Over a period of two years at LAIKA Studios in Oregon, a crew of more than 320 animators, designers, artists, and technicians came together to hand-craft the film ParaNorman. Since then the movie has won 15 Best Animated Feature Film awards, the Character Animation & Design Annie Award, and is also nominated for an Academy […]

Deadline reports that the recently formed Paramount Animation unit has decided on an original project to be the followup to their next film, The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie 2. Viacom CEO Philippe Dauman says more details will be released soon but it will be “based on original IP”, will have “consumer products possibilities”, and will put […]

USA Today has posted a clip from the new documentary Growing Up with Nine Old Men (available on the just released Peter Pan Blu-ray) along with an article about its director Ted Thomas — son of Peter Pan lead animator Frank Thomas. “At the heart of Peter Pan was this idea of family, much more […]

D23 has turned to someone from the Disney Archives to go through the mysterious photograph tweeted by director Brad Bird. The picture somehow relates to his “1952” project, since revealed to be named Tomorrowland.

Looking to improve your chances in an Oscar pool? Several websites are looking at the five films up for the best Animated Short Oscar. Brightest Young Things is going with the favorite, Disney’s Paperman, a film they say is so perfect “there is so simply no way to improve” it. While Television Without Pity admits […]

Disney’s Wreck-It Ralph won the Best Animated Feature honor at the 40th Annual Annie Awards held this past weekend in Los Angeles. Pixar’s Paperman won Best Animated Short, while Robot Chicken, DreamWorks’ Dragons, and Nickelodeon’s Bubble Guppies won the three TV categories. Wreck-It Ralph was the top film winner of the night with five awards, […]

With his Hotel Transylvania finally hitting store shelves this week, director Genndy Tartakovsky is talking ET Online about his next project: a 3D film adaptation of the classic cartoon series Popeye. “Basically it’s kind of taking the Popeye that I grew up with, that I think we all grew up with, and definitely making him […]

Engadget reports that Amazon, who recently announced their entrance into original programming, has green-lighted five new kids series. The shows include: “Teeny Tiny Dogs, produced by The Jim Henson Company, Creative Galaxy, created by Blues Clues‘ Angela Santomero and Oz Adventures, based on the classic L. Frank Baum books”. Check out the link for more […]

Family Guy vet Steve Callaghan is taking over Fox’s well-reviewed American Dad!, Deadline is reporting. This marks the first time in the show’s eight year history that such a change has been made in the series’ production. Until now, Dad was managed by series creators Mike Barker and Matt Weitzman, who will remain involved as executive producers. The […]

Deadline reports that Disney and Google have teamed up to create Find Your Way To Oz, a plugin-free, in-browser experience using the very latest web technology. Look for it online February 5th and the film itself in theatres March 8th.

Entertainment Weekly has scored an exclusive interview with Kermit the Frog, who talks about his upcoming movie The Muppets… Again! “The idea of this film is that our gang is on this global tour, and we’re selling out these grand theaters all over Europe—in Berlin, Madrid, London—but we sort of get into a little bit […]

Each year South Park entertains people with its off-color humor and comedy that pokes fun at everyone and everything. Fans usually have fourteen episodes to look forward to, but the creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker decided to cut back. The decision came after Parker and Stone’s launch of a Important Studios, their new production […]

The famous Kentucky Colonel is getting a new makeover to coincide with the new Dragon Ball Z: Battle of the Gods. In seven Tokyo Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurants, statues of Col. Sanders will be cosplaying as the series’ main character Son Goku and each will sport a one of the seven coveted Dragon Balls. Dragon […]

Techradar gets a behind the scenes look at the tech powering DreamWorks’ computer animated films. As you can probably imagine if you’ve ever filled a hard drive on your own PC, a CG film takes up a lot of space. A typical DreamWorks film “might render 65 million hours of footage to come up with […]

Cartoon Network has unveiled thier 2013-14 lineup and Animation Magazine has the details of what is a very full slate. Original premieres include Incredible Crew, Steven Universe, Uncle Grandpa, Clarence, and Grojband. Other premieres include re-imagined Powerpuff Girls and Tom and Jerry shows, Teen Titans Go, Beware The Batman, LEGO Legends of Chima, Total Drama […]

Brad Bird’s top secret science fiction project 1952 has been given an official title…which offers major hints about what the subject matter of the film might be. THR is reporting that the movie is now called Tomorrowland, and that it will feature George Clooney in the lead role. No other information has been provided beyond that, […]

Everybody Needs a Best Friend, from Seth MacFarlene’s blockbuster animated/live-action film Ted, will be performed by Norah Jones at the Academy Awards this year, ComingSoon.net is reporting. Although the movie about a potty mouthed teddy bear more than earned its R rating, the Oscar-nominated song is actually sweet and simple, sounding more like something that would come from a […]

Deadline reports that Wreck-It Ralph outscored the competition for Outstanding Producer of Animated Theatrical Motion Pictures at the Producers Guild Awards. Winner Clark Spencer said, “I joined Disney 23 years ago during difficult times and always wondered when I should leave. But I always believed in the studio. There is a renaissance going on at […]

Table Titans, a new comic strip about a group of Dungeons & Dragons playing friends, premieres today. Eisner and Harvey Award winner Scott Kurtz of PVP is the artist behind the strip. What makes this one different from all the other geeky strips out there is it has the official blessing of Wizards of the […]

The Wrap has the scoop on a recent Hollywood Radio and Television Society panel where Disney CEO Bob Iger was interviewed by Academy Award winning producer Brian Grazer. The first topic discussed was Pixar founder Steve Jobs who died in 2011. At the time Iger became CEO Disney’s relationship with Pixar had deteriorated. When Iger […]

In addition to the previously mentioned Aladdin musical, Broadway.com notes that composer Alan Menken also has several other projects on his plate, including the animated film adaptation of the Sid and Marty Krofft TV series Lidsville. Menken recently tweeted, “Lidsville is underway…FINALLY. Peace, love and psychedelia! And DreamWorks is pretty great. So many old friends […]

The American poster for Studio Ghibli’s From Up on Poppy Hill has been revealed on ComingSoon.net and can be seen here. The film focuses on two high schoolers in Japan during the aftermath of World War II as the country prepares to host the 1964 Olympics. Perhaps because of its thematic content, this is the […]

Disney Theatrical Productions has officially announced that the 1992 animated film Aladdin is getting the Broadway treatment. A pre-Broadway run will take place at Toronto’s Ed Mirvish Theatre from November 13, 2013 to January 12, 2014. The show will get its big opening on the Great White Way at the New Amsterdam Theatre in 2014. […]