{{link http://www.thehotbutton.com/today/hot.button/index.html The Hot Button}} files in with another report on this weekend’s presentation of Shark Tale at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival in New York, and over at the ever-reliable {{link http://www.aintitcool.com/display.cgi?id=17480 Ain’t It Cool News}}, there’s another version of events, plus a description of the completed scenes that were played from the movie. […]

DreamWorks head honcho Jeffrey Katzenberg continues to play up his upcoming NBC animated series Father Of The Pride, which will begin airing later this year in the slot vacated by Friends. Over at {{link http://edition.cnn.com/2004/SHOWBIZ/TV/05/03/fatherofthepride.ap/index.html CNN.com}}, there’s a sense of deja-vu in what is said, but some new tidbits emerge nonetheless.

{{link http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/search/s_191257.html Chris Miller}}, head of story on DreamWorks’ Shrek 2, is interviewed over at Pittsburgh Live’s Tribune Review.

Pittsburgh Live’s {{link http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/search/s_191258.html Tribune Review}} has the first couple of images from DreamWorks’ Ghost In The Shell 2: Innocence online, while {{link http://www.comingsoon.net/films.php?id=4451 Coming Soon}} features a little more info, including a release date of September 17 2004 in the US.

Demonstrating how computer animated pre-visualization can help a director plan a scene, BET.com has an interesting {{link http://www.bet.com/articles/0,1048,p539gb9491-10442,00.html 35-second clip}} combining CGI and a green-screen-shot Halle Berry for a chase sequence in the upcoming Warners feature.

{{link http://www.darkhorizons.com/news04/040503d.php Dark Horizons}} posts this weekend’s box office figures, and it seems that Disney’s last 2D hope, Home On The Range, hasn’t hit the bottom of the top ten after all, taking just over $2.2 million to sit in ninth place with a $45.5m total. Bringing up the rear is WB’s Scooby-Doo 2, with […]

Not so much as a review than a general onceover of all the shorts, bonuses, interviews and extra clips to be found in the set, Kirby Holt’s Toon Talk takes a look at what to expect from Mickey Mouse In Living Color Volume 2, one of this year’s 2-disc packages in the lavish Walt Disney […]

It’s been a little quiet on the SaveDisney front lately, but Animation World Network reports that Stanley Gold and Roy Disney are preparing to nominate an alternate board of directors for The Walt Disney Company if the current board becomes further entrenched in what the SaveDisney team sees as a destructive course. At the top […]

Ain’t It Cool News has another very hopeful Shrek 2 review, as it states, “Shrek 2 deserves to stand proudly with Toy Story 2 and the yet-unmade Kazaam 2 as sequels that are better than the original. I say better because it was easy for the first Shrek to be original; there had not been […]

DavisDVD addresses the upcoming Mulan “Special Edition” DVD, which will feature a newly remastered anamorphic transfer, taken from the film’s original digitally stored files, and a fresh Dolby Digital 5.1 Disney Enhanced Home Theater Mix. Bonus materials for the DVD include alternate openings, a new song, audio commentary, a Mushu-hosted featurette that explains what life […]

The Los Angeles Daily News, through the Houston Chronicle, presents “Range animation might be put out to pasture,” another article which discusses the future of Disney animation, including the way of Disney musicals. As Home on the Range composer Alan Menken states, “I hope things change, and you know what? They always do.”

Internet Movie Database reports that, according to the Bombay daily Financial Express, Viacom’s MTV and Nickelodeon units will likely outsource animation work from India. Although the U.S. produces most of the animation content for the channels, some of the work for such animated series as Rugrats, Catdog, and SpongeBob SquarePants will possibly be produced in […]

Garfield Posters Plus has two new Garfield: The Movie posters, both of which are variations on already released posters.

Craig writes in with a report on Sunday’s DreamWorks event at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival, where completed scenes from their October animated film Shark Tale were revealed. The event was “awesome”, says Craig, adding it was the “best $25 I’ve ever spent”. Thanks very much for the for taking the time to send this […]

Promoting the upcoming DVD release of his 1977 animated feature {{link http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0001NBMIK/ref%3Dnosim/cartoonresearch/TARGET%3D/102-4687562-8010520 Wizards}}, director Ralph Bakshi has spoken to {{link http://www.fulvuedrive-in.com/review.php?id=1031 Fulvuedrive-in.com}} about the film, its techniques, and his other animated work, including the 1978 The Lord Of The Rings. A very informative and entertaining Sunday read – thanks to {{link http://www.cartoonbrew.com/ Cartoon Brew}} for […]

DVD Answers has a host of new region one DVD shots for upcoming cartoon and superhero box sets in the works. As well as cover art and menus for {{link http://www.dvdanswers.com/index.php?r=0&s=1&c=3640&n=1&burl= Wonder Woman}} (the live-action 1970s television series), there’s an early look at the menus for {{link http://www.dvdanswers.com/index.php?r=0&s=1&c=3812&n=1&burl= Challenge of the Superfriends: The First Season}} […]

Klasky Csupo, the studio responsible for a great deal of animation on television these days, has found a way to release some of the tension that must have built up over rumors of its recent financial struggles. {{link http://www.globaltantrum.com. Global Tantrum.com}}, the studio’s new site, is naughty, rude and full of very adult-natured content. The […]

Because of a “tentative” new contract deal that was resolved on Thursday by EchoStar Communications Corp. and Turner Broadcasting Systems Inc., Cartoon Network and several other channels will remain on Dish satellite TV, the Big Cartoon Database points out. Declining to give further comment, EchoStar spokesman Steve Caulk stated, “We have an agreement in principle […]

As the Big Idea studio continues to pick up the pieces on the way to financial recovery, Senior Designer John Trauscht has alerted us to a new upcoming DVD set featuring the VeggieTales characters. {{link http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000228EZY/qid=1083429086/sr=1-23/ref=sr_1_23/102-4687562-8010520?v=glance&s=dvd The Bumblyburg Super-Hero Value Pack}} contains the complete Larry-Boy collection in a 4-disc DVD collection, including Larry-Boy and the […]

The Big Cartoon Database reports that Family Home Entertainment, a division of Vancouver-based Lions Gate Entertainment, has been awarded by Mattel the North American home entertainment rights to the upcoming Barbie as the Princess and the Pauper, the fourth Barbie direct-to-video movie. Vancouver studio Mainframe Entertainment again provide the film’s computer animation. Barbie as the […]

Word comes directly from Universal Home Video in Montreal that a two disc edition of The Triplets Of Belleville will be released on May 18th. Still no word on what this {{link http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00021447W/qid=1083180812/sr=1-3/ref=sr_1_2_3/701-1499626-2443528 mysterious listing}} is on Amazon.ca though. In the meantime, the US single disc has been getting good reviews for the film and […]

‘MusicFan’ lets us know that the cast dispute for The Simpsons has been finally settled, with the actors getting, to borrow the {{link http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=494&e=1&u=/ap/tv_simpsons_dispute Associated Press}} story’s words, more “D’oh! Despite speculation the dispute would shorten the 2004-05 season, the studio said it was optimistic that all 22 planned episodes could be finished. ‘We couldn’t […]

For those of us who can never get quite enough moose and squirrel, Amazon.com is now listing the Rocky & Bullwinkle – The Complete Second Season DVD boxed set with an August 31, 2004, release date.