Disney released another trailer for Muppets Most Wanted and the Muppets were outraged…about not getting nominated for the Golden Globes. They may be outraged about the lack of nominations, but they should be pleased with the amount of publicity they are receiving. ToughPigs rounds up the all the press releases, interviews, and news articles that […]

The Nut Job had a surprisingly strong opening weekend bringing in $20.6, good for third place according to Box Office Mojo. Thats good news for Open Road Films since, as BOM mentions,”The Lego Movie doesn’t open until February 7th, meaning The Nut Job has another two weekends to play to families. The movie should ultimately […]

The Nut Job, the first animated offering from Open Road Films, opens today in a weekend leading 3,427 theatres according to Box Office Mojo. The film is being hammered by the critics, with a measly 12% rating at Rotten Tomatoes. Their critical consensus: “Hampered by an unlikable central character and source material stretched too thin […]

The nominees for the 86th Academy Awards have been announced this week. American Hustle and Gravity led all films with ten each. BEST ANIMATED FEATURE – The Croods – Despicable Me 2 – Ernest and Celestine – Frozen – The Wind Rises BEST ANIMATED SHORT – Feral – Get a Horse! – Mr. Hublot – […]

Jeffrey: the series, a new animated web-series created by long time Disney animator Dan Lund is premiering Tuesday, January 28, 2014. Jeffrey is taking the midlife crisis and giving it a fabulous make over one animated webisode at a time. Beyond the weekly episodes, this character is alive and “in the moment,” having a presence […]

DreamWorks Animation has released a new trailer for their upcoming film Mr. Peabody and Sherman. And Rope of Silicon has a little information about the attached Rocky & Bullwinkle short film: “The short was directed by Gary Trousdale (Beauty and the Beast) and features the voice work of June Foray (the original voice of Rocket […]

Cartoon Brew has the full list of the nominees for the Visual Effects Society Awards. Gravity led all films with eight nominations while The Croods, Epic, and Frozen led the animation titles with four each. Also of special note is the nod for Sandra Bullock’s character from Gravity, Ryan Stone, in the Outstanding Animated Character […]

With Academy Award nominations set to be announced Thursday, “Showbiz Awards” site GoldDerby takes a look at the chances of Frozen. On the odds of getting a Best Picture nomination: “Perhaps the movie’s biggest detriment to playing in the big leagues is the Academy’s long-held penchant for overlooking animated films… over the past 85 years […]

Frozen picked up the prize for Best Animated Feature Film at the Golden Globes. Directors Chris Buck and Jennifer Lee thanked the “fans who have taken Frozen into their hearts” and John Lasseter and Ed Catmuill “who became our fearless leaders eight years ago… this [award] is because of you”. The other nominees were The […]

The Hollywood Reporter notes that seven of the top ten films in Japan during 2013 were animated. “A lack of the big local and Hollywood live-action franchises that have won over audiences in recent years… let the cartoons reign supreme in 2013, and left Hollywood struggling for market share”.

Disney’s Frozen will cool off on Blu-ray on March 18th, Blu-ray.com is reporting. Unfortunately for fans, as has been the case with most of the studio’s recent animated features (with the curious exception of Pixar films), the release will be fairly light on extras, with The Making of Frozen, deleted scenes, three music videos and […]

Variety reports that DreamWorks Animation and YouTube are teaming up in an “unusual collaboration” to produce an original daily series titled YouTube Nation. The show “is expected to provide a daily highlight reel of what content is trending on the Google-owned platform based on its own proprietary data in a syndicated newsmagazine-style format.”

Smithsonian Magazine’s website takes a look at how the real P.L. Travers fared against Walt Disney as “historian Amy Henderson searches for the spoonfuls of sugar-coated truth in the new film Saving Mr. Banks“.

Awards season is in full swing. And the latest trophy was given to Despicable Me 2 which won the People’s Choice Award for Favorite Family Film this week. It was chosen over fellow nominees Monsters University, Oz the Great and Powerful, Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters, and The Smurfs 2. The next major award show […]

It doesn’t air until Sunday, but Simpsons fans can already check out the opening clip from the next episode of The Simpsons, which is a tribute to all things Studio Ghibli. The sequence features references from everything from Kiki’s Delivery Service to Howl’s Moving Castle. The episode, titled I Am Furious (Yellow), also features a cameo […]

Deadline looks at the success of Disney’s Frozen and the prospects of it eventually reaching Broadway. With the film still currently #1 at the box office and on the album charts, the studio is of course not focused there at the moment. According to Deadline, a top Disney official said “there’s been no discussion on […]

The BBC notes that singer-songwriter Peter Andre has written on his website about a song he has created, titled Kid, and performs for DreamWorks upcoming film Mr. Peabody and Sherman. “I saw an early cut of the film and loved it – it’s a must-see for the entire family. It is great to be working […]

Collider was bursting with new information about Muppets Most Wanted. First they have new interviews with Kermit, Walter, and Miss Piggy, where each reveals their personal experience working on the new film, then there are fourteen glorious, brand new photos from behind the scenes that will be sure to delight Muppet fans. If that was […]

Three of Disney’s children’s shows are doing so well that they have been renewed. Sofia the First and Doc McStuffins are both going into their third seasons and Jake and the Neverland Pirates enters its treasure-hunting fourth. The VP of original programming and general manager at Disney Junior Worldwide Nancy Kanter says that these three […]

A tale as old as time is that smaller studios have been copying Disney movies since they realized they could turn a profit with cheaply made knock-offs. Disney has been known to sue some of these studios, but that does not prevent new ones from popping up. Cartoon Brew has generated a list of these […]

Another day, another news story regarding how well Frozen has been doing for Disney. Today the movie had the first motion picture soundtrack from an animated movie to top the Billboard 200 since 2006’s Curious George, the LA Times is reporting. It has also became the first movie soundtrack to top the charts since 2012’s Les […]

The British Academy of Film and Television Arts has announced the nominees for their annual awards. Despicable Me 2, Frozen, and Monster’s University were nominated for Best Animated Film. Gravity, The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, Iron Man 3, Pacific Rim, and Star Trek Into Darkness are up for Best Special Visual Effects. Everything I […]

CSMonitor.com looks into how Frozen outlasted films that were released at the same time, like The Hobbit and Hunger Games sequels, to still be on top of the box office after seven weeks. One of the top reasons they cite is the movie’s “brilliantly terrible marketing”, or “the false under-sell”, “in short, the film was […]

TV Guide reports that a new documentary about voice-over artists, titled I Know That Voice, has hit VOD platforms and iTunes this week. Producer and Annie Award winning actor John DiMaggio says he signed on to the film because “I want my peers to get a little bit of recognition. These are some of the […]

Larry D. Mann, the voice of Yukon Cornelius in Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer–arguably the most beloved animated holiday TV special of all time–, has passed away, Yahoo! TV is reporting. A Canadian actor who made appearances in dozens of television shows and films, Mann died from “complications of old age” at age 91. USA Today […]

Party Central, the Monsters University spin-off short that was originally supposed to be shown in theaters with The Good Dinosaur, will now debut with Muppets Most Wanted, EW is reporting. In the short, “Mike and Sulley and their Oozma Kappa frat brothers try to throw a monster blowout party but are dismayed to find that […]