Back from Japan
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Today’s episode includes: Hulu released the trailer of Predator: Killer of Killers CinemaCon 2025 featured announcements for Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse, John Wick animated prequel, and more DreamWorks Animation announced Forgotten Island from Puss in Boots: The Last Wish directors for 2026 Genndy Tartakovsky’s R-rated 2D movie Fixed will be released on Netfix this summer Star Wars Celebration Japan reveals updates on upcoming movies and animated shows from the franchise
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AI-Yai-Yai
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Today’s episode includes: Ketchup Entertainment officially bought the rights to Coyote vs. Acme from Warner Bros. Netflix orders a live-action Scooby-Doo prequel series Reports are blaming Rachel Zegler for Disney’s Snow White (2025) failing at the box office Voice actor Jacob Takanashi gets backlash for playing the voice of Kinich in Genshin Impact while the actors are on strike AI generated images that replicate the Studio Ghibli style goes viral
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Bright & Shiny (feat. Nick Spake)
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Today’s episode includes: Interview with the author of Bright & Shiny: A History of Animation at Award Shows (Volume 1) Pixar released the trailer of Elio Disney and Pixar announced Coco 2 for 2029 Ketchup Entertainment in talks with Warner Bros. to acquire the rights to Coyote vs. Acme The lost pilot episode of Family Guy was found
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Disney’s Freakier Stitches
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Today’s episode includes: Briarcliff Entertainment released the trailer of Sneaks Warner Bros. Discovery removes all the classic Looney Tunes cartoons from Max Disney released the teaser trailer of Freakier Friday Disney held a press-less premiere for their live-action remake of Snow White Disney released the trailer of Lilo & Stitch (2025)
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Unionizing Coast to Coast
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Today’s episode includes: George Lowe, the voice of Space Ghost (1957 – 2025) Sesame Workshop allegedly fired many Sesame Street employees after forming a union Walt Disney Animation Studios officially unionized with The Animation Guild Jon Favreau to write and produce an Oswald the Lucky Rabbit series for Disney+ Lost Media Busters found the trailer of the cancelled live-action Powerpuff Girls CW reboot
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Getting Shreked at the Oscars
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Today’s episode includes: Flow wins Best Animated Feature at the Oscars Anora wins Best Picture and four additional categories at the Oscars The review of the 97th Academy Awards ceremony, hosted by Conan O’Brien Disney cancelled Tiana, the planned Disney+ series based on The Princess and the Frog DreamWorks Animation released the cast announcement of Shrek 5
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Chinese God Champion
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Today’s episode includes: Warner Bros. released the trailer of The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie BET+ released the trailer of Lil Kev, an adult animated series about Kevin Hart’s childhood Ne Zha 2 beats Inside Out 2 at the box office to become the highest grossing animated film of all time Nickelodeon announced Avatar: Seven Havens, a new animated series set in the world of Avatar: The Last Airbender Dr. Eggman voice actor Mike Pollock got backlash for encouraging fans to use slurs
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How to Find Your Buzzy
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Today’s episode includes: God’s Gang will release a new miniseries called We Didn’t Start the Fire, featuring a cast of autistic actors Bright Sun Films released the trailer of Stolen Kingdom Universal released the trailer of How to Train Your Dragon (2025) Pixar’s Elio will be delayed by a week to June 20 Disney is taking steps back from policies related to diversity, equality and inclusion
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Super Bowl of Delicious Trailers (feat. Animated Antic)
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Today’s episode includes: Netflix released the trailer of Plankton: The Movie Universal Pictures released the trailer of Jurassic World Rebirth Paramount Pictures released the trailer of Smurfs Marvel released the teaser trailer of The Fantastic Four: First Steps The Wild Robot is the top winner at the 52nd Annie Awards with 9 wins
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Across the MultiVersus and Nominations
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Today’s episode includes: nWave Studios released the teaser trailer of Chickenhare and the Secret of the Groundhog The nominations for the 97th Academy Awards were announced Warner Bros. Discovery’s lawsuit against Paramount for the streaming rights to South Park will go to trial Pixar CCO Pete Docter admits that Soul is not popular because it was released directly onto Disney+ Warner Bros.’ fighting game, MultiVersus, is shutting down on May 30
info_outlineToday’s episode includes:
- Disney+ released the trailer of Music by John Williams
- Paramount is making a live-action/CG hybrid movie adaptation of Rugrats
- Warner Bros. Pictures Animation and DC Studios announced Dynamic Duo, the origin story of the Robins, Dick Grayson and Jason Todd
- Studios are talking with focus groups with superfans of major franchises to combat toxic fandoms
- Joker: Folie à Deux flops on its opening weekend with bad word of mouth and a $40 million at the box office