2008

Feature films

 * January 11 - The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything: A VeggieTales Movie
 * January 25 - Untraceable
 * February 1 - The Train Nation (Rogue Pictures)
 * February 8 - Caution: Ego Hazard (20th Century Fox/Aroba), Welcome Home, Roscoe Jenkins and In Bruges (Focus Features)
 * February 14 - Definitely, Maybe
 * February 29 - The Other Boleyn Girl (Focus Features)
 * March 7 - Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day (Focus Features)
 * March 14 - Doomsday (Rogue Pictures) and Horton Hears a Who! (20th Century Fox)
 * March 28 - Cinnamon the Movie
 * April 5 - Leatherheads
 * April 15 - Baby Mama
 * April 18 - Forgetting Sarah Marshall and Tiny Warriors (Warner Bros./Morlus)
 * May 9 - Wild Forest (Paramount Pictures/Frenzy Animation)
 * May 16 - Medieval Defender (MGM)
 * May 30 - The Strangers (Rogue Pictures)
 * June 6 - Kung Fu Panda (DWA/Paramount Pictures)
 * June 13 - The Incredible Hulk
 * June 27 - Wanted and WALL-E (Disney/Pixar)
 * July 2 - Swapped
 * July 4 - Time Chasers
 * July 11 - Hellboy II: The Golden Army
 * July 18 - Mamma Mia! The Movie
 * August 1 - The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor
 * August 22 - Death Race
 * August 29 - Hamlet 2 (Focus Features)
 * September 12 - Burn After Reading (Focus Features) and Rainbow Paradise (Sony)
 * September 26 - Dead West
 * October 3 - Flash of Genius
 * October 10 - The Express
 * October 24 - Twist City (Paramount/Supreme)
 * October 31 - Changeling
 * November 7 - Role Models and Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa (DWA/Paramount Pictures)
 * November 21 - Bolt (Disney)
 * November 26 - Crystal (20th Century Fox)
 * November 28 - Milk (Focus Features)
 * December 5 - Frost/Nixon
 * December 19 - The Tale of Despereaux

Short films

 * October 14 - Déjà Grape
 * November 9 - Secrets of the Furious Five

Television

 * June 7 - Computeropolis: Adventures of Peri and Nicky premieres on Gingo
 * November 29 - The Penguins of Madagascar premieres on Nickelodeon

DVD, HD DVD, & Blu-ray releases

 * January 29 - Kate & Chris
 * February 12 - M.I.S.S.I.O.N. (DVD & HD DVD) and Zoe Tarr: The Drinking Detective (DVD)
 * March 4 - Ice Age (Blu-ray only)
 * March 11 - Bee Movie (DVD; Blu-ray edition released on May 20)
 * May 20 - The Train Nation (DVD-only)
 * September 16 - Cinnamon the Movie (DVD-only)
 * September 23 - Madagascar (Blu-ray only) and Shrek the Third (Blu-ray only)
 * October 14 - The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything: A VeggieTales Movie
 * October 28 - Wild Forest
 * November 9 - Kung Fu Panda
 * November 18 - WALL-E
 * December 2 - Swapped
 * December 9 - Horton Hears a Who!
 * December 16 - Over Sea, Under Stone (Blu-ray only)

Events

 * Universal Studios and Illumination announce a deal which positioned Illumination as NBCUniversal’s family entertainment arm within its own feature animation field that would produce one to three films a year starting in 2010, March
 * Illumination begins production on their first CG feature film Despicable Me, November

Trivia

 * The cancelled Universal animated movie The Snow Queen was planned to be released in 2008.