Carrie Underwood Online reports that the country music star recently filmed a music video for the song Ever After from Disney’s Enchanted. Pictures from the music video’s production may be viewed here. The site also writes that singer-songwriter Jon Mclaughlin will appear in Enchanted, performing, on a ballroom stage, a song by Ric Wake. Meanwhile, […]

“Mitch” at Pixar Planet describes her recent attendance to a seminar hosted by Pixar Animation Studios’ Andrew Stanton. The report includes numerous notes from Stanton’s lecture, as well as photos from outside the event.

Coming Soon reports that The Weinstein Company and Exodus Film Group are developing the computer animated movie Navy Seals. The family-friendly adventure will focus on “an elite pod of US Navy dolphins who are captured and their only hope for rescue is a band of misfit seals.”

With TV Guide, George Lucas elaborates on his two upcoming Star Wars television series, including the computer animated Clone Wars. Describing the show as taking place between the Star Wars films Episode II – Attack of the Clones and Episode III – Revenge of the Sith, Lucas notes that he would like for Clone Wars […]

The Starz Bunny Club presents a 30-second reenactment of the 2004 horror film The Grudge. From Angry Alien Productions, the animated short is the latest in the series of bunny-starring spoofs.

Upcoming Pixar points out that DailyGame.net has a special preview of the “Car Finder” game to be found on the Blu-Ray release of Disney/Pixar’s Cars. The latter website was able to have hands-on experience with the game, thanks to Disney’s Magical Blu-ray Tour.

A new trailer for Robert Zemeckis’ motion-captured Beowulf has been acquired by Coming Soon. The video is available in a variety of QuickTime sizes.

Studying the animation powerhouse’s latest entry, Ratatouille, Times Online speculates on Pixar’s ability to please both children and adults with their films. In addition, the piece highlights the company’s view on pop-culture references.

For those with recently completed or soon-to-be-completed works of animation please be notified that ASIFA-Hollywood is now accepting nominations for the 35th Annual Annie Awards. More information follows:

For those who will be in Germany between September 30 – October 2 make note of the eDIT Filmmaker’s Festival which will have a special in-depth animation program on the last day featuring animators such as Bill Plympton, Steven Bender, as well as Spencer Cook, Animation Supervisor on Spiderman 3, and more.

Nausicaa.net reports that Neil Gaiman, the man behind the English adaptation of Princess Mononoke, visited Studio Ghibli after years. According to the website, “Gaiman just got around to visiting the studio and took photos with Toshio Suzuki, Steve Alpert, and Hayao Miyazaki.” A direct link to Neil Gaiman’s journal can be found here.

Official Shaun The Sheep website has three interview clips with Richard Goleszowski, the director of Aardman’s Shaun The Sheep wherein he talks about the idea behind the show, his favorite characters, future plans for Shaun and more.

Variety reports that France has chosen the controversial animated film Persepolis as its entry for the 2008 Oscars for best foreign-language film. Based on the graphic novel by Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis tells the story of an Iranian girl growing up at the time of the Islamic revolution. The film won jury prize at the Cannes […]

DreamWorks Animation SKG, Inc., together with Paramount Pictures Corporation, a unit of Viacom Inc., announced today that Monsters vs. Aliens, DreamWorks Animation’s first-ever film produced in stereoscopic 3-D technology, will be released into theatres on March 27, 2009. The film had been previously slated for its domestic release on May 15, 2009. More information can […]

GhibliWorld reports that starting from October 7th “Radio Ghibli” will start its broadcast every Sunday at 11:00 PM nationwide on all 38 stations of the Japan FM Network. Toshio Suzuki, Producer and president of Studio Ghibli will start his radio career by hosting the show. Report also sugggests that Suzuki will talk about things like […]

Through official press announcements from Warner Bros., Entertainment News International reminds that tomorrow will see the release of the anticipated and animated Superman: Doomsday. Concurrently, the site points out that the second season of Legion of Super Heroes and the fifth season of The Batman start this Saturday, September 22. Images from all three of […]

With Animated Views, animation historian Jerry Beck discusses his work on The Woody Woodpecker and Friends Classic Cartoon Collection and Popeye the Sailor: 1933-1938, Volume 1, as well as some of his upcoming projects. In addition, Beck explains how classic animation is brought to DVD, while also sharing his thoughts on the current state of […]

Coming Soon reveals that Warner Bros. is once again teaming up with “Harry Potter” producer David Heyman to bring another British classic to the big screen, Paddington Bear. Hamish McColl (Mr. Bean’s Holiday) is writing the screenplay for a live-action movie based on Michael Bond’s series of children’s books about a talking bear who’s adopted […]

Animation Insider reports that Jetix US has acquired Captain Flamingo for its programming block on Toon Disney. Produced by Breakthrough Animation, Captain Flamingo tells the story of Milo Powell who, armed with his backpack of powerful joke store novelty items, saves the day every time with a little help from his best pal, anonymous sidekick […]

/Film showcases the latest international poster for Disney’s upcoming live-action/animated fairytale Enchanted. The film is currently scheduled to hit US theaters on November 21st, 2007.

Jerry Seinfeld, star of DreamWorks’ upcoming animated film, Bee Movie, recently sat down with the LA Times and discussed the challenges of voicing/writing an animated character in conjunction with using DreamWorks’ “teleconferencing” system of video screens. “I would make faces or I would do gestures, I would make poses,” Seinfeld said. “I couldn’t understand in […]

The following are fun facts released by DreamWorks Animation regarding their upcoming Bee Movie, touching on subjects as diverse as alleged Albert Einstein quotes, cameos to look out for, the “green” nature of the vehicles seen in the film, and more.