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Animated In Annecy

Power of the craft: There’s no better way to remind yourself of the power of animation than to head to Annecy in June. The beautiful French city was transformed for the Annecy International Animation Film Festival, which has over the years taken on a Comic-Con-esque skew towards fandoms. With Simpsons creator Matt Groening, Bojack Horseman’s Raphael Bob-Waksberg and the likes of Bob’s Burgers director Tyree Dillihay in town, that’s no wonder. The vibe was phenomenal, and the hot, sunny weather, which positively shimmered across Lake Annecy, didn’t exactly hinder things. In the spotlight were a ream of big-budget upcoming projects including The Cat in the Hat, Bad Guys 2, Goat and Fixed, along...

Sony Pictures Animation’s next theatrical feature “Goat,” is set in a world full of anthropomorphic animals in which the main character (Caleb McLaughlin), an actual goat, dreams of becoming a sports sensation. Yes, that title is pun on the acronym for Greatest Of All Time.

Sony premiered a first look at the film, produced in partnership with the NBA, at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival, with director Tyree Dillihay and producer Michelle Raimo Kouyate on hand to explain the world of the film and to share some scenes.

The movie opens on February 13, 2026, timed with the NBA All-Star Game happening in Los Angeles that same weekend.

Dillihay, making his feature debut, said that the movie would center around roar-ball, a sport that is dominated by big animals, with courts as big as soccer fields. (Roar stands for Regionally Organized Animal Roundball.) In this world, small animals aren’t...

Sony Pictures Animation, the studio that brought you Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, is taking the rock and sprinting toward another animated marvel with Goat, a sports-themed animated comedy with an all-star cast that includes NBA champion Steph Curry, Stranger Things star Caleb McLaughlin, Gabrielle Union, and more! Sony recently hit the court running with Goat at a preview event at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival.

Also set to hit the hardwood for Goat are Nick Kroll, Nicola Coughlan (Bridgerton), David Harbour, Jenifer Lewis (I Love That for You), and Patton Oswald. Tyree Dillihay and Adam Rosette co-direct Goat from a screenplay by Aaron Buchsbaum and Teddy Riley. Goat is produced by Steph Curry and Erick Peyton of Unanimous Media, alongside Michelle Raimo Kouyate, Adam Rosenberg, and Rodney Rothman of Modern Magic. David Schulenburg co-produces, while Rick Mischel and Fonda Snyder serve as executive producers.

Goat takes place in an...

Sony Pictures Animation has enlisted Golden State Warriors star Stephen Curry and Stranger Things actor Caleb McLaughlin to headline the voice cast of its upcoming feature Goat, a move unveiled during the studio’s Annecy 2025 presentation. Curry will voice seasoned roarball pro Lenny Williamson, while McLaughlin plays rookie goat Will Harris, joined by Gabrielle Union, David Harbour, Jennifer Lewis, Nick Kroll and Nicola Coughlan.

Set in an all-animal league where the full-contact sport “roarball” pits predators against underdogs, the story follows diminutive Will as he tries to prove that “smalls can ball”. Sony has slated the film for 13 February 2026, deliberately coinciding with the NBA All-Star weekend in Los Angeles.

Goat is Curry’s first feature voice role and the latest project from his Unanimous Media banner, which signed a first-look pact with Sony last year. He produces alongside partner Erick Peyton, Michelle Raimo Kouyate and Modern Magic’s Adam Rosenberg and Rodney Rothman,...

During a presentation at the Annecy Animation Festival today, Sony Pictures Animation unveiled the voice cast for its upcoming feature, “Goat,” an original action-comedy slated to hit theaters on Feb. 13, 2026. From the studio behind “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse” and in collaboration with NBA great Stephen Curry’s Unanimous Media and Modern Magic, “Goat” brings to life a world where the fiercest animals compete in the high-octane sport of roarball, and a diminutive goat dares to dream big.

Directed by Tyree Dillihay – who co-hosted the day’s presentation with producer Michelle Raimo Kouyate – and co-directed by Adam Rosette, the film celebrates the spirit of the underdog with a story steeped in the energy of basketball culture.

Leading the cast is “Stranger Things” star Caleb McLaughlin, voicing Will Harris, the titular “Goat,” a small-framed but big-hearted dreamer determined to prove he belongs in the Roar League, where speed and ferocity rule the court.

Sony Pictures Animation’s “Goat” has revealed its voice cast, which includes Stephen Curry, Caleb McLaughlin, Nick Kroll, Gabrielle Union, Patton Oswalt, Jennifer Lewis and David Harbour. In collaboration with the NBA, Sony Pictures Animation will release “Goat” theatrically on Feb. 13, 2026, timed for NBA All-Star Weekend in Los Angeles (Feb 13–15).

