Variety quietly confirmed last week that ER actor Bruno Campos had been cast as the titular amphibian character in Disney’s traditionally animated feature The Princess and the Frog. Anika Noni Rose will be his princess and Keith David will voice the film’s villain, Dr. Facilier.

Asked by Movieweb about her role in the upcoming Pixar movie while promoting King of the Hill, the talented actress revealed that “I play a character named Mary and I actually haven’t seen the movie. I’m seeing it on the 20th. I was so honored to do it. When my agent called and said Pixar, […]

IBN Live attended a press screening of DreamWorks’ Kung Fu Panda earlier today in Cannes, France and reports that journalists “laughed and cheered in unison as the overweight panda outshone himself and emerged the gifted Dragon Warrior in this gem of an animated film (…) that’ll have its world premiere in Cannes on Thursday.” Expect […]

A sneak peak of Cartoon Network’s upcoming animated series Flapjack can be viewed here. The video, which is approximately six minutes long, is part of an episode titled That’s A Wrap. Flapjack will premier on Cartoon Network on June 5th at 8:30 PM.

Pathe will unveil footage from Sylvain Chomet (The Triplets of Belleville)’s new animated feature film The Illusionist at the Marche du Film in Cannes this week, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Chomet, who wrote the movie based on previously unproduced material by Jacques Tati, has been working on it since June 2006. The 2D/CGI blend […]

UpcomingPixar points at a new WALL•E Clip at Yahoo! Movies wherein the director Andrew Stanton discusses the character of WALL-E and the adventure that awaits him.

Five new stills from the Pixar film are now up at MovieWeb.

While writing about “Faith, Home and Pixie Dust,” the new album of Disney covers by Broadway star (and, since this morning, Tony Award nominee) Kerry Butler, Jim Hill points to three little heard songs featured on the CD: “Call Me a Princess, Princess Jasmine’s caustic comic number that wound up getting cut from Aladdin; Disneyland, […]

Cartoon Brew points out that “illustrator Ben Butcher has done an interview with Grain Edit about his illustration process on Lots of Bots, a graphically-striking illustrated book being released this week as a tie-in for Pixar’s Wall•E.”

Rush over to the Character Design blog while you can for a rumored first look at early character designs from upcoming Pixar and Disney character: Miley Cyrus’ character Penny from this November’s Bolt; the soulful singing crocodile from the anticipated 2D feature The Princess and the Frog; the prince of Glen Keane’s Rapunzel; and several […]

Hot off the press! The Weinstein Co. will turn the Jim Henson series Fraggle Rock into a live-action musical feature, reports Variety. Cory Edwards, who directed the animated Hoodwinked! for the studio, will helm the picture and write the screenplay. The Jim Henson Co. will produce and TWC will distribute. Just like the series, the […]

USA Today offers a run-down of the exclusive features to be found on this Fall’s Blu-Ray release of Disney’s Sleeping Beauty. However be warned that only the latest players to be launched this summer by Sony and Panasonic will be able to access the disc’s online BD Live features…

An article featured on Fortune reveals that the design for the character Eve in Disney/Pixar’s upcoming Wall•E was inspired by the look of such Apple products as the iPod. “I wanted Eve to be high-end technology – no expense spared – and I wanted it to be seamless and for the technology to be sort […]

Iron Man director Jon Favreau will next write, helm and produce the feature-length motion capture caveman comedy Neanderthals for Sony Pictures Animation, a project which was intially announced back in 2005. Favreau told MTV News back in January that he was hoping to shoot the motion capture part before the potential actors strike next month […]

The cover art for the first volume of season one of Tiny Toons Adventures can be seen at TV Shows On DVD.The four-disk set, which features 35 episodes, will hit shelves on July 29th with a suggested retail price of $44.98. The trailer for the DVD can be viewed here.

Head over to Animation Insider for details on the upcoming Indian 2D feature film Ghatothkach: Master of Magic which will debut in its home country on May 23rd.

