Disney and Pixar’s Monsters University has been given its MPAA rating and, not surprisingly, the movie has been rated G, Box Office Mojo is reporting. The anticipated release comes to theaters everywhere on June 21st.

Somewhat unsurprisingly, it was announced this week that Beyoncé, who stars as Queen Tara in the upcoming Blue Sky film Epic, has recorded a song for the movie. Titled Rise Up, the song was “written by Beyoncé and Sia and produced by Hit-Boy and Chase N. Cashe. The track will be released by Columbia Records”.

Jim Hill looks into the subtle (and not-so-subtle) ways Pixar came up with to make a big blue furball and a giant green eyeball look younger for their upcoming film Monsters University. How did they start? By asking the production team to bring in their senior portraits. “So we gathered together all of these high […]

In a recent interview, Monsters Inc. director Pete Docter talked about Ray Harryhausen, the special effects legend who passed away this week, according to the L.A. Times. Harryhausen, who inspired countless filmmakers after him, was honored in Docter’s film by having a restaurant where a pivotal scene takes place named after him. “His pioneering efforts […]

FilmoFilia has three new international posters for Monsters University, centered on the Oozma Kappa (OK) and Jaws Theta Chi (JOX) fraternities and the Python Nu Kappa (PNK) sorority. In other poster news, IMP Awards has the latest one-sheet for Epic, which uses each letter in the film’s title as a “window” for a main character. […]

Over the past couple of decades, Warner Bros. has tried many times to bring its most famous DC characters to the big screen. To help with these endeavors, the studio has hired many talented writers and directors to develop projects that, for one reason or another, were ultimately abandoned. Some of the more famous attempts […]

Top Cat: The Movie has taken its time in coming to the U.S. The film hit theaters in Mexico in September 2011, before hitting the U.K. in June 2012. Now Top Cat: The Movie is making its way to U.S. theaters, and iTunes has the first trailer. Based on the classic Hanna-Barbera series, Top Cat: […]

Time to add another up and coming 3D animation studio to the roster! Marza Animation Planet, a subsidiary of the SEGA SAMMY Group and headed by former American Sega COO Masanao Maeda, has put the new movie Robodog into the pre-production phase. The film, says Deadline Hollywood, is described as a family-friendly story of a […]

In news that will sadden many in the animation community, legendary stop-motion and visual effects pioneer Ray Harryhausen has died aged 92, The Hollywood Reporter has announced. Starting out under the supervision of George Pal (on his Puppetoon series) and original King Kong animator Willis O’Brien on the 1949 edition of the similarly themed Mighty […]

After The Croods dominated the box office earlier this year, it was almost inevitable that the film would receive a sequel. But now, the Croods fan blog reports a TV series starring “the first modern family” is in the works as well. During DreamWorks’ Q1 earnings stockholder phone call last week, studio CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg […]

DreamWorks Classics and Bullwinkle Studios are teaming with IDW Publishing to bring Jay Ward’s classic characters to your local comic book shop, says Comic Vine. Mr. Peabody & Sherman will be the first characters to receive a new comic book series, in anticipation of their computer animated film opening March 2014. A series of comics […]

Disney has confirmed that The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh will arrive on Blu-ray on August 27. Bonus features for the release will include the classic theatrical short A Day for Eeyore as well as five brand-new Mini Adventures of Winnie the Pooh short films. Plus, for a limited time only, consumers will find […]

Not too long ago, we reported on the Whole Hog Theatre’s stage version of Hayao Miyazaki’s Princess Mononoke and its Kickstarter campaign. The Internet came to the troupe’s rescue and the play has gained a huge following. With sold-out shows for its entire two-run stretch, we are sad to say all good things must come […]

Collider has a quick, mostly spoiler free review of Pixar’s short The Blue Umbrella, which will be attached to their feature film Monsters University on June 21st. Their verdict: an “enjoyable little short” that’s “clever, cute and quirky”.

Film Music Reporter has details on the soundtrack for the upcoming Blue Sky film Epic. Scored by Danny Elfman, the album will hit stores on May 28th, four days after the film. Check out the link for the soundtrack track listing.

