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25/05/2021

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24/03/2021

Podcasting Is Booming. A frothy adaptation market is just one sign of the rapid evolution of the industry. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/25/arts/podcasts-hollywood-future.html?name=styln-podcasts®ion=TOP_BANNER&block=storyline_menu_recirc&action=click&pgtype=Article&impression_id=&variant=show

A frothy adaptation market is just one sign of the rapid evolution of the industry. But some worry that big money will stifle the D.I.Y. spirit that has driven much of its success.

23/03/2021

Podcast Voice? Is there such a thing? Check out the audio clips in this article.
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“Podcast voice” has been parodied, co-opted and commodified. With lip flutters and giddyap words, our reporter learned how to talk the talk.

22/03/2021

Podcast viewership still on the rise and growing in diversity.
https://www.vulture.com/2021/03/podcast-listenership-download-data-on-the-rise.html

The pandemic has not slowed it down, according to a new study.

21/03/2021

From the friendly people at the Canadian Energy Centre's WAR Room are claims that a children‘s cartoon streaming on Netflix is “brainwashing our kids with anti-oil and gas propaganda”!
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Canadian Energy Centre claims children‘s cartoon streaming on Netflix is “brainwashing our kids with anti-oil and gas propaganda”

19/03/2021

The Spine of Night is an ultra-violent, hand-rotoscoped epic fantasy inspired by the cult classic works of animators Ralph Bakshi and Frank Franzetta. It makes its world premiere March 18 at .
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Years in the making, Philip Gelatt and Morgan Galen King’s hand-rotoscoped film is set in a fantasy land ripe with magic and intrigue, where a dark force is unleashed sending mankind into an age of ruin; film stars Lucy Lawless, Patton Oswalt, and Richard Grant, and has its world premiere March 18...

19/03/2021

Jada Pinkett Smith and Will Smith’s Westbrook Studio is developing an animated feature film based on the graphic novel CANTO.
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EXCLUSIVE: Jada Pinkett Smith and Will Smith’s Westbrook Studios have optioned rights to the graphic novel Canto and are adapting the fantasy series as an animated feature. Co-creator and wri…

18/03/2021

The podcasting business is booming and CAA is responding by naming its first official podcast boss. https://deadline.com/2021/03/caa-josh-lindgren-podcast-head-1234712286/

The podcasting business is booming and CAA is responding by naming its first official podcast boss. Josh Lindgren, who has been with the agency since 2018, has been promoted to head of its podcast …

17/03/2021

The number of podcasts being adapted for television is set to explode over the course of the next few years, with audio IP rivaling books as Hollywood’s go-to source for inspiration.
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The number of podcasts being adapted for television is set to explode over the course of the next few years, with audio IP rivaling books as Hollywood’s go-to source for inspiration. The podcasting…

16/03/2021

The History Channel's docuseries will offer Trekkies a behind-the-scenes look at pivotal moments in the franchise’s history, from its inception at Lucille Ball’s production company Desilu through recent film and television adaptations.
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EXCLUSIVE: The Nacelle Company is boldly going where no man has gone before. Today it unveiled The Center Seat: 55 Years of Star Trek, an eight-episode limited docuseries that it will produce for H…

15/03/2021

The Podcast Awards unveiled the nominees for The Inaugural Ambies Awards. Check out some of the 164 nominees here.
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The Podcast Academy Unveiled Nominees for The Ambies March 5, 2021Podcast NewsThe Ambies, The Podcast AcademyJen Thorpe Tweet The Podcast Awards unveiled he nominees for The Inaugural Ambies Awards. Here are some of the 164 nominees: Podcast of The Year Blockbuster: The Story of James Cameron (Minis...

14/03/2021

Heres' the latest project from New Europe’s KIDS label: "This musical will make the whole family dance around the unifying themes of friendship, love and sharing,” Arnaud Demuynck, author, director and producer.
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EXCLUSIVE: As this week’s animation event Cartoon Movie rolls on (virtually), sales outfit New Europe has picked up rights to the upcoming family animation YUKU And The Himalayan Flower. Directed b…

13/03/2021

Resonate Recordings, the Louisville, KY-based podcast production company, has secured a $250,000 seed investment from Render Capital, a regional fund focused on providing early-stage risk capital for entrepreneurs in Louisville and Southern Indiana.
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Resonate Recordings, the Louisville, KY-based podcast production company, has secured a $250,000 seed investment from Render Capital, a regional fund focused on providing early-stage risk capital for entrepreneurs in Louisville

