Anna Kendrick has joined the cast of 'Trolls'.

Disney is buying YouTube channel operator Maker Studios for $500m (€361m) as the family entertainment giant seeks to stay in front of younger viewers increasingly watching short videos online.

Rihanna is being asked to tone down her image so she can be made into a cartoon character.

Nicolas Cage is to reprise his role in 'The Croods 2'.

Netflix is to air original television programming from Dreamworks Animation in a deal described as a major coup for both companies.

I must admit I was a bit wary of 'Puss in Boots', Dreamworks Animation's spin-off of its blockbuster 'Shrek' franchise.

STARGAZERS already were catching sight of some of Hollywood’s biggest stars at the Cannes Film Festival well before Midnight in Paris, the Woody Allen romance that opened the glamorous event last night.

'Star Wars' creator George Lucas says 3D film-making will eventually take over at the cinema in the way colour replaced black and white.

'Toy Story 3' is now the highest-grossing animated film of all time.

Microsoft co-founder and billionaire investor Paul Allen was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma and is undergoing chemotherapy.

Actor Kevin Bacon has been named among the celebrities who fell victim to the $50 billion (€35.8bn) fraud scandal rocking America's Wall Street.

Overweight panda Po (voiced by Joe Black) has a passion for kung fu, though no natural ability. Instead, he is destined to inherit the family noodle shop run by his long-suffering father, Mr Ping (James Hong).

Hundreds of thousands of people have been evacuated and thousands of homes remain at risk tonight as wildfires tear through southern California, US authorities said.

HOLLYWOOD lived its own second-chance Rocky story this summer as a business that looked to be going down for the count two years ago rebounded with record revenue.

Cameron Diaz gives voice to a modern version of the classical fairy-tale princess in the latest Shrek movie, the actress said in Taiwan today.

FORGET the tuxedo. Jerry Seinfeld made his big appearance at the Cannes Film Festival wearing a fuzzy bumblebee suit and black tights.

FILM-GOERS are in for a summer to remember with nine Hollywood blockbusters queuing up to pack out cinemas this year.

New mum Angelina Jolie is set to go back to work with her first film since giving birth to daughter Shiloh at the end of May.

Paramount Pictures today said it had agreed to buy independent film studio DreamWorks SKG Inc. in a deal worth 1.6bn US dollars (€1.36bn) in cash and debt.

Ronald McDonald is ditching Mickey Mouse for Shrek. McDonald’s has signed a two-year, non-exclusive deal to promote DreamWorks Animation SKG films beginning with the release of Shrek 3 in 2007.

Less than a year after going public on the strength of hit films such as Shrek, DreamWorks Animation SKG is battling a DVD market slump that forced it to warn of a loss in the second quarter and to lower its full-year outlook.

It was an incredible night for The Incredibles as the film about a family of superheros who save the day dominated the 32nd annual Annie Awards.

Stocks rebounded from early losses in the United States today, closing higher as National Semiconductor Corp’s better-than-expected earnings soothed investors’ concerns over higher unemployment and rising oil prices.