The announcement was made as part of a presentation at the Annecy International Animated Film Festival, where the first footage from the movie was also shown.

The official synopsis for the new feature follows: “an original action-comedy set in an all-animal world. The story follows Will, a small goat with big dreams who gets a once-in-a-lifetime shot to join the pros and play roarball – a high-intensity, co-ed, full-contact sport dominated by the fastest, fiercest animals in the world. Will’s new teammates aren’t thrilled about having a little goat on their roster, but Will is determined to revolutionize the...

NBA superstar Stephen Curry is taking on his first major acting role in Goat, a basketball-themed animated feature from Sony Pictures Animation.

The action-comedy, directed by Tyree Dillihay (Bob’s Burgers), and Adam Rosette is set in an all-animal world and follows Will, a little goat with big dreams who gets a once-in-a-lifetime shot to join the pros and play roarball – a high-intensity, co-ed, full-contact sport dominated by the fastest, fiercest animals in the world. Curry is also a producer on the feature.

Sony on Monday unveiled the main voice cast for Goat on Monday. Joining Curry on the roarball court are Stranger Things alums Caleb McLaughlin and David Harbour; Bad Boys II actress Gabrielle Union; Bridgerton star Nicola Coughlan; Black-ish actress Jennifer Lewis; actor and comedian Patton Oswalt (Ratatouille, Young Adult); and veteran writer and voice actor Nick Kroll (Big Mouth).

The star-studded voice cast was announced out of...

Updated with further casting details at 10.24 am Pt Sony Pictures Animation’s sports-themed animated feature Goat has unveiled a starry voice cast, featuring NBA champion Stephen Curry and Stranger Things star Caleb McLaughlin, during a preview event at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival.

Curry and McLaughlin will be joined in the cast by Gabrielle Union, Nick Kroll (Big Mouth), Nicola Coughlan (Bridgerton), David Harbour (Thunderbolts), Jenifer Lewis (I Love That for You) and Patton Oswalt (We All Scream).

Tyree Dillihay and producer Michelle Raimo Kouyate were in Annecy for the presentation which screened exclusive footage to an appreciative animation crowd, who packed out the Grande Salle of Annecy’s main Bonlieu Theater venue.

The original action-comedy set in an all-animal world, follows Will (voiced by McLaughlin), a small goat living a downbeat life in an urbanized jungle community called Vineland, who is obsessed with roarball,...

Basketball star Stephen ‘Steph’ Curry is leading the voice cast of Sony Pictures Animation’s sports comedy feature Goat, which showed first footage today at Annecy International Animation Film Festival.

Curry, who is also producing the film for his Unanimous Media, is joined by Caleb McLaughlin, Gabrielle Union, Nick Kroll, Nicola Coughlan, David Harbour, Jenifer Lewis and Patton Oswalt.

Currently in production, the film is directed by Tyree Dillihay, co-directed by Adam Rosette. Sony Pictures Animation will release the film theatrically in the US on February 13, 2026, in collaboration with the National Basketball Association (NBA) and timed to the NBA All-Star Weekend in Los Angeles.

The Annecy International Animation Festival has unveiled the line-up for its 2025 edition, running from June 8 to 14. (scroll down for full list of Official Selection titles)

Having previously announced Michel Gondry as an honorary guest, the festival will also celebrate UK Oscar nominee Joanna Quinn (Affairs of the Art) and The Simpsons creator Matt Groening with honorary Cristal awards.

Twenty-one feature films will be showcased in the festival’s Main Competition and Contrechamp Competition, selected from 130 submissions.

Main competition titles include Sylvain Chomet’s Marcel Pagnol tribute A Magnificent Life as well as Félix Dufour-Laperrière’s Death Does Not Exist, and Dandelion’s Odyssey by Momoko Seto, and Ugo Bienvenu’s Arco.

In a break with tradition, the opening night will world premiere a selection of five shorts rather than a single feature animation.

“After a historic 2024 edition, with a record attendance of 17,400 badge-holders, and all this despite a difficult context for the industry,...

Annecy, the world’s leading animation film festival, unveiled its official program on Wednesday, with a line-up that includes features from some 20 countries across Europe, Asia and the Americas and a range of styles, from the big-budget 3D computer animated feature Into the Mortal World from Chinese director Zhong Ding; to the hand-drawn title Balentes by Italian filmmaker Giovanni Columbu, and the digital cut out animation of Mexican filmmaker Aria Covamonas: The Great History of Western Philosophy.

