Cinema Blend has a piece with the link-baiting title “5 Ways DreamWorks Animation Is Better Than Pixar”. The article isn’t nearly as contentious as the title would suggest, however, and does a good job of fairly pointing out the areas where DreamWorks excels over its rival.

Forbes delves into the world of celebrity voice acting to rank the A-list — a top 10 based on box office earnings and press attention.

Mashable discusses a talk Disney and Pixar Animation President Ed Catmull gave at the Economist Innovation Conference. He said Pixar’s success was due to being able to trust his managers, not being afraid of making mistakes and then having to fix them, and balancing the artistic with the commercial.

Pixar Story Supervisor Jason Katz and Lego Master Builder Erik Varszegi joined the children of the Boys & Girls Club of America to assemble a one-of-a-kind Lego mural in Hollywood on Tuesday, March 23, to promote the releases of Toy Story and Toy Story 2 Special Edition Blu-ray Discs yesterday. More details and photos can […]

Disney is reportedly working on making a live action movie based on one of their most popular animated villains. Maleficent, being penned by Alice in Wonderland screenwriter Linda Woolverton, will apparently tell the story of Sleeping Beauty from Maleficent’s perspective. None other than Tim Burton himself is being considered as a director for the project.

Disney/Pixar’s Up has picked up some more hardware, this time the feature film award at the Humane Society’s Genesis Awards, according to the L.A. Times. The Genesis Awards “honor media depictions of animal protection issues”.

IESB.net has a somewhat surprising rumor that George Lucas will be bringing the Star Wars franchise to preschoolers. They believe the new series, based on the kid-friendly line of Galactic Heroes toys, is to be titled Squishies.

Comics Continuum reports that a new animated Green Lantern direct to video film is in the works at Warner, timed to be released at thte same time as the live-action Green Lantern movie coming out in the summer of 2011.

Sony is all set to bring Popeye the Sailor Man back to the big screen by giving him the CGI and 3D treatment, reports Collider via Variety. With Avi Arad producing, Mike Jones is in talks to write the screenplay. According to Variety, “The logline is being kept under wraps, but Popeye’s love interest Olive […]

The New York Times discusses the lighting and overall look of DreamWorks’ How To Train Your Dragon with director Chris Sanders and cinematographer and eight time Oscar nominee Roger Deakins. Deakins is most well known for his live action work (No Country for Old Men, The Village, A Beautiful Mind, The Shawshank Redemption) and had […]

Paramount Pictures and Warner Bros. are currently battling it out over booking 3-D screens for their upcoming tentpole releases, the LA Times is reporting. Paramount Pictures is going through possibly extreme measures to get their animated How to Train Your Dragon in 3-D theaters, to the point where they’re even threatening some venues that they won’t […]

According to Variety, a new animation house titled Bedrock Studios has plans for creating family-friendly films with budgets under $35 million. Their first project, centered around a pair of turkeys who discover a time machine, is currently in pre-production, with Owen Wilson and Woody Harrelson voicing the lead characters. Set to hit theaters sometime in […]

Director Michel Gondry discussed his forthcoming animated film Megalomania with The Playlist Blog. The movie which is a collaboration with his teenage son, Paul, is in the works since 2007. Described by Gondry as a “rebellious story of an adolescent,” and featuring the voices of Seth Rogen, Steve Buscemi & Juliette Lewis, Megalomania will be […]

The Hollywood Reporter this morning reports that the Walt Disney Company is to launch a local, Russian-language version of The Disney Channel, and is looking to additionally produce two to three theatrical features for the market as well. Disney’s recent expansion into localized content has seen big rewards for the company with such hits as […]

Responding to apparent confusion caused by the reports made yesterday that Hank Azaria would be only voicing the character of Gargamel in the upcoming Smurfs movie, Neil Patrick Harris, the film’s star, cleared things up on his Twitter account: “Hank Azaria will be PLAYING Gargamel for the Smurfs film, not just providing a voice. He’ll be […]

The first teaser trailer for DreamWorks Animation’s Megamind is now online to be viewed at Yahoo! Movies. Although less than a minute long, it does introduce its main character, a supervillain voiced by Will Ferrell whose life loses its meaning when he accidently kills his superhero enemy. MegaMind opens everywhere this November.

