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Damien de Froberville has been promoted to president of Sony Pictures Animation. He’ll serve alongside president Kristine Belson, overseeing the animation division’s upcoming slate of “Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse,” Stephen Curry’s sports comedy “Goat” and fantasy musical “Kpop: Demon Hunters.”

“I am thrilled to announce that Damien de Froberville has been promoted to serve alongside me as President of Sony Pictures Animation,” Belson wrote on Tuesday morning in a note to staff. “This new title and structure recognizes the significant responsibilities he has already undertaken and the vital role he has played at our studio. Since his arrival, Damien and I have worked in tandem to guide the studio’s strategic direction, drive its continued growth, and oversee all aspects of development and production across our animation slate.”

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De Froberville was hired at Sony Pictures Animation in 2023 as executive VP of production and operating strategy.

Sesame Street finds a new streaming home after Warner Bros. Discovery decided not to renew its deal with HBO Max. As part of a strategy to shift to adult and family programs, new episodes of the beloved series will not stream on the platform, although some of the existing Sesame Street library will remain available there until 2027. New episodes will run on PBS and the PBS Kids apps.

Now, new and old episodes of Sesame Street are coming to Netflix later this year. There is no official date yet, but the new, reimagined 56th season is expected to arrive on the streaming platform at the same time it arrives on PBS and the PBS Kids app, along with 90 hours' worth of previous episodes. The streamer also teased a fresh format change in the new season, centering around one 11-minute story, to focus on character-driven fun. Meanwhile, Peppa Pig season 7 is...

Nicholas Hoult, who has appeared in the vampire movies Renfield and Nosferatu, has revealed his favorite movie vampire. Unsurprisingly, the answer is Dracula. However, fans may be surprised by which version of the beloved horror icon in particular is Hoult's favorite.

While speaking with Elle opposite his Nosferatu co-star Lily Rose-Depp, Hoult named his favorite movie vampire of all time: "Hotel Transylvania, Adam Sandler." Introduced in the 2012 animated film Hotel Transylvania, Sandler's Dracula is depicted as the owner of the titular hotel that caters to monsters taking a rest from human civilization. He is also a father to a daughter, Mavis, voiced by Selena Gomez. Sandler voiced Dracula in the first three Hotel Transylvania movies, with Brian Hull taking over for the fourth (and latest) installment, Hotel Transylvania: Transformania, which saw Dracula transformed into a human.

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An Adam Sandler horror-comedy franchise is dominating a global streaming chart. Sandler is a five-time Emmy nominee who first rose to prominence as a member of the cast of the long-running NBC sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live. He has since become a major comedy star, with his movies Billy Madison (about a wealthy adult man who is forced to return to school) and Happy Gilmore (about a golfer with anger issues) helping his star rise further and providing the name for his production company Happy Madison, which was founded in 1999.

While there are quite a few Adam Sandler movies that have earned Rotten Tomatoes splats, he has become a major commercial success. At the time of writing, his movies have collectively earned more than $5.5 billion, with many original comedies grossing $100 million or more, including 50 First Dates, The Wedding Singer, The Water Boy, Big Daddy, Click, and Pixels. However,...

Hotel Transylvania fans just received an exciting update about the future of the franchise. Genndy Tartakovsky, who directed the first three movies, recently shared that he'd be shocked if a fifth installment wasn't greenlit sooner or later.

Speaking with Collider ahead of being honored with an Award of Excellence at Scad's AnimationFest this weekend, Tartakovsky was asked about the future of the Hotel Transylvania franchise on the big screen. "I think there's gonna be more and more. Its great," the filmmaker shared. "If there's a demand for it, I think the fourth one did really well on Amazon. I think they want more. So we'll see what happens." The last movie, Hotel Transylvania: Transformania, was released exclusively on Prime Video by Amazon Studios in January 2022.

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Even if you don't know the name Genndy Tartakovsky, chances are high that if you watched cartoons in the '90s or '00s, you've seen his work. "Dexter's Laboratory" kickstarted the reign of Cartoon Network by becoming the first so-called "Cartoon Cartoon," while "Samurai Jack" is one of the most influential cartoons from the '00s thanks to Tartakovsky's eye for dynamic action and understanding of the importance of silence in storytelling. Even his "Star Wars: Clone Wars" micro-series continues to influence "Star Wars" to this day. And outside of animation, Tartakovsky helped save the action scenes in "Iron Man 2."

In 2012, Tartakovsky made his feature film debut with "Hotel Transylvania," a movie that brought together classic Universal Monsters and reimagined them into a fun animated movie for all ages seen from the eyes of a human who falls in love with Dracula's daughter. It was a monster movie...

The world of animation is one of the most creative and unique. Growing up, when you think of cartoons, it may have been anime, Pixar, Bugs Bunny, or Mickey Mouse, but there is far more to offer. Over the decades, filmmakers have taken audiences to brave new worlds too vast to imagine. Even before the advent of CGI, animators created incredible stories for decades that ran the gamut of imaginative tales. And over the past few years, Netflix has proven to be a powerhouse for animated tales. With the successful Academy Award win for last year’s exceptional Pinocchio from Guillermo del Toro, you can expect much more.

I recently attended the Next on Netflix: Animation Preview, which included something for the entire family. The event took place at the Netflix Tudum Theater in Los Angeles. And our announcer? That would be “Lola” from the hilariously crude animated series Big Mouth.

Nathan Lane introduces Spellbound Image: Netflix In the last decade, Netflix has become a hub for quality animation, with critically acclaimed and award-winning original series like BoJack Horseman, The Dragon Prince, Love, Death + Robots, Blue Eye Samurai, and Arcane, plus movies like Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio, The Mitchells vs. the Machines,...

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In the last decade, Netflix has become a hub for quality animation, with critically acclaimed and award-winning original series like BoJack Horseman, The Dragon Prince, Love, Death + Robots, Blue Eye Samurai, and Arcane,plus movies like Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio, The Mitchells vs. the Machines,...

Netflix Animation held its first slate preview event June 6 at the Tudum in L.A., as a lead-up to the Annecy Animation Festival (June 9-15), where it will premiere Shannon Tindle’s “Ultraman: Rising” (streaming June 14) and tout some of its upcoming works in 2024 and 2025.

Hosted by Christopher Sean (the voice star of “Ultraman: Rising”), attendees were treated to exclusive presentations, previews, and special announcements. The biggest announcement was the full title of Aardman’s next stop-motion feature, “Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl,” which will have an Oscar-qualifying run this winter before streaming in 2025.

Directed by franchise creator Nick Park and creative director Merlin Crossingham, who offered a pre-recorded introduction, “Vengeance Most Fowl” marks the return of the villainous penguin, Feathers McGraw, from the Oscar-winning short “The Wrong Trousers.” The film is a cautionary tale of high-tech gone wrong involving an out-of-control “smart gnome” with a mind of its own.