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Green Eggs and Ham will be back for another go-round. Netflix has renewed the critically acclaimed animated series for a second season. Titled Green Eggs and Ham: The Second Serving, season 2 will feature ten half-hour episodes of hand-drawn 2D animation, produced by Warner Bros. Animation. In The Second Serving, Sam…

Netflix has ordered eight episodes of adult animated series The Midnight Gospel, from Emmy-winning Adventure Time creator Pendleton Ward and comedian Duncan Trussell. Titmouse (Big Mouth) will serve as the animation studio for the series, which is slated to premiere in 2020. Co-created and executive produced by Ward…

Somebody wants Lego under the tree for Christmas. Universal is leading the pack of several studios chasing the rights to make future Lego movies. The franchise began at Warner Bros, with the 2014 smash hit The Lego Movie, directed by Phil Lord & Christopher Miller, and a second hit was hatched with The Lego Batman Movi…

Beginning her journey with Pixar eight years ago, as a storyboard artist on The Good Dinosaur, Rosana Sullivan made her directorial debut this year with Kitbull, which on Monday made the Academy's shortlist for Best Animated Short Film. Examining a fiercely independent stray kitten and a pit bull, and the unlikely…

Netflix and Mattel Television are producing  He-Man and the Masters of the Universe, an original CG animated adventure series that will reimagine the popular Reagan Era toy-based franchise with a fresh take on its fantasy heroes. The CG animation undertaking will be a brand companion for Netflix’s previously announced…

In the innovative Netflix animated film I Lost My Body, a severed hand skitters across the streets of Paris trying to reunite with its missing anatomical companion. Whether that hand winds up grasping an Oscar is up to Academy voters, in a year when a record 32 contenders qualified for the Best Animated Feature race. I…

The Animation Guild, IATSE Local 839, has new leadership, including 10 new members of its executive board. Steve Kaplan, running unopposed, recently was elected business rep, and Jeanette Moreno King, the local's former veep, was elected president. Jason MacLeod, the local's former business rep, did not seek…

EXCLUSIVE: Baobab Studios will venture into the world of graphic novels with Intercats, a new brand the Emmy-winning animation house is now developing as a namesake interactive series with broader tentpole aspirations. First Second Books, an imprint of Macmillan Publishers, and Baobab are fast-tracking the publishing…

In 2004, Sergio Pablo founded The SPA Studios—a boutique animation studio in Madrid—with the goal of transforming the service operation into a production facility, all its own. "We've developed some properties that got acquired and produced elsewhere, like Despicable Me or Smallfoot," Pablos tells Deadline, "but the…

Rooster Teeth, a unit of WarnerMedia, has promoted Doreen Copeland to VP, Head of Production and Joe Clary and Sean Hinz to co-heads of animation. Copeland will now oversee all physical production at Rooster Teeth. Clary and Hinz will co-lead day to day operations across all of Rooster Teeth's animated productions…

The Netflix original series Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts from DreamWorks Animation has unveiled their voice cast for the forthcoming coming-of-age animated series which includes Karen Fukuhara, Deon Cole, Coy Stewart, Sydney Mikayla and Dee Bradley Baker. The series will also feature an all-star roster of guest…

Quibi has added the animated series The Andy Cohen Diaries from the titular Bravo pop culture guru to its rapidly growing slate of programming. The new series will chronicle the iconic and untold moments from Cohen’s daily life. The series will be the next installment of the New York Times best-sellers, “The Andy…