In a Deadline exclusive, Sony Animation announced Bob Persichetti and Justin K. Thompson as the directors of Beyond the Spider-Verse, the final film in the trilogy that began in 2018 with Into the Spider-Verse. Persichetti and Thompson are veterans of the franchise, being on the direction teams f...
Read MoreIn light of winning the Oscar for Best Animated Feature, The Boy and the Heron is returning to US theaters on March 22nd. The film will feature special added content like a foreword with composer Joe Hisaishi (who has composed most of Studio Ghibli’s oeuvre) and a drawing lesson with supervising...
Read MoreDeadline exclusively reports that Amphibia creator and author of the lore-expanding book Marcy’s Journal Matt Braly is directing a new animated movie for Sony Pictures Animation. This untitled feature will be a Thai fantasy epic, drawing in part on Braly’s cultural upbringing like Amphibia d...
Read MoreInto the Spider-Verse was one of the biggest pleasant surprises of the past few years. I’ve liked some movies from Sony Pictures Animation, like Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs and The Lego Movie. But Spider-Verse single-handedly initiated a paradigm shift in the landscape of American animation....
Read MoreToday, an international trailer came out promoting Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse. Check it out here: This is very similar to the last trailer, with just a couple of extra clips sprinkled in. It’s still very good and displays the deft balance of comedy and drama the first film excelled at...
Read MoreThis weekend, Sony released a poster for the Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse sequel. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse will see Miles Morales, Gwen Stacy, and Peter B. Parker venture into various dimensions, including fighting Spider-Man 2099, teased at the end of the first film. Check out t...
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