Anchor Bay Entertainment has announced Dante’s Inferno: An Animated Epic for release on DVD and Blu-ray on February 9th. A press release for the film, created by Film Roman and Electronic Arts, can be read here:

A proven success primarily for the Disney Studio and being picked up as a packaging format of choice by other distributors, Warner Home Video is the latest studio to announce all their future theatrical titles will come to home video in Blu-ray/DVD Combo Packs, which include both disc formats. Other companies have essentially restricted this […]

If you can’t get to The Princess And The Frog right away and are itching to discover Randy Newman’s songs and score for the movie, the entire soundtrack is available to listen to as a stream from Walt Disney Records in WMA format. The Studio has also announced details on the promotion for the film’s […]

Not Earth-shattering headline news, but Disney Home Video has announced their live-action 101 and 102 Dalmatians, plus Special Editions for the animated 101 Dalmatians II: Patch’s London Adventure and Jungle Book 2 will end their current print runs on January 30, 2010.

Paramount Home Entertainment has announced The Penguins Of Madagascar – Operation: DVD Premiere! will arrive on a fully-featured DVD from DreamWorks Animation on February 9th, 2010. Promising “brand new missions and more of the uproarious Madagascar story”, the press release for the Penguins’ first movie-length premiere can be read here:

As announced by Animation Express, the Irish animation company DQ Entertainment has entered into a deal with Australian Broadcasting Corporation for the broadcasting of 52 episodes of its CGI animated series The Jungle Book and one 60 minute made for television movie. More can be seen at DQE’s website.

The stop-motion feature A Town Called Panic a “hilarious and frequently surreal” stop-motion extravaganza based on the Belgian animated cult TV series, is due to open at the Film Forum in New York City on December 16 for two weeks only before opening around the country.

“James Cameron brings science-fiction movies into the 21st century with the jaw-dropping wonder that is Avatar”, so says The Hollywood Reporter in their full review of the upcoming blockbuster.

Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment has confirmed that Hayao Miyazaki’s 2009 release Ponyo, an adaptation of The Little Mermaid, will debut on DVD and Blu-ray Disc on March 2, 2010, making the film the first of the Japanese Studio Ghibli titles to debut in hi-def in the US. The DVD ($29.99) and BD ($39.99) will […]

The Hollywood Reporter takes an interesting look at the differences between stop-motion features and CGI, comparing Coraline, Mary And Max and Fantastic Mr Fox to the likes of Up, Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs and 9 in this year’s Academy Awards race. THR also looks at all 20 animated features up for consideration this […]

The Corey Helford Gallery in Culver City, California, will exhibit an unparalleled line-up of artists for their unique presentation of The Multi-Plane Show, from this Saturday, December 12, 2009. Full viewing details and more can be read here:

London’s Andersen M Studio has just completed work on a stop-motion animation spot for the New Zealand Book Council, the company’s Creative Director Martin Andersen has announced. More information and the spot can be seen here:

One of Walt Disney’s biggest contract stars of his Studio’s early forays into live-action filmmaking, Richard Todd, has died peacefully at his home in Lincolnshire, England, age 90, after losing a fight with cancer. With Disney’s wartime profits tied up in Britain, Walt decided to make a series of films in the UK, with Todd […]

Following the release of Tron: Legacy one year from now, the producer and director team of Sean Bailey and Joseph Kosinski will remain at Disney to steer it toward a remake of the Studio’s 1979 space drama The Black Hole. At the time the company’s first PG-rated movie and its most expensive film to date, […]

As reviews start to pour in, The Hollywood Reporter describes The Princess And The Frog as “Disney brilliantly rediscovering hand-drawn animation and the value of story. The best Disney animated film in years, it dates back to the days when Walt Disney was a person, not a brand”.

Justice League: Crisis On Two Earths, the seventh entry in the ongoing series of DC Universe Animated Original PG-13 Movies, has been announced for release on Blu-ray and DVD bu Warner Home Video on February 23, 2010. A press release featuring full specs, first look at the movie and a teaser trailer can be seen […]

With the UK preparing for the release of Spike Jonze’s feature film version of Maurice Sendak’s Where The Wild Things Are on December 11, the Guardian online has the director and co-writer Dave Eggers lightheartedly recalling the cold day they visited the author at his Connecticut home to talk about filming his book.

As part of ABC Family’s annual 25 Days Of Christmas programming, the network is set to host Walt Disney Pictures Presents Pixar Short Films, a collection of 20 of the company’s computer animated cartoons airing together as a two-hour event for the first time on television. A press release and information on all films in […]

An advertisement in trade magazine Video Business includes the cover art and specific details for Sony’s upcoming release of their $120m box-office hit Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs, landing on single and double disc DVD and Blu-ray on January 5, 2010. To see the cover art and specs, follow this link:

One of the movie business’ industry Bibles, The Hollywood Reporter has updated its website with several new animation stories. It confirms Sam Neill, Geoffrey Rush, Hugo Weaving and David Wenham have joined the voice cast of Animal Logic’s animated feature Guardians Of Ga’hoole for director Zack Snyder; the film follows “Soren, a young owl enthralled […]

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures, the once-fabled Hollywood major that has faced troubled times since the late 1960s, passing through various hands and ending up as little more than a production company with a famous name, is said to be on the way to a sale, as reported by Variety. This marks the second time in just a […]

In a generally buoyant marketplace, the major entertainment conglomerates have posted better than expected returns for the summer, with Disney the last to announce an 18% rise in profits. This is despite a couple of theatrical misfires, including the Jerry Bruckheimer produced G-Force, and lower than usual consumer spending on DVDs, according to Video Business […]

Emmy award winning Stan Berkowitz, writer on a host of animated superhero shows and DC Universe movies, is to receive the Writers Guild of America West Animation Writers Caucus’ writing award tonight, for Lifetime Achievement. A full press release follows:

Sony has announced their $118.6 million-grossing comedy Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs for home video release on January 5, 2010. Available on DVD ($28.96), two-DVD ($34.95) and Blu-ray ($39.95), the film will include commentary from directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller and, on the two-disc, featurettes, deleted scenes, music video, sing-along and game, the […]

Although Disney and Robert Zemeckis’ A Christmas Carol won the US box-office this weekend, the tally was less than expected, coming in at just $31 million. Opening to mixed reviews, Disney is hoping another seven weeks until Christmas will give the motion-capture movie a festive boost in takings.

Loose Moose Productions’ Caroline Attia has directed an animated homage to the Gong Man, the iconic trademark of the UK’s Rank Films used as the intro to all their films, to promote Odeon Cinemas’ new initiative of specially scheduled Mother and Baby screenings in England.

DVD and Blu-ray cover art is included in a press release, for Halo Legends, an all-new anthology of seven stories that expands the universe of one of the world’s most popular video games, which can be read here:

In the first of three featured articles, the UK-based film blog Flickering Myth profiles Pixar Animation Studios. The second part will follow on November 11, and part three on November 18, 2009.

Mickey Mouse is re-branded as an action hero in the Nintendo Wii console’s hotly anticipated Epic Mickey game set for release next year. The Guardian online speaks to designer Warren Spector about the game’s Cartoon Wasteland storyline, which will see the return of Oswald The Lucky Rabbit in his first major new role since Disney’s […]

Premiering on NBC November 17, DreamWorks’ animated special Merry Madagascar will debut on DVD the very next day – as a Walmart exclusive title. The half-hour special, in which Santa gets amnesia after his sleigh crashes on the island and Alex, Marty, Melman, Gloria and the penguins must save Christmas by delivering presents, will be […]