There’s Something Very Dark About a Lot of Those Viral AI Fruit Videos

With female AI fruit being fart-shamed and even sexually assaulted, there’s a misogynistic undercurrent to the fruit slop microdramas, even as they appear to be cultivating genuine fans.
Indian Television Dot Com

Canva acquires animation and AI startups Cavalry and MangoAI

AUSTRALIA: Global visual communication platform Canva has stepped up its acquisition drive, buying UK-based 2D animation platform Cavalry and US-based AI startup MangoAI to deepen its AI-powered ...
IGN

Venom Animated Movie From Final Destination: Bloodlines Directors in the Works at Sony Pictures Animation

Sony is reportedly making another Venom movie. This time, it’s going to be animated. How closely the surprise animated project will stick to the events of the recent trilogy starring Tom Hardy, with ...
The Hollywood Reporter

‘Venom’ Animated Movie in the Works With ‘Final Destination’ Filmmakers Zach Lipovsky, Adam B. Stein (Exclusive)

Sony’s Venom franchise has a new final destination. The studio behind the Marvel anti-hero movies is developing its first animated movie based on the character. And it has tapped Zach Lipovsky and ...
Variety

EFM Animation Days Sets Packed Edition With Global Toons, Artists and Producers Poised to Dig Into Toons

Last year underscored the huge impact of animation at the box office as China’s “Ne Zha 2” grossed $2.25 billion, Disney’s “Zootopia 2” took in $1.8 billion and European co-production “Flow” made ...
Chicago Tribune

International fashion boutique Mango opens 2-story location on Magnificent Mile

International fashion boutique Mango opened an eagerly anticipated two-story location Wednesday on Chicago’s Magnificent Mile, filling a large storefront at 664 N. Michigan Ave., the former home of ...
Decider

MANGO : STREAM IT OR SKIP IT?

Mango is a typically on-the-nose Netflix movie title. I mean, it’s set primarily in a mango orchard, which has me thinking it should probably be titled Mangoes, but whatever. Am I overthinking it? I’m ...
Publishers Weekly

Mango Publishing Is Shutting Down

Following a series of recent actions that include the divestiture of certain assets and the departure of a large portion of its staff who went on to form Key Lime Publishing, Miami-based Mango ...
9to5google

Here are all of the fun like button animations in YouTube’s redesign

Like Pokémon, it’s fun to try and snatch up every new custom like button in YouTube’s redesign. One user put together an animated list of every new icon. Part of YouTube’s broader new design on ...
Deadline.com

‘Smiling Friends’ Team Launches New L.A.-Based Animation Studio

EXCLUSIVE: Smiling Friends creators Michael Cusack and Zach Hadel and producer Aron Fromm have teamed to launch Zam Studios, a new Los Angeles-based independent animation studio. Zam will focus on ...
Wichita Eagle

Closed forever: Message scrawled on door confirms restaurant’s status

The Mango Tree Indian restaurant, which opened two years ago at 47th and Broadway, has closed. Denise Neil The Wichita Eagle Nearly two years after it opened, Wichita’s The Mango Tree Indian Kitchen + ...