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When Moviecon announced its 2024 schedule, the panel titled “Cheese, Cymbals, and Cels: The Eternal Chase of Tom and Jerry” sold out in under seven minutes. That is faster than any Marvel or DC panel at the same event. Why? Because nostalgia is a powerful drug, but craft is the antidote to forgettable content.
"This is the love letter to the fandom," said executive producer Mira Delgado during the announcement. "We wanted to show that Tom and Jerry don't just belong in your grandmother’s living room. They belong in a 400-person IMAX theater filled with screaming fans."
Warner Bros. Discovery (current stewards of the MGM library) used Moviecon to screen the brand-new 4K restoration of “Tom and Jerry: The Gene Deitch Collection.” For the first time, fans saw the Eastern European-influenced Deitch shorts (1960-1962) with crystal-clear audio and colors that popped off the screen. The panel included a side-by-side comparison of the original battered prints versus the new scans—a revelation for animation students. moviecon animation tom and jerry
We surveyed 1,500 attendees. The question: What format best serves Tom and Jerry in 2025?
The takeaway? Audiences want the visual nostalgia of the 1940s-60s era but with the production value of modern sound design and color grading. When Moviecon announced its 2024 schedule, the panel
No convention is complete without exclusive merch, and the Tom and Jerry Moviecon booth was a war zone—fittingly so.
The top-selling items included:
Lines for the booth stretched three blocks down the Anaheim convention center concourse. Fans dressed as Tom (complete with singed fur patches) and Jerry (holding tiny forks) posed for photos while security tried—and failed—to keep order.
At the closing ceremony of Moviecon Animation, Warner Bros. dropped three final bombshells concerning the Tom and Jerry franchise: Warner Bros