Deadline reports that Wreck-It Ralph outscored the competition for Outstanding Producer of Animated Theatrical Motion Pictures at the Producers Guild Awards. Winner Clark Spencer said, “I joined Disney 23 years ago during difficult times and always wondered when I should leave. But I always believed in the studio. There is a renaissance going on at […]

Table Titans, a new comic strip about a group of Dungeons & Dragons playing friends, premieres today. Eisner and Harvey Award winner Scott Kurtz of PVP is the artist behind the strip. What makes this one different from all the other geeky strips out there is it has the official blessing of Wizards of the […]

The Wrap has the scoop on a recent Hollywood Radio and Television Society panel where Disney CEO Bob Iger was interviewed by Academy Award winning producer Brian Grazer. The first topic discussed was Pixar founder Steve Jobs who died in 2011. At the time Iger became CEO Disney’s relationship with Pixar had deteriorated. When Iger […]

In addition to the previously mentioned Aladdin musical, Broadway.com notes that composer Alan Menken also has several other projects on his plate, including the animated film adaptation of the Sid and Marty Krofft TV series Lidsville. Menken recently tweeted, “Lidsville is underway…FINALLY. Peace, love and psychedelia! And DreamWorks is pretty great. So many old friends […]

Disney Theatrical Productions has officially announced that the 1992 animated film Aladdin is getting the Broadway treatment. A pre-Broadway run will take place at Toronto’s Ed Mirvish Theatre from November 13, 2013 to January 12, 2014. The show will get its big opening on the Great White Way at the New Amsterdam Theatre in 2014. […]

The Croods director Chris Sanders, who is working on the final sound mix, is using some of his free time to post deleted story panels from the movie to his blog. “I have a big box of them – I’m still in the dark ages when it comes to boarding which means all of my […]

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 […]