Month: June 2018

How Garfield became the cat who saved primetime cartoons
Jim Carrey is Robotnik in upcoming Sonic the Hedgehog movie
Disney shutting down Disneytoon Studios, effective immediately
Watch the new theme song for Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

The action-packed opening to Nick’s upcoming Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is now online, and can be viewed in the player below. It premieres this September.

Mary And The Witch’s Flower

Studio Ghibli fans will be happy that sort-of successor Studio Ponoc has made a beautiful debut film. The tale of a girl who finds herself a witch may be familiar on the surface, but the seeds of future greatness are obvious.

Watch the new Marshmello DuckTales music video Fly

Marshmello and Disney collaborated on a special DuckTales-inspired Fly music video, which debuted Saturday, June 23rd on Disney Channel. A mix of animation and live-action, the music video launches Scrooge, his nephew Donald, great-nephews Huey, Dewey and Louie and their friend Webby into a musical outer space adventure. When their spaceship unexpectedly crashes, they encounter […]

Daria reboot in the works
Disney reportedly puts Boba Fett, Obi-Wan Kenobi movies on hold
Disney outbids Comcast for Fox merger with $71 billion offer
Jennifer Lee and Pete Docter officially announced as the new chief creative officers of Disney and Pixar

Following leaked reports from earlier, Disney has officially confirmed that Jennifer Lee and Pete Docter will be the new Chief Creative Officers of Walt Disney Feature Animation and Pixar Animation Studios, respectively. Lee was a screenwriter on Wreck-It Ralph before serving as a co-director on the studio’s global phenomenon Frozen, while Docter has won Academy […]

Butch Hartman announces what’s next after Nick: a new streaming network
Why Disney’s live-action Mulan remake should mirror the original
Jim Davis on 40 years of Garfield: “I’m still trying to get it right”
Incredibles 2 drowns Finding Dory’s opening weekend record

Incredibles 2 shattered expectations and the box office with an incredible $180 debut, Box Office Mojo is reporting. That easily gives the film the new record for best animated opening of all time, eclipsing the title Finding Dory held by more than $40 million. Incredibles 2 was a massive hit with audiences, earning a rare […]

Disney Channel takes the unknown country road with Big City Greens
First Aquaman trailer to premiere at Comic-Con this year
Incredibles 2

In a world where blockbuster over-the-top superhero movies have become as mainstream as westerns were back in their heyday, Incredibles 2 brings the humanity back to the genre.

Incredibles 2 opens

Pixar’s Incredibles 2 opens today in 4,410 theatres according to Box Office Mojo. The film is doing super with the critics, earning a 93% score at Rotten Tomatoes. Their consensus: “Incredibles 2 reunites Pixar’s family crimefighting team for a long-awaited follow-up that may not quite live up to the original, but comes close enough to […]

Incredibles 2 wants to turn stay-at-home dads into superheroes
Fox Animation heads pledge “business as usual” amid Disney, Comcast bids
Craig T. Nelson & Holly Hunter discuss Incredibles 2
Full trailer for The Grinch premieres

The full trailer for The Grinch is now online, and you can check it out in the player below. It opens everywhere this November.

Lisa Henson remembers her father Jim’s ‘gentle sense of humor’
First teaser trailer to live-action Dumbo has flown in

Disney has launched the first teaser trailer to the live-action adaption of their animated classic Dumbo, which can be viewed in the player below. Directed by Tim Burton and starring Colin Farrell, Michael Keaton, Danny DeVito, and Eva Green, the film is scheduled to fly into theaters March 29, 2019.

Trolls sequel gets a poster, new title

DreamWorks Animation’s Trolls sequel has been given its first official poster, and it’s gotten a new title as well. Revealed to now be called Trolss: World Tour, the anticipated follow-up opens everywhere April 17th, 2020.

MTV developing live-action TV series reboot of Aeon Flux
WB Animation reviving Looney Tunes shorts