2026 marks the 50th anniversary of punk’s breakthrough year: 1976 — the moment punk stopped being an underground murmur and became a global cultural shockwave. Fittingly, Chris Sullivan and Stephen » Read More

Led by France and Japan, the packed, wide-ranging lineup of the 2026 Annecy Animation Film Festival hardly hints at the rampant market crisis suffered by much of animation production worldwide. “We’ve heard of course about a crisis in the animation industry,” Annecy artistic director Marcel Jean told Variety. “But when you look at the selection […]