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

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 and Blu-ray releases

 * October 14 - The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything: A VeggieTales Movie
 * November 9 - Kung Fu Panda
 * December 2 - Swapped

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.