Tim Burton is set to direct an animated movie based on artist Charles Adam’s cartoon drawings of the spooky Addams Family. Reportedly unrelated to the 60s TV series and 90s feature films based on the same work, the stop motion animated film will presumably start production once Burton is finished with Frankenweenie. It is currently without a […]

Empire Online looks into the story about why and how a sequel to Disney’s Tron is now finally getting made nearly 30 years after its original release. Declared a flop when it first came to theaters, the revolutionary Tron gradually gained a large fanbase over time, causing the Mouse House to eventually take notice. A trailer for the sequel, […]

Longtime Disney producer Don Hahn recently spoke with ComingSoon.net about the process of converting the animated classic Beauty and the Beast into a 3-D movie. Revealing that production ended on it a few weeks ago, he described the final result as “spectacular.” In addition, Hahn also talked about how Tim Burton’s upcoming Frankenweenie might be done […]

Entertainment Weekly is reporting that funnyman Hank Azaria is set to voice the evil wizard Gargamel in the live action/animated Smurfs movie. The key word to note there is “voice,” which strongly indicates that Gargamel will in fact be an animated human in a live action world. Azaria, of course, is no stranger to animation, having […]

Disney/Pixar’s Toy Story 3 was just screened to the public for the very first time at ShoWest. Although in rough cut form, the movie is already generating positive buzz, with ComingSoon.net providing a spoiler-free review. Interestingly enough, the reviewer admits to not having seen Toy Story 2, but that didn’t stop him from being impressed with the film.  “Like […]

Perhaps the most controversial of all of the shows in Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim lineup, The Boondocks will be returning to television this summer after not airing a new episode for two years. Based on a comic strip of the past that cartoonist Aaron McGruder ended so he could concentrate on the TV series, The […]

Continuing their massive promotion of the film, Disney has released another poster for their upcoming Toy Story 3. This time, the poster features the characters standing around a day care center, which is a major element of the new movie’s plot. Toy Story 3 opens in theaters everywhere this summer.

Jason Segal is set to star alongside Kermit the frog and friends in an upcoming Muppet movie, Empire Online is reporting. The actor was already involved with the Walt Disney Pictures project as a writer for the film. The first theatrical Muppet movie in over ten years, The Greatest Muppet Movie of All Time is currently […]

USA Today has an interesting look at how 3-D movies are affecting the movie industry, and whether or not they’re really worthy of the hype they’ve been receiving. While films like Alice in Wonderland and Avatar have been mega-hits, the digital projectors required for the format are extremely expensive for theater buyers, causing it to still be […]

Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment announced that it will launch director James Cameron’s Avatar on Blu-ray Disc and DVD on Thursday, April 22. The Oscar winning epic is the highest grossing film of all time, taking in over $2.6 billion in worldwide box office. Dates it will be released in other countries follow.

The L.A. Times has more about and reaction to the recent name change of Disney’s Rapunzel to Tangled. Ed Catmull, president of Disney and Pixar Animation Studios said, “We did not want to be put in a box. Some people might assume it’s a fairy tale for girls when it’s not. We make movies to […]

Dean DeBlois and Chris Sanders talk with the L.A Times about the 12 month deadline they faced when brought in to rework DreamWorks’ How to Train Your Dragon. The tight schedule meant the film became more of a director’s movie rather than a film by committee. DeBlois said, “It’s a model that allows for too […]

After the high cost and unexpectedly low returns on Disney’s Robert Zemeckis-directed A Christmas Carol, the studio has announced the closing of the ImageMovers Digital facility in Marin County. Currently at work on the Simon Welles directed Mars Needs Moms, Disney also speculates that it may remain a distributor for IMD’s movies, which include the […]

ComingSoon has an exclusive first look at Pixar’s upcoming short Day & Night. Directed by Teddy Newton, Day & Night will play in front of Toy Story 3 starting June 18.