UpcomingPixar reports that Walt Disney Home Entertainment has announced the release of Wall-E on DVD and Blu-ray on November 18. The Blu-ray will be a two disc release, one disc being the feature presentation and special features, and the second being a digital copy of the film. More details on the specific content and special […]

What it would look like if some of our favorite superheroes and villains were to show up in random episodes of The Simpsons? Cinematical points to Springfield Punx Blog, where they Simpsonize a number of our most beloved fictional characters in movies and TV, including the Batman and Joker.

In a rare occurrence, two animated films open on the same day. First up is Warner Bros.’ Star Wars: The Clone Wars. The film opens in 3,452 theatres according to Box Office Mojo. Critics say the force is not strong with this one — it scores 18% on the Tomatometer, and an abysmal 5% counting […]

GhibliWorld takes a closer look at the upcoming book The Art of Ponyo on the Cliff, based on Hayao Miyazaki’s film of the same name. The book, which contains a variety of sketches, storyboards, background information, and cel reproductions with backgrounds, hits stands in Japan on August 2.

UltimateDisney reports that the upcoming Platinum Edition blu-ray release of Sleeping Beauty will now carry 3 discs, two the previously announced Blu-ray presentation and third being a bonus standard DVD of the film. Sleeping Beauty Platinum Edition will be in stores on October 8.

GhibliWorld brings an English summary of a radio interview with Mamoru Oshii, director of Ghost in the Shell wherein Oshii shares his thoughts on Hayao Miyazaki’s latest feature film Ponyo on the Cliff and also talks about his long friendship with Miyazaki and Toshio Suzuki.

With its seven burning questions about the upcoming animated feature Star Wars: The Clone Wars, TheDeadBolt analyzes if fans of the Star Wars movies will find enough drama to keep them engaged in the Clone Wars movie. Star Wars: The Clone Wars opens in theatres on August 15.

RottenTomatoes shares an exclusive video on director Henry Selick’s latest stop-motion project Coraline, featuring clips, behind-the-scenes footage, and interviews with the cast and crew, including Selick, novelist Neil Gaiman, and Ian McShane. The movie, which tells the tale of a young girl named Coraline and her descent into a fantastical alternate reality, will be out […]

Three of the founders of Animated News & Views recently returned from California where they all met up for the very first time at Comic-Con International 2008. You can read their accounts of the meet-up, the convention itself, and their vacation-in-a-vacation at Disneyland in their report — filled with a ton of photos — over […]

Clay Kaytis’ formidable Animation Podcast website returns after a several month hiatus with Part One of an interview with Eric Goldberg discussing his career from making flip books at the age of 6 through to getting hired at Disney to animate the Genie in Aladdin, with stops at Richard Williams’ and his own studio along […]

With a surprisingly minimalistic front page that ties into the company’s past and future, Walt Disney Animation Studios launches its brand new website. The About Us section delves into the studio’s history and discusses what it’s like to work at the studio now. The Projects section showcases the title treatments for their next several feature […]

Apple has made available a new trailer for Lucasfilms’ upcoming animated flick Star Wars: The Clone Wars. Directed by Dave Filoni, Star Wars: The Clone Wars opens in theatres on August 15. In addition, DVDTimes shares two online featurettes on the film.

MTV.com has posted an interview with Pete Docter, director of Pixar’s Upcoming film wherein he describes his new film as a ‘coming of old age’ story. Pixar’s Up, which will be presented in 3-D, is scheduled for a May 2009 release.

As reported by Animation Insider the longtime Sesame Street characters Bert and Ernie will soon be starring in their own claymation program as part of Sesame Street’s 39th season on television. The educational intent behind the program, made up of five-minute segments, will be to take children beyond counting to building math and computational skills. […]

HollywoodReporter has posted an interview with James Cameron, director of the upcoming sci-fi epic Avatar. The article suggest that Cameron expects Avatar to be about 60% CG animation, based on characters created using a newly developed performance capture-based process, and 40% live action, with a lot of VFX in the imagery. Avatar is slated to […]

DVDActive reports that Fox Home Entertainment has announced Futurama: Bender’s Game for release on the 4th November. Extras on the disc will include commentary by Matt Groening, David X. Cohen, Billy West, John DiMaggio, Tress MacNeille, Michael Rowe, Claudia Katz and Dwayne Carey-Hill, featurettes (Dungeons & Dragons & Futurama, 3D Models With Animator Discussion, How […]

The Guardian online has run an obituary tribute to Pauline Baynes, the “witty and inventive children’s book illustrator” who drew for JRR Tolkien and in all seven of CS Lewis’ Chronicles Of Narnia books, who died on August 1 aged 85.

An exclusive interview with the helmers of the CGI direct to video feature Resident Evil: Degeneration can be read at Shock ‘Till You Drop. Producer Hiroyuki Kobayashi and director Makoto Kamiya discuss various aspects of the upcoming film, including the production of the feature as well as new story and character developments. Regarding the prospect […]

ComingSoon currently features an IMAX poster for Madagascar 2: Escape 2 Africa. The sequel to 2005’s Madagascar will open in traditional theaters as well as IMAX on November 7th.

A new one-sheet advertising the upcoming CGI film Igor can be found at Internet Movie Poster Awards. The movie, which features a lab-assistant who aspires to become an evil scientist, hits theaters on September 19th.

GhibliWorld has an exclusive interview with Pixar Storyboard artist Enrico Casarosa about Totoro Forest project, an international charity effort to preserve Sayama forest. Sayama is an endangered sanctuary on the outskirts of Tokyo where Miyazaki got the inspiration for his much loved character Totoro from the film My Neighbor Totoro. Over 200 top international artists […]

According to Box Office Mojo, the $4,603,179 that Pixar’s Wall•E collected last weekend at the movie theaters was enough to put it past the $200 million mark with a current total of $204,078,076. These earnings put the sci-fi comedy above Toy Story and A Bug’s Life, but just slightly behind last year’s Ratatouille, which made […]