3D computer animation is the go-to style for most studios making animated films today. However, traditional hand-drawn 2D animation once ruled over the industry and is sorely missed in the modern ...

Two-time Academy Award nominee and Sundance grand jury prize winner Don Hertzfeldt has long been recognized as one of the most influential voices in independent animation. His iconic early-internet ...

Chinese juggernaut Ne Zha 2 overtook Inside Out 2 in February as the top-grossing animated film of all time — mostly from a staggering estimated $1.89 billion in its home country alone. Mayoan expects ...

A lonely guy tries to work up the nerve to ask someone out for coffee — or tea. He rehearses and rehearses his lines, but when the moment arrives, nature intercedes. A hornet stings him in the neck, ...

Teyana Taylor has returned with Escape Room, a powerful dual release that arrives as both a full-length album and an original short film via Def Jam Recordings. Designed as a hybrid of sound and ...

The rest of 2025 is stacked with some highly anticipated animated films, like Zootopia 2 and Mamoru Hosoda's Scarlet, but Arco's new trailer may have made it the most anticipated of all. It's a ...

Teyana Taylor has unveiled stills from her upcoming short film “Escape Room,” featuring songs off the forthcoming album of the same name, exclusively on Variety. The singer directed and produced the ...

Imagine if Rocky Balboa were a Cuban fighting rooster and his dream of becoming a great boxer was forged in Little Havana. The protagonist of “Pollo Punch,” a short film directed by Cuban-American ...

The best DC animated films prove that sometimes the only way to make Superman’s underwear-on-the-outside look cool is to draw it really, really well. DC animated films represent some of the best ...