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Watch: Incredible Animation Breaking Down The Hobbit Trilogy in Less Than 3 Minutes
Mashable‘s “Too Long; Didn’t Watch” tackles the eight-hour Tolkien adaptation, scripted and voiced by Max Knoblauch and Bob Al-Greene with illustrations by Nick Sirotich and animation by Therese McPherson, Loris Ravera & Alisa Stern.

Craft: A New Subscription-Based Platform for Animation Artwork
Go beyond the “Art of” book genre with this newly launched service, which debuts with works from Secret of Kells, and Ernest & Celestine.

Tetris Movie Will Shoot in China in 2017
What is this? An “epic sci-fi thriller.” Who’s doing this? Bruno Wu and Larry Kasanoff’s Threshold Global Studios. How? With $80 million smackers. Why? … Well, we’ll see.

Animation Nights New York Presents June Flix
An evening of wonderfully curated animated shorts is presented in NYC June 8, and will head to Inverness, Scotland for XPO North.

Layoffs at Corus as Merger Takes Effect
Multiple departments are affected by the integration of Corus Ent. with Shaw Media begun April 1.