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May Animation Planner
3PBS KIDS continues Fred Rogers’ legacy with Donkey Hodie, a new puppet series premiering today. ITFS takes the Stuttgart animation celebration global with its first hybrid event, running online May 3-16 and on-site May 4-9. Meanwhile, the FMX Conference gets into the nitty gritty of CG, VFX & gaming May 4-7. [itfs.de | fmx.de]
4The Bad Batch expands the Disney+ Star Wars universe as it follows a gang of mutated clone troopers on dangerous mercenary missions.
7New supes suit up for their Netflix debut in the Millarverse series Jupiter’s Legacy.
9Happy
Mother’s
Day! 11 Today’s Blu-ray crop yields superheroic
Nazi-punching action in
Justice Society: World War II
and a cat-demon’s heartwarming adventure in The Legend of
Hei.
16 Sofia, Bulgaria hosts a colorful, six-day international animation confab with the 12th Golden Kuker fest. [2021.animationfest-bg.eu]
18 New on disc: Disney’s Southeast
Asian epic Raya and the Last Dragon, JeanFrançois Laguionie & Xavier Picard’s artistic feature The Prince’s Voyage, sci-fi sitcom Star Trek: Lower Decks S1 and Nicktoons classic Rugrats: The Complete Series.
20 Animatricks presents a dual focus on women directors and freedom of speech in this year’s four-day Helsinki, Finland festival. [animatricks.net]
21 Hulu’s M.O.D.O.K. casts the exasperated Marvel supervillain in a stop-mo sitcom. Meanwhile, a new threat emerges in S3 of DreamWorks’ Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous on Netflix.
23
Amy Poehler’s
Duncanville
S2 hits FOX with a special two-episode season premiere.
25 Cartoon Network’s Infinity Train: Book Two brings Mirror Tulip and Jesse’s adventures home on disc.
28 Can a chain-smoking puppy-skinner get an edgy antihero makeover? We’ll find out as audiences take in Disney’s live-action 101 Dalmatians prequel, Cruella.
29 The 4th Ibero-American Animation Quirino Awards announces winners in nine categories from La Laguna, Tenerife tonight. [premiosquirino.org]
31 Lisa Kudrow stars as a dog who leads therapy sessions for suburban pets in the latest FOX adult animated comedy addition, Housebroken.
