Charlie Kaufman, the Academy award winning writer behind films such as Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Adaptation and Being John Malkovich has just put in less than two weeks worth of script work on the Kung Fu Panda sequel, reports Heatvision Blog. DreamWorks Animation’s Kung Fu Panda: The Kaboom of Doom will be out […]

Box Office Mojo lists July 15, 2011 as the release date for Disney’s upcoming Winnie the Pooh feature. Directed by Stephen J. Anderson and Don Hall, the traditionally animated sequel will feature the voices of Craig Ferguson, Jim Cummings and Peter Cullen.

Sony Pictures Animation has acquired rights to the big screen adaptation of Atari video game Rollercoaster Tycoon, reports Heat Vision Blog. The live-action/CGI flick will be penned by David Ronn and Jay Scherick while Harald Zwart will direct and produce.

Anime News Network reports that Anne of Green Gables, a compilation film of Nippon Animation and Isao Takahata’s classic anime series, will open in Japan on July 17. The animated television version of Lucy Maud Montgomery’s Anne of Green Gables novel was directed by Isao Takahata (Grave of the Fireflies, Only Yesterday, Pom Poko) in […]

The Pixar Blog reports that Pixar’s upcoming film Newt has been cancelled. Newt was first announced to media at the Walt Disney and Pixar Animation Studios Animation Presentation in April 2008. The film was being directed by Gary Rydstrom, sound designer and director of Pixar’s 2006 Oscar-nominated short film Lifted and was scheduled for a […]

Coming Soon has posted the first images of Hank Azaria as Gargamel in Sony Pictures big screen adaptation of The Smurfs. Directoed by Raja Gosnell, The Smurfs is slated for an August 3, 2011 release.

Collider has posted a trailer and a few images from the next DC Universe animated movie Batman: Under the Red Hood. Featuring the voices of Bruce Greenwood, Jensen Ackles, Neil Patrick Harris, John DiMaggio and Jason Issacs, the straight to DVD/Blu-ray movie arrives July 27.

Cartoon Network has announced that it plans to launch a new version of the classic Warner Bros. series Looney Tunes. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the network plans to have each episode of The Looney Toons Show as a half-hour story along with “cartoons within a cartoon.” The concept takes Bugs and Daffy out of […]

Yahoo!Movies has made available a new clip from DreamWorks Animation’s upcoming flick Shrek Forever After featuring Puss in Boots. Directed by Mike Mitchell, the final chapter in the Shrek series, Shrek Forever After hits theaters on May 21, 2010.

Variety reports that DreamWorks animation’s animated flick How to Train Your Dragon catapulted back into first place at the U.S. box-office this weekend edging out Lionsgate’s superhero actioner Kick-Ass. With an estimated $20 million take this weekend, the 3D toon bounced back to the top spot after four weeks in release. The toon has grossed […]

Variety reports that Jamie Foxx is making his animated film debut with Welcome to the Jungle for 20th Century Fox. Based on an original pitch by Foxx and scribe Malcolm Spellman, Foxx is all set to star in, produce and score the film.

Collider shares a bunch of new Shrek Forever After images which were released by DreamWorks Animation and Paramount as part of an early look at the film. Directed by Mike Mitchell and featuring the voices of Mike Myers, Eddie Murphy, Cameron Diaz and Antonio Banderas, the fourth and final installment in the Shrek franchise will […]

Collider shares first images from the upcoming animated flick Sir Billi. Scheduled for completion in summer 2010, Scotland’s first full-length animated feature film Sir Billi features an all-star cast including Sean Connery in his first ever animated voice-over role.

ComingSoon reports that filming on Columbia Pictures/Sony Pictures Animation’s live-action and animated comedy The Smurfs began on Friday, March 26, in New York. Directed by Raja Gosnell and featuring the voices of Neil Patrick Harris, Jayma Mays, Sofia Vergara and Hank Azaria, The Smurfs is slated to hit theatres on August 3, 2011.

