barry. Orange is the New Black's Kimiko Glenn stars as Kiff, with Craig of the Creek's H Michael Croner joining her as Barry.

Kiff hails from creators and executive producers Lucy Heavens and Nic Smal, and each episode will guide viewers through Kiff and Barry's lives at school, exploring their relationships and the surrounding community of Table Town. Heavens and Smal took inspiration from their own childhoods in Cape Town, South Africa, to craft the magical world of the show. Also helping Kiff enter...

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Maya and the Three, Sneakerella and Netflix were among the big winners at The National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences’ inaugural Children’s & Family Emmy Awards on Saturday.

Presented as the first half of a two-night event held at the Wilshire Ebell Theater in Los Angeles, the Dec. 10 ceremony celebrated winners in more than 30 creative arts categories, from directing, writing and editing to stunt work, choreography and song spanning live action, animation, interactive, promotional, single camera and multicamera media.

Netflix’s Maya and the Three and Disney+’s Sneakerella walked away with the most honors, both taking home three awards. Another Disney+ title, The Quest, came in second with two wins. Netflix ultimately led wins by distribution, nabbing 13 total followed by Disney+ with 10 and Apple TV+ with two.

During the show, the late Gilbert Gottfried was remembered during the in-memoriam for Cyberchase.

Exclusive: Red Dog Culture House is expanding its relationship with Netflix with a multi-year production deal to produce more animated series.

Under the pact, Netflix and Red Dog Culture House will partner on a number of shows, bringing the studio’s expertise to future animated series on the streamer.

Based in South Korea, Red Dog Culture House is a rising 2D animation studio known for its bold direction and diverse animation style spanning from anime to Western cartoon styles.

Netflix and Red Dog Culture House recently teamed on the upcoming animated series Dragon Age: Absolution (see photo above), based on the popular Bioware video game franchise, which premieres this Friday, December 9, on Netflix. Created in collaboration with BioWare, Dragon Age: Absolution is set in Tevinter and features an ensemble of new characters inspired by Dragon Age lore, including elves, mages, knights, Qunari, Red Templars, demons and other surprises.

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Netflix's second season of the animated musical series Centaurworld reached its thrilling conclusion on December 7th, 2021, less than a year after the series premiere. It is not often that a show can leave such an impression and have a satisfactory ending in six months of run time, but the catchy music and lovable cast of Centaurworld did just that.

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In a show with such a dynamic series of characters, it takes something special to make them stand apart. For the most likable characters, their usefulness to the herd and how inclined the audience is to like them, based on their personalities, are the key factors.

Emmy nominee William Jackson Harper (Love Life) and Cristin Milioti (Made for Love) have been tapped to star in Peacock’s The Resort a true-crime love story from Palm Springs writer Andy Siara, Mr. Robot creator Sam Esmail and UCP. The Righteous Gemstones‘ Skyler Gisondo also is set as a lead and Ben Sinclair (High Maintenance) and Parvesh Cheena (Mythic Quest) will recur in the ensemble series.

Written by Siara, The Resort is a multi-generational, coming-of-age love story disguised as a fast-paced mystery about the disappointment of time. An anniversary trip puts a marriage to the test when the couple (Harper and Milioti) finds themselves embroiled in one of the Mayan Riviera’s most bizarre unsolved mysteries that took place fifteen years prior.

Harper will play Noah, also a teacher, but unlike Emma (Milioti), Noah seems perfectly content floating through the mundane reality of his existence.

Milioti’s Emma is...

William Jackson Harper and Cristin Milioti have been cast as Noah and Emma, the leading roles in Peacock’s upcoming comedic thriller series “The Resort.” Additionally, Skyler Gisondo, Ben Sinclair and Parvesh Cheena are set to join the ensemble.

“The Resort” is a multi-generational coming-of-age romance disguised as a fast-paced mystery about the disappointment of time. An anniversary trip puts a marriage to the test when the couple finds themselves embroiled in one of the Mayan Riviera’s most bizarre unsolved mysteries, which took place fifteen years prior.

Noah and Emma are both teachers who are celebrating their 10th wedding anniversary. Noah is described as perfectly content to float through the mundane reality of his existence, while Emma has found herself at a plateau in their marriage before they’re pulled into the Mayan mystery.

Gisondo will star as Sam, who is on vacation with his parents and girlfriend in 2007 at the Oceana Vista Resort.

Disney films are the ones to beat at the 49th annual Annie Awards, whose nominations were announced Tuesday morning. Walt Disney Animation Studios’ Raya and the Last Dragon and Encanto scored a leading 10 and nine noms, respectively, followed by Pixar’s Luca with eight.

Sony & Netflix’s The Mitchells vs. the Machines also landed eight noms and will vie for the marquee Best Feature prize with those Disney titles and Illumination’s Sing 2, which scored just the one nom.

Gkids distributes three of the four pics up for Best Indie feature: Belle, Pompo the Cinephile and Fortune Favors Lady Nikuko. They will battle against Flee, which is Denmark’s official entry for the International Feature Oscar, and Netflix’s The Summit of the Gods.

For the list of the nominees in all 36 categories, click here.

“In spite of everything or maybe because of what we and the world around...

At this point, it’s a given that we’re living in the “golden age” of television; somewhere in the neighborhood of 500 new scripted series drop each year. With so much to choose from, that means TV can get daring, specific, and sometimes, weird as hell. Superheroes trapped inside an I Love Lucy pastiche? A creepy animatronic doll calling a murderous game of Red Light, Green Light? In the era of peak TV, grade-a oddity is only a mouse-click away.

