A brand new clip from Disney & Pixar’s upcoming Cars sequel has just been revealed at Yahoo! Movies. The clip introduces Lightning McQueen’s new racing rival Francesco, voiced by character actor John Turturro. Also starring Owen Wilson, Michael Caine and Larry the Cable Guy, Cars 2 opens in theaters and IMAX 3D later this month.

Deadline is reporting that Fox Animation is working on developing an animated feature based on the 1933 classic King Kong. Unlike previous movies about the character, however, this one would apparently be told from the big ape’s perspective, which might make some wonder if they’re planning on giving him the same tragic ending that he’s so […]

Following a somewhat dissapointing opening last week, DreamWorks Animation’s Kung Fu Panda 2 continued to perform below expectations, Box Office Mojo is reporting. The animated sequel currently has a total of $100 million after 11 days of release, which on the surface seems quite strong, except when you compare it to how the original Kung Fu […]

Collider is reporting that Paramount Pictures has plans to bring the Penny Arcade web comic The New Kid to the big screen in the form of an animated feature. The plot involves a boy living in outer space who must go to a school populated entirely by aliens. Having just released Rango in the spring, this marks […]

Several new interntional character posters for The Smurfs have just been posted over at the Internet Movie Poster Awards. And in case you missed it, the first full theatrical trailer for the film made its way online last week on Yahoo! Movies. Starring Neil Patrick Harris and Hank Azaria, the live-action/animated comedy is set to Smurf […]

Storyboarding has officially begun for DreamWorks Animation’s upcoming How to Train Your Dragon sequel, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The film is intentionally being written as the second chapter in a planned trilogy. “There are certain characters and situations that come into play in the second film that will becomes much more crucial to the story […]

A new full trailer for 20th Century Fox’s upcoming Rise of the Planet of the Apes has just been revealed at Yahoo! Movies. In a first for the franchise, the reboot will include all computer-animated apes, created by the Oscar-winning special effects company WETA Digital (Avatar, King Kong). Starring James Franco and Brian Cox, and feauring […]

Director Léo Verrier’s new animated short homage to Jackson Pollack, Dripped, produced by French animation studio ChezEddy, is now available to view online at Vimeo ahead of its upcoming submission to various festivals, where it is sure to gain notice. Good luck, Léo!

Huge news from the comics world today as DC announced a major reboot of their properties. According to Newsarama, Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman and the rest will be starting from scratch as all DC Universe titles will be reset back to #1 and the backstories and histories rewritten to “reflect today’s real-world themes and events”. […]

If you buy your insurance based off endorsements from popular animated characters you may want to head over to the Pixar Blog. Mater, Finn McMissile, Holley Shiftwell, and State Farm cars star in a thirty-second commercial promoting the national insurance company. Mater accidentally breaks a pet shop window and in the Cars world their pets […]

Despite glowing reviews from critics, DreamWorks Animation’s Kung Fu Panda 2 wasn’t able to open to quite as much as some were expecting it to this weekend, ultimately getting crushed by the release of the R-rated comedy The Hangover: Part II. The animated sequel opened to barely half of what The Hangover did, grossing a still […]

The first rendered image from Pixar’s upcoming fairy tale Brave has hit the web and can be seen at Collider. The voice cast of Brave includes Kelly Macdonald, Billy Connolly, Emma Thompson, Kevin McKidd, Craig Ferguson, Robbie Coltrane, and Julie Walters. The first teaser for the film is expected to be attached to Cars 2 […]

The first teaser for Happy Feet 2 is now available to watch at Apple. Directed by George Miller and featuring the voices of Elijah Wood, Robin Williams, Hank Azaria, Alecia Moore (Pink), Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, and Sofia Vergara, the sequel to 2007 Oscar winner opens in theaters Novemburr 18th, 2011.

Another new trailer for The Muppets–this time a direct parody of the teaser trailer for The Hangover: Part II, complete with critic quotes–has been posted online on YouTube. The preview marks the second trailer to be released by Disney in only a matter of days. The Muppets opens everywhere this Thanksgiving.

DreamWorks Kung Fu Panda 2 opens today in 3,925 theatres according to Box Office Mojo. The film is doing well with critics, earning a fresh 76% rating so far at Rotten Tomatoes. BoxOffice.com projects a second place finish for the weekend with $90 million.

S/R Animation Conservation Center has a yearly auction with rare pieces of animation history up for sale. While the auction is interesting, the work S/R does to preserve these pieces is even better. They painstakingly restore cells that were once used in the great Disney classics. The S/R team examines each color in a damaged […]

Four films in, and Disney’s Pirates of the Caribbean franchise is still going strong. The latest installment, On Stranger Tides, opened to $90 million in the US this weekend, IndieWire is reporting. Although it was less than the first two sequels opened to in 2006 and 2007, it was still enough to score the film the best […]

Fox, the only network with a prime time animation block, picked up two new shows for the fall line up: Napoleon Dynamite and Allen Gregory . The first is based off the popular 2004 indie film and comes from Rough Draft Studios. Allen Gregory is produced by Bento Box Entertainment and seven episodes have been […]

Four more film clips from Kung Fu Panda 2 have recently been posted at Yahoo! Movies. The DreamWorks Animation sequel kicks its way into theaters next week.

With two posters for the film making their way online yesterday, the first teaser trailer for The Adventures of Tintin has just been posted on Apple. The preview doesn’t offer much in terms of what the film’s performance capture animation will look like, instead focusing on shots of the movie’s fantastical scenery. The Adventures of […]

A new poster for Disney’s upcoming The Muppets can now be found on ComingSoon.net. The film will mark the first time that the characters have been seen on the big screen in more than a decade. Starring Kermit the Frog, Fozzy the Bear and Gonzo the…whatever he is, The Muppets comes to theaters everywhere this […]

Hold onto your Fruity Pebbles: Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlene has just been given the greenlight to work on a reboot of The Flintstones, Deadline is reporting. The reboot would involve a return to television and film for the beloved characters of the popular Hanna Barbara TV series. Apparently, this has been something of a dream […]

The first poster for The Adventures of Tintin has just been revealed at Empire Online. The much hyped motion capture film from Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson features a cast that includes Simon Pegg, Nick Frost and Daniel Craig. A trailer for the Christmas release is expected to appear online this week. UPDATE: A second […]

Animation Magazine has news about two new animated series heading to the Fox network: Allen Gregory, which follows the “adventures of the world’s most celebrated seven-year-old going to school with normal kids”, and Napoleon Dynamite, based on the popular film.

Disney/Pixar has released some details about their upcoming film Monsters University. “Mike Wazowski and James P. Sullivan are an inseparable pair, but that wasn’t always the case. From the moment these two mismatched monsters met they couldn’t stand each other. Monsters University unlocks the door to how Mike and Sulley overcame their differences and became […]

A new trailer for Disney-Pixar’s upcoming feature Cars 2 is now available to watch at Apple. Directed by John Lasseter and featuring the voices of Owen Wilson, Larry The Cable Guy, Michael Caine, Emily Mortimer, and Bonnie Hunt, Cars 2 zooms into theaters June 24th, 2011.

In what should not come as a surprise to many people, Seth MacFarlene’s Family Guy has been renewed for a 10th season, according to Entertainment Weekly. Its sister series, The Cleveland Show, was also renewed for another season, despite the fact that it continues to get negative reviews from critics. With American Dad! already being re-elected for […]