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The Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken trailer makes a big splash
…the vain, power-hungry mermaids who have been battling with the Kraken for eons. There’s one major, and immediate, problem with that: The school’s beautiful, popular new girl, Chelsea (Emmy winner… |
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Watch the first four minutes of Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Movie
The prologue for Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Movie has just been released on YouTube, and you can check it out in the player above. The film… |
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Minions rise at box office in record-breaking fashion
…mostly positive reviews and word-of-mouth. Much has been written about what exactly went wrong here, but with a $200 million budget, Disney was clearly hoping to start a new “franchise-within-a-franchise”… |
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem
…way?” It got to the point where it was driving me crazy. From what I’ve gathered from talking to others, however, I’ve been able to more or less confirm that… |
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Dinosaurs are still hungry in new Jurassic World: Dominion trailer
…timely and breathtaking new adventure that spans the globe. From Jurassic World architect and director Colin Trevorrow, Dominion takes place four years after Isla Nublar has been destroyed. Dinosaurs now… |
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Season One of Lackadaisy gets teaser trailer, crowdfunding announcement
…season for the series has officially been announced with a brand new trailer, along with a link to help fund it online via Backer Kit. The campaign ends August 24th…. |
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Popeye The Sailor: The 1960s TV Cartoons
…seeking out the cartoons themselves either on DVD, or on YouTube, where they have all been uploaded onto the official Popeye channel. With that kind of availability, and a helpful… |
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Rotten: Behind the Foodfight YouTube documentary explores history of infamous animated movie
A fascinating new video essay/documentary has been released by the YouTube channel “Ok so…” on the creation of Foodfight!, the infamous animated feature about supermarket mascots that has become an… |
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Things get freaky in the Wendell and Wild trailer
…has been rated PG-13) arrives on Netflix soon. From the delightfully wicked minds of Henry Selick (director of The Nightmare Before Christmas and Coraline) and Jordan Peele (Nope, Us, Get… |
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96th Oscar nominations announced
The nominees up for Academy Awards for films released in 2023 have been announced. Here are the nods in animation categories. Best Animated Feature – The Boy and the Heron… |
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Apple lands animated short film The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse
…The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse with my incredibly gifted animation team has been a magical one,” says author Charlie Mackesy. “I never dreamt it would happen… |
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PAW Patrol: The Mighty Movie saves the day at box office
…Mighty Movie has the benefit of being an easy sell–puppies getting superpowers is a fun idea–and a third film for the heroic dogs has already been greenlit. As an aside,… |
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New Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse poster shows off massive Spidey lineup
Following the recent release of an explosive teaser trailer, a brand new poster for Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse has been revealed by Sony, and you can check it out below…. |
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New special look at Strange World explores family dynamic
A new “special look” (which is essentially a trailer) for Strange World has been released, and you can check it out in the player above. As always during the late… |
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Watch the first six minutes of Megamind Vs. The Doom Syndicate
The first six minutes from Megamind Vs. The Doom Syndicate have been released by Universal on YouTube, and you can check out the footage in the player above (although a… |
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AfroAnimation summit honors Kemp Powers, Camille Eden, Bruce Smith, and Jermaine Turner at inaugural Icon Awards
…Awards. Smith has been part of the animation industry for over three decades. Most recently, he served as one of three directors of the Academy Award-winning short Hair Love. At… |
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Luz is on a fateful mission in The Owl House Season 3 trailer
A trailer for Season 3 of The Owl House has been released online, and you can check it out in the player above. As fans no doubt know by now,… |
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The Owl House creator Dana Terrace addresses show’s early cancelation
Earlier this year, fans of Disney Channel’s popular fantasy comedy The Owl House were disappointed to learn that the show’s third and final season had been severely cut down from… |
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Official trailer for Chip n’ Dale: Rescue Rangers
…(Being the Ricardos), Chris Parnell (Saturday Night Live). The film is directed by Akiva Schaffer (Saturday Night Live), written by Dan Gregor and Doug Mand (Crazy Ex-Girlfriend), and is produced… |
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Composer Frode Fjellheim on Frozen‘s native spirit
…the movie chose to turn to an intensely poetic and deliberately authentic piece: a “Vuelie”, written by Norwegian composer Frode Fjellheim. Fjellheim first trained in jazz at the Trondheim Conservatory… |
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New footage from Rugrats reboot released
A sneak peek clip from the upcoming Rugrats reboot series has been released online, and you can check it out above. The footage isn’t especially eventful, but offers a good… |
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Animation Addicts Podcast #41: Monsters University – We’re OK!
…the library, scare simulator scare game • Final 3rd act: Mike in the human world, Pixar people and human hair, final big scare, should it have been rated PG?, unpredictable… |
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Godzilla Vs. Kong poster promises “one will fall”; trailer (finally) arriving Sunday
The first poster for Godzilla Vs. Kong has been released online, and you can check it out below. In addition, the first official trailer for the action film will launch… |
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Animation Addicts Podcast #44: Interviews with Alan Menken & Richard Sherman
…fun but you don’t want to poke fun in a way that is hurtful.” • “The story doesn’t get written without us.” “We are very involved in the writing process.”… |
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Soul
2020 has been a tough year here on planet Earth. Disease is running rampant, we’re trapped in our homes most of the time, we can’t visit friends and family, and… |
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The Croods: A New Age will be available on VOD next week
…this year that they were significantly shortening the gap between theatrical and home video releases. The Croods has been leading a pandemic-exhausted box office since it came out, with roughly… |
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Warning From Space
…by the dreamlike logic and bizarre twists that these films can have, often made worse by bad attempts at dubbing them into English. Most of the general public is familiar… |
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Jamie Foxx wants to return to life in final Soul trailer
…be warned of potential spoilers. Soul had been set to go to theaters on November 20th, but with many theaters across the nation closing their doors (again), it will now… |
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Phineas & Ferb co-creator Dan Povenmire announces new Disney Channel series Hamster & Gretel
Phineas and Ferb co-creator Dan Povenmire has a new animated series that has been greenlit for Disney Channel called Hamster and Gretel. The announcement video, seen above, was posted on… |
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Addams Family 2 teaser trailer spooks the internet
…A second poster for the film has also been revealed, which is almost identical to the first poster for the 2019 original (although, again, someone took the time to get… |