But no show in 2021 is more weirdly specific — and specifically weird — than Centaurworld.

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With nearly 500 scripted shows now airing across broadcast, cable and streaming, it’s easy to forget that a favorite comedy is returning, or that the new “prestige drama” you anticipated is about to debut. So consider this our reminder to set your DVR, order a Season Pass, pop a fresh Memorex into the Vcr… however it is you roll.

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The year is somehow already almost over! To celebrate another passage around the sun, Netflix is putting its best foot forward with its list of new releases for December 2021.

Netflix’s options of original series are quite vast and impressive this month. It starts early on with two finales: Lost in Space wraps up its story with a third and final season on Dec. 1 and is quickly followed by the last go-around for Spanish hit Money Heist. The blockbusters continue apace from there with The Witcher season 2 premiering on Dec. 17, Emily in Paris season 2 on Dec. 22, and Cobra Kai season 4 on Dec. 31 to close out the year.

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Netflix will close out the year by debuting its biggest awards contenders and popular series like Season 2 of “The Witcher” and Season 2 of “Emily in Paris.”

But the headline releases are on the film side. December 1 brings the streaming premiere of “The Power of the Dog,” Jane Campion’s Best Picture favorite starring Benedict Cumberbatch, Kirsten Dunst, Jesse Plemons, and Kodi Smit-McPhee. On December 10, Netflix drops “The Unforgivable,” a new drama with former Best Actress winner Sandra Bullock. On December 24, it’s Adam McKay’s star-studded Best Picture hopeful “Don’t Look Up,” with Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Lawrence, Meryl Streep, Jonah Hill, Cate Blanchett, Rob Morgan, Timothee Chalamet, Tyler Perry, Ariana Grande, and Mark Rylance. The streamer closes out 2021 with “The Lost Daughter,” Maggie Gyllenhaal’s directorial debut with Olivia Colman and Dakota Johnson.

Ahead, everything coming to Netflix in December 2021.

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Netflix will expand its children’s animation programming slate with the addition of A Tale Dark & Grimm, Dogs In Space and Super Giant Robot Brothers.

The first in the trio of animated series is A Tale Dark & Grimm, based on the best-selling book by Adam Gidwitz. The series follows Hansel and Gretel as they

run away from home to find better parents…or at least ones who won’t chop off their heads! As Hansel and Gretel leave their own story and venture through other classic Grimm fairy tales, unexpected narrators’ guide us through their encounters with witches, warlocks, dragons and even the devil himself.

The series, which features Raini Rodriguez, Andre Robinson, Nicole Byer and Adam Lambert, is produced in partnership with Boat Rocker Studios in association with Novo Media Group and Astro-Nomical Entertainment. Animation services by Boat Rocker’s Jam Filled Entertainment.

Executive producers are David Henrie, James Henrie,...

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News on the animated feature Belle, first visual (of sorts) from Thor Love and Thunder, a new Zoë Kravitz project, two animated series Human Resources and Centaurworld, and more after the jump...

Netflix has dropped the first trailer for animated musical Centaurworld, and has set a July 30 global release. The 20-episode kids series hails from first-time showrunner Megan Nicole Dong who is exec producing alongside Dominic Bisignano (Star Vs The Forces Of Evil). Centaurworld follows a war horse who is transported from her embattled world to a strange land inhabited by silly, singing centaurs of all species, shapes and sizes. The trailer depicts that moment and more (check it out above).

Desperate to return home, Horse befriends a group of these magical creatures and embarks on a journey that will test her more than any battle she’s ever faced before.

The series will feature a mix of animation styles and each episode will include original songs in a variety of genres. Meghan McCarthy (My Little Pony franchise) is story editor. Toby Chu (Bao) composed the songs.

The voice cast includes Kimiko Glenn...

Netflix has revealed more artwork and clips from four of its kids and family animation titles, which are set drop this summer and fall.

During the streamer’s online Annecy session, introduced by Netflix director of character animation James Baxter, it was revealed that three of the titles – “Karma’s World,” “Vivo” and “Centaurworld” – are animated musicals, while all of them, including the Australian feature “Back to the Outback,” address themes of diversity, inclusion and both fitting in and celebrating differences.

First up was rapper and “Fast and Furious” actor Chris “Ludacris” Bridges 40-part series “Karma’s World” –a passion project that has been over a decade in the making, set to premiere this fall

The series, aimed at children from six to nine, is inspired by Bridges’ eldest daughter Karma’s experiences as a 10-year-old navigating her way through life and finding her voice.

Each 11-minute episode will feature...

Three new animated feature films and series from Asian American creators are coming to Netflix in 2023, including Stephen Chow’s “The Monkey King,” starring the voice talents of Jimmy O. Yang, Bowen Yang, Jolie Hoang-Rappaport, Jo Koy, Ron Yuan, Hoon Lee, Stephanie Hsu, Andrew Pang, Andrew Kishino, Jodi Long, James Sie and Bd Wong.

“The Monkey King” is inspired by the famous Chinese tale “Journey to the West,” in which a special monkey fights gods, demons, dragons — and his own hubris. The film is executive produced by Chow, with “Over the Moon’s” Peilin Chou and “How to Train Your Dragon 2’s Kendra Haaland producing. Anthony Stacchi (“The Boxtrolls”) is directing.

“The Monkey King has endured for generations with his unique character and spirit,” said Chow. I’m so excited to be collaborating with Tony, Peilin, and everyone at Netflix to bring this joyful tale to audiences worldwide!”

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