The 82nd Academy Awards, to be held March 7, will be a two-headed affair as far as the host will be concerned: Steve Martin returns to the podium, to be joined by his SNL, 30 Rock and the upcoming It’s Complicated colleague Alec Baldwin, as announced by The Hollywood Reporter.

The Animation Guild Blog notes that the rumored and then dropped Disney project Joe Jump (mentioned here back in 2006) may be back in development.

Fans of the pioneering web series Tiki Bar TV may recognize the new VP of development for Disney Television Animation. Variety reports that Kevin Gamble, perhaps better known online as the fez-wearing, prescription-filling bartender Johnny Johnny, will be in charge of development and production of new animation shorts and series on Disney Channel and Disney […]

Over at Yahoo Movies, the 2nd trailer for Dreamworks Animation’s How to Train Your Dragon has just been released. The film, which will be shown in Digital 3D, is scheduled to be released on March 26, 2010.

“On a showy, exuberant demonstration of the glories of motion capture, computer animation and 3D technology level, it’s a wow. On any emotional level, it’s as cold as Marley’s Ghost”, so says Kirk Honeycutt in his Hollywood Reporter review for Disney’s production of Robert Zemeckis’ film of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol.

The National Film Board of Canada’s animated documentary Tying Your Own Shoes by Shira Avni, has won the Golden Dove Award at the 52nd International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film.

The Hollywood Reporter suggests the doubling of entries in the Best Picture Academy Awards race could have a major effect on future Oscar winners…or not. Will it mean more space for big-budget blockbusters like Star Trek and animated fare such as Up? Or just create extra room for more arthouse titles? You won’t find the […]

Director Robert Zemeckis revealed in a recent MTV exclusive that Jeffrey Price and Peter Seaman are collaborating to develop a script for a Roger Rabbit sequel. There have been many rumors in the past about potential sequels to the film, but this is valid material. You can expect more info about the sequel to be […]

IGN reports Seth Macfarlan’s American Dad has been renewed for a sixth season on Fox. This means all three MacFarlane series – including Family Guy, and the Cleveland Show – will be returning next year.

Home Media Magazine has opened up voting for their 2009 TV DVD Awards, honoring the best television series DVDs released this year. And animation is front and center in several key categories. The categories with animated nominees are listed below (specific animated nominees in bold print)–you can vote on the entire list here:

The Wall Street Journal has a nice piece on The Princess and the Frog, the return of traditional animation to Disney, and how it was brought about by some directors they let go and the company some blamed for the demise of hand drawn films.

Robert Zemeckis defends his performance-capture animation techniques with some name-dropping in an article from the National Post, and Jim Carrey gets philosophical with the LA Times, as they both discuss A Christmas Carol, opening this Friday.

Jonathan Demme, Oscar winning director of The Silence of the Lambs, is planning to bring the book Zeitoun to the big screen as an animated film, according to the NY Times. The book by Dave Eggers, co-author of the Where the Wild Things Are screenplay, tells the story of a “man who remained in New […]

The guys at Cartoon Brew have some video to show how Pixar thrilled their employees more than any ghost would ever dare try this past Halloween.

Nickelodeon will be airing a third television movie for its popular animated series, SpongeBob SquarePants, this Friday, commemorating the 10th anniversary of the show. The movie, called SpongeBob’s Truth or Square, will contain flashbacks from the characters’ pasts. Nick will release the movie to DVD on November 10th, four days after the network premiere.