Walt Disney Studios has released the dialogue-free “music video” Planes Takes Flight, to help build buzz for this summer’s Cars spin-off. For two and a half minutes, the video shows off the film’s visuals and storyline without a single spoken word, using just new footage and the musical score. Interestingly, that musical score comes from […]

Earlier this week, a Portuguese-language teaser trailer for Rio 2 went online. Now Fox has released a domestic version, featuring a colorful assortment of characters shaking their tail feathers until interrupted by Luiz the dog and a familiar foe. “Keep celebrating… I’ll be pooping on your party promptly,” warns Nigel the cockatoo, once again voiced […]

Over the past few months, more and more members of the creative team behind DisneyToon Studios’ Planes have been revealed, from the director to producers to story artists. However, one glaring omission from the film’s IMDb and Wikipedia pages left folks asking, “Who exactly wrote this movie?” Now a source at Disney has given Animated […]

Constantin Film has sent Animated Views the poster artwork for Tarzan, the latest adaptation of Edgar Rice Burroughs’ legendary hero. The poster for the motion capture film first debuted in April but with German-language text. This new version of the one sheet arrives without text, allowing the viewer to fully enjoy the striking artwork of […]

As folks at this year’s CinemaCon reported back from the Despicable Me 2 presentation, readers were surprised to learn that the highly anticipated sequel will feature an alternate version of the yellow, friendly Minions loved by audiences worldwide. Indeed, the franchise’s second chapter will soon introduce moviegoers to purple, evil Minions. Now the official Facebook […]

The teaser trailer for Rio 2 has leaked, in Portuguese, thanks to Animação S.A., reports A113 Animation. The new footage presents the film’s cast of characters performing a festive dance number, with macaws Blu and Jewel accompanied by their new triplets. The trailer also shows off Blue Sky Studios’ new logo, featuring Scrat once again […]

While Planes won’t hit theaters until August 9, a teaser poster for its sequel, Fire & Rescue, has already been discovered by Cine1.com.ar. The poster advertises the DisneyToon sequel as “coming soon” – perhaps sooner than originally expected given that this poster and an Art of book for the sequel have already been revealed.

When Amazon.com recently listed their upcoming books based on Disney’s Planes, one anticipated title was noticeably missing: The Art of Planes. Now an inside source has revealed to Animated Views that the book will not be released – at least, not anytime soon. Instead, Chronicle Books will publish the tentatively-titled Art of Planes 1 & […]

FilmoFilia has three new international posters for Monsters University, centered on the Oozma Kappa (OK) and Jaws Theta Chi (JOX) fraternities and the Python Nu Kappa (PNK) sorority. In other poster news, IMP Awards has the latest one-sheet for Epic, which uses each letter in the film’s title as a “window” for a main character. […]

Over the past couple of decades, Warner Bros. has tried many times to bring its most famous DC characters to the big screen. To help with these endeavors, the studio has hired many talented writers and directors to develop projects that, for one reason or another, were ultimately abandoned. Some of the more famous attempts […]

Top Cat: The Movie has taken its time in coming to the U.S. The film hit theaters in Mexico in September 2011, before hitting the U.K. in June 2012. Now Top Cat: The Movie is making its way to U.S. theaters, and iTunes has the first trailer. Based on the classic Hanna-Barbera series, Top Cat: […]

After The Croods dominated the box office earlier this year, it was almost inevitable that the film would receive a sequel. But now, the Croods fan blog reports a TV series starring “the first modern family” is in the works as well. During DreamWorks’ Q1 earnings stockholder phone call last week, studio CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg […]

DreamWorks Classics and Bullwinkle Studios are teaming with IDW Publishing to bring Jay Ward’s classic characters to your local comic book shop, says Comic Vine. Mr. Peabody & Sherman will be the first characters to receive a new comic book series, in anticipation of their computer animated film opening March 2014. A series of comics […]

Disney has confirmed that The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh will arrive on Blu-ray on August 27. Bonus features for the release will include the classic theatrical short A Day for Eeyore as well as five brand-new Mini Adventures of Winnie the Pooh short films. Plus, for a limited time only, consumers will find […]

Jason Bateman will lend his voice to a top-secret feature from Walt Disney Animation Studios, says The Hollywood Reporter. With Disney remaining tight-lipped on the project, the only description THR provides is that it’s an “untitled animal comedy.” The feature appears to be in good hands, however, with Bryon Howard (Bolt, Tangled) directing. Bateman’s voiceover […]

