Owl City and Yuna’s Shine Your Way for The Croods is now available to purchase at iTunes. The track was produced by Owl City’s Adam Young, film composer Alan Silvestri, and songwriter Glen Ballard, who also penned the Grammy-winning Believe from The Polar Express. Young is no stranger to animation, either: he wrote songs for […]

The Internet Movie Poster Awards showcases a new Spanish-language poster for Blue Sky Studios’ Epic. Distributor Twentieth Century Fox has also uploaded two internet-exclusive commercials to YouTube, each specifically targeting a different gender. Finally, CinemaBlend has a link to a new international trailer. As is the case with many international previews, the trailer might be considered […]

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will screen a new digital restoration of Who Framed Roger Rabbit to celebrate the film’s 25th anniversary, on Thursday, April 4, at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills. Deadline.com has the details. Who Framed Roger Rabbit will hit stores with a special 25th Anniversary Edition Blu-ray […]

Marvel.com reveals that Iron Man & Hulk: Heroes United will arrive on Blu-ray and DVD this December 3. In the direct-to-video feature, the title heroes must work together to defeat Zzzax, a pack of Wendigos and Abomination. “It’s a universally accessible story – if you know Hulk and Iron Man, then you get to see […]

Before Planes hits theaters on August 9, French site Disney Next has already captured an early look at the logo for Planes 2: Fire and Rescue. Concurrently, Disney has relaunched the teaser trailer for Planes on YouTube, giving the first preview of Dane Cook as protagonist Dusty Crophopper. The almost identical 2011 version of the […]

To help start one’s week, The Hollywood Reporter delivers news of a good deed: The Animation Guild, Local 839 of IATSE, provided 64 pizzas for lunch Saturday for the employees of visual effects house Rhythm & Hues. Last month, Rhythm & Hues – whose artists won an Oscar this year for their work on Life […]

CINE 1 has collected six new international character posters for Monsters University. In addition to stars Mike Wazowski and James P. Sullivan, the posters present students Randall “Randy” Boggs and Scott “Squishy” Squibbles, Dean Hardcrabble and teacher Don Carlton. In other M.U. news, Wazowski is set to appear at EPCOT’s International Flower and Garden Festival, […]

Fox has released a sneak preview of the couch gag from this Sunday’s episode of The Simpsons, in which the show offers its own take on the Harlem Shake viral sensation. The video reveals the Simpson family trudging through a routine day, before their living room explodes into a dance party full of sight gags […]

Liam Neeson has signed on to voice a villainous raccoon in the computer animated comedy The Nut Job, writes The Hollywood Reporter. “His contribution fulfills that dramatic need in our comedy adventure,” said director Peter Lepeniotis. Neeson joins a cast that includes Katherine Heigl, Brendan Fraser, Will Arnett, Stephen Lang and Jeff Dunham. From ToonBox […]

DreamWorks Animation has teamed with Rovio Entertainment, the creators of Angry Birds, to release a mobile game based on the upcoming computer animated film The Croods. The game will debut globally on iOS and Android on March 14. View Rovio’s official press release here:

Miss Piggy will have some serious competition in The Muppets…Again!, says the creative talent behind the film. According to Tough Pigs, director James Bobin reveals in the newest issue of Empire Magazine that the sequel has hired original Muppeteer Louise Gold to revive her character Annie Sue, Miss Piggy’s rival from The Muppet Show. Meanwhile, […]

The cast of Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 joins the ever-growing throng of people doing the Harlem Shake, as a seemingly mundane day at Ms. Crumbymuffin’s Cupcakes suddenly erupts into a dance party. Presented by Fandango, the video comes hot on the heels of the sequel’s first trailer premiering online last Wednesday.

Voice actor Carlos Alazraqui tells the Comedy Film Nerds about voicing El Chupacabra in the Planes trilogy, confirming that Disney is already planning two follow-ups to this summer’s Cars spinoff. The first sequel, Planes 2: Fire and Rescue, was teased last June. Alazraqui also notes that Roger Craig Smith, Grey DeLisle and Rob Paulsen have […]

Rovio’s weekly webseries Angry Birds Toons will launch on March 16, reports CNET. From the popular video game franchise, the colorful characters will work out their ornithological anger management as they take on the green piggies who want to steal their eggs. Watch the trailer for Angry Birds Toons here:

DreamWorks Animation CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg said Tuesday that 350 of the studio’s 2,200 employees will be laid off by the end of the year. “These things are very, very difficult to do,” Katzenberg told The Hollywood Reporter. “I would say it’s the hardest thing I’ve had to do since we started DreamWorks. We’ve never had […]

The Weinstein Company has settled the $50 million lawsuit filed by Escape from Planet Earth producers Brian Inerfeld and Tony Leech nearly two years ago. The distributor came to a settlement with the plaintiffs on February 15, the same day Planet Earth hit theaters nationwide. In March 2011, Inerfeld and Leech sued “out of control” […]

One of the most talked-about aspects of last night’s Oscars is the remarkable visual effects that allowed Ted the teddy bear to present, with Mark Wahlberg, Oscars for Sound Mixing and Sound Editing. Deadline.com and Coming Soon reveal how Tippet Studio integrated the CGI character into the live broadcast.

