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Stephan Pastis reports new Pearls Before Swine animations have been posted on YouTube and new cartoons will be posted weekly.

From Hector over at TheAnimationBlog.com:Disney/Pixar has revealed that the 2012 sequel formerly known as Monsters, Inc. 2 will be officially titled Monsters University. No word yet on whether or not Billy Crystal and John Goodman have signed on to reprise their roles, but it is expected they will be back.Hector also reveals the general plot […]

Stan Lee has teamed up with Arnold Schwarzenegger to create an animated TV show and comic book about the actor’s post-governor life. The animated TV show and comic book, being co-developed by no less a superhero authority than Spider-Man co-creator Stan Lee (pictured, right), won’t be out until next year, but this week EW offers […]

Pixar’s feature film “Brave” is slated for next summer release. EW.com has posted the first look at some of the concept art for the project. This is how EW describes the movie:Brave is set in the mystical Scottish Highlands, where Merida is the princess of a kingdom ruled by King Fergus (Billy Connolly) and Queen […]

The official trailer of the new “Happiness Is a Warm Blanket, Charlie Brown” film is now available. I wrote about this back in February and how the Schulz family worked hard to keep this film true to the other Charlie Brown movies despite not having Charles Schulz and Bill Melendez.Here’s the trailer.

A UK man is claiming that the movie Cars is based on a screenplay and treatment he sent to various studios, including Disney.Jake Mandeville-Anthony filed the claim this week in U.S. District Court. According to the complaint, he created a three-part screenplay titled “Cookie & Co.,” about the true-life adventure race-car driver Michael Owen Perkins, […]

Joe Murray( Rocko’s Modern Life/Camp Lazlo) with the help of Kickstarter, has launched an all animated web channel called KaboingTV .The mission of KaboingTV is to provide an alternative channel for quality animation that serves both the cartoon fan, and the animation community of artists and writers.The first series to premiere on KaboingTV  “Frog in […]

Reuters reports that Robert Zemeckis’ $150 million-budgeted “Mars Needs Moms” opening weekend flop was the last straw in a project to remake The Beatles’ “Yellow Submarine” and that Disney has pulled its support. The plan was to use 16 Beatles songs in the film, which was to employ motion-capture technology similar to that used in […]

The opening weekend for Mars Needs Moms was disappointing #5. The feature film which cost $150 million to make only took in $6.8 million on it’s inaugural weekend.Movie was based on Berkeley Breathed’s children’s book of the same title.Last weekend’s winner, Rango – the quirky animated film – dropped to #2.

As mentioned in an earlier post about DreamWorks Animation’s release schedule, they are releasing a Shrek spin-off called Puss in Boots this upcoming November. Here is the trailer:

DreamWorks Animation will release two feature films each year between now and 2014 – except 2013 when they will release three. Here are titles with the scheduled date. Kung Fu Panda 2 – May 26, 2011 Puss In Boots – November 4, 2011 Madagascar 3 – June 8, 2012 Rise of the Guardians – November […]

Movie is due out June 24, 2011.

Hector over at The Animation Blog found this video of some early storyboarding of Monsters Inc. 2 that Disney was doing before Pixar was purchased and successfully killed production on the movie.Spoiler – Scully and Mike go back to Boo’s room and find another person in the bed. Is it just me or does the […]

Western animation film Rango took the top seat at the box office last weekend taking in $38.1 million. Rango lassoed $38.1 million on approximately 5,200 screens at 3,917 locations, which surpassed The Green Hornet’s $33.5 million as the top-grossing opening so far in 2011. Though it grossed less than a third of Johnny Depp’s Alice […]

The Simpsons poke fun at Pixar.