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Animation Planner August
4Now that they’ve done the universe, Mike Judges’ beloved layabouts return for their new series in the rebooted Beavis and Butt-head on Paramount+. Huh-huh… cool. Beavis and Butt-head Meanwhile on Netflix, check out Mark Andrews’ real-time animated action-comedy Super
Giant Robot
Brothers! from Reel FX and the new MAPPA shounen anime Kakegurui Twin.
5The unluckiest girl in the world stumbles upon a magical land of kismet and fate in Skydance Animation’s Apple Original Film Luck, out today.
The heroes on a half shell are back for the 2D comedy adventure Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Movie, on Netflix. If you’re in the L.A. area, don’t miss the three-day Masaaki Yuasa retrospective at American Cinematheque.
8SIGGRAPH kicks off in Vancouver, featuring the event’s first ever hybrid Electronic Theater offering. [s2022.siggraph.org] The new Will Vinton documentary Clay Dreams opens in his hometown of Portland, Ore. ahead of its nationwide rollout. 10 Marvel’s new animated shorts series I
Am Groot
drops five episodes starring Vin
Diesel and directed by
Kristen Lepore on Disney+ today.
12 Masaaki Yuasa’s highly anticipated, historical rock opera Inu-Oh is ready to serenade fans in
U.S. theaters thanks to GKIDS.
On TV screens,
Dan Povenmire’s new toon Hamster & Gretel swoops in to save the day on Disney
Channel.
Brooklyn hosts the can’t-miss indie fest Animation Block Party this weekend. [animationblock.com]
Inu-Oh
13 L.A.’s Secret Movie Club presents the first public screening of the documentary
Mike Mignola: Drawing
Monsters at the iconic Million Dollar Theater, with the Hellboy creator live on stage.
17 The inaugural
Hiroshima Animation Season
brings five days of film screenings, educational tracks and special celebrations to the Japanese port. [animation.hiroshimafest.org] 19 Gohan and Piccolo face the return of the Red Ribbon
Army in Dragon
Ball Super:
SUPER HERO, presented by Crunchyroll in 2,300 theaters across the U.S. and Canada plus select IMAX screens.
Lost Ollie
24 Don’t miss Shannon Tindle and Peter Ramsey’s hybrid William Joyce event series adaptation Lost Ollie, exclusively on Netflix.
25 Aubrey Plaza, Danny DeVito and his daughter Lucy DeVito star in FXX’s adult comedy Little Demon, premiering the night after Archer’s S13 debut.
Little Demon
27 Animaze in Montreal caps the month’s nonstop animation festival rush, which also includes Turku Animated Film Festival (Finland, Aug. 24-28), Cape Town Int’l Animation Festival (South Africa, Aug. 24-26) and Animist Tallinn (Estonia, Aug. 17-20), to name a few. [aminazefestival.com | taff.fi | ctiaf.com | animistfestival.eu]
