Less than two weeks before it’s set to come to theaters, Universal Pictures has just revealed the final trailer for Hop on YouTube. As one would expect, the preview reveals much more about the film’s plot than previous ads for the movie did. The Easter comedy comes to the big screen next month.

Opening slightly below some expectations, the live-action/animated Paul opened to a decent $13.2 million, according to Box Office Mojo. The R-rated comedy–which features Seth Rogen as the voice of an animated alien who meets up with Simon Pegg and Nick Frost after escaping from Area 51–carried a reported price tag of $40 million, something that […]

Yahoo! Movies has an exclusive featurette that goes behind the scenes of Hop, in which the stars discuss the movie’s bad guy: An evil chick voiced by Hank Azaria. The character, Carlos, wants to take over the holiday of Easter and become the next Easter Bunny. The PG-rated live-action/animated comedy–which also features Russell Brand and James […]

Robot Chicken: Star Wars III, the third Star Wars special from Cartoon Network’s popular sketch comedy show, comes to DVD and Blu-Ray this summer, DVD Active is reporting. Extras on the release will include commentary, deleted scenes and more. Featuring the voices of Seth MacFarlene as Emperor Palpatine and Zac Efron as Anakin Skywalker, the critically […]

Five new posters for Disney’s upcoming Pirate of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides have made their way online over the last week, and can be found online over at ComingSoon.net. The set includes the official one sheet for the film, along with four character banners. The highly anticipated sequel comes to theaters everywhere on May […]

In not entirely unexpected news, The Hollywood Reporter states that The Walt Disney Studios has shut down production on director Robert Zemeckis’ proposed motion-capture remake of The Beatles’ Yellow Submarine, following the disastrous box-office figures for Mars Needs Moms, which he produced. The “creepy” look of mo-cap has also been cited, although HR suggests Zemeckis […]

Possibly destined to become one of the biggest money losers in recent Hollywood memory, Disney’s Mars Needs Moms made only $6.9 million during its opening weekend, a fraction of what it cost to make. When marketing costs are brought into play, it’s quite likely that the motion capture animated feature cost as much as $200 […]

The first images from Disney’s upcoming animated short film The Ballad of Nessie have just made their way online and have been posted over at CinemaBlend. The short will tell the story of how the Loch Ness Monster ended up in his home, while dealing with an evil developer who wants to build a golf […]

Walt Disney Pictures’ Mars Needs Moms which opened in theatres this Friday with just $1.7 million, seems headed to a sizable disappointment this weekend with just $10 million, predicts BoxOfficeProphets. Directed By Simon Wells, and featuring the voices of Seth Green, Dan Fogler, Elisabeth Harnois, Mindy Sterling, Kevin Cahoon, and Joan Cusack, Mars Needs Moms […]

We haven’t heard much from the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles franchise for awhile, but we found a sneak peek for the upcoming CGI movie for 2012 from Nickelodeon. The animation still looks to be in the early rendering stages or it might be the movie’s style. The turtles have seen many mutations over the years […]

After seeing the teaser trailer attached to what seems like virtually every family film in the last eight months in theaters, Sony Pictures has finally revealed a brand new preview for The Smurfs on Yahoo! Movies. The preview, among other things, gives us our first glimpse of Hank Azaria as evil wizard Gargamel as well […]

DreamWorks Animation has revealed new information on all of their upcoming movies from now through 2014, thanks to a loaded press release that can be found on ComingSoon.Net. The article has new plot information and release dates for Madagascar 3, How to Train Your Dragon 2, Me & My Shadow and more. It also reveals a […]

A brand new trailer for Disney & Pixar’s upcoming Cars 2 can be found online now over at MSN Movies. Starring Owen Wilson, Larry the Cable Guy and Michael Caine, the anticipated sequel drives into theaters this summer.

Rango easily topped the weekend box office in its first week taking in $38.1 million according to Box Office Mojo. That total passes The Green Hornet’s first weekend making it the top opening film of the year so far.

