As the March 22nd release date for DreamWorks’ The Croods approaches, more information from the film is becoming available. First up, a new poster is online at ComingSoon.net. Next, a new commerical playing off the recent presidential inauguration is up at Extra. And finally, The Daily Blam reports that The Art of The Croods book […]

The latest indie project coming out of the Sundance Film Festival shows the dark side of the Happiest Place on Earth. According to the New York Times, Randy Moore and a cast and crew spent several days filming inside the Disney parks and hotels without permission, with the result being the horror fantasy Escape From […]

After reading that The Little Mermaid lost its shot at a theatrical re-release this past week, Den of Geek decided to take a look back at the end of the dark ages of Disney animation and the renaissance which was sparked by the film in the late 1980s.

The L.A. Times reports that for the fifth year in a row DreamWorks Animation was named to Fortune’s list of the Best 100 Companies to Work For. The company came in 12th and was the only Hollywood studio to make the cut. DreamWorks’ head of human resources, Dan Satterthwaite, said “We see this recognition as […]

USA Today has a first look at the upcoming sequel Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2. In this outing we discover the invention that turns water to food has not been completely destroyed and is now creating food/animal hybrids. “The punny food-imals include the likes of tacodiles, fruit cockatiels, cucumbirds, bananostriches, flamangoes, wildabeets and […]

For the seventh year, Shorts HD is bringing the Oscar nominated short films to theatres across the country. Beginning February 1st, the animated, live action, and documentary shorts will be on the big screen together with introductions by former Oscar winners — including William Joyce and Brandon Oldenburg, who won last year’s Best Animated Short […]

io9 has a “retro movie review” of Titan A.E., the Twentieth Century Fox film released in 2000 and directed by Don Bluth. With the popularity of later gritty space operas like Battlestar Galactica and Firefly, the reviewer believes the property is rife for a reboot in theatres or as a TV show. With a story […]

The nominations for the 85th Annual Academy Awards were announced today. The full list is available on the Oscar website. • Best Animated Feature: Frankenweenie, The Pirates! Band of Misfits, Wreck-It Ralph, ParaNorman, and Brave • Best Animated Short: Adam and Dog, Fresh Guacamole, Head over Heels, Maggie Simpson in The Longest Daycare, and Paperman […]

The 70th annual Golden Globe Award nominees have been revealed, the AP reports. Animated nominations were confined to the Best Animated Film category with Brave, Frankenweenie, Hotel Transylvania, Rise of the Guardians, and Wreck-It Ralph getting the nods.

Pixar’s Untitled Movie That Takes You Inside The Mind may be untitled no more. Bleeding Cool reports that the Pete Docter directed film, told from the perspective of a little girl’s emotions, will be titled The Inside Out. After getting that scoop, the site did some research and discovered that Disney’s head of distribution in […]

Wreck-it Ralph picked up the prize for Best Animated Film from the National Board of Review, according to Entertainment Weekly. Their track record of predicting Oscar success is close to perfect. Since the Academy started giving out an animated feature award in 2001, the winner of the NBR animation prize went on to win the […]

For those of you near San Francisco, Grubwithus is having a contest where you can win two seats to a dinner with Pixar co-founder Alvy Ray Smith — someone who seems to have been forgotten in the history of Pixar. If you’re a fan of the studio you might find this especially interesting as Smith […]

Awards season has begun! After the Annie nominations this morning, the New York Film Critics’ Circle has announced the winners of their annual prizes. And the animation award went to Disney and Tim Burton’s Frankenweenie. However, that may not be a harbinger of Oscar glory. Since the Academy started giving out an animated feature award […]

The International Animated Film Society, ASIFA-Hollywood, announced nominations today for its 40th Annual Annie Awards recognizing the year’s best in the field of animation. The nominees for Best Animated Features this year are: Brave, Frankenweenie, Hotel Transylvania, ParaNorman, Rise of the Guardians, The Pirates! Band of Misfits, The Rabbi’s Cat, and Wreck-It Ralph. Brave, Rise […]

ParaNorman had a weaker than expected opening, coming in third place for the weekend with $14 million according to Box Office Mojo. “Even with a unique concept and lukewarm competition, the movie still couldn’t break out of the standard stop-motion animation opening range, which reinforces how tricky this sub-genre is”.

Brenda Chapman, a former Pixar director and the original creative force behind Brave who was later replaced as director, has come out for the first time to explain her thoughts on what happened. In a piece for a New York Times series on How Can Women Gain Influence in Hollywood?, Chapman blames the “Hollywood Boy’s […]

Disney has ended production on an untitled Henry Selick project that had been slated for release in October 2013 due to it not being as far along as they needed it to be, according to Variety. They note that he still has the option to take the film to another studio.

As we get closer to the release of Feature Films/Laika’s ParaNorman this weekend the promotional tour is in full swing. Laika CEO and ParaNorman producer Travis Knight talks the rebirth of modern stop-motion animation and more with Dread Central. And Digital Facility has a running line of interviews with the filmmakers. Those posted so far […]

IndieWire reports that Pixar’s Brenda Chapman, the original director of Brave, has left Pixar for an unannounced project at LucasFilm Animation. Thanks to Lord Akiyama in the AV Forum for the tip.

The New York Times has a look at Laika, the company behind the upcoming animated film ParaNorman. The in-depth piece includes: a history of the studio, a look at some of their ground-breaking work in rapid prototyping and 3D and how the Laika aims to push the boundaries of stop-motion animation, a discussion with Henry […]

Wreck-it Ralph director Rich Moore talks with HitFix about pitching the film to John Lasseter, getting game studios on board for character cameos, Sarah Silverman’s involvement, creating the in-movie game, and more.