USA Today has an interesting look at how 3-D movies are affecting the movie industry, and whether or not they’re really worthy of the hype they’ve been receiving. While films like Alice in Wonderland and Avatar have been mega-hits, the digital projectors required for the format are extremely expensive for theater buyers, causing it to still be […]

DreamWorks Animation has just revealed a brand new trailer for their upcoming movie Shrek Forever After. The fourth film–and reportedly the final one–in the popular series opens in theaters on May 21st.

In what will probably come a surprise to no one, given the franchise’s success, 20th Century Fox has greenlit a third Alvin and the Chipmunks movie, Slash Film is reporting. Perhaps also unsurprising is the studio’s decision to produce the movie in 3D. Opening just one week before Steven Speilberg’s own 3D film, The Adventures of […]

The combination of Tim Burton, Johnny Depp and a classic story proved to be a big draw for audiences this weekend, with Disney’s Alice in Wonderland claiming a number of records during its opening. At an estimated $116 million, it easily took the crown for best March opening of all time, surpassing the $71 million […]

ComingSoon.net has revealed casting news for Sony’s upcoming Smurfs movie, which is going to be a mix of live action and animation. Original Smurfs voice actor Jonathan Winters will be the pipes behind Papa Smurf, while Katy Perry, Alan Cumming and George Lopez are also on board. Neil Patrick Harris is set to play the main […]

Yahoo! Movies has just revealed a brand new poster for Disney/Pixar’s upcoming Toy Story 3. The poster seems to feature virtually every major character from the much anticipated sequel, due in theaters and IMAX 3D on June 18th.

USA Today has an exclusive first look at Warner Brothers’ upcoming animated movie Legend of the Guardians (not to be confused with The Guardians, a DreamWorks Animation movie currently in production). From director Zack Snyder of 300 and Watchmen fame, the movie centers around a young barn owl who is kidnapped by a sinister orphanage that […]

Avatar won a number of prizes at this year’s Visuel Effects Society Awards, including the biggest prize of the evening, Best Visual Effects in a Visual Effects Driven Motion Picture.  In addition, director James Cameron was honored with the VES Lifetime Achievement Award for his contributions to the world of special effects over the course of […]

Variety has one of the very first reviews for Disney’s much anticipated Alice in Wonderland movie. The response, however, is lukewarm at best, with the critic saying that the film “has its moments of delight, humor and bedazzlement. But it also becomes more ordinary as it goes along, building to a generic battle climax similar to […]

The final trailer for DreamWorks Animation’s How to Train Your Dragon can now be found online over at Yahoo! Movies. The animated adventure comedy, featuring the voices of Jay Baruchel, Gerald Butler and America Ferrera, is set to breath fire in theaters and IMAX 3D on March 26th.

20th Century Fox’s Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel will be coming to single disc DVD, 2-disc DVD and Blu-Ray on March 30th, according to DVD Active. The single disc DVD will include only two featurettes, but the 2-disc DVD and the Blu-Ray will include additional featurettes, music videos and more. Just like the 2007 […]

A new poster for The Secret of Kells can now be found online, thanks to the Internet Movie Poster Awards. A surprise nomination for Best Animated Feature at the Oscars this year, Kells is set to get a limited release in theaters this spring.

The brand new trailer for M. Night Shyamalan’s special effects extravaganza The Last Airbender is now online over at Yahoo! Movies. It is also reported to be playing in theaters tomorrow with prints of the family adventure film Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief. Based on the popular Nickolodeon cartoon series, The Last Aribender […]

The unsinkable has officially been sunk: Avatar surpassed Titanic yesterday and has become the highest grossing movie of all time. The film now has an enormous take of $601 million, beating Titanic’s $600 million. While the epic romance of 1997 is still the higher grossing movie when inflation is brought in to play, Avatar could still […]

Despite the news this week that Disney is shutting down Miramax Films, the studio’s animated Gnomeo & Juliet is apparently still in the works. With reported production problems surrounding it for years, the film is supposed to be a comic take on William Shakesphere’s Romeo and Juliet, but with talking garden gnomes instead of human […]

