Today, Netflix dropped the first full trailer for Arcane season 2. This follows a couple of short teasers and news that GKids will release season 1 for purchase. The trailer also informs us that this will be the final season, but that doesn’t mean League of Legends is done with Netflix. Check it o...
Read MoreToday, GKids announced via Twitter that they have procured distribution rights to Arcane season 1. GKids is known for bringing anime and other hard-to-find animation to theaters and home video. Last year, they shepherded Hayao Miyazaki’s The Boy and the Heron to American cinemas. Arcane is an alre...
Read MoreNetflix and Riot have released a first-look teaser for Arcane season 2. This show is masterfully animated by the French studio Fortiche Productions, and season 1 was just incredible. Check out the clip here: Unsurprisingly, it looks amazing. The animation is just as good as I recall from season 1....
Read MoreFortiche Production SAS, the French animation studio behind the excellent Netflix sci-fi series Arcane (which is based on the League of Legends video game universe), tweeted a short animation of Jinx, one of the main characters in Arcane, today, with the caption “November 2024.” This indic...
Read MoreTelevision and film adaptations of video games have had a rocky history, to say the least. Very few of them are even simply good. A standout exception to this norm was last year’s Arcane, which saw critical acclaim and built an explosive and ravenous fanbase. Netflix, in association with fore...
Read MoreIt’s no secret that music and film can be combined to create provocative art. I think the strongest combination is achieved with animation in particular. Walt Disney, Max Fleischer, and Warner Bros. knew this in the early 20th century, and music has become inseparable from the medium. When you...
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