Hot off the press! The Weinstein Co. will turn the Jim Henson series Fraggle Rock into a live-action musical feature, reports Variety. Cory Edwards, who directed the animated Hoodwinked! for the studio, will helm the picture and write the screenplay. The Jim Henson Co. will produce and TWC will distribute. Just like the series, the […]

USA Today offers a run-down of the exclusive features to be found on this Fall’s Blu-Ray release of Disney’s Sleeping Beauty. However be warned that only the latest players to be launched this summer by Sony and Panasonic will be able to access the disc’s online BD Live features…

An article featured on Fortune reveals that the design for the character Eve in Disney/Pixar’s upcoming Wall•E was inspired by the look of such Apple products as the iPod. “I wanted Eve to be high-end technology – no expense spared – and I wanted it to be seamless and for the technology to be sort […]

Iron Man director Jon Favreau will next write, helm and produce the feature-length motion capture caveman comedy Neanderthals for Sony Pictures Animation, a project which was intially announced back in 2005. Favreau told MTV News back in January that he was hoping to shoot the motion capture part before the potential actors strike next month […]

The cover art for the first volume of season one of Tiny Toons Adventures can be seen at TV Shows On DVD.The four-disk set, which features 35 episodes, will hit shelves on July 29th with a suggested retail price of $44.98. The trailer for the DVD can be viewed here.

Head over to Animation Insider for details on the upcoming Indian 2D feature film Ghatothkach: Master of Magic which will debut in its home country on May 23rd.

Sony Pictures Imageworks just accepted seven new schools into their Professional Academic Excellence (IPAX) program. “We are excited that the IPAX program continues to follow its original goal of helping educate the educators which in turn helps students excel,” commented Imageworks’ president, Tim Sarnoff.

Animation studio Fable Works announced today that it is producing the original 3D-animated Feature Film Cereal Heroes! for theatrical release in 2010. The movie will be produced at Sparx Animation Studios (Igor) in Paris, France and Ho-chi-min, Vietnam. The story follows the adventures of cartoon cereal-box-mascots who are mistakenly brought to life when a plan […]

The Orlando Sentinel‘s Roger Moore reviews positively David A. Price’s book The Pixar Touch: The Making of a Company, calling it “the best single-source history of Pixar that I’ve read.” This new hardcover book will be available nationwide tomorrow.

Billboard reveals via THR that Kung Fu Panda star Jack Black and Gnarls Barkley’s Cee-Lo have teamed up for a cover of Carl Douglas’ 1974 hit “Kung Fu Fighting” for the soundtrack to DreamWorks’ upcoming movie which will get his worldwide premiere at the Cannes Film Festival this Wednesday and hit U.S. screens on June […]

Some may have wondered why the Madagascar sequel was left out of the DreamWorks-Imax deal announced back in November… well, wonder no longer for it was just announced that Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa would now also be getting an Imax release on November 7th! Under the terms of the agreement, the sequel will be digitally […]

Two-time Academy Award nominee Bill Plympton premiered his new 2D feature film Idiots and Angels at the Tribeca Film Festival last month. The dark comedy, produced on a shoestring budget using monochromatic digital coloring and no dialogues, follows a morally bankrupt man scrabbling to hide the good in himself—which manifests itself in a pair of angel […]

Steven Spielberg will start shooting one of three Tintin movies this Fall, according to Variety. The Academy Award winning director had revealed last October that he would direct the second installment of the trilogy in the United States with Peter Jackson helming the first in New Zealand but it sounds like the two might have […]

Variety reports that Fox Broadcasting Co. and 20th Century Fox TV have jointly created the Fox Inkubator program to work with animators and writers in developing a range of shortform animated content. Separately, 20th has established a dedicated animation department within its walls for the first time.

Box Office Mojo reports that the live-action adaption of the animated television series Speed Racer has come in at number two in the results of this weekend’s box office take. The film made $20,210,000 with an average of $5,604 per theater. Speed Racer came behind Iron Man, which took in $50,500,000 in its second weekend, […]

On Saturday, May 17th, from 1:00pm-6:00pm Van Eaton Galleries and Creative Talent Network are presenting the 2nd Annual Animation “Book Look” Festival! Among the many talented artists and authors participating are Toby Bluth, Willie Ito, Rik Maki, Chris Buck, Ron Lukas, and Don Peri. Best of all, you don’t have to live in Los Angeles […]

It’s official! The Indiana Jones director will next tackle the first chapter of the long-delayed Tintin trilogy. Production on the motion capture film is expected to wrap early next year.

