Broadway.com is currently showcasing the new logo for the upcoming Tarzan stage musical. Thanks to Kristin for the heads up.

Disney has had major success on the stage with traditionally animated classics like Beauty and the Beast and The Lion King capturing the hearts of audiences and critics alike. Now the group is hoping to do it again with Tarzan based on the 1999 hit film and Edgar Rice Burroughs novel. Using the same formula […]

If you’ve had second thoughts about seeing Valiant take note that animation historian Jerry Beck has given it a favorable rating. “I was expecting a disaster, but the story was solid (cliched, but solid), the animation was well done and the characters were funny. . . . It’s worth seeing.”

ASIFA-Hollywood will be hosting a screening tomorrow of Dream On Silly Dreamer, the film that chronicles the death of Disney hand-drawn animation. This film may be even more meaningful now since the recent announcement of the imminent closure of the Disney Toon Studios in Australia. Tomorrow’s screening, held at 3:00 pm at the AFI building […]

Coming Soon! has the rundown on a recent press event held in Hawaii for the release of Lilo & Stitch 2: Stitch Has a Glitch and an interview with Chicken Little director Mark Dindal and producer Randy Fullmer.

The Disney Database has a very positive review of Lilo and Stitch 2: Stitch has a Glitch, calling it “the best sequel that has ever been released by Disney . . . To all those who normally steer clear of all of the direct to video sequels as though they are the plague, I encourage […]

The upcoming Lilo & Stitch 2: Stitch Has A Glitch DVD contains a new hand-drawn short entitled The Origin of Stitch which was produced by Toonacious, the faith-based family entertainment company begun by Tony Bancroft (Disney animator, director of Mulan). Bancroft told Animated News, “We are very proud of that little short and it was […]

The sixth season of The Simpsons was released on DVD yesterday, and reviews have been popping up across the net. IGN has reviewed the set, with the review praising the DVD sets of the series, claiming “I’ll continue buying these deluxe, delightful DVDs,” and giving a score of 9 out of 10 to the set. […]

The Toronto International Film Festival has announced several new features for its 30th annual event which will include the North American premiere of Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit. The TIFF which will be held September 8-17 consists of several events that display works from all across the film industry. Nick Park, co-director […]

A recent DVD Exclusive article hints that the direct to video sequel to the 1941 classic Dumbo may be back in production. The sequel, which had a little promotional spot on the 60th Anniversary Edition DVD of Dumbo, was at one time shelved, yet the article implies that the film is back in production, stating […]

A small flash website is now online for the Disney released Studio Ghibli films on DVD. The site features DVD and film plot details, as well as a general trailer for the series on the home media format. The Academy Award winning studio has produced such films as Spirited Away, Kiki’s Delivery Service and The […]

CNET News reports on the upcoming Valiant and its aim to provide an entertaining CGI feature on a modest budget. According to the report, “Vanguard Animation has successfully undermined the notion that you have to spend in the range of $100 million to produce a modern computer-animated film.”

Gargoyles show creator Greg Weisman has revealed some of the details concerning the Region 1 Second Season DVD set of Disney’s 1990s animated series. The set will contain the first 26 episodes of the season, and will contain bonus features such as episode introductions. The set will be released on December 6th.

Follow the ‘More’ link to view several images, complete with silly captions, from two Studio Ghibli anime titles being released today by Buena Vista Home Entertainment, Pom Poko and My Neighbors the Yamadas.

CNET News reports on the upcoming Valiant and its aim to provide an entertaining CGI feature on a modest budget. According to the report, “Vanguard Animation has successfully undermined the notion that you have to spend in the range of $100 million to produce a modern computer-animated film.”

Gargoyles show creator Greg Weisman has revealed some of the details concerning the Region 1 Second Season DVD set of Disney’s 1990s animated series. The set will contain the first 26 episodes of the season, and will contain bonus features such as episode introductions. The set will be released on December 6th.

TV Shows on DVD have discovered via an anonymous source what the contents of the upcoming DVD set of the 1980s cartoon series DuckTales are going to be. It appears that there are to be 27 episodes following in general airdate order as a “Volume 1” release, although the pilot feature Treasure of the Golden […]

Disney/Pixar’s latest animated feature is slated to hit the rink this September. Disney on Ice has released a schedule revealing that the show Disney presents Pixar’s The Incredibles in a Magic Kingdom Adventure will debut at The Lakeland Center in Lakeland, FL on September 2nd. The performance will then travel the eastern and central US […]

DreamWorks Animation has been plagued in recent months by SEC investigations, stockholder lawsuits, a slump in DVD sales, and rumors of corporate takeovers by NBC; but the studio did get some good news this financial quarter from its latest release. Guardian Unlimited Films reports that Madagascar brought in a cool $430 million plus in worldwide […]

Ultimate Disney have just posted a review on the first volume of the new Timeless Tales DVD line, a collection of shorts based on classic stories. This volume contains the four Silly Symphony shorts The Pied Piper, The Grasshopper and the Ants, The Tortoise and the Hare and The Three Little Pigs, as well as […]

Ultimate Disney have just posted the cover art (and also some of the disc art!) for this year’s wave of Walt Disney Treasures. The collector-aimed series of DVDs packaged in film canister-like cases have featured many pieces such as television programming and theatrical shorts, and Wave 5 is following suit with two sets devoted to […]

A Lilo Leroy & Stitch preview can be found on the upcoming Lilo & Stitch 2: Stitch Has A Glitch DVD. Five images (some of which may be considered spoiler material by hardcore fans) can be viewed here:

On Friday, August 19, at 7:30pm the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will be screening select Oscar-winning animated shorts from the last seven decades. The program begins with Disney’s The Three Little Pigs and ends with Pixar’s For the Birds. Ferdinand the Bull and Ward Kimball’s classic Toot, Whistle, Plunk and Boom are […]

The SIGGRAPH reports are flowing in. Chuck Oberleitner reports at o-meon on the DreamWorks and Disney presentations, while Jim Hill focuses in on Glen Keane’s Rapunzel Unbraided presentation.

Ain’t It Cool News now has a couple video clips up from Disney’s upcoming American Dog and A Day with Wilbur Robinson and a further report about the overall production design on Rapunzel Unbraided.

We all learned in Aladdin that the Genie can do anything so it’s no surprise that he can transition from a hand-drawn form to a computer-generated form. The Magic Lamp Theater at Tokyo DisneySea is now showcasing a short Eric Goldberg-directed CGI film featuring the always morphing Genie in true 3D form (not just the […]

Two stills from the rare 1978 Don Bluth-directed short The Small One can be viewed by clicking on the ‘More’ link. The Small One will be released to DVD for the first time on September 27 as part of the Classic Cartoon Favorites: Volume 9 – Classic Holiday Stories collection from Disney.

Five final images and a bonus menu screen from Lilo and Stitch 2: Stitch Has a Glitch have been released by Buena Vista Home Entertainment. The direct-to-video title debuts on August 30.

On September 22 the Newport Beach Film Festival will be showcasing a free encore presentation of all the animated shorts that had been screened while the festival was in regular session earlier this year. This program will be held at the Orange County Museum of Art.

Even though the Save Disney site is supposed to be shutting down on August 7 they have just updated with links to numerous articles of Walt Disney in his own words. Read on for Walt’s account of the creation of Mickey Mouse, his thoughts on prayer, his opinion on sequels, and more, as well as […]