/Film shares the first poster for Illumination Entertainment’s upcoming flick Hop which gives the first look at Russell Brand as the computer animated Easter Bunny. Scripted by Cinco Paul & Ken Daurio and Brian Lynch, and directed by Tim Hill, Hop opens in theaters on April 1st, 2011.

DVDActive reports that Lionsgate Home Entertainment has announced DVD and Blu-ray/DVD Combo releases of Alpha and Omega for January 11th. Extras on this release will include a deleted scene, 4 featurettes (“Wolves in the Wild”, “The Alpha of Animation”, “Voicing the Wolves”, “From Alpha to Omega”), a Log Sliding interactive game, “Are You and Alpha […]

ComingSoon.net has just posted a brand new image from the upcoming Cars 2 on their website. The image shows Cars stars Lightning McQueen and Mater apparently driving away from an explosion of some kind. Meanwhile, Yahoo! Movies has a new teaser poster of the film, and has announced that a new trailer is expected to go online sometime […]

The Wrap is reporting that 15 films are offically going to be up for the Oscar for Best Animated Feature this year. Due to rules, this means that only three movies will be nominated. Two pictures that are considered locks by almost everyone are DreamWorks Animation’s How to Train Your Dragon and Disney & Pixar’s Toy Story 3, […]

DreamWorks’ Megamind earned another first place finish at the box office with $30.1 million in its second week, according to EW.com. It’s cumulative total is $89.8 million.

Cover art for Blu-ray editions of two of Walt Disney’s animated classics, the 60th Anniversary Edition of Alice In Wonderland and the Diamond Edition release of Bambi, has been revealed and can be seen here:

The Internet Movie Poster Awards have recently posted a second teaser poster for DreamWorks Amimation’s Kung Fu Panda 2. On a note of interest, none of the sequel’s marketing so far has used the film’s subtitle, The Kaboom of Doom. The anticipated release comes to theaters on May 27th.

Springfield’s favorite family isn’t looking to retire anytime soon, as Fox has just greenlit a 23rd season of the show. The series, of course, is the longest running primetime cartoon show in history, with more than 450 episodes to date.

In what would seem to be an official greenlight for a project that’s been long-rumored at the studio, Disney has hired Iron Man director/actor Jon Favreau to helm their Magic Kingdom movie. Details on the project are extremely fuzzy for the time being, although its speculated that it will involve several classic Disney characters working […]

Disney has just revealed the very first trailer for next summer’s Winnie the Pooh. Although not much is known about the plot at this point, it is said to involve Pooh and his friends going on a quest to find Eeyore’s missing tail, with elements from five of A. A. Milne’s original Pooh stories. New […]

Walt Disney Pictures has just revealed the final trailer for Tron: Legacy on their official Youtube page. The new preview has lots of new footage from the film, so viewers are warned of possible spoilers. Tron: Legacy opens everywhere this Christmas.

DreamWorks Animation’s MegaMind was able to easily rule the box office this weekend, with a very solid debut of $47 million, Box Office Mojo is reporting. Although it made slightly less than some were anticipating, the animated comedy is expected to have strong legs, especially since Harry Potter & the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 will no […]

ComingSoon.net has just posted the first teaser trailer for DreamWorks Animation’s Kung Fu Panda 2. The trailer is currently being shown on the big screen with 3-D prints of the studio’s MegaMind. Meanwhile, the Internet Movie Poster Awards has recently revealed a teaser poster for the film. Starring Jack Black, Dustin Hoffman, Angelina Jolie and Gary Oldman, […]

After releasing the first images from Steven Spielberg’s The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn last week, Empire Magazine shares new images from the big screen adaptation of Tintin, reports Collider. One of these new images gives first look at the Thomson twins, the thief Silk and the mysterious Barnaby, played and voiced […]

Koji Hoshino, President of Studio Ghibli, announced at the Rome International Film Festival recently that the next Studio Ghibli film will be announced on December 15, reports Collider. While it is still unknown whether this project will be helmed by Miyazaki or a different director, there is speculation on whether Hoshino was referring to the […]

A brand new official US trailer for Sony Pictures Classics’ upcoming animated feature The Illusionist has debuted over at iTunes. Based on an old Jacques Tati script, the story follows the illusionist, as he learns to come to terms with his fading art and meets a young girl Alice, who will change his life forever. […]

DreamWorks’ Megamind opens today in 3,944 theatres, according to Box Office Mojo. With a middling 64%, the Rotten Tomatoes critical consensus is “It regurgitates plot points from earlier animated efforts, and isn’t quite as funny as it should be, but a top-shelf voice cast and strong visuals help make Megamind a pleasant, if unspectacular, diversion.” […]

A new poster for Tron: Legacy–featuring the villainous Clu, an evil version of Jeff Bridges’ character–has just been revealed over at Empire Online. The site states that it’s the first of three new posters that will be revealed over the next few days. Tron: Legacy comes to theaters this December.

With the 2010 Election taking place in America today, DreamWorks Animation has made an amusing TV spot for MegaMind that spoofs negative campaign ads. In it, the blue villain tells voters why they should not support his opponent, the superhero Metro Man. MegaMind comes to theaters this Friday.

Wired has a piece with the creators of Phineas and Ferb, where they discuss the long 16 year journey the show took from conception to screen, while being rejected from every studio they pitched to.

Pixar Talk talks with Pixar’s special features producers Erica Milsom and Tony Kaplan about how they create all that extra content for DVD/BD releases.