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Monsters University coming home in October

Blu-Ray.com is reporting that Monsters University now has an official Blu-Ray date, and will be available to own on October 29th. The movie will be able to be purchased as a four-disc 3-D Blu-Ray combo pack, a 3-disc Collector’s Edition Blu-Ray combo back, and a standard edition. Both the 3-D Blu-Ray and the Collector’s Edition […]

Planes already a hit; could possibly lead the weekend?

Proving that the theatrical release is going to pay off big time for the studio, Disney’s Planes is already doing strong business, THR is reporting, and is expected to gross $30 million or more for the weekend. It may even beat Elysium–the Matt Damon actioner that was expected to lead the weekend–for the top spot […]

UPDATED: Disney announces Zootopia

We’ve been getting an onslaught of exciting Disney news all afternoon thanks to Disney’s D23, and now ComingSoon.Net has given us the news via their live-blogging of the event that the studio’s original feature for 2016 will be called Zootopia, which will be helmed by Tangled director Byron Howard. Very little is known about the […]

Totally original and not at all a rip-off Wings now on store shelves

By sheer coincidence, we have two animated movies about talking planes made available to the public this week. The first, of course, is Disney’s Planes, currently in theaters. But most audiences will be far more eager to see Wings, a straight-to-DVD movie about talking planes that just happened to come out only days before Planes’ […]

Voice cast for Inside Out announced

Lewis Black, Mindy Kaling, Bill Hader, Amy Poehler and Phyllis Smith will all be lending their voices to Pixar’s upcoming Inside Out, Cinema Blend is reporting. Similar to how Osmosis Jones took place inside the human body, Inside Out takes place inside the mind of a little girl, with the main characters being her “emotions,” Anger, […]

Tom Hiddleston to voice a young Captain Hook in upcoming Tinker Bell movie

Thanks to ComingSoon.Net’s live-blogging from Disney D23, we now know that there are at least two more movies coming up in Disney’s popular Tinker Bell franchise. The first one, Legend of the Never Beast, is apparently centered around a mythic, flying dog-like creature. The second one–which should be far more exciting to fans–is The Pirate […]

Dory’s parents to be featured in Finding Dory; ending of movie already changed due to anti-Sea World documentary?

Diane Keaton and Eugene Levy will voice Dory’s parents in Finding Dory, Collider is reporting. The plot will involve Dory on a quest to find her long-lost family, only for Marlin and Nemo to have to go and find her. Possible minor spoilers found within the article indicate that the ending of the movie has […]

The Good Dinosaur voice cast announced

Fresh from Disney’s D23 Expo is the official voice cast for next year’s The Good Dinosaur. Cinema Blend has a brief rundown, with the cast including Lucas Neff, John Lithgow, Frances McDormand, Neil Patrick Harris and Bill Hader. The plot, apparently, involves a dinosaur farmer named Arlo who befriends a human child. The Good Dinosaur […]

Muppets Most Wanted to feature six or seven songs

Fans of 2011’s The Muppets should be happy to know that songwriter Bret McKenzie–who won an Oscar for the song  Man or Muppet–is back to write more songs for the sequel. Collider recently spoke with him, where he revealed that the new movie should have “Six or seven (songs), depending on how the edit goes.  […]

Pirates 5 facing severe budget cuts?

Disney is apparently looking to give its upcoming untitled Pirates of the Caribbean sequel a severe budget cut, The Wrap is reporting. The supposed reason for this disappointing news is that The Lone Ranger hasn’t been performing as the studio had hoped, causing Disney to “rethink” the budgets it spends on its future summer tentpoles. Perhaps […]

First Muppets Most Wanted trailer now online

Coming online a lot earlier than many probably expected, the first trailer for The Muppets Most Wanted is now online and can be seen on Disneys’ official website. The sequel to 2011’s critically acclaimed movie finds Kermit on the run from the law thanks to an international criminal who looks just like him. And in […]

First Free Birds poster revealed

The first poster for Free Birds is now online, and can be seen over at Yahoo! Movies. The ad proudly proclaims that the film is “The Greatest Turkey Movie of All Time!” Whether or not it will live up to that bold promise remains to be seen, but audiences can judge for themselves when Free […]

Jon M. Chu gives Masters of the Universe update

Long in development hell, Sony Pictures has been trying to get a live-action Masters of the Universe movie off the ground for years. The project finally found a director in G.I. Joe: Retaliation’s Jon. M Chu, but judging from a recent interview he gave with ComingSoon.Net, it sounds like it’s going to be a long […]

Despicable Me 2 crosses $300 million mark; sequel banned from China

It was expected to be the summer of Iron Man and Superman, but it’s also proven to be the summer of the Minion. After just a few weeks, Despicable Me 2 has crossed the $300 million mark, Box Office Mojo is reporting. The sequel is now the sixth highest grossing animated movies of all time, behind […]

First poster for Peabody & Sherman now online

The first poster for DreamWorks Animation’s Mr. Peabody & Sherman is now online, and can be seen over at the IMP Awards. Originally slated for release this holiday season, the Rocky and Bullwinkle characters come to theaters everywhere next March.

