Admit it. You’re a Pixar geek! You put the DVD’s on the 42 inch TV so you can find all the hidden gags. You’ve read the book titles on Andy’s bookshelf. You’re clued in to A113. When wannabes try to tell you who Harryhausens restaurant is named after, you laugh at their feeble skills and […]

Stan Berenstain, who with his wife Jan created the popular \\Berenstain Bears\\ children’s books, died on Saturday in Pennsylvania, according to \\{{link http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2005-11-29-berenstain-obit_x.htm?csp=34 USA Today}}\\. He was 82. The couple published the first book, \\The Great Honey Hunt\\, in 1962, and since then \\The Berenstain Bears\\ have appeared in over 200 books, an animated TV […]

The perennial holiday classic \\Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer\\ airs tonight at 8pm ET on CBS. And, unlike the false reports last year, it \\will\\ air for the very first time in high definition this year! First broadcast in 1964, \\Rudolph\\ features a popular musical score from Johnny Marks and the voice talent of the legendary […]

{{link http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire2005/index.php?category=0&id=33425 SciFi Wire}} reports that Peter Chung, the creator of the MTV animated series \\Aeon Flux\\, has said that he’d rather see an animated version of his character than the live action version opening this Friday. “I honestly [was] very against it, because I wanted to do an animated movie, and I thought that […]

Following is a press release announcing the second volume in the Walt’s People series which collects important prominent as well as obscure interviews with key Disney artists from throughout the years.

{{link http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/4476534.stm BBC}} reports that \\Charlie and the Chocolate Factory\\ was named Best Film in the Kids’ Vote at the 10th Children’s British Academy of Film and Television Arts Awards. However, \\The Incredibles\\ picked up the Best Film prize from the BAFTA panel. A full list of winners and nominees is available from the {{link […]

After earlier news that they were considering canceling the popular series, Disney Channel has picked up \\Kim Possible\\ for a fourth season, according to \\{{link http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=entertainmentNews&storyID=2005-11-29T031245Z_01_ARM911471_RTRUKOC_0_US-DISNEY.xml&archived=False The Hollywood Reporter}}\\. “The decision was spurred in part by a months-long viewer campaign for Disney to continue making episodes”. Disney Channel has also orders a full season of […]

Andrew Adamson, co-writer and director of the \\Shrek\\ films (and currently directing \\The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe\\), tells {{link http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire2005/index.php?category=0&id=33420 SciFi Wire}} that while he will help write and executive-produce \\Shrek 3\\ he will hand over the directoral duties to others. “It’s a story that I’m [emotionally] attached to, […]

{{link http://pixaranimation.blogspot.com/ Luxo}} has a roundup of blog updates from animators, including {{link http://louromano.blogspot.com/ Lou Ramano}}, {{link http://talesofcolossus.blogspot.com/ Mark Andrews}}, {{link http://www.ronniedelcarmen.com/blog1/blog.html Ronnie del Carmen}}, {{link http://enricocasarosa.com/wordpress.1/ Enrico Casarosa}}, {{link http://roseandisabel.blogspot.com/ Ted Mathot}}, and the {{link http://www.e-villepress.blogspot.com/ E-Ville Press}} gang (of Mark Andrews, Max Brace, Simon Dunsdon, Louis Gonzales, Robert Kondo, Ted Mathot, Kevin O’Brien, […]

A PR Newswire release late yesterday announced that Irving Ludwig has passed away at the age of 95. Ludwig was the former president of Buena Vista Distribution and was instrumental in launching successful marketing campaigns for such heavyweight Disney classics as Fantasia and Mary Poppins. He is remembered as an honest businessman who never sacrificed […]

The official wesbite for Imagi Entertainment’s Cat Tale has opened. Owning sections for the film’s news, synopsis, and cast, the site also features the movie’s trailer. Cat Tale will arrive in theaters in 2006.

Rick DeMott, managing editor of {{link http://mag.awn.com/index.php?ltype=pageone&article_no=2705&page=2 Animation World Network}}, takes a look at the upcoming Academy Award races for Animated Feature and Animated Short films and tries to predict what Oscar might be thinking.

