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Eddie Murphy to Voice Hong Kong Phooey

It’s a new Hollywood trend to revive old cartoons by turning them into movies. The cycle continues with Alcon Entertainment and their live-action/animated combo Hong Kong Phooey, the 1970s Hanna-Barbera cartoon. Eddie Murphy is set to voice Penry, the kung-fu fighting superhero who doubles as a janitor at a police station. Murphy has previously voiced […]

How To Train Your Dragon Stage Show

DreamWorks took to the Broadway stage with Shrek: The Musical , but now they are previewing the How To Train Your Dragon stage show in Australia. The first clip of the new show is making the Internet rounds and on first glimpse the dragon looks extremely real. The footage shows Hiccup demonstrating his “courage,” then […]

New Tintin poster

A new poster for The Adventures of Tintin: Secret of the Unicorn has made its way online this week, and can be seen over at Superhero Hype!. The much anticipated Steven Spielberg/Peter Jackson project comes to theaters and IMAX 3D this Christmas.

Apes Rise at the box office

Despite fairly low expectations surrounding the project over the last few month’s, 20th Century Fox’s Rise of the Planet of the Apes conquered the box office last weekend, earning a strong $54.8 million. The franchise reboot won surprising critcial acclaim, thanks largely to the impressive digital animation used to create Ceaser and his hairy co-stars. […]

Sony smurfing forward with Smurfs sequel

Due to the success of the new movie The Smurfs, Sony Pictures is already making plans to send the little blue to the big screen a second time. ComingSoon.net is reporting that the studio not only has a sequel in the works, but also a release date for it, with the movie expected to smurf its […]

Cartoon Network Reboots Thundercats to Positive Reviews

On August 5, Cartoon Network premiered it’s newest cartoon, Thundercats, a remake of the 1980s cult classic produced by Rankin and Bass (the studio that made the popular Christmas specials: Rudolph the Red-Nose Reindeer and Frosty the Snowman). Fans were hesitant if the new show would live up to the reputation of the old, but […]

Phineas & Ferb: Across the 2nd Dimension premieres tonight

Disney’s popular cartoon series Phineas & Fern gets its very first movie tonight with the feature film Phineas & Ferb: Across the 2nd Dimension. The plot will involve the wacky boys entering an alternate reality, one in which the evil Dr. Doofenshmirtz has taken over the city with an army of destructive robots. The film premieres […]

Superman revealed

The movie’s not due for almost two years, but director Zack Snyder has treated us to our first image of Henry Cavill as Superman in The Man of Steel. The image shows the iconic superhero apparently in the middle of an action sequence, standing in front of a destroyed bank vault of some sort. Sadly, […]

DreamsWorks Says No to Paramount

We reported a couple weeks ago about how DreamWork’s distribution contract with Paramount Studios was ending. Paramount tried to renegotiate the deal, but the final words are “no dice.” In response, Paramount is opening their own animation studios, similar to when Disney planned to open Circle 7 if the Pixar deal went sour. Will Paramount’s […]

The Last Airbender: Legend of Korra First Trailer

A teaser image was released last year for The Last Airbender: Legend of Korra, a sequel to the hit series Avatar: The Last Airbender. At this year’s Comic-Con, Nickelodeon tempted us with the first trailer for the new series. Not much of the story is revealed in the preview or the connections to Avatar: The […]

Smurfs tied Cowboys for the weekend Box-Office crown

In one of the biggest box office upsets in recent times, Sony’s live-action/computer-animated flick The Smurfs, grossed far more than pre-release projections had indicated. Tying with DreamWorks/Universal’s much hyped Cowboys & Aliens for No. 1 in North America, with a $36.2 million opening, The Smurfs emerged as the big winner of the weekend despite being […]

New Muppets poster

A new one sheet for The Muppets has just been posted at the Internet Movie Poster Awards. Unlike previous posters for the Thanksgiving weekend release, this one features not just the Muppets, but also their human co-stars Amy Adams and Jason Segal. And in case you missed it, here’s a hilarious parody poster that casts the ultra-patriotic Sam Eagle […]

Fist Of The North Star director Toyoo Ashida dies

Sad news for the anime community. Satoshi Kon passed away in the recent months and now Toyoo Ashida has joined him in the big animation studio in the sky. Ashida was the director for legendary anime Fist Of The North Star (first two TV series and the movie), Vampire Hunter D OAV, and The World […]

Conan O’Brien is The Flaming C!

