Producer Frank Marshall revealed on twitter that actress Bridgit Mendler is leading the English voice cast for Studio Ghibli’s latest film Arrietty the Borrower for its North American release, reports /Film. Based on Mary Norton‘s 1952 novel The Borrowers, the film, directed by Hiromasa Yonebayashi, with supervision by Hayao Miyazaki, was released in Japan on […]

Latino Review has shared four new posters from Twentieth Century Fox and Blue Sky Studios’ upcoming animated flick Rio. Directed by Carlos Saldanha and featuring the voices of Jesse Eisenberg, Anne Hathaway, Jamie Foxx, Tracy Morgan, Leslie Mann, Jemaine Clement, George Lopez, Jake T. Austin and Will.I.Am, Rio opens in theaters on April 15.

DVDActive reports that Lionsgate Home Entertainment has announced a Blu-ray/DVD Combo release of The Last Unicorn for February 22nd. Extras on this release will include a commentary with Writer Peter S. Beagle and Publisher Connor Cochran, featurettes (“Immortal Voices” and “Peter S. Beagle and His Work”), a Tail of The Last Unicorn mini-documentary, Schmendrick’s Magical […]

Blue Sky Studios’ latest animated short Scrat’s Continental Crack-Up, featuring the saber toothed squirrel Scrat from the Ice Age films, is now available to watch on Apple. The short which also played in theaters with Gulliver’s Travels, marks Scrat’s reunion with his cursed acorn. Ice Age: Continental Drift, the next installment of the Ice Age […]

DVD Active reports that DreamWorks has announced DVD and Blu-ray/DVD Combo releases of Megamind for February 25. Extras on this release will include a filmmakers commentary, a deleted scene, a Meet The Cast Of Megamind featurette, a 4-part World Of DreamWorks Animation feature, and preview trailers. Additionally, the Blu-ray/DVD Combo release will also include a […]

Walt Disney Home Entertainment has announced plans to release at least fifteen of its films on Disney 3D Blu-ray in 2011. Animated classics The Lion King and Beauty and the Beast, and current theatrical releases Tron: Legacy and Tangled are among the 15 titles scheduled to be released next year. Additional titles include Bolt, Meet […]

The United States Postal Service announced today that they will release a commemorative series of Pixar stamps in 2011. This pane of 20 stamps, which go on sale August 19, includes five different designs featuring Pixar characters Lightning McQueen and Mater from Cars, Remy the rat and Linguini from Ratatouille, Buzz Lightyear and two of […]

A new behind the scenes featurette from Gore Verbinski’s upcoming animated film Rango is now available to watch on Yahoo!Movies. Starring Johnny Depp, Alanna Ubach, Abigail Breslin, Isla Fisher and Alfred Molina, Rango opens in theaters March 18, 2011.

Sony Pictures Animation is teaming up with David Reynolds, the Academy Award nominated co-writer of Finding Nemo for an untitled animated feature, reports HeatVision. Stephan Franck has been signed on to direct the flick. Franck was a supervising animator on Iron Giant and also worked as a storyboard artist on Despicable Me, and story artist […]

A new trailer for director Mamoru Hosoda’s upcoming animated feature Summer Wars is now available to watch on Apple. Featuring the voices of Michael Sinterniklaas, Brina Palencia, Pam Dougherty, Todd Haberkorn, J. Michael Tatum, and Maxey Whitehead, Summer Wars tells the story of an ordinary family going to extraordinary lengths to avert the impending cyber […]

A new trailer for Paramount’s upcoming animated flick Rango has appeared online, and can be watched over at Yahoo!Movies. Directed by Gore Verbinski, and featuring the voices of Johnny Depp, Alanna Ubach, Abigail Breslin, Isla Fisher and Alfred Molina, Rango opens on March 18, 2011.

Nominations for the 68th Annual Golden Globe Awards were announced today. Nominees for the Best Animated Film category are Toy Story 3, How to Train Your Dragon, The Illusionist, Despicable Me, and Tangled. Tangled also received a Best Song nomination for I See the Light. The British monarchy tale The King’s Speech led the Golden […]

DreamWorks Animation has just announced a new 3D feature Me and My Shadow to be released in March 2013, reports Variety. Directed by Mark Dindal, the feature will seamlessly combine CG and traditional animation, a first for DreamWorks Animation. The film tells the story of Shadow Stan, an incredibly frustrated shadow that yearns for a […]

Apple has made available a brand new trailer for Blue Sky Studios’ upcoming animated feature Rio. Directed by Carlos Saldanha, and featuring the voices of George Lopez, Jemaine Clement, Tracy Morgan, Leslie Mann, will.i.am, and Jamie Foxx, Rio is set to open in 3D on April 8th, 2011.

