The mysterious Brad Bird directed, Damon Lindelof written, and George Clooney starring 1952 film project (if that is its real name) finally revealed some of its secrets. Yesterday, Lindelof tweeted this photo of an old Walt Disney Productions archive box with a label reading “1952”. Bird then tweeted this picture of the box opened. Ain’t […]

The Perfect American, an opera about Walt Disney by Philip Glass, opened in Madrid this week. The L.A. Times review says that it “delves deep into the psyche of a visionary at the end of his life, of an artist who devoted his life to a vision of a world without death, now grappling with […]

The latest Disney Dream Portrait (a series of photographs of classic scenes recreated by Annie Leibovitz and various celebrities) features Taylor Swift as Rapunzel. The series began in 2007 as a promotion for Disney Parks. Huff Post Travel has some behind the scenes images.

Nickelodeon is looking for the next big thing with their Animated Shorts Program Contest, according to Animation Magazine. They are looking for pitches that are “comedic, character driven and have kid appeal”, with an “original, funny lead character”. Any animation style is welcome. You can submit here but the deadline is March 29th.

Screen Crush has a slew of news on upcoming comic book projects. Iron Man 3 shot some explosive scenes outside the famous Chinese Theater, so of course there is publicly shot footage. Why no Batman films until 2017 at least? Ask the Justice League. The first photos from the Joss Whedon TV series S.H.E.I.L.D. are […]

The AP reports that Peter Robbins, the actor who played Charlie Brown in A Charlie Brown Christmas and It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown, was arrested. The now 56 year-old is charged with making a threat to cause death or great bodily injury and stalking.

As the March 22nd release date for DreamWorks’ The Croods approaches, more information from the film is becoming available. First up, a new poster is online at ComingSoon.net. Next, a new commerical playing off the recent presidential inauguration is up at Extra. And finally, The Daily Blam reports that The Art of The Croods book […]

The latest indie project coming out of the Sundance Film Festival shows the dark side of the Happiest Place on Earth. According to the New York Times, Randy Moore and a cast and crew spent several days filming inside the Disney parks and hotels without permission, with the result being the horror fantasy Escape From […]

After reading that The Little Mermaid lost its shot at a theatrical re-release this past week, Den of Geek decided to take a look back at the end of the dark ages of Disney animation and the renaissance which was sparked by the film in the late 1980s.

The L.A. Times reports that for the fifth year in a row DreamWorks Animation was named to Fortune’s list of the Best 100 Companies to Work For. The company came in 12th and was the only Hollywood studio to make the cut. DreamWorks’ head of human resources, Dan Satterthwaite, said “We see this recognition as […]

USA Today has a first look at the upcoming sequel Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2. In this outing we discover the invention that turns water to food has not been completely destroyed and is now creating food/animal hybrids. “The punny food-imals include the likes of tacodiles, fruit cockatiels, cucumbirds, bananostriches, flamangoes, wildabeets and […]

For the seventh year, Shorts HD is bringing the Oscar nominated short films to theatres across the country. Beginning February 1st, the animated, live action, and documentary shorts will be on the big screen together with introductions by former Oscar winners — including William Joyce and Brandon Oldenburg, who won last year’s Best Animated Short […]

io9 has a “retro movie review” of Titan A.E., the Twentieth Century Fox film released in 2000 and directed by Don Bluth. With the popularity of later gritty space operas like Battlestar Galactica and Firefly, the reviewer believes the property is rife for a reboot in theatres or as a TV show. With a story […]

The nominations for the 85th Annual Academy Awards were announced today. The full list is available on the Oscar website. • Best Animated Feature: Frankenweenie, The Pirates! Band of Misfits, Wreck-It Ralph, ParaNorman, and Brave • Best Animated Short: Adam and Dog, Fresh Guacamole, Head over Heels, Maggie Simpson in The Longest Daycare, and Paperman […]

The 70th annual Golden Globe Award nominees have been revealed, the AP reports. Animated nominations were confined to the Best Animated Film category with Brave, Frankenweenie, Hotel Transylvania, Rise of the Guardians, and Wreck-It Ralph getting the nods.

Pixar’s Untitled Movie That Takes You Inside The Mind may be untitled no more. Bleeding Cool reports that the Pete Docter directed film, told from the perspective of a little girl’s emotions, will be titled The Inside Out. After getting that scoop, the site did some research and discovered that Disney’s head of distribution in […]

Wreck-it Ralph picked up the prize for Best Animated Film from the National Board of Review, according to Entertainment Weekly. Their track record of predicting Oscar success is close to perfect. Since the Academy started giving out an animated feature award in 2001, the winner of the NBR animation prize went on to win the […]

For those of you near San Francisco, Grubwithus is having a contest where you can win two seats to a dinner with Pixar co-founder Alvy Ray Smith — someone who seems to have been forgotten in the history of Pixar. If you’re a fan of the studio you might find this especially interesting as Smith […]

Awards season has begun! After the Annie nominations this morning, the New York Film Critics’ Circle has announced the winners of their annual prizes. And the animation award went to Disney and Tim Burton’s Frankenweenie. However, that may not be a harbinger of Oscar glory. Since the Academy started giving out an animated feature award […]

The International Animated Film Society, ASIFA-Hollywood, announced nominations today for its 40th Annual Annie Awards recognizing the year’s best in the field of animation. The nominees for Best Animated Features this year are: Brave, Frankenweenie, Hotel Transylvania, ParaNorman, Rise of the Guardians, The Pirates! Band of Misfits, The Rabbi’s Cat, and Wreck-It Ralph. Brave, Rise […]

ParaNorman had a weaker than expected opening, coming in third place for the weekend with $14 million according to Box Office Mojo. “Even with a unique concept and lukewarm competition, the movie still couldn’t break out of the standard stop-motion animation opening range, which reinforces how tricky this sub-genre is”.

Brenda Chapman, a former Pixar director and the original creative force behind Brave who was later replaced as director, has come out for the first time to explain her thoughts on what happened. In a piece for a New York Times series on How Can Women Gain Influence in Hollywood?, Chapman blames the “Hollywood Boy’s […]

Disney has ended production on an untitled Henry Selick project that had been slated for release in October 2013 due to it not being as far along as they needed it to be, according to Variety. They note that he still has the option to take the film to another studio.

As we get closer to the release of Feature Films/Laika’s ParaNorman this weekend the promotional tour is in full swing. Laika CEO and ParaNorman producer Travis Knight talks the rebirth of modern stop-motion animation and more with Dread Central. And Digital Facility has a running line of interviews with the filmmakers. Those posted so far […]

IndieWire reports that Pixar’s Brenda Chapman, the original director of Brave, has left Pixar for an unannounced project at LucasFilm Animation. Thanks to Lord Akiyama in the AV Forum for the tip.