The person in charge of marketing for the mysterious Disney film now titled Tomorrowland needs a raise, as internet buzz over the unknown project is at a fever pitch. The latest to weigh in is Disney expert Jim Hill. In his usual detailed and entertaining style, Hill posits that the film formally known as 1952 […]

Deadline is reporting that visual effects/animation studio Rhythm & Hues is filing for bankruptcy, telling some employees not to come in, and delaying paychecks. The news comes just hours after their winning of the Bafta for Special Visual Effects for Life of Pi and weeks before the Oscars where they are nominated twice in that […]

Pixar story illustrator Matt Jones is working with Facebook to basically reinvent the smiley, according to Buzzfeed. “Facebook was canny enough to realize that traditional emoticons are quite bland. At Pixar we consider emotional states every day with every drawing we make. Our work is informed by the years of study we do, constantly studying […]

Animation Fascination has pulled a three and a half minute preview of the upcoming Monsters University film off the upcoming Monsters Inc. 3D blu-ray disc and posted it for viewing. “We finally get a better look at the film’s storyline, along with some new concept art and animation. The whole thing is hosted by the […]

Brave continued its award winning streak, this time taking the top animation prize from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts. The Pixar film defeated Frankenweenie and ParaNorman. The Making Of Longbird won for Best Short Animation while Life Of Pi won for Special Visual Effects.

Animation (and quasi-related projects) were all losers in the Grammy Award race. The Woody Allen film Midnight In Paris won Best Compilation Soundtrack over The Muppets, The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo took the award for Best Score Soundtrack over The Adventures of Tintin, and Safe & Sound from The Hunger Games was the winner […]

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 […]

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 […]

Deadline reports that Disney and Google have teamed up to create Find Your Way To Oz, a plugin-free, in-browser experience using the very latest web technology. Look for it online February 5th and the film itself in theatres March 8th.

Entertainment Weekly has scored an exclusive interview with Kermit the Frog, who talks about his upcoming movie The Muppets… Again! “The idea of this film is that our gang is on this global tour, and we’re selling out these grand theaters all over Europe—in Berlin, Madrid, London—but we sort of get into a little bit […]