Disney was a big winner at the Golden Trailer Awards according to Deadline. The awards honor the best in movie advertising, including theaters spots, TV commercials, posters and more. Iron Man 3, Wreck-It-Ralph, Monsters University, Brave, and The Avengers all took home trophies.

Screen Crush has an interesting look back at “10 Disturbing Classic Disney Cartoons”. From World War II propaganda films, to educational shorts about menstruation, to Mickey Mouse doing blackface — prepare to be uncomfortable!

Jason Bateman will lend his voice to a top-secret feature from Walt Disney Animation Studios, says The Hollywood Reporter. With Disney remaining tight-lipped on the project, the only description THR provides is that it’s an “untitled animal comedy.” The feature appears to be in good hands, however, with Bryon Howard (Bolt, Tangled) directing. Bateman’s voiceover […]

Mike Wazowski and James P. Sullivan are taking a break from their studies at Monsters University to visit Walt Disney World. Of course, the characters are no stranger to Disney’s theme parks, since the release of Monsters, Inc. in 2001. But now guests at Hollywood Studios can catch Mike and Sulley sporting younger makeovers and […]

Those who were looking forward to hearing Al Pacino lend his pipes to the main baddie in Despicable Me 2 are in for a disappointment. From Collider we learn the (shocking) news that the actor has left the sequel over “creative differences.” Benjamin Bratt will now voice the Despicable villain, who so far has been hidden from […]

This week, Walt Disney Studios announced that Planes will have a special screening during this year’s EAA AirVenture Oshkosh, at Ford’s Fly-In Theater on August 2. Now TheNorthWestern.com goes behind the scenes of how this event was arranged. According to the article, Mach 2 Marketing began talking with Disney and the Experimental Aircraft Association last […]

Walt Disney Home Entertainment has announced the 25th Anniversary Blu-ray release of their 27th animated feature Oliver and Company, reports Blu-ray. Special features on this release will include: The Making of Oliver and Company, Bonus Shorts: Lend A Paw and Puss Café, Disney’s Animated Animals, Sing-Along Mode, and More. Other technical specs have yet to […]

In addition to being this year’s first animated movie, Escape from Planet Earth proved to be a box office success. Distributed by The Weinstein Company, the film opened mid-February with $16 million before eventually collecting more than $55 million domestically. Does this mean that animation studio Rainmaker Entertainment might soon enter pre-production on a sequel?

IBM made another world record, says The Guardian. The company known for pushing technology’s limits with Deep Blue and Watson changed the movie world when it created the world’s smallest movie and it happens to be animated. IBM was inspired to make the short from its atomic data storage research. Using carbon monoxide molecules and […]

Meet the Small Potatoes, the 45-minute “movie” based on the popular short TV series featuring singing potatoes, comes to DVD today…but only as a Wal-Mart exclusive. The mock documentary tells the story of the Small Potatoes’ rise to fame, and features the voice of Malcolm McDowell as the band’s manager. The film aired on Disney […]

Star Wars: The Clone Wars may have been cancelled by Disney, but fans will still have some stuff to look forward to…although when and where still has yet to be revealed. USA Today has an article discussing what’s to come in the show’s few remaining storylines, including one involving the fate of the mysterious Jedi Master […]

A first trailer for Walking With Dinosaurs is now online and can be viewed over at MSN. The preview–which will no doubt remind many of Disney’s Dinosaur–shows off the movie’s blend of live-action and CGI animation. The story, according to the film’s plot summary, follows “two brothers looking to follow in their fathers footsteps, which […]

Animated Views has a new screenshot from CAOZ’s Egill, a computer animated feature integrating hand drawn elements. Egill is the second CGI film from the Reykjavík-based studio, whose first feature, Legends of Vahalla: Thor, hit U.S. stores last March as Thor: Legend of the Magical Hammer. CAOZ is co-producing Egill with the Hungarian production company […]

Deadline reports that Mad Men star Jon Hamm will voice Herb Overkill in Illumination Entertainment’s Despicable Me prequel, Minions. He joins the already-announced Sandra Bullock, who voices Overkill’s wife and aspiring super-villain Scarlet. According to Deadline, Minions is set in the 1960s – before the title henchmen met Gru – and focuses on the Minions’ […]