The AOL/Moviefone website has a little feature that shows the progression of one scene from The Incredibles from pen and paper concept art to a completed computer-generated image.

While the extras lack the wow factor of those packed in with last year’s first volume of Looney Tunes cartoons, Volume 2 could be even better overall thanks to the inclusion of some bona fide all-time classics, sums up {{link http://www.dvdtoons.com/reviews/344 DVD Toons in their review}}, the first to appear online for the set out […]

Ain’t It Cool News has received even more ecstatic reviews of the highly anticipated new Pixar film, The Incredibles. Included amongst the 4 opinions is a description of the teaser for Pixar’s next film Cars, coming in November of 2005. On a similar note, the site’s own Capone has an overall fairly positive review of […]

Next up in our series of excerpts from the production notes for Disney/Pixar’s The Incredibles is a segment that tells about the genesis of the story, Brad Bird’s story pitch to Pixar creative VP John Lasseter, and a glimpse at the technologically groundreaking aspects of the production of the film.

The Hollywood Reporter has an interesting article about the possibility of a live-action martial arts film based on Snow White, with a script by Michael Chabon. As they summarize it, “Snow and the Seven will be set in 1880s British colonial China and will have fantasy and martial arts elements, with the ‘seven’ being Shaolin […]

Ultimate Disney has compiled 13 stills of bonus features from the upcoming 40th Anniversary Edition of Mary Poppins, arriving in stores December 14th. Featured are photos from the original Gala World Premier, as well as concept art from the deleted song “Chimpanzoo”.

Ain’t It Cool News has several sneaked images of the upcoming Tim Burton take on Roald Dahl’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, including a peek at Willy Wonka’s factory set and the Wonka delivery trucks, as well as a set for what is speculated to be Charlie’s rundown neighborhood. Charlie‘s expected to hit theatres next […]

Bad news, and potential good news concerning the Region 1 (U.S. and Canada) releases for several Studio Ghibli films, a good handful of which are classic Hayao Miyazaki titles. The bad news is Buena Vista seems to have mysteriously moved back the much-anticipated 3-film Miyazaki wave (consisting of My Neighbor Totoro, Porco Rosso, and Nausicaä […]

Mark your calendars and let’s see how many people we can stuff into the comic store. On November 20, Golden Apple Comics (link via Toon Zone) is hosting an Iron Giant reunion with over two dozen members of the crew present with a Q&A session hosted by Jerry Beck of Cartoon Research and Cartoon Brew. […]

Animation World Network reports that long-running television series The Simpsons is set to return for its sixteenth season with its fifteenth Treehouse of Horror episode (the first season of The Simpsons did not have a Treehouse of Horror episode due to starting in December and beginning with a Christmas episode as the series pilot) on […]

VFX World reports that Walt Disney Pictures is in pre-production on a live-action, martial arts-based retelling of the Grimm Brothers fairy tale to be set in late nineteenth century China.

For those of us who miss the animated and educational shorts of yesteryear, Animation Insider reports that Schoolhouse Rock will be returning to television November 1 on Toon Disney.

Starting today and going until Thursday of next week we will be presenting excerpts from the production notes for The Incredibles.

The official website for Racing Stripes is now online, currently featuring only eleven photos and a plot synopsis. Thanks to ‘monkeyboy12’ at the AN Forum for the note.

The first-ever annual international competition to identify the best in Manga and Anime talent in the world has been launched, with $75,000 (£40,912) worth of prizes to be won. Click here for details.

Business Wire has the press release for the Incredibles soundtrack and audio story, soaring into stores on November 2, 2004. The Incredibles soundtrack features nineteen tracks in a score from Michael Giacchino (the Medal of Honor video games, ABC’s Alias), making his feature film composing debut.

Pokémon.com reveals that in North America, the seventh Pokémon movie will be entitled “Destiny Deoxys,” a shortened version of its Japanese title “The Sky-Splitting Visitor, Deoxys”. In the film, Ash, May, Max, and Brock must bring to an end the epic battle between Legendary Pokémon Rayquaza and Deoxys, in order to stop a mighty evil […]

Animated Bliss reports that the DVD for 1994’s Yogi Bear Easter Special will hit store shelves on February 8, 2005, with a suggested price of $14.95. No bonus features have been announced for the DVD.

In what will be disappointing news for Looney Tunes fans, we can now confirm that, unless it’s an amazing well hidden feature, the Chuck Jones documentary Chuck Amuck is not included on the new Looney Tunes Golden Collection Volume 2, despite recent rumors. The four disc set is packed out with many other as yet […]

Jim Hill Media takes an early look at The Polar Express. Michael Howe, who was able to catch a sneak peek at the film, says, “Overall, The Polar Express isn’t the greatest Zemeckis film, but it is in no way the worst.” The Polar Express will roll into theaters on Wednesday, November 10, 2004. Meanwhile, […]

IGN DVD reviews Invader Zim: Horrible Holiday Cheer and Tom and Jerry: Spotlight Collection, The Premiere Volume. Invader Zim: Horrible Holiday Cheer gets scores of 7/10 for the “movie”, 7/10 for the video, 6/10 for the audio, and 5/10 for the extras, with the overall DVD receiving a score of 6/10. Tom and Jerry: Spotlight […]

IGN DVD speaks to Ming-Na about Mulan and its upcoming sequel. The Mulan Special Edition DVD is now available to own.

An interesting, new trailer for Chicken Little, set to play in theaters with The Incredibles, has first debuted online at MSN! Thanks to ‘macontosh2000’ at the AN Forum for the news.

The producers of NBC/DreamWorks Father of Pride television series are allowing themselves to be interviewed by fans from all over the world. Questions can be submitted here. All questions must be received by 12pm ET, Wednesday, October 27, 2004. That means there’s just a few hours left.

Yahoo! News has made available some photos from the recent premiere of Pixar’s The Incredibles that took place October 24 at Disney’s El Capitan Theatre in Hollywood.

TV Shows on DVD has been positively booming with toon-related DVD news the past couple of days – here’s a one-post round-up of all things animated coming up! First off, cover art for the second season of Garfield & Friends, which comes out December 7th, has been released. A press release, with full disc-by-disc breakdown […]

The British tabloid The Sun, via Ain’t It Cool News, has apparently gotten hold of a small, grainy photo of Depp in costume for Tim Burton’s upcoming remake of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. As AICN’s Quint warns, though, it is just a tabloid, and there’s a good chance this pic was taken off-set, which […]

Yahoo! News reports that Father of the Pride has been nominated for the “Favorite new TV comedy” People’s Choice award. The lions will go up against Complete Savages, Entourage, Joey, and Quintuplets at the 31st annual People’s Choice Awards on Sunday, January 9, 2005.

Skwigly Magazine is holding a contest in which one can win a a signed copy of The World of Wallace & Gromit, the story behind the famous plasticine characters.