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• The nominations for the 94th Academy Awards were revealed
• Pixar released the trailer of Lightyear
• Disney cancelled the Beauty and the Beast (2017) prequel series
• Futurama is being revived at Hulu without John DiMaggio
• Mario Kart 8 Deluxe DLC, Xenoblade Chronicles 3, Mario Strikers: Battle League and more were revealed in Nintendo Direct

• The Masked Singer sparked backlash for having Rudy Giuliani revealed as a contestant
• Nickelodeon and Paramount will be producing multiple movies based on The Smurfs
• Sony Pictures cancelled The Boondocks reboot
• Disney+ picks up Sony's Goosebumps series
• Japanese companies like Toei and Sho-Pro are attacking YouTubers with their own copyright laws

Today's episode includes:

• Disney will make changes to the dwarfs with their live-action remake of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
• Media like Fox News is creating false outrage about Minnie Mouse wearing pants
• Tennessee school board received backlash over their ban on the Holocaust graphic novel, Maus
• Lionsgate released the trailer of Pinocchio: A True Story
• Why Disney does not own Scrat from Ice Age

• Netflix released the trailer of The Cuphead Show
• Encanto's 'We Don't Talk About Bruno' beats Frozen's 'Let It Go' as the highest-charting Disney animated song since 1995
• Aardman revealed new info for Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget and the 2nd Wallace & Gromit movie
• Roku is making a Weird Al Yankovic biopic starring Daniel Radcliffe
• Microsoft acquires Activision for $68.7 billion

Today's episode includes:

• 20th Century Studios released the trailer of The Bob's Burgers Movie
• Troy Baker received backlash for associating himself with AI powered voice NFTs
• Disney will be making more Ice Age and Rio movies for Disney+
• Disney announced The Santa Clause limited series starring Tim Allen for Disney+
• Figment popcorn bucket are causing lines at EPCOT that go up to 7 hours

Today's episode includes:

• Encanto wins Best Animated Feature at the 79th Golden Globe Awards
• Pixar's Turning Red will be skipping theaters and will be a Disney+ exclusive
• Netflix is developing a Scott Pilgrim anime series
• Sesame Street's Elmo and his hatred for Zoe's pet rock Rocco
• Why Encanto's We Don't Talk About Bruno is not the Oscar contender for Best Original Song

Today's episode includes:

• #5 Cowboy BeFlop: The Rise and Fall of Netflix's Live-Action Remake Series of Cowboy Bebop
• #4 The Chris Pratt Casting: The Reactions to Chris Pratt as Mario and Garfield
• #3 Cancel Culture Mania: How "Cancel Culture" Became the Most Overused Term of the Year
• #2 Sony's Streaming Plan: Sony Pictures' $3 Billion Deal with Netflix & Disney+
• #1 Blue Sky Studios (1987-2021): Saying Goodbye to the Studio that brought us Ice Age and The Peanuts Movie

Today's episode includes:

• Spider-Man: No Way Home has the 2nd biggest domestic opening weekend in history with $260 million
• DreamWorks Animation released the trailer of The Bad Guys
• Adult Swim released the trailer of Smiling Friends
• The National Film Registry adds WALL-E and Walt Disney's Flowers & Trees to the Library of Congress
• Tara Strong faces backlash for her involvement with Ornamental, a movie that'll be fully funded by NFTs and blockchains

Today's episode includes:

• The nominations for the 79th Golden Globe Awards were announced
• Paramount Pictures released the trailer of Sonic the Hedgehog 2
• Walt Disney Animation Studios revealed Strange World, their next movie releasing in Thanksgiving 2022
• Netflix's Cowboy Bebop is cancelled after one season
• TotallyNotMark had more than 150 videos taken down by Toei Animation because of how they abuse YouTube's copyright system

Today's episode includes:

• Sony Pictures Animation released the first look at Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (Part One)
• John Musker and Ron Clements are working at Warner Animation Group on DC's Metal Men
• The Animation Guild is demanding higher wages for writers with #NewDeal4Animation
• The Jim Henson Company is teaming up with VeVe to launch a new collection of NFTs based on Labyrinth
• 26 movies are eligible for Best Animated Feature for the 94th Academy Awards