2008

Feature films

 * January 11 - The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything: A VeggieTales Movie
 * June 6 - Kung Fu Panda
 * July 2 - Swapped
 * November 7 - Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa
 * December 19 - The Tale of Despereaux

Television

 * June 5 - Computeropolis: Adventures of Peri and Nicky premieres on Cartoon Network

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 Big Hero 6 was planned to be released in 2008.