The International Animated Film Society, ASIFA-Hollywood, announced nominations today for its 40th Annual Annie Awards recognizing the year’s best in the field of animation. The nominees for Best Animated Features this year are: Brave, Frankenweenie, Hotel Transylvania, ParaNorman, Rise of the Guardians, The Pirates! Band of Misfits, The Rabbi’s Cat, and Wreck-It Ralph. Brave, Rise […]

The long-rumored, long-reported Family Guy movie has been talked about for what seems like forever, but fans rarely get anything regarding official news on the matter. Seth MacFarlene, once again, spoke about the movie’s plans while speaking to EW. “We do know what the Family Guy movie will be,” he said. “The Simpsons Movie, I […]

A teaser poster for the upcoming Monsters Univeristy–showing Mike and Sulley in college gear–has been revealed today and can be seen at ComingSoon.net. The prequel to Monsters, Inc. is set to open at theaters everywhere on June 21st.

Sony’s box office hit Hotel Transylvania will be released on Blu-Ray and DVD early next year, CinemaBlend is reporting. Extras will include the short film Good Night Mr. Foot and an audio commentary track. It will be available to own on DVD, Blu-Ray and a special 3D Blu-Ray on January 29th.

In what some have benn calling a big under performance, Rise of the Guardians falls into fourth place after the US Thanksgiving weekend. The movie was just shy of $24 million, topping the other big release Life of Pi, Lincoln, the new James Bond thriller Skyfall, and everyone’s favorite vampire romance Twilight: Breaking Dawn Part […]

This just in from the Academy, 21 animated films could potentially be Oscar nominees. The Hollywood Reporter has a nice list that breaks the films down by animation style. CGI topped the list, along with handful of foreign traditionally animated films. What makes histroy, though, are the number of stop-motion pictures up for award and […]

Disney’s much-marketed TV movie Sofia the First: Once Upon a Princess saw a very strong reception on Sunday night, earning 5.2 million viewers, THR is reporting. Roughly more than a million of those viewers were adults, while the remaining audience fell into the 2-11 age range. The film is set to launch a TV series for […]

Just in time for the big Thanksgiving weekend, DreamWorks Animation’s much anticipated Rise of the Guardians (no, not a sequel to the movie about the owls) opens in theaters everywhere today. So far the movie has been met with holiday spirit from critics, who gave it a 76% “freshness” rating over at RottenTomatoes.com. Although no one […]

Time to rejoice Studio Ghibli fans! The much loved Japanese animation studio has just added two new films from their most acclaimed directors- Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata, to their upcoming slate, reports Collider. The Wind Rises (Kaze Tachinu), the new film by Hayao Miyazaki centers on Jiro Horikoshi, the man who designed the Zero […]

The powerful Studio Ghibli epic Princess Mononoke has been adapted for the live-stage by Whole Hog Theatre Company. The group is a non-profit based in London and they specialize in adaptations, turning the impossible into stage shows. For a one week engagement in April, the troupe plans on performing their take on Princess Mononoke, but […]

It’s a sad day for the Muppet and entertainment communities. Kevin Clash, a 28-year veteran performer on the popular children’s show Sesame Street, resigned from his job on November 20, 2012. According to Sesame Workshop’s statement, both Clash and the studio felt it was best for him to leave due to recent controversaries surrounding his […]

A brand new first trailer for 20th Century Fox animated fantasy Epic has gone online and can be watched over at Apple. Directed by Chris Wedge and featuring the voices of Colin Farrell, Josh Hutcherson, Amanda Seyfried, and Christoph Waltz, Epic will be out in theaters May 24th, 2013.

Sony Animation recently decided to ramp up their amount of animated movies. Adding to that list are two new features: Popeye will follow will be rendered 3-D animation with Genndy Tartakovksy at the helm. Jay Scherick and David Ronn, the Smurfs writers will provide the script. The spinach-loving sailor will hit theaters September 26, 2014. […]

Remember a few months ago when images of Minnie, Mickey, Goofy, and Donald appeared on the Internet in haute coutre fashion with thinner character designs? Controversary has, of course, sprung up over the skinnified versions. The characters were given a makeover for the Barneys New York Electric Holiday advertising campaign. Minnie dreams about going to […]

Yesterday, Nov. 16, saw the launch by Don Hahn, Disney historian Charles Solomon and other artists of the Kickstarter campaign in support of Tyrus Wong: Brushstrokes in Hollywood , a documentary film about legendary concept designer Tyrus Wong who just turned 102, and was a key contributor to Bambi and many other Disney films. “This […]

