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Illumination, one-half of NBCUniversal's animation units (DreamWorks being the other half), is launching a new label called "Moonlight" which will be used for fare beyond family-friendly works. Mike Moon, former head of Netflix's adult animation unit, will run the new label...

After three long decades of being a syndicated tabloid talk show host, journalist Maury Povich decided nearly two weeks ago to call it quits. However, today, the 83 year old TV personality has come out of retirement and put out an announcement on Google+ that his production company MoPo...

How would you rank the various media companies in terms of output of animated films? Disney is on top, its own studio and Pixar making the biggest animated film content around and is the king of the animated box office. Some duds, but a lot of winners. Universal Pictures actually seems like...

Which in return, later merged with Warner Bros. in 1996? I suppose that the most obvious first answer would be that we probably wouldn't have gotten Cartoon Network, since Turner pretty much used Hannah-Barbara as the nucleus for their initial line-up.

Every other "Big Five" studios -- Disney, Paramount, Sony/Columbia, and WB -- have their own adult-animated shows. Disney - now owns 20th Century Fox, who makes The Simpsons, Futurama, King of the Hill, Family Guy, American Dad, Bob's Burger, and Archer. Paramount - Beavis & Butthead, South...

One thing I noticed about the Golden Age of Animation, is that every major studio, be it MGM, Universal or Warner Bros. were in on the theatrical short business, regardless if they had their own in-house animation studio or simply outsourced to other studios. Being that this resulted in hundreds...

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