o-meon has the downlow on Pixar director Andrew Stanton’s presentation at the San Diego Comic Convention on his current project, WALL•E, “the story of the last of these [trash-compacting] robots that for some unknown reason, is still working after mankind left Earth some 700 years earlier.” The basic plot details mentioned are fairly non-spoilerish and […]

Entertainment Weekly reports that The Simpsons Movie opened at No. 1 with a $71.9 million gross, far exceeding industry expectations and breaking all sorts of box office records along the way. It scored the best opening ever for a non-CG animated movie and the third-biggest opening ever for an animated movie of any kind, behind […]

Nausicaa.net reports about the Official UK site of Studio Ghibli’s film Tales from Earthsea. The website contains a Quick Time trailer, synopsis, picture gallery, and a list of cinemas screening the film. Tales from Eathsea opens in cinemas across UK on August 3.

Blu-ray.com reports that the Pixar Short Films Collection will be made available on Blu-ray on November 6th for the first time in high definition. The disc will include all 13 Pixar short films, both theatrical and those that premiered on DVD.

The teaser trailer for Dr. Seuss’ Horton Hears a Who! is now online at AOL Video. Directed by Jimmy Hayward and Steve Martino, the latest collaboration between 20th Century Fox and Blue Sky Studios stars the voices of Jim Carrey and Steve Carell. Horton will hit theaters on March 14, 2008.

Coming Soon has the announcement from Sony Pictures Imageworks that the company will utilize its patented proprietary Imagemotion performance capture technologies for three upcoming features. Sony Pictures Animation will craft two of the films: Neanderthals and an untitled feature from the Oscar-nominated Jerome Chen, who served as the visual effects supervisor on The Polar Express […]

As previously reported, Homer Simpson made his special appearance during The Tonight Show with Jay Leno on Tuesday. A clip of this appearance can now be viewed on Youtube. In the clip, Homer fills in for Jay and takes his shot at the traditional opening monologue.

IMDB reveals the titles of the four straight-to-DVD Futurama movies currently in development. The first, wich will still be released in 2007, is called Bender’s Big Score!, followed by the 2008 releases of The Beast with a Billion Backs, Bender’s Game and Into the Wild Green Yonder.

The first trailer of the upcoming film Beowulf is available to view or download on Apple. Directed by Robert Zemeckis, the CGI-motion capture film is based on one of the oldest existing poems in the English language of the same name which is considered a literary masterpiece. Beowulf opens in theatres on November 16. More […]

AOL premieres the teaser trailer for Fox’s upcoming live-action/animation adaption of Alvin and the Chipmunks in various formats. Meanwhile, Movie List has made the trailer available for direct download. Alvin and the Chipmunks opens in US theaters on December 14.

Fox’s The Simpsons Movie opens today in 3,922 theatres according to Box Office Mojo. The film is winning over the critics with a very fresh rating of 89% on the Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer. Time Magazine says, “It was worth waiting for”, for while the Washington Post says, “It’s really one of the best movies of […]

While Disney does confirm that the second DVD set for The Tick will once again drop an episode from that season, fans will still likely be otherwise happy to see more of The Big Blue Bug Of Justice reach DVD on August 7. Incidentally, the second volume of Darkwing Duck will be coming that same […]

The offical website for The Jungle Book – 40th Anniversary Edition went online yesterday and now features a list of bonus features, clips, downloads and more. Thanks to “JustinWilliams” at the Animated News and Views Forum for bringing this to our attention.

The Financial Times reports that on Wednesday, Walt Disney became the first major Hollywood studio to completely phase out cigarette smoking in its films, saying smoking scenes in future Disney-branded movies would be “non-existent”. In a letter to Edward Markey, chairman of the House sub-committee on telecommunications and the internet, Bob Iger, Disney’s chief executive, […]

The Los Angeles Times provides readers with a first look at Robert Zemeckis’ Beowulf. The piece gives a taste of the footage attendees of this year’s Comic-Con can expect to see. In the meantime, ShockTillYouDrop.com features two high-res versions of the photos included with the LA Times article.

Coming Soon has acquired the brand-new one-sheet for DreamWorks Animation’s Bee Movie. Like its poster predecessor, the latest banner declares, “On November 2, hold on to your honey.”

Speaking with Animated Views, Mike Scully talks of his time writing and producing The Simpsons Movie. In the interview, he recalls the history of the film, from its early conception to its eventual DVD release. Details of why The Simpsons is just now making its way to the big screen as well as the possibility […]

DVD Active has posted the cover art for the upcoming UK DVD of Satoshi Kon’s latest Anime film Paprika. According to the website, the disc will feature an anamorphic widescreen transfer, Dolby Digital 5.1 audio and a filmmaker’s commentary. The DVD will be released by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment on September 24.

Slate has an interesting article which talks and argues about Disney’s direct-to-DVD sequels and why Disney should not kill them. Disney has announced that there will be no more straight-to-DVD sequels of classic animated films like Bambi and Cinderella. The company’s straight-to-DVD sequels have been some of their most criticized products, with Pixar co-founder Steve […]

LA Weekly has a long and in-depth interview with Matt Groening wherein he talks about his career, dreams and of course, The Simpsons Movie. The article also covers Groening’s journey from being a 23-year-old Portland native, who drove to Los Angeles to write and draw, to becoming the creator of the most subversive network show […]