The earthquake and tsunami that devastated Japan has disrupted the nation’s huge animation industry and moved anime and manga fans and pros from all over the world to dig deep and help them out. To help out, Animation Magazine is holding a benefit sale. For each subscription purchased between March [...]

There’s plenty of life left in the Force (in animation, at least), with Chewbacca set to appear on Star Wars: The Clone Wars and Robot Chicken’s third Star Wars parody set for summer release. Up first is the return of everyone’s favorite wookiee, who will appear in the one-hour finale [...]

After sending some moms to Mars last weekend, this weekend the aliens are coming to us. Paul, a live-action comedy about a pair of comic book fans who meet a CG-animated alien outside of Area 51 on their way to San Diego, opens this week at about 2,800 theaters. The [...]

Independent distributor GKids is bringing Jacques-Remy Girerd’s animated feature film Mia and the Migoo to theaters in the United States, with an all-star voice cast lined up for an English-language dub. Doing the English dub are actors John DiMaggio, Whoopi Goldberg, Matthew Modine, Wallace Shawn, James Woods and Amanda Misquez [...]

Escape Studios has added five members to its U.S. advisory board, selecting experts in the field from the likes of Pixar and Sony Pictures Imageworks. The new members are: Afonso Salcedo of Pixar Animation Studios, Ken Maruyama of Sony Pictures Imageworks, John Leonti of The Mill, Patrick Davenport of Method and [...]