After three straight weekends on top, DreamWorks Animation’s Shrek Forever After has finally ended its box office reign, beaten by the larger than expected debut of the Jackie Chan Karate Kid remake. The animated comedy has grosssed $210 million against a $160 million budget, making it a pretty big hit for the studio. Meanwhile, on the international […]

Wired Magazine has a very interesting look at the process Pixar went through to create this summer’s Toy Story 3. The article covers everything from the time it takes to make a feature to how much effort goes into making a single shot of the film. It also looks into just how the studio keeps managing […]

A new batch of images from the upcoming Toy Story 3 have just been revealed at Box Office Mojo. The anticipated Pixar sequel comes to theaters just two weeks from tomorrow.

Despite opening to “only” $70 million last weekend–less than many in the industry were expecting–, DreamWorks Animation’s Shrek Forever After is proving to be fairly leggy. With a drop of just 38%, the movie saw a second weekend gross of $43 million, enough to beat anticipated titles such as Sex and the City 2 and Disney’s […]

Probably surpassing virtually everyone’s expectations about it, Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland has surpassed the $1 billion mark worldwide and has become one of the highest grossing movies of all time. Only five other films in the history of cinema have been able to make that much in worldwide receipts. The live action/animated Disney movie comes […]

A new Russian poster for Universal Pictures’ animated Despicable Me has just been revealed on the internet. It features supervillain Gru sitting on a platform of some sort while surrounded by his yellow minions and other characters. The heavily marketed comedy hits theaters in the US this July.

DreamWorks Animation’s final installment in one of the most profitable animated franchises of all time comes to a close today with the release of Shrek Forever After. The sequel seems to be dividing critics so far, with a current rating of 50% “Freshness” over at RottenTomatoes.com. One thing that most reviews seem to agree on, […]

A first teaser poster for DreamWorks Animation’s upcoming Megamind has just been revealed at the Internet Movie Poster Awards. The animated superhero comedy starring Will Ferrell hits theaters this November.

Moviefone now has a first teaser trailer for Blue Sky Animation’s upcoming comedy Rio. The movie is about a rare bird who believes that he’s the last of his kind. When he discovers that there’s another of his kind in the world who’s a female, he leaves the cage that was once his home to go […]

After not appearing on the big screen since 2003’s box office bomb Looney Tunes: Back in Action, Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck and the rest of the gang are planning to make a return to theaters…in CGI this time. Three 3-D animated shorts have been approved by Warner Bros., the first of which is set to […]

Fox is currently working on developing an animated TV series based on the movie Napolean Dynamite, ComingSoon.net is reporting. The 2004 cult favorite was a moderate box office hit, grossing $44 million against a production budget of only $400,000. Jon Heder is expected to return to voice the title character, and other members of the cast […]

Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides is finding itself with a respectively smaller production budget than the franchise is used to, the LA Times is reporting. Although still in the $200 million range, it is still costing around $100 million less than the last film in the series, At World’s End. Because of this, a […]

A sequel to Jim Henson’s The Dark Crystal, which has been rumored about for years, has now been put into production, according to ComingSoon.net. The film will reportedly combine traditional puppetry with CGI special effects to create its fantasy world. Little is known about the plot at this point, but it will take place “hundreds of […]

The Internet Movie Poster Awards has recently posted new international posters for two upcoming animated movies. First, a new poster for Disney/Pixar’s Toy Story 3 from Australia has been revealed, with the ad focusing on the 3-D aspect of the film. Meanwhile, a UK poster for the fourth Shrek film has also been revealed, referring to the […]

ComingSoon.net has an exclusive first look at the one sheet for Shrek Forever After. The poster shows Shrek and an army of ogres looking as though they are about to face off against Rumplestilskin and his army of witches. In addition, the site points out that The Hollywood Reporter has revealed that the first three Shrek films […]

Universal Pictures has created another advertisement for their already much marketed Despicable Me, this time in the form of a holiday poster. The ad features the very marketable yellow corn pop minion characters inside an Easter basket among Easter eggs. Despicable Me opens everywhere this July.

