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 […]

It’s been more than a year since a new episode of The Legend of Korra was shown on Nick, but thanks to this year’s Comic-Con, fans finally have a taste of the show’s next season. Comic Book Movie has the brand new trailer for Book II: Spirits which was shown at San Diego earlier today, […]

Taking advantage of the fact that, yes, they own Star Wars now, Disney announced at Comic-Con today that they are planning on sending Phineas & Ferb into the galaxy far, far away, THR is reporting. The special one-hour episode will find the title characters living on Tatooine when they accidentally come into possession of the […]

Following years of so-called “rivalry” between the two shows, Family Guy and The Simpsons are set to do an all-out crossover with each other, EW is reporting. In an upcoming Family Guy episode–called The Simpsons Guy–the Griffins somehow wind up in Springfield, where “Stewie is impressed with Bart and his assortment of pranks, Lisa tries to […]

DreamWorks’ Turbo gets a head start on weekend, opening today in 3,552 theatres according to Box Office Mojo. The film is holding it’s own with the critics, earning a 64% Fresh rating so far at Rotten Tomatoes.

Den of Geek looks at what’s in the works from Studio Ghibli. The short answer? The Wind Rises, The Tale Of The Bamboo Cutter, and The Kingdom Of Dreams And Madness. The long answer? Follow the link!

Jeremy Zuckerman, the composer behind The Legend of Korra, Avatar: The Last Airbender, and Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness, did an AMA (“ask me anything”) session on Reddit yesterday. Questions ranged from his favorite pieces and characters to his process and to the likelyhood of an Avatar soundtrack being released, along with much more.

Despicable Me 2 continued its rule of the box office this weekend besting two other films opening, Grown Ups 2 and Pacific Rim. The minions took in $44.8 million, the grown ups $38.3 million, and the alien-fighting robots $42.5 million. DM2‘s cumulative domestic gross so far is $229 million in 12 days.

The announcement trailer for How to Train Your Dragon 2–which is the same preview that was shown to attendees of Cinema Con earlier this year–has made its way online and can be seen at ComingSoon.Net. Naturally, with the movie almost an entire year away, the clip doesn’t show anything about the plot, except giving audiences […]

After gettting our first peak at the characters yesterday, today Disney serves up the first trailer for the film Saving Mr. Banks. “Before the movie could actually be made… Walt Disney had to get permission from Mary Poppins creator and children’s book author P.L. Travers. Saving Mr. Banks — due out in theaters this December […]

Disney has revealed the first official character shots from their upcoming film Frozen at Yahoo Movies. In addition, each features a short bit about the character. Their synopsis of the movie: “When Anna is cursed by her estranged sister, the cold-hearted Snow Queen, Anna’s only hope of reversing the curse is to survive a perilous […]

A while back, Disney’s Planes was said to have received a PG rating from the MPAA, but there was nothing to confirm the reports. Now Box Office Mojo has done just that, saying that the film has been rated PG for “some mild action and rude humor.” Planes opens everywhere August 9th.

Time Magazine has the first look at Tom Hanks and Emma Thompson playing Walt Disney and Mary Poppins author P.L. Travers in the film Saving Mr. Banks. Coming late this year, the movie focuses on the early life of the author and her later “stormy relationship” with Disney.

Eight new honorees will be named Disney Legends next month at the D23 Expo according to the company. The program is Disney’s “highest and most coveted honor. It’s reserved for the extraordinary visionaries and artists behind the Disney magic, the men and women who push the limits of innovation and creativity to ensure Disney remains […]

Anime News Network has details on a Studio Ghibli documentary titled Yume to Kyōki no Ōkoku (The Kingdom of Dreams & Madness) set to open this fall. “The documentary follows Ghibli director Hayao Miyazaki as he works on the Kaze Tachinu (The Wind Rises) film, director Isao Takahata as he works on the film Kaguya-hime […]

The Hollywood Reporter says Disney has a live action version of The Jungle Book in the works. It appears this may be confirmation that the company is looking to its classic animated films for future project ideas. “Alice in Wonderland started the trend, grossing $1 billion in the process, and Maleficent, based on Sleeping Beauty, […]

Kit FUI is an IMDb-like website devoted to fake user interfaces (FUI) on computers in films. “Most FUIs are not actual computer programs but simply animations being played back at the correct time or added in post production”. Kit FUI features screenshots, videos, and info on the designers.

New international posters for two upcoming animated films have made their way over to the IMP Awards. First up, we have a rather bizarre Japanese poster for The Smurfs 2, which to American audiences at least may look more like a comic book cover than a poster for a movie. Also from Japan is a […]

Box Office Mojo reports that Despicable Me 2 crushed the competition over the holiday weekend. “Through its first five days, Despicable Me 2 earned an estimated $142.1 million. That’s just ahead of Toy Story 3 ($141 million) for top five-day start ever for an animated movie… For the three-day period, Despicable Me 2 earned an […]

Amazon has just listed Disney/Pixar’s Monsters University as available to pre-order in both standard and 3D Blu-ray editions. A prequel to the 2001 blockbuster Monsters, Inc., the film follows “mismatched monsters Mike and Sulley as they overcome their differences and become the best of friends during their days at Monsters University.” With a 78% fresh […]

A new French poster for Frozen–notably more interesting than the American one, which just featured the film’s title–can now be seen at the IMP Awards. The movie opens everywhere in 3-D this Thanksgiving.

The Mary Sue highlights a Tumblr group of fan art re-imaginnig Disney’s upcoming film Frozen in more diverse ways. The people behind This Could Have Been Frozen say “the point of this blog is not to attack Frozen or boycott it… This blog wants to encourage [people of color] and artists alike to try to […]