The Digital Bits has the scoop on several animated disc announcements made during the past week. On February 19th Warner will debut Tom and Jerry: Shiver Me Whiskers and Tom and Jerry: Tales – Volume 1 DVDs. Fox will be releasing an Ice Age: The Meltdown special edition DVD on March 2nd. Paramount/DreamWorks’ Bee Movie […]

Over on our Animated Views side we have an interview with Hyun-Min Lee and Bert and Jennifer Klein regarding their new short, The Chestnut Tree, which has just garnered two Annie Awards nominations. This touching short subject film was executive produced by Don Hahn with further assistance rendered by Eric Goldberg. Check it out for […]

Exodus Films’ official site presents us with a detailed look at the characters from their upcoming animated flick, Igor. The animated comedy centers on an evil scientist’s hunch-backed lab assistant who has big dreams of becoming a mad scientist himself and winning the annual evil science Fair. The stellar voice cast includes Steve Buscemi, John […]

Joblo has published some new details concerning the upcoming Batman: Gotham Knight, a collection of six animated shorts set in Chris Nolans’ Batman-universe. Although each short will be penned by a different writer, they will all be directed by Bruce Timm, already a familiar face in the animated world of Batman. The new stories, done […]

Dailymotion currently hosts the teaser trailer for Resident Evil: Degeneration, the first full-length CG animation based on the game franchise of the same name. The brand new storyline will not have any known ties with the live-action films but will take place in the game-universe instead. Resident Evil: Degeneration is currently scheduled for a fall […]

UpcomingPixar via BusinessWire reports that Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment have announced their new line-up of Blu-ray initiatives in 2008 which will mark first Platinum Disney animated classic Sleeping Beauty on Blu-ray in the fall of 2008. Along with an all-new enhanced home theater mix in 7.1 surround sound, Sleeping Beauty Platinum Edition Blu-ray Disc […]

UpcomingPixar reports that THQ via BusinessWire have officially announced the WALL•E Video Game for all major platforms which include the Nintendo Wii, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. According to the press release, WALL•E is expected to release this summer and will mark THQ’s next installment in the company’s well-established and successful association with Disney/Pixar. Development […]

Warner Bros., the only major studio to release their films in both competing high-def optical disc formats, today announced that they will be dropping their support for HD-DVD and instead releasing exclusively on Blu-ray. With studios supporting Blu-ray now accounting for 70% of Hollywood content — only Universal and Paramount/DreamWorks support HD-DVD now — the […]

People reports that Knut, the famous young polar bear who resides at the Berlin Zoo, might be starring in his own animated film in the near future. The Animation Picture Company, responsible for the Garfield movie, plans to focus the feature on Knut and his caretaker, with Suri Cruise providing the English voice of the […]

During the last few weeks the major studios firmed up the dates for their 2008 releases. Here’s a look at how the year in animation is shaping up so far: • January 11 – The Pirates Who Don’t Do Anything – A VeggieTales Movie (Universal) • March 14 – Dr. Seuss’ Horton Hears a Who! […]

As with everything in Rumored Rumblings, take the following with a grain of salt. Several different web sites around the net are buzzing that Pixar’s slightly mysterious 2009 release, Up, may be a re-telling of Miguel de Cervantes’ classic 17th century story Don Quixote. Variety wrote in the summer of 2007 that Up was “about […]

BroadwayWorld.com reports that Disney Theatrical Productions’ three shows currently running on Broadway all set box office records for the week ending December 30, 2007. The Lion King, a six time Tony award winner now in its tenth year, set a new record at the Minskoff Theatre with $1,571,937. Mary Poppins set a record at the […]

The Digital Bits reports that Universal Studios Home Video will be releasing The Woody Woodpecker and Friends Classic Cartoon Collection: Volume 2 DVD on April 15th for $39.98. According to The Bits, the 3-disc set will include some 75 remastered shorts — though the actual titles are unknown at this time. For now, you can […]