Rio 2’s new trailer premiered today with details about the movie’s story. Blu, Jewel, and their three chicks discover they are not the only blue macaws left in the world. They journey to the Amazon with their friends to find the flock, finding not only their own kind but Jewel’s father and ex-boyfriend. Nigel, the […]

Anne Frank has been the subject of film, plays, and television since her diary chronicling her years hiding from the Nazis was published in 1947. Animation Magazine reports that the young girl’s life will be made into an animated film. Ari Folman will direct the film and he is a respected Israeli filmmaker, having recently […]

Disney fans are going to go crazy over this news from Inside the Magic: the Mouse House is developing a new Disney channel original movie starring the children of their most evil characters. Descendants, the article notes, is Disney’s attempt to reproduce Monster High’s success. Monster High is a popular toy and movie line following […]

Did you spot Rapunzel in Disney’s Frozen? Collider has a short list of hidden Easter eggs found in the film, including Mickey Mouse, a Wreck-It Ralph reference, and more. Frozen is now playing in theaters.

The Hollywood Foreign Press Association has announced this year’s nominees for the Golden Globe Awards. The nominees for Best Animated Feature are The Croods, Despicable Me 2, and Frozen. The Wind Rises got a nod in the Best Foreign Language Film category. Frozen was the only animated film to receive any other nominations. It was […]

With The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug now in theatres, Joe Letteri, the Oscar-winning co-creator of Gollum on screen, writes for the journal Nature about the evolution of computer animation. “Computer animation is a natural extension of hand-drawn methods developed during the early-twentieth-century golden age of ‘cel’ animation ushered in by Walt Disney, in which […]

Babble takes readers on a tour of the Walt Disney Studios Lot. “Jeffrey Epstein, spokesperson for D23, the official Disney Fan Club, showed us around the lot giving us the history and fun facts that you might not have known”.

The LA Times highlights that Disney Animation Studios will be celebrating ninety years in existence by basking in Frozen’s continuing success. There will also be an invitation only event at the Disney Legends Plaza in Walt Disney Studios. Special guests include John Lasseter, Frozen director Chris Buck, Ed Catmull, and more Disney talent from voice […]

A theatrical trailer for the upcoming Legends of Oz: Dorothy’s Return is now online and can be seen on Collider. Four new character posters for the film can also be viewed at the IMP Awards. From Summertime Entertainment and directed by Daniel St. Pierre and Will Finn, the film is the first in a potential […]

A teaser trailer for the live-action remake of Kiki’s Delivery Service is now online and can be seen on Nerd Reactor. The film is a Japanese release, so it shouldn’t come as a surprise that the preview is not in English. The movie is set for release in Japan on March 1st, but it’s unlikely […]

Bleeding Cool sits down with Frozen producer Peter Del Vecho and discusses not only the role he played in this film, but how exactly the Disney system works from the inside — the typical day of a producer, ratings, scheduling, the Disney brand and legacy, and more.

The Boston Society of Film Critics named Hayao Miyazaki‘s The Wind Rises as Best Animated Feature — but not without controversy, according to IndieWire. Before the vote Village Voice critic Inkoo Kang read aloud a statement calling out the film for being “morally egregious” in ignoring the atrocities committed during the war by the Japanese […]

The Hollywood Reporter looks at the “Tricky Tug-of-War” John Lasseter is in the middle of in running both Disney Animation and Pixar. “Borrowing a page from Pixar, Lasseter is hands-on at WDAS. He gives extensive notes, pores over story reels and even does the first reading with actors and directors. Initially, Pixar animators worried that […]

Following its record-breaking Thanksgiving opening, Frozen had another strong weekend, this time edging out The Hunger Games: Catching Fire to become the number one movie in America with a take of $31 million, Collider is reporting. That brings the film’s total to $134 million. The movie will face competition next week when the highly anticipated […]