According to Animation Magazine, Michael Eisner–former head of the Walt Disney Company–has been using his time since leaving the Mouse to establish Tornante Company. For over fifty years, Tornante Company has produced trading cards and other entertainment memorabilia. They stepped into animation with Glenn Martin, DDS that ran for two years on Nickelodeon’s Nick at […]

Lucille Bliss, the voice of Smurfette on the cartoon series The Smurfs and of Anastasia in Disney’s Cinderella, has passed away at age 96, Cartoon Brew is reporting. Bliss lent her voice to a number of Hannah Barbara shows over the years, and could also be heard in animated films such as The Secret of NIMH […]

Ten animated short films–including Disney’s Paperman and the Simpsons cartoon Maggie Simpson in The Longest Daycare–are in the running for this year’s Best Animated Short film Oscar. Originally 56 films had been in the running for the prize. The ten films selected will now go on to the voting process of the awards, with 3-5 of […]

In news that’s not very surprising given the film’s extreme success, Sony Pictures Animation has announced production on a Hotel Transylvania sequel, THR is reporting. The follow up is set for release on September 25th, 2015, which currently places it against DreamWorks Animation’s similarly-themed comedy B.O.O., although it is highly likely that one of the movies will […]

Disney’s animated flick Wreck-it Ralph turned out to be the weekend box-office champ grossing $49.1 million in its domestic debut. The film also marks the biggest ever opening weekend for a Disney Animation feature in the United States besting the $48.7 million take of 2010’s Tangled. A blend of 80’s video game nostalgia and a […]

Brave, Wreck-It-Ralph, Hotel Transylvania and Rise of the Guardians are among the 21 films submitted for considering for the Best Animated Feature Oscar at next year’s Academy Awards. This means that there can be 3-5 nominations in the category, with movies requiring an average score of 7.5 in order to be elegiible. A number of indie […]

The Force is strong with the Walt Disney Company. Following years of hosting Star Wars Weekends at Walt Disney World, the Mouse House has proven that they can now buy virtually anything…including Yoda. The Hollywood Reporter says that Disney is set to buy Lucasfilm for $4.05 billion in cash and shares. In addition, the company also […]

A new trailer for The Snow Queen has made its debut online over at ComingSoon.net…and no, it’s not a first look at Disney’s upcoming Frozen. Instead, it’s an (apparently quite loose?) adaptation of the Hans Christian Anderson story from Wizart Animation, one of “the fastest growing animation studios in Russia,” according to the press release. Timur […]

Remember Turkeys, the animated movie announced years ago that involved turkeys going back in time to remove turkey from the Thanksgiving day menu? If you don’t, yes, that is actually a real idea for a film. If you do, it’s still apparently happening, according to ComingSoon.net. Now with Relativity Media (Immortals) attached as a distributor, with Owen […]

Beginning October 26, all digital showings of Hotel Transylvania in Regal Entertainment Group Cinemas around the U.S. will be preceded with a new traditionally animated short directed by the film’s director, who also animated every key frame of the new short. Entitled Goodnight, Mr. Foot, the short stars legendary monster Bigfoot and follows his adventure […]

Cloudy 2: Revenge of the Leftovers will now have the simpler title Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2, Screen Rant is reporting. The sequel will also be coming much earlier than expected, and will now be released on September 27th, 2013 instead of President’s Day weekend the following year. The original Cloudy was very well-recieved […]

Platform, the internationally acclaimed animation festival, will present renowned Japanese artist Katsuhiro Otomo, creator of Akira and Steamboy, with a Lifetime Achievement Award on Saturday, October 27th at 9:30pm. The evening will begin with an exclusive screening of Otomo’s new short film, Combustible, followed by a conversation with animation historian Jerry Beck and then the […]

The trailer for Warner Bros. Animation’s upcoming The Dark Knight Rises: Part 2 has just made its debut at MTV.com. The sequel to the just released Batman film will see the Caped Crusader facing off against Superman. It is currently without a release date.

A new 90-second commercial for DreamWorks Animation’s Rise of the Guardians is now online and can be seen at ComingSoon.net. The highly anticipated film comes to theaters everywhere this Thanksgiving.

The first clip from Disney’s Wreck-It Ralph is now online and can be seen on Yahoo! Movies. The scene features the introduction of Sarah Silverman’s character, a “glitch” in her video came world named Vanellope von Schweetz. Wreck-It Ralph opens everywhere on November 2nd.