Taffy Entertainment announces at Animated Bliss that it has signed a UK deal for the animated series Fantastic Four (2006). Thus, GMTV will bring the show to its weekend children’s block, Toonattik, airing on ITV1 and CITV. In similar news, Fantastic Four has likewise been signed by TV Globo in Brazil, MRTL in Hungary, and […]

TV Shows on DVD premieres the rear artwork for Pink & the Brain – Volume 3 and the two New Adventures sets featuring Superman and Batman. The site also shares the news that The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3 has been delayed until June 26th, whereas the original due date was June 5th.

With only 36 days left till its US release, updates on Shrek The Third are coming in at an increasingly faster pace. Shrek.com has been updated, and now holds a production blog featuring interviews with both the directors and the producer. Concurrently, Coming Soon has added 9 movie stills, including 3 new ones, to its […]

Two time Academy Award nominee Bill Plympton’s fifth animated feature, Hair High, opens today in Los Angeles for an exclusive week-long run at the Laemmle Sunset 5 Theater. Several surprise guests are expected at tonight’s premiere and Bill Plympton will appear at both night shows this weekend to draw sketches for everyone in attendance. For […]

Adult Swim and First Look’s Aqua Teen Hunger Force: Colon Movie Film For Theaters opens today in approximately 877 theatres according to Box Office Mojo. The film has received a suprising 53% freshness rating at Rotten Tomatoes after the movie gained mostly negative reactions at screenings, with some crittics calling it “tasteless and totally pointless” […]

Pixar is scheduled to make an appearance at the RiverRun International Film Festival on Saturday, April 21. Visiting Pixar artists David Park and Don Crum will present a behind-the-scenes look at the making of Cars, explaining how their films evolve from their initial concept stage to final film, as well as showing film clips from […]

For those getting geared up for ASIFA-Hollywood’s Stop-Mo Expo or just interested in stop-motion animation in general, Wink! has a webisode online for beginning stop-motion animators that itself is a stop-motion video. The webisode demonstrates that “stop-motion” doesn’t necessarily equate exactly with “claymation” since many of the stop-motion moments in the video are done with […]

After our last mention of the Newport Beach Film Festival we were informed by the organizers that this year’s festival comes complete with animated commercials. See them now on YouTube: Promo 1 Promo 2 Promo 3

Macon.com have posted their coverage on the Shrek The Third set-visit wich occured last month. What makes this article stand out between the countless others already online, are the behind-the-scenes photographs wich show the animators working on The Third as well as a giant model of the Far Far Away castle.

AWN recently sat down with Bill Plympton, the creative mind behind Hair High. The interview offers some insight on the origin of Hair High as well as elaborating on the different stages of production, the voice cast and the struggle it was to bring the film to the big screen.

Cartoon Brew elaborates on the new Fox series Oleg the Taxi Man. What is unique about the series, however, is that each “episode” lasts only eight seconds, airing in-between commercias. Apparently, Fox is hoping that the cartoons will keep encourage viewers not to change the channel during commercial breaks.

“ASIFA-Hollywood will raise the curtain on a timeless art form by hosting the Stop-Mo Expo, a daylong event celebrating the art of stop-motion animation at Woodbury University on Saturday, April 21, 2007.”

TV Shows on DVD has some early specs regarding the DVD release of Super Friends: The Legendary Super Powers Show (1984). With 16 “epic adventures” and approximately 20 minutes of bonus features, the 2-disc set is due August 7th.

