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An enthusiastic crowd took a sneak peek at Skydance Animation’s first feature length film, “Luck,” showcased as part of the Annecy International Animation Festival’s Work in Progress section on Tuesday.

The panel was composed of the film’s director Peggy Holmes, screenwriter Kiel Murray, producer David Eisenmann, director of animation Yuriko Senoo and VFX supervisor Javier Romero.

“Luck” tells the story of Sam Greenfield, probably the unluckiest girl in the world, who one day finds a lucky penny.

She decides she wants to give the penny to her best friend Hazel, but her bad luck means she loses the coin. Sam sets out to find a new one and, in her quest, she crosses the path of Bob, a lucky black cat, who inadvertently leads her to the Land of Luck.

Much of the film’s comedic quality lies in the physicality of Sam’s bad luck. Senoo...

During this season of giving, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital reached its fundraising goal during its annual St. Jude Promesa y Esperanza (Promise and Hope) event on December 3-4.

Fanny Lu revealed We Won't Stop t-shirt to monthly donors.

The live broadcast on Univision’s Uforia, the largest Hispanic audio network in the United States, raised over $4.1 million for St. Jude.

To raise awareness and support in the form of monthly pledges for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, the fundraiser promoted the new “We Won’t Stop” t-shirt worn by Hispanic celebrities and artists and shared on their social media platforms. Special thanks to Univision’s on-air personalities who volunteered their time, including Omar Velasco and Argelia Atilano of El Show de Omar y Argelia, Sylvia del Valle “La Bronca” of El Free-Guey, Raúl Molinar, Carla Medrano and Andrés Maldonado of El Bueno, La Mala y El Feo, Javier Romero,...

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital together with Univision radio stations across 15 media markets raised $4.7 million dollars during this year’s Promesa y Esperanza (Promise and Hope) radio event held on Dec. 5 and 6.

Events as these help inspire donors to support the life-saving mission of St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital and ensure that families never receive a bill for treatment, travel, housing or food – because all a family should worry about is helping their child live.

The two-day radio campaign encouraged thousands of Univision radio listeners across the country to become Angeles de Esperanza (Angels of Hope) by pledging to make a monthly donation of $20 or more. Through their pledge, monthly donors receive a t-shirt that reads Esta Camiseta Salva Vidas, the Spanish-language version of the widely popular “This Shirt Saves Lives” campaign, which gives them the opportunity to join an online movement supported by donors across the country, celebrities...

Annecy, France — Paramount Animation’s presentation of “Wonder Park” at the Annecy Festival packed a large interest. It was the first Annecy for DreamWorks Animation veteran Mireille Soria since she was appointed president of Paramount Animation by Jim Gianapaolos in July 2017. People were keen to know what she’d say about where she wanted to take the division.

Also, after several years absent from most international events, Spain animation made an impressive splash at March’s Cartoon Movie in Bordeaux. The big film missing there was Paramount Animation’s “Wonder Park,” whose animation vendor and co-producer – along with Nickelodeon Movies – was Madrid’s Ilion Animation Studios. Clips of “Wonder Park” and a song featured at cinema.con. But Annecy’s sneak peek promised a far deeper drill down.

Production on “Wonder Park” was initiated in September 2014, nearly three years before Mireille Soria took over at Paramount Animation. As it turned out,...