Valiant, the CGI film being produced at England’s Ealing Studios by John H Williams, and who Disney see as a potential replacement for Pixar when that partnership ends next year, has seen its first teaser trailer sneaked online. Debuting without much fanfare, the clip plays perhaps a little too strongly on current Brit-com favorite Ricky Gervais, while other voices in this story of a World War II-era homing pigeon include Ewan McGregor, Rupert Everett, Hugh Laurie, Johns Hurt and Cleese, and serial animated vocalists Jim Broadbent and Tim Curry. The JoBlo.com movie site has a link to the teaser at MyMovies.

In animation related news on the same site, JoBlo also has tidbits on the Transformers movie, plus a (rather disappointing) first look at Charlize Theron as the live-action Aeon Flux, based on the MTV series.