According to Film Buff Online, Roy Disney admitted that a re-release of Song of the South is overdue, while speaking at the 16th Annual Philadelphia Film Festival, where he received the event’s Inspiration Award. “I’ve got a bunch of cohorts working with me to convince the powers that be that it’s the smart thing to […]

The Platform International Animation Festival, wich will take place in Portland, Oregon from June 25 to 30, has revealed the selections for competition on the offical website. From approximately 2,000 entries, 105 we’re selected to compete in 11 different categories including: Short Film, Student film, Television Series, Title Sequence and Music Video. Among the entries […]

Animated Views presents a new conversation with Kevin Munroe, the director of the hit computer animated action-adventure TMNT, the latest theatrical entry in the Ninja Turtles franchise. With the site, Munroe speaks about his career in animation, referring to his work on Cat Tale and how he landed the job of directing TMNT. Likewise, he […]

TV Shows on DVD have discovered that Warner Bros Animation has put together a survey asking potential DVD buyers about their interest level in various cartoon properties they own, and that to this day have not yet seen a DVD release. The various cartoons listed include Freakazoid!, Tiny Toon Adventures, Shazzan, The Jetsons, Silverhawks and […]

Universal announced it’s finally releasing The Woody Woodpecker And Friends Classic Cartoon Collection on DVD on July 24th. This new DVD collection, consisting of three discs, will contain 75 theatrical cartoons, uncut and restored from the original Universal Pictures master negatives. Bonus material will include six Behind-the-Scenes with Walter Lantz segments from the 1957 Woody […]

The Three Caballeros, Donald Duck, Jose Carioca, and Panchito Pistoles, return in glorious hand-drawn animation (I’m hesitating in this instance to call it “2D” animation) to the Mexico Pavilion’s Gran Fiesta Boat Cruise at Walt Disney World. Directed by Eric Goldberg and with voices provided by Tony Anselmo and Rob Paulsen, among others, this animation […]

The Internet Movie Poster Awards showcases a new Ocean’s 11 inspired poster for Sony Pictures Animations’ upcoming movie Surf’s Up.

NY Daily News reports that the owners of Felix The Cat, Felix The Cat Productions, are suing The California Clock Company, the creators of the Kit-Cat Clock who have been manufacturing the well known clock for the past seventy years. Felix’s production company says in court papers that Kit-Cat is a “blatant knockoff” violating 100 […]

The Wayans Family Presents… Thugaboo: Sneaker Madness is now available to view for free legally online, at the show’s official website. The episode focuses on the main character D-Roc, as he “struggles to prepare for a new school term within his mother’s limited budget. In the process, he learns that it’s not what you wear […]

Times Online indicates that Gromit of the famous Wallace & Gromit duo has landed a new job, this time for His Master’s Voice (HMV), the world’s biggest chain of record stores. Replacing Nipper, Gromit will now be the curious canine seen listening to old gramophone in the company’s iconic image. As of right now, the […]

The Digital Bits reports that Warner Bros. will re-release Clifford’s Really Big Movie on July 3, in a double feature DVD package. The other film in the set will be the live-action See Spot Run.

As reported last Wednesday, numerous sites were invited to a preview of Shrek The Third and a tour of the PDI/Dreamworks Animation Facility last month. Today, Joblo posted their coverage of the event along with an interview with producer Aron Warner and co-directors Chris Miller and Raman Hui.

From approximately 3,435 theaters this weekend, Disney’s Meet the Robinsons collected an estimated $17 million, averaging $4,950 per theater. Thus far, the film has collected close to $52.2 million. Robinsons dropped 32.3% from its opening weekend and remains in second place after Blades of Glory. For more information on this weekend’s box office, check out […]

Cartoonbrew points to CalArts: 20 Years of Experimental Animation, a website that offers viewing of nearly twenty experimental shorts created at CalArts from 1970 till 1990. The selections were chosen by Jules Engel who started the experimental program at CalArts, and includes works by many well known artists including Joanna Priestley, Paul Demeyer, Henry Selick, […]

Apple.com is now screening an international behind-the-scenes look at TMNT. The featurette features footage from the film, as well as interviews from its cast and crew. Concurrently, Chris Evans speaks with WBAL Baltimore about his role as Casey Jones in TMNT. Meanwhile, fans of the movie may wish to collect the five prequel comics now […]