This week, Pixar offered members of the media a sneak peek at Monsters University, and Jim Hill was on the guest list. The event previewed 40 minutes of the Monsters, Inc. prequel, plus an early screening of the latest Pixar short, The Blue Umbrella. Unfortunately, Hill cannot specifically reveal what he saw until the press’ […]

FilmStarts.de, via Coming Soon, has the first poster for Constantin Film’s 3D animated adventure Tarzan. The film features the motion captured performances of Kellan Lutz (The Twilight Saga) as Tarzan and Spencer Locke (Resident Evil entries Extinction and Afterlife) as Jane. Tarzan is expected to swing into theaters overseas this fall.

Coming Soon has a new “Toy Box” trailer for Disney Infinity. The footage reveals more crossovers in the Disney universe, from Mike Wazowski standing at Scrooge McDuck’s money bin to Carl Fredricksen’s house flying past the iconic hilltop of The Nightmare Before Christmas. Disney Infinity will be available August 18, for the Wii, Wii U, […]

For the most part, Al Pacino’s character Eduardo in Despicable Me 2 has been kept a secret. Audiences have known only that he is a villain so powerful, the Anti-Villain League must turn to super-villain Gru to stop him. However, Eduardo’s design has remained a mystery – until now. Chris “Tank” Tanski of The (Title […]

Yesterday, Disney announced, via a press release, that the Finding Nemo sequel Finding Dory would be released November 2015. Ellen DeGeneres, the voice of Dory, was excited to share this news with viewers of her daytime talk show. To help her with the announcement, she played a humorous montage of the many, many times she […]

A new sneak peek of DisneyToon Studios’ Planes is now online. Originally shown in AMC theaters, the minute-and-a-half clip shows off the film’s visuals as protagonist Dusty (Dane Cook) races F-18 fighter jets Bravo and Echo. Planes will fly into theaters on August 9.

Walt Disney Studios has announced that Disney/Pixar’s Finding Dory will hit theaters on November 25, 2015. Ellen DeGeneres will return to voice the blue tang fish made popular in the Oscar-winning 2003 blockbuster Finding Nemo. “I have waited for this day for a long, long, long, long, long, long time,” said DeGeneres. “I’m not mad […]

The first domestic poster for DisneyToon Studios’ Planes is now online, courtesy of Disney Insider. As with this international poster, the new one-sheet features Dusty Crophopper in a tight air race against the antagonistic Ripslinger. Meanwhile, the Internet Movie Poster Awards displays the latest seasonal poster for Monsters University, in which Sulley uses Mike as […]

USA Today reveals the full cast of DisneyToon Studios’ Planes, offering new character portraits and descriptions. John Cleese, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Cedric the Entertainer, Teri Hatcher, Brad Garrett and Sinbad will join the previously-announced Dane Cook, Stacy Keach, Roger Craig Smith, Gabriel Iglesias, Carlos Alazraqui and Priyanka Chopra. In addition, the film will feature a reunion […]

Muppets Henson has discovered that Tom Hiddleston will appear in The Muppets…Again! as The Great Escapo. An eagle-eyed observer at the site noticed the actor’s resume at Hamilton Hodell, his agency, listed the sequel among his upcoming films. As The Muppet Mindset reminds, Hiddleston has made no secret about his love for The Muppets (2011), […]

Disney has opened the hood on a new line of Cars Toons, Tales From Radiator Springs. According to A113 Animation, the shorts premiered during Disney Channel’s presentation of Up last Friday. Directed by Jeremy Lasky at Pixar Canada, each short is about 1.5 minutes long. Now all three of them – Hiccups, Spinning, and Bugged […]

To promote Despicable Me 2, Universal Pictures has set the Despicablimp on a 20,000-mile coast-to-coast trip in the U.S., reports MovieWeb. The airship – 165 feet long, 55 feet high and 46 feet wide – made its first official public appearance at Nickelodeon’s Kids’ Choice Awards in L.A. last weekend. The Despicablimp’s scheduled stops include […]

This week, Walt Disney Animation Studios welcomed a special guest: a reindeer, as a reference for the animators of Frozen. Feature animation coordinator Laura Meredith and effects animator Bruce Wright have each posted a pic of the reindeer online, while story supervisor Paul Briggs shares some of his sketches of her. Audiences can catch the […]

Stand-up comic Gabriel Iglesias and Sky Sports F1 commentator David Croft have joined DisneyToon Studios’ Planes. Croft will voice Racing Sports Network blimp Lofty Crofty for the film’s UK version, having posted a pic of the character on his Twitter profile. Iglesias, who also announced his casting via Twitter, has yet to reveal his character.

