Pixar Talk currently features a brand-new still from the upcoming short film Night & Day, which will be debuting alongside Toy Story 3 on June 18th. Combining both traditional 2D animation as well as CGI, writer/director Teddy Newton’s short follows the antics of two characters named Day and Night. The short is produced by Kevin […]

Warner Bros. has announced the re-launch of its DVD-2-Blu campaign to help consumers make the leap to hi-def. The process is simple: send in your old DVDs with a nominal shipping charge, and the studio will forward you the same titles on Blu-ray Disc. Titles include 2001: A Space Odyssey, Beetlejuice, Superman II: Richard Donner […]

Variety, in a laconic story, reports that Ice Age 4 is in the works at Fox. Tentatively titled Ice Age: Continental Drift, it is scheduled for July 13, 2012.

DreamWorks has two new videos and a website out to promote the upcoming Shrek Forever After. First up is an viral-type infomercial posted at Trailer Addicts starring Rumpelstiltskin. In it the dwarf hawks his new website, RumpelDeals.com. Next up, ComingSoon.net has a video that introduces us to the Pied Piper who, in the Shrek world, […]

The L. A. Times makes the case against DreamWorks going the sequel route with their latest hit How to Train Your Dragon. Their thought is that DreamWorks should focus more on creating standalone new ideas rather than constantly mining successful past properties.

Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides is finding itself with a respectively smaller production budget than the franchise is used to, the LA Times is reporting. Although still in the $200 million range, it is still costing around $100 million less than the last film in the series, At World’s End. Because of this, a […]

A sequel to Jim Henson’s The Dark Crystal, which has been rumored about for years, has now been put into production, according to ComingSoon.net. The film will reportedly combine traditional puppetry with CGI special effects to create its fantasy world. Little is known about the plot at this point, but it will take place “hundreds of […]

The Internet Movie Poster Awards has recently posted new international posters for two upcoming animated movies. First, a new poster for Disney/Pixar’s Toy Story 3 from Australia has been revealed, with the ad focusing on the 3-D aspect of the film. Meanwhile, a UK poster for the fourth Shrek film has also been revealed, referring to the […]

Coming Soon has posted the first images of Hank Azaria as Gargamel in Sony Pictures big screen adaptation of The Smurfs. Directoed by Raja Gosnell, The Smurfs is slated for an August 3, 2011 release.

Social media has taken over the internet in the past year or two, and one of the cool things about it is movie-makers being able to connect directly to fans during the movie making process. Toy Story 3 director Lee Unkrich has been keeping fans up to date on the progress of the film through […]

A night of spooky stop-motion films, followed by a panel discussion hosted by Aurelio Voltaire, is a treat in store for those attending the Museum of Comic and Cartoon art in New York City tonight, April 29 at 7pm. Complete details can be read here:

Despite rumors to the contrary, Warner Bros. is announcing that the first in producer Peter Jackson’s two-part version of The Hobbit will arrive a little later than originally expected (2011), but earlier than has been reported (2013). With the financial woes at co-producer MGM apparently not to blame for the hold-up, The Hobbit‘s two parts […]

THR today reports that the licensing company Iconix has reached an agreement to buy United Features Syndicate’s stake in the Peanuts characters and other brands for $175 million. Iconix will acquire UFS’ 80% share, with the remaining 20% retained by the Charles Schulz family. With $180m in box-office grosses so far, DreamWorks’ Jeffrey Katzenberg has […]

Collider has posted a trailer and a few images from the next DC Universe animated movie Batman: Under the Red Hood. Featuring the voices of Bruce Greenwood, Jensen Ackles, Neil Patrick Harris, John DiMaggio and Jason Issacs, the straight to DVD/Blu-ray movie arrives July 27.

