After watching the ten nominees in the Best Live-action Short and Best Animated Short Oscar categories, The Faster Times has a five-point hypothesis on what it takes to make an Oscar nominated short film. The tongue-in-cheek but funny-becasue-it’s-true “recommendations” range from “going with what works” as in A Matter of Loaf and Death, to “flattering […]

HBO will debut a new animated series starting February 19th based on the popular podcast The Ricky Gervais Show. Those unfamiliar with the podcast can get a more in-depth primer on it and the animated series from the Toronto Star, but the gist is three funny guys sit in a studio and riff about what […]

To help celebrate their 50th anniversary, the international animation festival Annecy has announced an online competition co-sponsored by YouTube. While open to everyone there are specific guidelines entries need to follow, which you can find on their website. The top winner will receive a week at Annecy 2010 (transportation to France, accommodations, and accreditation included) […]

Forbes has an interview with DreamWorks Animation Head of Worldwide Marketing & Consumer Products Anne Globe, where she discusses how the company markets their films.

The all new direct-to-video Scooby Doo movie, Scooby-Doo! Abracadabra Doo, will be released to DVD tomorrow. The gang is back in their groovy 1969 clothing, ready to take on a mystery that deals with dark magic. Matthew Lillard, who plays the role of Shaggy from the first two live action Scooby films, replaces Casey Kasem […]

A new one-sheet for How To Train Your Dragon is now online, and can be seen at Cinema Blend. The upcoming DreamWorks film will hit theaters on March 26th. Thanks to ‘CGIFanatic’ over at the Animated Views Forum for the heads up.

Walt Disney Studios have announced that their 2010 film will no longer be called Rapunzel and will now be known as Tangled, reports Collider. Produced by Roy Conli, Tangled is slated to hit theatres on November 24, 2010.

Despicable Me hits theaters on July 9th, 2010.Several different film sites, including SlashFilm, JoBlo, HitFiz, and Collider, all feature articles describing their author’s experiences while touring the studio responsible for Despicable Me. All of the stories seem to be returning positive feedback for both the clips they were shown of the film, as well as […]

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Warner Bros. has decided to give its’ upcoming 3D animated film Guardians Of Ga’hoole a shorter theatrical run, following suit with the recent news about Disney’s Alice In Wonderland. This decision will allow Guardians to have a DVD/Blu-Ray release just in time for the holiday shopping season. The film, which […]

PR Newswire reports that DreamWorks and NBC have joined forces in a promotional partnership to produce seven winter sports-themed vignettes starring characters from How To Train Your Dragon. These televised shorts, which began airing on Tuesday, advertised both DreamWorks’ upcoming animated film as well as the 2010 winter Olympics. How To Train Your Dragon hits […]

The brand new trailer for M. Night Shyamalan’s special effects extravaganza The Last Airbender is now online over at Yahoo! Movies. It is also reported to be playing in theaters tomorrow with prints of the family adventure film Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief. Based on the popular Nickolodeon cartoon series, The Last Aribender […]

Apple has the new trailer for Toy Story 3 available in resolutions for your iPod all the may up to 1080p HD.

Toy Story 3 director Lee Unkrich has been tweeting the past week that big news about the film would be announced this week. It appears to start today with the first of 14 new characters being revealed. Ain’t it Cool News has the first look at Barbie’s long time boy toy Ken, voiced by Michael […]

UPDATE: ComingSoon.net has retracted the story below based on Iger being misquoted. Cars 2 is still on track for June 24, 2011. Disney/Pixar’s Cars 2 has been moved to December 2011 from June 2011, ComingSoon.net reports. Disney President and CEO Bob Iger noted the change during the company’s first quarter 2010 earnings call on Tuesday.

