Fans of 2011’s The Muppets should be happy to know that songwriter Bret McKenzie–who won an Oscar for the song  Man or Muppet–is back to write more songs for the sequel. Collider recently spoke with him, where he revealed that the new movie should have “Six or seven (songs), depending on how the edit goes.  […]

Disney’s Planes opens today in 3,702 theatres according to Box Office Mojo. The film isn’t winning over the critics, earning just 25% on the Tomatometer. Their consensus is that Planes “has enough bright colors, goofy voices, and slick animation to distract some young viewers for 92 minutes — and probably sell plenty of toys in […]

Disney’s D23 Expo begins today and the studio is expected to unlock the vault on a lot of upcoming projects. ComingSoon.net has a first look at some of Disney’s teases for Big Hero 6. The Rotoscopers have a clip from Frozen. Entertainment Weekly has a peek at The Good Dinosaur. And you can keep up […]

Disney is apparently looking to give its upcoming untitled Pirates of the Caribbean sequel a severe budget cut, The Wrap is reporting. The supposed reason for this disappointing news is that The Lone Ranger hasn’t been performing as the studio had hoped, causing Disney to “rethink” the budgets it spends on its future summer tentpoles. Perhaps […]

Courtesy of a Facebook post by Jerry Beck’s Animation Scoop blog, we learned of an October release of The Puppetoon Movie on Blu-ray, in a deluxe 2-disc set. This compilation feature contains many of the 1940 stop-motion mini masterpieces, along with new bridging animation with more modern animation stars. This limited edition will have only […]

Coming online a lot earlier than many probably expected, the first trailer for The Muppets Most Wanted is now online and can be seen on Disneys’ official website. The sequel to 2011’s critically acclaimed movie finds Kermit on the run from the law thanks to an international criminal who looks just like him. And in […]

Disney’s Planes is getting ready to take off this week. (Be prepared to hear that pun everywhere for the next few days!) The Associated Press talks with comedian and the film’s star Dane Cook. Then Collider interviews director Klay Hall and producer Traci Balthazor-Flynn about switching the film from a direct-to-video to a theatrical release, […]

Reuters takes a look at the recent flurry of dealmaking being done by DreamWorks Animation. “In the last year, Dreamworks has bought a YouTube network aimed at teenagers and picked up a company that controls such iconic characters as Lassie and Casper the Friendly Ghost. It acquired the rights to the Troll toy franchise and […]

If you’re in the mood to settle in with a book, MiceChat has you covered for the rest of the year. They’ve compiled a list of books about Disney being released over the next several months. Titles include Disney Legend Marty Sklar’s Dream It! Do It!: My Half-Century Creating Disney’s Magic Kingdoms, Tinker Bell: An […]

Paramount Animation is trying to woo Blue Sky co-founder and Oscar winner Chris Wedge to direct a new animated project titled Monster Trucks for a planned opening on May 29, 2015, according to Deadline. The studio also announced that big screen sequel SpongeBob SquarePants 2 will open February 15, 2015.

DreamWorks Animation Television has hired 26 year Nickelodeon veteran Marjorie Cohn to run the division, according to Variety. She takes the helms of a group planning a big increase in output due to deals with Netflix and their purchase of Classic Media.

Disney previewed their upcoming film Planes at the AirVenture airshow this week in Oshkosh WI. And CNN talked with Sean Bautista, one of the film’s aviation consultants, about the authenticity and accuracy of how the planes and their abilities are portrayed. “At a screening for aviation enthusiasts I went to, the general comments were that, […]

After some financial issues earlier this year, DreamWorks announced a stronger-than-expected profit in the second quarter, the L.A. Times reports. DW head Jeffrey Katzenberg said, “DreamWorks Animation significantly outperformed in the second quarter, thanks primarily to The Croods‘ incredibly successful box-office run, where it has amassed $584 million worldwide to become the fifth-highest-grossing movie of […]

With Disney’s largest video game effort to date, Disney Infinity, releasing later this month, Fast Company spoke with Disney and Pixar creative chief John Lasseter. Topics ranged from the game and why he resisted the idea initially, to the importance of creativity and how the game promotes that, to how the late Steve Jobs influenced […]

NBCUniversal head Steve Burke said today that Despicable Me 2 will be “the single most profitable film in the 100 year history of Universal Studios”, Deadline reports. With a production budget of $76 million according to Box Office Mojo, the film has so far brought in $664 million worldwide.