Oscar-winning composer Michael Giacchino will be hosting “What’s Opera, Doc? Animation and Classical Music” on May 14 in Beverly Hills. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences event will present “some of the most inspired and memorable uses of classical music in animation”. Also appearing are Academy Music Branch governor Bruce Broughton and director […]

Following their successful pairing on Sylvain Chomet’s The Triplets Of Belleville in 2003, Sony Pictures Classics and the director have announced that his new film, The Illusionist, based on an unproduced script by the master of French silent cinema Jacques Tati, will be distributed in the US by the company towards the end of 2010. […]

The Guardian recently published an account on Charles Brewer-Carias, a “real-life Indiana Jones” who has spent over 50 years in the Venezuela jungle discovering new species and exploring rare organisms. Indeed, there are suggestion that the 71 year old was the basis for Charles Muntz in Pixar’s most recent feature Up, set amid the area’s […]

DreamWorks How to Train Your Dragon continues to dominate according to Box Office Mojo. In it’s fifth weekend it has reclaimed the #1 spot. In total the film has brought in $178 million domestically and $355 million worldwide. Mojo says, “At its current pace, Dragon will vie with Kung Fu Panda to become DreamWorks Animation’s […]

Disney CEO Bob Iger is featured in a New York Times piece. “Widely dismissed” when he took over the top job from Michael Eisner, the new take on Iger is “blockbuster CEO”. The article discusses the many changes he’s made at the company (and the reactions to them), and follows him on “a day in […]

Upcoming Pixar linked to a cool video this weekend — a taped-to-VCR commercial purportedly from 1983 featuring the season’s hot new toy, Lots-o’-Huggin’ Bear. Obviously a Pixar job, the video is just the latest of several viral videos for Toy Story 3 from the studio. In addition, AV reader Grace points out that Barbie’s pal […]

Batman may soon be coming to a stage near you, according to ABC News. Tentatively titled Batman Live, the show would be “an elaborate arena production aimed at kids and families”. While no firm dates have been set, a 2011/2012 launch timeframe is being discussed.

Box Office Mojo reports that Pixar will be releasing a sequel to Monsters Inc. in November 2012 and that The Bear and the Bow has been renamed Brave and pushed back to June 2012.

Cartoon Network has announced that it plans to launch a new version of the classic Warner Bros. series Looney Tunes. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the network plans to have each episode of The Looney Toons Show as a half-hour story along with “cartoons within a cartoon.” The concept takes Bugs and Daffy out of […]

Technicolor Animation, previously Paprikaas Animation based in India, has welcomed veteran producers Jean MacCurdy and Fonda Snyder on board to develop their new property, Pete & Pickles, based on the work of Opus cartoonist Berkeley Breathed. A press release may be read here:

Yahoo!Movies has made available a new clip from DreamWorks Animation’s upcoming flick Shrek Forever After featuring Puss in Boots. Directed by Mike Mitchell, the final chapter in the Shrek series, Shrek Forever After hits theaters on May 21, 2010.

After closing its previously owned DisneyToon studio in Toronto and cutting ties with The Wild producers CORE Animation, the Disney organization has returned again to Canada for the location of a new Pixar subsidiary. Launched yesterday, April 20, Pixar Canada will create short films based on their Toy Story and Cars characters for online and […]

Those unable to make the annual Annie Awards earlier this year will be animated by this welcome piece of news: the 37th awards ceremony, with featured highlights including host William Shatner, a special tribute to Roy Disney, and Winsor McCay recipients Jeffrey Katzenberg, Tim Burton and Bruce Timm, is now available to view online at […]

The Drawn Together Movie: The Movie!, the first animated film based on Comedy Central’s long-running adult “reality show” series, premiered to a packed house at the Anaheim ComicCon last Friday (April 17), ahead of its debut today on DVD (and as a BestBuy Blu-ray exclusive) from Comedy Central and Paramount Home Entertainment. A full press […]

The Suspended Animation Gallery, the online art collection produced by Disney animation artists to reflect their own personal inspirations in works created in their own choice of medium, has announced their latest artist addition: Walt Peregoy, best known for his work on 101 Dalmatians, but also notable for his contributions to Peter Pan, Lady and […]

Announcing plans to convert the DreamWorks Shrek series to 3D format for release on Blu-ray Disc, Jeffrey Katzenberg has discussed the future of three dimensional movie viewing at the NAB convention in Las Vegas.