Here’s another film proving that animation isn’t just for kids. Arrugas (Wrinkles) is about two senior citizens and their friendship. It’s based off the comic book by Paco Roca and is a hand drawn feature length film. Cartoon Brew has the trailer. The movie is set to be released in Fall 2011 for Spain, but […]

Another poster for Hop has made its way online over at the Internet Movie Poster Awards. As with the other posters for the film, this one ignores the live-action aspect of the story, instead making it look like an animated movie. From the creators of Despicable Me, Hop comes to theaters this April.

Paramount/Nickelodeon’s Rango opens this weekend in 3,917 theatres according to Box Office Mojo. The Gore Verbinski directed, Johnny Depp starring film is doing very well with the critics, earning an 88% fresh rating from Rotten Tomatoes. A big weekend is predicted, with Box Office Prophets projecting a $47.4 million take

Over at SlashFilm, they have the newest trailer for Tron: Uprising. A spin-off of Tron: Legacy, the new series will launch a new franchise. It will premiere on Disney XD in summer 2012 after a ten episode mini-series coming fall 2011. The series focuses on a young program heading a digital revolution with the help […]

The first teaser for DreamWorks’ upcoming animated feature Puss in Boots has just premiered on Apple. Puss in Boots, one of the most beloved characters of the Shrek universe, tells the tale of Puss’s early adventures as he teams with mastermind Humpty Dumpty and the street-savvy Kitty to steal the famed Goose that lays the […]

A brand new trailer for DreamWorks’ upcoming flick Kung Fu Panda 2 is now available to watch on Apple. Directed by Jennifer Yuh Nelson and featuring a voice cast of Jack Black, Angelina Jolie, Dustin Hoffm, Jackie Chan, Seth Rogen, Lucy Liu, David Cross, James Hong, Gary Oldman, Michelle Yeoh, Jean-Claude Van Damme, and Victor […]

According to Coming Soon, DreamWorks has green lit production for Rumblewick, a film inspired by the children’s book My Unwilling Witch (The Rumblewick Letters). The story will follow a magician’s rabbit who is offered the chance to train as a witch’s familiar – only to find out that he’s being used as a pawn in […]

ASIFA-Hollywood, an organization established to promote and encourage the art and craft of animation and the group behind the Annie Awards, has announced new officers, a restructuring of their infrastructure, and changes in how the awards are selected. The full press release follows:

Hollywood Reporter has announced that Toy Story double-act Tom Hanks and Tim Allen will re-team for Jungle Cruise, an action-adventure based on Disneyland’s famous park ride.

Miyazaki fans if you can make it to New York City for the JapanNYC Fest, you will be treated to two rare shorts. House Hunting and Mon Mon the Water Spider will be shown on March 26 at Carnegie Hall. These two shorts are dialogue free and part of a collection of eight made especially […]

Shedding a little more light than was previously rumored on the relationship between singer-songwriter Elton John and the Walt Disney Studios in the making of their co-production Gnomeo And Juliet, John has made his feelings clear on the lack of support on the title from its distributing studio, as per The Hollywood Reporter. Gnomeo, which […]

We relaunch our Media section today with a forest full of features celebrating the release of Disney’s classic Bambi on Blu-ray. Check out three clips from the film, several previews of the available bonus features, a look at four of the “lost” characters, and then just for fun learn how to draw Bambi and Thumper. […]

A live-action American version of the Japanese cult classic anime Akira is in development. The plot has been altered from the original story: taking place in Neo-Manhattan instead of Neo-Tokyo, the two male leads are brothers instead of best friends, and more emphasis on the original drug subplot. The script mentioned in the article is […]

Pixar’s Toy Story 3 took home the Oscar for Best Animated Film at the 83rd Academy Awards. Randy Newman earned his second Oscar in 20 nominations for the song We Belong Together, from Toy Story 3. Inception picked up a night-tying high 4 trophies, including Best Visual Effects. And The Lost Thing was the winner […]