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Guest: ‘Stranger Things: Tales From ’85’ Showrunner & EP Eric Robles

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Emmy-winner Eric Robles, of Nickelodeon’s “Fanboy & Chum Chum”, is the executive producer and showrunner of Netflix’s new animated series spinoff of one of the streamer’s most beloved programs. “Stranger Things: Tales From ’85” is set in between seasons two and three — during the winter of that year — with the kids from Hawkins, […]
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Animation Scoop: ‘The Bad Guys: Breaking In’ Q&A

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Katherine Nolfi and Bret Haaland are the EPs of new DreamWorks Animation / Netflix series “The Bad Guys: Breaking In”, premiering Wednesday Nov. 6. Here’s our 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 7. Jackson has written over […]
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Guests: ‘The Twits’ stars Margo Martindale and Maitreyi Ramakrishnan

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Three-time Emmy-winner Margo Martindale (“Justified”, “The Americans”) and Independent Spirit Awards nominee Maitreyi Ramakrishnan (“Never Have I Ever”, “Freakier Friday”) discuss their voice roles in “The Twits”. The new CG animated feature adaptation of Roald Dahl’s iconic book debuts this Friday Oct. 17 on Netflix. 2015 LCJ Q&A Podcast guests included Oscar-winning screenwriter Diablo Cody […]
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Guest: ‘Haunted Hotel’ Creator Matt Roller

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Creator Matt Roller welcomes you to “Haunted Hotel”, starring Will Forte and executive produced by Dan Harmon. The adult animated series that makes the most of ghosts (with laughs and scares) premieres Friday September 19th on Netflix. 2015 LCJ Q&A Podcast guests included Oscar-winning screenwriter Diablo Cody (“Juno”) and “Hotel Transylvania” trilogy director Genndy Tartakovsky. […]
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Animation Scoop: ‘Big Mouth’ Final Season Q&A

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Anthony Lioi is a five-time Emmy-nominee who serves as supervising director of the Netflix adult animated series “Big Mouth”, which just aired its final season. Lioi discusses crafting the series finale 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 […]
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Guest: ‘Love Death + Robots’ ‘400 Boys’ Director Robert Valley

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Robert Valley is an Academy Award nominee for short “Pear Cider and Cigarettes”, an Annie winner for the “Tron: Uprising” animated series and an Emmy winner for his work on popular program “Love, Death + Robots”. He returns to “LD+R” with a new short for Vol. 4 called “400 Boys”. It stars John Boyega and […]
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Animation Scoop: ‘The Witcher: Sirens of the Deep’ Q&A

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Animated action/adventure romance drama “The Witcher: Sirens of the Deep” debuts Tuesday Feb. 11 on Netflix. Here’s my Animation Scoop Q&A with director Kang Hei Chul. ————————— 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 […]
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