The Lego Movie to mix stop-motion with CGI

If you’re one of the many people who thought that those LEGO characters in the upcoming Lego Movie very much looked like the real thing, fear not, for your eyes weren’t playing tricks on you. At Comic-Con today, it was officially revealed that the film would be a mix of stop-motion animation and CGI, i09 is […]

Is Family Guy going to kill off a major character? Has an American Dad movie been confirmed?

Exciting movie and TV news just keeps pouring in this weekend from Comic-Con, and the panels for FOX’s popular cartoon shows American Dad and Family Guy were no exception…or were they? During the panel for Dad, Zap 2 It reports that series co-creator Mike Barker strongly hinted that an American Dad movie might be close […]

New Legend of Korra: Book II trailer; release date for new season revealed

It’s been more than a year since a new episode of The Legend of Korra was shown on Nick, but thanks to this year’s Comic-Con, fans finally have a taste of the show’s next season. Comic Book Movie has the brand new trailer for Book II: Spirits which was shown at San Diego earlier today, […]

Phineas & Ferb are going to a galaxy far, far away…

Taking advantage of the fact that, yes, they own Star Wars now, Disney announced at Comic-Con today that they are planning on sending Phineas & Ferb into the galaxy far, far away, THR is reporting. The special one-hour episode will find the title characters living on Tatooine when they accidentally come into possession of the […]

The Simpsons to meet the Griffins in an upcoming Family Guy

Following years of so-called “rivalry” between the two shows, Family Guy and The Simpsons are set to do an all-out crossover with each other, EW is reporting. In an upcoming Family Guy episode–called The Simpsons Guy–the Griffins somehow wind up in Springfield, where “Stewie is impressed with Bart and his assortment of pranks, Lisa tries to […]

How to Train Your Dragon 2 teaser trailer now online

The announcement trailer for How to Train Your Dragon 2–which is the same preview that was shown to attendees of Cinema Con earlier this year–has made its way online and can be seen at ComingSoon.Net. Naturally, with the movie almost an entire year away, the clip doesn’t show anything about the plot, except giving audiences […]

PG rating confirmed for Planes

A while back, Disney’s Planes was said to have received a PG rating from the MPAA, but there was nothing to confirm the reports. Now Box Office Mojo has done just that, saying that the film has been rated PG for “some mild action and rude humor.” Planes opens everywhere August 9th.

New Smurfs 2 and Planes posters

New international posters for two upcoming animated films have made their way over to the IMP Awards. First up, we have a rather bizarre Japanese poster for The Smurfs 2, which to American audiences at least may look more like a comic book cover than a poster for a movie. Also from Japan is a […]

New Frozen poster

A new French poster for Frozen–notably more interesting than the American one, which just featured the film’s title–can now be seen at the IMP Awards. The movie opens everywhere in 3-D this Thanksgiving.

Blu-Ray dates for Robot Chicken and South Park

Release dates for two popular cartoon shows “for big kids” were announced today, and Blu-Ray.com has the news on both. First up is Robot Chicken: Season 6, which will give fans a ton of special features, including commentary tracks on all 20 episodes, more than 50 deleted animatics and seven fully animated deleted scenes. Next […]

Monsters University graduates at box office

Seeing the second best Pixar opening of all time, Monsters University easily topped the box office this weekend, ComingSoon.Net is reporting. The only one of the studio’s films to top its $82 million debut was Toy Story 3 back in 2010. In other box office news, Man of Steel saw a slightly bigger than expected drop–largely […]

Smurfy new Smurfs 2 trailer now online

Yet another trailer for an upcoming animated movie has made its way online this week, this time being the full preview for Sony’s upcoming The Smurfs 2, which can be found on the studio’s YouTube page. Although children are obviously the target audience for this film, those who don’t want the entire movie’s plot laid out […]

First look at Disney’s Frozen

With the first trailer hitting the internet later this week, USA Today has a sneak peek at Disney’s upcoming Frozen. The article features official images from the movie, as well as an interview with Kristen Bell, who voices Anna, a young woman who goes on a quest to find her long lost sister, who has become the Snow […]

First images from Free Birds now online

Going more or less unnoticed by most movie websites this past week was the debut of new images from Free Birds, the animated comedy about a pair of turkeys who go back in time to change the course of history. Collider has a first look at two stills from the film, and also announces that Eddie […]

And you thought they were gone! The Chipmunks are coming back to theaters

Although many thought that the franchise ended with 2011’s Chip-Wrecked!, Alvin & the Chipmunks are set to come back to the big screen in 2015, Box Office Mojo is reporting. The plot this time finds Alvin and his singing pals seeking revenge when their friend and owner Dave is murdered by their arch-enemy “Uncle Ian,” which […]