Could Hanna Montana and Danny Zuko be recording a song together for Disney? Possibly according to John Travolta’s wife Kelly Preston who hinted to E! on Friday that “Johnny may sing with Miley.” The two stars are teaming up for the Mouse House’s November 26th CG release Bolt, in which John Travolta voices the canine […]

Fox’s Dr. Seuss’ Horton Hears a Who! reached the $150 million landmark at the U.S. box office this week, becoming the 25th highest grossing animated film of all time according to Box Office Mojo. The Blue Sky feature is also performing strongly overseas with a cumulative worldwide gross of $284 million to date which is […]

The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian director Andrew Adamson, best known by animation fan as the helmer of Shrek and Shrek 2, talks to the New York Daily News about the use of computer animation in the upcoming Narnia sequel, comparing making a live-action movie versus an animated film like the difference between “running a […]

The L.A. Times reports that the Fox network has picked up two more animated comedies: The Cleveland Show, the much talked-about Family Guy spin-off centered on Peter Griffith’s accident-prone neighbor, Cleveland Brown; and Sit Down, Shut Up, about a group of mediocre high school teachers who work in a small Northeastern fishing town. Sit Down, […]

For those who can’t wait, head over to The Orlando Sentinel for a detailed breakdown of Toy Story Mania, the new Walt Disney World 3-D attraction which won’t officially open until May 31st but can be previewed until tomorrow by annual pass holders. And fear not, the Sentinel loved it!

GhibliWorld has an exclusive interview with Oga Kazuo, Ghibli background artist known for his work in films such as My Neighbor Totoro, Princess Mononoke, Only Yesterday, Pom Poko and Whisper of the Heart. Oga also speaks about how digitalization has not affected him and why he prefers painting his backgrounds manually even today.

Sony Pictures Home Entertainment has announced the DVD and Blu-Ray releases of Marjane Satrapi’s Academy award nominated film Persepolis on June 24. The DVD coverart, which can be viewed at DVDEmpire, also suggests that the disc will feature English dub alongwith the original French language track. Extras on the disc will include, The Hidden side […]

Coming Soon! alerts fans that they can now create their very own robot from Wall•E by visiting Wall-E.com and clicking on the “BUILD-A-BOT” icon! This interactive feature lets users customize their own robot by choosing various body types, mobility function, colors and audio. Afterwards, users can test out their bots by playing various games. New […]

THQ and DreamWorks have entered into an exclusive licensing agreement to produce video games based on the November 5, 2010 3D film MasterMind which is described in the recent joint press release as a “a satirical send-up of the superhero genre, built around the story of a super villain who must find a new motivation after […]

The Hollywood Reporter reveals that Sean Astin, Giovanni Ribisi, Ron Perlman and Anjelica Huston will lend their voices to Spirit of the Forest, an eco-fairy tale for Fantastic Films International and Spain-based Dygra Films (The Living Forest, Midsummer Dream). Astin and Ribisi play two gopher friends whose home is threatened when an evil businesswoman (Huston) […]

The theatrical trailer for Star Wars: The Clone Wars can now be viewed on the film’s official site. The new preview aired Thursday night at 7:58 P.M. on Cartoon Network, as well as several other Turner stations. Star Wars: The Clone Wars hits theaters on August 15th.

From over at the Animation Guild Blog comes word that DreamWorks Animation’s Kung Fu Panda will open with a traditionally animated, hand-drawn scene, “and the DVD is going to have a bunch more of that older animation style that Jeffrey Katzenberg describes as being similar to a “‘nice, hand-written letter.’” For another example of hand-drawn […]

A new theatrical trailer for DreamWorks’ Kung Fu Panda has appeared online at Yahoo. For those wishing to experience the preview on the big screen, the trailer will be playing alongside Speed Racer, which opens this Friday. Kung Fu Panda hits theaters on June 6th.