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Rooster Teeth, the pioneering digital-content company known for its webisodes and series like “Red vs. Blue,” “Rwby,” and “Gen: Lock,” is being shut down by parent company Warner Bros. Discovery after 21 years of operation.

Jordan Levin, the production company’s general manager, announced the news to staff on March 6 and sent a company-wide memo also shared to Rooster Teeth’s website. You can read it in full below.

“It’s with a heavy heart I announce that Rooster Teeth is shutting down due to challenges facing digital media resulting from fundamental shifts in consumer behavior and monetization across platforms, advertising, and patronage,” Levin wrote in the memo.

The shuttering of Rooster Teeth will result in the layoff of roughly 150 staffers, as well as numerous other contractors and creators put out of work. The Roost Podcast Network will continue as Wbd looks to sell its associated assets, including “The Rt Podcast,...

Animation, comedy and gaming studio Rooster Teeth, owned by Warner Bros. Discovery, is shutting down.

“Since inheriting ownership and control of Rooster Teeth from AT&T following its acquisition of TimeWarner, Warner Bros. Discovery continued its investment in our company, content and community. It’s with a heavy heart I announce that Rooster Teeth is shutting down due to challenges facing digital media resulting from fundamental shifts in consumer behavior and monetization across platforms, advertising, and patronage,” wrote Jordan Levin, the general manager of Rooster Teeth.

As part of the shuttering, the Roost Podcast Network, which contains more than 80 podcasts, will remain in operation, as Wbd looks for outside interest in acquiring the network. Additional IP such as Red vs Blue, Rwby and Gen:lock, “remain in discussion,” the company said.

The company, which is headquartered in Austin, Texas, was founded in 2003 and began with the launch of the web series Red vs. Blue,...

Let’s get ready to rumble! Everybody loves a properly done sports movie which can show epic comeback stories and moments that make audiences cheer as if they’re watching the sport live. No set of movies has done this better than the Rocky franchise and the continuation into the Creed films has been seamless to say the least. Michael B. Jordan has taken on the mantle like no other actor could and the success of the recently released Creed III seems to be evidence that audiences agree. With the third installment (ninth overall) raking in nearly $200 million dollars at the box office, the franchise has become more popular and profitable than ever – and Mbj plans to keep building it even further, with Amazon and MGM recent announcing a “Creed-Verse”.

However, Jordan hasn’t given any explicit details about what that future may hold, simply implying that the projects...

The Val Zod series that Michael B. Jordan is set to executive produce for HBO Max has found its writers, Variety has confirmed.

Darnell Metayer and Josh Peters are now set to write the project, which will focus on Val Zod, the second DC character to take up the mantle of Superman. Val is a Black Kryptonian who found his way to Earth and eventually uses his powers to fight evil, including a brainwashed Superman at one point in the comics.

HBO Max declined to comment.

Metayer and Peters most recently worked on the script for “Transformers: Rise of the Beasts” and on the Starz series “Bmf,” which is executive produced by Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson. They also have a number of other projects in development.

News of the Val Zod series being in development first broke back in July. Jordan is executive producing under his Outlier Society banner, though no...

Last Year’s Winner: “Rick and Morty”

Still Eligible: No.

Hot Streak: Out of 29 eligible seasons, “The Simpsons” has been nominated 26 times and won 10 times. In comparison, “South Park” has been nominated 17 times and one five times out of 21 eligible seasons. Those are high batting averages, but not the highest among multiple winners. “Bob’s Burgers” (which has won twice) has been nominated seven times in eight seasons, and “Futurama” (another two-time winner) technically has eight nominations for just seven seasons — Comedy Central split the final two seasons into halves, qualifying four times, but still only counting as two full seasons.

Fun Fact: Here are a few need-to-know rules about the Best Animated Series category: Animated series are nominated for a single episode, but air three episodes in the eligibility period to qualify as a series; the episode’s writer can choose to be part of the animation team honored...