Originally slated for a Christmas 2014 release, Universal’s Minions is now going to scramble into theaters during the increasingly busy-looking summer 2015 movie season. Box Office Mojo is reporting that the Despicable Me spin-off will open on July 10th of that year, just one week before a little movie called Batman Vs. Superman. That shouldn’t matter […]

Almost certainly due to a number of reported production problems surrounding the film–including the hunt for a new director after Bob Peterson was fired by John Lasseter–, Disney has pushed Pixar’s The Good Dinosaur back more than a year, with the movie now coming out on November 25th, 2015 instead of its planned May 30th, […]

A new poster for Disney’s upcoming Frozen has been revealed on the film’s official Facebook page. The site also reveals that a brand new trailer for the movie can expected online in ten days. Frozen opens everywhere this Thanksgiving.

Disney has decided to release Hayao Miyazaki’s The Wind Rises for a brief run in LA and New York this November, Collider is reporting. The reason for the week-long release? To give the film the chance to qualify for next year’s Oscars before it has its actual US release in February. The Wind Rises will play […]

Chris Sanders confirmed to ComingSoon.Net that Emma Stone, Nicolas Cage and Ryan Reynolds are all confirmed to return for The Croods 2. The director also hinted that more colorful creatures can be expected in the sequel, including some rejected ideas from the original. As for the plot, Sanders just said that “There’s not much to […]

Among the many things previewed at Disney’s D23 last weekend was Disney Channel’s upcoming Wander Over Yonder, a cartoon show that focuses on an overly optimistic space traveler going across the galaxy and facing off against the appropriately named Lord Hater.  The show comes from Craig McCracken and his co-producer wife Lauren Faust, with the […]

Perhaps it happened because of the disappointing returns from Turbo, or perhaps it was going to happen regardless, but Dawn Taubin is the new head of marketing at DreamWorks Animation, Deadline is reporting. Taubin has a pretty strong track record going for her, including a number of the Harry Potter movies, Happy Feet, The Help, […]

Although Friday’s animation panel took most of the attention regarding Disney’s D23 convention, the event still had plenty to offer yesterday from their upcoming slate of live-action movies as well. Collider has a full recap of the event, with descriptions of the footage shown and official film logos for Maleficent, Tomorrowland and more. Readers should […]

Two of Adult Swim’s most popular cartoon shows “for big kids” have season premieres tonight. First up is the latest version of Aqua Teen Hunger Force–this time titled Aqua TV Show Show–at midnight EST. Then comes the channel’s almost as bizarre Squidbillies at 12:15 EST. Judging from promos, Aqua TV‘s premiere episode will involve Shake […]

Despite early reports that indicated otherwise, Planes didn’t open on top this weekend, or even cross the $30 million mark. Still, the $22 million debut it saw was a good one, and the film received an A- from film goers, although that is more or less common for family films. Noting that there are no […]

Blu-Ray.Com is reporting that The Great Muppet Caper and Muppet Treasure Island will be coming to Blu-Ray for the very first time as a two-movie combo pack. Extras at the moment have yet to be announced, but a sneak peek of the next Muppet movie seems likely enough. The Of Pigs & Pirates Collection (really?) […]

A full official recap of today’s Disney D23 animation panel has been released by Walt Disney Pictures via ComingSoon.Net. The report features a number of new images and plot information from the batch of movies, TV specials and shorts covered during the day, and the news that Mickey Mouse in Get a Horse! will be […]

Blu-Ray.com is reporting that Monsters University now has an official Blu-Ray date, and will be available to own on October 29th. The movie will be able to be purchased as a four-disc 3-D Blu-Ray combo pack, a 3-disc Collector’s Edition Blu-Ray combo back, and a standard edition. Both the 3-D Blu-Ray and the Collector’s Edition […]

Proving that the theatrical release is going to pay off big time for the studio, Disney’s Planes is already doing strong business, THR is reporting, and is expected to gross $30 million or more for the weekend. It may even beat Elysium–the Matt Damon actioner that was expected to lead the weekend–for the top spot […]

We’ve been getting an onslaught of exciting Disney news all afternoon thanks to Disney’s D23, and now ComingSoon.Net has given us the news via their live-blogging of the event that the studio’s original feature for 2016 will be called Zootopia, which will be helmed by Tangled director Byron Howard. Very little is known about the […]

