Sorry for being a little slow on the uptake, but Where The Wild Things Are author Maurice Sendak passed away at 83. The NY Times has a in-depth article on his life. Sendak is renowned for turning the world of children’s literature upside down. His books are some of the first to depict kids as [...]

McDonald’s makes mecha history by giving away Gundam toys in their Happy Meals…but only in Japan where they are called Happy Sets. Anime News Network has the basic rundown. The Happy Set toys will feature miniature mecha and trading cards from Mobile Suit Gundam UC and Mobile Suit Gundam AGE. Japanese McDonalds will release the [...]

That’s right, ladies and gentlemen, the world’s biggest online shopping market wants you! And not just you, but your creative ideas for TV comedies and television shows. CinemaBlend reports that Amazon is searching for new content. TV writers are invited to post their scripts for Amazon staff review. One of the great things about this [...]

Fox Animation, according to CinemaBlend, has bought the movie rights to The Hero’s Guide To Saving Your Kingdom, a children’s book by Christopher Healy. The book takes an opposite approach the the standard Disney fairytale by focusing on the princes’ POV rather than the princesses. Healy’s book wasn’t released to the public until May 1, [...]

Greetings Programs! Coming June 7 to Disney XD is Tron: Uprising a midquel cartoon that takes place between the first Tron movie and the second Tron: Legacy. Cartoon Brew has a brand new trailer. The show is about Beck a young program who becomes a revolutionary leader in The Grid against the evil forces of [...]

Can you believe that Disney is already planning the next Muppet movie? Co-writer of The Muppets Nick Stoller and director James Bobin are already writing a sequel to the 2011 blockbuster. Thirteen pages have already been written and it will be a comedy caper with new characters. Jason Segel might make a cameo and Disney [...]

According to Bloomberg, Disney has partnered with the the Ministry of Culture’s China Animation Group and Tencent, China’s largest Internet provider, to develop and create animation for TV, movies, and the biggest media platform: the Internet. The deal was signed in February, giving Disney access to the world’s largest audience and potentially bigger box office [...]

Butch Hartman, creator of the The Fairly OddParents has ventured into the realm of web toons and launched his very own channel dubbed YooToon Studios. Hartman is searching for animation made by amateur animators and enthusiasts to power his channel. He wants to provide a medium for non-professionals who otherwise might not get a chance [...]

John Textor, CEO of Digital Domain, has blacklisted himself in the animation community. Cartoon Brew has been following the story about how “Textor’s comments, which were made last November but leaked online last week, center around Textor telling investors that 30% of Digital Domain’s workforce would be comprised of ‘student labor that’s actually paying us [...]

The Jim Henson Company has announced they will develop a new series based off the off-Broadway show John Tartaglia’s ImaginOcean. Tartaglia is a successful puppeteer who stared in the controversial puppet musical Avenue Q and Disney’s Johnny and the Sprites. The new show is about a fish named Dorsel and his friends as they explore [...]

Anime News Network reports that Disney has turned to anime for their latest advertisment. A 30 second commercial for Tokyo Disney’s “Where Dreams Come True” campaign aired earlier this month. The ad features the character Yumeno Maihama and recounts her experiences at the park. Disney has ventured into anime before co-producing Stitch with Studio Madhouse [...]

Warner Brothers and Weed Road have been tagged to animate the Archaia Studio graphic novel Bolivar reports The Animation Magazine. The Irish filmmaker Kealan O’Rourke will direct and write the feature. The story follows “a young girl named Sybil who moves to New York and finds out her neighbor is the last living dinosaur (Bolivar). [...]

TED (technology, entertainment, and design) is an organization that holds conferences dedicated to “ideas worth spreading.” Andrew Stanton the director of Finding Nemo, WALL-E, and John Carter recently held a talk entitled “My Life In Story, Backwards”. “It’s a fascinating watch from a truly talented storyteller, and it’s definitely worth your time.” The conference is [...]

Who said that the Muppet parody trailers would end when the movie hit theaters? Our favorite puppets released a new trailer for their March 20th DVD/Blu-Ray disc parodying the new movie The Hunger Games. While it uses footage only from the movie and does not include any new footage, the trailer does prove Disney is [...]

After starting out relatively strongly (for an anime release) at the box office in its first weekend, Studio Ghibli’s The Secret World Of Arrietty has fallen a bit to #14. It remains the fifth largest US opening of an anime film and according to Anime News Network it is only $400,000 shy of beating Pokemon [...]

io9.com posted a couple of 30 second teaser trailers for the upcoming How To Train Your Dragon TV series. The trailers promise the show will be just as full as adventure and awesome dragons as the movie. DreamWorks has had much success with their TV spin-offs with Nickelodeon: Kung-Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness and Penguins [...]

The controversial South Park is back with its 16th season. The new season kicks off March 16th on Comedy Central with seven new episodes. Later on March 27, season 15 will be released on uncensored DVDs with a documentary called 6 Days to Air: The Making of South Park, focusing on creators Trey Parker and [...]

The Secret World of Arrietty has wowed both the US and Japan by finishing 8th in the President’s Day weekend box office. The Studio Ghibli film earned $8.1 million within four days, which is a much, much bigger profit for than the 2002 release of Spirited Away (it had a smaller theater release and anime [...]

We can’t really tell you who will win the Academy Award presented by the Muppets (because we’re not psychic), but it is true that Kermit the Frog and Miss Piggy will be at the 84th Academy Awards. They will present an Oscar to a winner, while reading from a TelePrompTer and, hopefully, adlibbing some hilarious [...]

The Simpsons have been around for twenty-three years and this Sunday, their 500th episode “At Long Last” will air on FOX. In celebration of this TV milestone, FOX challenged its viewers to a watch all 500 episodes back to back. Fans Jeremiah Franco and Carin Shreve set a Guinness World Record for the longest continuous [...]

Animated films usually coincide with large toy lines, especially if they come from one of the major animation studios. DreamWorks premiered images from two of their upcoming films, Rise of the Guardians and The Croods, at the Toy Fair currently going on in New York City. Rise of the Guardians is based off William Joyce’s [...]

The New York International Children’s Film Festival will proudly host the North American premiere of China’s The Monkey King: Uproar in Heaven. The original film was directed in 1961, 1964 by Wan Laiming and produced by his brothers. The film is a classic in Chinese animation and will be restored frame by frame and presented [...]

We’ve seen many of our beloved 1980s cartoon return to TV via the Hub, Cartooon Network, or single DVD release for a quick profit return. Toon Zone reports that American Greetings is catching onto the popularity and revenue old eighties cartoons can generate if they are reinvented. Care Bears is the next cartoon on the [...]

Calling all superheroes, on March 3 the DC Nation launches on Cartoon Network. DC Nation is an hour long weekly block with syndicated animated half-hour shows and shorts centering around popular DC heroes. Green Lantern: The Animated Series is the newest addition to the DC Animated Universe and continues the story previewed to audiences in [...]

FOX already dominates the market in late-night and prime time adult animation with Animation Domination on the Sunday night block. The Big Cartoon Database Blog reports that FOX is setting its sights on “cre­at[ing] a new unit to over­see the devel­op­ment and pro­duc­tion of alter­na­tive ani­mated series, shorts and user-adapted mate­r­ial for a brand new [...]