Covamonas’ debut premiered at the Rotterdam festival, and Annecy’s 2025 lineup features a best-of selection of recent fests, including Berlinale highlights Lesbian Space Princess and Tales from the Magic Garden, and several features premiering in Cannes next month, including The Magnificent Life of Marcel Pagnol from The Triplets of Belleville director Sylvain Chomet; Dandelion’s Odyssey from Japanese director Momoko Seto; and Death Does Not Exist from Canadian filmmaker Felix Dufour-Laperrière.

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CinemaCon is currently underway, with presentations from Sony Pictures, Warner Bros., Lionsgate, Paramount, Universal/Focus, Disney, Angel, and Neon highlighting their upcoming film releases.

Day 4 began with Paramount Pictures showcasing Edgar Wright’s highly anticipated The Running Man, starring Glen Powell, Colman Domingo, and Josh Brolin, slated for a November release. Mark Hamill, lending his voice to The Flying Dutchman in “The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants,” presented the film’s initial footage, followed by the trailer for “The Naked Gun,” starring Liam Neeson and Pamela Anderson. Tom Cruise took to the stage for Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning, praising director Christopher McQuarrie and honoring the late Val Kilmer.

Yesterday, Angel Studios opened Day 3, leading into the world premiere of How to Train Your Dragon. Gerard Butler, Nico Parker, and Dean DeBlois presented the Universal Pictures and DreamWorks Animation live-action film.

Attendees were then treated to an exclusive look...

The Colosseum stage inside Caesars Palace caught some star power courtesy of a new trailer featuring Austin Butler in Caught Stealing during Sony’s presentation at CinemaCon on Monday.

The studio used the occasion to debut the first look at Darren Aronofsky’s film, which is set to hit theaters on Aug. 29 from Sony label Columbia Pictures. Aronofsky directed Caught Stealing from a script by Charlie Huston, who wrote the books on which the movie is based. The film casts Butler as Hank Thompson, a former baseball player, who is unwittingly plunged into a wild fight for survival in the downtown criminal underworld of ‘90s New York City.

Aronofsky himself hit the stage in what marked his first CinemaCon appearance. “I was trying to figure out why no studio had never invited me before. I think the answer is kind of obvious,” the auteur joked. “Sony brought me because there...

While it is safe to say that the film industry has survived to 2025, one of the greatest casualties of the Hollywood strikes of 2023 has been the entertainment industry’s diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts. The continued push into Hollywood consolidation inevitably leads to debt, which leads to developmental programs and jobs being cut. Warner Bros. Discovery and the Paramount/Skybound merger are only the most recent examples of this.

But one could argue there is also a growing sentiment that media CEOs are simply no longer interested or invested in putting more effort into diversity. Consider it a backlash to the backlashes of 2016 and 2020, the very ones that focused on pushing Hollywood to empower more filmmakers who are women and/or people of color. While the most recent USC Annenberg Inclusion Initiative study does not quite show a decline in inclusion, it does reveal that the progress in finding, elevating,...

Warner Bros Motion Pictures Group and MRC’s feature adaptation of Wuthering Heights from Oscar winner Emerald Fennell will hit theaters on Feb. 13, 2026.

The Margot Robbie-Jacob Elordi starring, LuckyChap production based on the Emily Brontë novel is a clear destination for female audiences over that period. Already on Feb. 13, 2026 is another female-demo movie, Universal’s feature take of Colleen Hoover novel, Reminders of Him. Sony also has the animated feature, Goat from Tyree Dillihay.

Hong Chau, Alison Oliver and Shazad Latif also star in Wuthering Heights.

Robbie is set to star as Catherine Earnshaw, and Elordi will play Heathcliff. Fennell adapted the 1847 novel and is prepping for a UK shoot early next year. The original story follows two families, the Earnshaws and the Lintons and the turbulent relationship they have with the Earnshaws’ foster son, Heathcliff. Plot details on Fennell’s version are unknown at this time.

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When Bob's Burgers first hit screens in 2011, it was clear that the show wanted to do something different. While its competitors, like Family Guy and The Simpsons, wanted to show a more bleak side of family life, Bob's Burgers charmed its audience with its adorable domestics. The Belcher family is built on love, and that's what makes them one of the best-animated tribes on television.

Yet, not every character is as cheerful as the Belchers. Some characters act as contrasts to the family, proving to the audience that sadness and injustice still reside in this colorful fictional world. Regular Sized Rudy may seem like an ordinary fourth grader, but hidden beneath the surface is a very sad little boy who still has the ability to tug on the viewers' heartstrings.