It took a little while for it to do so, but The Princess and the Frog has finally crossed the $100 million mark, Box Offfice Mojo is reporting. This makes it the first traditionally animated Disney movie to do so since 2002’s Lilo and Stitch. Frog was budgeted at a reported $105 million, so the […]

The Hollywood Reporter reveals that Star Wars creator George Lucas is working on his very first musical. Details on the animated movie are currently being kept top secret, but it is known that the plot will have something to do with fairies. The film is to be directed by Kevin Munroe, who also directed the 2007 animated Ninja […]

Cartoon Network’s popular stop-motion animated series Robot Chicken has been greenlit for two more seasons, according to ComingSoon.Net. The sketch comedy show, perhaps best known for its Star Wars parodies, has been a part of the channel’s Adult Swim lineup since 2005.

Ocean’s Thirteen stars Matt Damon and Brad Pitt have joined the voice cast of Happy Feet 2, according to Movie Line. It is unknown what kind of characters that Pitt and Damon will be voicing, but they will be joining returning original Happy Feet actors Elijah Wood and Robin Williams. Happy Feet 2 is currently […]

Up won the prize for Best Animated Feature at last night’s Critics Choice Awards, along with the award for Best Original Score. Avatar, meanwhile, claimed the prize for Best Action Movie, along with the awards for Art Direction, Cinematography, Editing, Sound and Visual Effects. A full list of winners and nominees can be found in […]

Cloudly With a Chance of Meatballs is currently sweeping the home video charts, ranking as the top selling Blu-Ray, DVD and rental in America, according to Movie Web. The critically acclaimed animated comedy from Sony came to DVD and Blu-Ray on January 5th.

Burger King is now selling six new toys based off of the movie Hoodwinked Too! Hood Vs. Evil with their kids meals. The sequel to the surprise 2006 hit was originally supposed to come out this weekend, but the Weinstein Company made the decision last month to indefinately delay the release of the film. Reasons for […]

DVD Active reveals that Where the Wild Things Are, the live-action movie based on Maurice Sendak’s classic children’s book of the same name, will be hitting store shelves on DVD and Blu-Ray/DVD combo pack on March 2nd. Nothing is known about the DVD release at this point, but the Blu-Ray will include a brand new short […]

Cary Elwes, Dean Lennox Kelly, Peter Serafinowicz and Adam Campbell are set to play the Fab Four in Disney’s upcoming Yellow Submarine remake. The CGI-animated movie, based on the cartoon feature from 1968 that pitted the Beatles against the villainous Blue Meanies, will be directed by Robert Zemeckis and use the same motion capture technology that he recently […]

With the movie ruling the weekend for the fourth week in a row, many are starting to wonder if Avatar will have the strength to be able to overcome Titanic‘s box office record and become the highest grossing movie of all time. Newsweek looks at the many things that have been working in the film’s favor, […]

Fans of the hit Nickelodeon animated TV series Avatar: The Last Airbender will be happy to know that a brand new TV spot for the live-action film based on it is set to air during the Super Bowl on Sunday, February 7th. Other confirmed TV spots for the game include the Martin Scorsese thriller Shutter Island and the hotly anticipated […]

With Sony’s Spider-Man 4 apparently no longer coming in May 2011, other studios are now taking the chance to claim new release dates for their own movies in that timeframe. Disney’s Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides is now set to be released on May 20th, which would allow for it to come out a week […]

On its way to yet another milestone, The Simpsons will air its 450th episode on Sunday night at 8pm EST. The episode, entitled Once Upon a Time in Springfield, will be followed by a new hourlong special celebrating the show’s history. The documentary, from Super Size Me’s Morgan Spurlock, goes by the humorous title of […]

Summit Entertainment’s animated action adventure Astro Boy is coming to DVD and Blu-Ray on March 16th, according to Amazon.com. No further details on the release are currently available. Starring the voice talents of Freddie Highmore and Nicolas Cage, Astro Boy was a dissapointment in theaters, grossing just $19 million against a production budget of $65 million.

After only a few weeks of release, Avatar has already accomplished what only a few films in the history of cinema have done, crossing the $1 billion mark in worldwide receipts yesterday and becoming one the highest grossing movies of all time. The James Cameron epic surpassed The Dark Knight’s worldwide gross yesterday and is currently only behind […]