On the heels of last year’s Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted, characters Alex, Marty, Melman and Gloria are heading to SeaWorld for Madagascar Live! Operation: Vacation. According to PR Newswire, the show will feature familiar and new tunes from the franchise, performed by a live band. In addition, the characters will conduct meet and greets […]

Starting Saturday, all Walt Disney World and Disneyland resorts and parks in the U.S. will no longer allow unsupervised guests who are 14 years or younger. Disney selected the age of 14 after surveying guests and speaking with organizations dealing with child welfare, Disney spokesperson Suzi Brown told NBC4. She added that no particular incident […]

Coming Soon premieres the title treatment for Warner Bros.’ The LEGO Movie, directed by Phil Lord & Christopher Miller (Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs). To build anticipation for the film, Warner Bros. is asking LEGO enthusiasts to create 15-30 second video clips as part of the “LEGO ReBrick Movie Competition”. One of the clips […]

Two by two, the animals – and now directors – boarded Noah’s Ark. Deadline.com reports that Kung Fu Panda co-director John Stevenson and Shark Tale co-director Cameron Hood are helming the Unified Pictures computer animated musical. Written by Philip LaZebnik (Mulan), Noah’s Ark tells of Gilbert the meerkat, who leads a ragtag band of animals […]

Coming Soon attended a 45-minute presentation for Fox/Blue Sky’s Epic, in which director Chris Wedge showed new scenes and elaborated on making the film. One interesting note from Wedge was that Epic bears little resemblance to its original source material, William Joyce’s illustrated storybook The Leaf Men. The project became something different when Joyce left […]

One of the most talked about aspects of Sam Raimi’s blockbuster Oz The Great and Powerful is its opening credits sequence. Created by Yu + Co, the black-and-white, stereo 4:3 sequence was inspired by the films of George Melis, as explained by Garson Yu in an interview with Cinema Blend. Now viewers can witness this […]

Cartoon Brew reports that Escape from Planet Earth is the highest-grossing computer animated movie distributed by the Weinstein Co. Thus far, Earth has collected more than $52 million during its theatrical run. The studio’s previous top CGI earner was Hoodwinked, which collected $51.4 million in 2005.

Rise of the Guardians premiered atop Nielsen Video’s First Alert sales chart, which tracks overall disc sales, and Nielsen’s Blu-ray Disc sales chart. Oscar-winner Life of Pi debuted at No. 2 on both charts, despite making $122 million to Guardians‘ $103 million in theaters domestically. Wreck-It Ralph, the previous week’s top seller, fell to No. […]

During a recent event at Le Moyne and Syracuse University, Thomas Newman revealed that he will provide the musical score for Disney/Pixar’s The Good Dinosaur, says The Dolphin. This will mark Newman’s third collaboration with the studio, having provided Oscar-nominated scores for Finding Nemo and WALL-E. Directed by Bob Peterson, The Good Dinosaur tells of […]

Priyanka Chopra is the latest actress confirmed for DisneyToon Studios’ Planes, reports the Indo-Asian News Service. Chopra will voice the character Ishani, one of the many international planes to be featured in the Cars spin-off. Take Five A Day has a sneak peek at Ishani’s design.

Mike and Sulley prepare for St. Patrick’s Day antics in the latest poster for Monsters University, on display at IMPAwards.com. Moviegoers should anticipate more themed posters from design studio FIVE33, also responsible for the film’s winter-themed poster, as the monsters make their way to theaters this summer.

In January, Netflix announced it would carry full seasons of shows from Cartoon Network and Adult Swim starting March 30. Now Streaming Soon has the complete list of series about to hit the on-demand service. Courage the Cowardly Dog, Dexter’s Laboratory and The Powerpuff Girls are just some of the Cartoon Network titles to be […]

While Pixar and Guillermo del Toro prepare separate projects on the Day of the Dead, three seniors from the Ringling College of Art and Design are making their own short film about the Mexican holiday. Day of the Dead follows a young girl who discovers the holiday’s true meaning: “to celebrate the lives of lost […]

Speaking with a fan site for The Croods, Chris Sanders reveals some interesting trivia about another DreamWorks feature, Rise of the Guardians. Upon joining the studio in 2007, the director was apparently given a choice between The Croods and Guardians. “The Croods was the one that was up and running and ready to go,” he […]