Rudys Family Troubles Isolate Him From Others

Rudy makes his first appearance on the show in Season 3, Episode 22, "Carpe Museum,...

Sony Pictures Animation is currently making Goat, an original animated sports comedy from producers Stephen Curry and Erick Peyton of Unanimous Media, Oscar nominee Michelle Raimo Kouyate, and Adam Rosenberg (Creed 3) and Academy Award winner Rodney Rothman (Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse) of Modern Magic.

In collaboration with the NBA, Sony will open the pic in theaters on Feb 13, 2026, timed to the NBA’s All-Star weekend, which is taking place in Los Angeles Feb. 13-15.

Emmy-nominated director Tyree Dillihay (Bob’s Burgers) will direct, and Adam Rosette (Orion and the Dark) will co-direct. Aaron Buchsbaum and Teddy Riley (Fairfax) are writing the screenplay.

David Schulenburg is co-producing. Rick Mischel (Open Season: Call of Nature) and Fonda Snyder (Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum) are EPs.

“As a lifelong fan of animation and sports,...

NBA star Stephen Curry is often brought up in the conversation about GOATs — the greatest basketball players of all time.

While the four-time NBA champion and two-time Mvp’s ranking might be debatable, Curry is making his Goat connection official — by producing a sports comedy movie by the same name for Sony Pictures Animation.

Curry and his Unanimous Media co-founder Erick Peyton will produce the film alongside Academy Award nominee Michelle Raimo Kouyate, and Modern Magic’s Adam Rosenberg (“Creed 3”) and Academy Award winner Rodney Rothman (“Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse”).

“With ‘Goat,’ we look forward to uplifting audiences with diverse characters and heartwarming storylines that will have you rooting for the underdog,” stated Peyton and Curry about the movie, which is aimed at families and sports fans alike.

Emmy-nominated director Tyree Dillihay (“Bob’s Burgers”) will direct the film, and Adam Rosette (“Orion and the Dark”) will co-direct. “Fairfax” creators...

Sony Pictures Animation is hoping to score with a new sports-themed animated feature from producer Stephen Curry.

The studio announced Thursday that the original movie Goat is set to hit theaters Feb. 13, 2026, timed to the NBA’s All-Star festivities taking place in Los Angeles that weekend. Tyree Dillihay (Emmy-nominated director of Bob’s Burgers) is helming the comedy film with co-director Adam Rosette (Orion and the Dark) from a script by Aaron Buchsbaum and Teddy Riley (Fairfax).

Plot details are being kept on the bench for the time being, and a voice cast has not been announced.

Producers include Curry and Erick Peyton for Unanimous Media, Adam Rosenberg and Rodney Rothman for Modern Magic, and Michelle Raimo Kouyate. Rick Mischel and Fonda Snyder serve as executive producers, while David Schulenburg is co-producing.

A four-time NBA champion with the Golden State Warriors, Curry is involved with a number of Hollywood projects, including...

Girls, “Two Plane Rides”

Written by Lena Dunham

Directed by Lena Dunham

Aired March 23rd, 2014

Do you remember how last season’s Girls run ended? Well this season things culminated in an entirely different tone. This time, there were no grand gestures or fireworks. Season three isn’t quite as dark as season two, but man is the finale rough. If the season two finale frustrated fans because it suggested that Hannah might be too dependent on the man in her life, the season three finale seems intent on underlining that Hannah’s ready to move on, with or without Adam. And she isn’t the only one moving on, but she seems to be the only one moving in the right direction: Hannah gets into the country’s best grad school, Adam gives a truly “bad” performance in his Broadway debut, Marnie finds herself in another destructive relationship, Shosh...

When weathering a political climate of hate, one coping mechanism is satire. Animators Wayne Stamps, David Corbett, and Tyree Dillihay employ this technique well. B-Rock: The First Term is a new web series featuring our Commander in Chief as a chain-smoking smooth talker with William Shatner's cadence who turns into a hulking mass of muscle when he doesn't get his Cool nicotine fix. All the hyperbolic trappings of cartooned political commentary are present, including an emaciated Ann Coulter making ludicrous claims about the President's past, a Barack Obama who's good with the ladies and soft on criminals, and a Rahm Emanuel who yells a lot of expletives. The series is like Current's SuperNews with a focus on the White House. Stamps created B-Rock and Stamps, Corbett, and Dillihay are all on board as executive producers. Aaron Simpson at Cold Hard Flash reports the trio have completed 12 episodes of the series.