A while ago Conan O’Brien visited Bruce Timm at Warner Brothers Animation, home of the DC animated universe. Coco asked Timm to draw him as a superhero, fishnet stockings, garters, and an oven mitt later the Flaming C was born. Cartoon Brew has covered the various parodies that have followed, the latest is a 3-D […]

Happy Feet 2 theatrical trailer now online

A brand new trailer for Warner Bros’ upcoming animated feature Happy Feet 2 is now available to watch at Yahoo!Movies. Directed by George Miller and featuring the voices of Elijah Wood, Pink, Robin Williams, Sofia Vergara and Hank Azaria, Happy Feet 2 opens in theatres November 18, 2011

Entourage Cartoon, Johnny Bananas Lined Up For Release

One of HBO’s hit shows, Entourage, will have a cartoon attached to it in the coming eighth season to gain publicity. Mark Wahlberg, producer, will also be involved in the marketing campaign. The new cartoon is called Johnny Bananas and stars Kevin Dillon as the voice of main character. Dillon plays “Drama” on Entourage and […]

Kung Fu Panda lawsuit thrown out

Somewhat incredibly, it seems that an LA jury has agreed with DreamWorks Animation that they did not use ideas from a pitch by Terence Dunn in the development of their film Kung Fu Panda. Dunn’s alleged pitch was about a kung-fu fighting panda bear who was “adopted by five animal friends in the forest (a […]

South Park not ending after all

Despite rumors that the show’s 15th season would be its last one, South Park has been greenlit two more seasons, Screen Rant is reporting. The adult cartoon series has been seeing a ratings drop over the years, but its still been able to keep its hardcore fans tuning it. The two upcoming seasons confirm that the South […]

MacFarlene: “There will be a Family Guy movie”

While presenting at Comic-Con today, Seth MacFarlene said that there are indeed plans to make a Family Guy movie, something that has been speculated about for years. On the show’s official Twitter page, Macfarlene is quoted as saying that “Yes, there will be a Family Guy movie. We know what it’s going to be, but we […]

2012 DCU animation slate announced

News from Comic-Con! Comics Continuum reports that Warner Home Video has announced its slate of DC Universe animated movies for 2012. The first, Justice League: Doom, has been mentioned before. It will be based on the Tower Of Babel comic book story from a few years ago, originally written by Mark Waid. Next up will […]

Go Captain Planet Movie!

Ted Turner created Captain Planet and the Planeteers to teach children of the 1990s about the dangers of polluting. Time has an article, “With Hollywoods Powers Combined, a ‘Captain Planet’ Movie Will Hit Theaters” (have to love the title) that explains how Cartoon Network has signed a deal with Don Murphy and his company Angry […]

Kevin Lima heading back to animation

After helming Disney’s Tarzan and the studio’s live-action fantasies 102 Dalmatians and Enchanted, director Kevin Lima is returning to the animated musical, though this time he’ll be overseeing a movie for rival DreamWorks instead. The previously announced film, now titled Monkeys Of Mumbai has already caused some controversy for being based loosely on the epic […]

The Pirates! Band of Misfits trailer sails online

The first trailer for Aardman Animation’s The Piartes! Band of Misfits is now online at IMDB.com. The film marks the first feature film from the animation studio since 2006’s Flushed Away. Starring Hugh Grant, Brendan Gleeson and Imelda Staunton, The Pirates! come ashore in theaters next March.

Avada Kedavra! Harry Potter gives Winnie the Pooh the killing curse at the box office

As was expected by almost everyone, Disney’s Winnie the Pooh ended up being no match for Harry Potter & the Deathly Hallows: Part II this weekend, ComingSoon.Net is reporting. While the final Harry Potter film saw the biggest opening weekend of all time with $168 million (beating 2008’s The Dark Knight), Pooh saw one of the lowest […]

John Carter teaser trailer now online

A facininating teaser trailer for Disney’s upcoming live-action film John Carter has been posted online this week on the studio’s official YouTube page. Originally called John Carter of Mars, the sci-fi adventure from Pixar director Andrew Stanton comes to theaters everywhere next spring.

Winnie the Pooh opens

Disney’s Winnie the Pooh opens today in 2,405 theatres according to Box Office Mojo. The film is a hit with the critics earning an impressive 100% rating with the Top Critics at Rotten Tomatoes. Showing on a relatively small number of screens and going head to head with the last Harry Potter won’t do the […]

New Arthur Christmas teaser

A second teaser trailer for Sony and Aardman’s upcoming animated comedy Arthur Christmas has just been revealed over at Yahoo! Movies. As was the case with the first preview, it uses a “shaky camera” effect to show Santa’s son Arthur showing us top secret things about his father’s business. Starring James McAvoy as Arthur and Jim […]

New Muppets poster

A new promotional poster for The Muppets–which is absolutely loaded with characters–has been posted online today over at CinemaBlend. Starring Kermit the Frog, Miss Piggy and a lot of human beings as well, the movie comes to theaters this Thanksgiving.

New international Tintin trailer

A brand new international trailer for The Adventures of Tintin has been posted online over at ComingSoon.net. The preview reveals lots more footage than the teaser trailer did, offering more details regarding the film’s plot and characters. From Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson, Tintin begins having his adventures this Christmas.

Lego Star Wars: The Padawan Menace Special to Air on Cartoon Network

Collider reports that LucasFilm will release Star Wars: The Padawan Menace to feed off the popularity of Stars Wars: The Clone Wars. The series stars a group of young jedis being guidesdby Master Yoda through the Senate chambers, when they encounter a disturbance in the force. R2-D2 and C-3PO deal with jedis’ antics when they […]