Oscar Winner Matthew A. Cherry Developing Animated Dance Series ‘Battu’ With Chaz Bottoms for Cartoon Network

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at LargeThe team behind the blockbuster Michael Jordan docuseries “The Last Dance” are now taking their jam to space.

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at LargeSinger Lance Bass, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak and “The Masked Singer” executive producer Craig Plestis are among the names behind “Unicorn Hunters,” a crowd-financing competition series now being shopped for domestic distribution.The series centers on finding so-called “unicorn” companies — startups that reach $1 billion valuation, by attracting investors from around the world.

Lauren Ash as Diane Dunbrowski. Diane has always been and always will be the life of the party, even when the party has long since been over.

Leo Barraclough International Features EditorAhead of the film’s world premiere at Locarno Film Festival, Variety has been given exclusive access to the debut trailer for “Hinterland,” the crime thriller from Austrian filmmaker Stefan Ruzowitzky, who won the Foreign Language Film Oscar with “The Counterfeiters.”The film is a center-piece of the festival with a prestigious first weekend primetime premiere on Friday, Aug. 6 in the event’s iconic open-air venue, Piazza Grande.

Star Trek: Prodigy" for Paramount+ and Nickelodeon has arrived.  Th trailer, which was unveiled Friday (July 23) as part of the "Star Trek" Universe panel at the virtual San Diego Comic-Con@Home event, opens on a prison planet and we hear the voice of Dal (Brett Gray) saying, "I'm getting out of here, to a better life.

Rising British filmmaker Oscar Sharp has teamed up with Damon Lindelof and Matt Reeves to develop a magical-realist medical drama for HBO Max.

Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentMultiple Oscar-winning Chinese-American director Chloé Zhao, whose “Nomadland” launched from the Venice Film Festival last year, is set to return to the Lido as a member of the upcoming fest’s main jury, which will comprise four women and three men.As previously announced, “Parasite” director Bong Joon Ho, another recent multiple Oscar winner, will preside over the jury of the event’s upcoming edition.They will be serving jury duty on the Lido alongside

Angelique Jackson Oscar-winning filmmaker Rodney Rothman (“Spider-Man: Into the Spiderverse”) and former MGM co-president of production Adam Rosenberg have teamed up to launch the new “event entertainment” company, Modern Magic.“Helping lead the team that made Into the Spider-Verse was a life-altering experience that forever changed what I thought was possible,” Rothman said, announcing the new venture.

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at LargeMark Hamill and Lupita Nyong’o were among the winners on Saturday night as the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (NATAS) announced the winners of the 48th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards in the children’s and animation categories. The show represented the second of three Daytime Emmy ceremonies this year; the third will be live streamed on Sunday.

Jazz Tangcay Artisans Editor“Central Park” creator Josh Gad actually called the election results early during a Zoom call with the show’s composers Kate Anderson and Elyssa Samsel.

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at LargeNBC is not moving forward with “Law & Order: For the Defense,” which had been announced earlier this spring as the latest installment of Dick Wolf’s “Law & Order” franchise. Instead, “The Blacklist” will shift to Thursdays at 8 p.m.

Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, has announced a new Netflix animated series about a 12-year-old girl on “a journey of self-discovery”. The 39-year-old royal announced plans for the series – which has the working title ‘Pearl’ – through her and Prince Harry’s Archewell Productions banner on Wednesday (14.

Meghan Markle and Prince Harry's company Archewell Productions has announced they're working on a new animated series for Netflix as part of their deal with the streaming giant. Royal expert Omid Scobie broke the news as he shared the press release on his Twitter page, which states that the Duchess of Sussex, 39, will also executive produce the show.

Archewell Productions, the company founded by Meghan Markle and Prince Harry, is developing an animated Netflix children’s series, “Pearl,” created by the Duchess of Sussex herself.“Pearl” intertwines adventure, fantasy and history as it tells the coming-of-age story of Pearl, a 12-year-old girl who is inspired by a number of influential women in history.“Like many girls her age, our heroine Pearl is on a journey of self-discovery as she tries to overcome life’s daily challenges,” Markle said in

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at LargeArchewell Productions, the Netflix-based shingle launched by Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, is getting into the animation business.

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at LargeFox Entertainment has upped Darren Schillace to president of marketing, adding Tubi to his oversight along with the Fox network. Fox Entertainment CEO Charlie Collier made the announcement on Wednesday.Schillace was most recently executive vice president of marketing at Fox Entertainment.

Hair Love filmmaker Matthew A. Cherry and Chaz Bottoms, who worked on John Legend’s animated Facebook series Dear John: Legendary Love Letters, have teamed up to develop an animated musical comedy series.

It is very important for a teenage girl to stay ‘calm’ to be herself or she gets turned into a rather active huge red panda that is bigger than some buildings. Pixar’s latest outing by the Oscar-winning director of ‘Bao’ Domee Shi is an exciting story about a teenage girl’s struggle.

While Pixar employees have reportedly grumbled that Pixar films have been going straight to Disney+ during the pandemic and post-pandemic, the animated studio is having a banner year and is not slowing down. Having just come off the Oscar-winning “Soul” in March (which won Best Animated Feature and Best Original Score), Pixar then released “Luca,” the Italian seaside, sea-monster friendship film.

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at LargeShowtime has picked up the half-hour comedy series “I Love This For You,” based on former “Saturday Night Live” star Vanessa Bayer’s own story of overcoming childhood leukemia. Bayer co-created the series and will executive producer and star in it.Fellow “SNL” alum Molly Shannon will also star, while Cybill Shepherd, who had originally signed on to star opposite Bayer and Shannon, has departed the project.