The rumors of Toy Story 4 are false, says Drew McWeeny at HitFix. Colombian radio host Jorge Luis Balaguera raised eyebrows on Monday when he “confirmed” via Twitter that Tom Hanks, Tim Allen and Joan Cusack would return for Toy Story 4 in 2015. However, McWeeny’s source says the report is 100 percent inaccurate. Fortunately […]

It appears Mickey Mouse and Roger Rabbit are indeed teaming up, at least for a development proposal. On Sunday, Who Censored Roger Rabbit? author Gary K. Wolf, under pen name “Walter Windchill”, reported on his website that the animated characters would team for a reimagining of the 1952 Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis movie The […]

Despite a fourth place finish for the Presidents Day weekend, Escape from Planet Earth jumped to the top of the box office on Monday, with $5.2 million, says Box Office Mojo. By comparison, weekend champ A Good Day to Die Hard took $3.8 million. Distributed by The Weinstein Company, Escape from Planet Earth has collected […]

Are Mickey Mouse and Roger Rabbit teaming for a remake of the 1952 Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis movie The Stooge? That’s what an inside source has revealed to Who Censored Roger Rabbit? author Gary K. Wolf, who reports the news under pen name “Walter Windchill”. Mickey would take on Martin’s role of a failing […]

The Golden Reel Awards honored Wreck-It Ralph in the category of Best Sound Editing: Sound Effects, Foley, Dialogue and ADR in an Animation Feature Film. The Walt Disney Animation Studios film beat competitors Brave, Rise of the Guardians, Dr. Seuss’ The Lorax, A Cat in Paris, Frankenweenie, ParaNorman and The Pirates! Band of Misfits. Deadline.com […]

Electric City picked up the award for Best Animated Series at the 3rd Annual Streamy Awards on Sunday, beating fellow nominees Dinosaur Office, Oishi High School Battle, Dick Figures and Red vs. Blue. Created by Tom Hanks, Electric City is the post-apocalyptic story of citizens who live in the title setting, a would-be utopia that […]

Over the weekend, Disney/Pixar’s Brave added two more awards to its collection: the Cinema Audio Society Award for outstanding sound mixing and the American Cinema Editor’s Eddie Award. Other CAS Award nominees included Dr. Seuss’ The Lorax, Wreck-It Ralph, Frankenweenie and Rise of the Guardians, while the latter three were also nominated for the ACE […]

Coming Soon has the first clip from DreamWorks Animation’s The Croods. In the clip, Eep (Emma Stone) and Guy (Ryan Reynolds) try to trap a prehistoric beast by puppeteering a fake romantic interest for him. Directed by Kirk De Micco and Chris Sanders, The Croods will open in theaters March 22.

Disney is preparing for the youngest audience members of Planes to continue the adventures of Dusty Crophopper at home. At the 110th annual American International Toy Fair last week, attendees caught a sneak peek at the much-hyped remote-controlled Dusty as well as the U-Command Dusty, as documented by Stitch Kingdom. On Twitter, DaDa Rocks! posted […]

Ice Age: Continental Drift was named the best family movie of 2012 at the 21st Annual Movieguide Faith & Values Awards Gala, beating other animated nominees Wreck-It Ralph, The Secret World of Arrietty and Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted. As for the best mature-audience film, The Avengers took the award over such nominees as The […]

Entertainment Weekly has an exclusive progression reel for Disney’s Annie-winning short Paperman, showing how animators placed hand-drawn layers upon computer animated imagery to achieve the film’s stunning look. One might wish to view Paperman on the upcoming Wreck-It Ralph Blu-ray – the short has been removed from YouTube – before delving too far into the […]

Both DisneyToon Studios’ Planes and DreamWorks Animation’s Turbo are receiving praise following recent test screenings. At WDW Magic, regular forum member “M.rudolf” writes that Planes is testing “thru [sic] the roof,” better than the Cars movies and Wreck-It Ralph. This news likely explains why Planes was promoted to a theatrical release after being made as […]