Sony Pictures Imageworks just accepted seven new schools into their Professional Academic Excellence (IPAX) program. “We are excited that the IPAX program continues to follow its original goal of helping educate the educators which in turn helps students excel,” commented Imageworks’ president, Tim Sarnoff.

Animation studio Fable Works announced today that it is producing the original 3D-animated Feature Film Cereal Heroes! for theatrical release in 2010. The movie will be produced at Sparx Animation Studios (Igor) in Paris, France and Ho-chi-min, Vietnam. The story follows the adventures of cartoon cereal-box-mascots who are mistakenly brought to life when a plan […]

The Orlando Sentinel‘s Roger Moore reviews positively David A. Price’s book The Pixar Touch: The Making of a Company, calling it “the best single-source history of Pixar that I’ve read.” This new hardcover book will be available nationwide tomorrow.

Billboard reveals via THR that Kung Fu Panda star Jack Black and Gnarls Barkley’s Cee-Lo have teamed up for a cover of Carl Douglas’ 1974 hit “Kung Fu Fighting” for the soundtrack to DreamWorks’ upcoming movie which will get his worldwide premiere at the Cannes Film Festival this Wednesday and hit U.S. screens on June […]

Some may have wondered why the Madagascar sequel was left out of the DreamWorks-Imax deal announced back in November… well, wonder no longer for it was just announced that Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa would now also be getting an Imax release on November 7th! Under the terms of the agreement, the sequel will be digitally […]

Two-time Academy Award nominee Bill Plympton premiered his new 2D feature film Idiots and Angels at the Tribeca Film Festival last month. The dark comedy, produced on a shoestring budget using monochromatic digital coloring and no dialogues, follows a morally bankrupt man scrabbling to hide the good in himself—which manifests itself in a pair of angel […]

Steven Spielberg will start shooting one of three Tintin movies this Fall, according to Variety. The Academy Award winning director had revealed last October that he would direct the second installment of the trilogy in the United States with Peter Jackson helming the first in New Zealand but it sounds like the two might have […]

Variety reports that Fox Broadcasting Co. and 20th Century Fox TV have jointly created the Fox Inkubator program to work with animators and writers in developing a range of shortform animated content. Separately, 20th has established a dedicated animation department within its walls for the first time.

Box Office Mojo reports that the live-action adaption of the animated television series Speed Racer has come in at number two in the results of this weekend’s box office take. The film made $20,210,000 with an average of $5,604 per theater. Speed Racer came behind Iron Man, which took in $50,500,000 in its second weekend, […]

On Saturday, May 17th, from 1:00pm-6:00pm Van Eaton Galleries and Creative Talent Network are presenting the 2nd Annual Animation “Book Look” Festival! Among the many talented artists and authors participating are Toby Bluth, Willie Ito, Rik Maki, Chris Buck, Ron Lukas, and Don Peri. Best of all, you don’t have to live in Los Angeles […]

It’s official! The Indiana Jones director will next tackle the first chapter of the long-delayed Tintin trilogy. Production on the motion capture film is expected to wrap early next year.

Could Hanna Montana and Danny Zuko be recording a song together for Disney? Possibly according to John Travolta’s wife Kelly Preston who hinted to E! on Friday that “Johnny may sing with Miley.” The two stars are teaming up for the Mouse House’s November 26th CG release Bolt, in which John Travolta voices the canine […]

Fox’s Dr. Seuss’ Horton Hears a Who! reached the $150 million landmark at the U.S. box office this week, becoming the 25th highest grossing animated film of all time according to Box Office Mojo. The Blue Sky feature is also performing strongly overseas with a cumulative worldwide gross of $284 million to date which is […]

The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian director Andrew Adamson, best known by animation fan as the helmer of Shrek and Shrek 2, talks to the New York Daily News about the use of computer animation in the upcoming Narnia sequel, comparing making a live-action movie versus an animated film like the difference between “running a […]