DreamWorks Animation has been plagued in recent months by SEC investigations, stockholder lawsuits, a slump in DVD sales, and rumors of corporate takeovers by NBC; but the studio did get some good news this financial quarter from its latest release. Guardian Unlimited Films reports that Madagascar brought in a cool $430 million plus in worldwide […]

Ultimate Disney have just posted a review on the first volume of the new Timeless Tales DVD line, a collection of shorts based on classic stories. This volume contains the four Silly Symphony shorts The Pied Piper, The Grasshopper and the Ants, The Tortoise and the Hare and The Three Little Pigs, as well as […]

Yahoo! Movies has uncaged eight clips from Valiant. The computer animated comedy from Vanguard Animation and Walt Disney Pictures will open in U.S. cinemas on August 19, 2005.

Ultimate Disney has cover art for the ‘Kermit’s 50th Anniversary Edition’ DVDs of Muppet Christmas Carol and Muppet Treasure Island. These single-disc titles, along with The Muppet Movie and The Great Muppet Caper, will hit stores in November.

Ultimate Disney have just posted the cover art (and also some of the disc art!) for this year’s wave of Walt Disney Treasures. The collector-aimed series of DVDs packaged in film canister-like cases have featured many pieces such as television programming and theatrical shorts, and Wave 5 is following suit with two sets devoted to […]

A Lilo Leroy & Stitch preview can be found on the upcoming Lilo & Stitch 2: Stitch Has A Glitch DVD. Five images (some of which may be considered spoiler material by hardcore fans) can be viewed here:

According to the Hollywood Reporter, Bill Murray is in talks to voice Garfield again in the sequel to the hit 2004 film. Having already signed on for the sequel are Breckin Meyer and Jennifer Love Hewitt, both of whom also starred in the first movie. However, this time around, Hewitt’s role will be reduced, due […]

In his latest “Why For” column, Jim Hill reveals how one may still hear a glimpse of the music from the cancelled Disney musical A Few Good Ghosts. Meanwhile, the article further indicates that the Tinker Bell Movie will be the first of four films to star the famous fairy, noting that the quadrilogy may […]

Coming Soon has QuickTime, Real Player, and Windows Media versions of the international trailer for Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride, coming to U.S. theaters on September 23, 2005.

According to {{link http://english.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/200508/200508080004.html Digital Chosunilbo}}, the traditionally animated film \\Empress Chung\\ will be released in South Korea today, and in North Korea on August 15. Eight years in the making, the film marks the very first time North and South Korea have collaborated to create a movie. The film follows one of Korea’s favorite […]

{{link http://www.ultimatedisney.com/ducktales-chipndale-dvdsets-factsheet.html Ultimate Disney}} reports that \\Duck Tales\\ and \\Chip ‘n Dale Rescue Rangers\\ will be coming to DVD on November 8th. Both popular animated series of the late ’80s and early ’90s will get 3 disc sets priced at $34.99 each. No details on features have been revealed as of yet. Thanks to several […]

Jim Hill Media takes a look at DreamWorks Animation’s presence at SIGGRAPH 2005, in which the studio submitted four courses, two panels and seven sketches. At the event, info was revealed for Over the Hedge, Flushed Away, Shrek 3, Bee Movie, and Kung Fu Panda, with some of the sneak peeks including spoilers. Thanks to […]

On Friday, August 19, at 7:30pm the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will be screening select Oscar-winning animated shorts from the last seven decades. The program begins with Disney’s The Three Little Pigs and ends with Pixar’s For the Birds. Ferdinand the Bull and Ward Kimball’s classic Toot, Whistle, Plunk and Boom are […]

To celebrate the U.S. opening of Valiant, coming to theaters August 19th, a six-minute special sneak peek at the computer animated film has been released. To view it, or to glance at other Valiant media, including the first trailer and an updated synopsis, please click “More”. To check out twelve images from the film, please […]

The Internet Movie Poster Awards has the international poster for Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, coming to theaters on October 7, 2005.

Included with a group of journalists recently invited to visit DreamWorks Animation, Paul Fischer from Moviehole writes of the experience, in which sneak peeks from the studio’s future lineup were shown. Films which were previewed at the event include Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, Flushed Away, and Over the Hedge. Closing out […]

TV Shows on DVD points to the Warner Bros official site, where a trailer for the Thundercats – Volume 2 DVD awaits. As the final shot of the trailer reveals, the DVD will be in stores on December 6th.

The SIGGRAPH reports are flowing in. Chuck Oberleitner reports at o-meon on the DreamWorks and Disney presentations, while Jim Hill focuses in on Glen Keane’s Rapunzel Unbraided presentation.

This fall, McFarlane Toys will release action figures of characters from Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride, The Simpsons, and Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit. Spawn.com has pics for each line of figures.

Jim Hill Media offers more speculation concerning the name and future of Disney Circle 7 Animation, the computer animation division created to develop sequels to Pixar’s films.

Universal’s newly formed family entertainment label, Universal Studios Home Entertainment Family Productions, today announced that production has begun on 26 episodes of a Land Before Time animated television series. Looking to debut on Cartoon Network in 2007, the show will later be distributed on DVD by Universal. Further details of the series, plus news of […]

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Ain’t It Cool News now has a couple video clips up from Disney’s upcoming American Dog and A Day with Wilbur Robinson and a further report about the overall production design on Rapunzel Unbraided.

Talking to Moviehole, Robert Rodriguez, director of the first three Spy Kids films, stated that a fourth Spy Kids film may become a reality- but only if done with animation. “We might do an animated, straight-to-DVD thing but that would be it”, said Rodriguez, before adding, “Couldn’t do a live action thing – kids are […]

Comic Book Resources has posted an account of the happenings at Wizard World Chicago yesterday, as Wizard’s Richard Ho moderated a discussion of Ultimate Avengers, the first of a proposed series of direct-to-DVD animated releases with Marvel properties. Speakers in the discussion included Marvel’s Craig Kyle and Lion’s Gate Family Entertainment’s Ken Katsumoto. Set for […]

Available now at AnimWatch is a two-page interview with Josh Staub, director of the independent short-film The Mantis Parable. For more information on the short, one may visit its offiical site.

From August 20 – 21, the 90’s animated series of Batman and Superman will each be featured in five-hour marathons on Boomerang, Cartoon Network’s sister channel for classic animation. Afterward, the two series will appear during “Boomeraction”, a block of action-adventure animation running from midnight to 1am. For more info on the subject, please click […]

As expected, Warner Home Video will release the immortal 1933 adventure King Kong, featuring iconic stop-motion effects by Willis O’Brien, to coincide with the release of the new version coming to theaters in Novmber. {{link http://www.videobusiness.com/article.asp?articleID=11095&catID=0 Video Business}} reports that the 2-disc set (featuring archival interview commentary, deleted footage and documentaries) will also come housed […]

The Age [free registration required] writes of the latest short film from Pixar, One Man Band, which will play in front of Cars next summer. The article includes a fresh pic from the short. Also, Liudger’s spot at Blogger mentions his One Man Band experience at the 2005 Annecy International Animated Film Festival, where he […]

From Stone Bridge Press and author Gilles Poitras comes The Anime Companion 2, which contains hundreds of glossary-style entries to help one learn of anime’s distinctive content, images, and cultural motifs. For a better understanding of what the book covers, please view its press release by clicking “More”.