Ryan W. Mead

In a 1999 Usenet post, one of the staffers on this explained that the random cuts to live footage were because the overseas studio had made too many mistakes and retakes would be too expensive. Someone at DIC decided to treat the show like a music video and hide the mistakes that way.

This will be a complete reboot of the Addamses in animated form and will be a separate project neither connected to the continuity of “Wednesday” or the two previous animated films released by Amazon MGM. They’re going full Smurf, but hopefully with a better outcome.

‘Wednesday’ Creators Alfred Gough & Miles Millar On New ‘Addams Family’ Animated Pic In Works, Season 2 Muses & More – Crew Call Podcast 'Wednesday' creators Al Gough and Miles Millar talk about making a new Addams Family animated movie and getting inside Wednesday's head for Season 2.

The producers of “Wednesday” have revealed that they are planning a new animated “Addams Family” movie alongside the Tee and Charles Addams Foundation, who owns the underlying rights to the characters, and Amazon MGM Studios: deadline.com/2025/08/wedn...

YouTube video by Movieclips Krypto Saves the Day! - Short Film

As a tie-in to the home media release of #Superman, Warner Home Video has released a new short starring Krypto produced at Warner Bros. Animation written and directed by Ryan Kramer (“The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie”). youtu.be/nPm9ezfa6Qo

“Are you okay, Chuck? You keep muttering to yourself about ‘training for revenge’…”

It’s great to see that Chibi-Robo is finally getting a rerelease after all these years. “Quirky Japanese open-world RPG where all the characters speak gibberish” is one of my favorite subgenres of video games and Chibi-Robo is probably one of the best in that category

Reskeet with a tweet you still think about

'KPop Demon Hunters' Sing-Along Screenings Coming to Theaters | Animation Magazine Fans of the smash-hit Netflix Animation feature 'KPop Demon Hunters' can catch special sing-along screenings in theaters soon!

Striking while the iron is hot: on the exact same week “Golden” hits number 1 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100, Netflix has announced a sing-along version of runaway hit “Kpop Demon Hunters” will make its way to theaters for two days on August 23 and 24: www.animationmagazine.net/2025/08/kpop...

Good point.

I have no idea why they had to write a new theme song when they clearly had the rights to use the Vic Mizzy theme as it was often used as a leitmotif. If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.

In an alternate universe where his concept was used, would Scott have filed a similar lawsuit against subsequent Transformers productions for the exact same dubious reasons?

pirates searching for buried treasure and claims to personality traits of the Muppet characters that had already been established such as Animal being rambunctious, Miss Piggy always trying to be the center of attention, etc.

Besides being an incredibly prolific writer of Saturday Morning cartoons and an unashamed Scientologist, Jeffrey Scott infamous filed a lawsuit a few years ago claiming ownership in the concept of Muppet Babies, which among other things included claims to uncopyrightable concepts such as…

At the TFNation convention in the UK, an unused 1984 pitch for the Transformers animated series from the same writing team as Muppet Babies was made public. Unsurprisingly this concept was much more lighthearted and wacky than that which we eventually received.

(Moo Deng’s likeness appears to have been officially licensed, as I found out about this from the official Instagram page of the zoo.)

YouTube video by Yulee Choi US Teaser Food Truck- Stolen Love & Moodeng

Well, that was fast: here’s a trailer for an upcoming Thai romantic comedy which has something to do with a boy sneaking onto someone’s food truck…that also involves kidnapping Moo Deng the hippo for some reason? youtu.be/bmPjji07nVA

Gertler has become Dolores’s biggest cheerleader just because of how darn obscure she is and alongside the stuff done with Franklin in recent years I’m pleased the current holders of the Peanuts torch are further advancing and improving the diverse visibility Schulz started.

Her only appearances were a series of filmstrips produced for the U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. However, said filmstrips had audio produced by Lee Mendelson Productions featuring the actual child cast of the specials (and Bill Melendez as Snoopy, of course).

