The person in charge of marketing for the mysterious Disney film now titled Tomorrowland needs a raise, as internet buzz over the unknown project is at a fever pitch. The latest to weigh in is Disney expert Jim Hill. In his usual detailed and entertaining style, Hill posits that the film formally known as 1952 […]

Deadline is reporting that visual effects/animation studio Rhythm & Hues is filing for bankruptcy, telling some employees not to come in, and delaying paychecks. The news comes just hours after their winning of the Bafta for Special Visual Effects for Life of Pi and weeks before the Oscars where they are nominated twice in that […]

Pixar story illustrator Matt Jones is working with Facebook to basically reinvent the smiley, according to Buzzfeed. “Facebook was canny enough to realize that traditional emoticons are quite bland. At Pixar we consider emotional states every day with every drawing we make. Our work is informed by the years of study we do, constantly studying […]

Animation Fascination has pulled a three and a half minute preview of the upcoming Monsters University film off the upcoming Monsters Inc. 3D blu-ray disc and posted it for viewing. “We finally get a better look at the film’s storyline, along with some new concept art and animation. The whole thing is hosted by the […]

Brave continued its award winning streak, this time taking the top animation prize from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts. The Pixar film defeated Frankenweenie and ParaNorman. The Making Of Longbird won for Best Short Animation while Life Of Pi won for Special Visual Effects.

Animation (and quasi-related projects) were all losers in the Grammy Award race. The Woody Allen film Midnight In Paris won Best Compilation Soundtrack over The Muppets, The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo took the award for Best Score Soundtrack over The Adventures of Tintin, and Safe & Sound from The Hunger Games was the winner […]

Rush Hour director Brett Ratner is teaming with Six Eleven Media to produce an animated television series based on the successful social media game FarmVille. “FarmVille is one of the most exciting brands out there today, and its cross-platform opportunities are endless. I am thrilled to be expanding the brand with existing fans and also […]

The end credit sequence for Wreck-It Ralph is now online, reports Cartoon Brew. Set to Owl City’s When Can I See You Again, the 8-bit styled video features Ralph and Vanellope von Schweetz exploring the worlds of numerous video games, from the movie’s own Sugar Rush and Hero’s Duty to real-life games Sonic the Hedgehog […]

For years, a rumor has circulated that Ghostbusters star Ernie Hudson auditioned to reprise his role as Winston Zeddemore in the film’s animated spin-off, The Real Ghostbusters – only to lose the role to Arsenio Hall. Now Hudson himself is confirming the rumor. The actor tells A.V. Club, “So I went in to read the […]

New posters for Monsters University–although not in English, they appear to have a Chinese New Year theme–have made their way online and can be seen at the IMP Awards. And in case you missed it, here’s a recent domestic poster for the film which can also be viewed on the site. The Monsters, Inc. prequel enrolls […]

Pixar’s upcoming Pete Doctor film that takes place “inside the human brain” has finally gotten a confirmed title, ComingSoon.net is reporting. The site is saying that the movie will be called Inside Out, and will supposedly be “told from the emotions taking place inside the mind of a little girl.” Inside Out is currently set to invade […]

Variety is reporting that Illumination Entertainment, the studio responsible for last year’s blockbuster The Lorax, is now planning to adapt another Dr. Seuss classic, but this time it will be one more familier to most audiences. The site is saying that plans for an animated How the Grinch Stole Christmas movie are being made, with Pete […]

The long-reported Night at the Museum 3 has finally been given an official greenlight from Fox, ComingSoon.net is reporting. As with the first two films in the franchise, the movie will be helmed by family friendly director Shawn Levy and star Ben Stiller as wisecracking security guard Larry Daley. No details on the plot are available, but […]

Thunderbirds, the campy British TV series featuring puppets which inspired both a live-action movie in 2004 and Trey Parker and Matt Stone’s raunchy Team America: World Police, is making a comeback, Screen Rant is reporting. The reboot will come from WETA Workshop, the special effects powerhouse behind The Lord of the Rings, Rise of the Planet […]

