Release date: March 6, 2025 on Netflix.
Synopsis: Barbie “Brooklyn” Roberts, Barbie “Malibu” Roberts, and best friends Teresa and Nikki head to the Big Apple for spring break to help with the launch of Teresa:s cousin’s new restaurant.
Taking inspiration from her family recipes, Teresa and her friends learn about her Mexican heritage as they prepare for the big opening.
Release date: February 7, 2025 on Disney+.
In honor of the film’s 30th anniversary, the Hollywood Bowl transformed into the Pride Lands for a concert featuring a reunion of the original voice cast alongside performances by cast members of the Broadway show.
The Lion King at the Hollywood Bowl includes performances with a 70-person orchestra, a troupe of dancers, state-of-the-art projection mapping images and the Broadway show’s award-winning costumes and puppetry.
Release date: March 6, 2025 on BET+.
Synopsis: Set in 1993 North Philadelphia, the adult animated series Lil Kev follows 12-year-old Kevin Hart, whose wild imagination and unshakable optimism constantly collide with his neighborhood’s harsh realities.
At the same time, his no-nonsense mother Nancy juggles night shifts as an E.R. nurse while waging a one-woman war to keep Kev on track — no easy feat with his mischievous older brother Robert blazing all the wrong trails, his trainwreck father Henry’s outrageous attempts to win Nancy back, and his ex-con uncle Richard Jr.’s questionable life advice.
Through it all, Lil Kev navigates his rocky upbringing with humor, hustle, and heart, surrounded by the unforgettable characters who will propel him to comedy superstardom.
Synopsis: Ada juggles two worlds she struggles to keep separate: her daily reality as a library assistant and her imagination, where she explores how different transformative technologies could shape the future.
Along for the ride on these adventures are her boss, her grandmother, and unsuspecting visitors to the library.
Release date: April 12, 2025 on Tubi.
Synopsis: In 2089 Detroit, Soraya Aviram’s RoboForce debuts with plans to assist a new intergalactic society on Earth.
Unfortunately, the same day as the announcement, Soraya’s rival, Silas Duke, reveals his new Utopia Aegis 101 line of bots, which makes RoboForce immediately obsolete.
RoboForce splits up and is forced into menial jobs for 15 years without hope of ever being heroes… Until suddenly, the Utopia Aegis 101 bots turn on humanity and only RoboForce can stop them.
Written by Gavin Hignight (Transformers: Earthspark) and Tom Stern (Saving Bikini Bottom: The Sandy Cheeks Movie).
Directed by Brian Volk-Weiss (Biker Mice from Mars).
Nick Delffs’ single “Without Touching” is off the album Transitional Phase.
The music video follows a lonely widower and his search for sasquatch.
Director: Jon Sortland
Camera operator: David Nicholson
Monster fabricator: Elena Kasimova
Based on the classic children’s book by A. A. Milne, The Hundred Acre Wood’s Winnie-the-Pooh is Kartoon Studios’ largest production to date, with over 200 six-minute shorts and five holiday specials planned, beginning with A Hundred Acre Christmas on Prime Video.
Release date: December 24, 2025.
Synopsis: A caveman tries to gain fame within his tribe thanks to an invention that can change humanity: cigarettes!
Directed by:
Axelle Chabannier
Cécilia Mérot
Clément Febvre
Enzo Pajau
Flavie Bellin
Martin Turbeaux
Mélina Safti
Paul Moulin
Music by Aloïs Benoit.
Sound by Guilhem Favard.
Voiced by Philippe Peythieu, Véronique Agereau and Antoine Périchon.
Release date: January 31, 2025 on YouTube.
Synopsis: Barney, Baby Bop and friends go on a musical, imagination-filled journey of self-love when Baby Bop discovers that she suddenly has the power to glow… Or does she?
When Baby Bop accidentally launches her friend’s toy rocket into outer space, she loses the rocket and her glow powers too. She is determined to get both back with the help of Barney and her friends.
The special will introduce Bartholomew Bookworm to the Barney’s World franchise. This new character lives at the library and loves to help others learn.
The 97th Oscars air live March 2, 2025 at 7 p.m. ET / 4 p.m. PT on ABC and Hulu in the United States and in more than 200 territories worldwide.
Here are the five trailers for this year’s Best Animated Short Film nominees, beginning with Beautiful Men:
Written and directed by Nicolas Keppens.
Synopsis: Three bald brothers travel to Istanbul to have a hair transplant. Stuck with each other in a hotel far from home, their insecurities grow faster than their hair.
The 97th Oscars air live March 2, 2025 at 7 p.m. ET / 4 p.m. PT on ABC and Hulu in the United States and in more than 200 territories worldwide.
Rachel Sennott and Bowen Yang announced the nominations today at 5:30 a.m. PT, live from the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater.
Best Animated Feature Film:
Flow (Sideshow/Janus Films)
Gints Zilbalodis, Matiss Kaža, Ron Dyens and Gregory Zalcman
Inside Out 2 (Walt Disney)
Kelsey Mann and Mark Nielsen
Memoir of a Snail (IFC Films)
Adam Elliot and Liz Kearney
Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl (Netflix)
Nick Park, Merlin Crossingham and Richard Beek
The Wild Robot (Universal)
Chris Sanders and Jeff Hermann
Crunchyroll has announced a new anime series adapted from Sucker Punch Productions’ critically acclaimed Ghost of Tsushima video game and its “Legends” cooperative multiplayer mode.
The anime will be produced in collaboration with Aniplex, the studio behind Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba and Solo Leveling. The adaptation will be directed by Takanobu Mizuno and written by Gen Urobuchi.
The series will premiere exclusively on Crunchyroll in 2027.
Update: The film isn’t online at the moment, so here’s the trailer.
Synopsis: In a world blurring reality and imagination, 8-year-old Syd tries to hide his mother from Death, embarking on a hide-and-seek game as creatures of earth — Death being their predator in the ultimate form: Time.
Written and directed by Pipou Phuong Nguyen.
Release date: January 29, 2025 on Disney+.
Synopsis: The series explores Peter Parker’s origin story and early days as Spider-Man, and is set in an alternate timeline from the main films and television series of the MCU where Norman Osborn becomes Parker’s mentor instead of Tony Stark.
Created by Jeff Trammell (Craig of the Creek, The Owl House).
Synopsis: A rebellious, misfit kid trying to escape the mundanity of junior high runs away into the woods, only to be whisked away into an adventure full of excitement, hand to hand combat, monkeys, and friendship.
Written, directed, and animated by James Moutsos.
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