Genndy Tartakovsky is truly unstoppable. The Russian-American animator, who has created such beloved, critically acclaimed animated series as Dexter’s Laboratory, Samurai Jack and the original Star Wars: Clone Wars (and directed three hit Hotel Transylvania movies) is back at it. It was announced today that he has a new series, Unicorn: Warriors Eternal, that will be headed to Cartoon Network and HBO Max. The official release states that the new show “will follow a team of ancient teen heroes as they work together to protect the world from an unforeseen omen. With themes of the supernatural weaved with …

Genndy Tartakovsky’s Primal is back. And it still kicks ass. The animated Cartoon Network series, which just picked up a handful of Primetime Emmy awards, returns to the Adult Swim programming block this Sunday night. The wordless series, set in a fantastical version of the primordial past, features the ongoing adventures of brutish caveman Spear and his dinosaur companion Fang. (At the end of the first five episodes, which aired last year, Fang was mortally wounded, which is resolved in the first episode of this new batch.) After the initial 10 episodes is completed this year, get ready for …

Spear and Fang are back. Genndy Tartakovsky’s Primal, one of last year’s very best television series, will be back on October 4. That’s when another five episodes of the blood-soaked series, charting the friendship between a caveman and a dinosaur and their series of pulpy misadventures, begins as part of Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim programming block. And – even better news! – Primal has officially been renewed for a 10-episode second season in 2021. (Tartakovsky alluded to this in our recent Collider Connected chat.) If you never watched the first five episodes, you should get on …

Genndy Tartakovsky is one of the most original and influential voices in animation. Even if you don’t know his name, chances are you’ve seen (and, undoubtedly, been dazzled by) his work. Tartakovsky has been responsible for everything from Dexter’s Laboratory to Samurai Jack to all three Hotel Transylvania films to his latest endeavor – the brutal, deeply brilliant Adult Swim series Primal. So when we connected with Tartakovsky for an episode of Collider Connected, we had a lot to discuss. Among the topics covered in the video above – how his animated Clone Wars series was wiped from the …

https://youtu.be/H-aWrrJQ-Yo Listen / download here: You've probably heard of Samurai Jack and Dexter's Laboratory, and if you're a Genndy Tartakovsky fan, you know all about Star Wars: Clone Wars, Primal and Hotel Transylvania, too. But there's a good chance you might have missed out on his 2010 animated Cartoon network series Sym-Bionic Titan. The 20-episodes, one-season series (which is streaming on Netflix now) follows three young alien beings -- Lance, Ilana, and Octus -- who have the ability to combine to form a giant robotic warrior. But when they're not …

Filmmaker Genndy Tartakovsky's long-gestating CG-animated Popeye movie is reportedly in development at King Features. Tartakovsky was previously attached to direct Sony Pictures Animation's feature film version of the classic comic strip character but exited the project in 2015.

We've been writing about Popeye for a long time, though not nearly as long as the almost-100-year-old character has been around, but a long time regardless. We reported back in 2010 that the sailor-man was going CG and 3D in a new feature from Sony Pictures Animation. That's pretty much been status quo for the last decade, with Genndy Tartakovsky coming aboard to direct in 2012 and delivering the first test footage in 2014, before departing the studio's project altogether just a few months later. All signs pointed to Popeye being dead in …

Star Wars is known for many things. Outstanding world-building, great characters, and also fantastic action. Even with its low budget and indie sensibility, Star Wars: A New Hope gave us stunning space battles, gunslinger action, and of course the now-iconic lightsaber. With every following movie, the action (lightsabers in particular) became more and more elaborate, making us rethink what we thought we knew about the franchise. By the time the prequels arrived in the early 2000s, computer generated technology made possible the inclusion of massive armies, and Jedi knight who were more like space cops than monk warriors. …

Tonight at midnight on Adult Swim, Genndy Tartakovsky's Primal will emerge from the mists of time to absolutely savage everything you've ever held near and/or dear about cartoons. (Yeah and that's the official title now that Nic Cage has gone and gummed up the works with his similarly named kidnapped jaguar movie.) This five-night epic event series tells the tale of Spear, a prehistoric caveman, and Fang, a lone dinosaur on the brink of extinction. They're forced into an uneasy partnership in order to work together and survive the kill-or-be-killed world …

On this episode of the Saturday Mourning Cartoons podcast, Sean Paul Ellis and Dave Trumbore review Genndy Tartakovsky’s Primal, a new prehistoric animated series coming to Adult Swim in a special five-night event beginning Monday, October 7th at midnight. The new show lives up to its title in a story that follows a lone caveman and a predatory dinosaur as they form a contentious partnership in order to survive a kill-or-be-killed world. It's an absolute stunner, and from its intentional lack of dialogue, to its incredible action sequences, to wonderfully imaginative (and often nightmarish) …

Recently, I had the absolutely pleasure of speaking with living animation legend Genndy Tartakovsky about his new Adult Swim series, Primal. The animated adventure arrives on Adult Swim next Monday in a five-night epic event that takes viewers back to the distant past to reveal a kill-or-be-killed prehistoric adventure story. We'll have our review of the series (or at least the first four episodes) up on tomorrow's new episode of our animation podcast, Saturday Mourning Cartoons, which also includes the full audio of our interview with Tartakovsky. However, I wanted to tease out a …

Genndy Tartakovsky, the creator of Samurai Jack and Dexter's Laboratory, and the architect behind Sony's Hotel Transylvania franchise, will be bringing a new, original animated series to Cartoon Network's Adult Swim this fall. The series' pick-up for Primal extends the WarnerMedia channel's relationship with Tartakovsky, which is already 20+ years strong. As THR reports, Primal centers on "a caveman at the dawn of evolution and a dinosaur on the brink of extinction" who form an unlikely bond that will be their only hope to survive a deadly and violent prehistoric, primordial world. Envisioned as a …