Some may have wondered why the Madagascar sequel was left out of the DreamWorks-Imax deal announced back in November… well, wonder no longer for it was just announced that Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa would now also be getting an Imax release on November 7th! Under the terms of the agreement, the sequel will be digitally […]

Two-time Academy Award nominee Bill Plympton premiered his new 2D feature film Idiots and Angels at the Tribeca Film Festival last month. The dark comedy, produced on a shoestring budget using monochromatic digital coloring and no dialogues, follows a morally bankrupt man scrabbling to hide the good in himself—which manifests itself in a pair of angel […]

Steven Spielberg will start shooting one of three Tintin movies this Fall, according to Variety. The Academy Award winning director had revealed last October that he would direct the second installment of the trilogy in the United States with Peter Jackson helming the first in New Zealand but it sounds like the two might have […]

Variety reports that Fox Broadcasting Co. and 20th Century Fox TV have jointly created the Fox Inkubator program to work with animators and writers in developing a range of shortform animated content. Separately, 20th has established a dedicated animation department within its walls for the first time.

It’s official! The Indiana Jones director will next tackle the first chapter of the long-delayed Tintin trilogy. Production on the motion capture film is expected to wrap early next year.

Could Hanna Montana and Danny Zuko be recording a song together for Disney? Possibly according to John Travolta’s wife Kelly Preston who hinted to E! on Friday that “Johnny may sing with Miley.” The two stars are teaming up for the Mouse House’s November 26th CG release Bolt, in which John Travolta voices the canine […]

Fox’s Dr. Seuss’ Horton Hears a Who! reached the $150 million landmark at the U.S. box office this week, becoming the 25th highest grossing animated film of all time according to Box Office Mojo. The Blue Sky feature is also performing strongly overseas with a cumulative worldwide gross of $284 million to date which is […]

The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian director Andrew Adamson, best known by animation fan as the helmer of Shrek and Shrek 2, talks to the New York Daily News about the use of computer animation in the upcoming Narnia sequel, comparing making a live-action movie versus an animated film like the difference between “running a […]

The L.A. Times reports that the Fox network has picked up two more animated comedies: The Cleveland Show, the much talked-about Family Guy spin-off centered on Peter Griffith’s accident-prone neighbor, Cleveland Brown; and Sit Down, Shut Up, about a group of mediocre high school teachers who work in a small Northeastern fishing town. Sit Down, […]

For those who can’t wait, head over to The Orlando Sentinel for a detailed breakdown of Toy Story Mania, the new Walt Disney World 3-D attraction which won’t officially open until May 31st but can be previewed until tomorrow by annual pass holders. And fear not, the Sentinel loved it!

Coming Soon! alerts fans that they can now create their very own robot from Wall•E by visiting Wall-E.com and clicking on the “BUILD-A-BOT” icon! This interactive feature lets users customize their own robot by choosing various body types, mobility function, colors and audio. Afterwards, users can test out their bots by playing various games. New […]

THQ and DreamWorks have entered into an exclusive licensing agreement to produce video games based on the November 5, 2010 3D film MasterMind which is described in the recent joint press release as a “a satirical send-up of the superhero genre, built around the story of a super villain who must find a new motivation after […]

The Hollywood Reporter reveals that Sean Astin, Giovanni Ribisi, Ron Perlman and Anjelica Huston will lend their voices to Spirit of the Forest, an eco-fairy tale for Fantastic Films International and Spain-based Dygra Films (The Living Forest, Midsummer Dream). Astin and Ribisi play two gopher friends whose home is threatened when an evil businesswoman (Huston) […]