During February, Hallmark Channel is presenting seven animated shorts that portray real-life love stories. Also available to view through the network’s website, the films are narrated by the people who actually lived the experiences. The Futon Critic has the press release for this event, including a list of shorts to be shown.

Dubbing the tunes “genuinely good,” The A.V. Club highlights sixteen works that won the Academy Award for “Best Original Song.” Among the melodies, When You Wish upon a Star from Pinocchio comes in at #5. The site explains, “It’s Disney at its best: simple and sentimental without being cloying, and emotionally effective without being manipulative.”

DailyBulletin.com writes that tennis star Serena Williams can soon be heard in an episode of Loonatics Unleashed. Airing February 17 on The CW, the episode features Williams as Queen Athena, the ruler of “an island colony of beautiful, powerful women with devious plans for the planet and its men.”

According to USA Today, a new “anti-trailer” for DreamWorks Animation’s Fall 2007 release Bee Movie will show in theaters beginning today. The trailer’s storyline will pick up from the storyline for the movie’s first anti-trailer in which comedians Jerry Seinfeld and Chris Rock are wearing bee costumes. Follow the link to find out how Steven […]

The latest pictures of Princess Giselle and Queen Narissa from Walt Disney Pictures’ Enchanted have been discovered at Circuit Planete. Thanks to Prince Kido of Disney Central Plaza for posting a notice of the images at the Animated News & Views Forum.

A new Wallace & Gromit adventure is in the works, writes Reuters/Yahoo! News. “It could be television, it could be a feature film. That depends on how the storyline develops,” Aardman spokesman Arthur Sheriff explained on Wednesday. “It will go into production as soon as he [creator Nick Park] has finished writing it.” The plasticine […]

Multiple suspicious electronic devices planted around Boston, Massachusetts were found to be part of a marketing ploy for Aqua Teen Hunger Force. The stunt resulted in the closing of highways, bridges and a section of the Charles River. Thus far, two men have been arrested for the act, charged with one count of placing a […]

Keying up for its release to Disney Platinum DVD, the El Capitan Theatre begins a two-week engagement of the classic animated film Peter Pan. Tonight at 7pm is a special opening night beginning with a panel discussion moderated by producer Don Hahn and featuring “an all-star group that includes two voice talents (Kathy Beaumont-Levine and […]