Animation Magazine reports that Steven Soderbergh will be animating a character in his upcoming live action baseball film Moneyball. “We have this sort of oracle character that appears throughout and declaims various issue… He’s your host in a way… The background will be real but the person who is supposed to be him will be […]

Before the first season has even premiered, Fox has decided to order up a second seaon of Cleveland according to The Hollywood Reporter. The Family Guy spinoff, which should debut this fall, already had an order for a 22 episode first season. The network has now picked up 13 more for a sophomore season.

Disney/Pixar has announced that they will be bringing 3D versions of Toy Story and Toy Story 2 to theatres starting October 2, 2009, in a special limited engagement double feature. President of Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures Group Mark Zoradi said, “This fantastic double feature will let moviegoers see two of their all-time favorite films […]

The New York Times reports that Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim has ordered a new show from the creators of the stop-motion animated series Robot Chicken. The new show will be called Titan Maximum and will use stop-motion to “satirize Japanese cartoons of the 1980s”.

Pixar’s Andrew Stanton picked up his second career Best Animated Feature Oscar, this time for WALL-E, at the 81st Academy Awards. La Maison en Petits Cubes was named the Best Animated Short Film. In accepting the award for WALL-E, Stanton thanked Ed Catmull, John Lasseter, and Steve Jobs for “creating a cinematic safe haven where […]

Despite not even being nominated for music at animation’s premier awards show, WALL-E has won two Grammy Awards. Peter Gabriel and Thomas Newman picked up trophies for Best Song Written For Motion Picture, Television Or Other Visual Media (Down To Earth) and Best Instrumental Arrangement (Define Dancing). WALL-E lost the Best Score Soundtrack Album to […]

Several media outlets are reporting that DreamWorks may have to make a deal with Disney to secure some much needed quick cash along with distribution of their films. The L.A. Times reports that Universal today has dropped out of an already announced multi-year distribution deal with DreamWorks, a deal which was born after the DreamWorks/Paramount […]

Kung Fu Panda was the big winner at last night’s 36th annual Annie Awards. The film picked up 10 awards including Best Animated Feature. Robot Chicken: Star Wars Episode II won the Television award. Avatar: The Last Airbender won the Children’s TV award. And Sebastian’s Voodoo won the Short award. The full list of winners […]

In an interview with Newsweek Pixar’s Andrew Stanton touches on many interesting topics about his latest film WALL-E, including: breaking down the barrier between animation and live action, the relationship between EVE and WALL-E and how it parallels the way men perceive their relationships with women, the fact that this is Pixar’s first love story, […]

Animation Magazine reports that Shorts International is bringing the Oscar-nominated live action and animated short films to theaters and computer screens. Beginning on February 6th the group will bring the program, titled The 2008 Academy Award Nominated Short Films, to theaters in 60 cities. The film will then be available to download on iTunes on […]

Dreams Come True: Art of the Classic Fairy Tales from the Walt Disney Studio will open in New Orleans this fall according to USA Today. The art exhibit will feature over 600 pieces from films such as Snow White, Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, The Little Mermaid, and Beauty and the Beast. The idea came directly from […]

George Takei, best known as Hikaru Sulu in the original Star Trek TV series and films, discusses his new role as part of another iconic sci-fi franchise with the Great Falls Tribune. Takei voices the character of Lok Durd, in Cartoon Network’s Star Wars: The Clone Wars. Besides discussing his role in the series, Takei […]

Engadget reports that the long running Comedy Central animated series South Park and the even longer running FOX animated series The Simpsons will both start broadcasting in high definition in the coming months. The Simpsons will make the switch on February 15th while South Park will change over on March 11th.

The nominees for the 81st Academy Awards were announced this morning. Bolt, Kung Fu Panda, and WALL-E were the picks for Animated Feature. WALL-E was also nominated for Original Screenplay, Score, Song (Down to Earth), Sound Mixing, and Sound Editing. WALL-E‘s six nominations ties Beauty and the Beast for most Oscar nominations for an animated […]

The British Academy of Film and Television Arts has announced their film nominees and several animated films were nominated in several different categories. Perseopolis, WALL-E, and Waltz with Bashir were nominated for Best Animated Film. Perseopolis and Waltz with Bashir were nominated for Best Film Not in the English Language. WALL-E picked up additional nods […]

Animation Magazine reports that Nickelodeon is kicking off a year-long celebration of the 10th anniversary of SpongeBob SquarePants. Among the events and projects scheduled are: a live cast script reading, a new website, new episodes, a TV movie, and a documentary.

Nine films have been named to the Oscar shortlist for the Foreign Language Film category at the upcoming Academy Awards. Included in that list is the animated Waltz with Bashir. After additional voting the list will be narrowed to the five final nominees. The full list follows:

The Hollywood Foreign Press Association has awarded Golden Globes to two animated films this year. WALL-E picked up the award for Best Animated Feature Film while Best Foreign Language Film went to Waltz with Bashir. Wall-E and Bolt lost out to The Wrestler in the Best Original Song category.

WALL-E was named Favorite Animated Movie at last night’s People’s Choice Awards, while The Simpsons won for Favorite Animated Comedy. The Dark Knight was the big winner picking up five trophies: Favorite Movie, Favorite Action Movie, Favorite Cast, Favorite On Screen Match-up, and Favorite Superhero.

Mark Kimball has been named this year’s recipient of the Academy’s John A. Bonner Medal of Commendation, which is awarded in appreciation for outstanding service and dedication in upholding the high standards of the Academy. Kimball worked at Walt Disney where he spent two decades working as the CAPS logistics system lead, a senior software […]

Walt Disney Home Entertainment announced their slate of Blu-ray titles for 2009 today. In addition to the previously announced Pinocchio: 70th Anniversary Platinum Edition BD (coming March 17th), also being released in HD for the first time are Pixar’s Monsters Inc. and A Bugs Life (no dates announced yet), and Snow White and the Seven […]

Ed Catmull, currently the president of Walt Disney and Pixar Animation Studios, has been named this year’s recipient of the Academy’s Gordon E. Sawyer Award for “his lifetime of technical contributions and leadership in the field of computer graphics for the motion picture industry”. Catmull co-founded Pixar, as well as the computer graphics laboratory at […]

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has announced the films that will compete for the three Oscar nominations in the Visual Effects category at the 81st Academy Awards: Australia, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, The Dark Knight, Hellboy II: The Golden Army, Iron Man, Journey to the Center of the Earth, and […]

The Producers Guild of America has announced the nominations for their annual awards. Bolt, Kung Fu Panda, and WALL-E will compete for the Producer of the Year Award in Animated Theatrical Motion Pictures.

Following-up on this story from Saturday where it was revealed that one of the names of a character in Pixar’s upcoming film Up was “Dug the Talking Dog”, here’s a reminder that you can actually see what he looks like in this Animated News post from July.