This
page summarises full-length animated films currently in production in
the USA or by US studios, together with approximate release dates.
The
list is by no means exhaustive.
Please contact me if
you have any amendments or updates.
The
Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn
Alice in Wonderland
Arthur Christmas
Brave
Bunyan & Babe
Cars 2
The Croods
Despicable Me
Dr Seuss' The Lorax
Gnomeo & Juliet
The Guardians (working title)
Happy Feet 2
Hoodwinked 2: Hood vs Evil
Hotel Transylvania
How To Train Your Dragon
King of the Elves
Kung Fu Panda: The Kaboom of Doom
The Legend of Spyro
Legend of the Guardians
Madagascar 3
Marvin the Martian
Megamind
Monsters Inc 2
Open
Season 3
Pirates!
The Princess and the Frog
Puss in Boots
Rango
Rio
Shrek Forever After
The Smurfs
Space
Chimps 2: Zartog Strikes Back
Tangled
Toy Story 3
Winnie the Pooh
Yogi Bear 3D
The
Princess and the Frog
Studio: Walt Disney Co
Production company: Disney Feature Animation
Director: Ron Clements, John Musker
Writer: Ron Clements, Rob Edwards
Producer: Peter del Vecho
Distributor: Paramount Pictures
International sales: Paramount Pictures
Synopsis: Fairy tale set in the French Quarter of New Orleans during
the jazz era. Expected to be Disney's return to traditional 2D animation.
Budget:
US release date: 11 December 2009
Source: disney.go.com/disneypictures/princessandthefrog
Hoodwinked
2: Hood vs Evil
Studio:
Kaliedoscope TWC, The Weinstein Company
Production
company: Kanbar Entertainment
Director: Michael D'Isa-Hogan
Writer: Cory Edwards, Todd Edwards, Tony Leach
Producer: Maurice Kanbar, David Lovegren
Synopsis: Private detective Red (as in riding hood) is called in to
investigate the disappearance of Hansel and Gretel. Sequel to the 2005
low budget success Hoodwinked.
Budget:
US release date: tbc 2010
Source: www.imdb.com
Alice
in Wonderland
Studio:
Walt Disney Co
Production company:
Director: Tim Burton
Writer: Laura Woolverton from the book by Lewis Carroll
Producer: Tim Burton, Chris Lebenzon
Distributor: Walt Disney Co
International sales: Walt
Disney Co
Synopsis: A new version of Lewis Carroll's story combining motion capture
animation with live action.
Budget:
US release date: 5 March 2010
Source: www.rottentomatoes.com
How
To Train Your Dragon
Studio:
Dreamworks Animation
Production
company:
Director: Chris Sanders, Dean DeBlois
Writer: Chris Sanders, Dean DeBlois
Producer: Bonnie Arnold
Synopsis: Based on Cressida Cowell's book about child vikings learning
the skills of dragon handling.
Budget:
US release date: 26 March 2010
Source: DWA conference call
Shrek
Forever After
Studio:
Dreamworks Animation
Production
company: Pacific Data Images
Director: Mike Mitchell
Writer: Josh Klausner
Producer:
Synopsis: The futher adventures of the ogre.
Budget:
US release date: 21 May 2010
Source: www.shrekinternational.com
Space
Chimps 2: Zartog Strikes Back
Studio:
Vanguard Animation
Production company: Vanguard Animation, Prana Studios (India)
Director: John H Williams
Writer: Robert Moreland
Producer: John H Williams
Synopsis: Sequel to Space Chimps.
Budget:
US release date: tbc June 2010
Toy
Story 3
Studio:
Disney
Production
company: Pixar
Director: Lee Unkrich
Writer: Michael Arndt
Producer: Darla Anderson
Synopsis: Woody the cowboy and his toy-box friends are dumped in a day-care
centre after their owner, Andy, leaves for college
Budget:
US release date: 18 June 2010
Source: Wall Street Journal
Despicable
Me
Studio:
Universal Studios
Production company: Illumination Entertainment (US), MacGuff ligne (France)
Director: Pierre Coffin, Chris Renaud, Sergio Pablos
Writer: Ken Daurio, Cinco Paul
Producer: Nina Rappaport, Robert Taylor
US release date: 9 July 2010
Synopsis: Steroscopic 3D.
Source: www.despicable.me
Megamind
Studio:
Dreamworks Animation
Production
company:
Director: Tom McGrath
Writer:
Producer: Lara Breay, Denise Nolan Cascino
Synopsis:
Budget:
US release date: 5 November 2010
Source: DWA
Tangled
(formerly Rapunzel)
Studio:
Disney
Production company: Walt Disney Film Animation
Director: Nathan Greno, Byron Howard
Producer: Roy Conli
Synposis: Action-packed, swashbuckling, animated musical comedy about
the girl behind 70 feet of magical, golden hair who takes off on a hilarious,
hair-raising escapade with the help of a dashing bandit.
