Trevor Hogg, at the Flickering Myth blog, has just posted the fifth and final part in an epic profile on Academy Award-winning Studio Ghibli director Hayao Miyazaki. For those that want to start at the beginning, the first part can be read here.

Hanna-Barbera’s immortal Great Dane and his teenage friends are back once again in an all-new animated series, Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated, premiering Monday, July 12, at 7pm on the Cartoon Network. A full press release and image can be seen here:

The Speaking Of Animation website has posted a podcast interview with Chris Sanders and Dean DeBlois, talking about the making of their current acclaimed hit for DreamWorks, How To Train Your Dragon, covering the gamut of an animated film’s production.

The Hollywood Reporter has elaborated on details that legendary stop-motion animation and visual effects pioneer Ray Harryhausen is to receive a special award at Sunday’s (26 June) British Academy of Film and Television Arts ceremony for his unique and outstanding contribution to cinema. Director John Landis will host the event, with a number of current […]

The Hollywood Reporter has revealed the 2011 honorees for the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Among those set to become stars on the famous sidewalk are The Muppets, Reece Witherspoon, Danny DeVito and Penelope Cruz, with Holly and Louis Prima receiving posthumous stars, among many others.

Speaking to participants at the Business of Luxury Summit organized by the Financial Times on Monday, Disney chief Bob Iger suggested the company’s future was based on refocusing on the core Disney brand and its recent acquisitions of Pixar and Marvel Entertainment, which would “bring added value to Disney”. In related news, director Sam Raimi […]

In an interview with Lucasfilm Singapore’s recruiter Heather Brown, Animation Express reveals that Lucasfilm Animation is working on a “top-secret” CGI feature. Brown also speaks about the other recent achievements for the facility, which contributed almost 200 ILM effects shots to Iron Man 2.

In a recent discussion promoting Disney’s Princess And The Frog, posted at Animated Views here, co-director John Musker might have let slipped the title of the new Winnie The Pooh feature currently on animator’s boards. When asked about the Studio’s next film, he replied it would be “another hand drawn animated feature. It is the […]

Rooftop Films have posted their “fun, frantic program of films about losing your grip on reality…and loving it” for a screening of Fears And Fantasies themed animation in New York this Saturday, June 5. Blurring the lines of reality and fantasy, full details can be found here.

With Fox’s latest CG/live-action hybrid feature about to open, Marmaduke‘s official website has added a number of new interactive games to its pages. Starring the voices of Owen Wilson, William H. Macy, Steve Coogan, Sam Elliott, Fergie, Kiefer Sutherland and others, Marmaduke opens June 4th.

The official website for Batman: Under The Red Hood, the next entry in the ongoing series of DC Universe Animated Original Movies, is now live. Arriving on DVD and Blu-ray July 27, 2010 from Warner Premiere, the film’s trailer and film images are now viewable, with updates including new images, video, cast information and contests […]

In celebration of Frabjous Day and the upcoming home video release of Tim Burton’s Alice In Wonderland on June 1st, Walt Disney Studios is asking America to “Show Us Your Best Futterwacken!” Full details can be read here:

The ongoing drama behind Disney’s remake of its landmark 1954 feature 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea has taken another turn towards surfacing on screen after all. The project recently took a dive when incoming Disney Studio chief Richard Ross torpedoed Dick Cook’s proposal for a McG-directed blockbuster, but now it is reported that David Fincher […]

Thomas Smith, Social Media Director of Disney Parks, has announced through the Disney Parks page that a new hotel resort, Disney’s Art Of Animation Resort, is expected to open at Walt Disney World by the end of 2012. The one-of-a-kind resort will feature family suites designed around four themes: The Lion King, Cars, Finding Nemo […]

In an exclusive chat with the D23 fan community site, none other than Richard Sherman shares his enthusiasm at being asked to pen a Disney-esque melody for current smash Iron Man 2, produced by Marvel Studios, now a division of Disney, of course, and also suggests Walt would be “thrilled” with that recent acquisition.

Calling the film “a specialized but beautiful piece of animation by Sylvain Chomet drawn from an unproduced Jacques Tati script”, The Hollywood Reporter reviews The Illusionist, a “collaboration beyond the grave” between the two filmmakers.

