Jim Hill Media has got three thought-provoking new articles today. The first article is all about the dilemma the Disney company is finding itself in over the Oscar nomination that Destino recently received. Second is an article by Jackson King about the ins and outs of collecting antique animated toys. And the third article is […]

Hot off the cyberpress from Buena Vista Home Entertainment are several new images from Disney’s upcoming “interquel” The Lion King 1½. The first one is similar to an image posted a while back with Simba and Timon and Pumbaa sleeping, but this time with Simba all grown up. The second one shows the jungle buddies […]

Variety.com’s most recent e-mail newsletter reports “Brother Bear drew $560,000 on 29 in Hong Kong (second-highest debut by a traditionally animated pic behind Mulan) and $450,000 on 87 in Poland (BVI’s third best opening after Nemo and “Signs”). Bear has collected a dandy $41.3 million in 16 countries, highlighted by Mexico’s $12.4 million and Korea’s […]

The \\{{link http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/breaking_news/7809095.htm?template=contentModules/printstory.jsp Miami Herald}}\\ reports that Roy Disney and Stanley Gold are calling on stockholders “to vote against the election of four directors, including Disney chairman and chief executive Michael Eisner, at Disney’s March 3 annual meeting”. Disney and Gold sent out a letter to stockholders saying that this action would send a message […]

Unsurprisingly, The Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King heads up the hopefulls for the primarily live-action effects fests, with eleven nods, while Pirates Of The Caribbean: The Curse Of The Black Pearl just beats Nemo‘s four with five nominations. Another fantasy earlier predicted to be in the running, Big Fish, only comes […]

Toonzone {{link http://forums.toonzone.net/showthread.php?t=100819 reports}} that on Friday, February 27, at 8:00pm (ET/PT) Party Wagon will debut on Cartoon Network. The cable network’s first made-for-TV animated feature tells of a band of settlers traveling through the Old West. When the ferry boat they are aboard begins to sink, one of them produces a map disclosing the […]

It appears unfortunately so, according to Jim Hill Media.

According to the Z review, the script for Red Rackham’s Treasure, the first Tintin movie in the trilogy, is being worked on, with casting to begin later this year. However, Canadian actor Gregory Smith, who stars in the WB’s TV-series Everwood, is already a possible candidate to play the lead role. Born in 1983, Smith […]

Coming Soon! reports that Paul Newman, NASCAR legend Richard Petty, Owen Wilson, Bonnie Hunt, and Dan Whitney are all lending their voices to Pixar’s seventh movie, Cars. Directed by John Lasseter and produced by Darla K. Anderson (A Bug’s Life, Monsters, Inc.), Cars, described as “a high octane adventure comedy that features a wide assortment […]

The nominations for the 76th Academy Awards were {{link http://www.oscar.com/nominees/index.html announced}} on Tuesday. \\Finding Nemo\\ leads animated films with 4 nominations, including the third ever screenplay nomination and the fourth ever sound editing nomination for an animated film (no animated film has won either category). Best Animated Feature: \\Brother Bear\\, \\Finding Nemo\\, \\The Triplets of […]

Following our report of the Golden Globes this past Sunday night, the {{link http://www.imdb.com/features/rto/2004/goldenglobes Internet Movie DataBase}} has a full listing of the nominees and eventual winners. Topping the biggest honors was Peter Jackson’s Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King, with Best Picture (Drama), Director, Song and Score, placing it in the […]

In the Animated-News Forum, within the topic “Poll: What deleted songs should be inserted into Disney’s animated movies”, ‘Special_Ed’ has posted an interesting item, concerning the upcoming Platinum Edition DVD release of The Little Mermaid next year. Apparently, The Little Mermaid has a new scene inserted, in which the shark, from the beginning of the […]

Jim Hill Media provides an article by its guest writer Aaron Michael Gordon that asks: “Can the magic really be recaptured?”

