In preparation for the Oscars, Disney says they needed some pointers on their red carpet strut. Corny? Yes! But a good excuse to post some never before seen sketches by Walt Disney that were used in the 1933 short Mickey’s Gala Premier.

One of the most infamous musical numbers in Oscar history occurred in 1989 at the 61st Academy Awards when Rob Lowe and an unauthorized-by-Disney Snow White performed an excruciating 15 minute song and dance number with several uncomfortable stars in the audience as props. The producer behind the segment never worked in Hollywood again, Disney […]

Contactmusic and the AP say it’s time to take the animation category at the oscar seriously. Brave director Mark Andrews says, “I think this year with these films — and so many more — the envelope for animation is being pushed. We keep seeing more risky, deep films that we wouldn’t have seen 10 years […]

The 39th Annual Saturn Awards, honoring the best in science fiction, fantasy, and horror films, have announced their nominees. Brave, Frankenweenie, ParaNorman, and Wreck-It Ralph are up for Best Animated Film. And Danny Elfman was nominated for Best Music for Frankenweenie. The Avengers, Battleship, The Hobbit, John Carter, Life of Pi, and Snow White and […]

Popular Dark Horse comic book series Beasts Of Burden is about a pack of dogs charged with protecting their fellow animals and humans from paranormal nightmares. Reel FX, the new studio out to make a name for itself, recently picked up the movie rights and Shane Acker as the director. Acker previously directed the robotic […]

USA Today has an extensive look at the five nominations for Best Animated Feature at the Oscars, with various intverviews with people behind the scenes of the year’s contenders. Stating that there is no clear frontrunner for the prize this year, the article goes into the individual movies’ chances of victory, as well as the filmmakers […]

If you’re not checking out former Disney animator Andreas Deja’s blog Deja View you need to bookmark it now. A supervising animator on such classic films as The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, and The Lion King, Deja’s last entry includes an historic photo of some of the Nine Old Men working on […]

Christophe Beck has been hired to score Disney’s upcoming film Frozen, according to Film Music Reporter. Beck previously scored The Hangover, Percy Jackson & the Olympians, The Muppets, and Paperman among many others.

Moviefone looks into the surprising opening week numbers for Escape From Planet Earth. “Here’s a kids’ film that’s not based on a familiar title or franchise, one without A-list stars in the leads, made by off-brand animators (Rainmaker Entertainment, which had never made a theatrical feature before) for an indie studio (The Weinstein Company), with […]

Total Film has posted character art for several of the students and staff of Monsters University. Also included are their school ID cards revealing the names of some of the characters we’ve seen in the trailers.

The rumors of Toy Story 4 are false, says Drew McWeeny at HitFix. Colombian radio host Jorge Luis Balaguera raised eyebrows on Monday when he “confirmed” via Twitter that Tom Hanks, Tim Allen and Joan Cusack would return for Toy Story 4 in 2015. However, McWeeny’s source says the report is 100 percent inaccurate. Fortunately […]

It appears Mickey Mouse and Roger Rabbit are indeed teaming up, at least for a development proposal. On Sunday, Who Censored Roger Rabbit? author Gary K. Wolf, under pen name “Walter Windchill”, reported on his website that the animated characters would team for a reimagining of the 1952 Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis movie The […]

Despite a fourth place finish for the Presidents Day weekend, Escape from Planet Earth jumped to the top of the box office on Monday, with $5.2 million, says Box Office Mojo. By comparison, weekend champ A Good Day to Die Hard took $3.8 million. Distributed by The Weinstein Company, Escape from Planet Earth has collected […]

After canning the planned 3D theatrical re-release of The Little Mermaid originally set for later this year Disney announced the film would be making its way on to their Diamond Edition line of Blu-ray discs. Left unsaid was whether the work already done on the 3D version would be utilized on the home video release. […]

The Hollywood Reporter has the first big review of DreamWorks’ next animated film The Croods, which played at the Berlin International Film Festival this past week. Their bottom line is “the humor and charm… is too uneven to help it approach [Ice Age’s] mammoth market share. But its mostly fast-moving roller coaster of kinetic action […]

Are Mickey Mouse and Roger Rabbit teaming for a remake of the 1952 Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis movie The Stooge? That’s what an inside source has revealed to Who Censored Roger Rabbit? author Gary K. Wolf, who reports the news under pen name “Walter Windchill”. Mickey would take on Martin’s role of a failing […]

The Golden Reel Awards honored Wreck-It Ralph in the category of Best Sound Editing: Sound Effects, Foley, Dialogue and ADR in an Animation Feature Film. The Walt Disney Animation Studios film beat competitors Brave, Rise of the Guardians, Dr. Seuss’ The Lorax, A Cat in Paris, Frankenweenie, ParaNorman and The Pirates! Band of Misfits. Deadline.com […]

Escape from Planet Earth beat expectations over its opening weekend, pulling in $16.6 million for a 4th place finish, according to Box Office Mojo’s studio estimates. BOM had projected the film would only bring in $11.3 million while Box Office Prophets predicted a similar $12.1 million haul.

The Simpsons won the Writers Guild award for TV animation last night for the episode Ned ‘n Edna’s Blend Agenda. This was writer Jeff Westbrook’s third award in the category, having previously won in 2007 and 2008 for the long running series as well. The Hollywood Reporter has the full list of nominees and winners.

Electric City picked up the award for Best Animated Series at the 3rd Annual Streamy Awards on Sunday, beating fellow nominees Dinosaur Office, Oishi High School Battle, Dick Figures and Red vs. Blue. Created by Tom Hanks, Electric City is the post-apocalyptic story of citizens who live in the title setting, a would-be utopia that […]

Over the weekend, Disney/Pixar’s Brave added two more awards to its collection: the Cinema Audio Society Award for outstanding sound mixing and the American Cinema Editor’s Eddie Award. Other CAS Award nominees included Dr. Seuss’ The Lorax, Wreck-It Ralph, Frankenweenie and Rise of the Guardians, while the latter three were also nominated for the ACE […]

Coming Soon has the first clip from DreamWorks Animation’s The Croods. In the clip, Eep (Emma Stone) and Guy (Ryan Reynolds) try to trap a prehistoric beast by puppeteering a fake romantic interest for him. Directed by Kirk De Micco and Chris Sanders, The Croods will open in theaters March 22.

Disney is preparing for the youngest audience members of Planes to continue the adventures of Dusty Crophopper at home. At the 110th annual American International Toy Fair last week, attendees caught a sneak peek at the much-hyped remote-controlled Dusty as well as the U-Command Dusty, as documented by Stitch Kingdom. On Twitter, DaDa Rocks! posted […]

Ice Age: Continental Drift was named the best family movie of 2012 at the 21st Annual Movieguide Faith & Values Awards Gala, beating other animated nominees Wreck-It Ralph, The Secret World of Arrietty and Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted. As for the best mature-audience film, The Avengers took the award over such nominees as The […]

Entertainment Weekly has an exclusive progression reel for Disney’s Annie-winning short Paperman, showing how animators placed hand-drawn layers upon computer animated imagery to achieve the film’s stunning look. One might wish to view Paperman on the upcoming Wreck-It Ralph Blu-ray – the short has been removed from YouTube – before delving too far into the […]

Both DisneyToon Studios’ Planes and DreamWorks Animation’s Turbo are receiving praise following recent test screenings. At WDW Magic, regular forum member “M.rudolf” writes that Planes is testing “thru [sic] the roof,” better than the Cars movies and Wreck-It Ralph. This news likely explains why Planes was promoted to a theatrical release after being made as […]