12/03/2021

Koati follows three unlikely heroes-Nachi, a free-spirited coatí; Xochi, a fearless monarch butterfly; and Pako, a hyperactive glass frog, as they embark on an adventure to stop wicked coral snake Zaina from destroying their rainforest homeland.
https://deadline.com/2021/03/marc-anthony-sofia-vergara-movie-koati-animated-1234712120/

EXCLUSIVE: Grammy winner Marc Anthony and his Magnus Studios team are joining Sofia Vergara’s animated feature comedy, Koati. The project’s soundtrack, executive produced by Latin music icon Anthon…

11/03/2021

A top tier voice cast for the Apple+ mystery auditory thriller Calls, a nine-part drama premiering March 19.
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Apple TV+ has set a top tier voice cast for its mystery auditory thriller Calls. Nick Jonas, Pedro Pascal, Rosario Dawson, Lily Collins, Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Aubrey Plaza are among the stars fe…

10/03/2021

In the limited series Asterix, a pugnacious warrior and his irreverent village companions struggle to keep a tiny corner of ancient Gaul free from bumbling Roman invaders. This story is based on the French comic book “Asterix and the Big Fight.” http://ow.ly/enwf50DPhhP

Netflix has partnered with Hachette’s Les Editions Albert René and playwright Alain Chabat to create the first-ever animated limited series based on the iconic French comic book The Adventures of A…

09/03/2021

Maya Hawke daughter of Ethan Hawke and Uma Thurman will star in a horror themed musical podcast. A school-house rock like podcast, Unsung, will feature short musical stories about under celebrated heroes.
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EXCLUSIVE: Former MGM film boss Jonathan Glickman is getting into the podcast space and has struck a co-production deal with iHeartMedia for a series of music-driven shows. Glickman, who recently o…

08/03/2021

Marvel's animated M.O.D.O.K. series (Mental Organism Designed Only for Killing) with Patton Oswald is coming to Hulu.
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Hulu’s new adult animated comedy series Marvel’s M.O.D.O.K. about the cocky, blockhead villain of the same name, will hit the streaming service on Friday, May 21. 2021 Hulu Pilots & Series Ord…

07/03/2021

Twitter announces two new features: Super Follows lets you charge for your extra special content. A second feature called Communities is similar to Facebook Groups. Is this the beginning of monetization or RIP Twitter? Would you pay?
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"This website is free" no longer applies.

06/03/2021

Spotify to enhance monetization for podcasters as well as add a subscription service. Spotify Ad Studio, its three-year old self-serve ad platform used on its music service, will be expanded to also include podcasts.
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In a series of moves Spotify said will help podcasters on its platform better monetize their content, the company on Monday announced plans to debut a new advertising network and

05/03/2021

Airing on Syfy, TZGZ is a 90-minute block of adult comedic, animated, genre-based programming of varying lengths. Since its November 2019 debut, TZGZ has shown year-to-year growth in the 18-49 demo and continues to bring younger viewers to the network.
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Syfy’s TZGZ weekly late-night animation block continues to expand its slate, with a six-episode series order to holiday comedy The Pole. The series, starring Bobby Moynihan and Jillian Bell, hails …

04/03/2021

Can an animated documentary win at Sundance? It might with Riz Ahmed and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau as the leads.
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Ahead of its world premiere at Sundance Film Festival this week, Jonas Poher Rasmussen’s animated documentary Flee has brought on Emmy winner Riz Ahmed (The Night Of, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, The Sound of Metal) and twice-Emmy-nominated Game of Thrones star Nikolaj Coster-Waldau as executive ...

03/03/2021

Five years in the making of Cryptozoo, the comedic adult animated pic has an eerie resonance in the wake of Netflix’s hit docuseries Tiger King.
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Even though Cryptozoo filmmaker Dash Shaw and animation director Jane Samborski started work on their avant-garde toon five years ago, the comedic adult animated pic has an eerie resonance in the w…

01/03/2021

New Playstation VR Headset! It won’t be released this year and it uses a single cable but it promises to rock your PS4 or PS5 game experience.

First details on the next-generation VR system coming to the PS5 console.

28/02/2021

Nickelodeon launches Avatar Studios. The Last Air Bender world is set to expand in a big way.