Toon Zone indicates that John Ritter’s final performance as the voice of “Clifford: The Big Red Dog” will be heard in theaters next month, in Clifford’s Really Big Movie, the popular children’s story’s first full-length film. Also, PBS will air a Valentine’s Day Clifford special, in which John Ritter’s voice will also be heard, on […]

The Hollywood Reporter reports that Walt Disney Pictures and Jerry Bruckheimer Films have optioned the movie rights to American McGee’s The Wizard of Oz. According to McGee, the film has no time frame, and will be the first of a trilogy. Screenwriters Kevin and Dan Hageman are attached. “Other media deals are either signed or […]

{{link http://filmforce.ign.com Filmforce}} has a {{link http://ffmedia.ign.com/filmforce/image/SB-Monster_1_happy.jpg promotional shot}} from the upcoming \\SpongeBob Squarepants\\ movie. (I wasn’t able to find the story this pic goes with. If anyone finds it please email me and I’ll link to it.) A {{link http://www.apple.com/trailers/paramount/spongebobsquarepantsmovie/ teaser trailer}} was released last month. The film is slated to open November 19th, […]

The {{link http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=493&ncid=790&e=2&u=/ap/20040125/ap_en_mo/brf_disney_roger_rabbit AP reports}} that a lawsuit against Disney brought by Gary K. Wolf, the author of the novel on which the \\Who Framed Roger Rabbit\\ was based, has been reinstated by an appeals court after being dismissed by a lower court. Wolf claims he is owed millions of dollars in royalties from merchandising […]

During tonight’s NBC presentation of the 61st annual Golden Globe ceremony, Disney/Pixar’s Finding Nemo lost to Lost In Translation, in the Best Motion Picture – Musical Or Comedy category. In the race for the Best Performance By An Actor In A Motion Picture – Musical Or Comedy, Johnny Depp, nominated for his performance as Captain […]

Lee’s Movie Info shows that Teacher’s Pet fell nearly 43% this weekend, taking in about $1.4 million, averaging $691 from 2,027 theaters. Teacher’s Pet has grossed approximately $5.09 million to date.

Despite leaving the company his father and Uncle Walt built, Roy Disney continues to support the work of the animation division, as ‘PatrickvD’ points out on the {{link http://animation.skyblueproductions.net/showthread.php?s=&postid=806#post806 Animated New Forum}}. As well as play dates and links to various articles on the web about the short film Destino (a project that, it must […]

The Big Cartoon Database reveals that two of the stories featured in Mickey’s Twice Upon a Christmas include Donald trying in vain to resist the joy of the season, and Mickey and Pluto learning a great lesson about the power of friendship.

Ultimate Disney has the offical artwork for the Brother Bear DVD’s two discs.

According to Zap2it, Stuart Little 3 will be a completely computer-animated, direct-to-video sequel. “People love Stuart, but it would just be too expensive to try it again for the big screen,” says producer Lucy Fisher, in an interview with Zap2it.com. “And we do hope to get Michael J. Fox to do the voice again.” Michael […]

According to Disneyfilmsidan, more Disney sequels in the works include Mickey’s Around the World in 80 Days (2006), Cinderella III (2007), The Jungle Book 3 (2008), Peter Pan 3 (2008), The Little Mermaid III (2008), and Sleeping Beauty II. Please take this information with a grain of salt, due to the fact that the site […]

To celebrate the release of The Lion King 3: Hakuna Matata (aka Lion King 1½) on DVD and video in the UK on Monday 16 February, Disney are holding a special screening of the film at London Zoo the day before release, on Sunday 15th. For entry details, check out here:

Sylvain Chomet’s Belleville Rendezvous (The Triplets Of Belleville) notched up more kudos last night, when a panel of four film professionals announced it as the winner of the first ever BBC World Cinema Award. In the shortlist were City Of God, Etre Et Avoir, Good Bye Lenin!, The Man Without A Past, the fully animated […]

Kristin alerts us to an article at The Orlando Sentinel website about some of the effects of Disney shutting down their Florida animation studio. “Disney’s current leadership can sputter all they want about the nature of animation evolving, about how they’re not “killing” anything, about the need to slash costs to boost a deflated stock […]

Check out Animation World Magazine for their exclusive interview with Gary Baseman, the creator of Disney’s TV series and recent feature film, Teacher’s Pet. There’s a lot of emphasis on cartoon history and the issues involved in bringing something to the big screen that was originally designed for the small screen.

Twenty years ago today, a much younger Steve Jobs introduced the world to the Macintosh and changed the course of computer and animation history. The Mac brought us the first computer “for the rest of us” and started the boom of computer use by the masses. And two years later, with money earned at Apple […]

The official {{link http://www2.warnerbros.com/scoobydoo2/ Scooby-Doo 2}} site has posted the final one-sheet poster for the March 26 release of Monsters Unleashed, which will also probably end up being the front cover for an eventual DVD issue. Thanks to ‘monkeyboy12’ in the {{link http://animation.skyblueproductions.net/showthread.php?s=&postid=793#post793 AN Forum}} for the link – check it out on the WB […]