According to TVShowsOnDVD.com, the 20th season of The Simpsons is not only coming to DVD on January 12, 2010, but will also be the the first season of the show released on Blu-ray. Both releases include all 21 episodes from the season, running nearly 482 minutes long. Only one feature is present right now: a […]

The Hollywood Reporter reports that Disney Channel will be launching their first new animated series in three years. Fish Hooks, created using a mix of 2D digital animation and photo collage, takes place at a high school in a fish tanks at a pet store. Gary Marsh, president entertainment at Disney Channels Worldwide, said, “The […]

BusinessWeek talks with DreamWorks Animation CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg in a quick interview that covers a lot of ground — including sales of movie tickets and DVDs, future Broadway endeavors, runaway spending, and celebrity tweets.

Though her film doesn’t come out for almost another month, the newest Disney princess is already a hit with trick-or-treaters. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports (and Disney Consumer Products representatives confirm) that costumes for The Princess and the Frog‘s Tiana are selling out.

DreamWorks Animation’s Jeffrey Katzenberg announced Tuesday that Shrek The Musical, the Broadway edition of the company’s Oscar-winning animated film, was DVD bound in “unique packaging”. Grossing $380 worldwide, this year’s release of Monsters Vs. Aliens was seen as a disappointment internationally, for unknown reasons, prompting Katzenberg to suggest the future of the franchise could be […]

After more than a year of intensive restoration work, the full length edition of Fritz Lang’s Metropolis, which featured groundbreaking special effects work that continues to influence filmmakers today, will premiere on February 12 2010 as part of the 60th Berlin International Film Festival, and at the Alte Oper house in Frankfurt on the same […]

The home entertainment journal Video Business has reported that The Walt Disney Company is planning their own digital delivery service, named Keychest, with a view to bringing on demand content to consumers, primarily focusing at first on the Studio’s “dedicated groups of fans”.

The $31.2 million grossing animated adventure 9, directed by Shane Acker from his original short film, has been announced for release on DVD ($29.98) and Blu-ray ($39.98) by Universal on December 29 2009. The packages will include deleted scenes, featurettes, commentary and short films, presumed to include the original 9.

Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment has shattered the Guinness World Record for tallest ice sculpture, in Los Angeles to mark the DVD and Blu-ray release of Ice Age: Dawn Of The Dinosaurs. Measuring in at a Mammoth 48 feet tall, things got a little chilly in Southern California on Tuesday when Scrat, sculpted by innovative […]

Celebrating the release of Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure under the Secretary-General’s Creative Community Outreach Initiative and promoting environmental awareness in the lead-up to the upcoming Copenhagen conference on Climate Change, Disney’s Tinker Bell was named Honorary Ambassador of Green on October 25 2009, by United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Communications and Public Information, Kiyo […]