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Animated Views IV: A New Hope

Welcome to the all-new Animated Views! It’s been nine years since our last revamp, and it showed! With our 15th anniversary coming up, we wanted to get this place spruced up for our loyal readers. So what’s new? Read on to find out!

Gravity Falls creator Alex Hirsch inks deal with Netflix
Each state’s favorite animated Disney movie
Incredibles 2 crosses the $1 billion mark worldwide
Teen Titans Go! To The Movies

Teen Titans is a very fun film that families will be able to enjoy together. It’s for kids and adults. It’s for people who love superheros and people who are tired of them. It’s for burrito fans and burger lovers. And it’s for people who just like to laugh.

Incredibles 2

In a world where blockbuster over-the-top superhero movies have become as mainstream as westerns were back in their heyday, Incredibles 2 brings the humanity back to the genre.

Incredibles 2 opens

Pixar’s Incredibles 2 opens today in 4,410 theatres according to Box Office Mojo. The film is doing super with the critics, earning a 93% score at Rotten Tomatoes. Their consensus: “Incredibles 2 reunites Pixar’s family crimefighting team for a long-awaited follow-up that may not quite live up to the original, but comes close enough to […]

Incredibles 2 wants to turn stay-at-home dads into superheroes
Craig T. Nelson & Holly Hunter discuss Incredibles 2
WB Animation reviving Looney Tunes shorts
Edna Mode tours Parr residence in Incredibles 2 promo
Disney considers new role for possible Lasseter return
Blue Sky’s Chris Wedge talks animation directing challenges
Ten animators to watch in 2018
Comcast prepares to duel with Disney over Fox
The CG effects behind Infinity War’s Thanos
Chicken Run sequel in works at Aardman
Deadpool test animation revealed
Sherlock Gnomes opens

Paramount and Mikros Image’s Sherlock Gnomes opens today in 3,662 theatres according to Box Office Mojo. They predict a third place weekend finish for the film with $15 million. Rotten Tomatoes has yet to score the movie.

UPDATE: Isle of Dogs is getting a wide release in the coming weeks

Someone working with Fox Searchlight on Wes Anderson’s Isle of Dogs has confirmed that despite an earlier story we posted, the film will be getting a wide release. Like many independent, art-house, or foreign films, Isle of Dogs will open on a limited number of screens before going wide in later weeks. Beginning this weekend, […]

Nicolas Cage is Superman in Teen Titans Go movie