Release date: 12 November 2010
Source: www.disneyanimation.com
Yogi
Bear 3D
Studio:
Warner Bros
Director:
Eric Brevig
Writer: Joshua Sternin, Jeffrey Ventimilia
Producer:
Tim Coddington
Release date: December 2010
The
Legend of Spyro
Studio:
Universal Studios
Production
company: Animation Picture Company
Director: Mark Dippe
Writer: Daniel Altiere, Steven Altiere
Release date: tbc 2010
Legend
of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole
Studio:
Warner Bros/Village Roadshow
Production
company: Animal Logic (Australia)
Director: Zack Snyder
Release date: 24 September 2010
Gnomeo
and Juliet
Production
company: Starz Animation (Canada), Rocket Pictures (UK), Miramax (US)
Director: Kelly Asbury
Writers: Mark Burton, Kevin Cecil, Andy Riley, John R Smith, Rob Sprackling
Producer: Baker Bloodworth, Steve Hamilton-Shaw, Elton John
Synopsis: Shakespeare's tragic romance gets a garden-gnome twist.
Distributor: Walt Disney (UK)
International sales: Miramax
Release date: 11 February 2011
Rango
Studio:
Paramount Pictures
Production
company: Blind Wink Productions, GK Films, Nickelodeon Movies, Industrial
Light & Magic
Director: Gore Verbinski
Writer: John Logan
Producer: Graham King, John Carls
Release date 18 March 2011
Source:
Winnie
the Pooh
Studio:
Walt Disney
Production company: Walt Disney Animation Studios
Director: Steve Anderson, Don Hall
Producer: Clark Spencer
Release date: spring 2011
Source: Walt Disney
Rio
Studio:
20th Century Fox
Production
company: Blue Sky Studios
Director: Carlos Saldanha
Writer:
Producer: Chris Jenkins, Bruce Anderson
Synopsis: A nerdy macaw leaves the comforts of his cage in small town
Minnesota and heads to Rio de Janeiro. He embarks on the adventure of
a lifetime, learning to open himself up to all that life has to offer
along the way.
Release date 8 April 2011
Source: www.blueskystudios.com
Kung
Fu Panda: the Kaboom of Doom
Studio:
Dreamworks Animation
Director:
Jennifer Yu Nelson
Writer: Jonathan Aibel, Glenn Burger
Producer: Melissa Cobb
Release date 3 June 2011
Source: DWA press release
Cars
2
Studio:
Disney
Production company: Pixar
Director: Brad Lewis
Producer: Denise Ream
US release date: 24 June 2011
Synopsis: Steroscopic 3D.
Source:
www.pixar.com
The
Smurfs
Studio:
Paramount
Production company: Columbia Pictures, Sony Pictures Animation, Kerner
Entertainment, Lafig Belgium
Director: Raja Gosnell
Writer: David Stern and David Weiss, based on books by Pierre Culliford
('Peyo')
Producer: Jordan Kerner
Distributor: Paramount Pictures
International sales: Paramount Pictures
Synopsis: Based on the miniature blue people created by Belgium's Peyo.
Live action and animated.
Budget:
Release date: 3 August 2011
Source:
www.sonypictures.com
Marvin
the Martian
Studio: Warner Bros
Director: Alex Zamm
Writer: Paul Kaplan, Mark Torgrove
Release date: 7 October 2011
Blend of
live action and CG animation.
Puss
in Boots
Studio: Dreamworks Animation
Production company: PDI
Director: Brian Lynch, David H Steinberg
Writer: Brian Lynch
Producer:
Distributor:
International sales:
Synopsis: Shrek's feline sidekick starts in his own adventure.
Budget:
Release date: 4 November 2011
Source: www.dreamworksanimation.com
Arthur
Christmas
Duration:
Production company: Aardman Animations (UK), Sony Pictures (US)
Director: Sarah Smith, Barry Cook, Peter Lord
Writers: Peter Baynham, Sarah Smith
Synopsis: The true behind the scenes story of Christmas.
Distributor: Sony Pictures
International sales: Sony Pictures
Release date: 11 November 2011
Happy
Feet 2
Studio:
Warner Bros
Director: George Miller
Writer: George Miller
Release date: 18 November 2011
The
Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn
Studio:
Paramount Pictures, Sony Pictures Entertainment
Director:
Steven Spielberg
Writer: Steven Moffat, Edgar Wright and Joe Cornish
Producer: Steven Spielberg, Peter Jackson, Kathleen Kennedy
Release date 23 December 2011
Source: Paramount press release
Bunyan
& Babe
Production company: Exodus Film Group, MGM (USA)
Director: Tony Bancroft, Jim Rygiel
Writer:
Producer: John D Eraklis, Max Howard
Distributor:
MGM (USA)
International sales: MGM
Release date: 2011
Source: www.exodusfilmgroup.com
Hotel
Transylvania
Studio:
Columbia Pictures (Sony)
Production
company:
Director: Anthony Stacchi, David Feiss
Writer: Don Rhymer
Producer:
Synopsis:
Budget:
US release date: 17 February 2012
Source:
Dr
Seuss' The Lorax
Studio:
Universal Pictures
Production company: Illumination Entertainment
Director: Chris Renaud, Cinco Paul, Ken Daurio
Writer: Cinco Paul, Ken Daurio
Release date: 2 March 2012
The
Croods
Studio: Dreamworks Animation
Production company: Dreamworks Animation
Director: Chris Sanders, Kirk De Micco
Writer: John Cleese, Kirk De Micco
Producer: Kristine Belson, Jane Hartwell
Synopsis: A stone age tribal leader finds his position as Leader of
the Hunt challenged by a prehistoric genius who comes up with revolutionary
new inventions, like fire.
