Steve Jobs, chairman and CEO of Pixar, has indicated that he might be willing to sell the company for the right price. The 50% owner stated in a published report that he was willing to consider selling to “two people with knowledge of the talks” to extend the studio’s current relationship with distributing giant Disney. […]

Michael Giacchino, who had his break last year writing the score for Pixar’s hit animated film The Incredibles, has opted to continue his relationship with the studio. Music from the Movies reports that director Jan Pinkava has tapped the composer to score Pixar’s upcoming 2007 film Ratatouille. Along with The Incredibles, Giacchino also has the […]

The Disney Power Board has scored the first image of the entire cast from Disney’s next computer-animated film Meet the Robinsons!

Reuters, through Yahoo! News, reports that Ralph Zondag, who directed Disney’s Dinosaur, will direct the computer-animated adaption of Kelly Alan Williamson’s children’s book Ollie the Otter. Its story follows, “a circus sea otter named Ollie who tires of doing the same old stunts at the behest of his demanding father. Ollie leaves his family and […]

Thursday marked the opening of Lucasfilm Animation Singapore, the 40,000 square feet animation facility located in the Changi area of Singapore. Employing over 35 people from 19 countries, the studio will increase its number of workers in 2006. Coming Soon offers a breakdown of the company’s key creative executives, along with other pieces of information […]

Continuing its marketing blitz, Chicken Little has unleashed more media to experience on the web. First, two more promos for the film have popped up at Ultimate Disney, one ad focused on the World Series, the other one focused on rapping. Also, JoBlo points to a downloadable interactive Chicken Little desktop, and then provides a […]

DVDtoons indicates the episodes and bonus features to be included on the upcoming “Golden Age of Cartoons” releases, Popeye: Original Classics and Attack of the 30’s Characters. While both DVDs focus on the 1930’s, the latter of the two contains rare cartoons featuring Porky Pig, Betty Boop, Mickey Mouse, and his predecessor, Walt Disney’s Oswald […]

Any animation fan near the Hollywood area today should check out ASIFA-Hollywood’s screening of some rare but newly restored Krazy Kat cartoons being held at AFI’s Warner Bros. Screening Room at 3:00pm. Krazy Kat was “one of the first comic strip characters adapted to animated cartoons.” The screening is free for ASIFA members with a […]

If you’re getting near the end of a long work week and need a little boost or if you simply want to hear a great assortment of classic Disney music check out Radio Lion King, a fully legal online radio station hosted by Live365 and featuring a wildly eclectic mix of dozens of Disney songs […]

Via Coming Soon, Threshold Animation Studios and Lions Gate Family Entertainment announce the cast of Foodfight!, a CGI comedy about the unseen scene in the grocery store. Joining previously announced cast members Hillary and Haylie Duff are Charlie Sheen as the main character, Dex Dogtective; Eva Longoria as Lady X, leader of the villainous Brand […]

C21 Media reports that a DVD game series based on Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit is on its way to the U.S., due to a deal between Zoo Digital and LA games producer/distributor Snap TV. This will mark the first time a Zoo Digital Publishing product has been published in the country.

As the film’s release draws nigh, marketing for Disney’s Chicken Little is going into overdrive. First of all, the official site for the Chicken Little soundtrack is now open, containing previews of the CD’s content. Meanwhile, the website for Disney Channel’s Movie Surfers has updated its main page with two videos, one giving a glimpse […]

Variety has a rundown of the latest happenings on America’s Next Muppet, which will borrow concepts from American Idol and America’s Next Top Model. Thus far, ABC has ordered a script and five script outlines for the series, in which a new member for the Muppet gang will be discovered.

DVDtoons has the cover artwork for Cartoon Adventures Starring Gerald McBoing Boing, from Sony Pictures. The release marks the first time the classic cartoon character is predominantly featured in DVD form, though four of his shorts made their way onto the Hellboy DVD.

Animated video shorts from Warner Bros. Online will soon be syndicated by Broadband Enterprises, the company announced today. In a broadband network of more than 400 websites, programs such as Looney Tunes, Gotham Girls, Timberwolf, and Cartoon Monsoon will be distributed online, in Macromedia Flash.

The LA Times indicates that Pixar has been hit with two separate class action lawsuits claiming that the studio misguided investors with exaggerated projections for the Incredibles DVD. In response, a Pixar spokesman called the lawsuits “completely baseless.”

According to ICv2, in January 2006, Turner Classic Movies will air the following animated classics from director Hayao Miyazaki: Spirited Away, Princess Mononoke, My Neighbor Totoro, Nausicaa: Valley of the Wind, Castle in the Sky, and Porco Rosso. The network will also air Whisper of the Heart, a Yoshifumi Kondou film for which Miyazaki wrote […]

Media to promote Disney’s Chicken Little await exclusively at Yahoo! Movies. Included are six clips, titled “Dodgeball,” “Not Again,” “Soda Machine,” “Plan B,” “Closure,” and “I Am The Champion,” and three slideshows, titled “Character Concept Art,” “Designing Chicken Little,” and “Essence of a Scene.” In other Little news, a new international trailer for the movie […]

o-meon updates with an article by animation vet Floyd Norman about his recent trip to Kansas City, “the home of Walt Disney’s first animation studio.” Take a step back in time as he points out many of the important people and locales that influenced Walt’s entertainment empire at an early stage.

The following comes from a Variety e-mailing about the continuing success of Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit throughout the world:

The Disney Power Board has added a new group of behind-the-scenes Chicken Little images, taken from the studio in Burbank, California, along with the latest French poster for the film.

Ain’t It Cool News has landed an early review of the DreamWorks CGI comedy Over the Hedge. The critic writes, “I think audiences and critics will like it much better than Shark Tale and Madagascar. There are some big laughs, some really impressive animation…, good music, fun characters, and enough action, humor, suspense and solid […]

The New York Times breaks down the long journy from the book scene to the big screen that Maurice Sendak’s classic Where the Wild Things Are has endured. Mentioned in the article is that the current adaption in the works, from director Spike Jonze and screenwriter Dave Eggers, will dwell more on the main character […]

Four images of the DVD menus for Kronk’s New Groove have appeared online at DVDtoons. Included in the pics are the main menu, the “Games & Activities” menu, the “Bonus Features” menu, and a menu from one of those bonus features.

Industry 411 reports that Classic Media and Studio B Productions are co-producing a new animated series of George of the Jungle. The series has already been pre-sold to Cartoon Network US, Cartoon Network Europe, and Nickelodeon UK, with a broadcast date being in January 2007.

For the first time this year, ticket sales for the top ten weekend films did not reach at least $70 million. In addition, these last two weekends have held the worst grosses for an October weekend top ten in the last six years. Nevertheless, these disappointing numbers have not seemed to affect Wallace & Gromit: […]

Check out Greenwich Time for an article on stop motion animation and Nick Park’s efforts to keep it alive (with a mention of Flushed Away’s “deliberately understated” CGI animation). “In an era when computer-generated animated features rank among the most lucrative movies in history, filmmakers are increasingly looking to stop-motion to find fresh ways to […]

Following are four images from Disney’s compilation DVD Timeless Tales: Volume 3 due out on January 3, 2006:

Follow the ‘More’ link for four images from Arenas/Disney’s The 3 Wise Men (Los 3 Reyes Magos). The DVD will be released November 1 and will only be available through the Wal-Mart retail chain. Official Site

The official website for Chicken Little has been updated with a number of games, including “Sky is Falling,” “Dodgeball,” “Karaoke,” “Chicken Little Misses the Bus,” and “Batting Practice.”