Koji Hoshino, President of Studio Ghibli, announced at the Rome International Film Festival recently that the next Studio Ghibli film will be announced on December 15, reports Collider. While it is still unknown whether this project will be helmed by Miyazaki or a different director, there is speculation on whether Hoshino was referring to the […]

A brand new official US trailer for Sony Pictures Classics’ upcoming animated feature The Illusionist has debuted over at iTunes. Based on an old Jacques Tati script, the story follows the illusionist, as he learns to come to terms with his fading art and meets a young girl Alice, who will change his life forever. […]

DreamWorks’ Megamind opens today in 3,944 theatres, according to Box Office Mojo. With a middling 64%, the Rotten Tomatoes critical consensus is “It regurgitates plot points from earlier animated efforts, and isn’t quite as funny as it should be, but a top-shelf voice cast and strong visuals help make Megamind a pleasant, if unspectacular, diversion.” […]

A new poster for Tron: Legacy–featuring the villainous Clu, an evil version of Jeff Bridges’ character–has just been revealed over at Empire Online. The site states that it’s the first of three new posters that will be revealed over the next few days. Tron: Legacy comes to theaters this December.

With the 2010 Election taking place in America today, DreamWorks Animation has made an amusing TV spot for MegaMind that spoofs negative campaign ads. In it, the blue villain tells voters why they should not support his opponent, the superhero Metro Man. MegaMind comes to theaters this Friday.

Wired has a piece with the creators of Phineas and Ferb, where they discuss the long 16 year journey the show took from conception to screen, while being rejected from every studio they pitched to.

Pixar Talk talks with Pixar’s special features producers Erica Milsom and Tony Kaplan about how they create all that extra content for DVD/BD releases.

Two of the first reviews for DreamWorks Animation’s MegaMind have recently been posted on the internet, with each one having a different response to the movie. Variety calls the film enjoyable enough, but says that it “comes off as a derivative wisecracking machine rather than a feat of sustained imagination.” The Hollywood Reporter, meanwhile, gives it […]

Empire shares the first images from Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson’s upcoming CGI/Motion Capture flick The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn. This first batch of images reveal Tintin and Captain Haddock, played by Jamie Bell and Andy Serkis, respectively. The big screen adaptation of Hergé’s comic hits theaters next October.

A brand new clip from Disney’s hotly anticipated Tron: Legacy has just been posted over at ComingSoon.net. The sequel to 1982’s Tron comes to theaters this holiday season.

ASIFA-Hollywood is presenting an Evening With Bill Plympton on Thursday, October 28, 2010 in Burbank CA. Hosted by Tom Sito, Plympton will discuss his prolific career and unique approach to film making. He’ll also speak about his new animated feature Idiots & Angels and an upcoming documentary about his career. Admission is free. Details follow:

USA Today currently features a first look at the title character in the upcoming adaption of Dr. Seuss’s beloved novel, The Lorax. The voice cast for the movie, which boasts Danny DeVito as the voice of the Lorax, will also include Zac Efron, Ed Helms, Betty White, and Rob Riggle playing various characters from the […]

Collider is reporting that DreamWorks Animation is set to make a feature film based on the award-winning animated short Alma. The storyline of the short involved a little girl who is drawn into a mysterious toy store where she discovers a doll that looks just like her, not realizing that she’s walking into a dangerous trap. The […]

The first teaser trailer for Pixar’s upcoming feature Cars 2 has been unveiled on its newly launched official website. The site also showcases some of the concept artworks from the film. The teaser is also available to watch in HD format on the official Disney/Pixar YouTube channel. Cars 2 opens in theatres on June 24th, […]

A cool new poster for Disney’s Tron: Legacy has just been revealed over at Yahoo! Movies. The Disney sequel opens in theaters and IMAX this holiday season.

Cartoon Brew, with their reliable sources, reports that Brenda Chapman, the first woman director at Pixar, is no longer directing Brave. The site reports that Brenda was pushed aside from full directing a while back, and was replaced by the story artist Mark Andrews, who also co-directed Pixar short One Man Band. Release date for […]

Walt Disney Animation Studios’ holiday hit Prep & Landing is about to become a Christmas television franchise with not one but two follow-ups in the works. Full details can be read in this press release:

The Walt Disney Company, which last year paid $4.24bn to acquire the Marvel Comics entertainment business, has concluded a deal with that division’s film producing partner studio Paramount to bring the upcoming films on the joint slate back under the ownership of Marvel and its new parent company. The Hollywood Reporter has more. In a […]

SheKnows has a fun interviews with Mandy Moore about her upcoming role as the voice of Rapunzel in Disney’s Tangled. The questions include topics like getting grounded, the attraction of bad boys, hair styles, joining the Disney princess line, and married life for the star.

A teaser poster for the animated movie Mars Needs Moms has just been posted at the Internet Movie Poster Awards. The Walt Disney Pictures release comes to theaters next spring.

Starting today, characters portraying Rapunzel and Flynn Rider from Disney’s upcoming film Tangled are greeting guests at the Disneyland Park in California. Beginning October 24, the characters will also appear at Magic Kingdom in Florida.

The first five minutes of DreamWorks’ upcoming animated feature Megamind are now available to watch online. Directed by Tom McGrath and featuring the voices of Will Ferrell, Tina Fey, David Cross, Jonah Hill, and Brad Pitt, Megamind hits theaters in 3D on November 5th, 2010.

Disney’s Tangled has just been rated PG for “brief mild violence,” according to Box Office Mojo. The animated fairy tale comes to theaters everywhere this Thanksgiving.

Time looks at why adults let loose with the waterworks so easily when watching animated films. Toy Story 3 director Lee Unkrich posits that, “Live action movies are someone else’s story. With animation, audiences can’t think that. Their guards are down.”

DVDActive reports that Fox Home Entertainment has announced 2-disc DVD and 2-disc Blu-ray releases of Futurama: Volume 5 for December 21, 2010. Bonus features on each set will include audio commentaries, featurettes: “Bend it Like Bender”, “Previously on….”, “Fry’s Crudely-Drawn Comic Book – The Crudely Animated Edition”, “Behind the Fungus: Makin’ a Hit Song”, and […]

/Film shares exclusive four new stills from Walt Disney Animation Studios’ upcoming animated film Tangled. Directed by Byron Howard and Nathan Greno, Tangled is scheduled to hit theaters on November 24th 2010.

DreamWorks Animation has signed a deal with Cartoon Network for a How To Train Your Dragon weekly TV series, reports Deadline. It is unclear whether any of the film’s original cast will voice the series, which is expected to be launched in both the U.S. and internationally in 2012.

Walt Disney Home Entertainment is offering fans an extremely unique opportunity to take home the highly anticipated documentary feature DVDs Waking Sleeping Beauty, The Boys: The Sherman Brothers’ Story and Walt & El Grupo as a pre-release exclusive direct from Disney Movie Collections.com. Full details on special pricing for each title or as a group, […]

Blu-Ray.com is reporting that Shrek Forever After–the final film in the Shrek franchise–will be released on Blu-Ray and DVD on December 7th. Also to be released on that day is Shrek: The Whole Story, a 4-disc collection featuring all of the ogre’s movies on Blu-Ray. Both releases, for a limited time, will feature Donkey’s Christmas Shrektacular, […]

Last night’s episode of The Simpsons has been the cause of a surprising ammount of discussion, thanks to an almost shockingly dark opening sequence directed by street artist Banksy. The grim two minute scene imagines what might go on behind the scenes of the merchandising department for The Simpsons, with grey animated characters working under sweatshop […]