Henry Selick is returning back to Disney, reports Variety. The director of Coraline who began his animation career at Disney in the late ’70s, has struck an exclusive long-term deal with Disney/Pixar to make stop-motion features for the studio. John Lasseter’s decision to bring Selick back to the studio is seen as another boost for […]

HeatVision reports that Sofia Vergara has joined the cast of The Smurfs, the big screen adaptation of the cartoon series. Sofia will play Odile, a powerful executive at a high-end French cosmetics company who is married to the live-action character played by Neil Patrick Harris. Produced by Columbia Pictures and directed by Raja Gosnell, The […]

Sony is all set to bring Popeye the Sailor Man back to the big screen by giving him the CGI and 3D treatment, reports Collider via Variety. With Avi Arad producing, Mike Jones is in talks to write the screenplay. According to Variety, “The logline is being kept under wraps, but Popeye’s love interest Olive […]

Director Michel Gondry discussed his forthcoming animated film Megalomania with The Playlist Blog. The movie which is a collaboration with his teenage son, Paul, is in the works since 2007. Described by Gondry as a “rebellious story of an adolescent,” and featuring the voices of Seth Rogen, Steve Buscemi & Juliette Lewis, Megalomania will be […]

ComingSoon has an exclusive first look at Pixar’s upcoming short Day & Night. Directed by Teddy Newton, Day & Night will play in front of Toy Story 3 starting June 18.

Warner Home Video has announced Tom and Jerry Deluxe Anniversary Collection DVD for 29th June. DVDActive shares the full rundown on included cartoons along with the official package artwork for this upcoming 2-disc set.

Anticipating the release of The Princess and the Frog on DVD and Blu-ray next week, UltimateDisney brings an exclusive interview with its directors John Musker and Ron Clements wherein the duo speak about their return to traditional animation for Disney’s The Princess and the Frog.

Collider reports that Shrek Forever After will be the opening night film at the Tribeca Film Festival on April 21. Shrek Forever After will be the second animated film to open a major film festival after Pixar’s Up which was the opening night film at Cannes last year. DreamWorks animation and Paramount’s fourth and final […]

Researching through the golden age of Walt Disney, starting from the first animated feature, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, to the other 30s and 40s classics, such as Pinocchio, Fantasia and Bambi, Vanity Fair takes a look back at as many as 100 of those young women, the inkers and painters, working from dawn […]

Up director Pete Docter discusses the film’s emotional opening montage with The Envelope. The largely silent sequence takes Carl and his beloved, Ellie, from childhood to old age, giving him a reason to fly his entire house to South America.

LATimes has an exclusive interview with Steven Spielberg wherein the director talks about the making of The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn and his love for the art of Hergé. Produced by Peter Jackson, with the animation done by Weta Workshop, the movie uses special performance-capture technology that James Cameron used on […]

Walt Disney Studios have announced that their 2010 film will no longer be called Rapunzel and will now be known as Tangled, reports Collider. Produced by Roy Conli, Tangled is slated to hit theatres on November 24, 2010.

Collider shares the first teaser from Studio Ghibli’s upcoming feature Karigurashi no Arrietty (The Borrower Arrietty). Based on Mary Norton’s popular The Borrowers series of children’s books, and directed by Hiromasa Yonebayashi, Karigurashi no Arrietty will premiere in Japan on July 17, 2010. A North American release is likely to follow in time for the […]

Collider reports that the animated teaser trailer for the film A.D., what could some day be the first full-length zombie animated feature, is out on the net. Writer Haylar Garcia and director Ben Hibon hope to reinvent the zombie genre by turning A.D. into a feature length movie. The filmmakers are still in search of […]

Collider shares the promotional trailer and the first poster for The Secret of Kells. Nominated for best animated film Oscar, The Secret of Kells opens in theatres this spring.

Disney’s traditionally animated The Princess and the Frog will come to DVD and Blu-ray on March 16 as a single-disc DVD, a single-disc Blu-ray, and a three-disc Blu-ray/DVD/Digital Copy combo pack. Extras on the single-disc DVD will include a filmmakers’ audio commentary, deleted scenes, a Princess Portraits game, and a music video for Ne-Yo’s end […]