Variety reports that Amazon has greenlighted five more children’s shows this year, in addition to the one’s previously reported. The animated offerings include: Grid Smasher, from Dan Clark (Yo Gabba Gabba!, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles); Hard-Boiled Eggheads, from Duane Capizzi (Transformers Prime, Men in Black: The Series, Darkwing Duck); The Jo B. & G. Raff […]

Collider talks with SNL alum Bill Hader. Besides the discussion about his recent exit from that show (for which he was just nominated for his second Emmy Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series), they also discuss his role on Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2, and his previously part time now […]

Pixar and Disney creative head John Lasseter was just elected to the post of First Vice President of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. He previously served terms as treasurer and secretary. Cheryl Boone Isaacs was elected president.

Samurai Jack fans should rejoice because the time-traveling samurai is back in dead-tree format. Cartoon Network has partnered with IDW to publish new comics based on the hit cartoon. “Samurai Jack is an irresistible mix of high adventure, comedy and mythic storytelling,” said series writer Jim Zub (Skullkickers), who will be joined by Andy Suriano, […]

The first poster for Free Birds is now online, and can be seen over at Yahoo! Movies. The ad proudly proclaims that the film is “The Greatest Turkey Movie of All Time!” Whether or not it will live up to that bold promise remains to be seen, but audiences can judge for themselves when Free […]

Long in development hell, Sony Pictures has been trying to get a live-action Masters of the Universe movie off the ground for years. The project finally found a director in G.I. Joe: Retaliation’s Jon. M Chu, but judging from a recent interview he gave with ComingSoon.Net, it sounds like it’s going to be a long […]

Pete Docter, the Academy Award winning director of Up, recently discussed his upcoming film Inside Out with The Hollywood Reporter. The plot focuses on an 11 year old girl and what exactly goes on in her mind as she goes about her life. “One story is hard enough. This is two stories that need to […]

ComingSoon.net has details and a first look at the upcoming new animated series Star Wars Rebels, coming to Disney Chanel and Disney XD in 2014. “The series is set between the events of Episode III and IV — an era spanning almost two decades never-before explored on-screen. It takes place in a time where the […]

Fox’s late night animated comedy block, called Animation Domination High-Def (ADHD), kicked off this weekend, and rival Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim was there to welcome them… literally! Deadline reports that they were able to place two of their iconic black card bump ads into the new shows “in a stealth move through local buys… done […]

It was expected to be the summer of Iron Man and Superman, but it’s also proven to be the summer of the Minion. After just a few weeks, Despicable Me 2 has crossed the $300 million mark, Box Office Mojo is reporting. The sequel is now the sixth highest grossing animated movies of all time, behind […]

In Planes, protagonist Dusty Crophopper is mentored by WWII veteran Skipper, who refuses to talk of his wartime experiences until the characters share a poignant scene on an aircraft carrier. Now DisneyToons Chief Creative Officer John Lasseter tells The Wall Street Journal about the real-life inspiration behind Skipper: his father, Paul Eual Lasseter, who served […]

The first poster for DreamWorks Animation’s Mr. Peabody & Sherman is now online, and can be seen over at the IMP Awards. Originally slated for release this holiday season, the Rocky and Bullwinkle characters come to theaters everywhere next March.

If you’re one of the many people who thought that those LEGO characters in the upcoming Lego Movie very much looked like the real thing, fear not, for your eyes weren’t playing tricks on you. At Comic-Con today, it was officially revealed that the film would be a mix of stop-motion animation and CGI, i09 is […]

Exciting movie and TV news just keeps pouring in this weekend from Comic-Con, and the panels for FOX’s popular cartoon shows American Dad and Family Guy were no exception…or were they? During the panel for Dad, Zap 2 It reports that series co-creator Mike Barker strongly hinted that an American Dad movie might be close […]