Mila Kunis is apparently being considered for the role of the Wicked Witch of the West in Disney’s upcoming Wizard of Oz prequel, NY Magazine is reporting. The site reports that Kunis is said to be walking away from the live action Akira remake to join James Franco in the movie to be directed by Spider-Man […]

Paula Sigman-Lowery and Jeff Kurtti offer another detailed and respectful rembrance of the recently departed Disney legend for The Walt Disney Family Museum website, in their article With Thanks And Appreciation For A Swell Job: Remembering Bill Justice. They detail his contributions to many Disney films and the parks, and provide numerous quotes from Justice. […]

Two new character banners for Hoodwinked Too! Hood Vs. Evil has just been revealed over at Yahoo! Movies. It’s the very first poster art which has been released for the sequel so far. The movie has an April 29th release date.

A brand new trailer for Walt Disney Pictures’ upcoming animated feature Mars needs Moms is now available to watch on Apple. 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 opens in theatres on March 11, 2011.

Disney historian Brian Sibley has written a wonderfully warm tribute to animator-director Bill Justice, who died aged 97 on February 10, and who contributed to Disney’s Golden Age productions for 42 years, specifically being responsible for the antics of Donald Duck’s foils, the chipmunks Chip ‘n’ Dale, among a wealth of memorable screen credits that […]

DreamWorks Animation appears all set to adapt picture book and novel Flawed Dogs for the big screen, reports Variety. From Pulitzer prize winning writer and cartoonist Berkeley Breathed, Flawed Dogs centers around a dachshund who must reclaim his place in the family after being wrongly exiled by a jealous show dog.

Though he didn’t get an Oscar nod for his Toy Story 3 score, Randy Newman was honored by the music industry with a Grammy Award for Best Score Soundtrack Album For Motion Picture, Television Or Other Visual Media. It is Newman’s fifth Grammy out of 14 career nominations. All his wins have been for Disney […]

At the UK’s British Academy of Film and Television Awards Sunday evening, Disney/Pixar director Lee Unkrich accepted the Best Animated Film award for Toy Story 3, further raising its chances to take the same prize at this year’s Oscars. Best Animated Short went to Michael Please’s The Eagleman Stag. Toy Story 3 lost out to […]

Collider has posted an interview with Elton John, the executive producer and composer of Gnomeo & Juliet, wherein the legendary musician talks about the 11-year process of making Gnomeo & Juliet, and more. Directed by Kelly Asbury, Touchstone Pictures’ latest animated flick features classic songs by Elton John, along with new songs written with his […]

The Hollywood Reporter has revealed a number of new details regarding DreamWorks Animation’s upcoming How to Train Your Dragon II. “It’s going to be quite epic,” director Dean DeBlois promised. “We are treating How To Train Your Dragon as the first act in a much larger story. As we head into this one, the world expands. […]

The Internet Movie Poster Awards have recently posted yet another new poster for Hop, this time with a a Valentine’s Day theme. The site also has three new character banners for Disney’s upcoming Mars Needs Moms. Both movies are due in theaters this spring.

Collider has shared 13 new images from Disney’s upcoming animated feature Winnie the Pooh. Directed by Stephen Anderson and Don Hall, and featuring the voices of Jim Cummings, Craig Ferguson, Tom Kenny, Travis Oates, and Bud Luckey, the film opens July 15th.

The greatest love story ever told, starring…garden gnomes? Gnomeo & Juliet, Touchstone Pictures’ animated makeover of Shakespeare’s revered play, opens in theaters today. Directed by Kelly Asbury and featuring the voices of James McAvoy, Emily Blunt, Michael Caine, Jason Statham, Maggie Smith, Patrick Stewart, Ashley Jensen, Stephen Merchant, Matt Lucas, Jim Cummings, Julie Walters, Richard […]

The first trailer for Hoodwinked Too! Hood Vs. Evil has just been posted over at MovieFone. Along with revealing more about the sequel’s plot, the preview also announces that the movie will be a 3-D release. It comes to theaters everywhere on April 29th.

A brand new full length trailer for Universal’s upcoming live action/CGI flick Hop is now available to watch on Apple. Directed by Tim Hill, and featuring the voices of James Marsden, Russell Brand, Kaley Cuoco, Hank Azaria, Elizabeth Perkins, Gary Cole, Chelsea Handler, and Hugh Laurie, Hop opens in theatres April 1st, 2011.

