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Guest: ‘Dead End: Paranormal Park’ Creator Hamish Steele

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Hamish Steele is the creator of “Dead End: Paranormal Park”, a new animated comedy horror series premiering this Thursday June 16th on Netflix. The show is based on his popular DeadEndia graphic novels, about two teens who work at a terrifyingly exciting amusement park. The charming and talented Steele shares what makes “Dead End” a […]
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Guest: ‘The Sea Beast’ Director Chris Williams

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Chris Williams won an Academy Award for directing Disney’s 2014 animated feature “Big Hero 6”. After about a quarter century at the studio, he left for Netflix. Williams’ epic new movie “The Sea Beast”, about the quest of a monster hunter crew and a special little girl, debuts on Netflix July 8th. I’ve screened the […]
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Guests: ‘Love, Death + Robots’ Creator Tim Miller & Supervising Director Jennifer Yuh Nelson

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“Deadpool” and “Terminator: Dark Fate” director Tim Miller also produced 2004 animated short “Gopher Broke” (which earned him an Oscar nomination) and the two “Sonic the Hedgehog” films. Jennifer Yuh Nelson earned an Academy Award nomination for directing “Kung Fu Panda 2”. She also co-directed 2016’s “Kung Fu Panda 3”. The two team-up for the […]
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Guest: ‘The Boss Baby: Back in the Crib’ EP Brandon Sawyer

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Four years ago I interviewed Brandon Sawyer, who was executive producing the first “Boss Baby” spinoff series “Back in Business”. Now he returns as EP of the new, follow-up series “The Boss Baby: Back in the Crib”, debuting this Thursday May 19th on Netflix. Sawyer shares what drew him BACK to the iconic DreamWorks character […]
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Animation Scoop Samurai Rabbit Composer Q&A

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Aiko Fukushima is the composer of the new Netflix animated series “Samurai Rabbit: The Usagi Chronicles”. Fukushima discusses incorporating hip-hop into the “Samurai Rabbit” score — and more — in this Animation Scoop Q&A. ——————————— Lights Camera Jackson (a.k.a. Jackson Murphy) began his career as a film critic/entertainment reporter in 2006 at the age of […]
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Guest: ‘Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood’ Director Richard Linklater

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Critics Choice and BAFTA-winning director Richard Linklater (Boyhood, the Before trilogy) has now made one of his most personal and exciting films to date. Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood (now on Netflix) is an animated exploration of being nine years old in 1969 and living near Houston, TX as NASA was getting ready to […]
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Guest: ‘Team Zenko Go’ EP Jack Thomas

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I interviewed the talented Jack Thomas in 2019 for “Dragons: Rescue Riders”. Now he’s back as executive producer and showrunner of another fun DreamWorks series for families. “Team Zenko Go”, about a group of kids doing good deeds for others, premieres this Tuesday March 15th on Netflix. ————————————– LCJ Q&A Podcast is hosted by Emmy […]
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Animation Scoop: ‘Saturday Morning All Star Hits!’

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Here’s my Animation Scoop Q&A with Kyle Mooney and Ben Jones of Netflix series “Saturday Morning All Star Hits!” ————————————————- Lights Camera Jackson (a.k.a. Jackson Murphy) began his career as a film critic/entertainment reporter in 2006 at the age of 7. Jackson has written over 1,000 reviews of new releases. And altogether he has seen […]
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Animation Scoop: ‘The Summit of the Gods’ Q&A

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This is my Animation Scoop Q&A with Patrick Imbert, director of the incredible new animated feature “The Summit of the Gods”. “Summit” opens in select theaters on Nov. 24 before debuting on Netflix Nov. 30. ————————————— Lights Camera Jackson (a.k.a. Jackson Murphy) began his career as a film critic/entertainment reporter in 2006 at the age […]
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