Yahoo! Finance reports that first day sales for yesterday’s release of Disney’s Bambi reached one million units, knocking out all of the other competition. Not bad for a sixty-three year old movie. Apparently the public does like traditional animation.

An exclusive sneak preview of Krypto the Superdog is now up at Cartoon Network. The new series is set to premiere April 4.

Apparently ads for Star Wars: Clone Wars Season 3 are starting to air on Cartoon Network. Read a description at TheForce.net and a related story.

Here’s something else for Syndrome to geek out about: Chuck Oberleitner has just begun a new column at his o-meon site dedicated to “helping to improve the Disneyland Resort experience of a lesser served group of visitors, grownups traveling without children,” especially during this 18-month period in which Disneyland is celebrating its fiftieth anniversary.

The official site for Disney’s Tarzan II has just gone live. There’s not much there right now except for an order link and a trailer, which is unusual since trailers usually come later.

For a 24-hour period (beginning who knows when) Salon is making available three animated shorts that have been nominated for this year’s Oscar.

Yesterday we posted about The Incredibles going 2D (briefly) but today we point out The Incredibles presented in yet another format. Ultimate Disney has posted five screen captures from the bonus features on Disc 2 and one shows sock puppets apparently acting out a scene from the movie.

Brad Bird sure was right when he said he was going to load this DVD up with special features. Following are five images from the Mr. Incredible & Pals feature on disc 2 of the Incredibles DVD. The feature pokes lighthearted fun at 70’s television animation, the Superfriends in particular, complete with cheesy dialogue and […]

Follow the ‘More’ link to view six images from the Jack-Jack Attack short which is included on the March 15 DVD release of Disney/Pixar’s The Incredibles. The short reveals the trouble the supposedly powerless Jack-Jack Parr puts Kari the babysitter through when the rest of the Parr family are off fighting the omnidroid and Syndrome […]

Check out Electric Tiki’s new statue of Popeye based on the Fleischer Studio’s design of everyone’s favorite spinach chewing sailor man. Thanks to GeorgeC for pointing this out in our Animated News Forum.

Ultimate Disney has scored an interview with Don Dunagan, who, at the age of five and a half, provided the voice for Bambi in Disney’s timeless classic.

If we truly are gearing up for a release next year of Song of the South it seems advisable to point out two articles online that confront head on accusations of racism levelled against this film: In Defense of Disney’s Uncle Remus… by Merlin Jones at the Save Disney site and Disney’s Song of the […]

As with last year, Animation World Magazine has an article previewing each of this year’s contenders for the coveted Best Animated Short award. A brief Quicktime movie clip of each short is included in the writeup.

This is almost non-news since there has been so much talk about it recently, but a new article at Jim Hill Media adds extra confirmation to the possibility of Disney’s long-unreleased classic Song of the South finally being released to home video next year for a special 60th anniversary edition. (Thanks to Wonderlicious for pointing […]

As if Michael Ovitz’ $140 million severance package wasn’t enough, Chuck Oberleitner discusses at his o-meon site the fact that a couple billion dollars have been lost at The Walt Disney Company due to poor corporate governance and outright Machiavellianism. James B. Stewart’s recent book, Disney War is used as a springboard for the discussion. […]

Just an early heads-up that a recent ASIFA-Hollywood mailing announced that there will indeed be another 2D Expo held this year but the exact date is yet to be announced. Last year the first 2D Expo was held on the Woodbury College campus and attracted professionals, students, aspiring artists, and plain ol’ enthusiasts in the […]

Follow the ‘More’ link to view five screen captures from the five-minute featurette on Bambi and the Great Prince of the Forest as found on the upcoming 2-Disc Platinum edition of the original Bambi. According to Patrick Stewart, “Many of Walt Disney’s ideas in terms of the development of the original Bambi do exist and […]

Mickey News reports that Disney is planning a CGI-animated prequel to Peter Pan. The story will be based on Peter and the Starcatchers by well-known humor columnist Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson. (More info and discussion in the forums)

The Big Cartoon DataBase reports that a new lawsuit has been filed against Disney/Pixar claiming that the story of Finding Nemo was stolen from an idea presented to them by dentist Dennis Sternberg, who is also an avid scuba diver. The illustrated manuscript Sternberg sent to Disney in 1996 contains many plot points similar to […]

Kristin writes in to point out that the upcoming DreamWorks Animation film Flushed Away has changed its title to Ratropolis.

While other animation blogs are turning their attention to rather trivial matters such as news of adults watching cartoons and what might be in Popeye’s pipe, we here at Animated News prefer to focus on important issues, such as the recent release by Kellogg’s of new Lilo & Stitch cereal.

‘Ichabod’ has posted some all new large screen captures from Bambi and the Great Prince of the Forest at the Ultimate Disney forums.

For those in the mood today for some amorous animation Animation World Magazine has all the info on a 24-hour Pepé Le Pew marathon showing on Cartoon Network’s Boomerang channel. The marathon promises to be a complete chronological retrospective of the sentimental skunk.

Mark your calendars for April 22 and get ready for a magic carpet ride. ASIFA-Hollywood has just announced an Aladdin cast and crew reunion to be held at the Glendale Central Library. Confirmed guests include Andreas Deja, Eric Goldberg, Will Finn, John Musker and Ron Clements, and Tom Sito. As with last year’s Lion King […]

Leading up to the March 1 release of the 2-disc Bambi Platinum Edition Disney has released some “Fun Facts” about the movie:

No word on when it’s coming to DVD but The Philadelphia Daily News has announced some screenings of the Disney/Dali surreal collaboration Destino at the Philadelphia Museum of Art from February 16 to May 15 (link via Laughing Place).

Yahoo! Finance has posted some photos from Tuesday’s book signing with Incredibles director Brad Bird.

Industry observer Chuck Oberleitner at his o-meon site makes some predictions about what this year’s Disney shareholders meeting might be like. The meeting is scheduled for February 11 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and has less potential for controversy than last year’s meeting held in Philadelphia. Even still, brazen corporate gadfly Evelyn Y. Davis may be there […]

Yahoo! Finance reports that Brad “no more need for an introduction” Bird will be signing copies of The Art of The Incredibles at the Barnes and Noble at The Grove at Farmers Market in Los Angeles, CA, on Wednesday, February 9, at 7:30 PM. If you are one of the first 250 fans in line […]

Ultimate Disney has just posted the cover and disc art for the Pocahontas 10th Anniversary Edition DVD which is due out on May 3.