Mickey Mouse is an cartoon character co-created in 1928 by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks.
Here is the second official full trailer – tied to prints on this week’s release of Illumination’s The Secret Life Of Pets – for Universal’s Sing. Scarlet Johansson, Matthew McConaughey, Seth MacFarlane, Reese Witherspoon and John C. Reilly topline the holiday release – now set to open on December 21st.
Opening in wide release around the country is the highly anticipated feature documentary based on Pulitzer prize winner Ron Suskind’s book Life, Animated: A Story of Sidekicks, Heroes, and Autism. If you haven’t heard about this bestseller, it recounts the Suskind family’s experience with their younger son Owen’s autism, and their discovery of how to […]
GKIDS has announced it has acquired distribution rights to Miss Hokusai, the latest feature from Japanese animation powerhouse Production I. G. (Ghost In The Shell, A Letter To Momo). The film by renowned director Keiichi Hara (Colorful) took home the Jury Prize at the Annecy Film Festival, swept the top jury and audience awards at […]
When Chiyo Sakura (Juliet Simmons), the heroine of the broadcast series Monthly Girls’ Nozaki-kun (2014), awkwardly tries to confess her love to classmate Umetaro Nozaki (Ty Mahany), she mistakenly says “I’m your fan!”–and he responds by giving her an autograph from a special pad. Nozaki is tall, handsome and terminally clueless; he’s also the creator […]
Laika Studios’ Kubo and the Two Strings is a strong and remarkable stop motion epic, and shaping up to be one of the major contenders in the animation contest of 2016. The film is directed by Travis Knight and will be released via Focus Featuers on August 19th. Today the studio dropped the latest trailer […]
Jan Švankmajer’s Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign, raising funds for the production of the legendary Czech director’s final film, Insects, has one more day to go. He’s met his original goal to start the film – but has now stretched the online campaign to pay for all production costs, and they are almost there. After five long […]
Wreck-It Ralph is heading back to the big screen, and this time, he’s wrecking the internet. The Oscar-nominated Walt Disney Animation Studios team from the original film is reteaming for the follow-up, including director Rich Moore (Zootopia, The Simpsons) and producer Clark Spencer (Zootopia, Bolt). Phil Johnston (writer, Wreck-It Ralph, Zootopia) joins Moore as director […]
Although he had worked as an animator and director on numerous TV series and three “Digimon” features, The Girl Who Leapt Through Time was the first film to showcase Mamoru Hosoda’s talent as a director. If you were to ask her, Makoto Konno (Emily Hirst) would say she regards herself as a normal high school […]
DreamWorks’ dropped the first official trailer from their forthcoming feature Trolls. Directed by Mike Mitchell and Walt Dorhn and featuring original music from Justin Timberlake, the film stars the voice talent of Anna Kendrick, Justin Timberlake, Russell Brand, James Corden, Kunal Nayyar, John Cleese, Zooey Deschenel, Gwen Stefani and many more. It’s an irreverent comedy […]
“Angry Birds” May Have Won the Battle, But It Has Lost The War
The announcement that the enormously popular app known as Angry Birds was to be given the silver screen treatment caused a bit of a stir as people began to seriously wonder if an app could even be translated into a feature film, let alone a successful one. After a couple of years’ development the questions […]