Not long ago reports concerning a Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs follow up started to come to light on the net, but now it would seem that it’s basically going ahead. Sony Pictures Animation launched a new promo image for their forthcoming slate, which shows that the follow up name will be Cloudy 2: Revenge of the Leftovers. The advertising also has very early promo art for The Smurfs 2, which indicates that the little blue people are planning to visit Paris, along with what is probably a concept painting for Hotel Transylvania.

Hugh Grant, playing in his first animated role, is the luxuriantly bearded Pirate Captain – a boundlessly enthusiastic, if and somehow less-than-successful, terror of the High Seas. With a rag-tag team at his side (Martin Freeman, Brendan Gleeson, Russell Tovey, and Ashley Jensen), and apparently blind to the impossible chances stacked against him, the Captain has one dream: to beat his bitter rivals Black Bellamy (Jeremy Piven) and Cutlass Liz (Salma Hayek) to the much coveted Pirate Of The Year Award. It's a goal that takes our heroes from the shores of exotic Blood Island to the foggy streets of Victorian London. Along the way they battle a diabolical queen (Imelda Staunton) and together withh a haplessly smitten young scientist (David Tennant), but never lose sight of what a pirate loves best: adventure!

"Popeye has been my childhood preferred character," states producer Avi Arad."To me he was always the everyday man who gets special powers and really becomes the first superhero in the best meaning of the word. When Scott Sassa called, Ari and I were beyond thrilled to be working with Jay Scherick & David Ronn and Sony Pictures Animation to give this famous character to the big screen in glorious stereoscopic 3D. We like working with the Sony Pictures Animation staff and with Rocky and company from Hearst Publishing. I can't wait to go sailing!"

Sony Pictures Animation carries on to advance its development slate with the employing of veteran animation writer/director Kelly Asbury to write Pooch Café. The CG-animated feature is dependant on Paul Gilligan’s well-known syndicated comic strip, Pooch Café. The strip stars Poncho, a cheese-loving, squirrel-fearing, toilet-drinking mutt who brings together his canine friends at the Pooch Café, a neighborhood hangout where dogs can be dogs - evaluating notes on such weighty issues as staying away from baths, zebra-flavored cereal, and the building of a giant catapult with which to hurl all the Earth’s cats to the Sun. The strip was chosen for the National Cartoonists Society’s Reuben Award for Best Comic Strip in 2008.