Tonight on Bravo, at 10/9c, The Simpsons’ Hank Azaria, Matt Groening and Matt Selman are guest judges on one of the more unique challenges to grace the Top Chef Masters show: each of the cheftestants are assigned a Springfield citizen of their own and have to create a dish that their character would like. Homer […]

Warner Bros. has announced the re-launch of its DVD-2-Blu campaign to help consumers make the leap to hi-def. The process is simple: send in your old DVDs with a nominal shipping charge, and the studio will forward you the same titles on Blu-ray Disc. Titles include 2001: A Space Odyssey, Beetlejuice, Superman II: Richard Donner […]

A night of spooky stop-motion films, followed by a panel discussion hosted by Aurelio Voltaire, is a treat in store for those attending the Museum of Comic and Cartoon art in New York City tonight, April 29 at 7pm. Complete details can be read here:

Despite rumors to the contrary, Warner Bros. is announcing that the first in producer Peter Jackson’s two-part version of The Hobbit will arrive a little later than originally expected (2011), but earlier than has been reported (2013). With the financial woes at co-producer MGM apparently not to blame for the hold-up, The Hobbit‘s two parts […]

THR today reports that the licensing company Iconix has reached an agreement to buy United Features Syndicate’s stake in the Peanuts characters and other brands for $175 million. Iconix will acquire UFS’ 80% share, with the remaining 20% retained by the Charles Schulz family. With $180m in box-office grosses so far, DreamWorks’ Jeffrey Katzenberg has […]

Following their successful pairing on Sylvain Chomet’s The Triplets Of Belleville in 2003, Sony Pictures Classics and the director have announced that his new film, The Illusionist, based on an unproduced script by the master of French silent cinema Jacques Tati, will be distributed in the US by the company towards the end of 2010. […]

The Guardian recently published an account on Charles Brewer-Carias, a “real-life Indiana Jones” who has spent over 50 years in the Venezuela jungle discovering new species and exploring rare organisms. Indeed, there are suggestion that the 71 year old was the basis for Charles Muntz in Pixar’s most recent feature Up, set amid the area’s […]

Technicolor Animation, previously Paprikaas Animation based in India, has welcomed veteran producers Jean MacCurdy and Fonda Snyder on board to develop their new property, Pete & Pickles, based on the work of Opus cartoonist Berkeley Breathed. A press release may be read here:

After closing its previously owned DisneyToon studio in Toronto and cutting ties with The Wild producers CORE Animation, the Disney organization has returned again to Canada for the location of a new Pixar subsidiary. Launched yesterday, April 20, Pixar Canada will create short films based on their Toy Story and Cars characters for online and […]

Those unable to make the annual Annie Awards earlier this year will be animated by this welcome piece of news: the 37th awards ceremony, with featured highlights including host William Shatner, a special tribute to Roy Disney, and Winsor McCay recipients Jeffrey Katzenberg, Tim Burton and Bruce Timm, is now available to view online at […]

The Drawn Together Movie: The Movie!, the first animated film based on Comedy Central’s long-running adult “reality show” series, premiered to a packed house at the Anaheim ComicCon last Friday (April 17), ahead of its debut today on DVD (and as a BestBuy Blu-ray exclusive) from Comedy Central and Paramount Home Entertainment. A full press […]

The Suspended Animation Gallery, the online art collection produced by Disney animation artists to reflect their own personal inspirations in works created in their own choice of medium, has announced their latest artist addition: Walt Peregoy, best known for his work on 101 Dalmatians, but also notable for his contributions to Peter Pan, Lady and […]

Announcing plans to convert the DreamWorks Shrek series to 3D format for release on Blu-ray Disc, Jeffrey Katzenberg has discussed the future of three dimensional movie viewing at the NAB convention in Las Vegas.

Recently released are a new series of officially licensed giant Popeye prints from the wall graphics company LTL Prints. The premium graphics include everything from laptop size up to LTL’s trademark seven foot ‘larger than life’ wall prints. Other characters licensed from King Features Syndicate, including Betty Boop, Flash Gordon, Hagar The Horrible and more, […]