A brief one minute promo for Studio Ghibli’s 2010 film, Arrietty, is now available for streaming. Via ANN the promo highlights the dub voice actors Bridgit Mendler and David Henrie; they play the leads in the film. Arrietty reimagines the 1952 British novel in a Tokyo suburb. It will be opening February 17 in the […]

The Sacramento Bee has two major headlines from DreamWorks. Gregg Taylor has been named the new head of development. Taylor started his DreamWorks animation relationship began with Shrek and prior to his promotion worked on expanding the How to Train Your Dragon, Penguins of Madagascar and television projects. Alex Schwartz is the new producer for […]

If you’ve noticed the black bars on Google, Wikipedia, and other news websites, then you probably know about PIPA (Protect IP Act) and SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act). These two bills are being debated in the US Congress as you read this post. These two acts have the power to censor, regulate, and shutdown millions […]

Collider.com has news about two superhero projects, one from each of the two comic giants. A movie based off Marvel’s Deadpool character has been rumored for years, but Marvel artist Rob Liefeld has neither confirmed or denied that eight minutes of test footage has been completed. There isn’t a release date yet, but the script […]

Piartes of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides director Rob Marshall is returning to direct musicals. He directed the 2002 critically acclaimed and Oscar winner Chicago. Disney has slated him to direct a feature-length movie of Stephen Sondheim’s fairytale mashup Into the Woods. Marhsall hasn’t been attached to the fifth Pirates movie, but whether it gets […]

Disney is pulling fan favorites from the vault to cash in on 3-D craze before it dies. The Lion King and Cars 2 were treated with the third dimension treatment and Beauty and the Beast will come out this week and critics’ reviews are already mixed. The new Tangled short will be worth a visit […]

Each year the National Film Registry from the Library of Congress selects twenty-five films to be preserved for posterity. This year Disney’s 1942 animated classic based off Felix Salten’s novel was added: Bambi and Pixar co-founder Ed Catmull’s 1972 film A Computer Animated Hand, one of the earliest 3D animation films. The film is one […]

Two foreign animated movies have a limited US release. The French A Cat in Paris premieres in California to make a bid at the Academy Award. It has been praised in the national and international film festival circuits. Redline comes from Japan and will entertain New York City before its DVD/Blu-Ray release. Both movies are […]

Just because we cannot get enough of the Muppets and their newest movie, we found some interviews for you to enjoy. Walter, Miss Piggy, Kermit, Fozzie, Gonzo, and some of the humans that appear in the film answer questions and entertain fans There are fourteen, count’em, fourteen wonderful interviews to distract yourself with for the […]

Bollywood is slowly breaking into the animation industry with moderate success. The newest animated film from the subcontinent, Super K–created by Shemaroo Entertainment Ltd, will be distributed via the Internet before a theatrical release. Shemaroo Entertainment is renowned for its quality films and it will release the 3-D CGI movie in English and Hindi free […]

Green Lantern: The Animated Series will set the the stage for the DC Nation program block debuting next year. The first scene from the one hour pilot is available online. DC Animated Universe veteran Bruce Timm heads the Green Lantern series rendered entirely in 3-D animation. In the TV movie release, Hal Jordan and the […]

Hayao Miyazaki recently tweeted about how he sees a strong decline in Japanese animation because only women are applying for animator positions. He quickly responded with a five-part tweet to clarify his opinion, but it still leaves room for questions. Despite the hopeful messages in his movies, Miyazaki appears to be a have a pessimistic […]

New clips for the The Adventures of Tintin movie have made their way to the Internet via a German trailer. Europe is getting more Tintin treatment because of the larger fan base (Hergé, the comic’s creator, is Belgian) than in the US, which goes along with the prediction that it will have more success overseas. […]