The Great Mouse Detective will get a slipcovered Mystery in the Mist Edition DVD on April 13, reports UltimateDisney. The release featuring an all-new digital restoration, will also include all-new bonus feature “So You Think You Can Sleuth?”. A making-of featurette from the 1980s and a sing-along of villain Ratigan’s “The World’s Greatest Criminal Mind” […]

The National Cartoonists Society Foundation is hosting an eBay auction of artwork donated by the animation and cartooning community. The money raised will help pay medical bills for Matthew Hodge, son of former Disney story artist and Big Idea productions director Tim Hodge, whose car was struck by a train a few months ago. The […]

DVDActive reports that Fox Home Entertainment has announced DVD and Blu-ray/DVD Combo releases of The Fantastic Mr. Fox for the 23rd March. Extras on the DVD release will include a “From Script to Screen” feature, a Still Life (Puppet Animation) feature, and A Beginner’s Guide to Whack-Bat. The Blu-ray/DVD Combo release will include that, along […]

/Film shares the first image from The Congress, director Ari folman’s follow-up to the acclaimed animated foreign film Waltz With Bashir. The film is loosely adapted from the Stanislaw Lem short story, The Futurological Congress.

/Film reports that Disney’s 3D re-release of Beauty and the Beast has been pushed back to 2011. Initially scheduled to hit cinemas this February, the 3D debut of the Disney classic is now expected to be at some point in 2011.

Up was named the Best Animated Film of the year and Michael Giacchino won for scoring it at the Golden Globes. Avatar won Best Picture and Best Director.

Ocean’s Thirteen stars Matt Damon and Brad Pitt have joined the voice cast of Happy Feet 2, according to Movie Line. It is unknown what kind of characters that Pitt and Damon will be voicing, but they will be joining returning original Happy Feet actors Elijah Wood and Robin Williams. Happy Feet 2 is currently […]

Up won the prize for Best Animated Feature at last night’s Critics Choice Awards, along with the award for Best Original Score. Avatar, meanwhile, claimed the prize for Best Action Movie, along with the awards for Art Direction, Cinematography, Editing, Sound and Visual Effects. A full list of winners and nominees can be found in […]

Cloudly With a Chance of Meatballs is currently sweeping the home video charts, ranking as the top selling Blu-Ray, DVD and rental in America, according to Movie Web. The critically acclaimed animated comedy from Sony came to DVD and Blu-Ray on January 5th.

Burger King is now selling six new toys based off of the movie Hoodwinked Too! Hood Vs. Evil with their kids meals. The sequel to the surprise 2006 hit was originally supposed to come out this weekend, but the Weinstein Company made the decision last month to indefinately delay the release of the film. Reasons for […]

DVD Active reveals that Where the Wild Things Are, the live-action movie based on Maurice Sendak’s classic children’s book of the same name, will be hitting store shelves on DVD and Blu-Ray/DVD combo pack on March 2nd. Nothing is known about the DVD release at this point, but the Blu-Ray will include a brand new short […]

Cary Elwes, Dean Lennox Kelly, Peter Serafinowicz and Adam Campbell are set to play the Fab Four in Disney’s upcoming Yellow Submarine remake. The CGI-animated movie, based on the cartoon feature from 1968 that pitted the Beatles against the villainous Blue Meanies, will be directed by Robert Zemeckis and use the same motion capture technology that he recently […]

Is Fantastic Mr. Fox the frontrunner for the Oscar? The New York TImes makes the case — in their usual in-depth fashion. Awards Daily, however, much more tersely replies “but critics don’t vote on the Oscars”.

Amid over at Cartoon Brew has the disappointing news that the Tintin estate (or more specifically “the lawyer who married the widow of Tintin creator Hergé and now controls the Tintin estate”) is suing people who use the character, even when it might fall into the fair use category. One target of a lawsuit, Bob […]

The New York TImes has a list of about 100 films being released this year including a short blurb about each. Note that the list is sorted by the season of the year the films are being released.

The New York Times has a nice piece about Blue Sky Studios, their history, how they upset the major players in 2009, and their future. They note that Ice Age 3 was the #1 animated film of 2009 at the global box office, easily besting Pixar’s Up and DreamWorks’ Monsters vs. Aliens — and they […]

With the movie ruling the weekend for the fourth week in a row, many are starting to wonder if Avatar will have the strength to be able to overcome Titanic‘s box office record and become the highest grossing movie of all time. Newsweek looks at the many things that have been working in the film’s favor, […]

DVDTimes reports that Sony Pictures Home Entertainment have announced the DVD and Blu-ray releases of Planet 51 on 9th March 2010. Extra features on these releases will include, “Planetarium – The Voice Stars of Planet 51“, “Extended Scenes”, “The World of Planet 51“, “Life On Planet 51: Behind-the-Scenes Featurette”, “Music Video Montage” and “Animation Progression […]

The L.A. Times was on hand for a screening of Waking Sleeping Beauty, a documentary which looks at Disney during the turbulent period from the 1980s to early 1990s. Financed and distributed by Disney, and produced by Peter Schneider and directed by Don Hahn, you might expect a white-washed version of events. Not so says […]

ABC7 in Los Angeles has a report and some video of the Roy E. Disney memorial service held yesterday at the El Capitan Theatre. The upbeat ceremony featured performances and clips from some of his work and guests were asked to wear bright colors instead of black. Disney CEO Robert Iger announced that Burbank animation […]

DreamWorks Animation made a splash at the recent Consumer Electronics Show. The company is teaming up with Samsung to promote 3D television, according to Variety. Buyers of Samsung 3D TV’s will get a free copy of the Monsters vs. Aliens 3D Blu-ray disc, the first ever 3D BD. Exclusive 3D trailers from DreamWorks will also […]

Now at 20 years and counting, The Simpsons is a pop culture institution. Intelligent Life compares and contrasts the show to another animation powerhouse — Disney. The piece makes several interesting points, including: while The Simpsons started as a sort of anti-Disney, over time the show has gone from rebel to establishment; perhaps counterintuitively, Disney […]

Disney has announced a 2-disc Special Un-Anniversary Edition DVD of Alice in Wonderland for release on March 30, 2010, reports UltimateDisney. New bonus features on this release will include the deleted scene “Pig and Pepper” considered in the 1930s, and the featurette “Reflections on Alice.” The site also suggests that The Great Mouse Detective, previously […]

Art Clokey, creator of the popular Gumby character as well as the Christian television series Davey And Goliath, passed away last Friday, reports Yahoo!News. The animator, who suffered from repeated bladder infections, died in his home in California at the age of 88. His character of Gumby arose from a student project he completed titled […]

Fans of the hit Nickelodeon animated TV series Avatar: The Last Airbender will be happy to know that a brand new TV spot for the live-action film based on it is set to air during the Super Bowl on Sunday, February 7th. Other confirmed TV spots for the game include the Martin Scorsese thriller Shutter Island and the hotly anticipated […]

With Sony’s Spider-Man 4 apparently no longer coming in May 2011, other studios are now taking the chance to claim new release dates for their own movies in that timeframe. Disney’s Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides is now set to be released on May 20th, which would allow for it to come out a week […]