Project Firefly and PorchLight Entertainment are ready to develop and produce Farm Force, described by the Orlando Business Journal as “a wacky comedy series featuring ordinary farm animals-turned-superheroes.” The companies, working with the show’s creator Ethan Long and producer/filmmaker Robin Cowie, will create 26 half-hour episodes, as PorchLight Entertainment will retain the show’s worldwide distribution, […]

NorthJersey.com spotlights the diversity that can be found in many of today’s television series for younger audiences. For instance, Dora the Explorer held the honor as top-rated preschool show for four years, until it was dethroned by its own spinoff, Go, Diego, Go.

The Walt Disney Company, India, has acquired the television rights to the animated blockbuster Hanuman. Interestingly, the film will be shown as an eight-episode miniseries on Disney Channel, says India Daily.

TV Shows on DVD informs that the 1988 animated series ALFTales will arrive to DVD on May 30, with the release of ALF & the Beanstalk. That same day will find the 4-disc DVD release of the third season of ALF.

DreamWorks Animation reports their financial results for the fourth quarter and full year 2005. The net fourth-quarter income amounted to $63.2 million (61 cents per share). That total compares to the $192 million ($1.99 per share) amount of the previous year. In the meantime, the company’s revenue dropped 65% to $172.9 million, down from $495.7 […]

Frederator Studios has announced the third season of the Nicktoons Network Animation Festival, a collaborative production between the two companies. This year, the festival has been expanded to include live screenings, as well as distribution through numerous digital outlets. Call for entries in the festival is March 15, 2006. One’s short film entry must be […]

Through AWN, Variety reports that The Jim Henson Co. has obtained the rights to S.F. Said’s Varjak Paw and its sequel The Outlaw Varjak Paw. Varjak illustrator Dave McKean, who directed Henson’s MirrorMask, will direct the animated project, with Said adapting the screenplay.

Ultimate Disney writes that an anonymous source has revealed the Jungle Book Platinum Edition DVD will enter stores in February 2007, while the similar release of 101 Dalmatians will occur in October 2007. In other Disney DVD news, Tinker Bell (formerly known as The Tinker Bell Movie) and Cinderella III are still aiming for release […]

The third teaser trailer for Happy Feet is now online, at Yahoo! Movies. This time around, a lightheard penguin, voiced by Robin Williams, takes center stage, performing his version of the classic tune “My Way.”

The DreamWorks Animation SKG Fansite has acquired ten character profiles for Over the Hedge. Each card notes a character plus the actor voicing him or her.

According to Movehole, The Thundercats is rumored as being eyed by Warner Bros., for a potential live-action franchise. The project(s) would apparently be handled similarly to the X-Men films.

DVD Active has the cover artwork for Warner Bros. direct-to-video project Superman: Braniac Attacks. The DVD will fly into stores on June 20, ten days before the theatrical release of the live-action Superman Returns.

The Associated Press, in association with Yahoo! News, writes that brothers Keenen Ivory, Shawn and Marlon Wayans are preparing a new animated series of specials for Nickelodeon. Titled Thugaboo, the three-episode show focuses on the lives of nine kids growing up in the inner city. “It’s like hard meets soft,” explained Shawn Wayans. “The thug […]

AtomFilms has unveiled AtomFilms To Go, a new service allowing one to download shorts to a video-capable portable media device, such as an iPod or Sony PlayStation Portable. Having already begun, the service is currently offering ten free shorts, with live-action and animated titles in the mix. The news comes courtesy of Toon Zone, via […]

Tonight, starting at 7:40pm, Starz Kids & Family will present exclusive footage and trailers from Disney’s The Shaggy Dog, entering theaters tomorrow. The behind-the-scenes special On the Set: The Shaggy Dog will air also, joining Soccer Dog: European Cup and Air Bud.

Yahoo! Movies debuts the latest trailer for the DreamWorks Animation comedy Over the Hedge. In addition, four character posters for the movie, featuring R.J. the raccoon, Verne the turtle, Hammy the squirrel and Stella the skunk, are up at the site.

