Because of the worldwide economic slump being felt even harder in Europe and the Far East, two of Europe's largest toon film houses, Sparx Studio and Bibo Films, have decided to stop production on two of their projects, the highly anticipated CGI animated flick "Bunyan & Babe" and "A Monster in Paris." "Bunyan & Babe" [...]

The Hong Kong based studio Imagi Studios has announced its full voice cast for the leading characters in its new CGI-animation big screen adaptation of "Astro Boy." The feature film presentation is based on the classic comic book story created by Osamu Tezuka, one of the giants of manga. Kristen Bell and Matt Lucas have [...]

"Painted Skin" ("Wa pei") is the new feature film from Hong Kong and Singapore and a real contender for the 2008 foreign-language Oscar. It's opening day in China saw it gross $2.2 million (USD), according to reports from Xinhua, China's official Chinese news agency. Director Gordon Chan ("Julius Caesar") opted to open during one of [...]

What do you get when a crew of Danish misfits aboard a spacecraft head for Saturn in search of natural gas? You get yourself a huge blockbuster animated hit film. That is exactly what happened this past weekend in Europe when the Danish animated movie "Journey to Saturn" hit theaters in selected European countries. The [...]

"A Fox's Tale" is a new animated feature film about a young fox named Little Jack who has an ideal pleasant life living with his family in the forest, that is until his father gets trapped and forced to work in a traveling circus. To help his father escape Little Jack calls on the assistance [...]

Johnny Depp and his "Pirates of the Caribbean" director Gore Verbinski, reteam for a new Paramount Pictures animated feature film titled "Rango." Shooting on the film begins in January with Depp voicing the lead character, a household pet who goes out into the world on an adventure to discover his true self. Script duty fell [...]

Thanks to a deal procured by Futurikon, the ambitious French 3D animated feature film "Chasseurs de dragons," a.k.a. "Dragon Hunters," will get showings across North America. "Hunters" has seen good success throughout Europe, will get its second release in the U.K. and Scandinavian release on the film festival circuit in November. Distributor Peace Arch thinks [...]

The animated movie, "Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea" from anime filmmakerHayao Miyazaki is well on its way to becoming the most successful box office film in the country of Japan. Now passing over $109 million (12 billion yen), the film is on track to surpass current champ "Spirited Away," also from Miyazaki. First [...]

Actress Tina Fey ("30 Rock") and Robert Downey Jr. ("Iron Man," "Tropic Thunder") are in negotiations to voice characters in DreamWorks Animation's "MasterMind," according to Entertainment Weekly. The animated feature film centers on a super villain who, after accidentally killing-off his nemesis and good guy superhero called Uberman, must find a new motivation for continuing [...]