Animation World Network

Those pesky hallucinations are just around the corner… Common Side Effects returns to Adult Swim for Season 2 on Sunday, January 24 at 11 p.m. ET/PT, streaming the next day on HBO Max. Co-creators Joe Bennett (Scavengers Reign) and Steve Hely (Veep) revealed the date today at New York Comic Con.

Visko and Google Cloud are hosting "Live Models Fireside Chat," an evening conversation in Los Angeles on Wednesday, October 14, about AI-generated worlds that run in real time and the computing infrastructure needed to drive them. Visko is an AI research company and the creator of Orbis, a foundation model - a large, general-purpose AI model that other tools are built on.

WildBrain has signed a new wave of international broadcast deals for its Peanuts series The Snoopy Show, Snoopy in Space and Camp Snoopy, with partners across Europe, North America, Africa and Asia-Pacific. Buyers at MIPJunior and MIPCOM can screen all three series at WildBrain's stand in the Canadian Pavilion, R8.E1.

Marvel Animation's Marvel Zombies is coming back for three more two-part special events, one each Halloween from 2027 through 2029, while Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man Season 2 now premieres January 13, 2027 on Disney+. Brad Winderbaum, head of Marvel Television, Animation and Comics, shared the news yesterday at the Marvel Television and Marvel Animation panel on the Empire Stage at New York Comic Con.

Crunchyroll, HAYATE and LINE Digital Frontier, a subsidiary of WEBTOON Entertainment, have formed an anime co-production partnership to adapt a slate of around 15 WEBTOON series into anime. The companies unveiled the partnership yesterday at the Crunchyroll Showcase panel at New York Comic Con, along with the first three titles: The Remarried Empress, Teenage Mercenary and The Boxer; each title is based on a webcomic available through LINE Digital Frontier's mobile app.

Scholastic Entertainment and 9 Story Media Group have announced the kids and family slate they're bringing to MIPCOM this month: four original series in development, a new series in production, and new seasons of two returning shows. Brown Bag Films, the Scholastic-owned animation studio with locations in Dublin, Toronto, and Bali, will show animation tests for much of the slate at the market.

Everyone loves their anime! Paramount Pictures and Legendary Entertainment have released "Street Fighter Hand Drawn," a first look at the original hand-drawn animated sequences that Titmouse created for the live-action Street Fighter feature. The studios also announced that Don Lee (Train to Busan, Eternals) appears as Master Gouken in the film and voices the character in its animated flashbacks.

An untitled Pixar feature and two independent animated films, Baobab Studios' Shine and Namethemachine's The Long Walk, are among 35 films now awarded credits in the latest round of California's expanded Film & Television Tax Credit Program, Governor Gavin Newsom has announced. The three animation projects received about $49.1 million in conditional credits between them.

Boat Rocker Studios has greenlit Nano Runners, a 26 x 11-minute action-adventure animated series for kids ages six and up from Industrial Brothers co-founder Matthew Fernandes. It is the first animated series Boat Rocker has fully financed on its own, and the company will present it to buyers at MIPCOM alongside its recently announced fully financed unscripted slate.

Sony Pictures Entertainment has launched Crunchyroll Storyworks, a new division of its Crunchyroll anime business set up to turn stories from around the world into anime and to develop live-action versions of Japanese anime. The company unveiled the unit yesterday at Crunchyroll's Anime Future Forum in New York, held the day before New York Comic Con opened.