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Someone who isn't Brad Bird has been given the job of directing Pixar's Incredibles 3. This headline might cause some initial fretting, but actually, it's not as bad as it sounds.
Bird has tapped in Peter Sohn to direct the...
The success of Lilo and Stitch was not a guarantee in 2002, given what the feature animation market was like at the time. CGI films were making money hand over fist, while traditionally animated films were increasingly ignored. Shrek...
It's almost summer, and if you're wondering how to make the most of it, two experts in the field are returning to show you how it's done. Phineas and Ferb are back as of June, ready to drum up...
Some Disney sequels make more sense than others. We're still skeptical the world needs a Toy Story 5, but we WOULD like to spend more time in the animal menagerie metropolis that is Zootopia, and we'll get to do...
The Annecy Animation Festival, which you can think of as an E3 for cartoons, is held in France every year...but this time, they've landed an emcee to be envious of. Bugs Bunny himself will be hosting the presentation, and...
Yesterday, the same day the second season of Andor premiered on Disney+, subscribers got an unexpected bonus: a new episode of The Simpsons exclusive to the service. Entitled "Yellow Planet," the episode is a parody of NatGeo nature documentaries,...
The cast of Toy Story lost another member last year, though you may not have realized it. The late Carl Weathers played, among other things, the role of Combat Carl in the Toy Story series. With a new movie...
There were a lot of Star Wars announcements this morning, and it wasn't even May the 4th. Take any theatrical announcement from Lucasfilm with a grain of salt (those things always collapse) but their track record for completing animated...
One of Marvel Studios' big challenges will be reintroducing the Fantastic Four as part of the MCU after the public has seen several non-adjacent versions already. To pull that off, the "official" version is going to have to make...
Last month I wrote about how 1995 was a turning point for theatrical animation, a time when all studio heads were looking in the wrong direction and basing predictions on the past. The traditional Pocahontas was supposed to be...