By sheer coincidence, we have two animated movies about talking planes made available to the public this week. The first, of course, is Disney’s Planes, currently in theaters. But most audiences will be far more eager to see Wings, a straight-to-DVD movie about talking planes that just happened to come out only days before Planes’ […]

Lewis Black, Mindy Kaling, Bill Hader, Amy Poehler and Phyllis Smith will all be lending their voices to Pixar’s upcoming Inside Out, Cinema Blend is reporting. Similar to how Osmosis Jones took place inside the human body, Inside Out takes place inside the mind of a little girl, with the main characters being her “emotions,” Anger, […]

Thanks to ComingSoon.Net’s live-blogging from Disney D23, we now know that there are at least two more movies coming up in Disney’s popular Tinker Bell franchise. The first one, Legend of the Never Beast, is apparently centered around a mythic, flying dog-like creature. The second one–which should be far more exciting to fans–is The Pirate […]

Diane Keaton and Eugene Levy will voice Dory’s parents in Finding Dory, Collider is reporting. The plot will involve Dory on a quest to find her long-lost family, only for Marlin and Nemo to have to go and find her. Possible minor spoilers found within the article indicate that the ending of the movie has […]

Fresh from Disney’s D23 Expo is the official voice cast for next year’s The Good Dinosaur. Cinema Blend has a brief rundown, with the cast including Lucas Neff, John Lithgow, Frances McDormand, Neil Patrick Harris and Bill Hader. The plot, apparently, involves a dinosaur farmer named Arlo who befriends a human child. The Good Dinosaur […]

Fans of 2011’s The Muppets should be happy to know that songwriter Bret McKenzie–who won an Oscar for the song  Man or Muppet–is back to write more songs for the sequel. Collider recently spoke with him, where he revealed that the new movie should have “Six or seven (songs), depending on how the edit goes.  […]

Disney is apparently looking to give its upcoming untitled Pirates of the Caribbean sequel a severe budget cut, The Wrap is reporting. The supposed reason for this disappointing news is that The Lone Ranger hasn’t been performing as the studio had hoped, causing Disney to “rethink” the budgets it spends on its future summer tentpoles. Perhaps […]

Coming online a lot earlier than many probably expected, the first trailer for The Muppets Most Wanted is now online and can be seen on Disneys’ official website. The sequel to 2011’s critically acclaimed movie finds Kermit on the run from the law thanks to an international criminal who looks just like him. And in […]

The first poster for Free Birds is now online, and can be seen over at Yahoo! Movies. The ad proudly proclaims that the film is “The Greatest Turkey Movie of All Time!” Whether or not it will live up to that bold promise remains to be seen, but audiences can judge for themselves when Free […]

Long in development hell, Sony Pictures has been trying to get a live-action Masters of the Universe movie off the ground for years. The project finally found a director in G.I. Joe: Retaliation’s Jon. M Chu, but judging from a recent interview he gave with ComingSoon.Net, it sounds like it’s going to be a long […]

It was expected to be the summer of Iron Man and Superman, but it’s also proven to be the summer of the Minion. After just a few weeks, Despicable Me 2 has crossed the $300 million mark, Box Office Mojo is reporting. The sequel is now the sixth highest grossing animated movies of all time, behind […]

The first poster for DreamWorks Animation’s Mr. Peabody & Sherman is now online, and can be seen over at the IMP Awards. Originally slated for release this holiday season, the Rocky and Bullwinkle characters come to theaters everywhere next March.

If you’re one of the many people who thought that those LEGO characters in the upcoming Lego Movie very much looked like the real thing, fear not, for your eyes weren’t playing tricks on you. At Comic-Con today, it was officially revealed that the film would be a mix of stop-motion animation and CGI, i09 is […]

Exciting movie and TV news just keeps pouring in this weekend from Comic-Con, and the panels for FOX’s popular cartoon shows American Dad and Family Guy were no exception…or were they? During the panel for Dad, Zap 2 It reports that series co-creator Mike Barker strongly hinted that an American Dad movie might be close […]

It’s been more than a year since a new episode of The Legend of Korra was shown on Nick, but thanks to this year’s Comic-Con, fans finally have a taste of the show’s next season. Comic Book Movie has the brand new trailer for Book II: Spirits which was shown at San Diego earlier today, […]