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Robot Chicken greenlit for two more seasons
Cartoon Network’s popular stop-motion animated series Robot Chicken has been greenlit for two more seasons, according to ComingSoon.Net. The sketch comedy show, perhaps best known for its Star Wars parodies,… |
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Who Gets the Million? You Choose
Teletoon and Cartoon Network’s animated reality series, Total Drama Action, has two contestants remaining in the game. Beth and Duncan tied on last week’s episode, so they are letting the… |
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Sofia The First earns a second season
The young Princess Sofia is certainly living up to her title as she charms young audiences. Disney decided to renew the cartoon Sofia The First for a second season, says… |
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My Adventures with Superman gets an extremely brief teaser
Want to watch fifteen seconds of the upcoming Superman cartoon? Well, here’s your chance, as Adult Swim has released a very short trailer for My Adventures with Superman. In fairness,… |
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The Longest Daycare now online
Fox’s animated Simpsons short film Maggie Simpson in The Longest Daycare is now online for your viewing pleasure over on the studio’s official YouTube page. The Oscar-nominated cartoon features Maggie… |
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Tintin historian sued
Amid over at Cartoon Brew has the disappointing news that the Tintin estate (or more specifically “the lawyer who married the widow of Tintin creator Hergé and now controls the… |
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Casting news for Yellow Submarine
Cary Elwes, Dean Lennox Kelly, Peter Serafinowicz and Adam Campbell are set to play the Fab Four in Disney’s upcoming Yellow Submarine remake. The CGI-animated movie, based on the cartoon… |
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Turner And WB Join The Netflix Family
…from Cartoon Network/Adult Swim and TNT. Expect popular toons and live action series. Both groups are excited about the continuing deal that follows a few months after Disney signed its… |
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Looney Tunes making a comeback in CGI
…Cats and Dogs sequel The Revenge of Kitty Galore. In addition, a new TV series is planned to begin airing on Cartoon Network this fall. The New York Times has… |
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Simpsons renewed for 23rd season
Springfield’s favorite family isn’t looking to retire anytime soon, as Fox has just greenlit a 23rd season of the show. The series, of course, is the longest running primetime cartoon… |
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Watch the feature-length Batman: The Animated Series documentary The Heart of Batman
…the most acclaimed superhero TV shows of all time. When animators Paul Dini and Bruce Timm were tasked with creating an animated Batman cartoon, no one knew whether the team… |
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Ten films up for animated short film Oscar
Ten animated short films–including Disney’s Paperman and the Simpsons cartoon Maggie Simpson in The Longest Daycare–are in the running for this year’s Best Animated Short film Oscar. Originally 56 films… |
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Disney to buy Lucasfilm; New Star Wars trilogy of movies on the way
…also unclear where this leaves Cartoon Network’s smash hit series Star Wars: The Clone Wars, which is owned by Turner Broadcasting. More news regarding the purchase is sure to turn… |
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Hotel Transylvania Art Director Noëlle Triaureau sheds light on the monsters’ domain
…was really fabulous to work with someone who came from TV animation, from the cartoon world. When he came aboard, the main characters had to be re-designed to fit his… |
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Hazbin Hotel
…kind of life one might see from an animated series on Disney Channel or Cartoon Network. Sure everything looks rather demented and deranged, which is what you would expect with… |
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Down Under with Rescuers composer Bruce Broughton
…However, I wrote some very similar styled music for the two Roger Rabbit cartoons I did. They were both done in an old-fashioned cartoon style. Music on amphetamines! There’s also… |
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Hotel Transylvania Production Designer Marcelo Vignali’s “Suite” Time!
…started out as an Imagineer, designing the Toon Town attraction Roger Rabbit’s Car Toon Spin, that is creating a cartoon environment in 3D. That’s not that far from Production Designer… |
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Tom and Jerry Meet Sherlock Holmes
…space, traveled around the world on a race, and battled pirates. In what is now the sixth Tom and Jerry direct-to-video cartoon to be released by Warner Brothers, the cat… |
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Dan Aykroyd talks Yogi Bear
…agent and said I would love to be a part of this, because it’s a part of me,” Aykroyd said, remembering his love of the cartoon as a child. The… |
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Green Lantern revealed
TV Guide has an exclusive first look at Green Lantern: The Animated Series. The Warner Bros. Animation series, coming to Cartoon Network in 2011, is being previewed this weekend at… |
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Fifty Years With Brutus!
…late 1960, the initial batch of Popeye television cartoons, produced by King Features Syndicate, began airing on the small screen. In the new shows, viewers were introduced to characters that… |
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DC FanDome Online Event Recap
…own cartoon spin-off series, even if it is extremely profane and definitely intended for mature audiences (her eyes are also…weird). “Ask Harley Quinn” was a brief sketch involving Harley (in… |
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Brenda Chapman no longer directing Pixar’s Brave?
Cartoon Brew, with their reliable sources, reports that Brenda Chapman, the first woman director at Pixar, is no longer directing Brave. The site reports that Brenda was pushed aside from… |
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Superman/Batman: Apocalypse
…for this release, even if it does little to cover the production of the movie itself, a common problem on these DC Animated discs. The short cartoon film being included… |
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Blade Anime
…outstanding on the main feature. Recommended whether you’re a Marvel Zombie or just looking for some good cartoon horror with some depth. Animated Classic or Back To The Drawing Board?… |
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Black Cauldron DVD details
…Duck cartoon from 1952. STREET DATE: September 14, 2010 Rated: PG Run Time: Approx. 80 minutes Video: Widescreen Audio: Digital 5.1 Surround Sound DVD Subtitles: English, Spanish, French SRP: 1-Disc… |
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Snap, snap! Watch the new trailer for The Addams Family
…two separate cartoon shows, both produced by Hanna-Barbera. The anticipated release arrives in theaters this October. Get ready to snap your fingers! The first family of Halloween, the Addams Family,… |
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Arnold Leibovit on producing The Puppetoon Movie Volume 2
…Disney feature animation. I’m not a big fan of Mickey Mouse cartoons or Donald Duck cartoons. I’m not a fan of Disney (shorts). It’s just certain cartoons, Sorcerer’s Apprentice, maybe… |
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The Last Airbender opens
M. Night Shyamalan’s live action version of Nickelodeon’s popular cartoon series Avatar: The Last Airbender opens in theaters everywhere across the US today. Although its been considered an anticipated movie… |
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The Art of Toy Story 3: animation historian Charles Solomon tells about his “Favorite Toys”
…been linked since the silent era: Paul Hindemith wrote a score — now lost — for a Felix the Cat cartoon in the ’20s. During the ’30s and ’40s Walt… |