Release date: 30 March 2012
Source: www.dreamworksanimation.com
Madagascar
3
Studio:
Dreamworks Animation
Director: Eric Darnell
Release date: 18 May 2012
Brave
(previously The Bear and the Bow)
Studio:
Disney
Production company: Pixar
Director: Brenda Champman
Budget:
Release date: 15 June 2012
Source: www.pixar.com
Pirates!
Duration:
Production company: Aardman Animations (UK), Sony Pictures (US)
Funding support: France 2, Eurimages
Director: Peter Lord, Nick Park
Writers: Gideon Defoe
Synopsis: Adventures of a loveable band of Victorian pirates.
Distributor: Sony Pictures
International sales: Sony Pictures
Release date: 21 September 2012
The
Guardians (working title)
Studio:
Dreamworks Animation
Director: Peter Ramsey
Producer: Christina Steinberg, Nancy Bernstein
Synopsis: When an evil spirit called Pitch becomes bent upon taking
over the world by inspiring fear in the hearts of kids everywhere, a
group of our greatest heroes-Santa, the Easter Bunny, the Tooth Fairy,
the Sandman and Jack Frost-band together for the first time, determined
to stand in Pitch's way. More than a collection of storybook subjects,
"The Guardians" are also a band of superheroes, who possess
their own special powers. Now joined in opposition of a common foe,
the Guardians heed the call and combine their powers to defeat Pitch
and protect the world from his campaign of fear.
Release date: 2 November 2012
Source: www.dreamworksanimation.com
Monsters
Inc 2
Studio:
Disney
Production company: Pixar
Budget:
Release date: 6 November 2012
Source: www.disneyanimation.com
King
of the Elves
Studio:
Disney
Production company: Walt Disney Animation
Director: Aaron Blaise, Robert Walker
Producer: Chuck Williams
Synopsis: Based on a Philip K Dick story. An ordinary man living in
the Mississippi Delta reluctantly helps a band of elves who elect him
their king.
Budget:
Release date: 25 December 2012
Source: www.disneyanimation.com
Dead
Space: Downfall
Studio:
Starz! Media, The Gotham Group
Quantum
Quest
Studio:
Starz! Media, The Gotham Group
In
pre-production/advanced development...
Cereal
Heroes
Production companies: Fable Works, Odyssey Entertainment (US), Sparx
Animation (France)
Writer: David Meinstein
Release date: tbc.
Frankenweenie
Studio:
Walt Disney Co
Production company: Three Mills Studios (UK), tbc
Director: Tim Burton
Writer:
Producer:
Distributor: Walt Disney Co
International sales: Walt Disney Co
Synopsis: Stop-frame animation reworking of an early short film by Burton.
Budget:
Source: www.rottentomatoes.com
Newt
Studio:
Disney
Production company: Pixar
Director: Gary Rydstrom
Budget:
Release date: tbc
Source: www.pixar.com
Feb 2010:
according to a blog by a Disney animator, 'Newt is dead'.
Open
Season 3
Studio:
Sony
Production company: Imageworks
Producer:
Release date: tbc 2011
No official
word.
Popeye
Studio:
Sony
Production company: Imageworks
Producer: Avi Arad
Release date: 2013
Shrek
5
Studio:
DreamWorks Animation
Release date: 2012
Super
Secret Ghost Project
Studio:
DreamWorks Animation
Production company:
Director:
Budget:
Release date: one of The Croods, Truckers or Super
Secret Ghost Project will be released on 2 November, 2012
Source: www.dreamworksanimation.com
Thundercats
Studio: Warner Bros
Production company: Spring Creek Pictures
Director: Jerry O’Flaherty
Writer: Jerry O’Flaherty, Paul Sopocy
Producer: Paula Weinstein, Dick Robertson, Lew Korman
Synopsis: 3D CGI animation based on the sci-fi TV series about humanoid
cats who have fled their planet, Thundera, to land on another planet,
Third Earth, where they face an evil adversary, Mumm-Ra.
US release date: 2010
Source: Variety story (7 Oct 2007)
Truckers
Studio:
DreamWorks Animation
Production company:
Director:
Writer: Simon Beaufoy, from book by Terry Pratchett
Budget:
Release date: one of The Croods, Truckers or Super
Secret Ghost Project will be released on 2 November, 2012
Source: www.dreamworksanimation.com
Turkeys
Production
company: Bedrock Studios
Director: Ash Brannon
Budget: $35m
Release date: 2011
Top
Cat
Production
company: Anima Studios, Lemon Films (Mexico), Nala Films (USD), Costa
Films (Argentina)
Producer: Alex Garcia
Release date: 2011 or 2012
Yellow
Submarine
Studio:
Disney
Director: Robert Zemeckis
Writer: Lee Minoff
Release date: 2012
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