Buena Vista Home Entertainment has just released the details of the 3rd disc included in the upcoming Special Edition 3-Disc DVD Pirates Of The Caribbean: The Curse Of The Black Pearl Gift Set, which will be available on November 2. Follow the “More” link for details.

Ray Romano speaks to Latino Review about the status of Ice Age 2. “There’s a script and they’re negotiating and I think it’s going to happen. That’s what they tell me.” As for the plot of the sequel, Romano indicates “I read the script a couple months ago. What happens now is I think they’re […]

Ultimate Disney reports that the second wave of Miyazaki titles are set for release on February 22, 2005. This trio of two-disc Special Editions (My Neighbor Totoro, Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, Porco Rosso) was originally scheduled to make their Disney DVD debut last August before getting inexplicably delayed.

From the creators of the political satire sensation This Land comes a sequel set to the tune of Dixie. The online animation Good To Be in DC! features the presidential and vice presidential candidates along with Attorney General John Ashcroft, CBS News anchor Dan Rather, filmmaker Michael Moore, talk show host Rush Limbaugh and Jane […]

The Drew Carey’s Green Screen Show stars Carey and many of his quick-witted chums from his Whose Line is it Anyway? series and his tour group, including Brad Sherwood, Colin Mochrie, Greg Proops, Julie Larson and Sean Masterson. The cast performs improvisational skits suggested by a live audience, minus all props but in front of […]

The latest production from Blue Sky Studios won’t hit the screens until next year, but you can already preorder the Art of Robots book, offering a sneak peek at the early visual developmental stages of the film. Featuring the spectacular concept art created by the team at Blue Sky Studios and by producer and production […]

The traditional Art Of book for Pixar’s latest blockbuster is now available in bookstores. The sleekly designed settings and characters in the movie were conceptualized and developed by writer/director Brad Bird and Pixar’s creative team of artists, illustrators, and designers, resulting in a celluloid sensation rich with detail. The Art of The Incredibles celebrates their […]

The Disney Database features ten new Mulan II screenshots. Mulan II will be released direct-to-DVD on February 8, 2005.

AWN reports that the MPAA rating board has given Paramount Pictures’ Team America: World Police an R rating. Previously cuts of the film were receiving the NC-17 rating. The all-marionette political and action film satire will launch in 800 theaters on October 9 and widen on the 15th. The film will be rated R for […]

The Orlando Sentinel reports that Disney chief executive Michael Eisner said yesterday that Walt Disney Co. is working on not just one but two new sequels in the Toy Story series at the same time. “We’re doing two Toy Stories at once,” Eisner said in listing some of Disney’s film plans at a Goldman Sachs […]

Marvel Enterprises has cut a deal with France’s Antefilms Prods. to produce an animated TV series based on Marvel’s enduring Fantastic Four comic-book characters. Marvel said it would produce 26 half-hour episodes targeted for premiere in the United States and other territories in late 2006. Plans for the Fantastic Four animated series come on the […]

Thanks to ‘anvil’ in the {{link http://animation.skyblueproductions.net/showthread.php?s=&postid=5522#post5522 Animated News Forum}} for posting a link to Harry McCracken’s {{link http://www.harrymccracken.com/messagecenter/index.cgi?read=555 Message Center}}, where he writes about his visit to Pixar Animation Studios during the Cartoon Art Museum’s recent benefit.

Coming towards the end of the reviews for Disney’s latest Platinum release (now out in stores), Rodney Figueiredo delivers his take on the new set over at the ever reliable {{link http://www.dvdtoons.com/reviews/339 DVD Toons}} – and surprise, surprise if he doesn’t love it too! “Aladdin was probably the first film I was ever completely obsessed […]

The {{link http://www.imdb.com/news/flash/ Internet Movie Database}} is reporting that comedian Rodney Dangerfield, famous for having “no respect”, died on Tuesday in Los Angeles, aged 82. His routines were worked into an animated vehicle based on his personality, the 1991 Hyperion Studios feature Rover Dangerfield, though he will probably be best remembered as the obnoxious newcomer […]

