‘Flee’ Art Director Jess Nicholls on Animation Versus Live Action: ‘There’s a Lot to Learn From Each Other’

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HBO has literally taken years to get its first “Game of Thrones” spinoff series up and running, with “House of the Dragon” expected to debut in 2022.

Finally, after what seems like a decade of speculation, leaks, rumors, and general social media debate, “Spider-Man: No Way Home” is in theaters (you can read our review).

Mattel Films is developing a live-action family drama titled “Christmas Balloon,” based on a real-life story involving Mattel toys, the company announced Thursday.Gabriela Revilla-Lugo (“A Million Little Things”) will write the original screenplay.“Christmas Balloon” centers on a young girl, Dáyami, living in a Mexican border town who tries to send her Christmas list to Santa tied to a balloon.

Alissa Simon Film CriticA Czech woman married into a working-class Afghan family provides a nuanced perspective on life in Kabul in the interregnum between Taliban rule in the animated drama “My Sunny Maad,” from director Michaela Pavlátová. Based on a novel by the Czech investigative journalist Petra Procházková, it sensitively portrays the complex environment of Kabul in the second decade of the 21st century.

Disney Branded Television has given a series order to Meet the Mayhems, an original live-action comedy series from Lab Rats co-creators Chris Peterson and Bryan Moore. Production is underway in Los Angeles on the series about a family of raucous supervillains who recently ran afoul of the League of Villains and now must somehow beat a path to normalcy in a small Texas town. The series is scheduled to premiere in summer 2022 on Disney Channel and Disney+ platforms worldwide.

Netflix's Cowboy Bebop has been cancelled after one season, just one month after it premiered, The Hollywood Reporter revealed.

EXCLUSIVE: Nina Toussaint-White (Bodyguard) and Bahador Foladi (The Machinery) have joined the cast of Gerard Butler action movie Kandahar, which is currently filming in Saudi Arabia.

Netflix has cancelled its live-action Cowboy Bebop adaptation less than a month after its first season premiered on the platform.The Hollywood Reporter points out that while the series has received nearly 74million viewing hours worldwide since its premiere on November 19, critical response has been largely mixed.The series currently has a 46 per cent critic approval rating on review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, with the audience score not much higher at 55 per cent.The 10-episode adaptation

A version of this story about “Flee” and Jonas Poher Rasmussen first appeared in the International Issue of TheWrap’s awards magazine.Animation has been used for a variety of purposes in documentaries. It can be used for re-enactments, or to explain a complex concept, or to draw out a map or a timeline.

Will Ferrell (The Shrink Next Door, Spirited), Jamie Foxx (Soul, Just Mercy) and Will Forte (MacGruber, HouseBroken) will star in Strays, an animated comedy that Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar director Josh Greenbaum is helming for Universal, Deadline has confirmed.

Jennifer Lawrence made an appearance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert to promote her new movie Don’t Get Up.

Another former Love Island contestant has thrown his boxing gloves into the ring and offered to replace Tommy Fury to fight Jake Paul on December 18.

One Piece has long been one of Japan’s most popular manga and anime series.

Javier Bardem is headed under the sea! The celebrated actor will soon be hitting screens as King Triton in the upcoming live-action adaption of Disney's, and he's got nothing but praise for his co-star, Halle Bailey.Bardem walked the red carpet at the Los Angeles premiere of his new film at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures on Monday, and he spoke with ET's Nischelle Turner about his forthcoming fantasy adventure.While Bardem didn't divulge much about exactly how much singing he's set to do

EXCLUSIVE: Ubisoft Film & Television announced today that it has appointed Jordan Cohen as Senior Director of European Live-Action Film and Television.

NEW YORK -- Jonas Poher Rasmussen was 15 when a boy his same age arrived alone in his small Danish town.“He arrived all by himself and stayed with a family just around the corner from where I lived,” says Rasmussen. “We met at the bus stop every morning going to high school and we became very good friends.

EXCLUSIVE: Filming has begun in Saudi Arabia on Gerard Butler action movie Kandahar, which becomes the first U.S. feature to shoot entirely in the country.

EXCLUSIVE: Former longtime Nickelodeon President Cyma Zarghami’s family and kids-focused MiMO Studio and Trustbridge Global Media are partnering to develop the The Infamous Frankie Lorde book series into a live-action movie.