According to Deadline Hollywood, Warner Bros is looking to possibly reboot the Superman franchise — with Batman helmer Chris Nolan taking the lead. While probably not directing the project, Warner Bros is hoping that with Nolan’s leadership as a sort of “godfather” they can “set it in the right direction with the critics and the […]

ABC News reports that Imagi Animation Studios has shut down. The parent company of the studio behind TMNT and Astro Boy is trying to stave off financial problems. But Imagi says will continue to develop movie ideas and then outsource work to others. The news does not mention the status of other Imagi projects in […]

Collider shares the first teaser from Studio Ghibli’s upcoming feature Karigurashi no Arrietty (The Borrower Arrietty). Based on Mary Norton’s popular The Borrowers series of children’s books, and directed by Hiromasa Yonebayashi, Karigurashi no Arrietty will premiere in Japan on July 17, 2010. A North American release is likely to follow in time for the […]

Michael Barrier has a fascinating essay on the story behind the story of Dumbo. The first version of Dumbo was copyrighted in 1939, but not in normal book form. Instead the thing stated life on an odd and interesting device from the late 1930’s called a “Roll-A-Book”. Barrier’s piece goes in depth with lots of […]

Reuters reports that the second film in a three picture deal between Lionsgate and Crest Animation is slated for 2012 and is titled Norm of the North. The story features a polar bear forced out of his arctic home who finds work in New York. Later this year the two companies will release Alpha and […]

Some Oscar reactions from the directors behind the Best Animated Feature nominated Coraline and the Best Animated Short nominated French Roast follows:

Disney/Pixar’s Up took home the top prize at the 37th Annual Annie Awards, but no single production stole the night. Coraline, The Princess and the Frog, and Prep and Landing had the most awards with three. Prep and Landing won the Television award. The Penguins of Madagascar won the Children’s TV award. Robot Chicken: Star […]

According to Variety, Disney is planning to release a sequel to their hit comedy Enchanted as early as next year. The original film, which opened in 2007, went on to gross $340 million worldwide before ending its theatrical run. Currently, Jessie Nelson is set to pen the script for the sequel, with The Proposal director […]

Collider reports that the animated teaser trailer for the film A.D., what could some day be the first full-length zombie animated feature, is out on the net. Writer Haylar Garcia and director Ben Hibon hope to reinvent the zombie genre by turning A.D. into a feature length movie. The filmmakers are still in search of […]

The unsinkable has officially been sunk: Avatar surpassed Titanic yesterday and has become the highest grossing movie of all time. The film now has an enormous take of $601 million, beating Titanic’s $600 million. While the epic romance of 1997 is still the higher grossing movie when inflation is brought in to play, Avatar could still […]

Collider shares the promotional trailer and the first poster for The Secret of Kells. Nominated for best animated film Oscar, The Secret of Kells opens in theatres this spring.

The Chuck Jones Center for Creativity has announced that Chuck Amuck: A Legacy Of Laughter, a retrospective exhibition of art and artifacts, will open with a free-to-the-public opening night reception on Friday, February 26, 2010 at Tempe Center for the Arts in Arizona, and remain on display through June 18th. Full details follow:

The Oscar nominations are out and Disney/Pixar’s Up became just the second animated film in history to be nominated for Best Picture. Avatar also picked up a nomination there along with 8 others. The nominees for Best Animated Feature are: Coraline, Fantastic Mr. Fox, The Princess and the Frog, Secret of the Kells, and Up. […]

Michael Giacchino, the composer of the score of Disney/Pixar’s Up, won two of the three Grammy Awards he was up for at tonight’s (1/31/2010) ceremony, per an article from TrekMovie.com (via HitFix.com).

Despite the news this week that Disney is shutting down Miramax Films, the studio’s animated Gnomeo & Juliet is apparently still in the works. With reported production problems surrounding it for years, the film is supposed to be a comic take on William Shakesphere’s Romeo and Juliet, but with talking garden gnomes instead of human […]

It took a little while for it to do so, but The Princess and the Frog has finally crossed the $100 million mark, Box Offfice Mojo is reporting. This makes it the first traditionally animated Disney movie to do so since 2002’s Lilo and Stitch. Frog was budgeted at a reported $105 million, so the […]