Following our recent sit down discussion with famed Disney animator {{link http://www.animatedviews.com/wp-content/uploads/archives/00003772.html Andreas Deja}}, Animated News’ Christian Ziebarth met up with one of Deja’s fellow alumni at the Disney Studio, animator and director Eric Goldberg, most recently a director-for-hire on Looney Tunes: Back In Action. During the informal chat, Goldberg spoke about his career at […]

Full-size Over the Hedge poster image available here (special thanks to Olivier):

‘GeorgeC’ in our Animated News Forums points out that a Snoopy vs The Red Baron video game is due out in Fall 2006 for PC, Playstation, and XBox. “Pilot Snoopy’s famous Sopwith Camel and other unique aircraft in perilous sky-high dogfights, no-holds-barred air races and heart-pounding missions behind enemy lines.”

Yahoo! News reports on TV ratings of recent holiday special broadcasts, incuding the fact that A Charlie Brown Christmas received its best ratings in at least 4 years and did quite well up against Survivor and other holiday specials and first run shows. Thanks to Kristin for the heads up.

Today marks the release of two Disney titles new to DVD: Valiant from Vanguard Animation and distributed by Disney, and Kronk’s New Groove, a fun and inventive sequel to Yzma’s New Groove The Emperor’s New Groove. Animated News’ Christian Ziebarth gives some of his thoughts on each:

Apparently Kronk’s new groove is a philanthropic one. The following is a press release about and a couple pictures from last Saturday’s charity screening of Kronk’s New Groove held in Marina del Rey:

A Hi-Def version of the Ice Age 2 trailer has just been posted at the official Apple Trailers site.

With only a few hours to go Disney is auctioning off a Christmas tree at eBay decorated with Mickey Mouse head-shaped ornaments that have themselves been signed and decorated by a long list of celebrities such as Hugh Jackman, Eva Longoria, Bob Newhart, Deborah Harry, and Johnny Knoxville. Of interest to animation fans is an […]

Yahoo! News reports on A Charlie Brown Christmas as the “Christmas classic that almost wasn’t” discussing the obstacles the special overcame to make it to network primetime 40 years ago but that then went on to become one of the most integral traditions of the holiday season. The article even mentions the “Charlie Brown Pathetic […]

Today marks the Region 1 release of Wave 5 of the Walt Disney Treasures line. There are four titles in this wave and two of them are all about animation: Disney Rarities – Celebrated Shorts, 1920s-1960s and The Chronological Donald, Volume Two. Check out Ultimate Disney’s review of the first set and their interview with […]

Justin Williams in our Animated News Forum points out a new ten-minute preview for The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe at Disney UK’s site.

The ASIFA-Hollywood Blog reports that the nominations for the {{link http://www.annieawards.com/ 33rd Annual Annie Awards}} have just been announced. Aardman’s \\Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit\\ leads the pack with 16 nominations, including Best Animated Feature, Directing in an Animated Feature, Writing in an Animated Feature, and all four nominations in the Voice […]

With so many animated Christmas/winter holiday specials out there sometimes it gets hard to keep track of them all so we’ve put together a list of some obvious favorites such as A Charlie Brown Christmas and How the Grinch Stole Christmas as well as plenty of forgotten gems such as Ziggy’s Gift and little-known titles […]

Don’t throw those Sunday newspapers away just yet. The Mini Page insert which appears in most US Sunday newspapers focuses their biography today on Academy Award winners Nick Park and Steve Box of Wallace and Gromit fame.

Piotr at our Animated News Forum has pointed out that Pixar has opened up a site for its upcoming short One Man Band. The site gives a summary of the short’s storyline, highlights the main characters, and gives a little behind-the-scenes information.

If you’re planning on attending Disneyland soon and riding the Small World Holiday keep an eye out for Elvis Stitch and The King himself.

If you’re running low on Muppets/Jim Henson postage stamps never fear because new US postage stamps based on DC Comics heroes are coming soon as reported by Newsarama. The stamps will feature Superman, Green Arrow, Green Lantern, Wonder Woman, Batman, The Flash, Plastic Man, Aquaman, Hawkman, and Supergirl.

The Seattle Times online discusses how Timmy of South Park recently rose to the top of a poll of favorite disabled television characters . . . and was voted there primarily by disabled voters. “With his jagged teeth and can-do spirit, Timmy appears, at first glance, to uphold the condescending disability stereotypes that are gradually […]

After a low quality bootleg found its way on to the ‘net a week ago, Disney has now released the official teaser trailer for Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest. Uncover it at Yahoo! Movies. This is one you need to freeze frame a lot to glean all the little details.

Following is a press release announcing the second volume in the Walt’s People series which collects important prominent as well as obscure interviews with key Disney artists from throughout the years.

A PR Newswire release late yesterday announced that Irving Ludwig has passed away at the age of 95. Ludwig was the former president of Buena Vista Distribution and was instrumental in launching successful marketing campaigns for such heavyweight Disney classics as Fantasia and Mary Poppins. He is remembered as an honest businessman who never sacrificed […]

As pointed out by ‘Piotr’ in our Animated News Forums, a 4th Cars teaser has been made available in Apple’s section of online QuickTime movie trailer. “Lightning McQueen, a hotshot rookie race car driven to succeed, discovers that life is about the journey, not the finish line, when he finds himself unexpectedly detoured in the […]

On this day of Thanksgiving we can all be thankful for the teaser trailer of Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest as pointed out by Kinoo in the Animated News Forums.

Five images from Disney’s direct-to-video title The Fox and the Hound 2 (due out Winter 2006) from the preview on the upcoming Kronk’s New Groove DVD (due out Dec. 13) can be found here:

Henry Selick, famed stop-motion director of The Nightmare Before Christmas and James and the Giant Peach, recently took time out of his busy schedule to talk with Animated News about his new short Moongirl and some of his past and future projects. Henry has worked on projects as diverse as Pillsbury Doughboy commercials and the […]

To promote today’s release of Seinfeld Seasons 5 and 6 (buy them together and they come with the infamous ‘puffy shirt’ and some other goodies) on DVD Sony Pictures Home Entertainment has re-imagined a scene from the classic television series in “Sein-imation.” The official Seinfeld page indicates that more “Sein-imated” scenes are included on the […]

For iPod Video fans, Pixar’s short Knick Knack has just been released on iTunes. Download Here

o-meon has updated with a review of holiday movies including a look at various animated versions of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol including the Disney, Muppets, and Mr. Magoo versions.