Mike Wazowski and James P. Sullivan are taking a break from their studies at Monsters University to visit Walt Disney World. Of course, the characters are no stranger to Disney’s theme parks, since the release of Monsters, Inc. in 2001. But now guests at Hollywood Studios can catch Mike and Sulley sporting younger makeovers and […]

This week, Walt Disney Studios announced that Planes will have a special screening during this year’s EAA AirVenture Oshkosh, at Ford’s Fly-In Theater on August 2. Now TheNorthWestern.com goes behind the scenes of how this event was arranged. According to the article, Mach 2 Marketing began talking with Disney and the Experimental Aircraft Association last […]

In addition to being this year’s first animated movie, Escape from Planet Earth proved to be a box office success. Distributed by The Weinstein Company, the film opened mid-February with $16 million before eventually collecting more than $55 million domestically. Does this mean that animation studio Rainmaker Entertainment might soon enter pre-production on a sequel?

Animated Views has a new screenshot from CAOZ’s Egill, a computer animated feature integrating hand drawn elements. Egill is the second CGI film from the Reykjavík-based studio, whose first feature, Legends of Vahalla: Thor, hit U.S. stores last March as Thor: Legend of the Magical Hammer. CAOZ is co-producing Egill with the Hungarian production company […]

Deadline reports that Mad Men star Jon Hamm will voice Herb Overkill in Illumination Entertainment’s Despicable Me prequel, Minions. He joins the already-announced Sandra Bullock, who voices Overkill’s wife and aspiring super-villain Scarlet. According to Deadline, Minions is set in the 1960s – before the title henchmen met Gru – and focuses on the Minions’ […]

For this year’s first quarter, DreamWorks Animation reported $134.6 million in revenue and $5.6 million in net income, partially thanks to The Croods in theaters and several titles on home video. Thus far, The Croods has collected almost $480 million worldwide, well on its way to beating Disney’s Oz the Great and Powerful as the […]

D Magazine has an in-depth profile on the Dallas-based animation studio Reel FX and its CEO Steve O’Brien. In 20 years, the studio has grown from animating direct-to-video films like Hasbro’s G.I. Joe titles and the Open Season sequels to producing its first theatrical feature, Free Birds. With voice acting by Owen Wilson, Woody Harrelson […]

Theme park enthusiast Jeff Lange is keeping viewers updated on the festivities at Walt Disney World to promote Monsters University. On YouTube, he shows Mike Wazowski and Sulley projected onto Epcot’s Spaceship Earth as part of the park’s Monstrous Summer All-Nighter. In another vid, Lange walks viewers through the Monsters University display at Hollywood Studios, […]

ITunes is offering some noteworthy freebies for families and animation enthusiasts. Toy Story: Smash It! has unveiled a free Lost Episode version, sure to please fans of the similar block-breaking game Angry Birds. Meanwhile, Surf’s Up, Spongebob! is iTunes’ free book of the week. The book’s synopsis reads, “SpongeBob eagerly accepts Sandy’s invitation to go […]

With the summer movie season kicking off this weekend, Sony Pictures is starting to put their marketing muscle behind The Smurfs 2. Of course, no good movie campaign nowadays would be complete without social media integration. Hence, the studio has enlisted the newest member of the original “blue man group”: Social Smurf, voiced by Extra […]

Among marketing materials for Monsters University, one of the most frequently shown scenes involves a college-aged James P. Sullivan introducing himself to roommate Mike Wazowski. Monsters, Inc. fans have taken issue with this footage, since the 2001 hit has Mike joking to Sulley, “You’ve been jealous of my good looks since the fourth grade, pal!” […]

Our friends The Rotoscopers have scooped new promotional artwork for DreamWorks Animation’s How to Train Your Dragon 2. In addition to images reported last week, their assortment features the characters Hiccup, Toothless, Astrid and a slew of new creatures. Directed by Dean DeBlois, How to Train Your Dragon 2 is expected to enter theaters June […]

Walt Disney Studios announced today that Planes will have a special screening at this year’s EAA AirVenture Oshkosh, the nation’s largest gathering of aviation enthusiasts. The screening will take place at Wittman Regional Airport in Oshkosh, WI, on Friday, August 2 – one week before the film hits theaters nationwide.

Audiences who made The Croods this year’s first animated blockbuster can now pre-order the film on Amazon.com. The film will be available to own via 3D or standard Blu-ray combo packs, with the latter containing a plush toy of the character Belt for a limited time. Directed by Chris Sanders and Kirk DeMicco, The Croods […]