If you’re saying to yourself “I don’t remember a Peanuts character named Dolores”, you aren’t alone as she is probably THE most obscure Peanuts character in history due to the fact she never appeared in either the comic strip itself or any of the animated specials.

Dolores CONFIRMED! That is genuinely Dolores, the obscure Latina Peanuts character from the filmstrips, in the new special that releases this coming Friday. I've had it confirmed by the director of the special, who is h...

“Snoopy Presents: A Summer Musical” director Erik Weise, who is half-Latino, has confirmed to Peanuts historian Nat Gertler that Dolores, the Latina Peanuts character, will appear in the special alongside other characters: aaugh.com/wordpress/20...

Under the microscope: E.T. Interplanetary Mission (PlayStation) In which the beloved movie alien condemns terrorism in very colorful terms

Somehow, this is not the strangest thing about said games, as it was not until 2025 that a hobbyist reverse-engineering the source code of one found a cheat code which adds four words to the staff roll: “FUCK OFF BIN LADEN.” 32bits.substack.com/p/under-the-...

In 2002, knowing full well the questionable history of its video game tie-ins, Newkidco made multiple games tied to the 20th anniversary rerelease of “E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial”.

Much as Atari before it, Newkidco’s death was partially the result of a glut of unwanted E.T. games

Celebrates Snoopy's Birthday with an Early Look at a New Peanuts Book (Exclusive) 'The Essential Peanuts' offers fans of the classic comic strip a look at the life, art and legacy of Charles M. Schulz. The book drops this October, and PEOPLE has an early look inside

“We don’t select [our pets] - they select us and just move in.”

In honor of Snoopy’s birthday, a look at the upcoming Peanuts 75th anniversary book by Mark Evanier, focusing here on Snoopy before he started to think for himself: people.com/celebrates-s...

Pee-wee Herman's Bike: The Ultimate Oral History Celebrate the 40th anniversary of "Pee-wee's Big Adventure" and discover the new home for that famous red Schwinn owned by Paul Reubens

This follows the announcement from a few weeks ago that the Alamo also acquired one of the screen-used bikes recently sold at auction.

There were 14 bikes used in the film, which have a history of their own behind them. lamag.com/arts-and-ent...

Upon his death, Paul Reubens requested his personal screen-used bicycle from “Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure” be donated to the Motion Picture Academy Museum.

In honor of the 40th anniversary of its release, his assistant Allison Berry will do the honors tonight on behalf of the Reubens Estate.

‘Defunded but not defeated’: How Mississippi Public Broadcasting is navigating budget cuts Like many Mississippians, Jovani Johnson was raised on PBS Kids. Shows like “Sesame Street” and “Maya & Miguel” were a key part of his early

Sadly, as a result of the CPB shutdown, Mississippi will be the first state to eliminate all PBS programming. The local affiliate will continue to produce local shows and news but as of July 2026 will no longer run national PBS programs. cdispatch.com/news/defunde...

In 1970, the state of Mississippi infamously refused to air “Sesame Street” on its PBS affiliate due to its mixed-race cast.

On the opposite end, from 2004 onward the state was the filming site of “Between the Lions”, a charming phonics show from two “Sesame” vets.

A photo of Thomas Dewey

The most famous picture relating to Thomas Dewey (“DEWEY DEFEATS TRUMAN”) doesn’t even have him in it, so when I found out Gomez from the Addams Family was visually inspired by him (per Charles Addams’s biographer Linda H. Davis) I had to check and damn, that’s Gomez all right

In publishing a board book called “Mario’s Face” for preschoolers in Japan, Nintendo has tapped into the universal truth first revealed on the title screen to Super Mario 64: all of us, whether we know it or not, have a deep primal urge to squish Mario’s face

Ben Zazove & Evan Turner Tapped To Pen ‘Space Invaders’ Film For New Line Based On Taito Arcade Game A 'Space Invaders' movie is in development at New Line, with Ben Zazove and Evan Turner to adapt the screenplay from the Taito arcade game.

Which is my way of saying “Hey look, New Line Cinema and Akiva Goldsman are gonna give it a go this time, probably”: deadline.com/2025/08/spac...