Check out an image gallery from Studio Ghibli’s From Up on Poppy Hill over at The Daily Blam. Directed by Gorō Miyazaki with a screenplay by Hayao Miyazaki and Keiko Niwa, the film opens in the United States on March 15th.

Deadline reports that Disney could face some contentious shareholders at the annual meeting today. Attendees and the company “are girding for a fight over resolutions that could shape the way Disney’s run, especially after Bob Iger steps down in June 2016. Many shareholders support a movement sweeping corporate America to democratize governance policies, giving the […]

Wreck-It Ralph hits stores today, in four-disc and two-disc Blu-ray/DVD combo packs. But director Rich Moore is already weighing ideas for a sequel, discussing a few of them with Collider. “What would happen if another Fix-It Felix, Jr. game was plugged in? Are there other Ralphs that are more contemporary?” asks Moore. “Is there another […]

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 […]

Disney’s Oz The Great And Powerful is apparently on its way to a massive opening weekend, Deadline is reporting. The site is saying that tracking has Oz opening to $80 million or more, which would far and away give it the biggest opening weekend of 2013 so far. Even better are the film’s chances of being […]

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 […]

Disney has announced that Dane Cook will voice the lead character Dusty in the upcoming film Planes. Inspired by the world of Cars and directed by Disneytoon Studios veteran Klay Hall (King of the Hill, The Simpsons), the film is about a plane who dreams of competing as an air racer despite his unfortunate fear […]

Flick Direct reports that Twentieth Century Fox has released cast details for their upcoming sequel Rio 2. Anne Hathaway, Jesse Eisenberg, Jemaine Clement, will.i.am, Tracy Morgan, George Lopez, Leslie Mann, Rodrigo Santoro, Bebel Gilberto, Jake T. Austin, and Jamie Foxx return and will be joined by Andy Garcia, Bruno Mars, Kristin Chenoweth, Rita Moreno, Amandla […]

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” […]

The New York Times looks into Nickelodeon’s attempt to win the hearts of the young with their new app. After research showed their target audience was more interested in fun and games than watching TV, the company that makes TV shows had some work to do. But outside the entertainment value, the app “has serious […]

Jim Hill discusses DreamWorks’ upcoming film The Croods which recently had it’s premiere in a somewhat unlikely place. “You’d think — given the sophisticated sorts of folks who annually attend the Berlin Film Festival — that this wouldn’t be the sort of crowd which would enthusiastically embrace something as crass-sounding as The Croods. But that’s […]