Disney animator Robb Pratt recently created a fan film based on the world’s most famous superhero, which can be viewed on YouTube. The short, entitled Superman Classic, features the voices of Superboy actor John Newton and his wife Jennifer Newton as Clark Kent and Lois Lane. Although the short runs only about a minute in […]

While the Packers won the game, FOX was the big winner with 30 second ads during the Super Bowl last night going for $3 million! Among them were spots for upcoming films, including animation like Rio, Kung Fu Panda 2, Rango, and Mars Needs Moms, some comic inspired properties like Thor, Cowboys and Aliens, and […]

DreamWorks was once again the big winner at the Annie Awards (though Disney and Pixar cut their involvement with animation’s highest honor this time out). Toy Story 3 may be an Oscar nominee for Best Picture, but How To Train Your Dragon won the Best Animated Feature Annie. Pixar’s Day & Night won Best Animated […]

The Stars Entertainment/Touchstone Pictures film will debut on February 11 after years of being transferred or shut down by one studio after another. Gnomeo and Juliet is a comical reimagining of Shakespeare’s tragic romance with garden gnomes. If you can’t wait until next week to see the film, io9 has gathered clips, a music video, […]

As with Kung Fu Panda 2 earlier this week, Paramount has decided to reveal their Super Bowl TV spot for Rango a few days before the big game. It can be viewed over at iTunes. Rango blends into theaters this March.

An amusing new poster for Hop–this time with a Super Bowl theme–has just been posted online at the Internet Movie Poster Awards. Curiously enough, there are apparently no plans for Universal Pictures to advertise the film during Sunday’s big game. The live-action/animated comedy starring Russell Brand and James Marsden comes to theaters this Easter.

One would imagine that the world’s biggest collection of early animation would be housed in an archive or a museum. It’s actually owned by a 21 year college student José Stathes. He’s been collecting animation since the age of eleven and he hopes to use his collection to revive early cartoons. Read the entire story […]

DreamWorks’ How To Train Your Dragon was the big animated winner at the 9th Annual Visual Effects Society Awards. It’s three wins (in all three categories it was nominated in) were for Outstanding Animation in an Animated Feature, Outstanding Animated Character in an Animated Feature, and Outstanding Effects Animation in an Animated Feature. Pixar’s Day […]

Disney has hired Toy Story 3 writer Michael Arndt to write their upcoming fairy tale spin-off Snow & the Seven, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The film will imagine Snow White as an English woman who travels to China to attend her father’s funeral, where she meets seven international warriors when she realizes that her […]

The Super Bowl TV spot for DreamWorks Animation’s Kung Fu Panda 2 has just been revealed over at Yahoo! Movies. The ad is one of several movie commercials that are set to air during the big game, including Thor, Captain America and Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides. Kung Fu Panda 2 kicks its […]

The official theme song from Rango–composed by Los Lobos–can now be heard online thanks to the LA Times. The song is meant to be a parody of the ballads found in older westerns. Starring Johnny Depp, Rango comes to theaters everywhere this March.

DreamWorks has announced they will be bringing the 1970s Sid & Marty Krofft television series Lidsville to the big screen. “Sid and I have had a longstanding relationship with Jeffrey Katzenberg and we’re excited to bring Lidsville to DreamWorks Animation. It’s incredible to envision a high-quality 3D animated movie being made out of one of […]

While you might not realize it based on all the news focusing on one of the stars’ wardrobe choices, Blue Sky’s Rio had its Hollywood premiere this past weekend. Director Carlos Saldanha, and stars Anne Hathaway, Jamie Foxx, and George Lopez talk about the film with Collider. The studio has announced a unique promotional tie-in […]

Disney’s Alice in Wonderland is available on Blu-ray today. Kathryn Beaumont, the voice of Alice, talks with MovieWeb and The Trades. Cinema Blend will tell you how to save some money on the new disc. And, while not strictly related to the Disney version, check out this gallery of Alice book covers of the past […]

After being delayed for well over a year, the Hoodwinked sequel Hood Vs. Evil will finally come to theaters on April 29th, ComingSoon.net is reporting. The movie was apparently pushed back due to financial woes at The Weinstein Company, the sequel’s distributor. The original Hoodwinked was a surprise hit in 2006, earning over $50 million against […]