Fandago reports that select theaters (around 600-800 in all) will have a special sneak peak of Team America: World Police this Saturday, October 9th, somewhere in the area of 6:30 – 7pm. Check your local listings or Fandango for more information. Those wondering if the movie is any good apparently do not need to worry, […]

The BBC reports that Simpson’s creator Matt Groening told The Sun newspaper that the series will continue for five more years, equaling the record 20 years run of Gunsmoke. Groening said: “I’d love to get to 365 episodes, so there’s one for every day of the year with no repeats”. He also mentioned that a […]

DVD Toons has a new trailer for the direct to video CG feature Popeye’s Voyage: The Quest for Pappy. Billy West lends his voice to the world-famous sailor man and Kathy Bates is Popeye’s notorious nemesis, the villainous Sea Hag/Siren. Popeye’s Voyage: The Quest for Pappy is scheduled for release on 11/09/2004, with a retail […]

Don’t forget that “your wish can come true” today, with the release to 2-disc DVD of Disney’s Aladdin. No doubt this is already on many of your wish lists, and if not, then the recent plethora of glowing reviews must certainly be tempting: this looks to be the best so far of Disney’s Platinum Edition […]

Latino Review has the new one sheet for Robots, while the poster for Pooh’s Heffalump Movie can be seen at The Internet Movie Poster Awards. Robots will invade cinemas on March 11, 2005; Pooh’s Heffalump Movie will bounce into theaters on February 24, 2005.

IGN FilmForce speaks with Renée Zellweger, star of last weekend’s #1 film, Shark Tale, about her first animated role.

In an enlightening article, In Focus talks to Matt Stone and Trey Parker about the many experiences involved in the making of their new film, Team America: World Police. Team America: World Police will enter theaters on October 15, 2004.

Cartoon Network announced today that it has ordered twenty-six more episodes of Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends, in addition to the twenty-six episodes it has already ordered. These fifty-two episodes will compose the series’ third and fourth seasons. Meanwhile, Nickelodeon has ordered a third season of My Life As a Teenage Robot, with this new […]

Getting back on track with the Aladdin DVD screen grabs we now present for you eight images from the Story Development section of the Still Frames Gallery:

The always entertaining movie site JoBlo.com looks at {{link http://www.joblo.com/index.php?id=5454 Shark Tale‘s fortunes at the box office}}, declaring the movie a hit (at least with audiences), with a $49.1 million weekend take, the biggest October opening ever.

{{link http://www.usatoday.com/tech/techinvestor/corporatenews/2004-10-03-sbc_x.htm USA Today}} reports on how Disney is using the characters from its new film in partnership with Pixar, The Incredibles, in marketing and product advertisements, attracting $150 million in marketing dollars – Disney’s largest promotion ever for an animated film. Over at The Disney Database, a series of images reveals the animation {{link […]

Kirby Holt at {{link http://www.laughingplace.com/News-PID280290-280290.asp The Laughing Place}} adds another glowing review of the Aladdin DVD Platinum Edition to the files.

For those eager to own this summer’s big hits from 20th Century Fox, you may want to hold out that little bit longer. The company has made it quite clear that the single-discs of effects-filled blockbusters The Day After Tomorrow and I, Robot will be supplanted by more elaborate 2-disc editions in the new year. […]

Roy Disney has posted an opinion piece at his Save Disney site responding to recent remarks by Disney CEO heir apparent Bob Iger regarding the Disney/Pixar relationship and chilling comments about the likelihood of creativity thriving in large companies, comments that ignore the fact that creative passion can thrive within a large company when small […]

With all the hype and ramp up in excitement for Pixar’s next, The Incredibles, it seems that news has shied away from the company’s location troubles concerning their planned expansion and resistance from their Emeryville neighborhood. This report puts both sides of the story across, which voters will have their say on this November 2, […]