Simon Thompson takes a deep dive into the career of pioneering animated filmmaker Ralph Bakshi… This is only tangentially ...

Elaine Merk Binder, one of the last surviving actors who played a Munchkin in the 1939 classic “The Wizard of Oz,” has died, according to her daughter Annette Phillips. She was 94. Binder auditioned ...

Animation Is Film has announced the lineup for its eighth year. The festival will showcase theatrical premieres, special events, panels and shorts collections, set to take place on Oct. 17-19 at the ...

One of the key new additions to Wicked’s world in the sequel is the iconic quartet of characters from the original Wizard of Oz. As we’ve seen in various trailers, Dorothy, the Cowardly Lion, the ...

Animation Is Film (AIF), Annecy’s U.S.-based sister fest organized in partnership with GKIDS, has unveiled the full lineup for its 8th edition, set to run October 17–19 at the TCL Chinese 6 Theatres ...

Reports linked Sphere Entertainment with adapting the 1939 Academy Award-winning film for its immersive Las Vegas venue last year. The film opened on Aug. 28, and more than 500,000 tickets have been ...

It’s been an eventful year for Ricky Figueroa. Early in 2025, he was honored as RIT’s inaugural John Traver Professor. A few months later, he was appointed the new director of the College of Art and ...

Jude Law transforms into Vladimir Putin for Olivier Assayas’ “The Wizard of the Kremlin,” which has its world premiere Sunday at the Venice Film Festival. The film is an adaptation of Giuliano da ...

Acclaimed animator and director Genndy Tartakovsky spent the last 17 years ensuring that his passion project, Fixed, would eventually become a reality. Having finally realized that dream with ...

Production workers DreamWorks Animation have officially ratified their first union contract since unionizing with the Animation Guild and the Motion Picture Editors Guild last year. The Animation ...