Jan, the perpetually peppy receptionist from the Toyota commercials, is played by actress and comedian Laurel Coppock. Here's what you need to know about her.

The film was honored with the Best Message award, and Farhad Mahmoudi received the Best Cinematography award for his collaboration on the project. Additionally, Mansoureh Tork Zaban was nominated for ...

Update [Wed 8th Oct 2025, 2:11pm]: Nintendo has dropped a updated version on Nintendo Today! of yesterday's short film, 'Close To You', with a few significant differences of the plant-like kind. Yep, ...

Fans spent a lot of time trying to decipher possible clues hiding in a recent Pixar-like Nintendo short film featuring a baby and, as it turned out later on, Pikmin. Were they a tease for a new Pikmin ...

Nintendo has re-released the heartwarming “Close to You” animated short film, shared yesterday on its Nintendo Today! mobile app. This time around, however, there’s something noticably different: ...

Nintendo has fleetingly dropped some bombshell announcements on its Nintendo Today app, but the most recent drop is a real head-scratcher. The gaming company shared a video on the app simply titled ...

Stormzy, Rory Kinnear and Arlo Parks are among the actors and artists who will make short films with readings from the shortlisted titles for this year’s Booker Prize, which is reckoned to be the ...

Well, this is a surprising spooky season treat! Gushers, the sticky fruit snack beloved by Millennials, has released a short horror film based on its creepy, CGI-fueled ads from the ’90s where kids’ ...

"What a beautiful face... But be careful. Your beautiful face might consume you." Definitely. GKids has revealed a second ...

Cinefrance Studios' producers discuss the Paris-based company's projects with French and Japanese directors, including Orelsan and Ryusuke Hamaguchi.

Welcome to Cartoon Brew’s series of spotlights focusing on the animated shorts that have qualified for the 2026 Oscars. The films in this series have qualified through one of multiple routes: by ...

The ‘Close To You’ animated shorts were produced by Nintendo’s newly-acquired CG production studio. The ‘Close To You’ animated shorts were produced by Nintendo’s newly-acquired CG production studio.