Pixar Animation Studios explains the financial results regarding its fourth quarter and fiscal year, which ended on December 31, 2005. The year, during which the company did not release a theatrical film, brought Pixar $152.9 million ($1.24 per fully diluted share) on revenues of $289.1 million. That compares to $141.7 million ($1.19 per fully diluted […]

Having recently acquired Steven Keslowitz’s popular book The Simpsons and Society, Sourcebooks, Inc. has changed the book’s title to The World According to The Simpsons: What Our Favorite TV Family Says About Life, Love, and the Pursuit of the Perfect Donut. In addition, Rick Miller, known for MacHomer, has written the book’s new foreward. Other […]

Promoting Sony Pictures’ Open Season, Moviefone, through Deep Focus, provides a behind-the-scenes look at the technology used to bring the film to life. Update: Coming Soon informs that Open Season will be released simultaneously in IMAX 3D and conventional theaters, on September 29, 2006. “The amazing immersive quality of IMAX 3D will give moviegoers an […]

Variety, via Coming Soon, indicates that Warner Brothers will release the PG-rated, computer animated Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles in domestic theaters on March 30, 2007. Likewise, The Weinstein Company will handle the flick’s international rights. “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles represents a brand that is widely recognized all around the world, and we think this new […]

Latino Review has a brand-new promotional pic for Disney/Pixar’s Cars. The image is the first in a series of four character pieces, with one premiering online each upcoming week. Concurrently, the site has also caught some new screen captures from DreamWorks Animation’s Over the Hedge.

While promoting The Shaggy Dog, Tim Allen was asked by Latino Review if he would be involved in Toy Story 3. “You bet. I’ve been looking forward to this,” Allen answered. “I think Pixar and Disney are made for each other. Pixar’s got certain qualities that Disney doesn’t have, and Disney has this wonderful ability […]

Coming Soon indicates that the second trailer for Disney/Pixar’s Cars will hit a wide variety of media outlets this Thursday, March 9, at 8pm. Anyone wishing to view the trailer may then do so through Disney Channel, Toon Disney, ABC Family, SOAPNet, Lifetime Television, Lifetime Movie Network, ESPN, ESPN2, ESPN Classic, ESPNews, ESPNU, Starz, Starz […]

DreamWorks Animation has released an official announcement of celebration for Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, which received the Best Animated Feature Oscar at the 78th Annual Academy Awards. To read the press release, please click “More.”

From Toon Zone and The Big Cartoon Database comes word that Robert “Tiger” West died on February 13th, at the age of 81 years old. West’s major contribution to animation was his development of Xerox equipment for the processing of animation. From 1950 to 1953, he was an employee of MGM, working as an assistant […]

The stars shone brightly last night at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, where the 78th Annual Academy Awards took place. Awards went to a very varied selection of movies, though when it came to animation, most will not be surprised to hear that \\Wallace and Gromit\\ won the Best Animated Feature trophy. Best Animated Short […]

Ultimate Disney learns through MadonnaDownload.com that a 25th Anniversary Edition DVD for The Fox and the Hound will be released this summer. The information arrives from an advertisement inside the Chicken Little DVD. More screencaps and scans from the Chicken Little DVD are also available at the MadonnaDownload forums [free registration required].

According to Box Office Mojo, Disney’s Meet the Robinsons, originally scheduled for this December 15th, has been moved to March 30, 2007. In other Robinsons news, toys for the movie may be viewed at JAKKS Pacific‘s coverage of Toy Fair 2006.

Ultimate Disney has discovered a slew of more Disney-related 2007 release dates at Box Office Mojo, including: Bridge to Terabithia (February 16), Pirates of the Caribbean 3 (May 25), Ratatouille (June 29), Underdog (August 3rd), Enchanted (November 2), and The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (December 14). Furthermore, Box Office Mojo lists that Fox’s animated […]

Toon Zone offers the March animated schedules for Disney Channel and Toon Disney, where such films as Mulan, Tarzan, The Black Cauldron, The Brave Little Toaster, The Sword In The Stone, The Tigger Movie, and Aladdin And The King Of Thieves may be seen.