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Thor mighty at box office with best opening in series to date
…Forever does when it opens in November, as that is really a question mark as far as audience interest for it goes. Following the tragic passing of star Chadwick Boseman… |
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New Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse poster shows off massive Spidey lineup
…encounters a team of Spider-People charged with protecting its very existence. But when the heroes clash on how to handle a new threat, Miles finds himself pitted against the other… |
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Watch the dark teaser trailer for Peter Pan and Wendy
The teaser trailer for Peter Pan and Wendy is now online, and can be viewed in the player above. Many may be taken aback by how “grown up” Peter Pan’s… |
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Watch the trippy new trailer for Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
An exciting full trailer for Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse is now online, and can be checked out in the player above. The preview is also playing on the big screen… |
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem
…involving vomit, it’s handled in such a cartoony manner that it will make you howl with laughter instead of wanting to throw up yourself. This is a movie that skillfully… |
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Announcement teaser for The Boy and the Heron released; full trailer coming next week
…player above. A full trailer arrives on Wednesday. The movie, titled How Do You Live in Japan, got much press for not having any previews released in its native country,… |
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Watch the stunning teaser for The Boy and the Heron
…Studio Ghibli fans who had expected it to only get a limited release. The Boy and the Heron has already been released in Japan under the title How Do You… |
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Watch the trailer for the documentary Pencils vs. Pixels
A trailer for the animation documentary Pencils vs. Pixiels is now online, and you can check it out in the player above. The movie features interviews with several notable animators,… |
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PAW Patrol: The Mighty Movie saves the day at box office
…of the movie, as they refused to show it on any of their screens in protest of the streaming date. With all of that in mind, the $40 million total… |
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Netflix releases Nimona in its entirety on YouTube for free (yes, really)
Presumably in an effort to help boost its Oscar chances, Netflix has posted Nimona in its entirety on YouTube for free, and you can enjoy it for yourself in the… |
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Inside Out 2 opens
…up to its predecessor’s emotional intelligence”. There’s a wide range of predictions on how the the movie will do at the box office this weekend. Box Office Pro puts it… |
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Inside Out 2
I’ve got a confession to make: I didn’t love the original Inside Out as much as most other people did. Scandalous, I know! No, I don’t think it’s a bad… |
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The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie opens
…formula in a way that makes you wonder why we ever left it behind”, “a reminder of how much more these tireless characters have to offer”, “a fine successor in… |
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Journey back to The Wonderfully Weird World of Gumball as series moves to Hulu
…which aired on Cartoon Network, the new Gumball will be moving to Hulu as Warner Bros. makes some major shifts in how it treats children’s programming. It premieres this summer…. |
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Elio opens
…Tomatoes, many of the critics’ praise has been more muted rather than effusive. The film will face fierce competition from How to Train Your Dragon in a strong second week… |
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The Cat’s out of the bag in The Cat in the Hat teaser trailer
…yet for the I.I.I.I. (Institute for the Institution of Imagination and Inspiration, LLC): to cheer Gabby and Sebastian, a pair of siblings struggling with their move to a new town…. |
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Pixar releases Hoppers teaser trailer and poster
…In Disney and Pixar’s all-new feature film Hoppers, scientists have discovered how to “hop” human consciousness into lifelike robotic animals, allowing people to communicate with animals as animals! The adventure… |
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“Magic takes flight” in the special first look at Wildwood
…look offers a glimpse at the film’s gorgeous animation, and details how they brought a complex giant eagle to life. What it doesn’t provide is a release date, only saying… |
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Yoshi arrives in new The Super Mario Galaxy Movie trailer
…on Wednesday, April 1st instead of on April 3rd. This is extremely similar to how Universal Pictures released the first movie back in 2023. It went on to make over… |
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Minions & Monsters trailer sends the Minions to Hollywood
…Despicable Me 4, Illumination expands its joyful animated universe with a riotous new chapter, featuring all-new characters, in the biggest global animated franchise in history: Minions & Monsters. This is… |
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Slant Magazine \\Brother Bear\\ review – terrible and sexist
{{link http://www.slantmagazine.com/film/film_review.asp?ID=868 Slant Magazine}} takes an almost Freudian viewpoint in its review of \\Brother Bear\\. Besides suggesting that the “film’s sexism goes largely unaddressed” in this “terrible Disney toon”, they… |
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Information on Kim Possible: A Sitch in Time
…a supreme evil in his time so she must first go back in time to thwart it. Once she’s in the past, Kim’s opponents strike when she’s at her most… |
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Good Grief! It's Christmastime Again?
Here’s your Animated News staff Peanuts specialist, Christian, checking in with a report from the Toon Zone Forum that a third Peanuts Christmas special, I Want a Dog for Christmas,… |
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Analysis of this year's Oscar candidates, and The Polar Express…Expressed!
DVD Toons’ comment feature {{link http://www.dvdtoons.com/features/58 My Toon Cents}} runs down the list of eligible films put forward by the Studios this year for consideration as nominees for the Best… |
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Almost half of Oscar eligible films created with USAnimation software
{{link http://www.usanimation.com/pdf/OscarNominations.htm Toon Boom Technologies}} notes that their animation software was used on almost half of the animated films eligible for the Animated Oscar. Five of the eleven films (\\The… |
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Burton's Nightmare Becomes CG Game!
Craig Crumpton on the {{link http://forums.toonzone.net/showthread.php?t=95455 Toon Zone Forums}} posts a link to {{link http://www.gameinformer.com/ Game Informer}}’s site, which reports that Tim Burton’s stop-motion animated The Nightmare Before Christmas is… |
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Paul Dini Reveals Batman and Duck Dodgers News
During the weekend, Paul Dini was at the premiere screening of Justice League‘s Christmas episode “Comfort and Joy,” at Wizard World Texas in Arlington, where he provided updates on the… |
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Spreading the Word: Roy Disney Addresses a Letter to Disney Employees
If you can’t get enough of the latest developments in the Roy Disney/Stanley Gold shakeout story Toon Zone has added a link to a letter purportedly written by Roy E…. |
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Nemo is still the biggest catch in theaters!
{{link http://forums.toonzone.net/showthread.php?t=96699 Toon Zone}} reports that Finding Nemo continues to drawn in large audiences on its international theatrical release, pulling in another $45.9 million from 26 countries, for “a cumulative… |
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Garfield launches online!
It could be great, it could be bad…but {{link http://www.apple.com/trailers/fox/garfield/ Toon Zone}} points us toward the Apple site, who have another new teaser for us today: the upcoming live-action/CG take… |