Walt Disney Pictures just announced their latest marketing campaign for their upcoming Toy Story 3: Screening the movie in advance at select colleges across America. The only catch will be that the whole movie won’t be shown. Instead, it will be a special “Cliffhanger Edition” of the film, with only the first 65 minutes of the […]

Reports are coming in on various websites that next month’s DVD/Blu-ray release of James Cameron’s Avatar will be completely without extras. This is supposedly to use all of the disc space available to present the movie in the best high definition possible. A future, ultimate edition loaded with bonus content is expected to come out in […]

Two new posters for DreamWorks’ Shrek Forever After have just been revealed at Yahoo! Movies, and they offer small hints about the movie’s plot. The first features the title character behind bars and apparently jailed. The second has new villain Rumplestilskin standing in front of an army of witches, sporting a strange red hair style that makes […]

A fourth trailer for Universal’s upcoming Despicable Me can be found in various formats over at Apple.com. The animated comedy starring Steve Carell opens in theaters everywhere on July 9th.

Disney is reportedly working on making a live action movie based on one of their most popular animated villains. Maleficent, being penned by Alice in Wonderland screenwriter Linda Woolverton, will apparently tell the story of Sleeping Beauty from Maleficent’s perspective. None other than Tim Burton himself is being considered as a director for the project.

Paramount Pictures and Warner Bros. are currently battling it out over booking 3-D screens for their upcoming tentpole releases, the LA Times is reporting. Paramount Pictures is going through possibly extreme measures to get their animated How to Train Your Dragon in 3-D theaters, to the point where they’re even threatening some venues that they won’t […]

Responding to apparent confusion caused by the reports made yesterday that Hank Azaria would be only voicing the character of Gargamel in the upcoming Smurfs movie, Neil Patrick Harris, the film’s star, cleared things up on his Twitter account: “Hank Azaria will be PLAYING Gargamel for the Smurfs film, not just providing a voice. He’ll be […]

The first teaser trailer for DreamWorks Animation’s Megamind is now online to be viewed at Yahoo! Movies. Although less than a minute long, it does introduce its main character, a supervillain voiced by Will Ferrell whose life loses its meaning when he accidently kills his superhero enemy. MegaMind opens everywhere this November.

Tim Burton is set to direct an animated movie based on artist Charles Adam’s cartoon drawings of the spooky Addams Family. Reportedly unrelated to the 60s TV series and 90s feature films based on the same work, the stop motion animated film will presumably start production once Burton is finished with Frankenweenie. It is currently without a […]

Empire Online looks into the story about why and how a sequel to Disney’s Tron is now finally getting made nearly 30 years after its original release. Declared a flop when it first came to theaters, the revolutionary Tron gradually gained a large fanbase over time, causing the Mouse House to eventually take notice. A trailer for the sequel, […]

Longtime Disney producer Don Hahn recently spoke with ComingSoon.net about the process of converting the animated classic Beauty and the Beast into a 3-D movie. Revealing that production ended on it a few weeks ago, he described the final result as “spectacular.” In addition, Hahn also talked about how Tim Burton’s upcoming Frankenweenie might be done […]

Entertainment Weekly is reporting that funnyman Hank Azaria is set to voice the evil wizard Gargamel in the live action/animated Smurfs movie. The key word to note there is “voice,” which strongly indicates that Gargamel will in fact be an animated human in a live action world. Azaria, of course, is no stranger to animation, having […]

Disney/Pixar’s Toy Story 3 was just screened to the public for the very first time at ShoWest. Although in rough cut form, the movie is already generating positive buzz, with ComingSoon.net providing a spoiler-free review. Interestingly enough, the reviewer admits to not having seen Toy Story 2, but that didn’t stop him from being impressed with the film.  “Like […]

Perhaps the most controversial of all of the shows in Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim lineup, The Boondocks will be returning to television this summer after not airing a new episode for two years. Based on a comic strip of the past that cartoonist Aaron McGruder ended so he could concentrate on the TV series, The […]