LA Times shares details on Pixar’s upcoming prehistoric adventure The Good Dinosaur. Directed by Bob Peterson, in The Good Dinosaur, “an asteroid never hit the Earth and dinosaurs still roam.” Peterson adds that the inspiration for the movie came from a childhood visit to the World’s Fair where he was awed by some dinosaur animatronics. […]

At the D: All Things Digital technology confernce this week Disney Animation and Pixar President Ed Catmull was featured on two panels. The first was a discussion on the legacy of Steve Jobs. The second was all about his work at Pixar and Disney. Some of the discussion centered on telling good stories and brutal […]

At an investor’s conference this week Disney CEO Bob Iger said that the company will soon launch an app that will allow subscribers to view the Disney Channel on their mobile devices. Reuters reports that Comcast will be the first cable company to offer the service and it could come as early as next week.

Those two and a half minute commercials for upcoming films we all anxiously wait for, talk endlessly about a year before the film will even appear, and pour over every frame of for nuggets of info deservedly have their day today. The Golden Trailer Awards, recognizing “the creative people who make movie trailers, and the […]

DreamWorks is apparently making the charity rounds with their upcoming film, Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted. Last week we reported on an event raising money for scholarships for public school students in Tucson. This week you can head out to Campbell CA for an early screening of the film benefitting the area’s Youth Science Institute. […]

Bleeding Cool has the second trailer for Sony’s animated Starship Troopers: Invasion film, slated as a straight-to-home-video release for summer 2012.

The L.A. Times has a fun slideshow from Andrew Stanton from his time directing Wall-E . Apparently the editorial department at Pixar took a model of M-O to a Sears Portrait Studio and had some fun!

Toby Chu, who among his many other credits previously worked in the music department on several DreamWorks films, is scoring Summertime’s upcoming film Dorothy of Oz, according to Film Music Reporter. Deborah Lurie was originally announced as composer of the score.

The Wall Street Journal confirms the unsurprising news that Pixar’s upcoming film Brave is dedicated to Steve Jobs, the founder and CEO of the company until its sale to Disney. In the credits he “is lauded as a partner, mentor and friend”.

A group called Thank You Walt Disney Inc. are in the final stages of fundraising in an attempt to revitalize Laugh-O-Gram, Disney’s first professional animation studio, according to the Kansas City Star. The group’s plans include an interactive historical site, an educational museum, and, if they raise enough money, a working animation and digital media […]

Collider talks with Bruce Boxleitner about the animated series TRON: Uprising, which officially premiere’s on Disney XD in June.

It could be said that the Disney Parks are built off the backs of the company’s animated properties. And with two new projects set to open in the coming weeks that couldn’t be more true. Next week Walt Disney World in Orlando is set to open the Art of Animation Resort, a value priced hotel […]

The Indian film Arjun: The Warrior Prince opens worldwide today, but just in a limited release in the United States — only 10 theatres so far according to Box Office Mojo. The film, in Hindi with English subtitles, is a joint UTV Motion Pictures and Walt Disney Pictures production. Twitch has more about the movie, […]

The voice cast for DC Comics’ upcoming animated movie The Dark Knight Returns has been announced via The Hollywood Reporter. The site reports that the cast will include Peter Weller (RoboCop) as the Caped Crusader and Ariel Winter as his sidekick Robin (who is notably a girl in this story). A two part production from […]

With Paramount Pictures shocking the industry today by pushing their upcoming G.I. Joe sequel back to 2013, Universal has taken advantage of the release date change by giving their raunchy comedy Ted the open slot. ComingSoon.net is reporting that the Seth MacFarlene directed film will now open on June 29th. Originally, the live-action/animated movie was set […]

Disney/Pixar leader John Lasseter was on hand for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ “Development Of The Digital Animator” panel this week, according to Deadline. He discussed traditional animation vs computer generated, his thoughts on motion capture, and said Pixar is interested in is bringing in new blood so “this Golden Age of […]

Madagascar 3 is coming to one theatre two weeks early in a special preview to help provide scholarships to students in a local Arizona school district. The Daily Star says the effort was a collaboration between Monique Soria, public relations director for the Sunnyside Unified School District, and Mireille Soria, of DreamWorks Animation who produced […]

BusinessWeek reports that with $1.18 billion in global sales in the bank in just three weeks, The Avengers has become the highest-grossing film in Disney history — more than the $1.07 billion the previous leader, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest, earned over it’s entire theatrical run. Domestically the film has just passed Star […]

The San Jose Mercury News talks with composer/lyricist Richard Sherman, who discusses the creation of the music for Mary Poppins and his thoughts on the stage adaptation.

A new TV spot for Disney and Pixar’s Brave has been revealed over at ComingSoon.net. The spot plays like a commercial for a phoney album, and features a number of new bits from the film. Brave opens everywhere this June.

Cartoon Brew reports that a new 3D Simpsons short, titled The Longest Daycare, will be attached to the theatrical release of Ice Age: Continental Drift opening July 13th. Check out their site for a short teaser trailer. Thanks to ‘gaastra’ in the AV Forum for the heads up!

Digital Domain (Transformers, Tron: Legacy) has announced they plan to open a 150,000-square-foot production studio and media school in Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates, in 2015. The new studio “would create English- and Arabic-language animated movies targeted at Middle Eastern audiences, as well as produce visual and 3-D effects”.

Film Screen Rejects visits the set of what they say might be “the year’s most impressive animated movie” — Laika’s ParaNorman.

NPR has a piece about what independent animation companies have to do to compete in a tough Chinese market dominated by state run media and foreign animation studios.

Former Disney Supervising Animator Ken Duncan’s Duncan Studio is currently working on an exciting app to teach kids the ABC’s but also about the monsters they fear so much. They are raising some money via kickstarter to help with the production. They only have 7 days to go and have raised only 50% for now. […]

Sorry for being a little slow on the uptake, but Where The Wild Things Are author Maurice Sendak passed away at 83. The NY Times has a in-depth article on his life. Sendak is renowned for turning the world of children’s literature upside down. His books are some of the first to depict kids as […]

Disney and Pixar’s Brave has been rated PG for “scary action and some rude humor,” according to ComingSoon.net. The movie marks only the third time that Pixar has gotten such a rating for one of their films. It opens everywhere this June.

Fans of Stan Smith and Stewie Griffin won’t have to worry about them going away anytime soon. THR is reporting that FOX has ordered new seasons for both Family Guy and American Dad this fall, bringing the hit cartoon shows to their 11th and 8th seasons respectively. The Cleveland Show, on the other hand, might be […]

McDonald’s makes mecha history by giving away Gundam toys in their Happy Meals…but only in Japan where they are called Happy Sets. Anime News Network has the basic rundown. The Happy Set toys will feature miniature mecha and trading cards from Mobile Suit Gundam UC and Mobile Suit Gundam AGE. Japanese McDonalds will release the […]

“Hulk smash…box office!” Everyone expected for The Avengers to be big, but no one had any idea just how big. According to THR, Disney’s The Avengers absolutely shattered box office records this weekend, earning the biggest opening weekend of all time with a whopping take of $200 million. To put into perspective just how big […]