Marking their third project together, LAIKA and Focus Features, the two companies behind the current Academy Award-nominated animated feature ParaNorman, announced today that LAIKA has begun production on The Boxtrolls, a 3D stop-motion and CG hybrid animated feature based on Alan Snow’s bestselling fantasy adventure novel Here Be Monsters. The new movie will be released […]

“Has animation A-lister Brad Bird left the medium … in part out of creative frustration?” asks The Hollywood Reporter, based on recent quotes from the filmmaker during a CalArts fundraising salon on Jan. 29. Appearing with Pixar colleague Mark Andrews, Bird allegedly questioned why mainstream animation studios won’t attempt films for older audiences. “Why does […]

Baby Sinclair from the hit ’90s TV series Dinosaurs has returned in a new fan-made CGI short, I’m the Baby, Gotta Love Me! Animator Davide Maugeri created the short as a tribute to the show’s production company, Jim Henson Television. “Since [Dinosaurs] was a big hit in the early ’90s and ended up forgotten, our […]

A relatively small animated film is causing a big stink in the courts according to The Hollywood Reporter. Writer-director Tony Leech and film producer Brian Inerfeld, two of the people behind the surprise hit Hoodwinked claim that The Weinstein Co. have “sabotaged” their followup project, Escape From Planet Earth, and cost them millions. The Weinstein’s […]

Brave and Life of Pi were the top film winners and Game Of Thrones the top TV winner at the Visual Effects Society Awards this week, with each earning four trophies according to Deadline. Pi director Ang Lee was also honored with the Visionary Award, saying “This is not visual effects, it’s visual art”. The […]

The Berlin International Film Festival kicks off today and one of the shorts on the program is Pixar’s The Blue Umbrella. First-time director Saschka Unseld talked with The Playlist about the short’s plot, his pitch to Pixar, the idea to go photorealistic rather than cartoony, his experience on the technical side of things rather than […]

The Hollywood Reporter says that DreamWorks is looking at layoffs after the underperformance of Rise of the Guardians and the just announced reduction in the number of films being released this year. Their sources say “no single film project in development will be targeted” but “plans for an unspecified reduction of the company’s 2,000 or […]

The previously reported collobaration between Google and Disney to promote the upcoming film Oz The Great and Powerful is now online, and Wired has the details on the “stunning bit of entertainment”.

DreamWorks Animation has announced that they are moving the release date of their upcoming film Mr. Peabody & Sherman from November of this year to March 7, 2014. “Our distributor [Twentieth Century Fox], who has had great success in March with their Ice Age franchise, has recommended we move Mr. Peabody & Sherman to the […]

As previously mentioned, an opera by Philip Glass based on the life of Walt Disney titled The Perfect American recently premiered in Spain. Want to see it? No need to hop a flight to Madrid. Cartoon Brew reports that you can watch it online live today at 2pm ET at Medici.tv. It will be available […]

Stop-motion director Henry Selick was disappointed when Disney pulled the plug on his The Shadow King movie. Instead of nursing his wounds, he’s found a new partner. K5 International is a German distribution and production company and they have picked up the project, already adding advertising to their website. Josh Penn (Beasts of the Southern […]

Isao Takahata’s newest animated film based off a popular Japanese folktale has been delayed. Studio Ghibli, Hayao Miyazaki’s studio, is animating the film, but when the distribution company TOHO asked about its progress, they were informed that the storyboards were not complete. To preserve the movie’s quality, TOHO pushed back the release date. It will […]

From Up On Poppy Hill is the newest Studio Ghibli film to premiere in the US. It is directed by Goro Miyazaki, Hayao Miyazaki’s son, and it is a coming-of-age film with romance, mystery, and drama set in 1964 Yokohama. It has been described as a pure and sincere story. The US dub features many […]