On its way to yet another milestone, The Simpsons will air its 450th episode on Sunday night at 8pm EST. The episode, entitled Once Upon a Time in Springfield, will be followed by a new hourlong special celebrating the show’s history. The documentary, from Super Size Me’s Morgan Spurlock, goes by the humorous title of […]

In addition to the previously announced Disney titles retiring from their current DVD pressings, the Studio has added The Jungle Book (DVD) and Sleeping Beauty (DVD and Blu-ray) Platinum Editions to the list of films that will be discontinued from this January 30. The titles will remain on shelves until stock runs out.

The Hollywood Reporter announces that the fourth Spider-Man movie under Sam Raimi has hit another stumbling block after the director and the producing studio Sony couldn’t agree on which villains Spidey would face. Raimi wants the Vulture while Sony is after the Black Cat, a situation the two partners have faced before when Sony forced […]

The Producers Guild of America have announced their nominations for their Darryl F. Zanuck Producer of the Year Award in Theatrical Motion Pictures, reports The Hollywood Reporter. Avatar alphabetically fronts the list, which also names District 9, An Education, The Hurt Locker, Inglourious B******s, Invictus, Precious, Star Trek, Up and Up In The Air. Up […]

It was an unfortunate start to 2010 for Walt Disney’s grandson Patrick Disney Miller, son of Walt’s daughter Diane Disney Miller and the Disney Company’s former CEO Ron Miller, when the 42 year old pleaded not guilty to weapons charges. He was arrested after police found multiple illegal guns and other items at his Los […]

As well as announcing the closing of the deal to purchase Marvel Entertainment, The Walt Disney Company has also “expanded its ties” with Stan Lee’s POW! Entertainment, with which it already has a first-look deal. Lee was the creator of many characters in the Marvel stable, and this new agreement will bring him closer to […]

Timed to the release of Peter Jackson’s The Lord Of The Rings trilogy coming to Blu-ray on April 6, distributors Warner Bros. will also upgrade director Ralph Bakshi’s 1978 animated feature edition of the first half of the story to the high definition format as a BD/DVD combo pack for $29.99. The film, notorious in […]

Summit Entertainment’s animated action adventure Astro Boy is coming to DVD and Blu-Ray on March 16th, according to Amazon.com. No further details on the release are currently available. Starring the voice talents of Freddie Highmore and Nicolas Cage, Astro Boy was a dissapointment in theaters, grossing just $19 million against a production budget of $65 million.

The winners of the 2009 TV DVD Awards have been announced, per this article from Home Media Magazine (original article here).

After only a few weeks of release, Avatar has already accomplished what only a few films in the history of cinema have done, crossing the $1 billion mark in worldwide receipts yesterday and becoming one the highest grossing movies of all time. The James Cameron epic surpassed The Dark Knight’s worldwide gross yesterday and is currently only behind […]

Disney and Marvel have completed the deal that they announced last August, in which Disney revealed a plan to purchase the comic book entertainment company for $4.3 billion. The agreement was made final when Marvel’s shareholders approved the deal. The Walt Disney Company now has rights to over 5,000 characters from Marvel’s extensive comic history.

ComingSoon.net now has a brand new sneak peek at Disney/Pixar’s upcoming Toy Story 3.  The featurette introduces a new character, Mr. Pricklepants, a hedgehog voiced by former James Bond actor Timothy Dalton. The anticipated sequel hits theaters next summer.

Patrick Stewart, known mostly for his roles in Star Trek: The Next Generation and three X-Men films but also for his Shakespearean stage career and as an occasional voice actor, has been knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in the United Kingdom for his lifetime of service to the world of drama, according to this article […]

MyTokyoBox reports that Disney will re-release Miyazaki’s My Neighbor Totoro, Kiki’s Delivery Service, and Castle in the Sky on 2-disc special edition DVDs, alongside Ponyo, in March 2010. Studio Ghibli DVD re-releases will include, an interactive “World of Ghibli” experience, “Enter the Lands” and “Behind the Studio” features. Disc two will feature storyboard presentation of […]