Kidscreen

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KidscreenVFXKidscreened Skydance’s crowded animation squad A rundown by The Wrap examines each of the three major animation studios that Skydance now owns after its Paramount and WBD acquisitions—which is a lot even for a…

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KidscreenVFXDEALS: Tamagotchi adds Roblox to its 30th anniversary hype flywheel Plus, Tulipop has secured a publishing partner in Italy, RTL’s Toggo app is getting broader reach in Germany and Austria, and more.

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KidscreenVFXPixar makes a top leadership shuffle Jim Morris will transition to a president emeritus role after more than a decade, with a Disney veteran lined up to succeed him.

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KidscreenVFXSony’s theatrical revenue up more than 1,000% in Q2 And the company has a simple upcoming strategy for getting its anime offering in front of its massive PS5 audience.

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KidscreenVFXUK culture secretary intervenes in Sky’s US$2.1-billion ITV buy The move means regulators will probe the deal, which could create a kids media giant—but the companies say it’s an expected step on the path to becoming a powerhouse.

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KidscreenVFXKidscreened Animaj’s process Shortly after issuing a rallying cry to unite the industry around its vision of human-led AI workflows , French studio Animaj offered insight into what its process looks like in…

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KidscreenVFXQ&A: Ellen Doherty on why it was time to head back to the neighborhood Fred Rogers Productions’ chief creative officer says the rise of gentle programming and parents' rejection of slop created the ideal conditions for the truth-telling Mister Rogers’ return on YouTube.

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KidscreenVFXFrench ad studio Troublemakers launches originals arm with 3 kids projects Canal+, RTP and Mega are set to air the special Dark Woods , which the new Troublemakers Originals is co-producing with Funny Tales and Fly Moustache.

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KidscreenVFXDEALS: Netflix orders its next YA drama Plus, Toys"R"Us Canada will return (inside Staples), Miraculous Corp teams up with another university for its push into fashion, and more.

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KidscreenVFXGrassroots accelerator aims to solve a “broken” kids creator economy EXCLUSIVE: Budding studio Sugar Snap Media inspired members of the industry to rally around six gentle projects from Nick vets and other creatives—and hopes to turn a few into series.

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The small bracket on top of every camera, from a phone rig to an ARRI.

The hot shoe is where the flash goes, and the microphone, and the monitor, and whatever the next decade bolts on. Every camera has one and nobody photographs it. This magazine is named after it because that is where the whole business meets: the body, the glass, the light, the sound, and the person holding it.

I shot news in Gothenburg for nine years and documentary for hire after that, then stopped taking assignments to write about the tools. Since 2021 I live in Tokyo, ten minutes from the used-camera shops of Shinjuku, which is not an accident: Canon, Nikon, Sony, Fujifilm, Panasonic, Ricoh and Sigma make almost everything worth pointing at a subject, and their own press writes about it first, in Japanese. So this magazine reads it there, and in German, French, Italian and Spanish, and in English from the reviewers who actually put a card in the slot — around eighty sources and thirty channels, counted and plotted so you can see what is moving.

Bodies and lenses, cinema cameras and drones, film and the darkroom, firmware and the software that finishes the picture, the rumours before the launch and the reviews after it, and the photographers and shows the rest of it is for. I test what I write about on a job before a word goes down. I shoot film on Sundays and do not think that makes me interesting.

A story here is a headline, a short excerpt, one picture and the link to whoever reported it. We never reprint the article, and the picture belongs to the photographer or the maker. A story written in Japanese appears in Japanese, as its author set it down; the link goes to the original.

— Mara Lindqvist, Tokyo