Pixar’s upcoming Pete Doctor film that takes place “inside the human brain” has finally gotten a confirmed title, ComingSoon.net is reporting. The site is saying that the movie will be called Inside Out, and will supposedly be “told from the emotions taking place inside the mind of a little girl.” Inside Out is currently set to invade […]

Variety is reporting that Illumination Entertainment, the studio responsible for last year’s blockbuster The Lorax, is now planning to adapt another Dr. Seuss classic, but this time it will be one more familier to most audiences. The site is saying that plans for an animated How the Grinch Stole Christmas movie are being made, with Pete […]

The long-reported Night at the Museum 3 has finally been given an official greenlight from Fox, ComingSoon.net is reporting. As with the first two films in the franchise, the movie will be helmed by family friendly director Shawn Levy and star Ben Stiller as wisecracking security guard Larry Daley. No details on the plot are available, but […]

Thunderbirds, the campy British TV series featuring puppets which inspired both a live-action movie in 2004 and Trey Parker and Matt Stone’s raunchy Team America: World Police, is making a comeback, Screen Rant is reporting. The reboot will come from WETA Workshop, the special effects powerhouse behind The Lord of the Rings, Rise of the Planet […]

Marking their third project together, LAIKA and Focus Features, the two companies behind the current Academy Award-nominated animated feature ParaNorman, announced today that LAIKA has begun production on The Boxtrolls, a 3D stop-motion and CG hybrid animated feature based on Alan Snow’s bestselling fantasy adventure novel Here Be Monsters. The new movie will be released […]

“Has animation A-lister Brad Bird left the medium … in part out of creative frustration?” asks The Hollywood Reporter, based on recent quotes from the filmmaker during a CalArts fundraising salon on Jan. 29. Appearing with Pixar colleague Mark Andrews, Bird allegedly questioned why mainstream animation studios won’t attempt films for older audiences. “Why does […]

Baby Sinclair from the hit ’90s TV series Dinosaurs has returned in a new fan-made CGI short, I’m the Baby, Gotta Love Me! Animator Davide Maugeri created the short as a tribute to the show’s production company, Jim Henson Television. “Since [Dinosaurs] was a big hit in the early ’90s and ended up forgotten, our […]

A relatively small animated film is causing a big stink in the courts according to The Hollywood Reporter. Writer-director Tony Leech and film producer Brian Inerfeld, two of the people behind the surprise hit Hoodwinked claim that The Weinstein Co. have “sabotaged” their followup project, Escape From Planet Earth, and cost them millions. The Weinstein’s […]

Brave and Life of Pi were the top film winners and Game Of Thrones the top TV winner at the Visual Effects Society Awards this week, with each earning four trophies according to Deadline. Pi director Ang Lee was also honored with the Visionary Award, saying “This is not visual effects, it’s visual art”. The […]

The Berlin International Film Festival kicks off today and one of the shorts on the program is Pixar’s The Blue Umbrella. First-time director Saschka Unseld talked with The Playlist about the short’s plot, his pitch to Pixar, the idea to go photorealistic rather than cartoony, his experience on the technical side of things rather than […]

The Hollywood Reporter says that DreamWorks is looking at layoffs after the underperformance of Rise of the Guardians and the just announced reduction in the number of films being released this year. Their sources say “no single film project in development will be targeted” but “plans for an unspecified reduction of the company’s 2,000 or […]

The previously reported collobaration between Google and Disney to promote the upcoming film Oz The Great and Powerful is now online, and Wired has the details on the “stunning bit of entertainment”.

DreamWorks Animation has announced that they are moving the release date of their upcoming film Mr. Peabody & Sherman from November of this year to March 7, 2014. “Our distributor [Twentieth Century Fox], who has had great success in March with their Ice Age franchise, has recommended we move Mr. Peabody & Sherman to the […]

As previously mentioned, an opera by Philip Glass based on the life of Walt Disney titled The Perfect American recently premiered in Spain. Want to see it? No need to hop a flight to Madrid. Cartoon Brew reports that you can watch it online live today at 2pm ET at Medici.tv. It will be available […]

Stop-motion director Henry Selick was disappointed when Disney pulled the plug on his The Shadow King movie. Instead of nursing his wounds, he’s found a new partner. K5 International is a German distribution and production company and they have picked up the project, already adding advertising to their website. Josh Penn (Beasts of the Southern […]

Isao Takahata’s newest animated film based off a popular Japanese folktale has been delayed. Studio Ghibli, Hayao Miyazaki’s studio, is animating the film, but when the distribution company TOHO asked about its progress, they were informed that the storyboards were not complete. To preserve the movie’s quality, TOHO pushed back the release date. It will […]

From Up On Poppy Hill is the newest Studio Ghibli film to premiere in the US. It is directed by Goro Miyazaki, Hayao Miyazaki’s son, and it is a coming-of-age film with romance, mystery, and drama set in 1964 Yokohama. It has been described as a pure and sincere story. The US dub features many […]

Over a period of two years at LAIKA Studios in Oregon, a crew of more than 320 animators, designers, artists, and technicians came together to hand-craft the film ParaNorman. Since then the movie has won 15 Best Animated Feature Film awards, the Character Animation & Design Annie Award, and is also nominated for an Academy […]

Deadline reports that the recently formed Paramount Animation unit has decided on an original project to be the followup to their next film, The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie 2. Viacom CEO Philippe Dauman says more details will be released soon but it will be “based on original IP”, will have “consumer products possibilities”, and will put […]

USA Today has posted a clip from the new documentary Growing Up with Nine Old Men (available on the just released Peter Pan Blu-ray) along with an article about its director Ted Thomas — son of Peter Pan lead animator Frank Thomas. “At the heart of Peter Pan was this idea of family, much more […]

D23 has turned to someone from the Disney Archives to go through the mysterious photograph tweeted by director Brad Bird. The picture somehow relates to his “1952” project, since revealed to be named Tomorrowland.

Looking to improve your chances in an Oscar pool? Several websites are looking at the five films up for the best Animated Short Oscar. Brightest Young Things is going with the favorite, Disney’s Paperman, a film they say is so perfect “there is so simply no way to improve” it. While Television Without Pity admits […]

Disney’s Wreck-It Ralph won the Best Animated Feature honor at the 40th Annual Annie Awards held this past weekend in Los Angeles. Pixar’s Paperman won Best Animated Short, while Robot Chicken, DreamWorks’ Dragons, and Nickelodeon’s Bubble Guppies won the three TV categories. Wreck-It Ralph was the top film winner of the night with five awards, […]

With his Hotel Transylvania finally hitting store shelves this week, director Genndy Tartakovsky is talking ET Online about his next project: a 3D film adaptation of the classic cartoon series Popeye. “Basically it’s kind of taking the Popeye that I grew up with, that I think we all grew up with, and definitely making him […]

Engadget reports that Amazon, who recently announced their entrance into original programming, has green-lighted five new kids series. The shows include: “Teeny Tiny Dogs, produced by The Jim Henson Company, Creative Galaxy, created by Blues Clues‘ Angela Santomero and Oz Adventures, based on the classic L. Frank Baum books”. Check out the link for more […]