{{link http://www.darkhorizons.com/news05/051128a.php Dark Horizons}} has pictures of the Davy Jones haunted ship from Disney’s upcoming film \\Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest\\. The film is scheduled to open in July 2006.

The Producers Guild of America added a category for animation to their annual PGA Awards, according to {{link http://news.awn.com/index.php?ltype=top&newsitem_no=15473 AWN}}. PGA Awards co-chair, Bruce Cohen said, “The recent renaissance in animated features has been one of our industry’s greatest success stories of the past decade, and we feel it’s only appropriate that the Producers Guild […]

{{link http://www.moviesonline.ca/movienews_6450.html Movies Online}} notes that the official website for \\{{link http://www.aeonflux.com/ Aeon Flux}}\\ has been updated with lots of new content, including new sections for production notes and cast and crew bios, more images and production art, a downloadable screensaver, and much more. The film, based on the MTV animated series created by Peter […]

Facing off against Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire and newcomer Yours, Mine & Ours for family audiences, Chicken Little fell a slight 16% over the weekend, to finish in fourth place with an estimated $12.4 million. This brings the Disney comedy’s domestic box office total to approximately $118.2 million. Box Office Guru provides […]

As pointed out by ‘Piotr’ in our Animated News Forums, a 4th Cars teaser has been made available in Apple’s section of online QuickTime movie trailer. “Lightning McQueen, a hotshot rookie race car driven to succeed, discovers that life is about the journey, not the finish line, when he finds himself unexpectedly detoured in the […]

Born on June 28, 1932, Noriyuki “Pat” Morita died yesterday, November 24th, at his Las Vegas home. His passing was the result of natural causes, said his wife of 12 years, Evelyn. Many fans of the actor know him best for his performance as Mr. Kesuke Miyagi in the four Karate Kid fims – a […]

Coming directly to video stores, from Mattel and Lions Gate Family Entertainment, are two brand-new Barbie adventures. The Barbie Diaries, scheduled for release in January 2006, places its title character, now with a new “toon-shaded” CGI look, in her sophomore year at high school. Meanwhile, Barbie Fairytopia Mermaidia, coming March 2006, continues the franchise began […]

Rumor has it that Peter Jackson is currently trying to convince the Director’s Guild of America to provide “Animation Directed By” credits for two unnamed collaborators on King Kong. Word has yet to arrive on the DGA’s reponse to Jackson’s request. The news comes courtesy of the Hot Blog, via Cinematical [note: open “Reader Comments” […]

Included in a healthy offering of Holiday projects at AOL Music, the Polar Express sountrack, featuring the Oscar-nominated ballad “Believe,” may be heard for free.

Toon Zone points to sources TitansTower.com and Titansgo.net to report that Teen Titans has been cancelled by Cartoon Network. No explanation regarding the move has been given yet. Nonetheless, fans of Teen Titans are already making an attempt to revive the show, with one group creating a petition.

On this day of Thanksgiving we can all be thankful for the teaser trailer of Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest as pointed out by Kinoo in the Animated News Forums.

Five images from Disney’s direct-to-video title The Fox and the Hound 2 (due out Winter 2006) from the preview on the upcoming Kronk’s New Groove DVD (due out Dec. 13) can be found here:

Latino Review has the latest pic promoting DreamWorks Animation’s CGI comedy, Kung Fu Panda, revealing many of cast’s main characters.

MQ7.net brings an Inquirer News Service brief biography of John Aquino. The inspirational read recounts how a visit from a Disney animator to Animaction, the Santa Monica-based animation school, changed Aquino’s life. The animator would later go from being a trainee for Hercules to a character finaler for Chicken Little.

Variety, via Coming Soon, indicates that Walt Disney Pictures is teaming with the cable network Starz! to advertise their upcoming features Cars and The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, & the Wardrobe. A 45-second teaser trailer for Disney/Pixar’s Cars will premiere over the Thanksgiving weekend, running as an interstitial. Likewise, a 9-minute sneak […]

Henry Selick, famed stop-motion director of The Nightmare Before Christmas and James and the Giant Peach, recently took time out of his busy schedule to talk with Animated News about his new short Moongirl and some of his past and future projects. Henry has worked on projects as diverse as Pillsbury Doughboy commercials and the […]