Animation 

Box office update - Disney/Pixar’s Wall•E made $8.8M yesterday, bringing its domestic cume to an impressive $128M and on its way to post the third best 10-day total in Pixar history and 5th highest for any animated film with a projected $133M. Meanwhile DreamWorks Animation’s critically acclimated blockbuster hit Kung Fu Panda grossed an additional $2M on Friday [...] Sat, 05 Jul 2008 14:45:04 +0000

David Fincher teaming with Blur on CG project - The Hollywood Reporter reveals that Dark Horse Entertainment, David Fincher and animation house Blur Studios (Gopher Broke) are teaming up to bring cult comic The Goon to the movies as a CG-animated film. Created by Eric Powell in 1999, the comic follows the adventures of a muscle-bound brawler who claims to be the primary [...] Sat, 05 Jul 2008 03:00:57 +0000

More trouble for Where the Wild Things Are? - Coming Soon notes that the Spike Jonze film, which was to use live-action puppetry and computer animation to bring to life the Maurice Sendak picture book, has been removed from Warner Bros.’ release schedule. Where the Wild Things Are began shooting in 2005 and was initially set for a May 2008 release before being pushed [...] Fri, 04 Jul 2008 13:26:37 +0000

Hello, Dolly! composer moved by Wall•E - AP caught up with Hello, Dolly! composer Jerry Herman to get his reactions on the use of two of the Tony-winning musical’s songs in Pixar’s latest blockbuster. “I’m still blown away by the fact that two songs of mine that are close to 50 years old have been used as the underpinning. My eyes were [...] Thu, 03 Jul 2008 13:45:25 +0000

Disney drops Destino DVD release plans - Ultimate Disney reports that the Mouse House has revised its press release for Walt Disney Treasures: Wave 8 by dropping from the track list the 2003 realization of the long-unfinished Walt Disney/Salvador Dali animated short, Destino. The site adds that The Chronological Donald, Volume 4 and Dr. Syn, Alias The Scarecrow are still scheduled for [...] Thu, 03 Jul 2008 13:09:45 +0000

More details on the Madagascar and Shrek the Third Blu-rays - DVD Active has the full list of bonus features on the September 16th Blu-ray release of DreamWorks Animation’s blockbuster hit Shrek the Third and cover art for the September 23rd release of Madagascar. Thu, 03 Jul 2008 13:06:46 +0000

MPAA rating for Igor - The CG comedy, set for release in the U.S. on September 19th, is rated PG for “some thematic elements, scary images, action and mild language.” Thu, 03 Jul 2008 12:27:31 +0000

Fly Me To The Moon producer interview - Producer Charlotte Huggins (Journey to the Center of the Earth) spoke to SCI FI Wire about her other film coming to U.S. theaters this summer: Fly Me to the Moon, a 3-D animated family/SF film about bugs that stow away on the first moon mission. “Fly Me to the Moon is great. It’s the first [...] Wed, 02 Jul 2008 14:45:43 +0000

Updates from Sony Pictures Animation - The TAG Blog reports on a recent visit to the Culver City studio. Things look rosier for their January 2010 feature film Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, with one artist commenting: “The directors pull it one direction and the execs push it another. Now that we have a new set of people at the [...] Wed, 02 Jul 2008 14:30:15 +0000

Box office forecast for Wall•E - Fantasy Moguls predicts a five-day of $58 million-$63 million for Pixar’s latest blockbuster, which would give the Chaplinesque little robot a 10-day domestic cume of about $140 million. Meanwhile Coming Soon expects a 34% drop for Wall•E pointing to a 3-day $41.5 gross of million. The Disney/Pixar hit grossed an impressive $8.9M on Monday, 40+% [...] Wed, 02 Jul 2008 14:22:32 +0000