The Avatar: The Last Airbender franchise is set to get even bigger. Nickelodeon is launching Avatar Studios, a division designed to create original content spanning animated series and movies based…

26/02/2021

Superman, Wonder Woman and Joker are just a few of the characters to have podcast audio series on Spotify. Spotify

The DC Universe is set to get a bit bigger in the audio world. DC Comics and Warner Bros has expanded their deal with Spotify to create a slew of scripted superhero podcast series. The new series w…

25/02/2021

The Russo Brothers who directed multiple Marvel superhero films in the Avengers’s universe are embarking on podcasts as a storytelling medium.

Anthony and Joe Russo are the latest top-level talent to strike a major podcasting deal with Spotify. The pair, who run entertainment company AGBO and are the directors of Captain America: Civil Wa…

24/02/2021

Can you name the first ever animated feature length TV movie?

TV’s first feature-length animated film and its companion pop storybook album, all about a kingdom where all things were required to have points, happened in a roundabout way.

23/02/2021

HBO is all in with adult-leaning animated series.

When HBO Max paid an estimated $500 million for exclusive domestic streaming rights to South Park back in 2019 it was for a very good reason. The Comedy Central series, owned by ViacomCBS, was to be been the cornerstone of the WarnerMedia-backed streamer's adult animation slate, which is now coming....

22/02/2021

Rooster Teeth targets Young Adults with podcasts.
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WarnerMedia’s Rooster Teeth has launched a slate of original shows for The Roost Podcast Network. The lineup looks to build on what the The Roost says was a 20% increase

18/02/2021

Podcast to TV boom continues with HBO developing Serial Season 3.

The podcast-to-TV boom continues with HBO adapting the third season of Serial as a limited series. The network is developing the remake with rising writer/director Shola Amoo and exec produced by L…

16/02/2021

Next-gen platform that competes with Clubhouse from Mark Cuban called Fireside.

Everybody wants in on podcasting and live audio.

15/02/2021

Apple adding subscription service for podcasts in response to Spotify.

Apple Inc. is working on adding a subscription service to its podcasting business in 2021, part of a broader push that has included funding new original programs, according to people familiar with the matter.

13/02/2021

Board games are IP just like novels and podcasts. Clue joins Jumani, Battleship and Ouija as Hasbro Gaming's eOne TV looks to classic games for adaptation. Bento Box Entertainment

Hasbro’s popular mystery board game Clue is getting an animated series treatment. The project has been set up at Fox Entertainment, which is developing the series with Hasbro’s content studio…

11/02/2021

"The Summer I Turned Pretty" gets series order from Amazon Studios. Congrats to author Jenny Han!👏👏👏👏👏

The Summer I Turned Pretty, the YA novel series from Jenny Han, the author behind To All The Boys I Loved Before, is being turned into a television series for Amazon. The streamer has ordered an ei…

06/02/2021

Chloe Zhao is a powerhouse! Can't wait for this Universal Pictures Dracula.

Hot off her Golden Globe noms for “Nomadland,” Chloé Zhao has signed on to write, direct, and produce “Dracula” for Universal Pictures. The auteur will be putting a fresh spin on the classic vampire story, Described as “an original, futuristic, sci-fi Western,” the pic will include “t...

05/02/2021

Men in Black meets W***y Wonka is how C.O.S.M.O.S. is described. From the writer of Netflix's Cursed, the children’s adventure book series of the same name expected to hit bookshelves in 2022.

Paramount Animation is heading realms unknown with Tom Wheeler, the writer of Puss in Boots and co-creator of Netflix’s Cursed. The studio division has optioned the film rights to C.O.S.M.O.S., the upcoming children’s adventure book series written by Wheeler. Wheeler is also attached to write th...

04/02/2021

The Mitchells vs. The Machines sells at over $110M to Netflix.

Sony has sold worldwide rights to the Phil Lord and Christopher Miller animated feature The Mitchells vs. the Machines to Netflix. The pic was previously known as Connected. The pic jumped around …

03/02/2021

Congrats Chloe Zhao on Director of the Year! at Palm Springs International Film Festival

"Nomadland" director Chloe Zhao will be honored alongside other filmmakers and actors from the best films of 2020

03/02/2021

Has Studio Ghibli lost its magic? Review of their first CGI film, Earwig and the Witch.

Erica Wigg, the main character of Goro Miyazaki’s made-for-TV feature “Earwig and the Witch,” is both a brat and an orphan. Those two traits seldom go together in children’s stories, and the combination provides a modest starting point for this intermittently amusing CG entry from Studio Ghi...