Sony Pictures has just released the first teaser trailer for Aardman Animations’ upcoming CGI flick Arthur Christmas, which can now be viewed over at Yahoo!Movies. Directed by Barry Cook and Sarah Smith, and featuring the voices of James McAvoy, Jim Broadbent, Bill Nighy, Hugh Laurie and Imelda Staunton, Arthur Christmas is scheduled to hit theaters […]

Walt Disney Home Entertainment has announced the DVD release of Studio Ghibli’s Tales from Earthsea on March 8, 2011. Based on the Earthsea book series by Ursula K. Le Guin, and directed by Goro Miyazaki, Tales from Earthsea features the voices of Timothy Dalton, Willem Dafoe, Cheech Marin and Mariska Hargitay. Extras on this release […]

In an exclusive interview to Collider, the legendary artist Glen Keane discusses hair, the journey of computer animation, and also the various roles he played in Tangled over the years. Keane was originally slated to co-direct Disney’s Tangled, which is all set to hit theatres on November 24th.

Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment has announced the release of Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind on Blu-ray on March 8, 2011, on a BD/DVD combo pack, reports Blu-ray. Nausicaa will become Studio Ghibli’s first catalog title released on Blu-ray in the US. Features on this release will include, “The World of Ghibli”, “Behind […]

/Film shares the first poster for Illumination Entertainment’s upcoming flick Hop which gives the first look at Russell Brand as the computer animated Easter Bunny. Scripted by Cinco Paul & Ken Daurio and Brian Lynch, and directed by Tim Hill, Hop opens in theaters on April 1st, 2011.

DVDActive reports that Lionsgate Home Entertainment has announced DVD and Blu-ray/DVD Combo releases of Alpha and Omega for January 11th. Extras on this release will include a deleted scene, 4 featurettes (“Wolves in the Wild”, “The Alpha of Animation”, “Voicing the Wolves”, “From Alpha to Omega”), a Log Sliding interactive game, “Are You and Alpha […]

After releasing the first images from Steven Spielberg’s The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn last week, Empire Magazine shares new images from the big screen adaptation of Tintin, reports Collider. One of these new images gives first look at the Thomson twins, the thief Silk and the mysterious Barnaby, played and voiced […]

Koji Hoshino, President of Studio Ghibli, announced at the Rome International Film Festival recently that the next Studio Ghibli film will be announced on December 15, reports Collider. While it is still unknown whether this project will be helmed by Miyazaki or a different director, there is speculation on whether Hoshino was referring to the […]

A brand new official US trailer for Sony Pictures Classics’ upcoming animated feature The Illusionist has debuted over at iTunes. Based on an old Jacques Tati script, the story follows the illusionist, as he learns to come to terms with his fading art and meets a young girl Alice, who will change his life forever. […]

Empire shares the first images from Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson’s upcoming CGI/Motion Capture flick The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn. This first batch of images reveal Tintin and Captain Haddock, played by Jamie Bell and Andy Serkis, respectively. The big screen adaptation of Hergé’s comic hits theaters next October.

The first teaser trailer for Pixar’s upcoming feature Cars 2 has been unveiled on its newly launched official website. The site also showcases some of the concept artworks from the film. The teaser is also available to watch in HD format on the official Disney/Pixar YouTube channel. Cars 2 opens in theatres on June 24th, […]

Cartoon Brew, with their reliable sources, reports that Brenda Chapman, the first woman director at Pixar, is no longer directing Brave. The site reports that Brenda was pushed aside from full directing a while back, and was replaced by the story artist Mark Andrews, who also co-directed Pixar short One Man Band. Release date for […]

The first five minutes of DreamWorks’ upcoming animated feature Megamind are now available to watch online. Directed by Tom McGrath and featuring the voices of Will Ferrell, Tina Fey, David Cross, Jonah Hill, and Brad Pitt, Megamind hits theaters in 3D on November 5th, 2010.

DVDActive reports that Fox Home Entertainment has announced 2-disc DVD and 2-disc Blu-ray releases of Futurama: Volume 5 for December 21, 2010. Bonus features on each set will include audio commentaries, featurettes: “Bend it Like Bender”, “Previously on….”, “Fry’s Crudely-Drawn Comic Book – The Crudely Animated Edition”, “Behind the Fungus: Makin’ a Hit Song”, and […]

/Film shares exclusive four new stills from Walt Disney Animation Studios’ upcoming animated film Tangled. Directed by Byron Howard and Nathan Greno, Tangled is scheduled to hit theaters on November 24th 2010.

DreamWorks Animation has signed a deal with Cartoon Network for a How To Train Your Dragon weekly TV series, reports Deadline. It is unclear whether any of the film’s original cast will voice the series, which is expected to be launched in both the U.S. and internationally in 2012.