Family Guy vet Steve Callaghan is taking over Fox’s well-reviewed American Dad!, Deadline is reporting. This marks the first time in the show’s eight year history that such a change has been made in the series’ production. Until now, Dad was managed by series creators Mike Barker and Matt Weitzman, who will remain involved as executive producers. The […]

Deadline reports that Disney and Google have teamed up to create Find Your Way To Oz, a plugin-free, in-browser experience using the very latest web technology. Look for it online February 5th and the film itself in theatres March 8th.

Entertainment Weekly has scored an exclusive interview with Kermit the Frog, who talks about his upcoming movie The Muppets… Again! “The idea of this film is that our gang is on this global tour, and we’re selling out these grand theaters all over Europe—in Berlin, Madrid, London—but we sort of get into a little bit […]

Each year South Park entertains people with its off-color humor and comedy that pokes fun at everyone and everything. Fans usually have fourteen episodes to look forward to, but the creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker decided to cut back. The decision came after Parker and Stone’s launch of a Important Studios, their new production […]

The famous Kentucky Colonel is getting a new makeover to coincide with the new Dragon Ball Z: Battle of the Gods. In seven Tokyo Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurants, statues of Col. Sanders will be cosplaying as the series’ main character Son Goku and each will sport a one of the seven coveted Dragon Balls. Dragon […]

Techradar gets a behind the scenes look at the tech powering DreamWorks’ computer animated films. As you can probably imagine if you’ve ever filled a hard drive on your own PC, a CG film takes up a lot of space. A typical DreamWorks film “might render 65 million hours of footage to come up with […]

Cartoon Network has unveiled thier 2013-14 lineup and Animation Magazine has the details of what is a very full slate. Original premieres include Incredible Crew, Steven Universe, Uncle Grandpa, Clarence, and Grojband. Other premieres include re-imagined Powerpuff Girls and Tom and Jerry shows, Teen Titans Go, Beware The Batman, LEGO Legends of Chima, Total Drama […]

Brad Bird’s top secret science fiction project 1952 has been given an official title…which offers major hints about what the subject matter of the film might be. THR is reporting that the movie is now called Tomorrowland, and that it will feature George Clooney in the lead role. No other information has been provided beyond that, […]

Everybody Needs a Best Friend, from Seth MacFarlene’s blockbuster animated/live-action film Ted, will be performed by Norah Jones at the Academy Awards this year, ComingSoon.net is reporting. Although the movie about a potty mouthed teddy bear more than earned its R rating, the Oscar-nominated song is actually sweet and simple, sounding more like something that would come from a […]

Deadline reports that Wreck-It Ralph outscored the competition for Outstanding Producer of Animated Theatrical Motion Pictures at the Producers Guild Awards. Winner Clark Spencer said, “I joined Disney 23 years ago during difficult times and always wondered when I should leave. But I always believed in the studio. There is a renaissance going on at […]

Table Titans, a new comic strip about a group of Dungeons & Dragons playing friends, premieres today. Eisner and Harvey Award winner Scott Kurtz of PVP is the artist behind the strip. What makes this one different from all the other geeky strips out there is it has the official blessing of Wizards of the […]

The Wrap has the scoop on a recent Hollywood Radio and Television Society panel where Disney CEO Bob Iger was interviewed by Academy Award winning producer Brian Grazer. The first topic discussed was Pixar founder Steve Jobs who died in 2011. At the time Iger became CEO Disney’s relationship with Pixar had deteriorated. When Iger […]

In addition to the previously mentioned Aladdin musical, Broadway.com notes that composer Alan Menken also has several other projects on his plate, including the animated film adaptation of the Sid and Marty Krofft TV series Lidsville. Menken recently tweeted, “Lidsville is underway…FINALLY. Peace, love and psychedelia! And DreamWorks is pretty great. So many old friends […]

The American poster for Studio Ghibli’s From Up on Poppy Hill has been revealed on ComingSoon.net and can be seen here. The film focuses on two high schoolers in Japan during the aftermath of World War II as the country prepares to host the 1964 Olympics. Perhaps because of its thematic content, this is the […]

Disney Theatrical Productions has officially announced that the 1992 animated film Aladdin is getting the Broadway treatment. A pre-Broadway run will take place at Toronto’s Ed Mirvish Theatre from November 13, 2013 to January 12, 2014. The show will get its big opening on the Great White Way at the New Amsterdam Theatre in 2014. […]

The Croods director Chris Sanders, who is working on the final sound mix, is using some of his free time to post deleted story panels from the movie to his blog. “I have a big box of them – I’m still in the dark ages when it comes to boarding which means all of my […]

The mysterious Brad Bird directed, Damon Lindelof written, and George Clooney starring 1952 film project (if that is its real name) finally revealed some of its secrets. Yesterday, Lindelof tweeted this photo of an old Walt Disney Productions archive box with a label reading “1952”. Bird then tweeted this picture of the box opened. Ain’t […]

The Perfect American, an opera about Walt Disney by Philip Glass, opened in Madrid this week. The L.A. Times review says that it “delves deep into the psyche of a visionary at the end of his life, of an artist who devoted his life to a vision of a world without death, now grappling with […]

The latest Disney Dream Portrait (a series of photographs of classic scenes recreated by Annie Leibovitz and various celebrities) features Taylor Swift as Rapunzel. The series began in 2007 as a promotion for Disney Parks. Huff Post Travel has some behind the scenes images.

Nickelodeon is looking for the next big thing with their Animated Shorts Program Contest, according to Animation Magazine. They are looking for pitches that are “comedic, character driven and have kid appeal”, with an “original, funny lead character”. Any animation style is welcome. You can submit here but the deadline is March 29th.

Screen Crush has a slew of news on upcoming comic book projects. Iron Man 3 shot some explosive scenes outside the famous Chinese Theater, so of course there is publicly shot footage. Why no Batman films until 2017 at least? Ask the Justice League. The first photos from the Joss Whedon TV series S.H.E.I.L.D. are […]

The AP reports that Peter Robbins, the actor who played Charlie Brown in A Charlie Brown Christmas and It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown, was arrested. The now 56 year-old is charged with making a threat to cause death or great bodily injury and stalking.

IMDb has added Keri Russell to the cast of DisneyToon Studios’ Planes. Until an official confirmation arrives, one should take this bit of casting news with a grain of salt, since IMDb also still has Jon Cryer as the voice of protagonist Dusty Crophopper. In December, sources revealed Cryer had left the project for reasons […]