Former Disney CEO Michael Eisner complimented Disney on its latest short Get A Horse and their success with Frozen, which some are calling an instant classic. He tweeted his praise for the short, as mentioned by Cartoon Brew, proclaiming that it is “the best film of the year.” In a follow-up tweet he congratulated Disney […]

While Russia and Germany are already getting their share of the new Tarzan 3D on the silver screen, English-speaking audiences must make do with a UK trailer. Tarzan 3D is made by Constantin Films and stars Kellan Lutz as the voice and performance capture actor for Tarzan. Screenrant tell us that the original story was […]

Studio Ghibli unearthed some treasures from their archives: concept art for a Pippi Longstocking movie. ComicsAlliance tells us that back in 1971, Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata approached Astrid Lindgren to adapt her famous children’s books into a movie. They painted watercolor storyboards and presented them to Lindgren, but after meeting with the animation team […]

No one can deny that Isao Takahata’s The Legend of Princess Kaguya has beautiful animation, but ANN found a piece by Newsweek journalist Akihiko Reizei that suggests some scenes are not made for a global audience. Reizei believes it would be a good idea to release an “international” version, where scenes–i.e. breast-feeding and nudity–would be […]

ASIFA-Hollywood has announced the nominations for the 41st Annual Annie Awards, which recognize the year’s best in animation. Frozen and Monsters University lead the field with 10 nominations each. The nominees for Best Animated Feature are: A Letter to Momo, Despicable Me 2, Ernest & Celestine
, Frozen, Monsters University, The Croods
, and The Wind Rises. […]

Surpassing virtually all expectations, Disney’s Frozen took advantage of the lack of any strong competition for the family market this weekend with a record-breaking gross of $66 million, Collider is reporting. For the five day weekend, things were even better, with the film standing with a massive total gross of $93 million since opening on Wednesday. […]

Instead of revealing more of the film’s plot, the newest trailer for Laika’s Boxtrolls goes behind the scenes of how the film is made. Set to the tune “He’s Got The Whole World In His Hands,” the trailer shows how the stop motion process requires intensive focus of detail from making the puppets’ clothing to […]

As most Studio Ghibli films are prone to do The Tale of Princess Kaguya swept the box office by taking the number one spot. The Hollywood Reporter tells us that the film earned $2.8 million in only two days. This is the first Studio Ghibli film released post-Hayao Miyazaki’s, the studio’s founder, retirement and the […]

US President Barack Obama paid a visit to DreamWorks Animation Studios today to discuss the US economy, take a tour of the studio, and meet with big time supporter Jeffrey Katzenberg. There was speculation that Obama’s speech would be overrun with an audience in green shirts protesting visual effects jobs being outsourced, says Cartoon Brew. […]

Earlier this year, reports started hitting the internet that Family Guy was going to kill off a major character….which is exactly what happened in last night’s episode. E! Online has a spoiler-filled interview with Family Guy executive producer Steve Callaghan about the episode, why the character was killed off, and where the show goes from […]

The first official poster for How to Train Your Dragon 2–featuring a now adult Hiccup–made its way online earlier this week and can be viewed on Collider. In addition, a new trailer for the sequel is rumored to be released sometime in the next few days. The highly anticipated movie soars into theaters on June […]

Disney has set release dates for two upcoming live-action films on their slate, ComingSoon.Net is reporting. First up is Alice in Wonderland 2, which is set to hit theaters on May 27th, 2016. The Muppets director James Bobin is set to take over for Tim Burtion, with Mia Wasikowska and Johnny Depp being the only […]

A new trailer for The Nut Job is now online at Yahoo! Movies. Starring Will Arnett and Liam Neeson, the movie comes to theaters in 3-D on January 17th.

A brand new trailer for Disney’s upcoming Muppets Most Wanted is now online exclusively on Yahoo! Movies. The preview is also expected to be shown in theaters with Frozen starting next week. Featuring Tina Fey, Ricky Gervais and Ty Burrell–among various other celebrity cameos–, the comedy sequel comes to theaters on March 21st.